SIGKDD Awards

ACM SIGKDD dissertation awards recognize outstanding work done by graduate students in the areas of data science, machine learning and data mining. 

WINNER

Modeling Content and Users: Structured Probabilistic Representation and Scalable Inference Algorithms
Amr Ahmed, Yahoo! Research

RUNNER-UP

Exact Primitives for Time Series Data Mining
Abdullah Al Mueen, Microsoft

Fast Algorithms for Mining Co-evolving Time Series
Lei Li, UC Berkeley

HONORABLE MENTION

Efficient Algorithms for Detecting Genetic Interactions in Genome-Wide Association Study
Xiang Zhang, Case Western Reserve University