The winning team, receiving the USD $5000 prize is:

Thomas Kissinger, Benjamin Schlegel, TU Dresden (Germany) [source code] [project page]

We would like to congratulate all our finalists. They received travel grants to attend the SIGMOD Conference in Athens, Greece. They are listed here in random order:

• Ehab Abdelhamid, Majed Sahli, Razen Harbi, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), (Saudi Arabia) [poster] [research group]
• Jung-Sang Ahn, KAIST (South Korea) [poster]
• Leif Walsh, Bradley Kuszmaul (advisor), Stony Brook University (United States) [source code] [poster]
• Ahmed Eldawy, Emery Mizero, Mohamed E. Khalefa, University of Minnesota (United States)