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Presenting before panels of experts and competing with your peers, you'll hone your communications and presentation skills.</span> [Also read the information <a href="/about/for-students">For Student Participants</a>.]</p></div> </li> <li class="infonav__ctaList"> <div class="infonav__ctaList-cta"> <a href='https://conf.researchr.org/track/icse-2025/icse-2025-SRC' ><img src="/binaries/ctaimagelarge/content/gallery/acm/ctas/conferences/icse-2025.jpg" alt="icse-2025.jpg"></a><div class="cta-text"> <a href='https://conf.researchr.org/track/icse-2025/icse-2025-SRC' >ICSE 2025 Student Research Competition</a></div> </div> <div class="infonav__ctaList-cta"> <a href='https://chi2025.acm.org/for-authors/student-research-competition/' ><img src="/binaries/ctaimagelarge/content/gallery/acm/ctas/conferences/chi-2025.jpg" alt="chi-2025.jpg"></a><div class="cta-text"> <a href='https://chi2025.acm.org/for-authors/student-research-competition/' >CHI 2025 Student Research Competion</a></div> </div> <div class="infonav__ctaList-cta"> <a href='https://pasc25.pasc-conference.org/submission/guidelines-for-acm-student-research-competition/' ><img src="/binaries/ctaimagelarge/content/gallery/acm/ctas/conferences/pasc-2025.jpg" alt="pasc-2025.jpg"></a><div class="cta-text"> <a href='https://pasc25.pasc-conference.org/submission/guidelines-for-acm-student-research-competition/' >PASC 2025 Student Research Competition</a></div> </div> <div class="infonav__ctaList-cta"> <a href='https://sigcse2025.sigcse.org/track/sigcse-ts-2025-acm-student-research-competition#About' ><img src="/binaries/ctaimagelarge/content/gallery/acm/ctas/conferences/sigcse-2025.jpg" alt="sigcse-2025.jpg"></a><div class="cta-text"> <a href='https://sigcse2025.sigcse.org/track/sigcse-ts-2025-acm-student-research-competition#About' >SIGCSE 2025 Student Research Competition</a></div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="has-dropdown not-click"><a href="#">Testimonials</a> <div class="dropdown clearfix"> <ul class="infonav clearfix"> <li class="infonav__linkList clearfix"> <a href="/testimonials/2024" class="first">Student Testimonials</a> <ul class="infonav__linkList-list clearfix"> </ul> </li> <li class="infonav__landingPage"> <div> <p class="first">How Sharing My Ideas Helped Me</p> <p>“Participating in the ACM SRC was an unparalleled opportunity to highlight my ongoing research. through a poster presentation and a talk. One of the most valuable aspects of the ACM SRC was the opportunity to receive constructive feedback from seasoned experts and fellow researchers. Interacting with professionals from a broad spectrum of fields expanded my network in meaningful ways. Additionally, learning about my peers’ projects offered fresh perspectives. The ACM SRC stands out as a pivotal moment in my academic journey, significantly contributing to my personal and professional growth. 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The ACM SRC provides participants a chance to meet other students and to get direct feedback on their work from experts. This year's competitions took place at 21 participating ACM SIG conferences, sponsored by SIGAI, SIGACCESS, SIGARCH, SIGBED, SIGCOMM, SIGCSE, SIGDA,SIGDOC, SIGGRAPH, SIGHPC, SIGMETRICS, SIGMICRO, SIGMOBILE, SIGOPS, SIGPLAN, SIGSOFT and SIGSPATIAL as well as TAPIA which included more than 325 student participants. 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line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/patrick-gage-kelley.pdf">A “Nutrition Label” for Privacy</a></p> <p><strong>Charlene Jennett </strong>- <em>University College London</em><br /> <a href="http://www.chi2009.org/">CHI 09</a><br /> Third Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/charlene-jennett.pdf">Investigating Computer Game Immersion and the Component Real World Dissociation</a></p> <p><strong>Taniya Siddiqua</strong> - <em>University of Virginia</em><br /> <a href="http://gracehopper.org/">Grace Hopper 09 </a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/taniyasiddiqua.pdf">Dynamic NBTI Management in Multicore Processor</a></p> <p><strong>Christian Koerner</strong> - <em>TU Graz</em><br /> <a href="http://www.ht2009.org/">Hypertext 09</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/christian-koerner.pdf">The Motivation behind Tagging</a></p> <p><strong>Michal Tvarozek</strong> - <em>Slovak University of Technology</em><br /> <a href="http://www.ht2009.org/">Hypertext 09</a><br /> Second Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/michal-tvarozek.pdf">Personalized Exploratory Search in the Semantic Web</a></p> <p><strong>Ching Man Au Yeung</strong> - <em>University of Southampton</em><br /> <a href="http://www.ht2009.org/">Hypertext 09</a><br /> Third Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1646053">User-Induced Hyperlinks in Collaborative Tagging Systems</a></p> <p><strong>Dimitrios Koutsonikolas</strong> - <em>Purdue University</em><br /> <a href="http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2009/">MobiCom 09</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/dimitrios-koutsonikolas.pdf">Designing Coded Feedback for Efficient Network Coding Based Opportunistic Routing</a></p> <p><strong>Sriram Nandha Premnath</strong> - <em>University of Utah</em><br /> <a href="http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2009/">MobiCom 09</a><br /> Third Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/sriram-nandha-premnath.pdf">Secret Key Extraction in MIMO-Like Sensor Networks Using Wireless Signal Strength</a></p> <p><strong>Tudor Dumitras</strong> - <em>Carnegie Mellon University</em><br /> <a href="http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2009/">OOPSLA 2009</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/tudor-dumitras.pdf">Dependable, Online Upgrades in Enterprise Systems</a></p> <p><strong>Michael Pradel </strong>- <em>ETH Zurich</em><br /> <a href="http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2009/">OOPSLA 2009</a><br /> Second Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/michael-pradel.pdf">Dynamic Inference and Refinement of API Usage Protocols</a></p> <p><strong>Nels E. Beckman</strong> - <em>Carnegie Mellon University</em><br /> <a href="http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2009/">OOPSLA 2009</a><br /> Third Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/nels-e-beckman.pdf">Modular Typestate Checking in Concurrent Java Programs</a></p> <p><strong>Bushra Ahsan</strong> -<em> City University of New York</em><br /> <a href="http://www.pactconf.org/">PACT 2009</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/bushra-ahsan.pdf">A Hybrid Compiler-Architecture Technique to Manage Off-Chip Traffic for Multicore Chips</a></p> <p><strong>Samer Arandi </strong>- <em>University of Cyprus</em><br /> <a href="http://www.pactconf.org/">PACT 2009</a><br /> Third Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1944869">DDM-VMC: The Data-Driven Multithreading</a></p> <p><strong>Jennifer B. Sartor</strong> - <em>University of Texas at Austin</em><br /> <a href="http://www-plan.cs.colorado.edu/~pldi09/">PLDI 09</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/jennifer-b-sartor.pdf">Efficient Array lets for the Masses</a></p> <p><strong>Ohad Shacham</strong> - <em>Tel Aviv University</em><br /> <a href="http://www-plan.cs.colorado.edu/~pldi09/">PLDI 09</a><br /> Second Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> Title of Submission: </span><a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1542522">Chameleon: Adaptive Selection of Collections</a></p> <p><strong>Tae-Joon Kim (presenter)</strong> - KAIST<br /> <a href="http://www.siggraph.org/">SIGGRAPH 09</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/tae-joon-kim.pdf">RACBVHs: Random-Accessible Compressed Bounding Volume Hierarchies</a></p> <p><strong>Matthew Hirsch (presenter) </strong>- <em>MIT</em><br /> <a href="http://www.siggraph.org/">SIGGRAPH 09</a><br /> Second Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/matthew-hirsch.pdf">BiDi Screen: Depth and Lighting Aware Interaction and Display</a></p> <p><strong>Andrew Meneely</strong> - <em>North Carolina State University</em><br /> <a href="http://sigcse.org/sigcse2010/">SIGCSE 10</a><br /> Winner <br /> TItle of Submission: <a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1653717">Secure Open Source Collaboration: An Empirical Study of Linus' Law</a></p> <h2 id="h-undergraduate-student-winners">UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT WINNERS </h2> <p><strong>Stephen Steward</strong> - <em>University of Delaware</em><br /> <a href="http://www.sigaccess.org/assets09/">ASSETS 2009</a><br /> Second Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/stephen-steward.pdf">Designing AAC Interfaces for Commercial Brain-Computer Interaction Gaming Hardware</a></p> <p><strong>Jun Kato</strong> - <em>University of Tokyo</em><br /> <a href="http://www.chi2009.org/">CHI 09 </a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/jun-kato.pdf">Multi-Touch Interface for Controlling Multiple Mobile Robots</a></p> <p><strong>Zhiquan Yeo</strong> - <em>Carnegie Mellon University</em><br /> <a href="http://www.chi2009.org/">CHI 09 </a><br /> Second Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1358921">Emotional Instant Messaging with KIM</a></p> <p><strong>Marcus Reul</strong> - RWTH Aachen University<br /> <a href="http://www.chi2009.org/">CHI 09</a><br /> Third Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/marcus-reul.pdf">Bringing Usability to Industrial Control Systems</a></p> <p><strong>Manasi Vartak</strong> - <em>Worcester Polytechnic Institute</em><br /> <a href="http://gracehopper.org/">Grace Hopper 09</a><br /> First Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/manasi-vartak.pdf">Query Oriented Relaxation for Cardinality Assurance</a></p> <p><strong>Lucy Vasserman</strong> - <em>Pomona College</em><br /> <a href="http://gracehopper.org/">Grace Hopper 09</a><br /> Second Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/lucy-vasserman.pdf" title="lucy">Towards Emotionally Intelligent Machines: A Comprehensive Mood Classification System</a></p> <p><strong>Diego Cavalcanti</strong> - <em>Federal University of Campina Grande</em><br /> <a href="http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2009/">OOPSLA 2009</a><br /> Winner <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/diego-cavalcanti.pdf">Improving Safety when Refactoring Aspect-Oriented Programs</a></p> <p><strong>Paul Magrath</strong> -<em> Trinity College Dublin</em><br /> <a href="http://www-plan.cs.colorado.edu/~pldi09/">PLDI 2009</a><br /> Winner <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/paul-magrath.pdf">Encryption Code Generator</a></p> <p><strong>Eric Drewniak</strong> - <em>Wheaton College</em><br /> <a href="http://sigcse.org/sigcse2010/">SIGCSE 10</a><br /> Second Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2009/eric-drewniak.pdf">Unsupervised Discovery of Motifs with Amplitude</a></p> <p><strong>Stefan Maurer</strong> - <em>Hiram College</em><br /> <a href="http://sigcse.org/sigcse2010/">SIGCSE 10</a><br /> Third Place <br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20.8px; text-align: left;"> TItle of Submission: </span><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2010/stefan-maurer.pdf">Analysis of User Behavior</a></p> <p><strong>Jacqueline R. 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