Student ContributionsACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award
Best doctoral dissertation in computing from an academic institution in India
Award RecipientsNominationsCommittee MembersThe ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes the best doctoral dissertation from degree-awarding institutions in India each academic year (from July 1 to June 30). Established in 2011, this prestigious award is accompanied by a cash prize of ₹2,00,000, with an additional ₹1,00,000 for an honorable mention. The selected dissertation(s) are published in the ACM Digital Library.Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the founding sponsor of the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Award Recipients:
DDA 2024: Award Recipient: Priyanka Golia for her dissertation titled "Functional Synthesis via Formal Methods and Machine Learning
Honorable Mention: Abhijeet Awasthi for his dissertation titled "Learning Language Processing Models With Limited Labeled Data."
Past Award Recipients:
DDA 2023: Award Recipient: Pranjal Dutta for his dissertation titled “A Tale of Hardness, De-randomization and De-bordering in Complexity Theory.”
Honorable Mention: Jogendra Nath Kundu for his dissertation titled “Self-supervised Domain Adaptation Framework for Computer Vision Tasks.”
DDA 2022: Award Recipient: Siddharth Sandipkumar Bhandari for his dissertation titled “Exact Sampling and List Decoding”
Honorable Mention: Pritish Mohapatra for his dissertation titled “Optimization for and by Machine Learning”
Honorable Mention: Sruthi Sekar for her dissertation titled “Near-Optimal Non-Malleable Codes and Leakage Resilient Secret Sharing Schemes”
Honorable Mention: Deepika Yadav for her dissertation titled “Supporting Ongoing Training of Community Health Workers through Mobile-based Solutions in Rural India”
DDA 2021: Award Recipient: Roohani Sharma For her dissertation titled "Advancing the Algorithmic Tool-kit for Parameterized Cut Problems,"
Award Recipient: Shikhar Vashishth For his dissertation titled "Neural Graph Embedding Methods for Natural Language Processing,"
Priyanka Golia is the recipient of ACM India 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled "Functional Synthesis via Formal Methods and Machine Learning." The Honorable Mention for 2024 goes to Abhijeet Awasthi for his dissertation titled "Learning Language Processing Models With Limited Labeled Data."
