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ACM Special Interest Group
on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC)
SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Awards
"for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Computer and Information Security"
This annual award by SIGSAC will recognize excellent research by doctoral candidates in the field of computer and information security.
Overview:
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:
Submissions for this year's award are due July 15, 2024.
Committee:
Zhiqiang Lin, Chair (Ohio State University, USA)
Kevin Butler, Co-chair (University of Florida, USA)
L Jean Camp (Indiana University, USA)
Michael Reiter (Duke University, USA)
Christian Rossow (CISPA, Germany)
Moti Yung (Google and Columbia University, USA)
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:
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A nomination statement summarizing the candidate's PhD thesis contribution and potential impact, and justification of the nomination (two pages maximum);
- PhD dissertation; and
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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.
The nomination rules are:
- The nominee can be any member of the scientific community.
- The nominator must be a SIGSAC member.
- 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.
2024 Award Recipient
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:
Zhuo Zhang, Purdue University
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Pietro Frigo, VU Amsterdam
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Sam Kumar, University of California, Berkeley
Prior Award Recipients:
2023
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:
Alex Lombardi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Provable Instantiations of Correlation Intractability and the Fiat-Shamir Heuristic
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Xuewei Feng, Tsinghua University
Title: Exploring the Security Implications of Cross-Layer Interactions in Network Protocols
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Samuel Steffen, ETH Zurich
Title: Design of Easy-to-Implement Programming Framework for Smart Contracts
2022
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:
Aymeric Fromherz, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: A Proof-Oriented Approach to Low-Level, High-Assurance Programming
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Moritz Lipp, Graz University of Technology
Title: Exploiting Microarchitectural Optimizations from Software
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Pratyush Mishra, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Privacy and Scalability for Decentralized Cryptographic Systems
2021
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:
Jo Van Bulck, KU Leuven
Title: Microarchitectural Side-Channel Attacks for Privileged Software Adversaries
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Ioannis Demertzis, University of Maryland
Title: Improving Efficiency, Expressiveness and Security of Searchable Encryption
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Güliz Seray Tuncay, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Practical Least Privilege for Cross-Origin Interactions on Mobile Operating Systems
2020
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:
Victor van der Veen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Title: When Memory Serves not so well - Memory Errors 30 Years Later
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Marc Juarez Miro, KU Leuven
Title: Design and Evaluation of Website Fingerprinting Techniques
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Frank Li, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Remedying Security Concerns at an Internet Scale
2019
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Winners:
Felix Günther, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Title: Modeling Advanced Security Aspects of Key Exchange and Secure Channel Protocols
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runners-Up:
Yupeng Zhang, University of Maryland, College Park
Title: New (Zero-Knowledge) Arguments and Their Applications to Verifiable Computation
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Paul Pearce, UC Berkeley
Title: Methods and Systems for Understanding Large-Scale Internet Threat
2018
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Winners:
Daniel Gruss, Graz University of Technology
Title: Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks
Dennis Adriaan Andriesse, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Title: Analyzing and Securing Binaries Through Static Disassembly
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Xiaojing Liao, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Towards Automatically Evaluating Security Risks and Providing Cyber
Intelligence
2017
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:
Brendan Saltaformaggio, Purdue University
Title: Convicted by Memory: Automatically Recovering Spatial-Temporal Evidence from Memory Images
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Adam Bates, University of Florida
Title: Designing and Leveraging Trustworthy Provenance-Aware Architectures
2016
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:
Lucas Davi, TU Darmstadt
Title: Code-Reuse Attacks and Defenses
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Ben Niu, Lehigh University
Title: Practical Control-Flow Integrity
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
William C. Garrison III, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Techniques for Application-Aware Suitability Analysis of Access Control Systems
2015
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:
Nicholás Bordenabe, École Polytechnique
Title: Measuring Privacy with Distinguishability Metrics: Definitions, Mechanisms and Application to Location Privacy
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Karl Koscher, University of Washington
Title: Securing Embedded Systems: Analyses of Modern Automotive Systems and Enabling Near-Real Time Dynamic Analysis
2014
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner:
Marek Jawurek, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Title: Privacy in Smart Grids
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Sadia Afroz, Drexel University
Title: Deception in Authorship Attribution
- SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up:
Christian Wachsmann, TU Damstadt
Title: Trusted and Privacy Preserving Embedded Systems
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