Ph.D. students are invited to submit their completed summarized thesis for the 5th Ph.D. Research Symposium by ICDCIT 2026. The Ph.D. Research Symposium seeks to offer a global platform for showcasing student research achievements in computer science ans its application across a variety of diverse sectors. The Symposium will give the researchers a chance to generate ideas for a subject to look into and precisely define the issue they wish to tackle. It will be made easier for those in the industry to learn about the ongoing research and see how it is translated into practical industrial applications. Educating on present research scenarios may additionally assist the students to conduct futuristic research in the right way.

The Ph.D. Research Symposium will be held during 16th – 19th January 2026, where all participants of accepted book chapters (passed through a review process) will be invited to showcase their research work.

PhD Research Symposium solicits original chapters in any area of Computer Science and Engineering not limited to the topics listed below:

Intended participants must submit a 5-page synopsis of their thesis for the initial review by our experts. In case the thesis got selected then the authors need to further submit a summarized thesis of not more than 25 pages for the final review within 10 days, as the first authors and co-authored by supervisor(s). The summarized thesis should include sufficient information about the problem statement, scientific & technical approach used to solve the problem, along with the result analysis of the work to review and judge the worth of the research. The summarized thesis must have a similarity index of not more than 15% including self. We will check similarity index in our end through turnitin software. There should be a minimum of two Scopus indexed journal publications as a part of the thesis work and the thesis preferably awarded in the last two years. The submissions should be in PDF format. The write-up should be presented in Springer format and the papers should be submitted electronically. Based on the jury’s recommendation the symposium will present the best thesis award.

The submission link for PRS 2026 is: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=prs2026

At least one of the authors of each accepted book chapter must register and present the work. Selected book chapters of the symposium will be published by Springer (approved). After the symposium, some good quality chapters presented at PRS 2026 will be invited for further extension and resubmission for inclusion in various reputed journals (IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Inderscience, MDPI, and Igi-Global) of special issues.

PRS 2022 Publication Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-1021-0
PRS 2023 Publication Link: https://link.springer.com/book/9789819914814
PRS 2024 Publication Link: https://link.springer.com/book/9789819752034
PRS 2025 Publication Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-5585-4

Last date for submission of synopsis: 30^th August 2025
Book chapter acceptance (Preliminary) notification to authors: 5^th September 2025
Final Submission of the book chapter (Camera-ready): 5^th October 2025
Book chapter acceptance (Final): 5^th November 2025

Prof. Achyuta Samanta,
Founder KIIT & KISS, India

D. N. Dwivedy, KIIT, India

Samaresh Mishra, KIIT, India

Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan

Himansu Das, KIIT, India

H K Tripathy, KIIT, India