SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM25)

Special Events

IBM Early Career Data Mining Research Award

This annual award recognizes one individual in the field of data science who has made outstanding, influential, and lasting contributions to the field within 10 years of having received a PhD.

About the Award

The SDM/IBM Early Career Data Mining Researcher Award for Excellence in Data Analytics seeks to recognize one individual (no runner up/ honorable mention) who has made outstanding, influential, and lasting contributions in the field of data analysis and who will be within 10 years of having received their PhD degree as of the calendar year prior to the year of the award. For example, an award winner in 2025 should have received their PhD no earlier than 2014.

Applications for 2025 should include achievements dated no later than March 21, 2025.

Nominations

A candidate may be nominated by any member of the community except members of the Award Selection Committee. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. Nominations must be submitted to the Award Selection Committee Chair by email sdm2025.awards@gmail.com with “2025 SDM/IBM Research Award” as the subject.

A nomination application (a single PDF file) should contain the following:

  1. Name/email of nominator (self-nominations are not permitted).
  2. Name/email of candidate being nominated.
  3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award. Note that since the award is for outstanding contributions, the statement and supporting letters should address what the contributions are and why they are both outstanding and significant.
  4. CV of the nominee (the CV must clearly indicate date of degree received)
  5. DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) statement of the nominee
  6. Up to three support letters. The letters should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. The letter writers may not be the nominators nor Award Selection Committee members.

Important Dates

  • Nomination Deadline: March 21, 2025
  • Results Notification: April 15, 2025

Award Selection Committee

Chair
Aris Gionis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Members
TBA

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 16, 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)