• Your Ph.D. advisor(s), post-doctoral advisor(s), Ph.D. students, and post-doctoral advisees, forever.
• Family relations by blood or marriage, or their equivalent (e.g., a partner), forever.
• People with whom you have collaborated in the past five years. Collaborators include co-authors on an accepted/rejected/pending research paper, co-PIs on an accepted/rejected/pending grant, those who fund your research, and researchers whom you fund.
• Note that “service” collaborations, such as writing a report for a professional organization or serving on a program committee, do not by themselves create a conflict of interest.
• A member of the same organization (e.g., company, university, government agency, etc.) within the past five years.
• Close personal friends or others whom you believe to have a conflict of interest with your paper being accepted or rejected.
• Send email to the Program Chair if you have a question.

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