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For his dissertation "New Rounding Techniques for the Design and Analysis of Approximation Algorithms," nominated by Stanford University.

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Honorable Mention for the 2013 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award went to Grey Ballard of Sandia National Laboratories and Shayan Oveis Gharan of the University of California, Berkeley.  They will share a $10,000 prize, with financial sponsorship provided by Google Inc.