Call for 2024 ACM SIGKDD Award Nominations

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: ACM SIGKDD 2024 INNOVATION, SERVICE, AND RISING STAR AWARDS

ACM SIGKDD invites your nominations for its 2024 Innovation Award, Service Award, and Rising Star Award.

ACM SIGKDD, ACM’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), is the premier global professional organization for researchers and professionals dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of knowledge discovery and data mining. It established the Innovation and Service Awards to recognize outstanding technical and service contributions to the KDD field. It established the Rising Star Award to promote young KDD researchers as they build up their careers.

Nominations for all awards are due Monday June 3rd, 2024

Please send your nomination package in a single pdf file via email to the Awards Committee Chair, Johannes Gehrke (johannes at microsoft dot com). Please make sure you receive a confirmation email.

The 2024 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee

ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award

The SIGKDD Innovation Award recognizes one individual or one group of collaborators whose outstanding technical innovations in the field of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining have had a lasting impact in advancing the theory and practice of the field. The contributions must have significantly influenced the direction of research and development of the field or transferred to practice in significant and innovative ways and/or enabled the development of commercial systems. This award is chosen by the SIGKDD Awards Committee.

The previous SIGKDD Innovation Award winners were Rakesh Agrawal, Jerome Friedman, Heikki Mannila, Jiawei Han, Leo Breiman, Ramakrishnan Srikant, Usama M. Fayyad, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Padhraic Smyth, Christos Faloutsos, J. Ross Quinlan, Vipin Kumar, Jon Kleinberg, Pedro Domingos, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Philip S. Yu, Jian Pei, Bing Liu, Charu Aggarwal, Thorsten Joachims, Johannes Gehrke, Huan Liu, and Jure Leskovec.

Eligibility: The nominees can be anyone except the SIGKDD Executive Committee Chair and the members of the SIGKDD Innovation/Service/Rising Star Awards Committee.

Nomination Process:  Anyone in the field can put forward a nomination (self-nominations are excluded). Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words) and a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less). The nomination should explicitly indicate the specific nature of the impact. Three or more supporting letters should be submitted. The letters need to address the significance of the contributions cited in the nomination. Recipients of other awards are eligible if the SIGKDD nomination is for different contributions. The nomination and letters should describe the difference and the impact of the new contributions. 

Nominations must be received by June 3rd, 2024, to be considered for this year’s award. Please include a detailed CV for the nominee in the nomination. Nominations are valid for three years and can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years. The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or one winner.

ACM SIGKDD Service Award

The SIGKDD Service Award recognizes one individual or one group for their outstanding professional services contributions to the field of knowledge discovery and data mining. Services recognized include significant contributions to the activities of professional KDD societies and conferences, educating students, researchers and practitioners, funding R&D activities, professional volunteer services in disseminating technical information to the field, and contributions to society at large through applications of KDD.

The previous SIGKDD Service Award winners were Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ramasamy Uthurusamy, Usama M. Fayyad, Xindong Wu, the Weka team led by Ian Witten and Eibe Frank, Won Kim, Robert Grossman, Sunita Sarawagi, Osmar R. Zaiane, R. Bharat Rao, Ying Li, Gabor Melli, Ted Senator, Jian Pei, Wei Wang, Qiang Yang, Jie Tang, Balaji Krishnapuram, Michael Zeller, Shipeng Yu, Charu Aggarwal, and Hui Xiong.

Eligibility: The nominee(s) can be anyone except the SIGKDD Executive Committee Chair and the members of the SIGKDD Innovation/Service/Rising Star Awards Committee.

Nomination Process: Anyone in the field can put forward a nomination (self-nominations are excluded). Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words) and a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less). Three or more supporting letters should be submitted. The letters need to address the significance of the service contributions cited in the nomination.

Nominations must be received by June 3rd, 2024, to be considered for this year’s award. Please include a detailed CV for nominee in the nomination. Nominations are valid for three years and can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years. The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or one winner.

ACM SIGKDD Rising Star Award

ACM SIGKDD decided to establish the Rising Star Award starting in 2020. This award is based on an individual’s whole body of work in the first five years after the PhD. The award aims to promote current SIGKDD researchers as they build up their career.

The previous SIGKDD Rising Star Award winners were Danai Koutra, Jiliang Tang, Xia Ben Hu, and Yuxiao Dong.

Eligibility: The nominee(s) should have completed all the requirements for the PhD no earlier than December 31, 2018; parental leaves will move the date by the duration of the parental leave. Exceptions can be requested for other extenuating circumstances (e.g., mandatory military service). The nominee can be anyone except the SIGKDD Chair and the members of the SIGKDD Innovation/Service/Rising Star Awards Committee.

Nomination Process: Anyone in the field can put forward a nomination (self-nominations are excluded). Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words) and a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less). Three or more supporting letters should be submitted. Both the nomination and the letters need to address the significance of the contributions in the first five years after the PhD cited in the nomination. The contributions may build on the nominee’s Ph.D. work, but the emphasis should not be put on the continuing impact of the Ph.D. work.

Nominations must be received by June 3rd, 2024, to be considered for this year’s award. Please include a detailed CV for the nominee in the nomination. Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years as long as the eligibility conditions for the award still hold. The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2024 SIGKDD DISSERTATION AWARD

Description

This annual award by ACM SIGKDD recognizes outstanding research by doctoral candidates in the field of data science, data mining and knowledge discovery. The KDD Doctoral Dissertation Award winner and up to two runners-up will be recognized at the KDD conference, and their dissertations will have the opportunity to be published on the KDD Web site. The award winner will receive a plaque, a check for $2,500. The award winner will also receive a free registration to attend the KDD conference. The runners-up will receive a plaque at the conference. The winner and runners-up will be invited to present their work in a special session at the KDD conference.

Dissertation Award Chair: Prof. Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame

Nominations due: May 13, 2024. End-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. 

The previous winners of this award can be found at: http://www.kdd.org/awards/sigkdd-dissertation-award

Eligibility

Nominations are limited to one doctoral dissertation per department or academic unit. Submissions must be received by the submission deadline. The dissertation defense should have taken place and been accepted by the candidate’s academic unit before the submission deadline. Furthermore, the dissertation defense must not have taken place prior to January 1st, 2023. An English version of the dissertation must be submitted with the nomination. A dissertation can be nominated for both the SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: May 13, 2024

Notification of Awards: July 15, 2024

Award Presentation at KDD 2024: August 25 – 29, 2024

Nomination Requirements

Nominations must be made by the doctoral advisor. All nomination materials must be in English and in PDF format. Late submissions will not be accepted. A nomination must include:

Submission Procedure

Please use “[SIGKDD Dissertation Award]” in your subject line. All required documents must be attached in a single email.

All nomination materials must be submitted electronically to the Dissertation Award Chair, Prof. Nitesh Chawla at the following email address:  lucyinstitute@nd.edu.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2024 SIGKDD TEST OF TIME AWARDS

Description

SIGKDD makes two annual test of time awards, one for a paper from the research track and the other for a paper from the applied science track (formerly called the industrial track). The SIGKDD Awards Committee is responsible for selecting one paper from the research track of the SIGKDD Proceedings from 10 to 12 years ago and one paper from the industrial track of the SIGKDD Proceedings from 10 to 15 years ago that have best met the “test of time,” that is, it have had the most influence since their publication. The 2023 awards will be presented at the 30th ACM SigKDD Conference.

Eligibility

All papers from the research tracks of SIGKDD 2012 – 2014 are eligible for the ACM SIGKDD Research Test of Time Award. All papers from the industrial tracks of SIGKDD 2010 – 2014 are eligible for the ACM SIGKDD Applied Science Test of Time Award. Papers that have received a previous ACM SIGKDD Test of Time Award are not eligible. Both awards will be chosen by the 2024 SIGKDD Test of Time Awards Committee. There is no formal nomination process for this award, but we greatly appreciate input from the SIGKDD community. We are especially interested in first-hand accounts of ways in which a paper has influenced subsequent research and practice.

Nominations due Monday May 13, 2024

Send your nominations to Geoff Webb (geoff.webb@monash.edu) with subject line “SIGKDD award nomination”.