Winners, SRC 2019 - 2020
SIGMOD 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Haneen Mohammed - Columbia University
Title of Submission: Continuous Prefetch for Interactive Data Applications
Second Place:
Hendrik Makait - Technische Universität Berlin
Title of Submission: Rethinking Message Brokers on RDMA and NVM
Third Place:
Chen Luo - University of Calfornia, Irvine
Title of Submission: Breaking Down Memory Walls in LSM-based Storage Systems
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Meena Jagadeesan - harvard University
Title of Submission: From Worst-Case to Average-Case Analysis: Accurate Latency Predictions for Key-Value Storage Engines
Second Place:
Neil Band - Harvard University
Title of Submission: MemFlow: Memory-Aware Distributed Deep Learning
Third Place:
Noah Slavitch - University of Waterloo
Title of Submission: Workload-Aware Column Imprints
PLDI 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Yann Herklotz - Imperial College of London
Title of Submission: Formally Verified High-Level Synthesis
Second Place:
Kiran Gopinathan - National University of Singapore
Title of Submission: Ceramist: Certifying Certainty and Uncertaintyg
Third Place:
Jonas Norlinder - Uppsala University
Title of Submission: Moving Garbage Collection with Low-Variation Memory Overhead and Deterministic Concurrent Relocation
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Rakshit Mittal - Birla Institute of Technology & Science
Title of Submission: Translation Validation of Code-Optimizing Transformations involving Loops using Petri Net Based Program Models
CHI 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Rishi Vanukuru - IIT Bombay
Title of Submission: Accessible Spatial Audio Interfaces: A Pilot Study into Screen Readers with Concurrent Speech
Second Place:
Prachi Tank - IIT Bombay
Title of Submission: Helping Low Literate Parents Engage with their Children's Learning
Third Place:
Simo Santala - Aalto University
Title of Submission: Fast Interactive Design of Scatterplots for Large Data Set Visualisation
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Sunny Tian - MIT
Title of Submission: Integrating Discussion and Summarization in Collaborative Writing
Second Place:
Kairania Qalbi - Universitas Gadjah Mada
Title of Submission: Aranyani.id – The Design of Reforestation Funding Program Using Mobile Advertising Application
Third Place:
Tanya Ballal - Srishti Institute Of Art, Design and Technology
Title of Submission: Emote ~ Theatre and Movement Workshops as Research Tools
CGO 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Ari Rasch - University of Muenster, Germany
Title of Submission: md_poly: A Performance-Portable Polyhedral Compiler Based on Multi-Dimensional Homomorphisms
Second Place:
Bongjun Kim - POSTECH
Title of Submission: Compiler-assisted Semantic-aware Encryption
Third Place:
Jin Wu - Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Title of Submission: Enabling Cross-ISA Virtualization of Trusted Execution Environments
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Nathan Brown - University of Michigan
Title of Submission: Profile-Guided Instruction Prefetching to Reduce Front-End Stalls of Datacenter Applications
Second Place:
Thomas Norell - Universiyty of California, Berkeley
Title of Submission: Profile-Guided Dynamic Frequency Scaling for Energy-Efficient DNN Processing on Edge Devices
Third Place:
Hebe Hilhorst - Yale-NUS College Singapore
Title of Submission: Generating Cyclo-Static Dataflow Graphs from Lift for FPGA programming
POPL 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Jinwoo Kim - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title of Submission: Proving Unrealizability for Imperative Syntax-Guided Synthesis Problems
Second Place:
Hrutvik Kanabar - University of Kent
Title of Submission: Verified efficient libraries for CakeML
Third Place:
Irene Yoon - University of Pennsylvania
Title of Submission: Through the Interaction Forest: Modeling Concurrency in Coq with Interaction Trees
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Murad Akhundov - University of Toronto
Title of Submission: Expediting Verification of Assertions in Loops by Isolation
Second Place:
Matthew Sotoudeh - Universiyty of California, Davis
Title of Submission: Bounded Model Checking of Deep Neural Network Controllers
Third Place:
Ziteng Wang - Universiyty of California, San Diego
Title of Submission: Test-based Solution Filtering for Program Synthesis
SC 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Marcin Copik - ETH Zurich
Title of Submission: perf-taint: Taint Analysis for Automatic Many-Parameter Performance Modeling
Second Place:
Alok Mishra - Stony Brook University
Title of Submission: Data Reuse Analysis for GPU Offloading Using OpenMP
Third Place:
Pengfei Zou - Clemson University
Title of Submission: Fingerprinting Anomalous Computation with RNN for GPU-Accelerated HPC Machines
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Alexander Zlokapa - California Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: A Deep Learning Approach to Noise Prediction and Circuit Optimization for Near-term Quantum Devices
Second Place:
Kathryn Leung - Princeton University
Title of Submission: Walking the cost-accuracy tightrope: balancing trade-offs in data-intensive genomics
Third Place:
Yuya Kawakami - Grinnell College
Title of Submission: Early experiences on OpenPOWER architecture: Analysis of Billion-scale Atomistic Datasets
ASE 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Martin Kellogg - University of Washington
Title of Submission: Compile-time detection of machine image sniping
Second Place:
Daye Nam - Carnegie Mellon University
Title of Submission: API Design Implications of Boilerplate Client Code
Third Place:
Ali Ghanbari - The University of Texas at Dallas
Title of Submission: Toward Practical Automatic Program Repair
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Shengcheng Yu - Nanjing University
Title of Submission: Crowdsourced Report Generation via Bug Screenshot Understanding
Second Place:
Shuyao Jiang - Fudan University
Title of Submission: Boosting Neural Commit Message Generation with Code Semantic Analysis
Third Place:
Gargi Balasubramaniam - Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Title of Submission: Towards Comprehensible Representation of Controllers using Machine Learning
SIGSPATIAL 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Ibrahim Sabek - University of Minnesota
Title of Submission: Towards Scalable Spatial Probabilistic Graphical Modeling
Second Place:
Hamada Rizk - Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology
Title of Submission: SoloCell: Efficient Indoor Localization Based on Limited Cell Network Information And Minimal Fingerprinting
Third Place:
Liming Zhang - George Mason University
Title of Submission: STGGAN: Spatial-temporal Graph Generation
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Tianyuan Huang - South China University of Technology
Title of Submission: Discovering Human Activity Community in A City
ICCAD 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Stefan Hillmich - Johannes Kepler University Linz
Title of Submission: Decision Diagrams for Quantum Computing
Second Place:
Justin Sanchez - UNC Charlotte
Title of Submission: Architectures Leveraging Edge and Real-time Template Systems
Third Place:
Mengchu Li - Technical University of Munich
Title of Submission: High-Level Synthesis for Microfluidics Large-Scale Integration
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Milind Srivastava - Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Title of Submission: Sauron- An Automated Framework for Detecting Fault Attack Vulnerabilities in Hardware
Second Place:
Shuting Cheng - Yuan Ze University
Title of Submission: A Novel Approach for Improving Lifetime of Multi-core Systems How Asymmetric Aging Can Lead a Way
ASSETS 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Vinitha Gadiraju - University of Colorado, Boulder
Title of Submission: BrailleBlocks: Braille Toys for Cross-Ability Collaboration
Second Place:
Min Hun Lee - Carnegie Mellon University
Title of Submission: Intelligent Decision Support to Assess Stroke Rehabilitation Exercises
Third Place:
Andrew Bayor - Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Title of Submission: HowToApp: Supporting Life Skills Development of Young Adults with Intellectual Disability
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Ocean Hurd - University of California, Santa Cruz
Title of Submission: VR Design Guidelines for Amblopia Accessibility
Second Place:
Yash Prashant Naik - University of Mumbai
Title of Submission: A Wearable Input Mechanism for Blind users of Computers based on Mental Mapping of Thumb-To-Phalanx Distances
Third Place:
Richard Nguyen - University of Guelph
Title of Submission: Exploring Haptic Colour Identification Aids
SOSP 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Samyukta Yagati - MIT
Title of Submission: Efficient Privacy Policies in Multiverse Databases
Second Place:
Zhenyu Song - Princeton University
Title of Submission: Robustly Improving Byte Miss Ratio with Workload-Learning Caching
Third Place:
Swapnil Gandhi - India Institute of Science
Title of Submission: Wave: A Substrate for Distributed Graph Processing on Commodity Clusters
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Luis Gerhorst - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Title of Submission: EnergyTimers: Integrating Physical Energy Measurement Devices into OS Kernels
Second Place:
Ziyi Zhang - University of Science and Technology of China
Title of Submission: Visualizing Critical Sections in Rust
SPLASH 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Maarten P. Sijm - Delft University of Technology
Title of Submission: Incremental Scannerless Generalized LR Parsing
Second Place:
Dominik Aumayr - Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Title of Submission: Debugging Support for Multi-paradigm Concurrent Programs
Third Place:
Florian Latifi - Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Title of Submission: Practical Second Futamura Projection
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Sam Estep - Liberty University
Title of Submission: Gradual Program Analysis
Second Place:
Aaron Joos Lippeveldts - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Title of Submission: Linear capabilities for CHERI
Third Place:
Beatriz Bezerra de Souza - Federal University of Campina Grande
Title of Submission: Is Mutation Score a Fair Metric?
MOBICOM 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Tingjun Chen - Columbia University
Title of Submission: Enabling Wideband full-duplex wireless via frequency-Domain Equalization
Second Place:
Chun-Yu Chen - University of Michigan
Title of Submission: Keep others from peeking at your mobile device screen!
Third Place:
Yang Bai - Rutgers University
Title of Submission: Inaudible high-throughput communication through acoustic signals
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Purui WangEstep - Peking University
Title of Submission: A polarization-based QAM approach for visible light backscatter communication
Second Place:
Nishant Sinha - Georgia State University
Title of Submission: In-situ water quality monitoring through ultraviolet sensing using off-the-shelf cameras
ESWEEK 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Hasindu Gamaarachchi - University of New South Wales
Title of Submission: Real-time, portable and lightweight Nanopore DNA sequence analysis using System-on-Chip
Second Place:
Sumit K. Mandal - Arizona State University
Title of Submission: Analytical Performance Models for NoCs with Multiple Priority Traffic Classes
Third Place:
Kasra Moazzemi - University of California Irvine
Title of Submission: Learning Coordination for Runtime Resource Management of Heterogeneous Systems
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Margaret Steiner - The George Washington University
Title of Submission: Improving the Reliability of Medical Smart Alarms Using Confidence Calibration
Second Place:
Abhay Sheel Anand - Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering
Title of Submission: Gauntlet: A light and compact wearable for capturing precise finger and hand gestures
Third Place:
Nima Shoghi - Georgia Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: SLAM Performance on Embedded Robots
GRACE HOPPER 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Paria Esmatloo Li - University of Texas, Austin
Title of Submission: Towards Human-like Grasping and Manipulation in Assisted Grasps Through Accurate System Modeling
Second Place:
Mayram Karami - University of Pittsburgh
Title of Submission: On Hierarchical Data Integrity for IoT Devices in Connected Health Applications
Third Place:
Nwamaka Okafor - University Colled Dublin
Title of Submission: A Cost-effective framework for IoT-based autonomous ecological sensing
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Ana Luisa Solórzano - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Title of Submission: Parallel Implementation of an Astronomical Algorithm for a Hybrid Computing Environment with OpenACC
Second Place:
Aishwarya Mandyam - University of Washington, Seattle
Title of Submission: Reducing tag identification time in a molecular tagging system
Third Place:
Jhillika Kumar - Georgia Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: Interactive Communicative Technology demonstrating Cognition in Non-speaking Autistic Individuals
SIGMICRO 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Peter Li - MIT
Title of Submission: A Mutual Information Accelerator for Autonomous Robot Exploration
Second Place:
Yun-Chen Lo - National Tsing Hua University
Title of Submission: PTLL-BNN : Physically Tightly Coupled, Logically Loosely Coupled, Near-Memory BNN Accelerator
Third Place:
Soroush Ghodrati - University of California, San Diego
Title of Submission: Mixed-Signal Charge-Domain Acceleration of Deep Neural Networks through Interleaved Bit-partitioned Arithmetic
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Lia Yeh - Univesity of California, Santa Barbara
Title of Submission: Benchmarking ZX-Calculus Circuit Optimization Against Qiskit Transpilation
Second Place:
Ethan Shaotran - Harvard University
Title of Submission: GLADS: Gesture Learning for Autonomous Driving Simulator
Third Place:
Maitreyee Emma Dasgupta - University of Chicago
Title of Submission: Statistical Assertions for Debugging in Qiskit
SIGDOC 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Nupoor Ranade - North Carolina State University
Title of Submission: Conditional Usability Testing for UX Optimization
Second Place:
Yeqing Kong - North Carolina State University
Title of Submission: Artificial Intelligence in News Photographs: A Cross-Cultural Visual Content Analysis
Third Place:
Angela Glotfelter - Miami University, Ohio
Title of Submission: Algorithmic Circulation: The Impact of Algorithms on Content Strategy and Management Practices
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Nicholas Hennigan - University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Title of Submission: Optimizing Design Thinking: Theatrical Improv’s Affect on Creativity Within Groups
Second Place:
Andrea Ausmus - Arizona State University
Title of Submission: Food (In)Security Interface
PACT 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Priyank Faldu - University of Edinburgh
Title of Submission: Domain-Specialized Cache Management for Graph Analytics
TAPIA 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Hajar Homayouni - Colorado State University
Title of Submission: ADQTest: An AI-based Data Quality Test Approach
Second Place:
Ramin Ayanzadeh - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Title of Submission: Compiling for Quantum Annealers
Third Place:
Parisa Hassanzadeh - New York University
Title of Submission: Machine Learning Over the Wireless Edge
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Alexandra Ballow - Youngstown State University
Title of Submission: Handling Missing Values in Joint Sequence Analysis
Second Place:
Andong Li Zhao - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Title of Submission: Attack of the Clones: Manipulation-Resistant Recommender Systems in Practice
Third Place:
Karan D. Luthria - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Title of Submission: A Machine Learning Approach for Phenotype Clustering to Reduce Healthcare Cost
ESEC/FSE 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
James Davis - Virginia Tech
Title of Submission: Rethinking Regex Engines to Address ReDoS
Second Place:
Mahshid Helali Moghadam - RISE Sweden
Title of Submission: Machine Learning-Assisted Performance Testing
Third Place:
Jacob Krüger - Magdeburg University
Title of Submission: Tackling Knowledge Needs during Software Evolution
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Peiyi Sun - Peking University
Title of Submission: Context-aware Test Case Adaptation
Second Place:
Michail Loukeris - Athens University of Economics and Business
Title of Submission: Efficient Computing in a Safe Environment
Third Place:
Ilyuza Gizzatullina - Innopolis University
Title of Submission: Empirical Study of Customer Communication Problem in Agile Requirements Engineering
SIGCOMM 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Sean Choi - Stanford University
Title of Submission: Lambda-NIC: Interactive Serverless Compute on SmartNICs
Second Place:
Jona Beysens - KU Leuven
Title of Submission: Smile, you are in the spotlight!
Third Place:
Lior Shafir - Tel Aviv University
Title of Submission: DNS Negative Caching in the Wild
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Zhaowei Xi - Tsinghua University
Title of Submission: HyperGen: High-Performance Flexible Packet Generator Using Programmable Switching ASIC
Second Place:
Jiadi Yang - Peking University
Title of Submission: Cooperative Trajectory Optimization for a Cellular Internet of UAVs
Third Place:
Mateus Saquetti - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Title of Submission: Hard Virtualization of P4-based switches with VirtP4
ICFP 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Birthe van den Berg - KU Leuven
Title of Submission: Type Inference for Disjoint Intersection Types
Second Place:
Matthias Pall Gissurarson, - Chalmers University of Technology
Title of Submission: Hole fit plugins in GHC
Third Place:
Cumhur (Joomy) Korkut - Princeton University
Title of Submission: Direct Reflection for Free!
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Samantha Frohlich - University of Bristol
Title of Submission: Warm Fuzzy Things - A DSL for Hypertexture
SIGGRAPH 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Sai Ganesh Subramanian - Texas A&M University
Title of Submission: Delaunay Lofts: A New Class of Space-Filling Shapes
Second Place:
Madison Kramer - Texas A&M University
Title of Submission: A Procedural Approach to Creating American Second Empire Houses
Third Place:
Pratik Kalshetti - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Title of Submission: Unsupervised Incremental Learning for Hand Shape and Pose Estimation
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Jasmine Y. Shih - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title of Submission: Interactive Cinematic Scientific Visualization in Unity
Second Place:
Laura Mann - Bournemouth University
Title of Submission: 3D Printing for Mixed Reality Hands-On Museum Exhibit Interaction
Third Place:
Yi-Ching Kang - Chang Gung University
Title of Submission: Scented Graphics: Exploration in Ink-jet Scented-Printing
SIGMOD 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Akhil A. Dixit - University of California Santa Cruz
Title of Submission: CAvSAT: A System for Query Answering over Inconsistent Databases
Second Place:
Fotis Sawa - University of Glasgow
Title of Submission: Query-Driven Learning for Next Gen Predictive Modeling & Analytics
Third Place:
Vraj Shah - UC San Diego
Title of Submission: SpeakQL: Towards Speech-driven Multimodal Queryingn
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Varun Jain - Harvard
Title of Submission: LSM-Trees and B-Trees: The Best of Both
Second Place:
Nathaniel Weir - Brown University
Title of Submission: Bootstrapping an End-to-End, Cross-Domain NLI for Databases
Third Place:
Carmen Kwan - University of Waterloo
Title of Submission: New Fingerprints for Quick Compressed Columnar Data Search
PLDI 2019 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Matthias Springer - Tokyo Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: CompactGpu: Massively Parallel Memory Defragmentation on GPUs
Second Place:
Victor Ying - MIT
Title of Submission: Scaling Sequential Code with a Compiler and Architecture for Fine-Grained Speculative Parallelization
Third Place:
Sangeeta Chowdhary - Rutgers University
Title of Submission: Finding Rounding Errors and Application Specific Configuration for Posits
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:
Jess Michel - MIT
Title of Submission: Automatic Noised-Based Sensitivity Analysis of Programs
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