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

Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks
Yizhou Sun (student) and Jiawei Han (advisor) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

RUNNER UP

Machine Learning in Health Informatics: Making Better use of Domain Experts
Byron Wallace (student) Carla Brodley (advisor) at Tufts University

HONORABLE MENTION FINALISTS

Mining Tera-Scale Graphs: Theory, Engineering and Discoveries
U Kang (studnet) and Christos Faloutsos (advisor) at Carnegie Melon University
 

Scalable Clustering of Modern Networks
Venu Satuluri (student) and Srinivasan Parthasarathy (advisor) at The Ohio State University