Please consider nominating graduating Ph.D. students for the SIGecom Dissertation Award. If you are a graduating student, consider asking your adviser or other senior mentor to nominate you.
Nominations are due on February 29, 2020. This award is given to a student who defended a thesis in 2019. It is a prestigious award and is accompanied by a $1500 prize. In the past, the prize has been awarded to:
2018: Yannai Gonczarowski, “Aspects of Complexity and Simplicity in Economic Mechanisms”
2017: Aviad Rubinstein, “Hardness of Approximation Between P and NP”
2016: Peng Shi, “Prediction and Optimization in School Choice”
2015: Inbal Talgam-Cohen, “Robust Market Design: Information and Computation “
2014: S. Matthew Weinberg, “Algorithms for Strategic Agents”
2013: Balasubramanian Sivan, “Prior Robust Optimization”
And the award has had nine runner-ups: Nika Haghtalab, Haifeng Xu, Rachel Cummings, Christos Tzamos, Bo Waggoner, James Wright, Xi (Alice) Gao, Yang Cai, and Sigal Oren. You can find detailed information about the nomination process at: http://www.sigecom.org/awardd.html. We look forward to reading your nominations!
Your Award Committee,
Ozan Candogan
Renato Paes Leme (Chair)
Yiling Chen
Turing's Invisible Hand 
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