SIGKDD Awards

2020 SIGKDD Rising Star Award Winners

2020 SIGKDD Rising Star Award Award Winner

Danai Koutra, Morris Wellman assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Michigan, and Jiliang Tang, assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, both received the first annual ACM SIGKDD honors of Rising Star. Koutra’s research in large-scale data mining focuses on principled, interpretable and scalable methods for network summarization and multi-network analysis. Tang’s notable work includes research into representation learning, especially on graphs and its applications on the internet and social media domains. New this year, the Rising Star Award celebrates individual work done in the first five years after earning a PhD. The award aims to celebrate the early accomplishments of the SIGKDD communities’ brightest new minds.

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