SIGMOD Undergraduate Award

The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) wants undergraduate students who have an interest in database systems to experience the cutting edge research presented at the ACM SIGMOD/PODS Joint Conferencess. In order to help those undergraduate students attend the conference, hence encouraging them to pursue a career related to database research, the ACM SIGMOD Undergraduate Scholarship Program was introduced by SIGMOD in 2000.

2015	Oreoluwa Babarinsa (Harvard University, USA) Advisor: Stratos Idreos JAFAR : Near-Data Processing for DatabasesTrevor Clinkenbeard (University of Waterloo, Canada) Advisor: Anisoara Nica Job Scheduling with Minimizing Data Communication Costs Styliani Pantela (Harvard University, USA) Advisor: Stratos Idreos One Loop Does Not Fit All Adam Perelman (Stanford University, USA) Advisor: Christopher Ré Dunce Cap: Compiling Worst-Case Optimal Query Plans and Beyond (co-winner of best poster) Susan Tu (Stanford University, USA) Advisor: Christopher Ré Dunce Cap: Query Plans Using Generalized Hypertree Decompositions (co-winner of best poster) Mansheng Yang (National University of Singapore,Singapore) Advisor: Richard Ma Smooth Task Migration in Apache
2014	Himel Dev (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology) A User Interaction Based Community Detection Algorithm for Online Social NetworksHimel Dev (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology) Privacy Preserving Social Graphs for High Precision Community Detection Kevin Fernandes (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) PackageBuilder: Querying for packages of tuples Curtis Kroetsch (University of Waterloo, Canada) Multi-dimensional Data Statistics for Columnar In-Memory Databases Mashaal Musleh (Umm Al-Qura University, KSA) Spatio-temporal Visual Analysis for Event-Specific Tweets Wenbo Tao (Tsinghua University, China) Efficient Top-K SimRank-based Similarity Join Min Xie (Advisors Cheng Long, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong) EDS: A Segment-based Distance Measure for Sub-trajectory Similarity Search (winner of best poster)
2013	Wladston Viana and Mirela Moro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) FriendRouter – Real time Path Finder in Social NetworksRobert Christensen and Feifei Li (University of Utah) Adaptive Log Compression for Massive Log Data (winner of best poster) Luka Maas, Thomas Kissinger, Dirk Habich, and Wolfgang Lehner (Technische Universität Dresden) BUZZARD: A NUMA-Aware In-Memory Indexing System Tian Tan, Marianne Winslett, Richard Ma, Yin Yang, Yong Yu, and Zhenjie Zhang, (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, National University of Singapore, ADSC Singapore) Resa: Realtime Elastic Streaming Analytics in the Cloud Ruizhe Huang and Lei Zou (Peking University) Natural Language Question Answering over RDF Data
2012	Gi Hwan Oh, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Reducing Cache Misses in Hash Join Probing Phase By Pre-Sorting StrategyRazvan Ranca, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA SigSpot: Mining Significant Anomalous Regions from Time-Evolving Network Kristina Lam Thai, University of California, San Diego, USA Declarative Web Application Development: Encapsulating Dynamic JavaScript Widgets Frank Rosner, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Fast Sampling Word Correlations of High Dimensional Text Data Tyler Sliwkanich, University of Alberta, Canada Towards Scalable Summarization and Visualization of Large Text Corpora (winner of best poster) Shangfu Peng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China DP-tree: Indexing Multi-Dimensional Data under Differential Privacy Eduardo M. Barbosa, UFMG, Brazil VRRC: Web Based Tool for Visualization and Recommendation on Co-Authorship Network
2010	Yael Amsterdamer, Tel Aviv University, Israel Top-k Algorithms for Interactive ProcessesIan Charlesworth, University of Waterloo , Canada Analyzing Plan Spaces of Query Optimizers Theodore Georgiou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Extracting Topics of Debate between Users on Web Discussion Boards (winner of best poster) Zhenqiang Gong, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) Parallel Algorithms for Top-k Query Processing Manos Karvounis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Utilizing the Quoting System of Online Web Forums to Estimate User Agreement (winner of best poster) Bharath Vissapragada, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H), India Query Optimization on Cloud
2009	Daniel Scott Brotherston, University of Waterloo, Canada Comparing and visualizing query optimizer search spacesDavid M. Lewis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA An evaluative comparison of similarity coefficients for binary valued data Sang-Phil Lim, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea FASTer FTL for enterprise-class flash memory SSDs Manasi Vartak, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Recommendation based query relaxation via mapping functions and space partitioning Shashank Yaduvanshi, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India An architecture for regulatory compliant database management
2008	Sriram Vanama, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Sanghoon Cha, Brown University, USA Alban Galland, University Telecom Paris Tech, France Alexander G. Connor, University of Pittsburgh, USA Hongyu Gao, Peking University, China Yoshishige Tsuji, Keio University, Japan Eli Cortez C. Vilarinho, Universidade Federal Do Amazonas, Brazil Yang Ye, Tsinghua University, China
2007	Rui Fang, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China Marcin Kwietniewski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, and York University, Canada Yin Yee (Samantha) Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Rui Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Yinan Li, Peking University, China Zhongyuan Wang, Renmin University, China Zhijun Yin, Fudan University, China
2006	Ioannis Antonellis, University of Patras, Greece Mark Daly, Princeton Univ., USA Zhiwei (Tony) Qin, University of British Columbia, Canada Morgan Jaclyn Gregory, University of British Columbia, Canada Joshua Schiffman, Penn State University, USA
2005	Arpit Jain, IIT Bombay, India Jaekyun Seok, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Naju Mancheril, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Linus Liang, University of California, Berkeley, USA Derek Dalrymple, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
2004	Andrei Arion, France Anoop Shankar, Canada Gaurav Pandey, India Shashank Pandit, India Shaveen Garg, India
2003	Eric Chu, Univ. of Washington, USA Anurag Maskey, Brandeis Univ., USA Nicoleta Preda, Politechnic Univ. of Bucharest, Romania Ping Wu, Fudan Univ., China
2002	Daniel J. Abadi Wu Cen Justin Rosenstein Yaling Pei
2001	Jason Chionh Nilesh Dalvi Antonio Gomez Markus Wawryniuk Sumit Kumar Sanghai
2000	Keiji Oenoki Matjaz Planinsic Gaurav Bhalota Ryan Huebsch Antonio Dona