PTC Research Award

The Meheroo Jussawalla Research Award is given to the best participant research paper at PTC’s Annual Conference. Open to researchers, faculty, Ph.D. students, and post-docs, submitting a single-authored not previously published paper.

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Benefits

  1. USD 1,000 cash
  2. Conference registration waiver
  3. Opportunity to present winning paper at PTC’27
  4. Stipend of up to USD 1,500 for flight and accommodations
    (recipient to arrange their own flight and accommodations)
  5. Award certificate

How to be considered

Submit an abstract through the PTC’27 Awards nominations between 15 July and 16 September 2026. If accepted, the full research paper must be submitted by 29 September 2026.

Terms and conditions

  1. Researchers and faculty members are welcome to apply. Students with a faculty co-author may also submit a paper for this award.
  2. Must be an original research paper pertaining to one of the topics listed in this year’s Call for Participation.
  3. Previous award recipients are not eligible to apply/submit in subsequent award cycles.
  4. Author will allow PTC to publish their paper and presentation slides to the PTC’27 online conference program.
  5. Publication of the paper elsewhere is allowed after it has been presented at PTC’27.

The 2026 Meheroo Jussawalla Research Award recipient is OneSun Cho, Associate Research Fellow, Science and Technology Policy Institute.

Paper:
Navigating Security-driven Connectivity and Technology-driven Connectivity in International Digital Infrastructure Governance: How Network Position Shapes Submarine Cable Policy in the United States, Japan, and ASEAN

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Previous award
winners.

2025: Yuntsai Chou & Li-dar Wang

Yuan Ze University and National Chengchi University

The Antitrust Crackdown on Big Tech: A Cross-Country Analysis of Regulatory Efficacy as Reflected in the Securities Market

2024: Sophie Hamel

Ph.D. Candidate, French Institute of Geopolitics of the University Paris 8, France

Australia’s perception of Chinese technology as a threat: Securing Pacific Island Countries subsea cables?

2023: Richard Canevez

Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Communication and Information, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

All-encompassing war: An exploration of information disorder countermeasures through smooth and striated space

2022: Dr. George Ford

Chief Economist, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies, USA

Race and broadband adoption: A decomposition analysis

2020: Rob McMahon

Associate Professor, University of Alberta, Canada

Co-developing digital inclusion policy and programming with Indigenous partners: Interventions from Canada

2019: Bin Zhang

Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, People’s Republic of China

Study on the information measurement system under the background of [the] embedded infoshpere

Meheroo Jussawalla Research Award

Meheroo Jussawalla (1923-2012) was a senior fellow emerita and expert in the economics of telecommunications at the prestigious East-West Center in Honolulu. She served as an Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Economics and the School of Communications at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. A leading scholar in the economics of telecommunications, she published 15 books in the field and garnered several national and international awards, including two from the Pacific Telecommunications Council.