Winners, SRC 2010 - 2011

SC 2010 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Swapnil Patil - Carnegie Mellon University

Title of Submission: Scale and Concurrency of GIGA+: File System Directories with Millions of Files

Second Place:

Yi Gu - University of Memphis

Title of Submission: Optimizing End-to-End Performance of Scientific Workflows in Distributed Environments

Third Place:

Kanimathai Duraisamy - University of Nebraska ? Omaha

Title of Submission: An Efficient Algorithm for Obtaining Low Memory Approximation Models of Large-Scale Networks

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

David C. Goode - Harvard University

Title of Submission: Parallelized Hartree-Fock Code for Scalable Structural and Electronic Simulation of Large Nanoscale Molecules

Second Place:

Alan P.Humphrey - University of Utah 

Title of Submission: An Integration of Dynamic MPI Formal Verification within Eclipse PTP

Third Place:

Daren J. Hasenkamp - Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Title of Submission: Finding Tropical Cyclones on Clouds

ASSETS 2010 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Shiri Azenkot - University of Washington

Title of Submission: GoBraille: Enhancing Independence and Safety for Blind and Deaf-Blind Public Transit Riders

Second Place:

Kristen Shinohara - University of Washington 

Title of Submission: Investigating Meaning in Uses of Assistive Devices: Implications of Social and Professional Contexts

Third Place:

Kyle Montague - University of Dundee

Title of Submission: Accessible Indoor Navigation

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Samuel White - University of Rochester

Title of Submission: AudioWiz: Nearly Real-time Audio Transcriptions

Second Place:

Timothy Walsh - University of Delaware

Title of Submission: Utterance-Based Systems: Organization and Design of AAC Interfaces

Third Place:

Jason Behmer - University of Washington

Title of Submission: LocalEyes: Accessible GPS and Points of Interest

SPLASH 2010 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Ciera Jaspan - Carnegie Mellon University

Title of Submission: Verifying Configuration Files

Second Place:

Boaz Rosenan - Open University of Israel

Title of Submission: Designing Language-Oriented Programming Languages

Third Place:

Ferosh Jacob - University of Alabama

Title of Submission: Extending Abstract APIs to Shared Memory

Grace Hopper 2010 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Abrita Chakravarty - Duke University

Title of Submission: A Modular Pipeline for Computational Prediction of Imprinted Human Genes

Second Place:

Tanzima Z. Islam - Purdue University 

Title of Submission: Harnessing Multiple Cores for Efficient Checkpointing in Grid Systems

Third Place:

Nurcan Durak - University of Louisville

Title of Submission: Principal Contour Extraction and Contour Classification to Detect Coronal Loops from the Solar Images

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Sophia Yang - Pomona College

Title of Submission: What are You Looking At? Classifying Neural Activity of the Fusiform Face Area

Second Place:

Sarah H. Harmon - Colby College 

Title of Submission: Human Perception of Gendered Artificial Entities

MobiCom 2010 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Souvik Sen - Duke University

Title of Submission: Listen Before You Talk, But on the Frequency Domain

Second Place:

Shahriyar Amini - Carnegie Mellon University 

Title of Submission: Cach?: Caching Location-Enhanced Content to Improve User Privacy

Third Place:

Dan Levin - Deutsche Telekom Labs

Title of Submission: TCPSpeaker: Clean and Dirty Sides of the Same Slate

PACT 2010 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Niket K. Choudhary - North Carolina State University

Title of Submission: FabScalar: Composing Synthesizable RTL Designs of Arbitrary Cores within a Canonical Superscalar Template

Second Place:

Mehdi Modarressi - Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Title of Submission: A Scalable High-performance Reconfigurable On-chip Network Architecture

Third Place:

Nalini Vasudevan - Columbia University

Title of Submission: D2C: Deterministic, Deadlock-free Concurrency

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Peter Calvert - University of Cambridge, UK

Title of Submission: Offloading Java to Graphics Processors

SIGCOMM 2010 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Szymon Jakubczak - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title of Submission: One-Size-Fits-All Wireless Video

Second Place:

Samuel David Perli - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title of Submission: PixNet: LCD-Camera Pairs as Communication Links

Third Place:

Jie Xiong - University College London

Title of Submission: SecureAngle: Improving Wireless Security Using Angle-of-Arrival Information

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Tianyi Wang - Tsinghua University

Title of Submission: Unbiased Sampling in Directed Social Graph

Siggraph 2010 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Pedro Cruz - Universidade de Coimbra

Title of Submission: Visualizing Empires Decline

Second Place:

James Gregson - The University of British Columbia

Title of Submission: Rapid Surface and Volume Mesh Generation From Depth-Augmented Visual Hulls

Third Place:

Michael Berger - University of Edinburgh

Title of Submission: SecureAngle: Carnival: A Modular Framework for Automated Facial Animation

DAC 2010 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Tan Yan - University of Illinois

Title of Submission: A Novel Placement Approach to Length-Matching Routing

Second Place:

Peter Milder - Carnegie Mellon University

Title of Submission: A Formula-Driven Approach for Compiling and Optimizing Hardware Implementations of DSP Transforms

Third Place:

Xiangyu Dong - Penn State University

Title of Submission: Modeling and Leveraging Emerging Non-Volatile Memories for Future Computer Designs

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Tsung Wei Huang - National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Title of Submission: Droplet Routing Algorithms for Digital Microfluidic Biochips

PLDI 2010 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Eva Burrows - University of Bergen, Norway

Title of Submission: Harnessing the Driving Force of Dependencies

Second Place:

Anh Vo - University of Utah

Title of Submission: Scalable Verification of MPI Programs

Third Place:

Mirza Beg - University of Waterloo

Title of Submission: Instruction Scheduling on Multicores

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Daniel Ehrenberg - Carleton College

Title of Submission: Closure Elimination as Constant Propagation

ICSE 2010 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Andrew Bragdon - Brown University

Title of Submission: Code Bubbles: Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of Integrated Development Environments

Second Place:

Zvonimir Rakamaric - University of British Columbia

Title of Submission: STORM: Static Unit Testing of Concurrent Programs

Third Place:

Thomas Fritz - University of British Columbia

Title of Submission: Staying Aware of Relevant Feeds in Context

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Florian S. Gysin - University of Bern

Title of Submission: Improved Social Trustability of Code Search Results

CHI 2010 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Yuichi Fujiki - University of Houston

Title of Submission: IPHONE As a Physical Activity Measurement Platform

Second Place:

Dana Rotman - University of Maryland 

Title of Submission: STORM: Constant Connectivity, Selective Participation: Mobile-Social Interaction of Students and Faculty

Third Place:

D.Yvette Wohn - Michigan State University

Title of Submission: Building Commmon Ground and Reciprocity through Social Network Games

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Eleanor Poley - Knox College

Title of Submission: RUMU Editor: A Non-WYSIWYG Web Editor for Non-Technical Users

Second Place:

Yvonne Jansen - RWTH Aachen University, Germany 

Title of Submission: MUDPAD: Fluid Haptics for Multitouch Surfaces

Third Place:

Elizabeth Stobert - Carleton University, Canada

Title of Submission: Usability and Strength in Click-Based Graphical Passwords

SIGCSE 2010 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Andrew Meneely - North Carolina State University

Title of Submission: Secure Open Source Collaboration: An Empirical Study of Linus' Law

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Tommy Carpenter - Central CT State Univ.

Title of Submission: Iris Recognition for Mobile Devices

Second Place:

Eric Drewniak - Wheaton College

Title of Submission: Unsupervised Discovery of Motifs with Amplitude

Third Place:

Stefan Maurer - Hiram College

Title of Submission: Analysis of User Behavior

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