24 ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award (Fall 24)

The doctoral dissertation award was created by SIGCOMM in 2011, and will recognize excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of computer networking and data communication. The SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award winner and up to two runners-up will be recognized at the ACM SIGCOMM conference. The award winner will receive a plaque, a $1,500 honorarium and a complimentary registration to the year’s ACM SIGCOMM Conference.  The runners-up each will receive a plaque and a complimentary registration to the conference.

For more information, see here: https://www.sigcomm.org/awards/doctoral-dissertation-award-nominations

ELIGIBILITY/NOMINATION RULES

• Nominations are limited to one doctoral dissertation per department.

• The final dissertation defense should take place at the nominee’s host institution during the 12 months before the submission deadline (Dec. 1st).

• Each submitted doctoral dissertation must be on a topic related to computer networking and data communication. The determination of whether a thesis is in scope for the award will be made by the Award Committee.

• Each nominated dissertation must also have been successfully defended by the candidate, and the final version of each nominated dissertation must have been accepted by the candidate's academic unit.

• An English-language version of the dissertation must be submitted with the nomination.

• The nominee must be a SIGCOMM member.

• No self-nomination is allowed.
  

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

• Students and nominators may not submit applications directly. All applications must first be submitted to the CS Awards Team.

• Please note that only one student per department can be submitted for this award. If more than one student is nominated, an internal competition will be held by the Graduate Student Awards Committee.

• Applications should be submitted as ONE package with all required documents in the order outlined below to cs-awards@mx.uillinois.edu.

APPLICATION MATERIALS

The nomination package to the CS Awards Team must contain the following documents, arranged in the following order in PDF format:

1. A statement summarizing the candidate’s PhD thesis contributions and potential impact, and justification of the nomination (no more than two pages);

2. The PhD thesis itself;

3. An endorsement letter by the department chair;

4. Three endorsement letters supporting the nomination including the significant PhD thesis contributions of the candidate. Each endorsement should be no longer than 500 words with clear specification of the nominee’s PhD thesis contributions and potential impact on the computer networking  field;

5. A concise statement (one sentence) of the PhD thesis contribution for which the award is being given. This statement will appear on the plaque and on the SIGCOMM website.

Please that the nomination package to ACM SIGCOMM may include additional information not included in the nomination package to the CS Awards Team.