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July 31, 2008. This year's upcoming SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discover and Data Mining, (KDD-2008) to be held in Las Vegas, August 24-27, will highlight the first annual ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award which will recognize excellent research by doctoral candidates in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery.

The SIGKDD Dissertation Award Committee is pleased to announce

Dr. Xiaoxin Yin's dissertation titled

"Scalable Mining and Link Analysis Across Multiple Database Relations"

(advisor Jiawei Han, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) as the winner of this year's award. Dr. Yin's dissertation was selected from among a number of very strong candidates and receiving this award will serve as a clear recognition of its contributions to the KDD community.

In addition to the winner, SIGKDD will recognize the runner up dissertation by Dr. Jimeng Sun, titled "Incremental Pattern Discovery on Streams, Graphs and Tensors" (advisor Christos Faloutsos, CMU).

Both the winner and the runner up will be recognized at the opening ceremonies if the conference with a plaque and will have an opportunity to present a summary of their dissertations during one of the regular research sessions. In addition, the winner will receive $2,500 honorarium and free registration to the conference.

This year, the Dissertation Award Committee has also chosen to recognize two additional finalists from among the candidates because of the excellent contributions made by their dissertations. These finalists are Dr. David Martens (for "Building Acceptable Classification Models for Financial Engineering Applications") and Dr. Pradeep Ravikumar (for "Approximate inference, structure learning and feature estimation in Markov Random Fields") both of whom will be recognized at the opening ceremonies and will receive a certificate of recognition.

Additional Information about the SIGKDD Dissertation Awards including eligibility criteria and the list of Committee members can be found at the SIGKDD Web site:

http://www.sigkdd.org/awards_dissertation.php

Contacts:
Dr. Bamshad Mobasher, Chair
SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee
Email: Mobasher@cs.depaul.edu

Virginia Gold
ACM
v_gold@hq.acm.org