2013 SIGKDD Dissertation Awards
2013 SIGKDD Dissertation Award AwardACM 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