PTC’26 Submission Deadline
25 July 2025
Notification Date for Applications
12 September 2025
Applications are currently being accepted for the 2026 PTC Emerging Scholar Program. Scholars must be currently enrolled in a Ph.D. degree program or Ph.D. completion date should be within the last five (5) years. Individuals from emerging economies are encouraged to apply.
Selected applicants will be invited to present their research at PTC’s Annual Conference, PTC’26 in Honolulu, Hawaii, from 18 to 21 January 2026.
Scholars in telecom and ICT fields across the globe represent prestigious universities and institutions such as University of Auckland, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Hawaii, Manoa, City University of Hong Kong, India Institute of Management, Northumbria University, and The Pennsylvania State University.
Previous PTC Young Scholar Program award recipients are not eligible to apply/submit in subsequent award cycles.
* Travel itinerary must be pre-approved by the PTC Secretariat before making any reservations.
* Prior approval must be obtained from PTC before booking your flight.
** Emerging Scholar paper submissions will be included in the PTC conference proceedings, which are available online. These proceedings are not indexed, and you may publish your paper elsewhere following the PTC Annual Conference.
Iago Bojczuk
University of Cambridge
Muhammad Khan
University of London
Ingrida Milkaite
Ghent University
Juan Ortiz-Freuler
Annenberg School of Communication (USC)
Tiago Sousa Prado
Michigan State University
Wayne Wei Wang
University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Ahmed Alrawi
Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State
Henrique Buglia
University College London (UCL)
Lars Gjesvik
NUPI
Bulelani Jili
Harvard University
Ali Nikkhah
University of California-Irvine
Meicen Sun
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences
Anna Oriishi
Keio University
Prasanth Prahladan
University of Colorado Boulder
George N. Ramirez
Sustainable Subsea Networks
Monica Nila Sari
Keio University
Carl Vander Maelen
Ghent University (Belgium) – Faculty of Law
Ryan Wang
Penn State University
Erezi R. Ogbo
University of Southern California
Raymond Onuoha
University of Cape Town
Godofredo Ramizo Jr.
University of Oxford
Nataliya Wright
Harvard Business School
Friso Bostoen
KU Leuven
Joshua Omoju
Northumbria University
Rachel Peng
The Pennsylvania State University
Puxin Zhang
Southwest Jiaotong University
Oliver Zierke
University of Passau