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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>Ladislav Maršík </strong>- <em> Charles University</em><br /> <a href="https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2017/">SAC 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/ladislav-marsik.pdf">Using Chord Distance Descriptors to Enhance Music Information Retrieval</a></p> <p><strong>Sabirat Rubya </strong>- <em> University of Minnesota</em><br /> <a href="https://chi2017.acm.org/researchcompetition.html">CHI 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/sabirat-rubya.pdf">Facilitating Peer Support for Recovery from Substance Use Disorders</a></p> <p><strong>Michael Coblenz </strong>- <em> Carnegie Mellon University</em><br /> <a href="http://icse2017.gatech.edu/?q=acm-src">ICSE 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/michael-coblenz.pdf">Obsidian: A Safer Blockchain Programming Language</a></p> <p><strong>Yixue Zhao </strong>- <em> University of Southern California</em><br /> <a href="http://mobilesoftconf.org/2017/student-research-competition/">MobileSoft 17</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/yixue-zhao.pdf">Reducing Latency in Mobile Apps via Program Analysis</a></p> <p><strong>Robert Lyerly </strong>- <em> Virginia Tech</em><br /> <a href="https://pldi17.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2017-student-research-competition">PLDI 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/robert-lyerly.pdf">Seamlessly Crossing ISA Boundaries for Performance and Security</a></p> <p><strong>Chloe LeGendre </strong>- <em> University</em><br /> <a href="http://s2017.siggraph.org/acm-student-research-competition.html">GRAPH 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/chloe-legendre.pdf">Improved Chromakey of Hair Strands via Orientation Filter Convolution</a></p> <p><strong>Allegra Smith </strong>- <em> Purdue University</em><br /> <a href="http://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2017/src/">SIGDOC 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/allegra-w.-smith.pdf">“Can You Hear Me Now?”: Revaluing Listening’s Role in User Research Practice</a></p> <p><strong>Henri Maxime Demoulin </strong>- <em> University of Pennsylvania</em><br /> <a href="https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2017/program-demos.html">SIGCOMM 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: DeDoS: An Automated Serverless Platform for DoS Detection and Mitigation</p> <p><strong>Chris Mills </strong>- <em> Florida State University</em><br /> <a href="http://esec-fse17.uni-paderborn.de/call_competition.php">FSE 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: Automating Traceability Link Maintenance via Machine Learning Classification</p> <p><strong>Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi </strong>- <em> University of Illinois</em><br /> <a href="https://parasol.tamu.edu/pact17/acm-src">PACT 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/raghavendra-pothukuchi.pdf">Multilayer Compute Resource Management with Robust Control Theory</a></p> <p><strong>Laleh Ghalami </strong>- <em> Wayne State University</em><br /> <a href="http://tapiaconference.org/participate/call-for-participation/student-posters/">TAPIA 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: A Parallel Approximation Algorithm for Scheduling Parallel Identical Machines</p> <p><strong>Parishad Karimi </strong>- <em> Rutgers University</em><br /> <a href="https://ghc.anitab.org/news/announcements/2017-acm-student-research-winners/">Grace Hopper 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/parishad-karimi.pdf">SMART: A Distributed Architecture for Dynamic Spectrum Management</a></p> <p><strong>Andreas Soleiman </strong>- <em> Uppsala University</em><br /> <a href="https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2017/src.php">MobiCom 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/andreas-soleiman.pdf">Battery-free Visible Light Sensing</a></p> <p><strong>David Leopoldseder </strong>- <em> Johannes Kepler University</em><br /> <a href="https://2017.splashcon.org/committee/splash-2017-student-research-competition-student-research-competition">SPLASH 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/david-leopoldseder.pdf">Simulation-based Code Duplication for Enhancing Compiler Optimizations </a></p> <p><strong>Jon Gjengset </strong>- <em> Massachusetts Institute of Technology</em><br /> <a href="https://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp17/src.html">SOSP 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/jon-gjengset.pdf">Xylem: dynamic, partially-stateful data-flow for high-performance Web applications</a></p> <p><strong>Ahmed Mahmood </strong>- <em> Purdue University</em><br /> <a href="https://sigspatial2017.sigspatial.org/competition/">SIGSPATIAL 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/ahmed-mahmood.pdf">Scalable Query Processing In Spatio-Textual Data Management Systems</a></p> <p><strong>Daniel George </strong>- <em> University of Illinois</em><br /> <a href="http://sc17.supercomputing.org/program/research-posters/">SC 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/daniel-george.pdf">Deep Learning for Time-series Signal Processing for Real-time Gravitational Wave Detection and Parameter Estimation: Results with Real LIGO Data</a></p> <p><strong>Meng Li </strong>- <em> University of Texas, Austin</em><br /> <a href="http://www.sigda.org/src">ICCAD 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/meng-li.pdf">A Synergistic Framework for Hardware IP Privacy and Integirty Protection</a></p> <p><strong>Youyou Cong </strong>- <em> Ochanomizu University</em><br /> <a href="https://popl18.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2018-Student-Research-Competition">POPL 2018</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/youyou-cong.pdf">Combining Control Operators and Dependent Types</a></p> <p><strong>Ayaan M. Kazerouni </strong>- <em> Virginia Tech</em><br /> <a href="https://sigcse2018.sigcse.org/authors/src.html">SIGCSE 2018</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/ayaan-m.-kazerouni.pdf">Quantifying the Programming Process to Help Teach Incremental Development</a></p> <p><strong>Josef Eisl </strong>- <em> Institute for System Software, Johannes Kepler University Linz</em><br /> <a href="http://cgo.org/cgo2018/src/">CGO 2018</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/josef-eisl.pdf">Divide and Allocate: The Trace Register Allocation Framework</a></p> <p> </p> <h2 id="h-undergraduate-student-winners">UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT WINNERS</h2> <p><strong>Sarah Lim </strong>- <em> Northwestern University</em><br /> <a href="https://chi2017.acm.org/researchcompetition.html">CHI 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/sarah-lim.pdf">Visual Web Inspection for Complex Professional Examples </a></p> <p><strong>Peilun Zhang </strong>- <em> University of Colorado, Boulder</em><br /> <a href="https://pldi17.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2017-student-research-competition">PDLI 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/peilun-zhang.pdf">Property-based Randomized Test Generation for Android Applications</a></p> <p><strong>Tiancheng Sun </strong>- <em> UC San Diego</em><br /> <a href="http://s2017.siggraph.org/acm-student-research-competition.html">GRAPH 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a>Attribute-preserving gamut mapping of measured BRDFs</a></p> <p><strong>Jenny Yao </strong>- <em> Massachusetts Institute of Technology</em><br /> <a href="http://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2017/src/">SIGDOC 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/jenny-yao.pdf">Creating Better-Informed Consumers and Reducing Dark Pattern Tendencies Through Improved Terms of Service Solutions</a></p> <p><strong>Ayush Kohli </strong>- <em> S. Illinois University </em><br /> <a href="http://esec-fse17.uni-paderborn.de/call_competition.php">FSE 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/ayush-kohli.pdf">DecisionDroid: A Supervised Learning-Based System to Identify Cloned Android Applications </a></p> <p><strong>Arjun Balasingam </strong>- <em> Stanford University</em><br /> <a href="https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2017/src.php">Mobicom 2017 </a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/arjun-balasingam.pdf">Broadcast LTE Data Reveals Application Type</a></p> <p><strong>Haowen Lin </strong>- <em> University of Southern California</em><br /> <a href="https://sigspatial2017.sigspatial.org/competition/">SIGSPATIAL 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/haowen-lin.pdf">Automatic Extraction of Phrase-Level Map Labels from Historical Maps</a></p> <p><strong>Peter Z. Harrington </strong>- <em> University of California, Santa Cruz</em><br /> <a href="http://sc17.supercomputing.org/program/research-posters/">SC 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/peter-harrington.pdf">Diagnosing Parallel I/O Bottlenecks in HPC Applications</a></p> <p><strong>Xinfeng Xie </strong>- <em> Peking University</em><br /> <a href="http://www.sigda.org/src">ICCAD 2017</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/xinfeng-xie.pdf">Optimizing GPU Shared Memory Allocation in Automated C-to-CUDA Compilation</a></p> <p><strong>Blaine Billings </strong>- <em> College of Charleston</em><br /> <a href="https://sigcse2018.sigcse.org/authors/src.html">SIGCSE 2018</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/blaine-billings.pdf">Modelling Correct Operation of Webcams for Security Purposes</a></p> <p><strong>Patrick Thier </strong>- <em> Institut fur Computersprachen Technische Universitat Wien</em><br /> <a href="http://cgo.org/cgo2018/src/">CGO 2018</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/patrick-thier.pdf">Fast and Flexible Instruction Selection with Constraints </a></p></div><!-- MainContent --> </div> <div class="columns large-4 medium-4 small-12"> <div class="custom-content"> <h3 id="h-2018grand-finals-judges">2018 Grand Finals Judges</h3> <p>Dr. Laurie Williams - <em>N.C. 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