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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