Winners Past Years' Winners SC 2011 Winners
Graduate Category
First Place: Vladimir Umiftsev, University of Nebraska-Omaha
"A Scalable Group Testing Based Algorithm for Finding d-highest Betweenness Centrality Vertices in Large Scale Networks"

Second Place: Sam Ade Jacobs, Texas A&M University
"From Days to Seconds: Scalable Parallel Algorithm for Motion Planning"

Third Place: Ehsan Totoni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Optimizing All-to-All Algorithm for Blue Waters Using Simulation"


GRACE HOPPER 2011 Winners
Graduate Category
First Place: Tiffany C. Inglis, University of Waterloo
"Generating Opt Art Lines"

Second Place: Maryam Sadeghi, Simon Fraser University
"Automated Detection and Analysis of Dermoscopic Structures on Dermoscopy Images"

Third Place: Niyati Chhaya, University of Maryland
"Joint Inference for Extracting Text Descriptors from Triage Images of Mass Disaster Victims"


Undergraduate Category
First Place: Stephanie M. Antetomaso, Wheaton College
"Unsupervised Phoneme Segmentation in Continuous Speech"

Second Place: Pragya Tripathi, Columbia College
"Alice in WonderClassroom"

Third Place: Avani Nandini, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
"What If Application Demands Phonetic Similarity?"

ASSETS 2011 Winners
Graduate Category
First Place: Rolf Black, University of Dundee, Scotland
"The PhonicStick – A Joystick to Generate Novel Words Using Phonics"

Second Place: Ha Trinh, Universty of Dundee, Scotland
"Using a Computer Intervention to Support Phonological Awareness Development of Nonspeaking Adults"

Third Place: Markus Guentert, University of Potsdam, Germany
"Improving Public Transit Accessibility for Blind Riders: A Train Station Navigation Assistant"


Undergraduate Category
First Place: Brandon Shrewsbury, University of West Georgia
"Providing Haptic Feedback Using The Kinect"

Second Place: Sanjana Prasain, University of Washington
"StopFinder: Improving the Experience of Blind Public Transit Riders with Crowdsourcing"

Third Place: Victoria Hribar, Virginia Commonwealth University
"The TaskTracker"

SPLASH 2011 Winners
Graduate Category
First Place: Hari K. Pyla, Virginia Tech
"Coarse-Grain Speculation for Emerging Processors"

Second Place:Jelena Vlasenko, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
"Exploring Developer's Tool Paths"

Third Place:Hiroki Nishino, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences & Engineering, Singapore
"Misfits in Abstractions: Toward User Centered Design in Domain-Specific Languages for End-user Programming"


Undergraduate Category
First Place: Sarah Chasins, Swarthmore College
"Efficient Implementation of the Plaid Language"

Second Place:Melina Mongiovi, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
"Safira: A Tool for Evaluating Behavior Preservation"

Third Place: Ernesto Alfonso, Carnegie Mellon University
"Automatic Protocol-Conformance Recommendations"

PACT 2011 Winners
Graduate Category
First Place: Alexandros Tzannes, University of Maryland, College Park
"Improving Run-Time Scheduling for General-Purpose Parallel Code"

Second Place: Zhijia Zhao, College of William and Mary
"Probabilistic Models towards Optimal Speculation of DFA Applications"

Third Place: Rance Rodrigues, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"An Architecture to Enable Lifetime Full Chip Testability in Chip Multiprocessors"


MobiCom 2011 Winners
Graduate Category
First Place: Ashish Patro, University of Wisconsin
"AirTrack: Locating Non-WiFi Interferers using Commodity WiFi Hardware"

Second Place: Zhongli Liu, University of Massachusetts Lowell
"HAWK: An Unmanned Mini Helicopter-based Aerial Wireless Kit for Search, Rescue and Surveillance"

Third Place: Ahmed E. Kosba, Egypt-Japan Univ. of Science and Technology
"A Robust Technique for WLAN Device-free Passive Motion Detection"


SIGCOMM 2011 Winners
Graduate Category
First Place: Matthias Wilhelm, TU Kaiserslautern
"WiFire: A Firewall for Wireless Networks"

Second Place: Wenchao Zhou, University of Pennsylvania
"FSR: Formal Analysis and Implementation Toolkit for Safe Inter-domain Routing"

Third Place: Mainack Mondal, Max Planck Institute
"Limiting Large-scale Crawls of Social Networking Sites"


SIGGRAPH 2011 Winners
Graduate Category
First Place: Lech Swirski, University of Cambridge
"Layered Photo Pop-Up"

Second Place: Clemens Birklbauer, Johannes Kepler University Linz
"Display Pixel Caching"

Third Place: Yusuke Matsui, The University of Tokyo
"Interactive Manga Retargeting"


DAC 2011 Winners
Graduate Category
First Place: Wing Chiu Tam, Carnegie Mellon University
"Physically-Aware Analysis of Systematic Defects in Integrated Circuits"

Second Place: Jayanand Asok Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
"Static Analysis of RTL Source Code for Estimating Aging-induced Degradation"

Third Place: Nauman Khan, Tufts University
"Method to Mitigate Through-Silicon Via-Induced Substrate Noise"


PLDI 2011 Winners
Graduate Category
First Place: Dimitris Vardoulakis, Northeastern University
"High-Order Flow Analysis with Call/Return Matching"

Second Place: Cindy Rubio Gonzalez, Universidad of Wisconsin, Madison
"Finding Error-Handling Bugs Using Static Analysis"

Third Place: Jaeheon Yi, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Building a Better Concurrency: Cooperative Reasoning for Preemptive Execution"


Undergraduate Category
First Place: Samantha Wood, Bryn Mawr College
"SMOReS: Sparse Matrix Omens of Reordering Success"

Second Place: Max Grossman, Rice University
"Dynamic Task parallelism with a GPU Work-Stealing Runtime System"

Third Place: Sandeep Kumar Bindal, Indian Institute of Technology, India
"Systematic Ranking of Thread Schedules for Testing Multithreaded Programs"

ICS 2011 Winners
Graduate Category
First Place: Yuan Tian, Auburn University
"Enabling Petascale Data Analysis for Scientific Applications Through Data Reorganization"

Second Place: Matthieu Dorier, ENS Cachan
"Damaris: Using Dedicated I/O Cores for Scalable Post-petascale HPC Simulations"

Third Place: Choonki Jang, Seoul National University
"An Automatic Code Overlaying Technique for Multicores with Explicitly-Managed Memory Hierarchies"

ICSE 2011 Winners
Graduate Category
First Place: Shauvik Roy Choudhary, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Detecting Cross-browser Issues in Web Applications"

Second Place: Sai Zhang, University of Washington
"Combined Static and Dynamic Automated Test Generation"

Third Place: Sandeep Kumar, National University of Singapore
"Specification Mining in Concurrent and Distributed Systems"

Undergraduate Category
First Place: Julius Davies, University of Victoria, Canada
"Measuring Subversions: Security and Legal Risk in Reused Software Artifacts"

Second Place: Vanessa Pena, Universidad de Chile
"Test Blueprint: An Effective Visual Support for Test Coverage"

Winner of the Innovative use of Microsoft technology Award: Xusheng Xiao
"Problem Identification for Structural Test Generation: First Step Towards Cooperative Developer Testing"

CHI 2011 Winners
Graduate Category
First Place: Hyungsin Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Exploring Technological Opportunities for Cognitive Impairment Screening"

Second Place: Wei Dong, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
"Cultural Difference in Image Searching"

Third Place: Vera Liao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
"How User Reviews Influence Older and Younger Adults' Credibility Judgments of Online Health Information"

Undergraduate Category
Winner: Svenja Leifert, University of Konstanz
"The Influence of Grids on Spatial and Content Memory"

AOSD 2011 Winners
Graduate Category
First Place: Camila Nunes, PUC Rio
"On the Proactive Identification of Mistakes on Concern Mapping Tasks"

Second Place: Danilo Ansaloni, University of Lugano
"Self-Refining Aspects for Dynamic Program Analysis"

Third Place: Ismael Figueroa, University of Chile
"Avoiding Confusion with Exception Handling in Aspect-Oriented Programming"


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