Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2022

ACM established the Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in computer science and engineering. The award is presented each June at the ACM Awards Banquet and includes a prize of $20,000 plus travel expenses to the banquet. Honorable Mention(s) may also be awarded, with a prize of $10,000 shared among recipients.

Prize money ($20,000) plus travel expenses to the ACM Awards Banquet; possible honorable mention prize ($10,000); publication of winning dissertations in the ACM Books Series.

Nominations are welcomed from any country, but the dissertation version submitted for consideration must be in English; only the writer’s Ph.D. advisor may nominate a dissertation, and a dissertation may be nominated only once.

Nominations should be submitted using the online nomination form.