Winners, SRC 2015 - 2016

SIGCSE 2016 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Maira Rejane Marques Samary - Universidad de Chile
Title of Submission: Monitoring - An Intervention to Improve Team Results in Software Engineering Education

Second Place:
Caroline Hardin - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title of Submission: Learning to Program using online forums, A comparison of links posted on Reddit and Stack Overflow

Third Place:
Michael Izbicki - University of California-Riverside
Title of Submission: Open Sourcing the Classroom

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Kayla Holcomb - Abilene Christian University
Title of Submission: The Role of Chronology in Analyzing Introductory Programming Assignments

Second Place:
Matthew Steuerer - The College of New Jersey
Title of Submission: Implementing K-Means Clustering and Collaborative Filtering to Enhance Sustainability of Project Repositories

Third Place:
Matthew Pfister - Clemson University
Title of Submission: Novel Logical Reasoning Tutor
POPL 2016 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Suguman Bansal - Rice University
Title of Submission: Reasoning about incentive compatibility

Second Place:
Calvin Smith - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title of Submission: Synthesis with Respect to Normality

Third Place:
Maria A Schett - University of Innsbruck
Title of Submission: From Trees To Graphs: Understanding The Implications Of Sharing For Rewriting

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:

Joey Eremondi, Utrecht University
Title of Submission: Polyvariant Pattern Match Analysis with Implication Constraints

SC 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Amir Gholami - University of Texas at Austin
Title of Submission: AccFFT: A New Parallel FFT Library for CPU and GPU Architectures

Second Place:
Na Zhang - Stony Brook University
Title of Submission: Efficient Multiscale Platelets Modeling Using Supercomputers

Third Place:
Xiao Wang - Purdue University
Title of Submission: High Performance Model Based Image Reconstruction

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Adnan Haider - Illinois Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: Lessons from Post-Processing Climate Data on Modern Flash-Based HPC Systems

Second Place:
Luther D. Martin - National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
Title of Submission: Optimization Strategies for Materials Science Applications on Cori: An Intel Knights Landing, Many Integrated Core Architecture

Third Place:
Tiffany A. Connors - Texas State University
Title of Submission: Modeling the Impact of Thread Configuration on Power and Performance of GPUs

ICCAD 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Onur Sahin- Boston University
Title of Submission: Pushing QoS-Awareness into Thermal Management for Sustainable User Experience in Mobile Devices

Second Place:
Fa Wang - Carnegie Mellon University
Title of Submission: Indirect Performance Sensing for On-Chip Self-Healing of Analog/RF Circuits

Third Place:
Marco Donato - Brown Unviersity
Title of Submission: A Fast Simulator for the Analysis of Sub-Threshold Thermal Noise Transients

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

Second Place:
Jihoon Hyun - KAIST
Title of Submission: Power Allocation in a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Array for a Residential Power

ASSETS 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Lei Shi- Cornell Tech
Title of Submission: TALKABEL: A Labeling Method for 3D Printed Models

Second Place:
Shachar Maidenbaum- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title of Submission: Sensory Substitution Training for Users who are Blind with Dynamic Stimuli, Games and Virtual Environments

Third Place:
Yashesh Gaur - Carnegie Mellon University
Title of Submission: The Effects of Automatic Speech Recognition Quality on Human Transcription Latency

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Michelle Hu- Cornell Tech
Title of Submission: Exploring New Paradigms for Accessible 3D Printed Graphs

Second Place:
Megan Hofmann- Colorado State University
Title of Submission: Sensory Substitution Training for Users who are Blind with Dynamic Stimuli, Games and Virtual Environments

Third Place:
Yashesh Gaur - Carnegie Mellon University
Title of Submission: Making Connections: Modular 3D Printing for Designing Assistive Attachments to Prosthetic Devices

SPLASH 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place (Tie):
Ragnar Mogk- TU Darmstadt
Title of Submission: Concurrency Control for Multithreaded Reactive Programming

Swarnendu Biswas- Ohio State University
Title of Submission: Viser: Providing Serializability in Hardware With Simplified Cache Coherence

Second Place:
Alisa Maas- University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title of Submission: Automatic Array Property Detection via Static Analysis

Third Place:
Minjia Zhang- Ohio State University
Title of Submission: SIRe: An Efficient Snapshot Isolation-based Memory Model for Detecting and Tolerating Region Conflicts

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Andrew Kofink - North Carolina State University
Title of Submission:Contributions of the Under- Appreciated:Gender Bias in an Open-Source Ecology

PACT 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Miguel Angel Aguilar - Aachen University
Title of Submission: Unified Identification of Multiple Forms of Parallelism in Embedded Applications

Second Place:
Ahmad Hassan - Queen's University of Belfast
Title of Submission: Energy-Efficient Hybrid DRAM/NVM Main Memory

Third Place:
Jie Zhang - Yonsei University
Title of Submission: Integrating 3D Resistive Memory Cache into GPGPU for Energy-Efficient Data Processing

Grace Hopper 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Risa Myers - Rice University
Title of Submission: Intracranial Pressure Crises:Predicting 30 Minutes Out

Second Place:
Junia Valente - University of Texas, Dallas

Title of Submission: Trustworthy Attestation of Untrusted Sensors

Third Place:
Alexandra Ferreron - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Title of Submission: Exploiting Redundancy for Efficient Cache Operation at Near-threshold Voltages

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Jamie Lesser - Williams College
Title of Submission: Experimental Computer Graphics Microfacet Theory Validation

Second Place:
Leesha Maliakal - Northwestern University
Title of Submission: CrowdCheer: Situational Crowdsourcing of Motivation for Runners

Third Place:
Lisa Jones - US Military Academy at West Point
Title of Submission: Endgame Studies in Quantized Chess

Models 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Ivan Ruchkin - Carnegie Mellon University
Title of Submission: Architectural and Analytic Integration of Cyber-Physical System Models

Second Place:
Amal Khalil - Queen's University, Canada
Title of Submission: Change-driven Incremental Symbolic Execution of Evolving State Machines

Third Place:
Loli Burgueno- University of Malaga, Spainn
Title of Submission: Testing M2M/M2T/T2M Transformations

MobiCom 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Puneet Jain - Duke University
Title of Submission: User Location Fingerprinting at Scale

Second Place:
Zhao Tian - Dartmouth College
Title of Submission: Visible Light Communication in the Dark

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Justin Chan - Dartmouth College
Title of Submission: WiPrint: 3D Printing Your Wireless Coverage

Second Place:
Matteo Pozza - University of Padua
Title of Submission: Mobile Data Offloading Testbed

ESEC/FSE 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Christopher Theisen - North Carolina State University
Title of Submission: Automated Attack Surface Approximation

Second Place:
Kevin Moran - College of William and Mary
Title of Submission: Enhancing Android Application Bug Reporting

Third Place:
Martin Konopka - Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
Title of Submission: Combining Eye Tracking with Navigation Paths for Identification of Cross-Language Code Dependencies

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Shuktika Jain - Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi
Title of Submission: Automated Generation of Programming Language Quizzes

Second Place:
Thomas White- The University of Sheffield
Title of Submission: Increasing the Efficiency of Search-Based Unit Test Generation using Parameter Control

ICFP 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Jennifer Paykin - University of Pennsylvania
Title of Submission: Curry-Howard for Callbacks

Second Place:
Cyrus Omar - Carnegie Mellon University
Title of Submission: Modular Syntaxg

Third Place:
Robert Rand - University of Pennsylvania
Title of Submission: Verifying Probabilistic Programs in the Presence of an Adversary

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Izzy Meckler - University of Chicago
Title of Submission: Synthesis with String Diagrams in Haskellzes

Second Place:
Kyle Headley - University of Maryland
Title of Submission: Sparse Adapton

Third Place:
Alberto Sadde - University of York, UK
Title of Submission: Functional GPU Programming: A Comparison between Obsidian and Accelerate

SIGCOMM 2015 Winner

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Heidi Howard - University of Cambridge
Title of Submission: Coracle: Evaluating consensus at the internet edge

SIGGRAPH 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Seungbae Bang - KAIST
Title of Submission: Interactive Rigging

Second Place:
Robert Gregor - University of Konstanz, Germany
Title of Submission: Fractured 3D Object Restoration and Completion

Third Place:
Yu Wang - University of Maryland
Title of Submission: Rigid Fluid

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Daniel Rakita - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title of Submission: Interring Gaze Shifts from Captured Body Motion

Second Place:
Ben Knowles - Bournemouth University
Title of Submission: Increasing Realism of animated grass in real-time environments

Third Place:
Shugo Yamaguchi - Waseda University
Title of Submission: BGMaker: Example-Based Anime Background Image Creation from a photograph

SIGDOC 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Laura Gonzales - Michigan State Univeristy
Title of Submission: Portable Pedagogy: How Interaction Design Made Us Better Teachers

Second Place:
Daniel G. Cabrero - University of West London
Title of Submission: User-Created Persona: Namibian rural Otjiherero speakers

Third Place:
Joseph Yun - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title of Submission: What's a Better Category? Shavers or Father's Day Gifts?

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Angelia Giannone - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Title of Submission: Picturing Information for Money: Visual Usage in Humanities-based Grant Applications

Second Place:
Elizabeth Oderkirk - Michigan State University
Title of Submission: From Connect-Exchange to ConnectX: The (Iterative) Story of a Mobile App

Second Place:
Kimberly Jung - Michigan State University
Title of Submission: From Connect-Exchange to ConnectX: The (Iterative) Story of a Mobile App

Third Place:
Mikal Post - Marist College
Title of Submission: The Impact of the Interface: Responding to Student Writing in CMS's

PLDI 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Swarnendu Biswas - Ohio State University
Title of Submission: Low Overhead Region Conflict Detection

Second Place:
Jake Roemer - Ohio State University
Title of Submission: Effective Scheduling for Adversarial Memory

Third Place:
Adarsh Yoga - Rutgers University
Title of Submission: Precise Detection of Atomicity Violations in Structured Parallel Programs

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Jeevana Priya Inala - MIT
Title of Submission: Type Assisted Synthesis of Programs with Algebraic Data types

Second Place:
Alex Reinking - Yale University
Title of Submission: A type-directed approach to program repair

Third Place:
Jack Feser - Rice University
Title of Submission: Unification and Partial Eval. For Component-Based Synthesis

ICSE 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Mario Linares-Vasquez - The College of William and Mary
Title of Submission: Enabling Testing of Android Apps

Second Place:
Javier Ricardo Escobar-Avila - Florida State University
Title of Submission: Automatic Categorization of Software Libraries Using Bytecode

Third Place:
Fabio Palomba - University of Salerno, Italy

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Caroline Lemieux - University of British Columbia, Canada
Title of Submission: Mining Temporal Properties of Data Invariants

Second Place:
Pascal Roos - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Title of Submission: Fast and Precise Statistical Code Completion

MobileSoft 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Maria Gomez - Inria Lille Nord Europe
Title of Submission: Debugging of Mobile Apps in the Wild Guided by the Wisdom of Crowds

Second Place:
Zheng Song - Virginia Tech
Title of Submission: Programming Support for Seamless Resource Sharing across Heterogeneous

Third Place:
Felix Javier Acero Salazar - Politecnico di Milano
Title of Submission: Bridging the Gap Between the Platform Independent Models of Mobile Applications and Native MVC Code

CHI 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Yongsung Kim - Northwestern University
Title of Submission: Libero: On-the-go Crowdsourcing for Package Delivery

Second Place:
Ahreum Lee - Hanyang University
Title of Submission: Challenges for Wearable Computers: Understanding of the meaning behind photo taking

Third Place:
Kirsten Alisa Smith - University of Aberdeen
Title of Submission: Digital Flower: Assessing the Supportiveness of Gift Emoticons in Care Scenarios

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Pedro Kirk - Goldsmiths College
Title of Submission: Can Specialized Electronic Musical Instruments Aid Stroke Rehabilitation?

Second Place:
Anji Ren- MIT
Title of Submission: Pull-to-Refresh and Learn: Leveraging Mobile Email Load Time for Education

Third Place:
Zachary T. Allen - Northwestern University
Title of Submission: GAZE: Using Mobile Devices to Promote Discovery and Data Collection

SAC 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Joerg Schloetterer - University of Passau
Title of Submission: From Context to Query

Second Place:
Swapnajit Chakraborti - Indian Institute of Management Indore
Title of Submission: Multi-Document Text Summarization for Competitor Intelligence: A Methodology Based on Topic Identification and Artificial Bee Colony Optimization

Third Place:
Murad Khan - Kyungpook National University
Title of Submission: Multi-Criteria Based Vertical Handover Decision in Heterogeneous Wireless Network

ASPLOS 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Gennady Pechimenko - Carnegie Mellon University
Title of Submission: Energy-Efficient Data Compression for GPU Memory Systems

Second Place:
Charlie Curtsinger - UMass, Amherst
Title of Submission: Causal Profiling:Finding Optimizations that Count

Third Place:
Ali Javadiabhari - Princeton University
Title of Submission: Fine- Grain, Compile-time Optimizations of Communication Bandwiths in a Tiled Quantum Architecture

Modularity 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Thomas Degueule - IRISA - INRIA
Title of Submission: Towards Language Interfaces for DSLs Integration

Second Place:
Arik Hadas - Open University of Israel
Title of Submission: A Language Workbench for Creating Production-Ready Extensions to AspectJ

Third Place:
Leonardo Passos - University of Waterloo
Title of Submission: Uncovering the Practice of Feature Scattering

SICCSE 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
David Weintrop - Northwestern University
Title of Submission: Minding the Gap Between Blocks-Based and Text-Based Programming

Second Place:
Hannah Blau - University of Massachusetts
Title of Submission: FrenchPress Gives Students Automated Feedback on Java Program Flaws

Third Place:
Austin Bart - Virginia Tech
Title of Submission: Situating Computational Thinking with BigData: Pedagogy and Technology

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Thomas Effland - SUNY University of Buffalo
Title of Submission: Towards Language Interfaces for DSLs Integration

Second Place:
Matt Bowen - University of Alabama
Title of Submission: Mobile Velocity Estimation - MoVVE

Third Place:
Lindsey Press - Villanova University
Title of Submission: Selection in 3D Graphics Environments

CGO 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
William Ogilvie - University of Edinburgh
Title of Submission: Intelligent Heuristic Construction with Active Learning

Second Place:
Niranjan Hasabnis - Stony Brook University
Title of Submission: Employing Code Generators as De-code Generators: A Novel Approach for Assembly to IR Translation

Third Place:
Riyadh Baghdadi - KU Leuven
Title of Submission: Extending the Scope of Polyhedral Compilation: Progresses in Handling Irregular Codes and in Scalability

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Tharindu Rusira - University of Moratuwa
Title of Submission: Auto-tuning the HotSpot JVM

POPL 2015 Winners

GRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Ezgi Cicek - Max Planck Institut
Title of Submission: Refinement Types for Incremental Computational Complexity

Second Place:
Siddharth Krishna- New York University
Title of Submission: Learning Linear Invariants using Decision Trees

Third Place:
Marko Doko - Max Planck Institut
Title of Submission: FSL: A Logic for Reasoning about Memory Fences

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

First Place:
Anjjan Narayan - NMAM Institute Of Technology
Title of Submission: Crystal Gomes and Rithesh Prabhu String Sorting on the GPU using Hybrid Algorithms

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