# ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award is awarded annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to the authors of the best doctoral dissertations in computer science and computer engineering. The award is accompanied by a prize of US$20,000 and winning dissertations are published in the ACM Digital Library. Honorable mentions are awarded $10,000. Financial support is provided by Google. The number of awarded dissertations may vary year-to-year.
ACM also awards the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award. Several Special Interest Groups (SIGs) award a Doctoral Dissertation Award.

## Recipients

| Year | Winner | Honorable Mention or Series Winner |
| 1978 | Joseph Urban | |
| 1978 | Roderic G. Cattell | |
| 1980 | Douglas Cook | |
| 1980 | Jacob Slonim | |
| 1980 | Lawrence Larson | |
| 1980 | Ruth E. Davis | |
| 1982 | Charles E. Leiserson | |
| 1983 | Thomas W. Reps | Ellen Hildreth |
| 1983 | | Steven Johnson |
| 1984 | Manolis G.H. Katevenis | Eric Bach |
| 1984 | | Henry Baird |
| 1984 | | James Korein |
| 1985 | John R. Ellis | Ben-Zion Chor |
| 1985 | | Danny Hillis |
| 1986 | Johan Håstad | Carl Ebeling |
| 1986 | Ketan Mulmuley | David Ungar |
| 1987 | John Canny | Leslie Greengard |
| 1987 | | Marc H. Brown |
| 1988 | Mauricio Karchmer | Anne Condon |
| 1988 | | David L. Dill |
| 1989 | Vijay Saraswat | Joe Killian |
| 1989 | | Michael Kearns |
| 1990 | David Heckerman | Noam Nisan |
| 1990 | Hector Geffner | |
| 1991 | Robert Schapire | Asit Dan |
| 1991 | | Carsten Lund |
| 1991 | | Garth Gibson |
| 1992 | Kenneth McMillan | |
| 1992 | Mendel Rosenblum | |
| 1993 | Madhu Sudan | James J. Kistler |
| 1993 | | Pandu Nayak |
| 1994 | David Karger | |
| 1994 | T.V. Raman | |
| 1995 | Daniel Spielman | |
| 1995 | Sanjeev Arora | |
| 1996 | Carl Waldspurger | |
| 1996 | Xiaoyuan Tu | |
| 1997 | Steven R. McCanne | |
| 1998 | Hari Balakrishnan | |
| 1999 | Dieter van Melkebeek | |
| 2000 | Salil Vadhan | Michael D. Ernst |
| 2000 | | William Chan |
| 2001 | Ion Stoica | David A. Wagner |
| 2001 | | Robert O'Callahan |
| 2002 | Venkatesan Guruswami | Robert C. Miller |
| 2002 | | Tim Roughgarden |
| 2003 | AnHai Doan | Dina Katabi |
| 2003 | | Subhash Khot |
| 2004 | Boaz Barak | Emmett Witchel |
| 2004 | | Ramesh Johari |
| 2005 | Ben Liblit | Olivier Dousse |
| 2006 | Ren Ng | Aseem Agarwala |
| 2007 | Sergey Yekhanin | Benny Applebaum |
| 2007 | | Vincent Conitzer |
| 2007 | | Yan Liu |
| 2008 | Constantinos Daskalakis | Derek Hoiem |
| 2008 | | Sachin Katti |
| 2009 | Craig Gentry | Andre Platzer |
| 2009 | | Haryadi S Gunawi |
| 2009 | | Keith Noah Snavely |
| 2010 | Bryan Parno | Benjamin Snyder |
| 2011 | Seth Cooper | Aleksander Madry |
| 2011 | | David Steurer |
| 2012 | Shyamnath Gollakota | Gregory Valiant |
| 2012 | | Peter Hawkins |
| 2013 | Sanjam Garg | Grey Ballard |
| 2013 | | Shayan Oveis Gharan |
| 2014 | Matei Zaharia | John C. Duchi |
| 2014 | | John Criswell |
| 2015 | Julian Shun | Aaron Sidford |
| 2015 | | Siavash Mirarab |
| 2016 | Haitham Hassanieh | Peter Bailis |
| 2016 | | Veselin Raychev |
| 2017 | Aviad Rubinstein | Mohsen Ghaffari |
| 2017 | | Stefanie Mueller |
| 2018 | Chelsea Finn | Ryan Beckett |
| 2018 | | Tengyu Ma |
| 2019 | Dor Minzer | Jakub Tarnawski |
| 2019 | | Jiajun Wu |
| 2020 | Chuchu Fan | Henry Corrigan-Gibbs |
| 2020 | | Ralf Jung |
| 2021 | Manish Raghavan | Dimitris Tsipras Pratul Srinivasan Benjamin Mildenhall |
| 2022 | Aayush Jain | Alane Suhr Conrad Watt |
| 2023 | Nivedita Arora | Gabriele Farina William Kuszmaul |