2015 SIGKDD Dissertation Awards
Winner
Mining Latent Entity Structures From Massive Unstructured and Interconnected Data
Chi Wang (student) and Jiawei Han (advisor) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Runner-up
Modeling Large Social Networks in Context
Qirong Ho (student) and Eric Xing (advisor) at Carnegie Mellon University
Runner-up
Computing Distrust in Social Media
Jiliang Tang (Student) and Huan Liu (Advisor) at Arizona State University