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Recent Georgia Tech Grad Earns ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

June 17, 2024.

Nivedita Arora of Northwestern University is the recipient of the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation “ Sustainable Interactive Wireless Stickers: From Materials to Devices to Applications ,” which demonstrated wireless and batteryless sensor nodes using novel materials and radio backscatter. Arora’s research envisions creating sustainable computational materials that operate by harvesting energy from the environment and, at the end of their life cycle, can be responsibly composted or recycled. Her research process involves working at the intersection of materials, methods of fabrication, low-power systems, and HCI . She actively looks to apply her work to application domains such as smart homes, health, climate change, and wildlife monitoring.

Honorable Mentions for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award go to Gabriele Farina of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his dissertation “ Game-Theoretic Decision Making in Imperfect-Information Games ," and William Kuszmaul  of Harvard University for his dissertation “ Randomized Data Structures: New Perspectives and Hidden Surprises ."

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Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

2023 outstanding doctoral dissertation award.

ACM's Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Keren Zhou has won the 2023 SIGHPC Doctoral Dissertation Award.  This award is given each year for the best doctoral dissertation completed in high performance computing (HPC) in the previous year.  Nominations were evaluated on the novelty of the work, quality of scholarship, significance of the research contributions, and potential impact on theory and practice.  The award includes a $2,000 cash prize, a plaque, and recognition at the International Supercomputing Conference (SC’XY) in November.

Dr. Zhou's dissertation tackled the difficult research problem of understanding the performance of application codes accelerated on graphical processing units (GPUs), through the design and development of innovative techniques for performance instrumentation, measurement, and analysis, particularly in the context of the latest GPU technologies in use on high-end HPC platforms.  His work not only made novel contributions to the state of performance art, but the methods have been integrated in real HPC tools and applied in the optimization of real-world heterogeneous HPC applications on modern supercomputers.

Dr. Zhou received his PhD in Computer Science from Rice University in 2022.  Following completion of his graduate studies, Dr. Zhou worked as a member of the technical staff at OpenAI. Dr. Zhou will be an Assistant Professor at George Mason University starting in August 2023.

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This award is open to students studying anywhere in the world who have completed a PhD dissertation with HPC as a central research theme. In this case, HPC refers to the study or application of computational capabilities delivering much higher performance or larger scales than could be accomplished with a desktop or simple server system in order to solve large problems. 

To qualify for the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, the dissertation must:

Have been successfully defended (or accepted by the committee if no defense is required) during the calendar year 

Be submitted in the final form that was accepted by the department

Be submitted in English

The award is presented during the annual SC conference . The awardee is recognized with a $2,000 cash prize, a plaque, and travel support to SC.

See how to nominate for more information on nominations, current deadlines, and the link to start the process, or check out the FAQ for answers to common questions.

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2022 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner, Dr. Maciej Besta

Foreword from Chair of 2023 ACM SIGMETRICS Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee

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ACM PODC 2023

June 19-23, 2023, Orlando, Florida

2023 Dissertation Award

Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award awarded jointly by ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing EATCS Symposium on Distributed Computing

Call for Nominations

We are soliciting nominations for the 2023 Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award.  The award will be presented at the 42nd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing in Orlando, Florida, on June 19-23, 2023.

Submission deadline: February 19th, 2023 Submission link: https://podc-dda23.hotcrp.com/paper/new Information about the award: https://www.podc.org/dissertation/

Submission Guidelines

Please nominate excellent dissertations in the area of Distributed Computing that were successfully defended (or, in lieu of a defense, obtained a final approval) in the period January 1st, 2021 through December 31st, 2022.

Detailed submission guidelines can be found at the bottom of the current page and of the award page: https://www.podc.org/dissertation/

Award Committee

• Shlomi Dolev, (chair), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 
• Fabian Kuhn, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Christian Scheideler, Universität Paderborn, Germany
• Philipp Woelfel, University of Calgary, Canada

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Shlomi Dolev ( [email protected] )

Nomination and Submission

A one-page nomination letter must be submitted by the thesis advisor. The nomination should highlight the dissertation’s contributions and justify why the dissertation is worthy of the award.

Submission Checklist

A nomination must include:

• Contact details (affiliation and email addresses) of the advisor and the doctoral student.
• A formal document from the student’s department/institution/organization verifying the date that the dissertation was successfully defended (a scanned version is acceptable for the submission, but the original document might be required at a later stage of the evaluation). If not indicated by the document, also state the period of time the student was enrolled in the doctoral program.
• A one page justification letter.
• Publications that contain material from the thesis, detailing what material was taken from which part of the thesis and the parts that are not contained in the thesis.
• Publications that are cited in the thesis, but do not contain material that also appears in the thesis.
• Papers currently under review, including journal submissions of previously published work, that contain material from the thesis, what material was taken from which part of the thesis and the parts that are not contained in the thesis.
• Those parts of the thesis which are not included in the other lists.
• A list of awards the student received for the thesis and/or publications related to the thesis.
• One copy of the dissertation in electronic form (preferably in pdf).
• A separate copy of the abstract in electronic form (either as pdf or plain text).

Review Process

The committee will consist of four core members and a number of ad-hoc members, selected as described below. The review process will consist of two stages:

The first selection phase, carried out by the core members, will be based on the nomination letters and publication lists. At the end of this phase, a short list of dissertations to be considered in the second round will be compiled.

Based on the short list, the four core members will identify experts on the topics of the dissertations and invite them to serve as additional (ad hoc) members of the committee. The committee should include sufficiently many members to allow each dissertation to be reviewed by three members without requiring any member to review more than two dissertations.

Evaluation Criteria

The nominated dissertations will be reviewed for technical depth and significance of the research contributions in the area of Distributed Computing, the potential impact on theory and practice, and quality of presentation/writing, including thoroughness of description of related work and understandability of algorithms and proofs.

•  The award presentation will alternate between DISC (even years) and PODC (odd years).
•  The winning dissertation will receive a plaque and a monetary prize.
•  The committee reserves the right to split or decline to give the award.
•  The committee can give Honorable Mentions to up to two non-winning dissertations meriting special recognition (or one Honorable Mention in case the award is split).

ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award

Acm sigmis doctoral dissertation award.

We invite nominations for the ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition 2023. We are seeking outstanding doctoral dissertations from around the globe in the field of Information Systems that have been completed in the time period from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023. The competition is sponsored by SIGMIS, the ACM Special Interest Group on MIS.

Nominations should be submitted no earlier than midnight December 16, 2023, and no later than midnight (UTC -7), December 30, 2023. The candidate’s Ph.D. advisor or department chair should submit the nomination. Only one nomination can be made from an institution.

The ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Competition is chaired by Andrea Carugati, Atreyi Kankanhalli, and Natalia Levina, and the judges include the faculty members who participated at the ICIS 2022 doctoral consortium and other faculty members from the discipline who would be appropriate given the content of the submissions.

Questions about this competition may be addressed to the co-chairs.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the 2023 competition, dissertations must have been completed in the time period from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023. Authors must have successfully defended their dissertations and should have received the final approval and all required sign-offs on their dissertation document by June 30, 2023. The author should have earned their Ph.D. in Information Systems, and the dissertation needs to address an important issue in the field of IS. Dissertations that are not related to information systems phenomena will not be considered.

Works under consideration for publication may be submitted if they otherwise meet the submission criteria. Authors will retain full copyright of the submitted papers and dissertations.

Submission Process

• A paper derived from the dissertation.

The initial screening of submissions will be based on a purposefully written paper designed to highlight the significance and contribution of the research. If the dissertation consists of several essays, the paper should tie the essays in a coherent manner. The paper is expected to cover the whole dissertation research and should address: (i) the rationale for the dissertation, (ii) the research objective / questions, (iii) theoretical development and hypotheses, as appropriate, (iv) overview and justification of the research design and methodology, (v) key findings, and (vi) discussion of the contribution and implications of the research.

Submissions where the paper only covers part of the dissertation research or is one of several essays from the dissertation will not be considered.

The paper should be:

• Single-authored (i.e., the paper must be written by the student);
• Absolutely no more than 4,000 words in length, excluding the cover page, tables, graphs, references, and an abstract of no more than 200 words in length;
• Formatted according to the MIS Quarterly manuscript guidelines;
• Written in English;
• Preceded by a cover page that includes a title and the student’s name, institution, and email address.
• The complete dissertation.
• A letter from the student’s dissertation advisor or department chair.

The letter should attest that: the paper is based on the student’s dissertation; the dissertation has met all requirements for graduation with a doctoral degree and has been successfully completed during the time period from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023; the paper and the dissertation are regarded by the dissertation committee as being representative of the best level of their department’s doctoral work; the paper derived from the dissertation meets the following criteria: the paper is the work of the student under the guidance of the thesis supervisor (s) (name (s)); it represents high research standards, in terms of theory and methodology; it makes an original and substantive contribution to the understanding, development, or use of information systems.

Submissions should adhere to the following guidelines:

• The candidate’s Ph.D. advisor or department chair should submit the nomination.
• All three items must be submitted to [email protected] as a single submission.
• The package should be received before 5pm (UTC -7), December 30, 2023.

Late arrivals will not be considered.

Reviewing Process and the Announcement of Winners

The winner of the dissertation award competition will be announced via email and broadcast lists.

Panel of judges:

• Margunn Aanestad (University of Agder)
• Joao Baptista (Lancaster University, Nova School of Business and Economics)
• Andrew Burton-Jones (University of Queensland)
• Christy Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University)
• Ke-Wei Huang (National University of Singapore)
• Jan Recker (University of Hamburg)
• Arun Rai (Georgia State University)
• Maytal Saar-Tsechansky (University of Texas at Austin)
• Anjana Susarla (Michigan State University)
• Youngjin Yoo (Case Western Reserve University

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