Thursday, January 10, 2019

2019 SIGecom Dissertation Award: Call for Nominations

Dear all,

Please consider nominating graduating Ph.D. students for the SIGecom Dissertation Award.  If you are a graduating student, consider asking your adviser or other senior mentor to nominate you.

Nominations are due on February 28, 2019.  This award is given to a student who defended a thesis in 2018.  It is a prestigious award and is accompanied by a $1500 prize.  In the past, the grand prize has been awarded to:

2017: Aviad Rubinstein, "Hardness of Approximation Between P and NP"
2016: Peng Shi, "Prediction and Optimization in School Choice"
2015: Inbal Talgam-Cohen, "Robust Market Design: Information and Computation "
2014: S. Matthew Weinberg, "Algorithms for Strategic Agents"
2013: Balasubramanian Sivan, "Prior Robust Optimization"


And the award has had seven runner-ups: Rachel Cummings, Christos Tzamos, Bo Waggoner, James Wright, Xi (Alice) Gao, Yang Cai, and Sigal Oren.  You can find detailed information about the nomination process at: http://www.sigecom.org/awardd.html. We look forward to reading your nominations!


Your Award Committee,

Renato Paes Leme
Aaron Roth (Chair)
Inbal Talgam-Cohen

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