The Classification Society Distinguished Dissertation Award
supported by Chapman and Hall/CRC
The Classification Society each year offers an award for an outstanding PhD dissertation on the theme of clustering, classification, related areas of data analysis, encompassing both associated theory and/or applications. The 2014 Award was US $500 in book vouchers from Chapman and Hall/CRC and an invited presentation at the CS Annual Meeting.
The winner of the 2014 Classification Society Distinguished Dissertation Award is Irene Vrbik, for her dissertation titled Non-Elliptical and Fractionally-Supervised Classification (University of Guelph). Hsin-Hsiung Huang received honorable mention this year for his dissertation Information extraction for Virus Classification and Robust Dimension Reduction (University of Illinois at Chicago).Previous Award Winners
- 2011
- Frank Busing, Advances in MultiDimensional Unfolding, Leiden University, The Netherlands, April 2010
- 2010
- Daniel Aloise, Exact Algorithms for Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering, University of Montreal, June 2009.
- 2009
- Innar Liiv, Pattern Discovery Using Seriation and Matrix Reordering: A Unified View, Extensions and an Application to Inventory Management, Tallinn University of Technology, Aug 2008.
- 2008
- Anita Van der Kooij, Prediction Accuracy and Stability of Regression with Optimal Scaling Transformations, (Leiden University, June 27, 2007)