Best Paper Awards IEEE IMC-2026 Best Paper Award ESNIDSaaS : Enabling Efficient and Scalable Network Intrusion Detection System as a Service Thanapat Wicharn, Supakorn Prayongyam, Tinpat Vittayaphanpracha, Chaiyapat Anantarasuchart and Somchart Fugkeaw IEEE BDS-2026 Best Paper Award Fair Influence Maximization with Reverse Influence Sampling Boosted Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm Akash Janardhan Srinivas, Petros Potikas, William Andreopoulos and Katerina Potika Best Student Paper Award Sustainable Face Recognition on Low-Power Devices with VQ-VAE Embeddings Christos Chronis, Georgios Th. Papadopoulos and Iraklis Varlamis Best Short Paper Award InstructCoT Bridging Instruction Tuning and Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Scalable Vision-Language Models Eunsung You IEEE DAPPS-2026 Best Paper Award CURVEDJURY: A Sybil-Resistant Weighted Jury Selection Framework for Blockchain Dispute Resolution Mohammad Amin Najaflou and Kaiwen Zhang IEEE JCC-2026 Best Paper Award Pegasus: Accelerating Large Language Model Inference with Stateful Prefix Caching Fahao Chen, Peng Li, Dongxiao Yu and Song Guo Best Paper Award Collaborative Resource Co-Optimization for Disaggregated Deep Learning Training Nianheng Tian, Zhuzhong Qian, Jiayue Wang and Xiangyu Li IEEE AITest-2026 Best Paper Award Evaluating DL Test Adequacy Metrics: A Correlation Study with DeepCrime’s Mutation Score Tien Duc Nguyen, Gonzalo Oberreuter, Siegfried Steckenbiller, Patrick Tkalcic and Gordon Fraser Best Student Paper Award Evaluating the Efficacy and Diversity of DNN Test Input Prioritisation Techniques Gianmarco De Vita, Nargiz Humbatova and Paolo Tonella IEEE ITASC-2026 Best Paper Award A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Approach for Diagnosing Spatial Mismatch among Pedestrian Facility Supply, Activity, and Safety Risk Tzuping Chiang, Chia-Hui Chen, Yin-Chun Hung, Ching-Ta Lin and Chih-Chung Chung