Association for Computing Machinery 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Award (Up to $20,000) in Canada

ACM established the Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in computer science and engineering.

CORE VALUES

• Technical excellence
• Education and technical advancement
• Ethical computing and technology for positive impact
• Diversity and inclusion

 

• Table of Content
• About Association for Computing Machinery
• ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
• Aim and Benefits of ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
• ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Courses
• Requirements for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
• Documents Required for Application
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Association for Computing Machinery

ACM brings together computing educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field's challenges. As the world’s largest computing society, ACM strengthens the profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life?long learning, career development, and professional networking. Founded at the dawn of the computer age, ACM’s reach extends to every part of the g... continue reading

ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

Application Deadline	30 Nov 2024
Value	$20,000
Country to study	Canada
Type	Fellowship
Course to study	View courses
Sponsor	Association for Computing Machinery
Gender	Men and Women

Aim and Benefits of ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

The award is presented each June at the ACM Awards Banquet and is accompanied by a prize of $20,000 plus travel expenses to the banquet.  As of January 1, 2014 all winning dissertations are published exclusively in print and electronic formats as part of the ACM Books Series, which includes distribution through the ACM Digital Library.  Honorable Mention(s) may also be awarded, with a prize of $10,000 shared among recipients.

ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Courses

• Computational Sciences
• Engineering

Requirements for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Qualification

Nominations are considered on a yearly eligibility cycle that opens October 1st and ends the following September 30th.

A nomination is for a single dissertation; related dissertations cannot be combined in a single nomination.

Only the accepted final version of a nominated Ph.D. dissertation will be considered, and it must have been filed with the writer’s institution during the eligibility cycle.

Only the writer’s Ph.D. advisor may nominate a dissertation, and a dissertation may be nominated only once.

Only one nomination may be submitted per institution per eligibility cycle, unless the institution granted more than 10 PhD’s in computing-related fields during that cycle, in which case two dissertations may be nominated.

Nominations are welcomed from any country, but the dissertation version submitted for consideration must be in English.

The deadline for submission of nominations is October 31st (one month after eligibility cycle’s end), unless a dissertation requires translation to English, in which case the deadline is November 30th (two months after the eligibility cycle’s end).

Interview date, Process and Venue for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

Dissertations will be reviewed for technical depth and significance of the research contribution, potential impact on theory and practice, and quality of presentation.

GENERAL ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

1. Contribute to society and to human well-being, acknowledging that all people are stakeholders in computing.
2. Avoid harm.
3. Be honest and trustworthy.
4. Be fair and take action not to discriminate.
5. Respect the work required to produce new ideas, inventions, creative works, and computing artifacts.
6. Respect privacy.
7. Honor confidentiality.

Next Deadline

October 31, 2024- End of Day, Anywhere on Earth (AoE), UTC -12

November 30, 2024 - End of Day, Anywhere on Earth (AoE), UTC-12, for dissertations being translated into English.

Documents Required for Application

Each nomination involves several components:

• Name, address, phone number, and email address of the nominator (the student’s thesis advisor) 

• Name, address, and email address of the candidate (person being nominated).  Affiliation should be the name of the school.

• Suggested citation if the candidate is selected.  This should be a concise statement (maximum of 25 words) describing the key technical or professional accomplishment for which the candidate merits this award.  Note that the final wording for awardees will be at the discretion of the Award Committee.

• Nomination statement (200-300 words in length) addressing why the candidate should receive this award.  This should address the significance of the dissertation, not simply repeat the information in the abstract.

• Copy of the dissertation.

• Endorsement letters.  The nomination must include an endorsement letter from the department head.  In addition, at least 3, and not more than 5, supporting letters should be included from experts in the field who can provide additional insights or evidence of the dissertation’s impact.  (The nominator/advisor may not write a letter of support.)  Each letter should include the name, address, and telephone number of the endorser.  The nominator should collect the letters and bundle them for submission.  The endorsement letter and supporting letters can be combined in one file in your pdf upload.

Application Deadline

November 30, 2024

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Association for Computing Machinery on services.acm.org to apply

Nominations for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award should be submitted using the online nomination form.  Make sure to select the Doctoral Dissertation Award in the dropdown box at the top.  Guidelines for nominators and endorsers can be found here.  

For more details visit: ACM website.