ACM Special Interest Group on AI
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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” sigai.acm.org/main/joint-a... #SIGAIAward
- 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. sigai.acm.org/main/2026/01... #SIGAIAward
- 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: sigai.acm.org/main/joint-a... #SIGAIAward