Foreword from Chair of 2024 ACM SIGMETRICS DoctoralDissertation Award Committee

The ACM SIGMETRICS Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of performance evaluation analysis of computer systems. Nominations for the 2024 award were sought from all faculty with graduating Ph.D. students working in performance evaluation, broadly understood. The award winners were determined by a review committee composed by researchers working in different sub-fields of performance evaluation: Urtzi Ayesta (CNRS & Ikerbasque, chair), Giuliano Casale (Imperial College London), Bo Jiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Daniel Sadoc Menasche (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), and Weina Wang (Carnegie Mellon University).