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The 2025 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award jointly goes to Noah Golowich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Akari Asai (University of Washington).

Dissertation titles and honourable mentions are on our website: https://sigai.acm.org/main/joint-aaai-acm-sigai-doctoral-dissertation-award/

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Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award - ACM SIGAI

AAAI and ACM SIGAI are excited to announce that we have established the Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in artificial intelligence. The award will be presented annually at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and the winner will be invited to present a talk at the conference.

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The 2025 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award jointly goes to Noah Golowich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Akari Asai (University of Washington).

Dissertation titles and honourable mentions are on our website: https://sigai.acm.org/main/joint-aaai-acm-sigai-doctoral-dissertation-award/

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Honourable Mentions for the 2025 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award

* Sarah Alyami (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals)
* Thom Badings (Radboud University)
* Brian Hu Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)

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The 2025 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Joint Dissertation Award was jointly awarded to two dissertations.

One winner was Noah Golowich (Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for the dissertation titled “Theoretical Foundations for Learning in Games and Dynamic Environments”

https://sigai.acm.org/main/joint-aaai-acm-sigai-doctoral-dissertation-award/

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Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award - ACM SIGAI

AAAI and ACM SIGAI are excited to announce that we have established the Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in artificial intelligence. The award will be presented annually at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and the winner will be invited to present a talk at the conference.

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The 2025 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award was jointly awarded to two dissertations.

One winner was Akari Asai (Ph.D. from University of Washington) for the dissertation titled “Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models”

https://sigai.acm.org/main/joint-aaai-acm-sigai-doctoral-dissertation-award/

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Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award - ACM SIGAI

AAAI and ACM SIGAI are excited to announce that we have established the Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in artificial intelligence. The award will be presented annually at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and the winner will be invited to present a talk at the conference.

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The 2025 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award jointly goes to Noah Golowich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Akari Asai (University of Washington).

Dissertation titles and honourable mentions are on our website: https://sigai.acm.org/main/joint-aaai-acm-sigai-doctoral-dissertation-award/

#SIGAIAward

Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award - ACM SIGAI

AAAI and ACM SIGAI are excited to announce that we have established the Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in artificial intelligence. The award will be presented annually at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and the winner will be invited to present a talk at the conference.

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The 2026 Autonomous Agents Research Award goes to Sven Koenig for his work on AI planning and search, which has shaped how intelligent agents reason and act in complex, dynamic environments.

https://sigai.acm.org/main/2026/01/27/sven-koenig-2026-autonomous-agents-research-award/

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Sven Koenig (2026 Autonomous Agents Research Award) - ACM SIGAI

The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Professor Shlomo Zilberstein is the recipient of the 2025 award. Shlomo Zilberstein is Professor of Computer Science and former Associate Dean of Research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work established the field of decentralized Markov Decision Processes (DEC-MDPs), laying the groundwork for decision-theoretic planning in multi-agent systems and multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). These contributions have become a cornerstone of multi-agent decision-making, influencing researchers and practitioners alike. A Fellow of AAAI and the ACM, Professor Zilberstein has received numerous awards, including the UMass Chancellor’s Medal, the IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award, and the AAAI Distinguished Service Award.

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Call for ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2026

The award is made for research excellence in autonomous agents, to recognise researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence

Deadline: 15th Dec 2026
Previous winners and nomination detials: https://sigai.acm.org/main/autonomous-agents-research-award/
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Call for Nominations: ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2026

The award is for research excellence in autonomous agents and for current work that influences the field.

A candidate can only be considered if they are explicitly nominated so if you thinkg that someone deserves the award, nominate them now.

The award comes with a monetary prize and invited talk at #AAMAS2026 in Cyprus!

Deadline: 15th Dec 2026
Nominate: https://forms.gle/RNLZgbbaPQe6TDsb6
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Call for ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 20256

The award is made for research excellence in autonomous agents, to recognise researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence

Deadline: 15th Dec 2026
Nominate: https://forms.gle/RNLZgbbaPQe6TDsb6
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