Nominations are invited for the 2021 Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award sponsored by EurAI, the European Association of Artificial Intelligence. Please take a moment to nominate your students, or to recommend to your colleagues to nominate their students.

This Award includes a certificate signed by the EurAI President and 1500 Euros (which includes the travel grant for the Award ceremony).

Nominations are due by May 15th, 2022 (extended deadline) by submitting a single PDF file as described below listing both the NOMINATED candidate and the NOMINATOR as the AUTHORS through EasyChair.

Eligible doctoral theses are those defended after December 1, 2020, and until December 31, 2021, in the general area of Artificial Intelligence. The dissertation must have been defended at a European university. The author must be a personal member of a EurAI member society.

If a thesis is nominated for another national or international award before or during its review for the EurAI dissertation award, in that case, the author is requested to inform the EurAI dissertation award committee about this fact.

To be considered, a dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor, who must submit the following items as a single PDF file in the order:

• nomination cover-page that includes: the name, affiliation, and contact details of the nominator; the date of the defense of the dissertation; and the names of the jury/examiners involved in its defense;
• nomination letters, either digitally signed or scanned original, from two referees supporting the submission and stating their assessment of why the thesis should win the award.
• if the thesis was not written in English the nomination must include an English paper describing the core ideas of the thesis that has been submitted for publication in an international journal or a prestigious conference.
• Other information that the NOMINATOR considers relevant
• the full nominated dissertation.

The selection will be based on the work's originality, impact, and written quality. Work that has been submitted to and/or accepted at workshops, conferences, or journals will be considered more favourably. Work that is primarily attributed to the student's initiative will also be considered more favourably. Finally, the quality of the written document will be considered. The jury's decision is final.

Please address any queries to Ulises Cortés, please include the tag [Euraiboard] in the subject.

The Best PhD Award, the winner will be announced by the end of June 2022.

The Award will be presented during ECCAI2022.