SIGKDD Dissertation Award
This annual award by ACM SIGKDD will recognize excellent research by doctoral candidates in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery.
Recipients
2019 SIGKDD Dissertation Award Winners
2019 Award WinnerACM SIGKDD dissertation awards recognize outstanding work done by graduate students in the areas of data science, machine learning and data mining.
2018 SIGKDD DISSERTATION AWARD WINNERS
2018 Award WinnerACM SIGKDD dissertation awards recognize outstanding work done by graduate students in the areas of data science, machine learning and data mining.
2017 SIGKDD Dissertation Award Winners
2017 Award WinnerACM SIGKDD dissertation awards recognize outstanding work done by graduate students in the areas of data science, machine learning and data mining.
2016 SIGKDD Dissertation Award Winners
2016 Award WinnerACM SIGKDD dissertation awards recognize outstanding work done by graduate students in the areas of data science, machine learning and data mining.
2015 SIGKDD Dissertation Award Winners
2015 Award WinnerACM SIGKDD dissertation awards recognize outstanding work done by graduate students in the areas of data science, machine learning and data mining.
2014 SIGKDD Dissertation Award Winners
2014 Award WinnerACM SIGKDD dissertation awards recognize outstanding work done by graduate students in the areas of data science, machine learning and data mining.

2013 SIGKDD Dissertation Awards
2013 Award Winner
2012 SIGKDD Dissertation Award
2012 Award Winner
2011 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award
2011 Award Winner
2010 SIGKDD Dissertation Award
2010 Award WinnerAwards Committee
2015 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee (in alphabetical order)
- Pedro Domingos (University of Washington)
- Jiawei Han (University of Illinois)
- Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota)
- Ying Li (EV Analysis Corp.)
- Gabor Melli (VIgiLink)
- Bharat Rao (KPMG)
- Ted Senator — Chair (Leidos)
- Padhraic Smyth (University of California at Irvine)
- Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors Corporation, retired)
- Osmar Zaiane (University of Alberta)
2014 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee
- Gabor Melli (VigLink) – Chair of Awards Committee
- Rakesh Agrawal (Microsoft)
- Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)
- Sunita Sarawagi (Indian Institute of Technology)
- Bharat Rao (Deloitte)
- Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota)
- Ying Li (EV Analysis Corporation)
- Osmar Zaiane (University of Alberta)
- Usama Fayyad (Barclays)
2013 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee
- Bharat Rao (Deloitte)
- Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Osmar Zaiane (University of Alberta)
- Padhraic Smyth (University of California, Irvine)
- Ross Quinlan (Rulequest Research)
- Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors Corporation)
- Sunita Sarawagi (Indian institute of technology)
- Usama Fayyad (ChoozOn Corporation)
- Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota)
- Ying Li (Concurix Corporation) – Chair of Awards Committee
2012 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee
- Ramasamy Uthurusamy, Chair Chid Apte, IBM Research
- Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University
- Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KD Nuggets
- Daryl Pregibon, Google
- J. Ross Quinlan, Rulequest
- Ted Senator, SAIC
- Padhraic Smyth, University of California at Irvine
- Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Osmar R. Zaiane, University of Alberta C Past Chair
2011 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee
- Osmar R. Zaïane, Chair
- Ramasamy Uthurusamy, Past Chair
- Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Peter Flach (University of Bristol)
- Robert Grossman (University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Ying Li (Microsoft)
- Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Sunita Sarawagi (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
- Padhraic Smyth (University of California at Irvine)
- Qiang Yang (Hong Kong UST)