Petri Kontkanen received an honorable mention for the second best Ph.D.
thesis in the shortlist for the Classification Society Distinguished
Dissertation Award of 2010. The title of Dr. Kontkanen's dissertation is
"Computationally Efficient Methods for MDL-Optimal Density Estimation
and Data Clustering".

The 2010 Classification Society Distinguished Dissertation Award,
shortlist and results:
http://www.classification-society.org/csna/dissaward-shortlist10.html

Dissertation: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-10-5901-8