Last update: April 17, 2015

ACM DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARDS

Year	Name	Category	School	Employment
2013	Sanjam Garg	Doctoral Dissertation Award	UCLA	IBM, Berkeley
2013	Grey Ballard	Honorable Mention	Berkeley	Sandia
2013	Shayan Oveis Gharan	Honorable Mention	Stanford	Washington
2012	Shyamnath Gollakota	Doctoral Dissertation Award	MIT	Washington
2012	Peter Hawkins	Honorable Mention	Stanford	???
2012	Gregory Valiant	Honorable Mention	Berkeley	Stanford
2011	Seth Cooper	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Washington	Northeastern
2011	Aleksander Madry	Honorable Mention	MIT	Microsoft Research, EPFL
2011	David Steurer	Honorable Mention	Princeton	Microsoft Research, Cornell
2010	Bryan Parno	Doctoral Dissertation Award	CMU	Microsoft Research
2010	Benjamin Synder	Honorable Mention	MIT	Wisconsin
2009	Craig Gentry	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Stanford	IBM
2009	Haryadi S. Gunawi	Honorable Mention	Wisconsin	Berkeley
2009	André Platzer	Honorable Mention	Oldenburg	CMU
2009	Noah Snavely	Honorable Mention	Washington	Cornell
2008	Constantinos Daskalakis	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Berkeley	MIT
2008	Derek Hoiem	Honorable Mention	CMU	UIUC
2008	Sachin Katti	Honorable Mention	MIT	Berkeley, Stanford
2007	Sergey Yekhanin	Doctoral Dissertation Award	MIT	Microsoft Research
2007	Benny Applebaum	Honorable Mention	Technion	Princeton
2007	Vincent Conitzer	Honorable Mention	CMU	Duke
2007	Yan Liu	Honorable Mention	CMU	IBM
2006	Yi-Ren Ng	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Stanford	Refocus
2006	Aseem Agarwala	Honorable Mention	Washington	Adobe
2005	Ben Liblit	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Berkeley	Wisconsin
2005	Olivier Dousse	Honorable Mention	EPFL	EPFL
2004	Boaz Barak	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Weizmann	IAS(postdoc)
2004	Ramesh Johari	Honorable Mention	MIT	Stanford
2004	Emmett Witchel	Honorable Mention	MIT	Texas-Austin
2003	AnHai Doan	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Washington	UIUC
2003	Dina Katabi	Honorable Mention	MIT	MIT
2003	Subhash Khot	Honorable Mention	Princeton	Georgia Tech
2002	Venkatesan Guruswami	Doctoral Dissertation Award	MIT	Washington
2002	Tim Roughgarden	Honorable Mention	Cornell	Stanford
2002	Robert C. Miller	Honorable Mention	CMU	MIT
2001	Ion Stoica	Doctoral Dissertation Award	CMU	Berkeley
2001	Robert O'Callahan	Honorable Mention	CMU	IBM T.J. Watson
2001	David Wagner	Honorable Mention	Berkeley	Berkeley
2000	Salil Vadhan	Doctoral Dissertation Award	MIT	Harvard
2000	William Chan	Honorable Mention	Washington	Brown
2000	Michael D. Ernst	Honorable Mention	Washington	MIT
1999	Dieter van Melkebeek	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Chicago	Wisconsin-Madison
1998	Hari Balakrishnan	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Berkeley	MIT
1997	Steven R. McCanne	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Berkeley	???
1996	Xiaoyuan Tu	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Toronto	SGI, Apple, Intel…
1996	Carl Waldspurger	Doctoral Dissertation Award	MIT	VMware
1995	Sanjeev Arora	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Berkeley	Princeton
1995	Dan Spielman	Doctoral Dissertation Award	MIT	MIT
1994	David Karger	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Stanford	MIT
1994	T.V. Raman	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Cornell	Cornell
1993	Madhu Sudan	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Berkeley	MIT
1993	James J. Kistler	Honorable Mention	CMU	???
1993	Pandu Nayak	Honorable Mention	Stanford	Nasa Ames
1992	Kenneth McMillan	Doctoral Dissertation Award	CMU	AT&T, Cadence Berkeley Labs
1992	Mendel Rosenblum	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Berkeley	Stanford
1991	Robert Schapire	Doctoral Dissertation Award	MIT	AT&T, Princeton
1991	Garth Gibson	Doctoral Dissertation Series	Berkeley	CMU
1991	Carsten Lund	Doctoral Dissertation Series	Chicago	AT&T
1991	Asit Dan	Honorable Mention	UMass-Amherst	IBM T.J. Watson
1990	Hector Geffner	Doctoral Dissertation Award	UCLA	IBM…
1990	David Heckerman	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Stanford	Microsoft
1990	Noam Nissan	Doctoral Dissertation Series	Berkeley	Hebrew University
1989	Vijay Saraswat	Doctoral Dissertation Award	CMU	PARC, AT&T, Penn State, IBM
1989	Michael J. Kearns	Doctoral Dissertation Series	Harvard	AT&T, Penn
1989	Joe Kilian	Doctoral Dissertation Series	MIT	NEC
1988	Mauricio Karchmer	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Hebrew	MIT, Toronto…
1988	Anne Condon	Doctoral Dissertation Series	Washington	Wisconsin, British Columbia
1988	David Dill	Doctoral Dissertation Series	CMU	Stanford
1987	John Canny	Doctoral Dissertation Award	MIT	Berkeley
1987	Leslie Greengard	Doctoral Dissertation Series	Yale	NYU
1987	Marc H. Brown	Doctoral Dissertation Series	Brown	DEC/Compaq…
1986	Johan Torkel Hastad	Doctoral Dissertation Award	MIT	Royal Inst. of Tech., Sweden
1986	Ketan D. Mulmuley	Doctoral Dissertation Award	CMU	Chicago
1986	Carl Ebeling	Doctoral Dissertation Series	CMU	Washington
1986	David Ungar	Doctoral Dissertation Series	Berkeley	Stanford, Sun
1985	John R. Ellis	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Yale	DEC…
1985	Ben-Zion Chor	Doctoral Dissertation Series	MIT	Technion Israel…
1985	Daniel Hillis	Doctoral Dissertation Series	MIT	Disney, Applied Minds
1984	Manolis G.H. Katevenis	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Berkeley	Stanford, Crete
1984	James Korein	Doctoral Dissertation Series	UPenn	IBM T.J. Watson
1984	Henry Baird	Doctoral Dissertation Series	Princeton	RCA, Bell Labs, PARC, Lehigh
1984	Carl E. Bach	Doctoral Dissertation Series	Berkeley	Wisconsin-Madison
1983	Thomas W. Reps	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Cornell	Wisconsin-Madison
1983	Steven Johnson	Doctoral Dissertation Series	Indiana	Indiana
1983	Ellen Hildreth	Doctoral Dissertation Series	MIT	Wellesley
1982	Charles E. Leiserson	Doctoral Dissertation Award	CMU	MIT
1980	Douglas Cook	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Cambridge	??
1980	Ruth E. Davis	Doctoral Dissertation Award	UC Santa Cruz	Santa Clara University
1980	Lawrence Edward Larson	Doctoral Dissertation Award	SUNY Binghamton	Hughes, UCSD
1980	Jacob Slonim	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Kansas St.	IBM, Waterloo, Dalhousie
1978	Roderic G. Cattell	Doctoral Dissertation Award	CMU	Sunsoft, Sun, PARC
1978	Joseph Urban	Doctoral Dissertation Award	Univ. of SW Louisiana	U. of Louisiana at Lafayette, Miami, Arizona St.

School of Origin

MIT	18
CMU	15
Berkeley	15
Washington	7
Stanford	7
Cornell	3
Princeton	3
Chicago	2
Yale	2
Brown	1
Cambridge	1
EPFL	1
Harvard	1
Hebrew	1
Indiana	1
Kansas St.	1
Oldenburg	1
SUNY Binghamton	1
Technion	1
Toronto	1
UCLA	2
UC Santa Cruz	1
UMass-Amherst	1
Univ. of SW Louisiana	1
UPenn	1
Wisconsin	1
Weizmann	1
TOTAL	77