[BBC] SDM/IBM EARLY CAREER DATA MINING RESEARCHER AWARD

[Alfredo Cuzzocrea]

SDM/IBM EARLY CAREER DATA MINING RESEARCHER AWARD

About the Award: The SDM/IBM Early Career Data Mining Researcher Award for
Excellence in Data Analytics seeks to recognize one individual (no runner
up/ honorable mention) who has made outstanding, influential, and lasting
contributions in the field of data analysis and who will be within 10 years
of having received their PhD degree as of the calendar year prior to the
year of the award. For example, an award winner in 2020 should have received
their PhD no earlier than 2009. 

 

Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by any member of the community
except members of the Award Selection Committee. An individual may nominate
at most one candidate for this award. Nominations must be submitted to the
Award Selection Committee Co-Chairs by email at cdomenic at gmu.edu and
nchawla at nd.edu with "SDM/IBM Research Award" as the subject. 

 

A nomination application (a single PDF file) should contain the following:

1-Name/email of nominator (self-nominations are not permitted).

2-Name/email of candidate being nominated.

3-A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee
is highly deserving of the award. Note that since the award ?is for
outstanding contributions, the statement and supporting letters should
address what the contributions are and why they are both outstanding and
significant. The nomination should also list the names and email addresses
of up to 3 persons who will provide letters supporting the nomination.

4-CV of the nominee (the CV must clearly indicate date of degree received)

5-Up to three support letters. The letters should be collected by the
nominator and included in the nomination. The letter writers may not be the
nominator nor Award Selection Committee members.

 

Important Dates:

.Nomination Deadline: March 30, 2020

.Results Notification: April 15, 2020

Award Selection Committee:  

Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame (Co-Chair)

Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University (Co-Chair)

Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota

Dimitrios Gunopulos, University of Athens, Greece

Zoran Obradovic, Temple University (Steering Committee Representative)

Jimeng Sun, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 

Note that members of the selection committee cannot be nominators or provide
support letters. Also note that the intent is to select exactly one awardee
- re-nominations for subsequent years are permissible as long as the
individuals continue to maintain eligibility. The committee at its
discretion may elect not to make an award in a particular year.

 

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