ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

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.^[1] Honorable mentions are awarded $10,000. Financial support is provided by Google. The number of awarded dissertations may vary year-to-year.

ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
Awarded for	Best doctoral dissertations in computer science and computer engineering
Presented by	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Reward(s)	US $20,000
First award	1978
Website	awards.acm.org/doctoral-dissertation

ACM also awards the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award.^[2] Several Special Interest Groups (SIGs) award a Doctoral Dissertation Award.^[3]

Recipients

Year	Winner	Honorable Mention or Series Winner
1978	Joseph Urban [4]
	Roderic G. Cattell [5]
1980	Douglas Cook [6]
	Jacob Slonim [7]
	Lawrence Larson [8]
	Ruth E. Davis [9]
1982	Charles E. Leiserson [10]
1983	Thomas W. Reps [11]	Ellen Hildreth [12]
		Steven Johnson [13]
1984	Manolis G.H. Katevenis [14]	Eric Bach [15]
		Henry Baird [16]
		James Korein [17]
1985	John R. Ellis [18]	Ben-Zion Chor [19]
		Danny Hillis [20]
1986	Johan Håstad [21]	Carl Ebeling [22]
	Ketan Mulmuley [23]	David Ungar [24]
1987	John Canny [25]	Leslie Greengard [26]
		Marc H. Brown [27]
1988	Mauricio Karchmer [28]	Anne Condon [29]
		David L. Dill [30]
1989	Vijay Saraswat [31]	Joe Killian [32]
		Michael Kearns [33]
1990	David Heckerman [34]	Noam Nisan [35]
	Hector Geffner [36]
1991	Robert Schapire [37]	Asit Dan [38]
		Carsten Lund [39]
		Garth Gibson [40]
1992	Kenneth McMillan [41]
	Mendel Rosenblum [42]
1993	Madhu Sudan [43]	James J. Kistler [44]
		Pandu Nayak [45]
1994	David Karger [46]
	T.V. Raman [47]
1995	Daniel Spielman [48]
	Sanjeev Arora [49]
1996	Carl Waldspurger [50]
	Xiaoyuan Tu [51]
1997	Steven R. McCanne [52]
1998	Hari Balakrishnan [53]
1999	Dieter van Melkebeek [54]
2000	Salil Vadhan [55]	Michael D. Ernst [56]
		William Chan [57]
2001	Ion Stoica [58]	David A. Wagner [59]
		Robert O'Callahan [60]
2002	Venkatesan Guruswami [61]	Robert C. Miller [62]
		Tim Roughgarden [63]
2003	AnHai Doan [64]	Dina Katabi [65]
		Subhash Khot [66]
2004	Boaz Barak [67]	Emmett Witchel [68]
		Ramesh Johari [69]
2005	Ben Liblit [70]	Olivier Dousse [71]
2006	Ren Ng [72][73]	Aseem Agarwala [74]
2007	Sergey Yekhanin [75]	Benny Applebaum [76]
		Vincent Conitzer [77]
		Yan Liu [78]
2008	Constantinos Daskalakis [79][80]	Derek Hoiem [81]
		Sachin Katti [82]
2009	Craig Gentry [83]	Andre Platzer [84]
		Haryadi S Gunawi [85]
		Keith Noah Snavely [86]
2010	Bryan Parno [87]	Benjamin Snyder [88]
2011	Seth Cooper [89][90]	Aleksander Madry [91]
		David Steurer [92]
2012	Shyamnath Gollakota [93]	Gregory Valiant [94]
		Peter Hawkins [95]
2013	Sanjam Garg [96]	Grey Ballard [97]
		Shayan Oveis Gharan [98]
2014	Matei Zaharia [99][100]	John C. Duchi [101]
		John Criswell [102]
2015	Julian Shun [103][104]	Aaron Sidford [105][106]
		Siavash Mirarab [107][108]
2016	Haitham Hassanieh [109][110]	Peter Bailis [111]
		Veselin Raychev [112]
2017	Aviad Rubinstein [113]	Mohsen Ghaffari [114]
		Stefanie Mueller [115]
2018	Chelsea Finn [116]	Ryan Beckett [117]
		Tengyu Ma [118]
2019	Dor Minzer [119]	Jakub Tarnawski [120]
		Jiajun Wu [121]
2020	Chuchu Fan [122]	Henry Corrigan-Gibbs [123]
		Ralf Jung [124]
2021	Manish Raghavan[125]	Dimitris Tsipras[126] Pratul Srinivasan[127] Benjamin Mildenhall[128]
2022	Aayush Jain[129]	Alane Suhr[130] Conrad Watt[131]
2023	Nivedita Arora[132]	Gabriele Farina[133] William Kuszmaul[134]

See also

• List of computer science awards
• List of engineering awards
• ACM Student Research Competition