Winners, SRC 2018 - 2019

MobileSoft 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Larry Singleton - University of Nebraska at Omaha
Title of Submission: Automated Tool Support for Repairing Security Bugs in Android Mobile Apps

Second Place:

Anthony Peruma - Rochester Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: Preliminary Study of Android Refactorings

ICSE 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Austin Mordahl - The University of Texas at Dallas
Title of Submission: Towards Detection and Characterization of Variability Bugs in Configurable C Software: An Empirical Study

Second Place:

Xiaofei Ge - Nanjing University
Title of Submission: Android GUI Search Using Hand-drawn Sketches

Third Place:

Nghi Bui - Singapore Management University
Title of Submission: Towards Zero Knowledge Learning for Cross Language API Mappings

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Alejandra Siles - Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo
Title of Submission: TOAD: A tool for recommending auto-refactoring

Second Place:

Aleksandr Tarasov - Innopolis University
Title of Submission: Impact of Lifestyle and Working Process Organization on the Job Satisfaction Level of Software Engineers

Third Place:

Zhiyu Fan - Southern University of Science and Technology
Title of Submission: An systematic evaluation of problematic tests generated by Evosuit

CHI 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

William Seymour - University of Oxford
Title of Submission: Privacy Therapy with Aretha: What If Your Firewall Could Talk?

Second Place:

Annu Sible Prabhakar - Indiana University
Title of Submission: Designing Compassion Cultivating Interactions for New mothers

Third Place:

Maria D. Molina - Clemson University
Title of Submission: I Am What You Eat: Effects of Social Influence on Meal Selection Online

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Abraham Glasser - Rochester Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: Automatic Speech Recognition Services: Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Usability

Second Place:

Xiyuan He - Zhejiang University
Title of Submission: GPK: An Efficient Special Symbol Input Method for Keyboards

Third Place:

Isabella Gomez Torres - University California, San Diego
Title of Submission: Affordable Smart Wheelchair

ASPLOS 019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Jonathan Balkind - Princeton University
Title of Submission: The Emergence of Anti-Locality in Function-as-a-Service Serverless and Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Platforms

Second Place:

Ananda Samajdar - Georgia Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: AIrchitect: Evolving expert AI for accelerator design

Third Place:

Mitali Soni - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title of Submission: As-Is : Architecture for Anytime Computing

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Samuel Triest - University of Rochester
Title of Submission: A Self-Optimizing Intelligent Camera: Co-Design of Optics, Architecture, and Vision Algorithms

Programming 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Patrick Rein - Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
Title of Submission: Reading logic as code or as natural language text

Second Place:

Yusuke Izawa - Tokyo Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: BacCaml: The Meta-Hybrid Just-In-Time Compiler

Third Place:

Jeanine Adkisson - Tokyo Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: Magritte: A modern shell language

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Francesco Rossini - University of Turin, Italy
Title of Submission: Cantor pairing in a reversible programming language

SAC 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Siobhan Duncan - Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Title of Submission: Taking Stigmergy Out of the Lab and Into the Field

Second Place:

Waqas Khawaja - National University of Ireland, Galway
Title of Submission: Towards Textualising Analytic Provenance for Visual Analytics using Natural Language

Third Place:

Asaf Fux - University of Haifa, Israel
Title of Submission: Video-Based Decision Support for Behavioral Veterinarians: a Case Study of Canine ADHD

SIGCSE 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Scott Kolodziej - Texas A&M University
Title of Submission: Empirical Assessment of Software Documentation Strategies: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Second Place:

Amanpreet Kapoor - University of Florida
Title of Submission: Deconstructing Successful and Unsuccessful CS Undergraduate Interns

Third Place:

Olivia Nche - Clemson University
Title of Submission: Engaging African American Elementary School Children in Code Understanding

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Sara Almeda - The College of New Jersey
Title of Submission: Accessible American Sign Language Recognition with the Leap Motion Controller

Second Place:

Zirui Wang - Birmingham Southern College
Title of Submission: Using Touch and Sound to Program Scratch

Third Place:

Darren Jefferson - Marquette University
Title of Submission: Computer Science Research A Qualitative Study of Wisconsin Computer Science in K-12

CGO 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Robin Krupee - TU Darmstadt
Title of Submission: Extending LLVM for Lightweight SPMD Vectorization: Using SIMD and Vector Instructions Easily From Any Language

Second Place:

Keren Zhou - Rice University
Title of Submission: A Tool for Performance Analysis of GPU-accelerated Applications

Third Place:

Alok Mishra - Stonybrook University
Title of Submission: Kernel Fusion/Decomposition for Automatic GPU-Offloading

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Brandon Neth - University of Arizona
Title of Submission: Automatic Parallelization of Irregular x86-64 Loops

POPL 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Aaron Weiss - Northeastern University
Title of Submission: Oxide: The Essence of Rust

Second Place:

Elisabet Lobo Vesga - Chalmers University of Technology
Title of Submission: DPella: A DSL for Privacy-Preserving Queries with Accuracy Guarantees

Third Place:

Lukas Convent - University of Luebeck
Title of Submission: Adaptive Effect Handling in Frank

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Yixuan Chen - University of Michigan
Title of Submission: Verification of a Cache-optimized Data Structure

Second Place:

Ammar Askar - Purdue University
Title of Submission: Tailored Termination for Improved Supercompilation

Third Place:

Ilia Zaichuk - Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Title of Submission: Formal verification of floating-point number conversion between ASN.1 BER and IEEE 754 binary encodings

SC 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Christie Louis Alappat - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Title of Submission: Recursive Algebraic Coloring Engine

Second Place:

Roman Kaplan - Israel Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: Accelerating DNA Long Read Mapping with Emerging Technologies

Third Place:

Salvatore Di Girolamo - ETH Zurich
Title of Submission: SimFS: A Simulation Data Virtualizing File System Interface

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Luann Chan Jung - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: Measuring Swampiness: Quantifying Chaos in Large Heterogeneous Data Repositories

Second Place:

Joshua Davis - Univeristy of Delaware
Title of Submission: Studying the Impact of Power Capping on MapReduce-Based, Data-Intensive Mini-Applications on Intel KNL and KNM Architectures

Third Place:

Xiaohe Cheng - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Title of Submission: Accelerating 2D FFT: Exploit GPU Tensor Cores through Mixed-Precision

SIGSPATIAL 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Louai Alarabi - University of Minnesota

Title of Submission: Summit: A Scalable System for Massive Trajectory Data Management

Second Place:

Xiran Zhou - Arizona State University
Title of Submission: Transferring scale-independent features to support multi-scale object recognition with deep convolutional neural network

Third Place:

Yuanbin Cheng - University of Southern California
Title of Submission: Automatic Intersection Extraction and Building Arrangement with StarCraft II Mapsp

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Fandel Lin - National Cheng Kung University
Title of Submission: An Intelligent and Interactive Route Planning Maker for Deploying New Transportation Services

Second Place:

Sean Koh Jia Ming - Singapore Management University
Title of Submission: Centroid-Amenities: An Interactive Visual Analytical Tool for Exploring and Analyzing Amenities in Singapore

ICCAD 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Gengjie Chen - The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Title of Submission: Seeing Nano Tree in Giga Forest on Chip

Second Place:

Wuxi Li - University of Texas at Austin
Title of Submission: UTPlaceF: A High-Performance Placement Engine For Modern FPGAs

Third Place:

Satwik Patnaik - New York University
Title of Submission: Advanced CAD Frameworks for Protection of Design IP

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Zhuangzhuang Zhou - Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Title of Submission: DALS: Delay-driven Approximate Logic Synthesis

SPLASH 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Matthias Springer - Tokyo Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: SoaAlloc: Accelerating Single-Method Multiple-Objects Applications on GPUs

Second Place:

Kirshanthan Sundararajah - Purdue University
Title of Submission: Scheduling Transformations and Dependence Tests for Recursive Programs

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Justin Lubin - University of Chicago
Title of Submission: Approximating Polymorphic Effects with Capabilities

Second Place:

Paulette Koronkevich - Indiana University
Title of Submission: Obsidian in the Rough: A Case Study Evaluation of a New Blockchain Programming Language

Third Place:

Serena Chen - Olin College
Title of Submission: Finding Higher Order Mutants Using Variational Execution

ESEC/FSE 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Daniel DeFreez - University of California Davis
Title of Submission: Mining Error-Handling Specifications for Systems Software

Second Place:

Ameya Ketkar - Oregon State University
Title of Submission: Type Migration in Large-Scale Code Bases

Third Place:

Son Nguyen - The University of Texas at Dallas
Title of Submission: Feature-Interaction Aware Configuration Prioritization

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

David Tommassi - University of California, Davis
Title of Submission: Bugs in the Wild: Examining the Effectiveness of Static Analyzers at Finding Real-World Bugs

Second Place:

Vaastav Anand - The University of British Columbia
Title of Submission: Dara - Hybrid Model Checking of Distributed Systems

Third Place:

Neil Robson - NC State University
Title of Submission: Diversity and Decorum in Open Source Communities

MobiCom 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Ali Abedi - University of Waterloo
Title of Submission: Bringing mmWave Communication to Raspberry Pi:

Second Place:

Neha Jain - IIIT-Delhi
Title of Submission: Sparse signal recovery and energy harvesting for potential 5G applications

Third Place:

Revathy Narayanan - Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Title of Submission: Maintaining UAV Stability using Low-Power WANs

PACT 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Chloe Alverti - National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Title of Submission: Towards Speculative Offset-Based Address Translation

Second Place:

Christina Giannoula - National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Title of Submission: Employing Hardware Transactional Memory to Design a Balanced Graph Coloring Algorithm

Third Place:

Konstantinos Tovletoglou - Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Title of Submission: Implementation of a Heterogeneous-Reliability Memory Framework

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Dimitris Karnikis - Institute of Computer Science Foundation for Research and Technology
Title of Submission: A Trusted Execution Framework for Android Based on Secure Enclaves

Second Place:

Georgios Anagnopoulos - Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Greece
Title of Submission: GHAMMER: A GPGPU Rowhammering Attack

ASSETS 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Tanya Bafna - Technical University of Denmark
Title of Submission: Gaze Typing using Multi-key Selection Mechanism

Second Place:

Irene Rogan Shaffer - Boston University
Title of Submission: Exploring the Performance of Facial Expression Recognition Technologies on Deaf Adults and Their Children

Third Place:

Siddharth Mehrotra - RWTH Aachen University
Title of Submission: Potmote: A TV Remote Control for Older Adults

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Natalie Friedman - Cornell University
Title of Submission: Using a Telepresence Robot to Improve Self-Efficacy of People with Developmental Disabilities

Second Place:

Conor McKillop - University of Dundee
Title of Submission: Designing A Context Aware AAC Solution

Third Place:

Dylan Gaines - Michigan Technical University
Title of Submission: Exploring an Ambiguous Technique for Eyes-Free Mobile Text Entry

SIGMICRO 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

David Schlais - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title of Submission: Configurable Tightly-Coupled FPGA-style fabric for Fine-Grained Acceleration

Second Place:

Mehdi Alipour - Uppsala University
Title of Submission: Minimum Out-of-Order Core

Third Place:

Bojian Zheng - Univsersity of Toronto
Title of Submission: EcoRNN: Efficient Computing of LSTM RNN on GPUs

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Katie Lim - Princeton University
Title of Submission: Building a Heterogeneous ISA Research Platform Using the OpenPiton Framework

Second Place:

Yu-Shun Hsiao - National Tsing Hua University Title of Submission: FlexNet: Neural Networks with Inherent Inference-Time Bitwidth Flexibility

Third Place:

Kyosuke Tanaka - The University of Electro-Communications
Title of Submission: Optimizing Memory Hierarchy within an Internet Router for High-Throughput and Energy-Efficient Packet Processing

Grace Hopper Celebration 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Niveditha Kalavakonda - University of Washington - Seattle
Title of Submission: Robotic and Neurosurgical Instrument Segmentation for Development of Intelligent Surgical Assistant

Second Place:

Zahra Shamsi - University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Title of Submission: Intelligent Selection of Features Using Reinforcement Learning

Third Place:

Negin Forouzesh - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Title of Submission: Finding Optimal Dielectric Boundary for Practical Continuum Solvent Calculations

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Valerie Chen - Yale University
Title of Submission: Experimental Multi-Party Computation on Real Data Using SPDZ

Second Place:

Tram Nguyen - Stetson University
Title of Submission: Towards Detecting “Fake News” by Propagating Bias Through a Network of Linked Assertions

Third Place:

Tammy Lee - University of West Georgia
Title of Submission: Scratch Hackathon for Teenagers

ICFP 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Michael Arntznenius - University of Birmingham
Title of Submission: Type Inference for Monotonicity

Second Place:

Tristan Knoth - UC San Diego
Title of Submission: Resource-Guided Program Synthesis

Third Place:

Koen Pauwels - KU Leuven
Title of Submission: Bidirectional Type Class Instances

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Jesse Sigal - University of Oxford
Title of Submission: Denotational Semantics for Differentiable Programming with Manifolds

TAPIA 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Niveditha Kalavakonda - University of Washington
Title of Submission: Isosurface Visualization Using Augmented Reality for Improving Tumor Resection Outcomes

Second Place:

Aakriti Kumari Upadhyay - University at Albany, SUNY
Title of Submission: Rapidly Exploring Random Search Explorer

Third Place:

Hajar Emami Gohari - Wayne State University
Title of Submission: Synthetic CT Generation from MRI Data Using Generative Adversarial Networks

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Elizaveta Tremsina - UC Berkeley
Title of Submission: Your Story Recorded in a Magnet: Micromagnetic Simulations of Spin-Orbit Torque in Multi-layer Structures

Second Place:

Eric Jenkins - Georgia Gwinnett College
Title of Submission: Spreading Interest in Information Technology through Video Games

SIGCOMM 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Suraj Jog - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Title of Submission: Enabling Dense Spatial Reuse in mmWave Networks"

Second Place:

Marcin Nawrocki - Freie Universität Berlin
Title of Submission: On the Potential of BGP Flowspec for DDoS Mitigation at Two Sources: ISP and IXP

Third Place:

Pedro Marcos - UFRGS and FURG
Title of Submission: Dynam-IX: a Dynamic Interconnection eXchange

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Zili Meng - Tsinghua University
Title of Submission: PAM: When Overloaded, Push Your Neighbor Aside!"

Second Place:

Gonzalo Marín - AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: RawPower: Deep Learning based Anomaly Detection from Raw Network Traffic Measurements"

Third Place:

Angelo Tulumello - CNIT/University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Title of Submission: A Fully Portable TCP Implementation Using XFSMs"

SIGGRAPH 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Seungbae Bang - KAIST
Title of Submission: Computation of Skinning Weight using Spline Interface

Second Place:

Markus Schuetz - TU Wien, Austria
Title of Submission: Progressive Real-Time Rendering of Unprocessed Point Clouds

Third Place:

Chloe LeGendre - USC Inst for Creative Technologies
Title of Submission: Efficient Multispectral Facial Capture With Monochrome Cameras

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Biance Cirdei - Bournemouth University
Title of Submission: Withering Fruits: Vegetable Matter Decay and Fungus Growth

Second Place:

Kaizhang Kang - Zhejiang University
Title of Submission: Learning Optimal Lighting Patterns for Efficient SVBRDF Acquisition

Third Place:

Yuka Takahashi - University of Tokyo
Title of Submission: Stitch: An Interactive Design System for Hand-Sewn Embroidery

SIGDOC 2018 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

David Mueller - North Carolina State University
Title of Submission: Actions and Strategies: A Verbal Data Analysis of Phishing Emails

Second Place:

Jason Tham - IT University of Minnesota
Title of Submission: Learning from Making: A Design Challenge in Technical Writing and Communication

Third Place:

Yeqing Kong - North Carolina State University
Title of Submission: Constructing Artificial Intelligence in Newspaper: A Cross-Cultural Analysis in the U.S. and China

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Tyler William Black - University of Waterloo
Title of Submission: Cross-Disciplinary Instructional Design and Communication

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