Current Ph.D. students are encouraged to submit an extended abstract that describes their doctoral work. The student should be the sole author of the paper, but the advisor and other contributors should be acknowledged. The topics of interest coincide with IGSC'17 are listed in the CFP page (http://igsc.eecs.wsu.edu/cfp_17). The extended abstract should be three pages in IEEE conference proceedings style. All manuscripts should be in pdf format, in English, and registered and submitted through easychair under the “IGSC17 Ph.D. Forum” submission track.