Winners, SRC 2013 - 2014

ICCAD 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Aadithya V. Karthik - UC Berkeley

Title of Submission: ABCD: Accurate Booleanization of Continuous Dynamical Systems for Analog/Mixed-signal Design

Second Place:

Bei Yu - University of Texas, Austin

Title of Submission: Design for Manufacturing with Triple Patterning Lithography

Third Place:

Jeyavijayan Rajendran - Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Title of Submission: Securing Integrated Circuits through Camouflaging

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Song Yao - Tsinghua University

Title of Submission: Hierarchical Simulation and Optimization of 3D Power Delivery Network

Third Place:

Jason Hyunkyu Koh - Seoul National University

Title of Submission: Analysis of storage- and converter-less maximum power point tracking of photovoltaic cells

SC2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Ehsan Totoni - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title of Submission: Structure-Aware Parallel Algorithm for Solution of Sparse Triangular Linear Systems

Second Place:

Nikhil Jain - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title of Submission: Fast Prediction of Network Performance: k-packet Simulation

Third Place:

Dhairya Malhotra - University of Texas, Austin

Title of Submission: A Distributed-Memory Fast Multipole Method for Volume Potentials

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Carlo Del Mundo - Virginia Tech

Title of Submission: Enabling Efficient Intra-Warp Communication for Fourier Transforms in a Many-Core Architecture

Second Place:

Stephen Herbein - University of Delaware

Title of Submission: Fine-grained Gathering of Scientific Data in QMCPack Simulations on Titan

Third Place:

Robert Gerstenberger - Chemnitz University of Technology

Title of Submission: Handling Datatypes in MPI-3 One Sided

SPLASH 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Peter Ohmann - University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title of Submission: CSI: Crash Scene Investigation

Second Place:

Robert Dyer - Iowa State University

Title of Submission: Task Fusion: Improving Utilization of Multi-user Clusters

Third Place:

Cyrus Omar - Carnegie Mellon University

Title of Submission: Structured Statistical Syntax Tree Prediction

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Bryce Cronkite-Ratcliff - Stanford University

Title of Submission: Development of Automatically Verifiable Systems using Data Representation Synthesis

Second Place:

Joey Eremondi - Saskatchewan University

Title of Submission: The Poor Man's Proof Assistant: Using Prolog to Develop Formal Language Theoretic Proofs

Third Place:

Yunming Zhang - Rice University

Title of Submission: HJ-Hadoop: An Optimized MapReduce Runtime for Multi-core Systems

Grace Hopper 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Somayeh Sardashti - University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title of Submission: SuperTag Cache: Exploiting Spatial Locality for Energy-Optimized Compressed Caching

Second Place:

Ji-Sun Kim - Virginia Tech

Title of Submission: From Feet to Fingers: Action-Transferred Navigation Techniques for Cost-Effective, Space-Efficient, and Spatial-Learning-Effective 3D Virtual Environments

Third Place:

Matina Maria Trompouki - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

Title of Submission: Efficient Pedestrian Detection Based on Viola-Jones Method using GPUs

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Amna AlZeyara - Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Title of Submission: Arabic Accented Facial Expressions for a 3D Agent

Second Place:

Kritika Singh - Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Title of Submission: Handwritten Hindi Numerals Recognition

Third Place:

Julie B. Edwards - Smith College

Title of Submission: Kinect Based Choreography Recording Tool

MobiCom 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Tan Zhang - University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title of Submission: V-Scope: A Vehicle-Assisted Approach to Sensing Spectrum Dynamics in TV Whitespaces

Second Place:

Yan Wang - Stevens Institute of Technology

Title of Submission: Measuring Human Queues Using WiFi Signals

MODELS 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Karolina Zurowska - Queen's University

Title of Submission: Domain Specific Analysis of State machine Models of Reactive Systems

Second Place:

Gabor Simko - Vanderbilt Univesity

Title of Submission: Semantic Specifications for Domain-Specific Modeling Languages

Third Place:

Tanja Mayerhofer- Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Title of Submission: Using fUML as Semantics Specification Language in Model Driven Engineering

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Robert Feldmann - Technion, Israel

Title of Submission: Complexity- and Performance Analysis of Different Controller Implementations on a Soft PLC

PACT 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Ali Mustafa Zaidi - University of Cambridge

Title of Submission: Exposing ILP in Custom Hardware with a Dataflow Compiler IR

Second Place:

Changwoo Min - Sung Kyun Kwan University

Title of Submission: Can Lock-free and Combining Techniques Co-exist? A Novel Approach on Concurrent Queue

Third Place:

Thomas Grass- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

Title of Submission: Task Sampling: Computer Architecture Simulation in the Many-Core Era

SIGCOMM 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Dan Levin - TU Berlin

Title of Submission: Incremental SDN Deployment in Enterprise Networks

Second Place:

Matthew P. Grosvenor - University of Cambridge

Title of Submission: R2D2: Bufferless, Switchless Data Center Networks using Commodity Ethernet Hardware

Third Place:

Shankaranarayanan PN - Purdue University

Title of Submission: D-Tunes: Self tuning Datastores for Geo-distributed Interactive Applications

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Kyriakos Zarifis - University of Southern California

Title of Submission: Don't Drop, Detour!

Second Place:

Bo Liu - National University of Defense Technology

Title of Submission: QPhone: A Quantum security VoIP Phone

Third Place:

Swati Roy - Georgia Institute of Technology

Title of Submission: Characterizing Correlated Latency Anomalies in Broadband Access Networks

SIGGRAPH 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Hugo Akitaya - University of Tsukuba

Title of Submission: Generating Folding Sequences from Crease Patterns of Flat-Foldable Origami

Second Place:

Matthew Keeter - MIT Center for Bits and Atoms

Title of Submission: Hierarchical Volumetric Object Representations for Digital Fabrication Workflows

Third Place:

Sheng-Ying Pao - MIT Media Lab

Title of Submission: Augmented Participatory Design

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Mayu Yamashita - Keio University

Title of Submission: Enchanted scissors: A Scissor Interface for Support in Cutting and Interactive Fabrication

Second Place:

Atsushi Masumori- Keio University

Title of Submission: Morphological Computation on Two Dimensional Self-Assembly System

PLDI 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Vu Le - UC Davis

Title of Submission: Program Synthesis via Reverse Parsing

Second Place:

Minjia Zhang - Ohio State University

Title of Submission: LarkTM: Efficient, Strongly Atomic Software Transactional Memory

Third Place:

Qirun Zhang - Chinese University of Hong Kong

Title of Submission: Scaling CFL-Reachability-Based Alias Analysis for C: 10M SLoC in 10 Seconds

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

James Bornholt - Australian National University

Title of Submission: Uncertain<T: Uncertain data as a first-order type

Second Place:

Matthew Torok - UC Berkeley

Title of Submission: Superconductor: GPU-accelerated Big Data Visualization for the Browser

Third Place:

Eric Atkinson - UC Berkeley

Title of Submission: Parallel Browser Layout

ICS 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Alejandro Valero - Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia

Title of Submission: Exploiting Reuse Information to Reduce Refresh Energy in On-Chip eDRAM Caches

Second Place:

Madhur Amilkanthwar - Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Title of Submission: CUPL : A Compile-time Uncoalesced Memory Access Pattern Locator for CUDA

Third Place:

Panagiotis Foteinos - College of William and Mary

Title of Submission: Multi-Layered Unstructured Mesh Generation

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Tyler Sorensen - University of Utah

Title of Submission: Towards Shared Memory Consistency Models for GPUs

ICSE 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Sai Zhang - University of Washington

Title of Submission: ConfDiagnoser: An Automated Configuration Error Diagnosis Tool for Java Software

Second Place:

Wei Jin - Georgia Tech

Title of Submission: Reproducing and Debugging Field Failures in House

Third Place:

Nupul Kukreja - University of Southern California

Title of Submission: Decision Theoretic Requirements Prioritization: A Two-Step Approach for Sliding towards Value Realization

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Hammad Khalid - Queen's University, Canada

Title of Submission: On Identifying User Complaints of iOS Apps

Second Place:

Jordan Ell - University of Victoria, Canada

Title of Submission: Identifying Failure Inducing Developer Pairs within Developer Networks

Third Place:

Braden Simpson - University of Victoria, Canada

Title of Submission: Changeset Based Developer Communication to Detect Software Failures

CHI 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Michael Crabb - University of Dundee

Title of Submission: Human Cognitive Measurement as a Metric within Usability Studies

Second Place:

Juho Kim - MIT

Title of Submission: ToolScape: Enhancing the Learning Experience of How-to Videos

Third Place:

Lisa Vizer - UMBC

Title of Submission: Different Strokes for Different Folks: Individual Stress Response as Manifested in Typed Text

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Bernd Huber - KIST

Title of Submission: Foot Position as Indicator of Spatial Interest at Public Displays

Second Place:

Megan Torkildson - University of Washington

Title of Submission: Visualizing the Performance of Classification Algorithms with Additional Re-Annotated Data

Second Place:

Joey Rafidi - MIT

Title of Submission: Real-time Trip Planning with the Crowd

AODS 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Ismael Figueroa - University of Chile

Title of Submission: Towards Control of Aspect Interference using Membranes and Monads

Second Place:

Cynthia Disenfeld- Technion

Title of Submission: User-Friendly Event and Aspect Verification

Third Place:

Aibek Sarimbekov - University of Lugano

Title of Submission: Comparison of Instrumentation Techniques for Dynamic Program Analysis on the Java Virtual Machine

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Junhee Cho - KAIST

Title of Submission: Rewriting JavaScript Module System

SAC 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Laura Micconi - Technical University of Denmark

Title of Submission: Multi-ASIP Platform Synthesis for Real-Time Applications

Second Place:

Huwaida Tagelsir Elshoush - University of Khartoum, Sudan

Title of Submission: A Novel Collaborative Intrusion Alert Correlation Model

Third Place:

Razvan Ranca - University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Title of Submission: Reconstructing Shredded Documents

U-SRC 2013(MSR-SVC) Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Antonia Blanca - UC Berkeley

Title of Submission: Mixing Behavior of the Heat-bath Dynamics in the Mean Field Random-cluster Model

Second Place:

Nihar Shah - UC Berkeley

Title of Submission: Codes for Reliable and Efficient Distributed Storage

Third Place:

Valeria Nikolaenko - Stamford

Title of Submission: Privacy-Preserving Ridge Regression on Hundreds on Millions of Records

SIGCSE 2013 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Marc Rubin - Colorado School of Mines

Title of Submission: On-Mote Compressive Sampling in Wireless Seismic Sensor Networks

Second Place:

Austin Bart - Virginia Tech

Title of Submission: Wacky Writing: Enhancing the XO Laptop Platform to Motivate Creative Writing by Children

Third Place:

James Maher - Colorado School of Mines

Title of Submission: A Comprehensive Machine Learning Approach to Predicting and Maximizing Penetration Rates in Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machines

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Dimitri Wijesinghe - Vassar College

Title of Submission: CheckPointing MCMCTree

Second Place:

Sulochana Bramhacharya - Hiram College

Title of Submission: Metagenomic Data Analysis Using Clustering

Third Place:

Demetrius Taylor - Lamar University

Title of Submission: Enabling a Resource Limited Robot to Formulate Complex Plans

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