IBM Early Career Data Mining Research Award Announcement

The 2025 SDM/IBM Early Career Data Mining Research Award winner is Dr. Matteo Riondato, a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Amherst College. This annual award recognizes an individual in the field of data science who has made outstanding, influential, and lasting contributions within 10 years of receiving a PhD. The award ceremony will be held at 8:00 am on May 2, 2025, during the Remarks and IBM Award session of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining in Alexandria, VA. 

Award Selection Committee

Chairs
Aristides Gionis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
David Gleich, Purdue University, U.S.

Members
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, U.S.
Jen Neville, Microsoft Research, U.S.
Tanya Berger-Wolf, Ohio State University, U.S.
Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, U.S.
Danai Koutra, University of Michigan, U.S.

Doctoral Student Forum Participants and Student Travel Scholarship Applications

The SDM Doctoral Forum is a unique opportunity for Ph.D. students in data science (including data mining, machine learning, databases, and pattern recognition) to present their doctoral dissertation in poster format and get feedback from SDM participants and senior leaders in the field. The SDM doctoral forum will be held in a plenary poster session alongside posters from the main conference, allowing for an interesting cross-fertilization of ideas. Past participants have benefited significantly from this plenary session.

Applications to the Doctoral Forum at the 2025 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM25)

We invite doctoral students in data science (including data mining, machine learning, databases, and pattern recognition) to present their doctoral dissertation (including ongoing and future work) in poster format at the Doctoral Forum of the 2025 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM25), which will be held in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. May 1–3, 2025.

The forum is held in a plenary poster session alongside posters from the main conference, allowing for an interesting cross-fertilization of ideas.

The forum is a unique opportunity for Ph.D. students to get feedback from SDM participants and senior leaders in the field. It is also an exciting opportunity for networking and creating future collaborations. Past participants have benefited significantly from this plenary session. A Doctoral Forum Best Poster Award will be given to the best poster presentation.

In addition to the poster session, there will be an early career event to provide perspectives and tips for graduate students as well as graduates in early career. All Ph.D. students are invited to attend.

Key Dates

  • Application deadline: March 2, 2025
  • Notification deadline: March 24, 2025
  • Doctoral Forum: as part of SDM25, tentatively May 2, 2025

Application

  • Please apply by filling out the application through google form.

     

    We welcome submissions both from senior doctoral students who have a more concrete idea of their dissertation, as well as junior doctoral students who may not have a full plan for their dissertation yet but have a direction and can benefit from the feedback by the forum participants.

    Travel Support
    Limited support for students at U.S. based institutions who are accepted to the Doctoral Forum is available. Information about applying for the Doctoral Forum travel award will be updated later.
    Additional travel support for students to attend SDM25, independent of whether they are at a US-based Institution and whether they attend the Doctoral forum, is available from SIAM, in the form of Student Travel Awards (due on Jan 30th 2025). Support is also available for Early Career Professionals, such as PostDocs. See this link for more information. 
    Eligible applicants may apply for both SIAM Travel Support and SDM Doctoral Forum Support, however, applicants are only eligible to receive funding from ONE of these funding sources. 
    Contacts
    For additional information, please email the Doctoral Forum Co-chairs:
    Dr. Li Zhang, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, U.S. (li.zhang@utrgv.edu)
    Dr. Tyler Derr, Vanderbilt University, U.S. (tyler.derr@vanderbilt.edu)