The SIGSAC Awards Committee is now open to receiving nominations for the awards. The awards will be presented at the 31st ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communication Security, Oct. 14-18, 2024, Salt Lake City, US.

DEADLINE FOR AWARD NOMINATIONS: The deadline for receiving nomination is midnight AOE, July 14th, 2024. Note that nominees and nominators are NOT required to be ACM or SIGSAC members.

Nominations should be submitted via e-mail to the chair of this year's SIGSAC Awards Committee: Dr. Ting Yu (tingyu.tyu@gmail.com).

Award Overview

Award Criteria

• SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award: This award is given for outstanding and innovative technical contributions to the field of computer and communication security that have had lasting impact in furthering or understanding the theory or development of secure systems.
• SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award: This award is given for significant contributions to the field of computer and communication security through fostering research and development activities, educating students, or providing professional services such as the running of professional societies and conferences.

SIGSAC Awards Committee

Nomination Process

1. Proposed citation, up to 25 words
2. Names of at least 3 sponsors (including the nominator)
3. Succinct (100-250 words) description of the innovation/contribution,
4. Statement justifying the nomination, and
5. Curriculum vitae of the nominee. There is no nomination form as such.

Exclusions

2024 Award Recipients

• SIGSAC Innovation Award: Giovanni Vigna (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  
  
• SIGSAC Contribution Award: Gail-Joon Ahn (Arizona State University)
  
  

Prior Award Recipients

• SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award: Gene Tsudik, University of California, Irvine
  Citation: For seminal research contributions to Security and Privacy of: the Internet, anonymous and censorship-resistant communication, mobile networking, cloud computing and storage, databases, and the Internet-of-Things.
  
  
• SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award: Paul van Oorschot, Carleton University
  Citation: For outstanding scientific contributions in applied cryptography, and authentication; and for co-authoring Handbook of Applied Cryptography, one of the most referenced books in cryptography.
  
  

• SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award: Dan Boneh, Stanford University
  Citation: For innovative research in applied cryptography, secure software systems, and blockchain technology, and for an emphasis on cryptography education
  
  
• SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award: Radia Perlman, Dell Technologies
  Citation: For fundamental contributions to network security and reliability
  
  
• SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award: Ninghui Li, Purdue University
  Citation: For outstanding leadership in the SIGSAC community and seminal research contributions to data security and privacy.
  
  

• SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award: Patrick McDaniel, Pennsylvania State University
  Citation: For innovative research in mobile device security, trustworthiness of machine learning, and systems security
  
  
• SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award: Srinivas Devadas, MIT
  Citation: For fundamental contributions to the development of secure microprocessors, circuits, and systems
  
  
• SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award: Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria
  Citation: For seminal research contributions and outstanding leadership to data security and privacy for the past 25 years.

• SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award: Dawn Song, University of California, Berkeley, Citation: For contributions to systems and software security, in particular, dynamic taint analysis for vulnerability discovery and malware detection.
  
  
• SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award: Trent Jaeger, The Pennsylvania State University, Citation: For leadership in the ACM SIGSAC community and exemplary contributions to security research and education, including the book "Operating Systems Security" and advances in software analysis and trusted computing bases.

• SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award: Wenke Lee, Georgia Tech, Citation: For pioneering contributions to network and systems security.
  
  
• SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award: Jonathan Katz, George Mason University, Citation: For exemplary commitment to education in cryptography, through teaching and research, and for dedication to the advancement and increased influence of cryptography research.

• SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award: N. Asokan, Aalto University, Citation: For pioneering research on fair-exchange protocols, trusted device pairing and mobile trusted execution environments that has had widespread impact and led to large-scale deployment.
  
  
• SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award: Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Citation: For dedicated research, education, and management leadership in the security community and for pioneering contributions in content protection, mobile security and hardware-assisted security.

• SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award: Shai Halevi, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Citation: For outstanding innovations in theoretical and applied cryptography, bringing cutting-edge cryptographic capabilities closer to practice
  
  
• SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award: Gene Tsudik, UC Irvine, Citation: For leadership in security and privacy research

• SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award: David A. Wagner, University of California, Berkeley, Citation: For innovative research in systems security, software security, and cryptography that has inspired research in sandboxing, static analysis for security, and cryptanalysis
  
  
• SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award: Michael K. Reiter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Citation: For pioneering research contributions and leadership in computer and information security

• SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award: Dr. Ross J. Anderson, University of Cambridge
  Citation: For his innovative research in the areas of API security, banking security, security economics, and security engineering
  
• SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award: Dr. Steven B. Lipner, Microsoft Corporation
  Citation: For major contributions to the security profession spanned over four decades in the areas of security standards, commercial operating system security, and security development lifecycle