Winner
Yizhou Sun
Dissertation Title: “Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks”
Advisor: Jiawei Han
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yizhou Sun is currently an assistant professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University in Boston.
Runner-Up
Byron Wallace
Dissertation Title: “Machine Learning in Health Informatics: Making Better use of Domain Experts”
Advisor: Carla Brodley
Institution: Tufts University
Byron Wallace is currently a research assistant professor at Brown University.
Honorable Mention Finalists
U Kang
Dissertation Title: “Mining Tera-Scale Graphs: Theory, Engineering and Discoveries”
Advisor: Christos Faloutsos
Institution: Carnegie Melon University
Venu Satuluri
Dissertation Title: “Scalable Clustering of Modern Networks”
Advisor: Srinivasan Parthasarathy
Institution: The Ohio State University
SIGKDD Dissertation Award Selection Committee
• Bamshad Mobasher, Chair, DePaul University, USA
• Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois, Chicago
• Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Dimitrios Gunopulos, The University of Athens, Greece
• Mohammad Al Hasan, Indiana University-Purdue University, USA
• Sofus Macskassy, Facebook, Inc.
• Jennifer Neville, Purdue University, USA
• Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
• Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan
• Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA