The ACM Special Interest Group for Security Audit and Control (SIGSAC) is soliciting nominations for the 2024 SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award. This annual award by SIGSAC recognizes excellent research and dissertation by doctoral candidates in computer and information security and privacy. The SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award winner and up to two runners-up will be recognized at the ACM CCS 2024 conference. The award winner will receive a plaque, a $1,500 honorarium and a complimentary registration to CCS 2024. The runners-up each will receive a plaque and complimentary registration to CCS 2024.

Nomination Deadline:

Committee:

Eligibility:

Nominations are limited to one doctoral dissertation per academic department. Eligible submissions are dissertations that have been defended in 2023 (calendar year) and officially filed by (including) January 31, 2024. Each submitted doctoral dissertation must be on a topic related to computer and information security, as determined by the Award Committee. Each nominated dissertation must also have been successfully defended by the candidate, and the final version of each nominated dissertation must have been accepted by the candidate's academic unit. An English-language version of the dissertation must be submitted with the nomination. A dissertation can be nominated for both the SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Nomination Procedure:

The person that nominates the candidate should submit all nomination materials electronically as a single pdf file to the current Chair of the SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee (Zhiqiang Lin, zlin@cse.ohio-state.edu) by July 15, 2024. Late submissions will not be considered. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please follow up to ensure delivery. The name of the submitted file should be the candidate's lastname. The submitted file should contain the following materials:

1. A nomination statement summarizing the candidate's PhD thesis contribution and potential impact, and justification of the nomination (two pages maximum);

2. PhD dissertation; and

3. Three endorsement letters supporting the nomination including the significant PhD thesis contributions of the candidate. Each endorsement should be no longer than 500 words with clear specification of nominee PhD thesis contributions and potential impact on the computer and information security field. Note that the three endorsement letters must be submitted in addition to the nomination statement.

1. The nominee can be any member of the scientific community.
2. The nominator must be a SIGSAC member.
3. No self-nomination is allowed.

Also, the committee will adhere to the ACM Awards Committee Conflict of Interest (COI) guidelines. Particularly, the SIGSAC dissertation award committee members and chair are not allowed to nominate and endorse candidates.

Decision Notification:

The Award Committee will inform the SIGSAC Chair and the winner and runners-up of the results by September 15, 2024 to allow the winners to be properly recognized at CCS 2024.

Funding:

The award honorarium, the award plaques and the conference registration fee for the winner to attend the ACM CCS Conference will be fully funded by SIGSAC and included in its annual budget.

Further Information and Inquiry:

Submission instructions and a list of past winners are available at https://www.sigsac.org/award/diss-awards.html. For information not found in this message or for any other inquiries, contact the SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee Chair, Zhiqiang Lin.

Prior Award Recipients: