ACM SRC Grand Finals Candidates, 2008 - 2009

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT WINNERS

Suzanne Prior - University of Dundee​
CHI 08 
First Place
      Title of Submission:  Interface Metaphor Design and Instant Messaging for Older Adults

Gero Herkenrath - Aachen University
CHI 08 
Second Place 
    Title of Submission:  TWEND: Twisting and Bending as New Interaction Gesture in Mobile Devices

Zhiquan Yeo - Carnegie Mellon University
CHI 08
Third Place 
    Title of Submission:  Emotional Instant Messaging with KIM

Neha Singh - IIT Bombay​
Grace Hopper 08
First Place 
    Title of Submission:  Efficiently Handling Wildcard Queries in XML

Alice (Xuexin) Zhu - Harvey Mudd College​
Grace Hopper 08 
Second Place 
    Title of Submission:  HoverCross – A Seamless Transition Between Drawing and Editing

Sarah M. Loos - Indiana University​
Grace Hopper 08
Third Place 
    Title of Submission:  Variations of Strassen's Matrix Multiplication Algorithms

Tal Rusak - Cornell University​
SIGCSE 2008 Winners
First Place 
    Title of Submission:  On the Structure of Low-Power Wireless Links​

Michael Liberatore - The College of Wooster​
SIGCSE 09
First Place 
    Title of Submission:  Comparing Numerical Integration Methods in a Simulator for the Draping Behavior of Cloth

Sara Voss - Coe College
SIGCSE 09
Second Place 
    Title of Submission:  A GPU-Accelerated Method for Estimating the Desolvation Energy of Protein Complexes

Aaron Gember - Marquette University​
SIGCSE 09
Third Place 
    Title of Submission:  Real-Time TCP for Embedded Devices

GRADUATE STUDENT WINNERS

Xu Liu - University of Maryland​
Assets 08 
Second Place 
    Title of Submission:  Mobile Currency Reader for People with Visual Impairments

Mohammed E. Hoque - MIT
Assets 08
Third Place 
    Title of Submission:  Analysis of Speech Properties of Neurotypicals and Individuals Diagnosed with Autism and Down's Syndrome

William Odom - University of Indiana
CHI 08
First Place 
    Title of Submission:  Personal Inventories: Toward Durable Human-Product Relationships

Ye Kyaw Thu - Waseda University​
CHI 08
Second Place 
    Title of Submission:  Positional Prediction: Consonant Cluster Prediction Text Entry Method for Burmese

Ramya Raghavendra - University of California, Santa Barbara​
Grace Hopper 08 
First Place 
    Title of Submission:  A Case for Adapting Channel Width in Wireless Networks

Candy Yiu - Portland State University​
Grace Hopper 08
Third Place 
    Title of Submission:  60GHZ High Speed Wireless Architecture

Yves Petinot - Columbia University​
Hypertext 08
First Place 
    Title of Submission:  Context-based URL Summarization

Charlie Hargood - University of Southampton​
Hypertext 08
Second Place 
    Title of Submission:  A Thematic Model for Narrative Generation

Stratis Ioanidis - University of Toronto​
MobiCom 08
First Place 
    Title of Submission:  On the Distribution of Content Updates over a Mobile Social Network

Samuel Nelson - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign​
MobiCom 08
Second Place 
    Title of Submission: Encounter-Based Routing in DTNs

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas - Purdue University​
MobiCom 08
Third Place 
    Title of Submission:  XCOR: Synergistic Interflow Network Coding and Opportunistic Routing

Kevin Bierhoff - Carnegie Mellon University​
OOPSLA 2008
First Place 
    Title of Submission:  Checking API Protocol Compliance in Java

Michael Achenbach - University of Aarhus​
PLDI 08
Third Place 
    Title of Submission:  Hybrid Program Analysis for Error Detection

Max Grosse - Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar​
SIGGRAPH 08
First Place 
    Title of Submission:  Coded Aperture Projection

Akila Gothandaraman - University of Tennessee, Knoxville​
SC 08
First Place 
    Title of Submission:  Acceleration of Quantum Monte Carlo Applications on Emerging Computing Platforms

Abhinav Bhatele - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
SC 08
Third Place 
    Title of Submission:  Effects of Contention on Message Latencies in Large Supercomputers