About ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award

The ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award was established in 2011. This award recognizes the best doctoral dissertation from degree-awarding institutions based in India for each academic year, from July 1 to June 30 in the current cycle. The ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award is accompanied by a prize of ₹2,00,000. An honorable mention award, if any, is accompanied by a prize of ₹1,00,000. The dissertation(s) will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the founding sponsor of the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award.

 

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ACM India 2022 Doctoral Dissertation Award

Siddharth Sandipkumar Bhandari is the recipient of the ACM India 2022 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation titled "Exact Sampling and List Decoding." Honorable mentions went to Pritish Mohapatra for "Optimization for and by Machine Learning,"  Sruthi Sekar for "Near-Optimal Non-Malleable Codes and Leakage Resilient Secret Sharing Schemes," and Deepika Yadav for "Supporting Ongoing Training of Community Health Workers through Mobile-based Solutions in Rural India."

Siddharth Sandipkumar Bhandari is the recipient of the ACM India 2022 Doctoral Dissertation Award

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