Winners, SRC 2008 - 2009

SC 2008 Winners

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Sara Alspaugh - University of Virginia

Title of Submission: Policy-driven Data Management for Distributed Scientific Collaborations using a Rule Engine

First Place:

Gabriel E. Martinez - Virginia Tech

Title of Submission: Characterizing and Optimizing Virtualization Overhead for Portable High-performance Networking

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Akila Gothandaraman - University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Title of Submission: A GPU-Accelerated Method for Estimating the Desolvation Energy of Protein Complexes

Second Place:

David Dynerman - University of Wisconsin

Title of Submission: Exploring the Cognitive Consequences of Social Search

Third Place:

Abhinav Bhatele - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Title of Submission: Effects of Contention on Message Latencies in Large Supercomputers

OOPSLA 2008 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Kevin Bierhoff - Carnegie Mellon University

Title of Submission: Checking API Protocol Compliance in Java

Second Place:

Michael Gegick - North Carolina State University

Title of Submission: Failure-prone Components are also Attack-prone Components

Third Place:

Marwan Abi-Antoun - Carnegie Mellon University

Title of Submission: Static Extraction and Conformance Checking of the Runtime Architecture of Object-Oriented Systems

ASSETS 2008 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Keith Trnka - University of Delaware

Title of Submission: Adapting word prediction to subject matter without topic-labeled data

Second Place:

Xu Liu - University of Maryland

Title of Submission: A Camera Phone Based Currency Reader for the Visually Impaired

Third Place:

Mohammed E. Hoque - MIT

Title of Submission: Analysis of Speech Properties of Neurotypicals and Individuals Diagnosed with Autism and Down's Syndrome

MobiCom 2008 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Stratis Ioanidis - University of Toronto

Title of Submission: On the Distribution of Content Updates over a Mobile Social Network

Second Place:

Samuel Nelson - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Title of Submission: Encounter-Based Routing in DTNs

Third Place:

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas - Purdue University

Title of Submission: XCOR: Synergistic Interflow Network Coding and Opportunistic Routing

Grace Hopper 2008 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Ramya Raghavendra - University of California, Santa Barbara

Title of Submission: A Case for Adapting Channel Width in Wireless Networks

Second Place:

Sadaf Zahedi - University of California, Los Angeles

Title of Submission: Quality of Information-Aware Design and Management of Sensor Network

Third Place:

Candy Yiu - Portland State University

Title of Submission: 60GHZ High Speed Wireless Architecture

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Neha Singh - IIT Bombay

Title of Submission: Scaling Network Games Using Collaborative P2P Overlay

Second Place:

Alice (Xuexin) Zhu - Harvey Mudd College

Title of Submission: HoverCross: Modeless Editing for Pen-Based Computing

Third Place:

Sarah M. Loos - Indiana University

Title of Submission: Variations of Strassen's Matrix Multiplication Algorithms

SIGGRAPH 2008 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Max Grosse - Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar

Title of Submission: Coded Aperture Projection

Second Place:

Ly Phan - Washington University/St.Louis

Title of Submission: Surface Reconstruction from Point Set Using Projection Operator

Third Place:

Hitoshi Uno - Kwansei Gakuin University

Title of Submission: Lace Curtain: Measurement of BTDF and rendering of woven cloth

HyperText 2008 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Yves Petinot - Columbia University

Title of Submission: Context-based URL Summarization

Second Place:

Charlie Hargood - University of Southampton

Title of Submission: A Thematic Model for Narrative Generation

Third Place:

Danielle Hyunsook Lee

Title of Submission: PITTCULT: Recommender System using Trusted Human Network

PLDI 2008 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Haifeng He - University of Arizona

Title of Submission: Compressing Dynamic Data Structures

Second Place:

Anne Mulhern- University of Wisconsin - Madison

Title of Submission: Effective Slicing

Third Place:

Michael Achenbach - University of Aarhus

Title of Submission: Hybrid Program Analysis for Error Detection

CHI 2008 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

William Odom - University of Indiana

Title of Submission: Personal Inventories: Toward Durable Human-Product Relationships

Second Place:

Lisa Nathan - University of Washington

Title of Submission: Ecovillages, Values, and Information Technology: Balancing Sustainability with Daily Life in 21st Century America

Second Place:

Ye Kyaw Thu - Waseda University

Title of Submission: Positional Prediction: Consonant Cluster Prediction Text Entry Method for Burmese

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Suzanne Prior - University of Dundee

Title of Submission: Interface Metaphor Design and Instant Messaging for Older Adults

Second Place:

Gero Herkenrath - Aachen University

Title of Submission: TWEND: Twisting and Bending as New Interaction Gesture in Mobile Devices

Third Place:

Zhiquan Yeo - Carnegie Mellon University

Title of Submission: Emotional Instant Messaging with KIM

SIGCSE 2008 Winners

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Tal Rusak - Cornell University

Title of Submission: Accurate, Scalable Simulation of Tiny OS Sensor Networks using Physically-Based Signal Power Models

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