The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award is awarded annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to the authors of the best doctoral dissertations in computer science and computer engineering. The award is accompanied by a prize of US$20,000 and winning dissertations are published in the ACM Digital Library. Honorable mentions are awarded $10,000. Financial support is provided by Google. The number of awarded dissertations may vary year-to-year.
ACM also awards the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award. Several Special Interest Groups (SIGs) award a Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Recipients Year Winner Honorable Mentionor Series Winner 1978 Joseph Urban Roderic G. Cattell 1980 Douglas Cook Jacob Slonim Lawrence Larson Ruth E. Davis 1982 Charles E. Leiserson 1983 Thomas W. Reps Ellen Hildreth Steven Johnson 1984 Manolis G.H. Katevenis Eric Bach Henry Baird James Korein 1985 John R. Ellis Ben-Zion Chor Danny Hillis 1986 Johan Håstad Carl Ebeling Ketan Mulmuley David Ungar 1987 John Canny Leslie Greengard Marc H. Brown 1988 Mauricio Karchmer Anne Condon David L. Dill 1989 Vijay Saraswat Joe Killian Michael Kearns 1990 David Heckerman Noam Nisan Hector Geffner 1991 Robert Schapire Asit Dan Carsten Lund Garth Gibson 1992 Kenneth McMillan Mendel Rosenblum 1993 Madhu Sudan James J. Kistler Pandu Nayak 1994 David Karger T.V. Raman 1995 Daniel Spielman Sanjeev Arora 1996 Carl Waldspurger Xiaoyuan Tu 1997 Steven R. McCanne 1998 Hari Balakrishnan 1999 Dieter van Melkebeek 2000 Salil Vadhan Michael D. Ernst William Chan 2001 Ion Stoica David A. Wagner Robert O'Callahan 2002 Venkatesan Guruswami Robert C. Miller Tim Roughgarden 2003 AnHai Doan Dina Katabi Subhash Khot 2004 Boaz Barak Emmett Witchel Ramesh Johari 2005 Ben Liblit Olivier Dousse 2006 Ren Ng Aseem Agarwala 2007 Sergey Yekhanin Benny Applebaum Vincent Conitzer Yan Liu 2008 Constantinos Daskalakis Derek Hoiem Sachin Katti 2009 Craig Gentry Andre Platzer Haryadi S Gunawi Keith Noah Snavely 2010 Bryan Parno Benjamin Snyder 2011 Seth Cooper Aleksander Madry David Steurer 2012 Shyamnath Gollakota Gregory Valiant Peter Hawkins 2013 Sanjam Garg Grey Ballard Shayan Oveis Gharan 2014 Matei Zaharia John C. Duchi John Criswell 2015 Julian Shun Aaron Sidford Siavash Mirarab 2016 Haitham Hassanieh Peter Bailis Veselin Raychev 2017 Aviad Rubinstein Mohsen Ghaffari Stefanie Mueller 2018 Chelsea Finn Ryan Beckett Tengyu Ma 2019 Dor Minzer Jakub Tarnawski Jiajun Wu 2020 Chuchu Fan Henry Corrigan-Gibbs Ralf Jung2021Manish RaghavanDimitris Tsipras Pratul Srinivasan
Benjamin Mildenhall2022Aayush JainAlane Suhr Conrad Watt2023Nivedita AroraGabriele Farina William Kuszmaul2024Ashish SharmaZander Kelley Sewon Min2025Allen LiuGal Arnon Rachit Nigam
See also
List of computer science awards List of engineering awards ACM Student Research Competition
References
External links ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Winners on acm.org ACM Doctoral Dissertation Awards with affiliations