Call for AEC Members

For the fifth year, USENIX Security allows optional artifact evaluation (AE) of artifacts that support a paper: software, hardware, evaluation data and documentation, raw measurement data, raw survey results, mechanized proofs, models, test suites, benchmarks, and so on.

If you are interested in joining the artifact evaluation committee (AEC), please fill out the form below. We expect that the AEC will consist of experienced graduate students, postdocs, and researchers. The workload is no more than 1 review per cycle (typically around 10-15 hours per submission cycle between Artifact Submissions and Decisions). AEC members will serve for all three review cycles for USENIX Security 2024 (single-cycle exceptions are possible if communicated to the chairs at nomination time or well ahead of the submission cycle).

As an AEC member, you will not only help promote the reproducibility of experimental results in systems research, but also get to familiarize yourself with research papers just accepted for publication at USENIX Security and explore their artifacts. For a given artifact, you may be asked to evaluate its public availability, functionality, and/or ability to reproduce the results from the paper. You will be able to discuss with other AEC members and anonymously interact with the authors as necessary, for instance if you are unable to get the artifact to work as expected. Finally, you will provide a review for the artifact to give constructive feedback to its authors, discuss the artifact with fellow reviewers, and help award the paper artifact evaluation badges.

Overall, you will gain insights into a modern AE process, get mentoring and guidance during the process, and get a chance to receive a Distinguished Artifact Reviewer Award, granted to AEC members who have contributed with outstanding efforts and constructive feedback to authors during the AE.

How to Apply

If you are interested in becoming a part of the AEC, please complete this online form.

You can reach the AEC chairs at sec24aec@usenix.org with any questions.