Winners, SRC 2011 - 2012

SC 2011 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Vladimir Umiftsev - University of Nebraska-Omaha

Title of Submission: 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

Title of Submission: From Days to Seconds: Scalable Parallel Algorithm for Motion Planning

Third Place:

Ehsan Totoni - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title of Submission: Optimizing All-to-All Algorithm for Blue Waters Using Simulation

GRACE HOPPER 2011 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Tiffany C. Inglis - University of Waterloo

Title of Submission: Generating Opt Art Lines

Second Place:

Maryam Sadeghi - Simon Fraser University

Title of Submission: Automated Detection and Analysis of Dermoscopic Structures on Dermoscopy Images

Third Place:

Niyati Chhaya - University of Maryland

Title of Submission: Joint Inference for Extracting Text Descriptors from Triage Images of Mass Disaster Victims

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Stephanie M. Antetomaso - Wheaton College

Title of Submission: Unsupervised Phoneme Segmentation in Continuous Speech

Second Place:

Pragya Tripathi - Columbia College

Title of Submission: Alice in WonderClassroom

Third Place:

Avani Nandini - Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Title of Submission: What If Application Demands Phonetic Similarity?

ASSETS 2011 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Rolf Black - University of Dundee, Scotland

Title of Submission: The PhonicStick - A Joystick to Generate Novel Words Using Phonics

Second Place:

Ha Trinh - University of Dundee, Scotland

Title of Submission: Using a Computer Intervention to Support Phonological Awareness Development of Nonspeaking Adults

Third Place:

Markus Guentert - University of Potsdam, Germany

Title of Submission: Improving Public Transit Accessibility for Blind Riders: A Train Station Navigation Assistant

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Brandon Shrewsbury - University of West Georgia

Title of Submission: Providing Haptic Feedback Using The Kinect

Second Place:

Sanjana Prasain - University of Washington

Title of Submission: StopFinder: Improving the Experience of Blind Public Transit Riders with Crowdsourcing

Third Place:

Victoria Hribar - Virginia Commonwealth University

Title of Submission: The TaskTracker

SPLASH 2011 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Hari K. Pyla - Virginia Tech

Title of Submission: Coarse-Grain Speculation for Emerging Processors

Second Place:

Jelena Vlasenko - Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

Title of Submission: Exploring Developer's Tool Paths

Third Place:

Hiroki Nishino - NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences & Engineering, Singapore

Title of Submission: Misfits in Abstractions: Toward User Centered Design in Domain-Specific Languages for End-user Programming

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Sarah Chasins - Swarthmore College

Title of Submission: Efficient Implementation of the Plaid Language

Second Place:

Melina Mongiovi - Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil

Title of Submission: Safira: A Tool for Evaluating Behavior Preservation

Third Place:

Ernesto Alfonso - Carnegie Mellon University

Title of Submission: Automatic Protocol-Conformance Recommendations

PACT 2011 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Alexandros Tzannes - University of Maryland, College Park

Title of Submission: Improving Run-Time Scheduling for General-Purpose Parallel Code

Second Place:

Zhijia Zhao - College of William and Mary

Title of Submission: Probabilistic Models towards Optimal Speculation of DFA Applications

Third Place:

Rance Rodrigues - University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Title of Submission: An Architecture to Enable Lifetime Full Chip Testability in Chip Multiprocessors

MobiCom 2011 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Ashish Patro - University of Wisconsin

Title of Submission: AirTrack: Locating Non-WiFi Interferers using Commodity WiFi Hardware

Second Place:

Zhongli Liu - University of Massachusetts Lowell

Title of Submission: 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

Title of Submission: A Robust Technique for WLAN Device-free Passive Motion Detection

SIGCOMM 2011 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Matthias Wilhelm - TU Kaiserslautern

Title of Submission: WiFire: A Firewall for Wireless Networks

Second Place:

Wenchao Zhou - University of Pennsylvania

Title of Submission: FSR: Formal Analysis and Implementation Toolkit for Safe Inter-domain Routing

Third Place:

Mainack Mondal - Max Planck Institute

Title of Submission: Limiting Large-scale Crawls of Social Networking Sites

SIGGRAPH 2011 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Lech Swirski - University of Cambridge

Title of Submission: Layered Photo Pop-Up

Second Place:

Clemens Birklbauer - Johannes Kepler University Linz

Title of Submission: Display Pixel Caching

Third Place:

Yusuke Matsui - The University of Tokyo

Title of Submission: Interactive Manga Retargeting

DAC 2011 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Wing Chiu Tam - Carnegie Mellon University

Title of Submission: Physically-Aware Analysis of Systematic Defects in Integrated Circuits

Second Place:

Jayanand Asok Kumar - University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign 

Title of Submission: Static Analysis of RTL Source Code for Estimating Aging-induced Degradation

Third Place:

Nauman Khan - Tufts University

Title of Submission: Method to Mitigate Through-Silicon Via-Induced Substrate Noise

PLDI 2011 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Dimitris Vardoulakis - Northeastern University

Title of Submission: High-Order Flow Analysis with Call/Return Matching

Second Place:

Cindy Rubio Gonzalez - Universidad of Wisconsin, Madison

Title of Submission: Finding Error-Handling Bugs Using Static Analysis

Third Place:

Jaeheon Yi - University of California, Santa Cruz

Title of Submission: Building a Better Concurrency: Cooperative Reasoning for Preemptive Execution

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Samantha Wood - Bryn Mawr College

Title of Submission: SMOReS: Sparse Matrix Omens of Reordering Success

Second Place:

Max Grossman - Rice University

Title of Submission: Dynamic Task parallelism with a GPU Work-Stealing Runtime System

Third Place:

Sandeep Kumar Bindal - Indian Institute of Technology, India

Title of Submission: Systematic Ranking of Thread Schedules for Testing Multithreaded Programs

ICS 2011 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Yuan Tian - Auburn University

Title of Submission: Enabling Petascale Data Analysis for Scientific Applications Through Data Reorganization

Second Place:

Matthieu Dorier - ENS Cachan 

Title of Submission: Damaris: Using Dedicated I/O Cores for Scalable Post-petascale HPC Simulations

Third Place:

Choonki Jang - Seoul National University

Title of Submission: 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

Title of Submission: Detecting Cross-browser Issues in Web Applications

Second Place:

Sai Zhang - University of Washington 

Title of Submission: Combined Static and Dynamic Automated Test Generation

Third Place:

Sandeep Kumar - National University of Singapore

Title of Submission: Specification Mining in Concurrent and Distributed Systems

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Julius Davies - University of Victoria, Canada

Title of Submission: Measuring Subversions: Security and Legal Risk in Reused Software Artifacts

Second Place:

Vanessa Pena - Universidad de Chile 

Title of Submission: Test Blueprint: An Effective Visual Support for Test Coverage

Third Place:

Xusheng Xiao

Title of Submission: 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

Title of Submission: Exploring Technological Opportunities for Cognitive Impairment Screening

Second Place:

Wei Dong - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 

Title of Submission: Cultural Difference in Image Searching

Third Place:

Vera Liao - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Title of Submission: How User Reviews Influence Older and Younger Adults' Credibility Judgments of Online Health Information

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Svenja Leifert - University of Konstanz

Title of Submission: The Influence of Grids on Spatial and Content Memory

AOSD 2011 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Camila Nunes - PUC Rio

Title of Submission: On the Proactive Identification of Mistakes on Concern Mapping Tasks

Second Place:

Danilo Ansaloni - University of Lugano 

Title of Submission: Self-Refining Aspects for Dynamic Program Analysis

Third Place:

Ismael Figueroa - University of Chile

Title of Submission: Avoiding Confusion with Exception Handling in Aspect-Oriented Programming

SiGCSE 2011 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Acey Boyce - University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Title of Submission: Augmenting Educational Tools through Conversion to Games

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Zachary Zappala - The College of New Jersey

Title of Submission: Investigating Computational Methods for Evaluating Putative Substrate Conformations in Cytochrome P450s

Second Place:

Charles Stolper - Furman University

Title of Submission: TheCave: Using GPUs and Classical Philosophy to Data-Mine Images

Third Place:

Shaun Pickford - University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Title of Submission: Dance Tool: Creation of a New Culturally Situated Educational Game

Winners, SRC 2011 - 2012

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