Awards

The CPM 2026 presented five awards:

Best Paper Award

Presented to Pawel Gawrychowski, Florin Manea, and Jonas Richardsen

For the paper Optimal Structure for Prefix-Substring Queries

Best Paper Honorable Mentions

Presented to Hiroki Shibata, Yuto Nakashima, Yutaro Yamaguchi, and Shunsuke Inenaga

For the paper LZBE: an LZ-style compressor supporting O(log n)-time random access

AND

Presented to Carl Barton, Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Taha El Ghazi, Jonas Ellert, Oded Lachish, and Tatiana Starikovskaya

For the paper Periodicity Property Testing on Strings with Wildcards

Best Student Paper Award

Presented to Arkadiusz Czarkowski

For the paper Improved Bounds on the Sum of Exponents of Runs in a String

Test of Time Award

Presented to Esko Ukkonen

For the paper Approximate String Matching with q-grams and Maximal Matches, CPM 1990