ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
| ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award | |
|---|---|
| Description | Best doctoral dissertations in computer science and computer engineering |
| Presented by | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Reward(s) | US $20,000 |
| First awarded | 1978 |
| Website | awards |
The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award is awarded annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to the authors of the best doctoral dissertations in computer science and computer engineering. The award is accompanied by a prize of US $20,000 and winning dissertations are published in the ACM Digital Library.[1] Honorable mentions are awarded $10,000. Financial support is provided by Google. The number of awarded dissertations may vary year-to-year.
ACM also awards the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award.[2] Several Special Interest Groups (SIGs) award a Doctoral Dissertation Award.[3]
Recipients
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 1978 | Joseph Urban |
| Roderic G. Cattell | |
| 1980 | Jacob Slonim |
| Lawrence Edwin Larson | |
| Ruth E. Davis | |
| Douglas Cook | |
| 1982 | Charles E. Leiserson |
| 1983 | Thomas W. Reps |
| Steven Johnson | |
| Ellen Hildreth | |
| 1984 | James Korein |
| Manolis G.H. Katevenis | |
| Henry Baird | |
| Carl Eric Bach | |
| 1985 | Danny Hillis |
| John R. Ellis | |
| Ben-Zion Chor | |
| 1986 | David Ungar |
| Johan Håstad | |
| Ketan Mulmuley | |
| Carl Ebeling | |
| 1987 | Leslie Greengard |
| John Canny | |
| Marc H. Brown | |
| 1988 | Mauricio Karchmer |
| David L. Dill | |
| Anne Condon | |
| 1989 | V. K. Saraswat |
| Joe Killian | |
| Michael J. Kearns | |
| 1990 | Noam Nisan |
| David Heckerman | |
| Hector Geffner | |
| 1991 | Robert Shapire |
| Carsten Lund | |
| Garth Gibson | |
| Asit Dan | |
| 1992 | Mendel Rosenblum |
| Kenneth McMillan | |
| 1993 | Madhu Sudan |
| Pandu Nayak | |
| James J. Kistler | |
| 1994 | T.V. Raman |
| David Karger | |
| 1995 | Daniel Spielman |
| Sanjeev Arora | |
| 1996 | Carl Waldspurger |
| Xiaoyuan Tu | |
| 1997 | Steven R. McCanne |
| 1998 | Hari Balakrishnan |
| 1999 | Dieter van Melkebeek |
| 2000 | Salil P Vadhan |
| Michael D. Ernst | |
| William Chan | |
| 2001 | David A. Wagner |
| Ion Stoica | |
| Robert O'Callahan | |
| 2002 | Tim Roughgarden |
| Robert C. Miller | |
| Venkatesan Guruswami | |
| 2003 | Subhash Khot |
| Dina Katabi | |
| AnHai Doan | |
| 2004 | Emmett Witchel |
| Ramesh Johari | |
| Boaz Barak | |
| 2005 | Ben Liblet |
| Olivier Doussee | |
| 2006 | Yi-Ren Ng[4] |
| Aseem Agarwala | |
| 2007 | Sergey Yekhanin |
| Yan Liu | |
| Vincent Conitzer | |
| Benny Applebaum | |
| 2008 | Sachin Katti |
| Derek Hoiem | |
| Constantinos Daskalakis[5] | |
| 2009 | Keith Noah Snavely |
| Andre Platzer | |
| Haryadi S Gunawi | |
| Craig Gentry | |
| 2010 | Benjamin Snyder |
| Bryan Parno | |
| 2011 | David Steurer |
| Aleksander Mądry | |
| Seth Cooper[6] | |
| 2012 | Gregory Valiant |
| Peter Hawkins | |
| Shyamnath Gollakota | |
| 2013 | Shayan Oveis Gharan |
| Sanjam Garg | |
| Grey Ballard | |
| 2014 | Matei Alexandru Zaharia[7] |
| John C. Duchi | |
| John Criswell | |
| 2015 | Aaron Sidford[8] |
| Julian Shun[9] | |
| Siavash Mirarab[10] | |
| 2016 | Veselin Raychev |
| Haitham Hassanieh[11] | |
| Peter Bailis | |
| 2017 | Aviad Rubinstein |
| Mohsen Ghaffari | |
| Stefanie Mueller | |
| 2018 | Tengyu Ma |
| Chelsea Finn | |
| Ryan Beckett |
See also
References
- ^ "About ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award". awards.acm.org.
- ^ "About ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- ^ "Special Interest Group (SIG) Awards". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- ^ Bonnington, Christina. "Ren Ng Shares His Photographic Vision: Shoot Now, Focus Later". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
- ^ "Greek MIT professor who solved "Nash Puzzle" sad over brain drain | TornosNews.gr". TornosNews.GR (in Greek). Retrieved 2018-04-20.
- ^ Wingfield, Nick (2012-07-07). "U. of Washington, a Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
- ^ "How Apache Spark Is Transforming Big Data Processing, Development". eWEEK. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
- ^ "Shun Receives ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award - Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science". www.cs.cmu.edu.
- ^ "Postdoc Julian Shun wins the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award - Department of Statistics". statistics.berkeley.edu.
- ^ "Siavash Mirarab Earns 2015 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention - Department of Computer Science". www.cs.utexas.edu.
- ^ "MIT CSAIL graduate student Haitham Hassanieh PhD 15 receives ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award - MIT EECS". www.eecs.mit.edu.