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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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Ayano </strong>- <em> Purdue University </em><br /> <a href="https://tapiaconference.cmd-it.org/">TAPIA 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2022/oluwafolake-ayano.pdf">Node-Centric Community Detection in Evolving Networks</a></p> <p><strong>Yuke Wang </strong>- <em> University of California, Santa Barbara </em><br /> <a href="http://pact21.snu.ac.kr/">PACT 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2022/yuke-wang.pdf">Bridging Sparse GNN Computation and Dense Tensor Cores on GPUs</a></p> <p><strong>Madhurima Chakraborty </strong>- <em> University of California, Riverside </em><br /> <a href="https://2021.splashcon.org/">SPLASH 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2022/madhurima-chakraborty.pdf">A Study of Call Graph Effectiveness for Framework-Based Web Applications</a></p> <p><strong>Samine Hadidi </strong>- <em> The University of Sydney </em><br /> <a href="https://assets21.sigaccess.org/">ASSETS 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: Adee: Bringing Accessibility Right Inside Design Tools</p> <p><strong>David Chu </strong>- <em> University of California, Berkeley </em><br /> <a href="https://sosp2021.mpi-sws.org/">SOSP 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2022/david-chu.pdf">Automatic Compartmentalization of Distributed Protocols</a></p> <p><strong>Xiaofan Zhang </strong>- <em> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign </em><br /> <a href="https://iccad.com/">ICCAD 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2022/xiaofan-zhang.pdf">Bridge the Hardware-Software Gap: Exploring End-to-End Design Flows for Building Efficient AI Systems</a></p> <p><strong>Yu-En Chang </strong>- <em> National Cheng Kung University </em><br /> <a href="https://sigspatial2021.sigspatial.org/">SIGSPATIAL 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: An Interpretable Deep Learning Framework for Assessing Financial Potential of Urban Spaces</p> <p><strong>Daniel Marshall </strong>- <em> University of Kent </em><br /> <a href="https://popl22.sigplan.org/">POPL 2022 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: Linearity, Uniqueness, Ownership: An Entente Cordiale</p> <p><strong>Emily Relkin </strong>- <em> Tufts University </em><br /> <a href="https://sigcse2022.sigcse.org/">SIGCSE 2022</a><br /> Tile of Submission: Cross-grade Comparison of Computational Thinking in Young Children Using Normalized Unplugged Assessment Scores</p> <p><strong>Connor F Scully-Allison </strong>- <em> University of Arizona; University of Nevada, Reno, </em><br /> <a href="https://sc21.supercomputing.org/">SC 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: Designing an Interactive, Notebook-Embedded, Tree Visualization to Support Exploratory Performance Analysis</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <h2 id="h-undergraduate-student-winners">UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT WINNERS</h2> <p><strong>Kabir Nagrecha </strong>- <em> University of California, San Diego </em><br /> <a href="https://2021.sigmod.org/">SIGMOD 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: Hydra: Task Parallelism for Large-Model Training</p> <p><strong>Yihong Zhang </strong>- <em> University of Washington </em><br /> <a href="https://www.pldi21.org/home.html">PLDI 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2022/yihong-zhang.pdf">Towards a Relational E-graph</a></p> <p><strong>Xi Jiang </strong>- <em> Colgate University </em><br /> <a href="https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2021/">SIGCOMM 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2022/xi-jiang.pdf">Non-interoperability Detection for Routing Protocol Implementations</a></p> <p><strong>Chen Yang </strong>- <em> Tianjin University </em><br /> <a href="https://2021.esec-fse.org/">ESEC/FSE 2021</a><br /> Tile of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2022/chen-yang.pdf">Accelerating Redundancy-Based Program Repair via Code Representation Learning and Adaptive Patch Filtering</a></p> <p><strong>Seongyeon Park </strong>- <em> Yonsei University </em><br /> <a href="http:am//pact21.snu.ac.kr/">PACT 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: GPU Accelerated Long-read Sequence Alignment</p> <p><strong>Serafina Kamp </strong>- <em> University of Michigan </em><br /> <a href="https://ghc.anitab.org/">GRACE HOPPER 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2022/serafina-kamp.pdf">Robustness of Fairness in Machine Learning</a></p> <p><strong>Hannah Goodsell </strong>- <em> Worcester Polytechnic Institute </em><br /> <a href="https://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2021/">SIGDOC 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: A Jersey for Helmutt: A Videogame Designed to Communicate with Audiences</p> <p><strong>Shixin Song </strong>- <em> University Of Michigan </em><br /> <a href="https://www.sigmicro.org/">SIGMICRO 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: HWC: Profile-Guided BTB Replacement for Data Center Applications</p> <p><strong>Hwei-Shin Harriman </strong>- <em> Olin College of Engineering </em><br /> <a href="https://2021.splashcon.org/">SPLASH 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: Edgeworth: Authoring Diagrammatic Math Problems Using Program Mutation</p> <p><strong>Zizheng Guo </strong>- <em> Peking University </em><br /> <a href="https://iccad.com/">ICCAD 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: <a href="/binaries/content/assets/src/2022/zizheng-guo.pdf">Heterogeneous Timing Estimation, Optimization, and Verification for VLSI Circuit Design Automation</a></p> <p><strong>Yuankan Jiao </strong>- <em> Huazhong Agricultural University </em><br /> <a href="https://sigspatial2021.sigspatial.org/">SIGSPATIAL 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: Incorporating Geographic Information for Building a Location-based Recommendation System</p> <p><strong>Ayah Ahmad </strong>- <em> University of California, Berkeley </em><br /> <a href="https://sc21.supercomputing.org/">SC 2021 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: Datastore Design for Analysis of Police Broadcast Audio at Scale</p> <p><strong>Karthik Shaji </strong>- <em> "Georgia Institute of Technology" </em><br /> <a href="http://isoft.acm.org/isec2022/">ISEC 2022 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: Using Ant Colony Optimization to Route a Team of UAVs to Fires Based on Known Fire Intensities</p> <p><strong>Alia Alramahi </strong>- <em> Benedictine University </em><br /> <a href="https://sigcse2022.sigcse.org/">SIGCSE 2022 </a><br /> Tile of Submission: Using LSTM Networks for Multiparameter Physiological Signal Reconstruction to Reduce Training Time</p> <p> </p></div><!-- MainContent --> </div> <div class="columns large-4 medium-4 small-12"> <div class="custom-content"> <h3 id="h-2022-grand-finals-judges">2022 Grand Finals Judges</h3> <p>Dr. Laurie Williams - <em>North Caroloina State University</em><br /> Douglas Baldwin - <em>SUNY Geneseo</em><br /> Aarathi Prasad - <i>Skidmore College</i><br /> Adrienne Decker - <i>University at Buffalo</i><br /> Adwait Jog - <em>William 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