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font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px; text-align: start;">Gain many tangible and intangible rewards from <a href="/participate">participating in an SRC Contest</a>, from cash prizes to opportunities to meet with researchers and make connections in your field. 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" class="js-no-link-icon"><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/" class="js-no-link-icon"><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/" class="js-no-link-icon"><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" class="js-no-link-icon"><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. It provided a platform for young researchers to be recognized. and encouraged.”</p> <p>Zhewen Pan, University of Wisconsin-Madison</p> <p>SIGMICRO 2023</p></div> </li> <li class="infonav__ctaList"> <div class="infonav__ctaList-cta"> <img src="/binaries/ctaimagelarge/content/gallery/acm/ctas/src/m-r/zhewen-pan.jpg" alt="zhewen-pan.jpg"><div class="cta-text"> Emma McDaniel</div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="has-dropdown not-click"><a href="#">FAQs</a> <div class="dropdown clearfix"> <ul class="infonav clearfix"> <li class="infonav__linkList clearfix"> <a href="/faqs" class="first">SRC FAQs</a> <ul class="infonav__linkList-list clearfix"> </ul> </li> <li class="infonav__landingPage"> <div> <p class="first">The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC)</p> <p><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research before a panel of judges and attendees at well-known ACM-sponsored and co-sponsored conferences.</span></p> <p>Recognizing the value of student participation at conferences, ACM started the Student Research Competition Program in 2003. 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. The SRC program is administered by Nanette Hernandez of the ACM, Douglas Baldwin of SUNY Geneseo and Adrienne Decker of University at Buffalo.</p> <p><a href="/about"><span style="line-height: normal;">[Learn More about SRC]</span></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" class="js-no-link-icon"><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/" class="js-no-link-icon"><img src="/binaries/ctaimagelarge/content/gallery/acm/ctas/conferences/chi-2025.jpg" alt="chi-2025.jpg"></a><div class="cta-text"> <a 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2018 - 2019</h1> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="columns large-8 medium-8 small-12 blocks"> <div class="clearfix"> <h2 id="h-graduate-student-winners">GRADUATE STUDENT WINNERS</h2> <p><strong>Aaron Weiss </strong>- <em> Northwestern University</em><br> <a href="https://popl19.sigplan.org/">POPL 2019</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/aaronweiss.pdf">Monty PL and the Holy Grail</a></p> <p><strong>Chloe Alverti </strong>- <em> National Technical University of Athens, Greece</em><br> <a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/conferences/pact2018/">PACT 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/chloe-alverti-2.pdf">Speculative Offset Address Translation</a></p> <p><strong>Christie Alappat </strong>- <em> University of Erlangen-Nuremberg</em><br> <a href="https://sc18.supercomputing.org/">SC 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/ladislav-marsik.pdf">RACE - Recursive Algebraic Coloring Engine</a></p> <p><strong>Daniel DeFreez </strong>- <em> University of California, Davis</em><br> <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/fse-2018">FSE 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: Mining Error-Handling Specifications for Systems Software</p> <p><strong>David Schlais </strong>- <em> University of Wisconsin-Madison</em><br> <a href="https://www.microarch.org/micro51/">SIGMICRO 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: Configurable Tightly-Coupled FPGA-style fabric for Fine-Grained Acceleration</p> <p><strong>Gengjie Chen </strong>- <em> The Chinese University of Hong Kong</em><br> <a href="https://iccad.com/">ICCAD 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/gengjie-chen.pdf">VLSI Routing: Seeing Nano Tree in Giga Forest</a></p> <p><strong>Gemma Catolino </strong>- <em> University of Salerno</em><br> <a href="https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2017/">MobileSoft 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/gemma-catolino.pdf">Does Source Code Quality Reflect the Ratings of Apps?</a></p> <p><strong>Jay Lim </strong>- <em> Rutgers University</em><br> <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi-2018">PLDI 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: Automatic Verification of Assembly Implementation of Cryptographic Algorithms</p> <p><strong>Louai Alarabi </strong>- <em> University of Minnesota</em><br> <a href="https://sigspatial2018.sigspatial.org/">SIGSPATIAL 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/loui-alarabi.pdf">Summit: A Scalable System for Massive Trajectory Data Management</a></p> <p><strong>Matthias Springer </strong>- <em> Tokyo Institute of Technology</em><br> <a href="https://2018.splashcon.org/">SPLASH 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/matthias-springer.pdf">DynaSOAr: Accelerating Single-Method Multiple-Objects Applications on GPUs∗</a></p> <p><strong>Michael Arntznenius </strong>- <em> University of Birmingham</em><br> <a href="https://icfp18.sigplan.org/">ICFP 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: Type inference for monotonicity</p> <p><strong>Muhammad Ali Gulzar </strong>- <em> University of California, Los Angeles</em><br> <a href="https://www.icse2018.org/">ICSE 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/muhammad-ali-gulzar.pdf">Interactive and Automated Debugging for Big Data Analytics</a></p> <p><strong>Niveditha Kalavakonda </strong>- <em> University of Washington</em><br> <a href="https://ghc.anitab.org/ghc-18/">Grace Hopper 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/niveditha-kalavakonda.pdf">Robotic and Neurosurgical Instrument Segmentation for Development of Intelligent Surgical Assistant</a></p> <p><strong>Parikshit Maini </strong>- <em> IIIT Delhi</em><br> <a href="https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/">SAC 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/parikshit-maini.pdf">Planning and Coordination for Air-Ground Robots in Persistent Monitoring Applications with Visibility Constraints</a></p> <p><strong>Scott Kolodziej </strong>- <em> Texas A&M University</em><br> <a href="https://sigcse2019.sigcse.org/">SIGCSE 2019</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/scott-kolodziej.pdf">Empirical Assessment of Software Documentation Strategies: A Randomized Controlled Trial</a></p> <p><strong>Suraj Jog </strong>- <em> University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign</em><br> <a href="https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2018/">SIGCOMM 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/surag-jog.pdf">Many-to-Many Beam Alignment in MillimeterWave Networks</a></p> <p><strong>Tanya Bafna </strong>- <em> Technical University of Denmark</em><br> <a href="https://assets18.sigaccess.org/">ASSETS 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2018/ladislav-marsik.pdf">Gaze Typing using Multi-key Selection Technique</a></p> <p> </p> <h2 id="h-undergraduate-student-winners">UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT WINNERS</h2> <p><strong>Asher Trockman </strong>- <em> University of Evansville</em><br> <a href="https://www.icse2018.org/">ICSE 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/asher-trockman.pdf">Adding Sparkle to Social Coding: An Empirical Study of Repository Badges in the npm Ecosystem</a></p> <p><strong>Brandon Neth </strong>- <em> University of Arizona</em><br> <a href="https://cgo.org/cgo2019/">CGO 2019</a><br> Title of Submission: Automatic Parallelization of Irregularx86-64 Loops</p> <p><strong>David Tomassi </strong>- <em> Universityof California, Davis</em><br> <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/fse-2018">FSE 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/david-a.-tomassi.pdf">Bugs in the Wild: Examining the Effectiveness of Static Analyzers at Finding Real-World Bugs</a></p> <p><strong>Elizaveta Tremsina </strong>- <em> University of California, Berkeley</em><br> <a href="http://www.tapiaconference.org/">TAPIA 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/elizaveta-tremsina.pdf">Your Story Recorded in a Magnet: Micromagnetic Simulations of Spin-Orbit Torque in Multi-layer Structures</a></p> <p><strong>Fandel Lin </strong>- <em> National Cheng Kung University</em><br> <a href="https://sigspatial2018.sigspatial.org/">SIGSPATIAL 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/fandel-lin.pdf">An Intelligent and Interactive Route Planning Maker for Deploying New Transportation Services</a></p> <p><strong>Justin Lubin </strong>- <em> University of Chicago</em><br> <a href="https://2018.splashcon.org/">SPLASH 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/justin-lubin.pdf">Approximating Polymorphic Effects with Capabilities</a></p> <p><strong>Katie Lim </strong>- <em> Princeton University</em><br> <a href="https://www.microarch.org/micro51">SIGMICRO 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: Building a Heterogeneous ISA Research Platform Using the OpenPiton Framework∗</p> <p><strong>Natalie Friedman </strong>- <em> Cornell University</em><br> <a href="https://assets18.sigaccess.org/">ASSETS 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/natalie-friedman.pdf">Using Telepresence Robot to Improve Self-Efficacy of People with Developmental Disabilities</a></p> <p><strong>Rong Pan </strong>- <em> University</em><br> <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi-2018/">PLDI 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: Solving Program Sketches with Large Integer Values</p> <p><strong>Sarah Almeda </strong>- <em> The College of New Jersey</em><br> <a href="https://sigcse2019.sigcse.org/">SIGCSE 2019</a><br> Title of Submission: Accessible American Sign Language Recognition with the Leap Motion Controller</p> <p><strong>Valerie Chen </strong>- <em> Yale University</em><br> <a href="https://ghc.anitab.org/ghc-18/">Grace Hopper 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: Secure Computation for Machine Learning With SPDZ</p> <p><strong>Yixuan Chen </strong>- <em> University of Michigan</em><br> <a href="https://popl19.sigplan.org/">POPL 2019</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/anonymous-author.pdf">Verification of a Cache-optimized Data Structure</a></p> <p><strong>Zhuangzhuang Zhou </strong>- <em> Shanghia Jiao Tong University</em><br> <a href="https://iccad.com/">ICCAD 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2019/zhuangzhuang-zhou.pdf">DALS: Delay-driven Approximate Logic Synthesis</a></p> <p><strong>Zili Meng </strong>- <em> Tshinghua University</em><br> <a href="https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2018/">SIGCOMM 2018</a><br> Title of Submission: Pam: When Overloaded, Push Your Neighbor Aside!</p> <p> 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