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/
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.