EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2018

EATCS is proud to announce that, after examining the nominations received from our research community, the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award Committee 2018, consisting of Giuseppe Persiano (chair), Elvira Mayordomo, Dale Miller, Jaroslav Nesetril, Damian Niwinski, David Peleg and Vladimiro Sassone has selected the following three theses for the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2018:

• Asynchronous Adventures: Formal Approaches to Querying Big Data in Shared-Nothing Systems by Bas Ketsman
• High-Dimensional Similarity Search and Sketching: Algorithms and Hardness by Ilya Razenshteyn
• Hardness of Approximation Between P and NP by Aviad Rubinstein