2010 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award, Due Apr 2

Nomination Deadline: April 2, 2010

kdd.org/awards_dissertation.php

This annual award by ACM SIGKDD will recognize excellent research by doctoral candidates in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery. The KDD Doctoral Dissertation 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 (www.kdd.org). The award winner will receive a plaque, a check for $2,500, and will be invited to present his or her work at the KDD conference. The award winner will also receive a free registration to attend the KDD conference. The runners-up will receive a plaque at the conference.

Eligibility
The final dissertation defense should take place at the nominee's host institution before the submission deadline. Furthermore, the final dissertation defense must not have taken place prior to January 1st, 2009.

Nominations are limited to one doctoral dissertation per department or academic unit. Submissions must be received by the current Chair of the KDD Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee by the submission deadline.

Each nominated dissertation must also have been successfully defended by the candidate, and the final version of each nominated dissertation must have been accepted by the candidate's academic unit. An English version of the dissertation must be submitted with the nomination. A dissertation can be nominated for both the SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline (extended): April 2, 2010.
• Notification of Awards: June 21, 2010.
• Award Presentation at KDD 2010: July 25, 2010, Washington, DC.

All nomination materials must be submitted electronically to:

mobasher [at] cs.depaul.edu

Please use "SIGKDD Dissertation Award Nominations" in you subject line.

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. An endorsement letter signed by the department head.

3. One PDF copy of the doctoral dissertation.

4. A copyright transfer form signed by the candidate is required giving permission for the dissertation to appear on KDD.org Web site if the dissertation is selected as an award recipient (but if the nomination is also being submitted for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, only one form needs to be signed). See:

www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html

5. Optionally, the nomination may include up to two supporting letters from other individuals, discussing the significance of the dissertation.

Award Committee

• Bamshad Mobasher, Chair, DePaul University, USA
• Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois, Chicago
• Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University
• Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Dimitrios Gunopulos, UC Riverside, USA
• Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Jennifer Neville, Purdue University
• Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
• Hannu Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan
• Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University
• Xiaoxin Yin, Microsoft