Winners, SRC 2014 - 2015

FSE 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Lu Xiao - Drexel University

Title of Submission: Detecting and Preventing the Architectural Roots of Bugs

Second Place:

Xin Yang - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Title of Submission: Social Network Analysis in Open Source Software Peer Review

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Shuo Song - Nanjing University

Title of Submission: Estimating the Effectiveness of Spectrum-Based Fault Localization

SC 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Amanda Bienz - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title of Submission: Reducing Network Contention Associated with Parallel Algebraic Mulitgrid

Second Place:

Gagan Gupta - University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title of Submission: Scalable Fault Tolerance in Multiprocessor Systems

Third Place:

Arif Khan - Purdue University

Title of Submission: Computing Approximate b-Matchings in Large Graphs and an Application to k-Anonymity

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Sean McDaniel - University of Delaware

Title of Submission: Comparing Decoupled I/O Kernels versus Real Traces in the I/O Analysis of the HACC Scientific Applications on Large-Scale Systems

Second Place:

Dylan Wang - University of California, Davis

Title of Submission: Performance Variability due to Job Placement on Edison

Third Place:

Ian Bertolacci - Colorado State University 

Title of Submission: Orthogonal Scheduling of Stencil Computations with Chapel Iterators

ICCAD 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Shupeng Sun - Carnegie Mellon University

Title of Submission: Fast Statistical Analysis of Rare Circuit Failure Events in High-Dimensional Variation Space

Second Place:

Ping Chi - University of California, Santa Barbara

Title of Submission: Facilitating PCRAM and STT-RAM as Next-Generation Memories: Architecture- and Application-Level Perspectives

Third Place:

Wujie Wen - University of Pittsburgh

Title of Submission: Error Characterization and Correction Techniques for Reliable STT-RAM Designs

ASSETS 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Benjamin Gorman - University of Dundee

Title of Submission: VisAural: a wearable sound localization device

Second Place:

Vikas Ashok - Stony Brook University

Title of Submission: Capti-Speak: A Speech Enabled Accessible Web Interface

Third Place:

Valentyn Melnyk - Stony Brook University

Title of Submission: Accessible Web Chat Interface

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Mitchell Gordon - University of Rochester

Title of Submission: Web Accessibility Evaluation with the Crowd

Second Place:

Nata Barbosa- Syracuse University

Title of Submission: Strategies an Inclusive Authentication Framework

SPLASH 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Martin Velez- University of California, Davis

Title of Submission: A Study ofWheat" and"Chaff" in Source Code"

Second Place:

Devin Coughlin - University of Colorado, Boulder

Title of Submission: Analysis with Type-Intertwined Separation Logic

Third Place:

Pascal Wittmann - TU Darmstadt

Title of Submission: A Language for the Specification and Efficient Implementation of Type Systems

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Santiago Gonzalez - Colorado School of Mines

Title of Submission: Improved Program Synthesis Through the Use of Packages

Second Place:

Dylan Bates - Coker College

Title of Submission: Recommending More Efficient Workflows to Software Developers

Third Place:

Brett Boston - University of Washington

Title of Submission: Quality Types for Approximate Programming

Grace Hopper 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Snigdha Chaturvedi - University of Maryland

Title of Submission: Instructor's Intervention in MOOC forums

Second Place:

Komal Kapoor - University of Minnesota

Title of Submission: A Model for Satiation with Familiar Content and its Application to Recommendation

Third Place:

Larissa Suzuki - University College London

Title of Submission: A linked data platform ecosystem for the realization of smart and sustainable cities

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Shannon N. Lubetich - Pomona College

Title of Submission: Eve Eat Dust Mop: Measuring Syntactic Development in Child Language with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning

Second Place:

Emma Harrington - Williams College

Title of Submission: Using Escape Analysis in Dynamic Data Race Detection

Third Place:

Adedayo Oluokun - Obafemi Awolowo University

Title of Submission: Development of a Text-to-Speech Synthesis System For Yoruba Language

MODELS 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Jonathan Corley - The University of Alabama

Title of Submission: Exploring Omniscient Debugging for Model Transformations

Second Place:

Ilias Gerostathopoulos - Charles University

Title of Submission: Model-Driven Design of Ensemble-Based Component Systems

Third Place:

Adrian Juan-Verdejo - University of Stuttgart

Title of Submission: Model-Driven Engineering Meets the Platform-as-a-Service Model

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Jianan Yue - Nanjing University

Title of Submission: Transition from EBNF to Xtext

Second Place:

Jesus Benede - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

Title of Submission: Towards the Automatic Resolution of Architectural Variability in Software Product Line Architectures through Model Transformations

MobiCom 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Omid Abari - MIT

Title of Submission: Clock Synchronization for Distributed Wireless Protocols at the Physical Layer

Second Place:

Robert LiKamWa - Xi'an Jiaotong University of China

Title of Submission: Retrofitting Computer Vision Libraries for Concurrent Support on Mobile Devices

Third Place:

Tianxing Li- Dartmouth College

Title of Submission: Hiding Bits in Pixel Translucency Changes

ICFP 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Tomas Petricek- University of Cambridge

Title of Submission: F# Data: Making structured data first-class citizens

Second Place:

Ruud Koot - Utrecht University

Title of Submission: Higher-Ranked Exception Types

Third Place:

Alejandro Serrano - Utrecht University

Title of Submission: Branching, disjointness and injectivity for OUTSIDEIN(X)

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Sherry Shanshan Ruan - McGill University

Title of Submission: Structural Recursion over Contextual Objects

Second Place:

Jonathan Brachthauser - University of Marburg

Title of Submission: Typesafe Extensible Functional Objects

Third Place:

Hamidhasan Ahmed - University of Pennsylvania

Title of Submission: Explicit Type Application

PACT 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Harshvardhan - University of Texas A&M

Title of Submission: Processing Big Data Graphs on Memory-Restricted Systems

Second Place:

Jeeva Paudel- University of Alberta

Title of Submission: Stratified Sampling for Even Workload Partitioning

Third Place:

Sudharsan J- IIT - Madras

Title of Submission: Data Remapping for an Energy Efficient Burst Chop in DRAM Memory Systems

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Serguei Makarov - University of Toronto

Title of Submission: An Event-Based Language for Dynamic Binary Translation Frameworks

Second Place:

Tejaswi Agarwal - University of Missouri-Columbia

Title of Submission: Design fo a hybrid MPI-CUDA benchmark suite for CPU-GPU clusters

SIGCOMM 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

John Rula - Northwestern University

Title of Submission: Behind the Curtain: The importance of replica selection in next generation cellular networks

Second Place:

Arash Molavi - Northeastern University

Title of Submission: Identifying Traffic Differentiation on Cellular Data Networks

Third Place:

Sajad Shirali-Shahreza - University of Toronto

Title of Submission: Traffic Statistic Collection with FleXam

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Angela Jiang - Northwestern University

Title of Submission: A cliq of content curators

Second Place:

Yuliang LI - Tsinghua University

Title of Submission: FlowInsight: Decoupling Visibility from Operability in SDN Data Plane

SIGGRAPH 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

C. Antonio Sanchez - University of British Columbia

Title of Submission: PolyMerge: a fast finite-element-based approach for hex-dominant mesh generation

Second Place:

Andrew Ho - University of British Columbia

Title of Submission: 3D Dynamic Visualization of Swallowing from Multi-Slice Computed Tomography

Third Place:

George Koulieris - Technical University of Crete

Title of Submission: C-LOD: Context-aware Material Level-of-Detail for Mobile Graphics

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Xi Chen - University of New South Wales

Title of Submission: PDSS - Pre-Integrated Deferred Subsurface Scattering

Second Place:

Or Avrahamy - Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

Title of Submission: From Pain to Happiness: interpolating meaningful gait patterns

Third Place:

Hisatka Suzuki - Kanagawa Institute of Technology

Title of Submission: ExPixel: PixelShader for Multiplex image hiding on consumer 3D flat

PLDI 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Emma Tosch - University of Massachusetts

Title of Submission Programming and Debugging Surveys

Second Place:

Veselin Raychev - ETH Zurich

Title of Submission: Probabilistic Name and Type Inference

Third Place:

Khan Nguyen - University of California, Irvine

Title of Submission: FACADE: A Compiler and Runtime for (Almost) Object-Bounded Big Data Applications

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Matthew Loring - Cornell University

Title of Submission: Generics in Jif

ICSE 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Alexander Tarvo - Brown University

Title of Submission: Automatic performance modeling of multithreaded programs

Second Place:

Abhishek Bichhawat - Saarland University

Title of Submission: Exception handling for dynamic information flow control

Third Place:

Asankhaya Sharma - National University of Singapore

Title of Submission: Exploiting undefined behaviors for efficient symbolic execution

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Alejandro Infante - University of Chile

Title of Submission: Identifying caching opportunities, effortlessly

Second Place:

Alex Shaw- Auburn University

Title of Submission: Program transformations to fix C buffer overflows

CHI 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Nicola Dell - University of Washington

Title of Submission: A Mobile Point-of-Care Diagnostic System for Low-Resource Settings

Second Place:

Veronica Ahumada Newhart - University of California, Irvine

Title of Submission: Virtual Inclusion Via Telepresence Robots in the Classroom

Third Place:

Bertrand Schneider - Stanford University

Title of Submission: The Perceptual Benefits of a Tangible Interface Decrease with Users' Expertise

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Kyoungwon Seo - Hanyang University

Title of Submission: Autonomy-based Rehabilitation Design: Balancing Capability and Complexity

Second Place:

Sarah Weir - MIT

Title of Submission: Learnersourcing Subgoal Labels for How-to Videos

Third Place:

Hiroki Nozaki - Keio University

Title of Submission: Flying Display: A Movable Display Pairing Projector and Screen in the Air

AOSD 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Daco Harkes - Delft Techcnial University

Title of Submission: Relations - A first class relationship and first class derivations programming language

Second Place:

Sora Bae - KAIST, Republic of Korea

Title of Submission: Practical Concolic Testing for JavaScript Applications

Third Place:

Jihyeok Park - KAIST, Republic of Korea

Title of Submission: JavaScript API Misuse Detection by Using TypeScript

SAC 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Steven Te Brinke- University of Twente, Netherlands

Title of Submission: Relations - Interpreting Energy Profiles with CEGAR

Second Place:

Rafael Perazzo Barbosa Mota - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Title of Submission: Mechanisms to Ensure Quality of Service for the Internet of Thing

Third Place:

Vanessa N. Cooper - Kennesaw State University

Title of Submission: Android Malware Detection based on Kullback-Leibler Divergence

SIGCSE 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Zalia Shams - Virginia Tech

Title of Submission: Evaluating Quality of Student-Written Tests

Second Place:

Amber Wagner - University of Alabama

Title of Submission: Myna: A VUI for Programming by Voice

Third Place:

Michael Whitney- University of North Carolina,Charlotte

Title of Submission: Secure Coding Integrative Touchpoint Model

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

John Hirdt - St. Joseph's College

Title of Submission: Network Analysis of Nuclear Databases

Second Place:

Gili Rusak - Siena College

Title of Submission: Properties of Twitter Network Communications among Teenagers

Third Place:

Patrick D'Errico - The College of New Jersey

Title of Submission: BookNav: A System for Accessible Indoor Navigation on Mobile Android Devices

CGO 2014 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Deepak Majeti - Rice University

Title of Submission: Habanero C: A Portable Programming Model for Heterogeneous Processors

Second Place:

Kirill Kononenko - Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

Title of Submission: Dynamic Neutralization of Data Leakages

Third Place:

Laust Brock-Nannestad - Technical University of Denmark

Title of Submission: Safe Asynchronous System Calls

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Yi Lu - New York University

Title of Submission: Unleashing the Power of General Purpose Graphic Processing Unit

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