We are looking for members of the Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) of IEEE S&P 2026. Artifact evaluation process is described <HERE> and artifact packaging and submission directions are <HERE>.

AEC membership in a top-tier venue can be very attractive for early-career researchers working in areas covered by IEEE S&P. Notably, you may gain reviewing experience by critically reading about first-class research, and learn how to package experiments neatly (as well as what to expect when you will be an artifact author). Your name will also appear on the IEEE S&P AE Committee page, which helps improve your visibility.

If you are interested in joining the AEC, please fill out the form below. We expect that the AEC will consist mainly of experienced graduate students and postdocs. Junior students and young faculty members are also welcome to apply.

The expected workload is 2 reviews (typically around 10-15 hours of work) per cycle. AEC members will serve for both cycles: please ensure that you have sufficient time and availability during the two evaluation periods (Sep 15 - Oct 15, 2025 and Mar 23-Apr 15, 2026). You must be available and responsive during the entire AE process.

As an AEC member, you will not only help promote the reproducibility of experimental results in security research, but also get to familiarize yourself with research papers just accepted for publication at IEEE S&P 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, receive 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.

We expect that most evaluations will be done on public research infrastructure, such as SPHERE, Chameleon, CloudLab, etc. In other cases, authors will provide anonymous remote access to external facilities. Evaluators are discouraged from performing evaluation on their own desktops and laptops, since such evaluation may not result in a packaged, ready-to-reuse artifact. Authors will be required to package artifacts in a way that promotes easy evaluation.