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