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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 (http://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 February, 2009. Furthermore, the final dissertation defense must not have taken place prior to 2008.

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 February 23, 2009.

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: February 23, 2009.
• Notification of Awards: May 18, 2009.
• Award Presentation at KDD 2009: June 28, 2009, Paris, France.

http://www.kdd.org/awards_dissertation.php

Award Committee

• Bamshad Mobasher, Chair, DePaul University, USA
• Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Dimitrios Gunopulos, UC Riverside, USA
• Hannu Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
• Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University
• Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan
• Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Others to be added