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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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Davis </strong>- <em> Virginia Tech </em><br /> <a href="https://www.esec-fse.org//">ESEC/FSE 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/james-c.-davis.pdf">On the Impact and Defeat of Regex DoS</a></p> <p><strong>Jinwoo Kim </strong>- <em> University of Wisconsin-Madison </em><br /> <a href="https://popl19.sigplan.org/">POPL 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/jinwoo-kim.pdf">Proving Unrealizability for Imperative Syntax-Guided Synthesis Problems</a></p> <p><strong>Maarten P. Sijm </strong>- <em> TU Delft </em><br /> <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/splash-2019">SPLASH 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission:<a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/maarten-p.-sijm.pdf"> Incremental Scannerless Generalized LR Parsing</a></p> <p><strong>Martin Kellogg </strong>- <em> University of Washington </em><br /> <a href="https://2019.ase-conferences.org/">ASE 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/martin-kellogg.pdf">Compile-time detection of machine image sniping</a></p> <p><strong>Nupoor Ranade </strong>- <em> North Carolina State University </em><br /> <a href="https://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2019/">SIGDOC 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/nupoor-ranade.pdf">Conditional Usability Testing for UX Optimization</a></p> <p><strong>Peter Li </strong>- <em> Massachussetts Institute of Technology </em><br /> <a href="https://www.microarch.org/micro52/">MICRO 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="http:"> </a><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/peter-zhi-xuan-li.pdf">A Mutual Information Accelerator for Autonomous Robot Exploration</a></p> <p><strong>Sai Ganesh Subramanian </strong>- <em> Texas A&M University </em><br /> <a href="https://s2019.siggraph.org/">SIGGRAPH 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: Interactive Cinematic Scientific Visualization in Unity</p> <p><strong>Stefan Hillmich </strong>- <em> Johannes Kepler University </em><br /> <a href="https://iccad.com/">ICCAD 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/stefan-hillmich.pdf">Decision Diagrams for Quantum Computing</a></p> <p><strong>Tinghun Chen </strong>- <em> Columbia University </em><br /> <a href="https://sigmobile.org/mobicom/2019/">MOBICOM 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/tingjun-chen.pdf">Enabling Wideband full-duplex wireless via frequency-Domain Equalization</a></p> <p><strong>Vinitha Gadiraju </strong>- <em> University of Colorado, Boulder </em><br /> <a href="https://assets19.sigaccess.org/">ASSETS 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/vinitha-gadiraju.pdf">BrailleBlocks: Braille Toys for Cross-Ability Collaboration</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <h2 id="h-undergraduate-student-winners">UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT WINNERS</h2> <p><strong>Alexander Zlokapa </strong>- <em> California Institute of Technology </em><br /> <a href="https://sc19.supercomputing.org/">SC 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/alexander-zlokapa.pdf">A Deep Learning Approach to Noise Prediction and Circuit Optimization for Near-term Quantum Devices</a></p> <p><strong>Alexandra Ballow </strong>- <em> Youngstown State University </em><br /> <a href="http://tapiaconference.org/">TAPIA 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: Handling Missing Values in Joint Sequence Analysis</p> <p><strong>Ana Luisa Solorzano </strong>- <em> Universidade Federal de Santa Maria </em><br /> <a href="https://ghc.anitab.org/">Grace Hopper 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/ana-luisa-v.-solorzano%F0%9D%91%8E.pdf">Handling Missing Values in Joint Sequence Analysis</a></p> <p><strong>Jesse Michel </strong>- <em> Massachussetts Instiute of Techology </em><br /> <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi-2019">PLDI 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/jesse-michel-.pdf">Automatic Noised-Based Sensitivity Analysis of Programs</a></p> <p><strong>Lia Yeh </strong>- <em> University of California,Santa Barbara </em><br /> <a href="https://www.microarch.org/micro52/">MICRO 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/lia-yeh.pdf"> </a><a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/lia-yeh.pdf">Benchmarking ZX-Calculus Circuit Optimization Against Qiskit Transpilation</a></p> <p><strong>Luis Gerhorst </strong>- <em> Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Naumberg(FAU) </em><br /> <a href="https://sosp19.rcs.uwaterloo.ca//">SOSP 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/luis-gerhorst.pdf">EnergyTimers: Integrating Physical Energy Measurement Devices into OS Kernels</a></p> <p><strong>Milind Srivastava </strong>- <em> Indian Institute of Technology Madras </em><br /> <a href="https://iccad.com/">ICCAD 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: Sauron- An Automated Framework for Detecting Fault Attack Vulnerabilities in Hardware</p> <p><strong>Murad Akhundov </strong>- <em> University of Toronto </em><br /> <a href="https://popl20.sigplan.org/">POPL 2020</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/murad-akhundov.pdf">Expediting Verification of Assertions in Loops by Isolation</a></p> <p><strong>Nathan Brown </strong>- <em> University of Michigan </em><br /> <a href="https://cgo-conference.github.io/cgo2020/">CGO 2020</a><br /> Title of Submission: Profile-Guided Instruction Prefetching to Reduce Front-End Stalls of Datacenter Applications</p> <p><strong>Nicholas Hennigan </strong>- <em> University of Milwaukeea </em><br /> <a href="https://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2019/">SIGDOC 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/nicholas-hennigan.pdf">Optimizing Design Thinking: Theatrical Improv’s Affect on Creativity Within Groups</a></p> <p><strong>Ocean Hurd </strong>- <em> University of California, Santa Cruz </em><br /> <a href="/pagenotfound">ASSETS 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/ocean-hurd.pdf">Insights for More Usable Virtual Reality Games for People with Ambylopiae</a></p> <p><strong>Samuel Estep </strong>- <em> Liberty University </em><br /> <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/splash-2019">SPLASH 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/sam-estep.pdf">Gradual Program Analysis</a></p> <p><strong>Samantha Frohlich </strong>- <em> University of Bristol </em><br /> <a href="https://icfp19.sigplan.org/">ICFP 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/samantha-frohlich.pdf">Warm Fuzzy Things- A DSL for Hypertexture</a></p> <p><strong>Shengcheng Yu </strong>- <em> Nangjing University </em><br /> <a href="https://2019.ase-conferences.org/">ASE 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2020/shengcheng-yu.pdf">Crowdsourced Report Generation via Bug Screenshot Understanding</a></p> <p><strong>Varun Jain </strong>- <em> Harvard University </em><br /> <a href="https://sigmod2019.org/">SIGMOD 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: LSM-Trees and B-Trees: The Best of Both</p> <p><strong>Zhaowei Xi </strong>- <em> Tsinghua University </em><br /> <a href="https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2019//">SIGCOMM 2019</a><br /> Title of Submission: <a 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