distinguished dissertation award

The Graduate School is holding its sixth annual Distinguished Dissertation Award Competition. The Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. Both methodological and substantive quality will be judged. Awards are given each year in four broad disciplinary areas: Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering Social Sciences Humanities and Fine Arts Biological and Life Sciences The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) uses these categories for its annual national dissertation awards. Recipients of the University of Maryland Distinguished Dissertation Award will receive an honorarium of ,000 and may be nominated by the university for the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. Eligible candidates are UMD PhD graduates who have defended and submitted their dissertation to the Graduate School in the calendar year 2015. Nomination Process: Colleges will submit nominations to the Graduate School. Each college/school has been allocated a specific number of nominations based on the number of PhDs that are awarded annually. Please see Appendix B in the guidelines to view the allocations. Students must contact their college for more information about the nomination process. The nomination deadline has been extended to Friday, February 19, 2016. *Eligible students must contact their college for information about the college's selection process and the internal deadline. Distinguished Dissertation Award Guidelines Nomination Form.
The LSU Alumni Association annually sponsors the Distinguished Dissertation Awards. Two awards are given: one in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and one in science, engineering and technology. The awards are presented annually each spring in conjunction with the Distinguished Research Master Awards. The award consists of ,000 along with a certificate. Awards are presented to the doctoral student in each category whose research and writing epitomize superior scholarship. Any student who receives his or her doctoral degree at any of the three commencements in a calendar year is eligible to be nominated. Winning dissertations are chosen by committee of members of the graduate faculty. A call for nominations is issued each fall semester. Previous recipients can be found here.
SCS Student Awards School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213-3891 (412)268-8525. (412)268-5576 (fax) School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award – Awarded annually by the School of Computer Science in recognition of outstanding work by a graduate of our school-wide doctoral programs. The award includes a cash prize and distinguished lecture by the recipient/s. 2014/2015 (Award 2015) 2013/2014 (Award 2014) 2012/2013 (Award 2013) 2011/2012 (Award 2012) Kanat Tanwongsan, August 2011 (CS) Efficient Parallel Approximation Algorithms –Advisors: Guy Blelloch, Anupam Gupta Vijay Vasudevan, October 2011 (CS) Energy-efficient Data-intensive Computing with a Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes –Advisor: David Andersen Honorable Mention André Filipe Torres Martins, May 2011 (IST/Portugal) The Geometry of Constrained Structured Prediction: Applications to Inference and Learning of Natural Language Syntax –Advisors: Noah Smith, Eric Xing, Mário Figueiredo, Pedro AguiarDuen Horng Polo Chau, July 2012 (ML) Data Mining Meets HCI: Making Sense of Large Graphs –Advisor: Christos Faloutsos 2010/2011 (Award 2011) Jean-Francois Lalonde, December 2011 (RI) Understanding and Recreating Visual Appearance Under Natural Illumination –Advisors: Alexei Efros, Srinivasa Narasimhan Honorable Mention Daniel Licata, February 2011 (CS) Dependently Typed Programming with Domain-Specific Logics –Advisor: Robert HarperHetunandan Kamisetty, March 2011 (CS) Structured Probabilistic Models of Proteins Across Spatial and Fitness Landscape –Advisors: Christopher J. Langmead, Eric P. XingBrian Ziebart, December 2010 (ML) Modeling Purposeful Adaptive Behavior with the Principle of Maximum Causal Entropy –Advisors: J. Andrew Bagnell, Anind K. Dey 2009/2010 (Award 2010) Yi Wu, August 2010 (CS) The Approximability of Learning and Constraint Satisfaction Programs –Advisor.