Winners, SRC 2012 - 2013

SC 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Sarat Sreepathi - North Carolina State University

Title of Submission: Optimus:A Parallel Optimization Framework with Topology Aware PSO and Applications

Second Place:

Ellis H. Wilson - Pennsylvania State University

Title of Submission: Performing Cloud Computing on a Parallet File System

Third Place:

Joshua D. Booth - Pennsylvania State University

Title of Submission: Norm-Coarsened Ordering for Parallel Incomplete Cholesky Preconditioning

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Kayo Teramoto - Yale University

Title of Submission: Pay as You GO in the Cloud: One Watt at a Time

Second Place:

Matthew Wezowicz - University of Delaware

Title of Submission: On the Cost of a General GPU Framework- The Strange Case of CUDA 4.0 vs. CUDA 5.0

ASSETS 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Javier Torrente - Complutense University of Madrid

Title of Submission: Reusable Game Interfaces for People with Disabilities

Second Place:

Yury Puzis - Stony Brook University

Title of Submission: Accessible Web Automation

Third Place:

Wei Tzu-Wei - Chung Yuan Christian University

Title of Submission: Detecting the Hand-Mouthing Behavior of Children with Intellectual Disability Using Kinect Imaging Technology

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Nithin Santhanam - University of Pittsburgh

Title of Submission: Wii Remote as a Customizable Web Navigation Device For People with Cerebral Palsy

SPLASH 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Gustavo Soares - Federal University of Campina Grande

Title of Submission: Automated Behavioral Testing of Refactoring Engines

Second Place:

Mark Zarb - University of Dundee

Title of Submission: Developing a Coding Scheme for the Analysis of Expert Pair Programming Sessions

Third Place:

Thierry Renaux- Chung Yuan Christian University

Title of Submission: Detecting the Hand-Mouthing Behavior of Children with Intellectual Disability Using Kinect Imaging Technology

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Zack F. Coker - Auburn University

Title of Submission: Security-oriented Program Transformations to Cure Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Second Place:

Nathan Fulton - Carthage College

Title of Submission: Security Through Extensible Type Systems

Third Place:

Benjamin Chung - Carnegie Mellon University

Title of Submission: Benchmarking Typestate-Oriented Programming Languages

Grace Hopper 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Jaya Kawale - University of Minnesota

Title of Submission: A Graph Based Approach to find Teleconnections in Climate Data

Second Place:

Zalia Shams - Virginia Tech

Title of Submission: Evaluating Students? Assignments by Running Their Test Cases against Each Other?s Code

Third Place:

Awalin Sopan- University of Maryland

Title of Submission: The Dynamics of Web-Based Community Safety Groups: Lessons Learned from the Nation of Neighbor

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Mairin C. Chesney - Michigan State University

Title of Submission: Does Coevolution between Digital Parasites and Hosts Promote Sexual Recombination in Evolutionary Computation?

Second Place:

Jillian E. Kramer - Villanova University

Title of Submission: Measuring the Efficiency of Mobile Technology Using an Adaptation of the Keystroke Level Model

Third Place:

Kaleigh A. Clary - Hendrix College

Title of Submission: A Comparison of the Self-Organizing Map and Growing Neural Gas Network in the Context of Handwriting Recognition

PACT 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Matthew Gaudet - University of Alberta

Title of Submission: Transactional Event Profiling in a Best-Effort Hardware Transactional Memory System

Second Place:

Gennady Pekhimenko - Carnegie Mellon University

Title of Submission: Efficient Data Compression for Memory Hierarchies

Third Place:

Hari K. Pyla - Virginia Tech

Title of Submission: Transparent Runtime Deadlock Elimination

ICFP 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Thomas Schilling - University of Kent

Title of Submission: Lambdachine: A Trace-based Just-in-time Compiler for Haskell

Second Place:

Tomas Petricek - University of Cambridge

Title of Submission: Coeffects: The essence of context dependence

Third Place:

Ki Yung Ahn - Portland State University

Title of Submission: System Fi: a higher-order polymorphic lambda-calculi with erasable term indices

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Franciso Ferriera - McGill University

Title of Submission: Bringing Higher-Order Abstract Syntax to Programmers - Compiling Contextual Object

Second Place:

Olivier Savary-Belanger - McGill University

Title of Submission: Beluga Surfacing with Flair, A case study of programming certified code transformations in BELUGA

Third Place:

Matthias Benkard - LMU Munchen

Title of Submission: Type Checking Without Types

MobiCom 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Peter Dely - Karlstadt University

Title of Submission: CloudMAC - Torwards Software Defined WLANs

Second Place:

Riccardo Crepaldi - University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Title of Submission: LoadingZones: Leveraging Street Parking to Enable Vehicular Internet Access

Third Place:

Michele Segata - University of Insbruk

Title of Submission: A Simulation Tool for Automated Platooning in Mixed Highway Scenarios

SIGCOMM 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Peter Dely - Karlstadt University

Title of Submission: CloudMAC - Torwards Software Defined WLANs

Second Place:

Riccardo Crepaldi - University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Title of Submission: LoadingZones: Leveraging Street Parking to Enable Vehicular Internet Access

Third Place:

Michele Segata - University of Insbruk

Title of Submission: A Simulation Tool for Automated Platooning in Mixed Highway Scenarios

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Pietro Marchetta - University of Napoli

Title of Submission: Detecting Third Party Addresses in Traceroute IP Paths

Second Place:

Matthew Grosvenor - Cambridge University

Title of Submission: uvNIC: Rapid Prototyping Network Interface Controller Drivers

Third Place:

Nanxi Kang - Princeton University

Title of Submission: Policy Transformation in Software Defined Networks

SIGGRAPH 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Tiffany Inglis - University of Waterloo

Title of Submission: Pixelating Vector Line Art

Second Place:

Matthew Hirsch - MIT Media Lab

Title of Submission: 8D Display

Third Place:

Eisung Sohn - Yonsei University

Title of Submission: Shape Deformation Using Freeform Deformation Axis

PLDI 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Jeff Huang - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Title of Submission: Lightweight Concurrency Crash Reproduction Without Logging Shared Memory Dependencies and Program States

Second Place:

Leo Meyerovich - UC Berkeley

Title of Submission: Synthesizing and Parallelizing Layout Languages

Third Place:

Michael M. Vitousek - University of Colorado at Boulder

Title of Submission: Gradual Typing with Efficient Object Casts

DAC 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Shao-Yun Fang - NTU

Title of Submission: Lithography Optimization for Sub-22 Nanometer Technologies

Second Place:

Brandon Noia - Duke University

Title of Submission: Test Architecture Design and Optimization for 3D Stacked ICs using Through Silicon Vias

Third Place:

Jeyavijayan Rajendran - NYU Poly

Title of Submission: Securing Integrated Circuits Through Logic Encryption

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Lawrence Schlitt - Univ. of Utah

Title of Submission: Effects of Thermal Stress on Silicon Photonic Waveguide Operation

ICSE 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Kelly Blincoe - Drexel University

Title of Submission: Timely Detection of Coordination Requirements to Support Collaboration among Software Developers

Second Place:

Kai Yu - Beihang University

Title of Submission: Improving Failure-inducing Changes Identification using Coverage Analysis

Third Place:

Soudip Chowdhury - UNITN

Title of Submission: Assisting Mashup Development in Browser Based Modeling Tool

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Pablo Estefo - Universidad de Chile

Title of Submission: Restructuring Unit Tests with TestSurgeon

CHI 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Heather Underwood - University of Colorado, Boulder

Title of Submission: PartoPen: Enhancing the Partograph with Digital Pen Technology

Second Place:

Shaojian Zhu - University of Maryland BC

Title of Submission: SocialProof: Using Crowdsourcing for Correcting Errors to Improve Speech Based Dictation Experiences

Third Place:

Amirrudin Kamsin - University College London

Title of Submission: Personal Task Management: My tools fall apart when I'm very busy!

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Geza Kovacs - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title of Submission: ScreenMatch: Providing context to software translators by displaying screenshots

CGO 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Todd Jackson - University of California

Title of Submission: Changing the Game: Using Software Diversity to Counter Return-Oriented Programming

Second Place:

Carolina Simoes Gomes - University of Alberta

Title of Submission: Applying Flow Graph Mining to the Performance Analysis of Flat Profile Applications

Third Place:

Riyadh Baghdadi - Inria

Title of Submission: Putting Polyhedral Optimization Techniques to Work in Production Compilers: Progresses in Scalability and Memory Management

AOSD 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Cynthia Disenfeld - Technion Israel Institute of Technology

Title of Submission: Compositional Verification of Events and Aspects

Second Place:

Jens Nikolay - Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Title of Submission: Tearing Down the Multicore Barrier for Web Applications

Third Place:

Jurgen Van Ham - TU Darmstadt

Title of Submission: Adding High-Level Concurrency to EScala

SIGCSE 2012 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Tanmoy Sarkar - Iowa State University

Title of Submission: Dynamic Test Input Generation for Database Applications to Achieve High Mutation Score

Second Place:

Monika Akbar - Virginia Tech

Title of Submission: Deduced Social Networks for Educational Portal

Third Place:

Kevin Buffardi - Virginia Tech

Title of Submission: Student Adherence to Test-First Programming in the Classroom

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Kelly Smith - Slippery Rock University

Title of Submission: PICS: Platform Independent Cloud Scripting

Second Place:

Elizabeth Skiba - SUNY Geneseo

Title of Submission: Experimentally Exploring Algorithmic Descriptions of Three-Dimensional Geometry

Third Place:

Stephanie Schmidt - Sonoma State University

Title of Submission: Modeling the Power Consumption of Computer Systems with Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)

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