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Nomination Deadline: April 30, 2016

The annual SIGKDD doctoral dissertation award recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery. The award winner and up to two runners-up will be recognized at the KDD conference, and their dissertations will have the opportunity to be published on the KDD Web site (http://www.kdd.org). The award winner will receive a plaque, and a check for $2,500. The award winner will also receive a free registration to attend the KDD conference. The runners-up will receive a plaque at the conference. The award winner and the runners-up will be invited to present his or her work in a special session at the KDD conference.

Eligibility:

• Dissertations of a doctoral candidate must be nominated by their primary Ph.D. advisors. Each Ph.D. advisor can only nominate one dissertation. (Note: This is a change from previous years' policy that each department can only nominate one student).
• The doctoral candidate must have successfully defended the nominated dissertation, and the dissertation must have been accepted by the candidate's academic unit before the submission deadline. The dissertation defense must not have taken place prior to January 1st, 2015.
• Submissions must be received by the submission deadline (see below).
• A dissertation can be nominated for both the SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2016.

Notification of Awards: July 1, 2016.

Award Presentation at KDD 2016: August 13-17, 2016, San Francisco, CA.

Submission:
All nomination materials must be submitted electronically to:

https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/KDD2016PhD/

All nomination materials must be in English. PDF format is preferred for all materials. Late submissions will not be accepted. A nomination must include:

1. 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.
2. One copy of the doctoral dissertation.
3. Optionally, the nomination may include up to two supporting letters from other individuals, discussing the significance of the dissertation.

For dissertations selected as award recipients, a copyright transfer form signed by the candidate is required giving permission for the dissertation to appear on KDD.org Web (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  

Additional information is available at:

http://kdd.org/awards_dissertation.php
 
Please direct questions to the Award Committee Chair:

Haixun Wang, Facebook, haixun [at] fb.com