AAAI and ACM SIGAI established the Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in artificial intelligence. The award is presented annually at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and the winner is invited to present a talk at the conference.
Past Recipients
2021 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award Winner
Shibani Santurkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her work entitled Machine Learning Beyond Accuracy: A Features Perspective On Model Generalization
2021 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention
Bryan Wilder, Harvard University for his work entitled AI for Population Health: Melding Data and Algorithms on Networks
2020 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award Winner
Noam Brown, Carnegie Mellon University for his work entitled Equilibrium Finding for Large Adversarial Imperfect-Information Games
2020 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention
David Abel, Brown University for his work entitled A Theory of Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
2020 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention
Abhishek Das, Georgia Institute of Technology for his work entitled Building Agents that Can See, Talk, and Act
2019 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award Winner
Jiajun Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA for his work entitled Learning to See the Physical World
2019 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention
Aishwarya Agrawal, Georgia Institute of Technology for her work entitled Visual Question Answering and Beyond
2019 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention
Li Dong, University of Edinburgh, for his work entitled Learning Natural Language Interfaces with Neural Models