AnHai Doan Wins 2003 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

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2002 UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus AnHai Doan -- now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois -- has been named the recipient of the 2003 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, which recognizes the top doctoral dissertation in the nation in computer science and computer engineering.

Each year, CSE's top one or two doctoral dissertations are recognized with CSE's William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award and forwarded to ACM for consideration for the Doctoral Dissertation Award. AnHai's dissertation, co-supervised by CSE faculty members Pedro Domingos and Alon Halevy, was titled "Learning to Map between Structured Representations of Data." The work takes a machine learning approach to database schema mapping.

It was a good day for AnHai: just hours after learning of his ACM recognition, he heard that he would be recommended for a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

The 2002 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award was won by UW CSE Assistant Professor Venkat Guruswami for his MIT dissertation "List Decoding of Error-Correcting Codes," supervised by Madhu Sudan.

Previous UW CSE graduate students whose dissertations were recognized in the ACM competition include William Chan (Honorable Mention, 2000), Mike Ernst (Honorable Mention, 2000), and Anne Condon (Honorable Mention, 1988). UW CSE faculty member Carl Ebeling received an Honorable Mention for his CMU dissertation in 1986.

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