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ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

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ACM established the Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in computer science and engineering. The award is presented each June at the ACM Awards Banquet and is accompanied by a prize of $20,000 plus travel expenses to the banquet.  As of January 1, 2014 all winning dissertations are published exclusively in print and electronic formats as part of the ACM Books Series, which includes distribution through the ACM Digital Library.  Honorable Mention(s) may also be awarded, with a prize of $10,000 shared among recipients.

Eligibility

Only a PhD student’s supervisor may nominate a dissertation. The nominated dissertation must have been successfully defended and submitted between October 1, 2022 through (and including) September 30, 2023.

Note regarding the competitiveness of this award: UBC may nominate only 2 dissertations to the international competition, and only 1 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award is offered by ACM annually worldwide.

Evaluation Criteria

In accordance with ACM's selection criteria, dissertations will be reviewed for technical depth and significance of the research contribution, potential impact on theory and practice, and quality of presentation.

Nomination Procedures

Only a PhD student’s supervisor may nominate a student's dissertation.

Submitted to the student's graduate program by the student's PhD supervisor (internal deadline set by graduate program):

• Nomination statement (200-300 words in length) addressing why the candidate should receive this award.  This should address the significance of the dissertation, not simply repeat the information in the abstract.

Each graduate program can submit 1 nomination , submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (via the graduate program's SharePoint folder) by the graduate program by 4:00 pm PT on Friday, 6 October 2023.  The nomination would consist of:

• The nomination statement should be in PDF format and labelled ACM_PROG_Last-Name_First-Name.pdf (ex. "ACM_CPSC_Smith_Jane")

Graduate programs of successful nominees will be contacted after the nomination deadline with further instructions on submitting the full nomination package.  

Note that, should the student be selected to be one of UBC's nominees, the PhD student's thesis supervisor will be responsible for submitting the nomination items to ACM by the October 31 institution nomination deadline.  ACM requires that the nomination be submitted by the PhD student's thesis supervisor.  The full nomination package includes:

• Suggested citation if the candidate is selected.  This should be a concise statement (maximum of 25 words) describing the key technical or professional accomplishment for which the candidate merits this award.
• An endorsement letter from the department head. 
• At least 3, and not more than 5, supporting letters should be included from experts in the field who can provide additional insights or evidence of the dissertation’s impact.  (The nominator/advisor may not write a letter of support.)
• Copy of the dissertation, together with a  copyright transfer form  filled out by the candidate and assigning exclusive publication rights to ACM.  Copyright will revert to the author if it is not selected for publication.

For full details, see the ACM website .

Adjudication Procedures

Depending on the number of nominations submitted, G+PS may form an adjudication committee to submit up to 2 nominations to ACM.

Further Information

For further information, please visit the ACM webpage:  https://awards.acm.org/doctoral-dissertation/nominations .  Questions can be sent to [email protected] .

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ACM & SCS Doctoral Dissertation Awards

PLEASE NOTE: Items sent via email will not be processed and we will reach out to request you use the upload process.

Nomination materials that do not also have a checklist provided will be held from review until a NOMINATION CHECKLIST is provided.

ACM Code of Ethics & Core Values

Acm has implemented the following change to the acm doctoral dissertation award nomination process:.

• Nominators and endorsers for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award will now be required to indicate whether they are aware of any action committed by the candidate that violates the ACM Code of Ethics and ACM's Core Values. See the Policy for Honors Conferred by ACM .
• ACM provides Guidelines for Nominators and Endorsers (PDF).
• For questions regarding these new requirements please contact [email protected]

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• Technical excellence
• Education and technical advancement
• Ethical computing and technology for positive impact
• Diversity and inclusion

GENERAL ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

• Contribute to society and to human well-being, acknowledging that all people are stakeholders in computing.
• Avoid harm.
• Be honest and trustworthy.
• Be fair and take action not to discriminate.
• Respect the work required to produce new ideas, inventions, creative works, and computing artifacts.
• Respect privacy.
• Honor confidentiality.

ACM Nomination Overview

• ACM Nomination Details (ACM website)
• Eligibility (for either award) : Dissertations certified from October 1st, 2022 through September 30, 2023.
• Nomination materials, including supporting letters, should be uploaded by Friday, September 15, 2023 (11:59PM ET) via the uploader available below.
• We know ACM timing allows for theses certified after our internal deadline. Please contact Jenn directly if you anticipate nominating your advisee's thesis that will be certified between the internal SCS deadline of September 15th and September 30th.
• Any CS-related thesis is eligible for consideration for the ACM award, including those of students in any SCS or ECE doctoral program. All SCS and ECE faculty are invited to submit nominations for these doctoral dissertation awards, following the procedures detailed on this page.
• ECE nominated theses are only eligible for consideration for the ACM nominations.

Internal Nomination Overview

Important please note internal scs nomination details that differ from those on acm's website..

• SCS & ECE grant more than 10 doctoral degrees annually. SCS, through an agreement with ACM, manages the upload of two nominations each year.
• Advisors should NOT nominate their student's thesis directly to ACM .
• Selection Criteria : Dissertations will be reviewed for technical depth and significance of the research contribution, potential impact on theory and practice, and quality of presentation.
• We expect the nomination sets for ACM/SCS to intersect, but not necessarily be the same. Moreover, the thesis chosen for the SCS Distinguished Dissertation Award may not necessarily be chosen to be one of the two sent as Carnegie Mellon's nominations to ACM.
• Past recipients of the SCS Distinguished Dissertation Award Past recipients of the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

Internal Nomination Requirements

Please use the downloadable nomination checklist (fillable pdf).

• Nominations for either/both awards should include:
• 1. All items required in the ACM Submissions section at the bottom of their page: https://awards.acm.org/doctoral-dissertation/nominations should be uploaded by the internal deadline.
• 2. We also request the nominated student's CV.

NOTE : This department head endorsement is in addition to the 3-5 endorsement letters.

We will follow up directly with Dept. Heads for the endorsement letter to complete the nomination packet if the thesis is selected for ACM nomination.

• 4. Please remember to select on the NOMINATION CHECKLIST which award(s) the nomination is for (ACM / SCS / both). The form should be uploaded as part of your packet.

When are the awards announced?

• The SCS Doctoral Dissertation Award winner is announced at the beginning of November each fall semester , at the conclusion of the selection process.
• The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award *NOMINEES* are announced at the beginning of November at the same time as the announcement for the SCS award *WINNER*.

A note about endorsement letters

• Each letter should include the name, address, and telephone number of the endorser.
• All materials, including support letters, must be uploaded via this portal. Please provide letter writers a link to this page when requesting their endorsement.
• Support letters should be uploaded by the SCS internal nomination deadline. They are read and used by the SCS Nominating Committee as part of the nomination and award process. The committee takes into consideration expert information provided in support letters to help determine the outcome of the SCS award in addition to the 2 nominations sent on to ACM.
• Multiple files can be uploaded at once and this uploader can be used as many times as necessary until you have provided all packet items. In the same session, refreshing your browser window will enable additional uploads.

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ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation

Design automation has gained widespread acceptance by the VLSI circuits and systems design community. Advancement in computer-aided design (CAD) methodologies, algorithms, and tools has become increasingly important to cope with the rapidly growing design complexity, higher performance and low-power requirements, and shorter time-to-market demands. To encourage innovative, ground-breaking research in the area of electronic design automation, the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) has established an ACM award to be given each year to an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation that makes the most substantial contribution to the theory and/or application in the field of electronic design automation.   The award consists of a certificate and a check for $1,000 and is presented at the Design Automation Conference, which is held in June/July of each year. The award is selected by a committee of experts from academia and industry in the field and appointed by ACM in consultation with the SIGDA Chair.

 Each department of any university may nominate at most two Ph.D. dissertations whose final submission date is between July 1st of the previous year and June 30th of the current year.    Deadline: November 30th of each year

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SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award

We invite you to nominate PhD dissertations for the ACM SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award recognizes excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of mobile, sensor and ubiquitous systems and networking. The winner and up to two runners-up will be recognized at an ACM SIGMOBILE conferences of the winner's choice. The award winner will receive a plaque, a $1,000 honorarium and a complimentary registration to one of the following year ACM SIGMOBILE Conferences. The runners-up will each receive a plaque.

Current Submission Deadline : April 8, 2024 (AOE).

Current Awardees

Jingxian Wang Carnegie Mellon University Blind Wireless Beamforming to Power, Heat, and Move

For advancing the science and interdisciplinary applications of wireless energy Transfer.

Andrea Ferlini (Runner Up) University of Cambridge Exploring the Potential of Earables for Personal-Scale Sensing

For advancing the state of art of sensing in ear-worn devices.

Past Awardees

Rajalakshmi Nandakumar University of Washington Computational Wireless Sensing at Scale

For creating an easily-deployed technique for low-cost millimeter-accuracy sensing on commodity hardware, and its bold and high-impact applications to important societal problems.

Tingjun Chen (Runner Up) Columbia University Algorithms and Experimentation for Future Wireless Networks: From Internet-of-Things to Full-Duplex

For contributions to ultra-low-power wireless networks based on energy harvesting, and to the theory and practice of full-duplex wireless networks.

Wenguang Mao UT Austin Acoustic Sensing on Smart Devices

Yasaman Ghasempour (Runner Up) Rice University Next-Generation Wireless Systems for Joint Communication and Sensing in Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Spectrum

Elahe Soltanaghaei (Runner Up) University of Virginia Sensing the Physical World Using Pervasive Wireless Infrastructure

Fadel Adib MIT Wireless Systems that Extend Our Senses

Fadel's dissertation proposes ways in which Wi-Fi signals, traditionally used for communication, can be extended for use as sensing tools that enable us to learn about our environment without physically reaching out to the various objects in it.

Vamsi Talla University of Washington Power, Communication, Sensing Solutions for Energy Constrainted Platforms

Vamsi's dissertation proposes wireless power delivery and ultra-low power backscatter based communication and sensing solutions for the next billion devices.

Pengyu Zhang UMass Leveraging Backscatter for Ultra-Low Power Wireless Sensing Systems

Pengyu's thesis presents fundamental principles underlying the physical layer, hardware architecture, and operating system design of backscatter based sensors to enable widespread deployment of such systems.

Swarun Kumar (Runner Up) MIT Pushing the Limits of Wireless Networks

Swarun's thesis significantly improves the performance of wireless networks in presence of interference and mobility, and enhances them with accurate location.

Eligibility

• Nominations are limited to one doctoral dissertation per department, and may be from any PhD-granting university in the world.
• The thesis should have been successfully defended and the final version of the dissertation must have been accepted at the nominee's host institution between 1st April 2023 and 31st March 2024.
• The submission must be on a topic related to mobile, sensor and ubiquitous systems and networking. The determination of whether a submission is in scope for the award will be made by the SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee.
• An English-language version of the dissertation must be submitted with the nomination.
• A dissertation can be nominated for both the SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
• Self-nominations are not accepted.

Submission Deadline

April 8, 2024 (AoE)

Submission Email:

cecilia.mascolo (AT) cl.cam.ac.uk

Submission Procedure

All nomination materials must be in English, in PDF format, and submitted by email to the Committee Chair by the submission deadline. Late submissions will not be considered. Nominations must include:

• A statement from the thesis advisor summarizing the contributions and potential impact of the work (no more than two pages).
• A link to the dissertation itself (please refrain from sending large attachments by email) which can be downloaded without difficulty.
• An endorsement letter by the department chair, confirming that the thesis was successfully defended and the final document accepted within the qualifying time period (dates mentioned above).

Dissertation Award Committee

• Fadel Adib, MIT, USA
• Cecilia Mascolo (Chair), University of Cambridge, UK
• Junehwa Song, KAIST, Korea
• Lin Zhong, Yale University, USA
• Xia Zhou, Columbia University, USA

Past Committee Members

• Aruna Balasubramanian (Stony Brook University)
• Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
• Mahadev Satyanarayanan (chair) (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Lin Zhong (Yale University)
• Xia Zhou (Columbia University)

Doctoral Dissertation Award Funding

The funding comes exclusively from ACM SIGMOBILE.

Doctoral Dissertation Award Selection Committee

The Doctoral Dissertation Award Selection Committee will consist of several SIGMOBILE members, one of whom will be appointed as the Selection Committee chair. Award committee members will be appointed by the current SIGMOBILE awards chair. The committee chair will adjudicate conflicts of interest, appointing substitutes to the committee as necessary. Committee members may remain on the committee for up to four years.

Resolution of Conflict of Interest

A member of the Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee who has a potential conflict of interest should report it to the committee chair, and the committee chair will determine whether a conflict exists. If the conflict exists, the committee chair and the SIGMOBILE award chair will replace the member of the award selection committee with another volunteer.

A potential conflict of interest occurs when a person is involved in making a decision that: could result in that person, a close associate of that person, or that person's company or institution receiving significant financial gain, such as a contract or grant, or could result in that person, or a close associate of that person, receiving significant professional recognition, such as an award or the selection of a paper, work, exhibit, or other type of submitted presentation. Some examples of instances of associations that could cause a conflict of interest are: employment at the same institution or company candidate for employment at the same institution or company received an honorarium or stipend from the institution or company within the last year co-author on book or paper in the last 48 months co-principal investigator on grant or research project actively working on project together family relationship close personal relationship graduate advisee/advisor relationship deep personal animosity.

SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Awards

"for outstanding phd thesis in computer and information security".

The SIGSAC Awards Committee is pleased to announce the awardees of the SIGSAC 2021 awards. The award recipients are:

The ACM Special Interest Group for Security Audit and Control (SIGSAC) is soliciting nominations for the 2023 SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award. This annual award by SIGSAC recognizes excellent research and dissertation by doctoral candidates in computer and information security and privacy. The SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award winner and up to two runners-up will be recognized at the ACM CCS 2023 conference. The award winner will receive a plaque, a $1,500 honorarium and a complimentary registration to CCS 2023. The runners-up each will receive a plaque and complimentary registration to CCS 2023.

Nomination Deadline:

Eligibility:, nomination procedure:.

A nomination statement summarizing the candidate's PhD thesis contribution and potential impact, and justification of the nomination (two pages maximum);

Three endorsement letters supporting the nomination including the significant PhD thesis contributions of the candidate. Each endorsement should be no longer than 500 words with clear specification of nominee PhD thesis contributions and potential impact on the computer and information security field. Note that the three endorsement letters must be submitted in addition to the nomination statement .

Decision Notification:

The award honorarium, the award plaques and the conference registration fee for the winner to attend the ACM CCS Conference will be fully funded by SIGSAC and included in its annual budget.

Further Information and Inquiry:

Submission instructions and a list of past winners are available at https://www.sigsac.org/award/diss-awards.html . For information not found in this message or for any other inquiries, contact the SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee Chair, Yan Chen.

A potential conflict of interest occurs when a person is involved in making a decision that:

could result in that person, a close associate of that person, or that person's company or institution receiving significant financial gain, such as a contract or grant, or

could result in that person, or a close associate of that person, receiving significant professional recognition, such as an award or the selection of a paper, work, exhibit, or other type of submitted presentation.

Some examples of instances of associations that could cause a conflict of interest are:

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Doctoral Dissertation Award

The SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes an outstanding dissertation in the field of economics and computation. The award is conferred annually at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation and includes a certificate, complimentary conference registration, and an honorarium of $1,500. A certificate may further be given to up to two runners-up. No award may be conferred if the nominations are judged not to meet the standards for the award.

To be eligible, a dissertation must be on a topic related to economics and computation and must have been defended successfully during the calendar year preceding the year of the award presentation.

The next SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award will be given for dissertations defended in 2023. Nominations are due by February 29th, 2024 (Anywhere on Earth), and must be submitted by email to [email protected] with the name of the nominee in the subject. A dissertation may be nominated simultaneously for both the SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Nominations may be made by any member of SIGecom and will typically come from the dissertation supervisor. Self-nomination is not allowed. Nominations for the award must include the following , preferably having items 1, 2, 4, and 5 in a single PDF file:

• Suggested citation if the dissertation is selected. This should consist of at most 2 sentences describing the key contributions of the thesis.
• A two-page summary of the dissertation, written by the nominee, including bibliographic data and links to publicly accessible versions of published papers based primarily on the dissertation.
• An English-language version of the dissertation in a separate file.
• An endorsement letter of no more than two pages by the nominator, arguing the merit of the dissertation, potential impact, and justification of the nomination. This document should also certify the dissertation defense date.
• The names, email addresses, and affiliations of two additional endorsers.

The additional endorsement letters themselves should be sent directly by email ( [email protected] ), by the same deadline. These endorsements should be no longer than 500 words and should specify the relationship of the endorser to the nominee, contributions of the dissertation, and its potential impact on the field.

It is expected that a nominated candidate, if selected for the award, will attend the next ACM Conference on Economics and Computation to accept the award and give a presentation on the dissertation work. The award includes complimentary registration but does not cover travel or accommodation expenses to attend the conference.

• The 2023 Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee
• Ben Brooks , University of Chicago
• Rachel Cummings , Columbia University
• Nima Haghpanah (chair) , Penn State University

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Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

The SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the area of Software Engineering. The author of the winning dissertation will be invited to publish a dissertation summary in the SIGSOFT newsletter, Software Engineering Notes (SEN). The award includes a $1000 honorarium and a plaque for the author, which is presented at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), and funding support for the recipient to travel to ICSE to receive the award (including a registration to ICSE). A public citation for the award dissertation will be placed on the SIGSOFT web site. The award recipient also receives support for travel to ICSE up to $2500 within their home continent and up to $3000 outside their home continent, including airfare, hotel, and conference registration for ICSE.

The award is for an outstanding dissertation (in software engineering) dated within the year preceding the nomination due date. For nominations for the October 30, 2023, deadline, dissertations dated December 15, 2022 to October 15, 2023 are eligible. The dissertation date can refer to the “deposit date,” “committee approval date,” or another reasonable and relevant date, depending on the process followed by the nominee’s institution. However, please note that a dissertation can be nominated only once. Thus, if, e.g., the “deposit date” and “committee approval date” would fall into two award periods, the thesis cannot be nominated twice, and the nominee would have to choose one period.

To submit a nomination for the award, please use the awards nomination portal . Please note that:

An intent to nominate must be submitted in the nomination system by October 16, 2023. The intent submission is very lightweight and only requires: (1) full name and affiliation of the nominee, (2) contact information of the nominator, and (3) some metadata. If no intent is received by the deadline, the nomination will be deemed late and not considered for this round of award selection.

A single PDF containing the nomination package must be submitted through the portal to complete the submission by October 30, 2023. The PDF should contain the following:

• Full name and affiliation of the nominee
• One- to two-page summary of the nominee’s dissertation (in English)
• Link to download the nominee’s dissertation (in any language)
• List of nominee’s publications (that were used as the basis of chapters in the nominated dissertation)
• Succinct description of why the nominee is well-qualified for the award (200-500 words)
• Up to three support letters (200-300 words will be sufficient for each support letter, although longer statements of support are of course welcome). Each support letter must include the following sentence: “To the best of my knowledge, the candidate I am endorsing has not committed any action that violates the ACM Code of Ethics and ACM’s Core Values.

The selection committee shall have the option to decline to make an award in a given year, if no suitable nominations are presented. If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-dissertation-award (at) acm (dot) org.

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• 2019 Sergey Mechtaev, Semantic Program Repair, National University of Singapore; Honorable Mention: Christoffer Quist Adamsen, Automated Testing Techniques for Event-Driven and Dynamically Typed Software Applications, Aarhus University
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As part of several CPD Research Opportunities , the USC Center on Public Diplomacy (CPD) is pleased to announce its Doctoral Dissertation Grant cycle for the 2024 academic year. This fall, CPD will select one doctoral student with a promising dissertation topic in the area of public diplomacy. The $2,500 grant is intended to recognize and support the work of an emerging scholar who is advancing research on public diplomacy.

CPD supports work examining a broad range of public diplomacy topics from diverse geographical areas and perspectives, with special interest in topics related to  CPD Research Initiatives . Awards will be announced in the fall and disbursed shortly thereafter. 

Applications for the 2024 CPD Doctoral Dissertation Grant will be accepted through  May 20, 2024 .

Application Procedures 1. Applicants must fill out our online application form  here .

2. Applicants to the CPD Doctoral Dissertation Grant must also submit the following electronically to [email protected] with "ATTN: Jay Wang – Dissertation Award Application" in the subject line:

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A summary of the dissertation project, including timeline, not to exceed 6 pages

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Doctoral alumna selected for suny chancellor distinguished ph.d. graduate dissertation award.

By Katya Hrichak

Created to recognize outstanding doctoral candidates in the SUNY system, the awards were granted to one first place winner, four finalists, and three honorable mentions.

Brown, who received her doctorate in genetics, genomics, and development, was selected for her dissertation, titled, “Function and evolution of seminal fluid components in Drosophila.”

“My thesis work was focused on understanding the function and evolution of a major class of male reproductive proteins called seminal fluid proteins, which are important for fertility in many species, including humans,” said Brown. “Understanding the functions of insect reproductive proteins can lead to better approaches for controlling human disease vectors like mosquitos, and can even provide insight into human infertility.”

Finalists were awarded $1,000 to support engagement in professional development opportunities. With the funds, Brown hopes to attend a conference where she can make connections with other researchers in her field or take courses to develop new skills.

“I’m very grateful and honored to have been selected as a finalist for this award among all of the amazing researchers in the SUNY community,” said Brown. “This recognition means a lot, as I think a lot of fundamental biology can be better understood, or even discovered, through an evolutionary lens.”

The State University of New York’s doctoral-granting campuses eligible for this award include University at Albany, Binghamton University, University at Buffalo, Downstate Health Sciences University, SUNY ESF, SUNY College of Optometry, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Stony Brook University, and Upstate Medical, as well as statutory campuses within Alfred University and Cornell University.