Student Paper Award

Purpose of the Award

The award is given to the best paper, as judged by a panel of members of the Section, on any topic related to data mining by a student author.

Past Awardees

2012 Finalist Yi-Hao Kao, Stanford University
2011 First Place Kamran Paynabar, University of Michigan
Finalist Shuai Huang, Arizona State University
Allison Chang, MIT
Chun-An Chou, University of Michigan
2010 First Place Jian Guo, University of Michigan
Second Place Sangheum Hwang, Rutgers University
Third Place Andrew Trapp, University of Pittsburgh
2009 First Place Michele Samorani, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado - Boulder
2008 First Place Guanghui Lan, Georgia Institute of Technology
2007 First Place Amit Partani, The University of Texas at Austin
Runner-Up Richa Agarwal, Amazon.com
Andrea Bettinelli, University of Milan
2006 First Place Geng Deng, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Runner-Up Laura A. McLay, Virginia Commonwealth University
Jiaquiao Hu, University of Maryland


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About the Award/Namesake

2010 Committee Chair:
J. Paul Brooks
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research
Fellow, Center for the Study of Biological Complexity
Virginia Commonwealth University
Harris Hall, Room 4126
P.O. Box 843083
Richmond, VA 23284
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jpbrooks
(804)828-5853
Email: jpbrooks@vcu.edu

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