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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 SIGACCESS, SIGAPP, SIGARCH, SIGBED, SIGCHI, SIGCOMM, SIGCSE, SIGDA,SIGDOC, SIGGRAPH, SIGHPC, SIGMETRICS, SIGMICRO, SIGMOBILE, SIGOPS, SIGPLAN, SIGSOFT and SIGSPATIAL as well as TAPIA which included more than 323 student participants. 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id="h-graduate-student-winners">GRADUATE STUDENT WINNERS</h2> <p><strong>Anne Edmundson </strong>- <em> Princeton University</em><br /> <a href="http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2016/src.php">SIGCOMM 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/anneedmundson.pdf">A First Look into Transnational Routing Detours </a></p> <p><strong>Arik Hadas </strong>- <em> Open University of Israel</em><br /> <a href="http://2016.modularity.info/">Modularity 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/arikhadas.pdf">Language Oriented Modularity: A Practical Approach </a></p> <p><strong>Ashwin Shashidharan </strong>- <em> North Carolina State University</em><br /> <a href="http://sigspatial2016.sigspatial.org/competition/">SIGSPATIAL 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/ashwinshashidharan.pdf">Computational Steering for Geosimulations </a></p> <p><strong>Calvin Loncaric </strong>- <em> University of Washington</em><br /> <a href="http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/fse2016/calls/student-research-competition/">FSE 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/calvinloncaric.pdf">Cozy: Synthesizing Collection Data Structures</a></p> <p><strong>Daniel Welch </strong>- <em> Clemson University</em><br /> <a href="https://sigcse2017.sigcse.org/authors/studentresearchcompetition.html">SIGCSE 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/danielwelch.pdf">Scaling Up Automated Verification: A Case Study and A Formalization IDE for Building High Integrity Software </a></p> <p><strong>Elston Steele </strong>- <em> Trident University International</em><br /> <a href="http://sigmis.org/events/cpr-conference/">MIS/CPR 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/elstonsteele.pdf">Investigating the Role of Top Management Support between Institutional Pressures and Cloud Implementation Success</a></p> <p><strong>Gábor Szárnyas </strong>- <em> Budapest University</em><br /> <a href="http://models2016.irisa.fr/acm-student-research-competition/">MODELS 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/gaborszarnyas.pdf">Scalable Graph Query Evaluation and Benchmarking with Realistic Models </a></p> <p><strong>Henrik Barthels </strong>- <em> RWTH Aachen University</em><br /> <a href="http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-src">SPLASH 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/henrikbarthels.pdf">Linnea: A Compiler for Linear Algebra Operations </a></p> <p><strong>Kazem Chesmi </strong>- <em> Rutgers University</em><br /> <a href="http://cgo.org/cgo2017/src.html">CGO 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/kazemcheshmi.pdf">Decoupling Symbolic from Numeric in Sparse Matrix Computations</a></p> <p><strong>Lisa Nguyen Quang Do </strong>- <em> Fraunhofer IEM</em><br /> <a href="http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~benh/pldi-2016/pldi-2016-SRC.html">PLDI 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/lisanguyenquangdo.pdf">User-Centric Static Analysis</a></p> <p><strong>MHD Yemen Saraiji </strong>- <em> Keio University</em><br /> <a href="http://s2016.siggraph.org/acm-student-research-competition">SIGGRAPH 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/mhd-yamensaraji.pdf">Layered Telespresence:Simultaneous Mutli Presence using Eye Gaze based Perpetual Awareness Blending</a></p> <p><strong>Omid Abari </strong>- <em> MIT</em><br /> <a href="https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2016/src.php">MobiCom 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/omidabari.pdf">Cutting the Cord in Virtual Reality</a></p> <p><strong>Roman Kaplan </strong>- <em> Technion</em><br /> <a href="http://pact2016.pactconf.org/acm-src/">PACT 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/romankaplan.pdf">From Near-Data Processing to In-Data Processing-in-Storage</a></p> <p><strong>Rosemary Koikara </strong>- <em> Kyungpook National University, South Korea</em><br /> <a href="https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2016/">SAC 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/rosemarykoikara.pdf">SAC: G: 3-D Cellular Automata based PRNG</a></p> <p><strong>Rubens E.A. Moreira </strong>- <em> UFMG, Brazil</em><br /> <a href="http://cgo.org/cgo2016/call-for-posters/">CGO 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/rubensmoreira.pdf">Inference of Peak Density of Indirect Branches to Detect ROP Attacks</a></p> <p><strong>Setareh Ariafar </strong>- <em> Northeastern University</em><br /> <a href="https://ghc.anitaborg.org/posters-acm-student-research-competition/">Grace Hopper 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: Network-SVM: Support Vector Machine for Network Data</p> <p><strong>Sourav Chakraborty </strong>- <em> Ohio State University</em><br /> <a href="http://sc16.supercomputing.org/studentssc/student-research-venues/acm-student-research-competition/index.html">SC 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/souravcharakborty.pdf">Job Startup at Exascale: Challenges and Solutions</a></p> <p><strong>William Bowman </strong>- <em> Northeastern University</em><br /> <a href="http://popl17.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2017-src">POPL 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/williamjbowman.pdf">Toward Type-Preserving Compilation of Coq</a></p> <p><strong>Xiaoqing Xu </strong>- <em> University of Texas at Austin</em><br /> <a href="http://www.sigda.org/src">ICCAD 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/xiaoqingxu.pdf">Toward Unidirectional Routing Closure in Advanced Technology Nodes</a></p> <p> </p> <h2 id="h-undergraduate-student-winners">UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT WINNERS</h2> <p><strong>Clarissa Bruno Tuxen </strong>- <em> Emory University</em><br /> <a href="https://ghc.anitaborg.org/posters-acm-student-research-competition/">Grace Hopper 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/clarissabrunotuxen.pdf">Scaling in Socially Driven Computer Networks</a></p> <p><strong>Jennifer Vaccaro </strong>- <em> Olin College of Engineering</em><br /> <a href="http://www.sigda.org/src">ICCAD 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/jennifervaccaro.pdf">Applying Computer Modeling to Post-Silicon Validation</a></p> <p><strong>Jessica Cherayil </strong>- <em> Wellesley College</em><br /> <a href="http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-src">SPLASH 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/jessicacherayil.pdf">PIXELDUST: Supporting Dynamic Area of Interest Tagging in Programming Studies with Eye Tracking </a></p> <p><strong>Joshua Buck </strong>- <em> University of Dayton</em><br /> <a href="https://sigcse2017.sigcse.org/authors/studentresearchcompetition.html">SIGCSE 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/joshuabuck.pdf">Mixed-initiative Personal Assistant Agents</a></p> <p><strong>Martin Kellogg </strong>- <em> University of Washington</em><br /> <a href="http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/fse2016/calls/student-research-competition/">FSE 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/martinkellogg.pdf">Combining Bug Detection and Test Case Generation </a></p> <p><strong>Mirko Gelsomini </strong>- <em> Politecnico di Milano</em><br /> <a href="http://assets16.sigaccess.org/">ASSETS 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/mirkogelsomini.pdf">An Affordable Wearable Immersive Virtual Reality Framework for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorder</a></p> <p><strong>Nathaniel Stone </strong>- <em> University of South Carolina</em><br /> <a href="https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2016/src.php">MobiCom 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/nathanielstone.pdf">Assessing Header Impacts in Soccer with Smartball </a></p> <p><strong>Shoichi Furukawa </strong>- <em> Waseda University</em><br /> <a href="http://s2016.siggraph.org/acm-student-research-competition">SIGGRAPH 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/shoichifurukawa.pdf">Video Reshuffling: Automatic Video Dubbing without Prior Knowledge</a></p> <p><strong>Vasu Jindal </strong>- <em> University of Texas at Dallas</em><br /> <a href="http://mobilesoftconf.org/2016/">MobileSoft 2016</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/vasujindal.pdf">A Deep Learning Framework to Monitor Heart Rate During Intensive Physical Exercise</a></p> <p><strong>Victor Lanvin </strong>- <em> ENS Paris Saclay</em><br /> <a href="http://popl17.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2017-src">POPL 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2016/victorlanvin.pdf">Gradual Set-Theoretic Types</a></p> <p><strong>William Agnew </strong>- <em> Georgia Institute of Technology</em><br /> <a 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