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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call for Nominations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past Recipients<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2021 AAAI\/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award Winner<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Shibani Santurkar<\/strong>, Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her work entitled Machine Learning Beyond Accuracy: A Features Perspective On Model Generalization<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 AAAI\/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bryan Wilder<\/strong>, Harvard University for his work entitled AI for Population Health: Melding Data and Algorithms on Networks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 AAAI\/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award Winner<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Noam Brown<\/strong>, Carnegie Mellon University for his work entitled Equilibrium Finding for Large Adversarial Imperfect-Information Games<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 AAAI\/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

David Abel<\/strong>, Brown University for his work entitled A Theory of Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 AAAI\/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Abhishek Das<\/strong>, Georgia Institute of Technology for his work entitled Building Agents that Can See, Talk, and Act<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019 AAAI\/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award Winner<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Jiajun Wu<\/strong>, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA for his work entitled Learning to See the Physical World<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019 AAAI\/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Aishwarya Agrawal<\/strong>, Georgia Institute of Technology for her work entitled Visual Question Answering and Beyond<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019 AAAI\/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Li Dong, University of Edinburgh<\/strong>, for his work entitled Learning Natural Language Interfaces with Neural Models<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":647,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","ub_ctt_via":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-19855","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"yoast_head":"\nAAAI\/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award - AAAI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The AAAI\/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes and encourages superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in AI.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aaai.org\/about-aaai\/aaai-awards\/aaai-acm-sigai-doctoral-dissertation-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AAAI\/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award - 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