SIGKDD

Dr. Xiaoxin Yin >> for “ Scalable Mining and Link Analysis Across Multiple Database Relations  >>” (advisor: Jiawei Han, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Runner-up: Dr. Jimeng Sun >> for “ Incremental Pattern Discovery on Streams, Graphs and Tensors  >>” (advisor: Christos Faloutsos, CMU). Certificates of Recognition: Dr. David Martens for “Building Acceptable Classification Models for Financial Engineering Applications” Dr. Pradeep Ravikumar for “Approximate inference, structure learning and feature estimation in Markov Random Fields”

Award Frequency

Once per year

The Awards

The winner and up to two runners-up will:

Be recognized at the KDD conference with a plaque. Have the opportunity to publish their dissertations on the KDD Web site (http://www.kdd.org).

The award winner will also:

Receive a check for $2,500 Be invited to present their work at the KDD conference. Receive a free registration to attend the KDD conference.

Eligibility

The final dissertation defense should take place at the nominee's host institution by the submission deadline. Furthermore, the final dissertation defense must not have taken place prior to January 1st of the current calendar year (e.g. not prior to 2008 for the 2009 award).

Nominations are limited to one doctoral dissertation per department or academic unit. Submissions must be received by the current Chair of the KDD Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee by the submission deadline.

Each nominated dissertation must also have been successfully defended by the candidate, and the final version of each nominated dissertation must have been accepted by the candidate's academic unit. An English version of the dissertation must be submitted with the nomination. A dissertation can be nominated for both the SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Submission Procedure

All nomination materials must be submitted electronically to mobasher [at] cs [dot] depaul [dot] edu. Please use "SIGKDD Dissertation Award Nominations" in you subject line.

All nomination materials must be in English. PDF format is preferred for all materials. Late submissions will not be accepted. A nomination must include: A nomination letter, written by the dissertation advisor of the candidate. This letter must include full contact information for both the advisor and the nominee as well as a one- or two-page summary of the significance of the dissertation., An endorsement letter signed by the department head. , One PDF copy of the doctoral dissertation. , A copyright transfer form signed by the candidate is required giving permission for the dissertation to appear on KDD.org Web site if the dissertation is selected as an award recipient (but if the nomination is also being submitted for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, only one form needs to be signed). See http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html., Optionally, the nomination may include up to two supporting letters from other individuals, discussing the significance of the dissertation.,

Award Committee

• Bamshad Mobasher, Chair, DePaul University, USA
• Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois, Chicago
• Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA ,
• C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA,
• Dimitrios Gunopulos, UC Riverside, USA ,
• Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
• Jennifer Neville, Purdue University
• Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany ,
• Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University
• Hannu Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Finland ,
• Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan ,
• Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University
• Xiaoxin Yin, Microsoft

Additional members to be added.

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