Winners, SRC 2020 - 2021

SIGCSE 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Jan Philip Bernius - TUM Informatik
Title of Submission: Toward Computer-Aided Assessment of Textual Exercises in Very Large Courses

First Place(TIE):

Philip C. Fox - SUNY Buffalo
Title of Submission: TrustedAP: Using the Ethereum Blockchain to Mitigate the Evil Twin Attack

Second Place:

Vishwanshi Joshi - Marshall University
Title of Submission: U-Net based Active Learning Framework for Enhancing Cancer Immunotherapy

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Tejal Reddy - MIT
Title of Submission: Text Classification for AI Education

Second Place:

Mei Chen - University of Illinois at Chicago
Title of Submission: A Quantitative Analysis of Student Solutions to Graph Database Queries

Third Place:

Myles Lewis - Morgan State University
Title of Submission: Exploring the Impact of Exposing Coding Interview Practices to Early CS majors

CGO 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Malith Jayaweera - Northeastern University
Title of Submission: Data vs. Instructions: Runtime Code Generation for Convolutions

Second Place:

Martin Luecke - University of Edinburgh
Title of Submission: Fine Grained Control of Program Transformations via Strategic Rewriting in MLIR

Third Place:

Angelica Moreira - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Title of Submission: When Binary Optimization Meets Static Profiling

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

William Zhang - Carnegie Mellon University
Title of Submission: Fast Structural Register Allocation

POPL 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Konstantinos Kallas - University of Pennsylvania
Title of Submission: Data-Parallel Shell Scripting

Second Place:

Yuxiang Peng - University of Maryland
Title of Submission: Algebraic Reasoning of Quantum Programs via Non-Idempotent Kleene Algebra

Third Place:

Paul Leitar - Imperial College London
Title of Submission: Topological Assertions for Flexible Isolation

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Darya Verzhbinsk - University of California San Diego
Title of Submission: Petsy: Polymorphic Enumerative Type-Guided Synthesis

Second Place:

David Cao - University of California San Diego
Title of Submission: Automated Dependent Resource Analysis

Third Place:

Cole Biafore - Georgia Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: Over-Approximating Reachability for Boolean Programs in Polynomial Time

SC 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Mert Hidayetoglu - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Title of Submission: Memory-Centric 3D Image Reconstruction with Hierarchical Communications on Multi-GPU Node Architectures

Second Place:

Richard Barnes - University of California, Berkeley
Title of Submission: Communication-Avoiding Large Graph Algorithms for Flow Modeling

Third Place:

Nigel P. Tan - University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Title of Submission: Optimizing Vector Particle-In-Cell (VPIC) for Memory Constrained Systems Using Half-Precision

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Ian D. Lumsen - University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Title of Submission: Enabling Graph-Based Profiling Analysis Using Hatchet

Second Place:

Sarah A. Placke - Clemson University
Title of Submission: Recovering Silent Data Corruption through Spatial Prediction

Third Place:

Sebastian Mobo - University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Title of Submission: A Framework for Linking Urban Traffic and Vehicle Emissions in Smart Cities

SPLASH 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Raphael Mosaner - Johannes Kepler University, Linz
Title of Submission: Machine Learning to Ease Understanding of Data Driven Compiler Optimizations

Second Place:

Vitaly Romanov - Innopolis University
Title of Submission: Evaluating Importance of Edge Types when Using Graph Neural Network for Predicting Return Types of Python Functions

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Mona Zhang - Columbia University
Title of Submission: Design and Implementation of a Gradual Verifier

Second Place:

Aidan Z.H. Yang - Queen's University
Title of Submission: SOAR: Synthesis for Open-Source API Refactoring

Third Place:

Sophia Kolak - Columbia University
Title of Submission: Detecting Performance Patterns with Deep Learning

ESEC/FSE2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Zamira Kholmatova - Innopolis Univerisity
Title of Submission: Impact of Programming Languages on Energy Consumption for Mobile Devices

Second Place:

Yuchi Tian - Columbia University
Title of Submission: Repairing Confusion and Bias Errors for DNN based Image Classifiers

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Rozaliya Amirova - Innopolis University
Title of Submission: Attention Tracking for Developers - Research Abstract

Second Place:

Joshua Gisi - North Dakota State University
Title of Submission: DSynthesizing Correct Code for Machine Learning Programs

Third Place:

Dragos Strugar - Innopolis University
Title of Submission: Recommender systems: metric suggestion mechanisms applied to adaptable software dashboards

SIGSPATIAL 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Nikita Saxena - Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Title of Submission: Efficient Downscaling of Satellite Oceanographic Data With Convolutional Neural Networks

Second Place:

Jiawei Jiang - National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Title of Submission: Detecting Vehicle Illegal-Parking Events Using Spatial-Temporal Features

Third Place:

Aya Othman - Alexandria University
Title of Submission: Deep Learning-based Floor Prediction Using Cell Network Information

ICCAD 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Jiaqi Gu - University of Texas at Austin
Title of Submission: Light in Artificial Intelligence: Efficient Neuromorphic Computing with Optical Neural Networks

Second Place:

Mahabubul Alam - Pennsylvania State University
Title of Submission: Analysis and Optimization Methodologies for Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Third Place:

Debayan Das - Purdue University
Title of Submission: Generic Low-overhead Electromagnetic and Power Side-Channel Attack Protection through Ground-Up Root-cause Analysis

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Chuangtao Chen - Zhejiang University
Title of Submission: Optimally Approximated Floating-Point Multiplier

Second Place:

Namiko Matsumoto - University of California, San Diego
Title of Submission: Hyperdimensional Computing and Spectral Learning

Third Place:

Marc Benito - Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Title of Submission: Evaluation of Graphics-based General Purpose Computation Solutions for Safety Critical Systems: An Avionics Case Study

ASSETS 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Grazia Ragone - University of Sussex
Title of Submission: Designing Embodied Musical Interaction for Children with Autism

Second Place:

Avyay Ravi Kashyap, - IIT Bombay
Title of Submission: Behaviors, Problems and Strategies of Visually Impaired Persons During Meal Preparation in the Indian Context : Challenges and Opportunities for Design

Third Place:

Yulia Zhiglova - Tallinn University
Title of Submission: Deconstructing a “puzzle” of visual experiences of blind and low-vision visual artists

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Thomas B. McHugh - Northwestern University
Title of Submission: Assistive Technology Design as a Computer Science Learning Experience

Second Place:

Samantha Conde - University of California
Title of Submission: Establishing a Serious Game on Relationship Boundaries for People with Developmental Disabilities

Third Place:

Soobin Park - Ewha Womans University Title of Submission: Supporting Selfie Editing Experiences for People with Visual Impairments

SIGMICRO 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Peng Gu - University of California, Santa Barbara
Title of Submission: DLUX: a LUT-based Near-Bank Accelerator for Data Center Deep Learning Training Workloads

Second Place:

Xinfeng Xie - University of California, Santa Barbara
Title of Submission: SpaceA: Accelerating Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication with Processing-in-Memory Architecture

Third Place:

Abhijith Somashekhar - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title of Submission: NvMR: Non-Volatile Memory Renaming for Intermittent Computing

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Guyue Huang - Tsinghua University
Title of Submission: Towards Fast Graph Neural Network Training with Efficient and Framework-Compatible Sparse-Dense Matrix Multiplication

Second Place:

Alexander Shearer - Arizona State University
Title of Submission: Reconfigurable Spatiotemporal Resolution for Computer Vision at Low Power

Third Place:

Samantha Koretsky - University of Chicago
Title of Submission: A Hybrid Classical and Quantum Approach to Solving the Unit Commitment Problem

PACT 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Ari Rasch - University of Muenster
Title of Submission: md_stencil: High-Performance Stencil Computations on CPU and GPU via Multi-Dimensional Homomorphismsm

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Patrick Wang - UC Berkeley
Title of Submission: Energy-Aware Differential Neural Architecture Search for Edge Devices

SIGDOC 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Danielle Stambler - University of Minnesota
Title of Submission: “Eating Right” and User Experience with an Employee Wellness Program

Second Place:

Sarah Fadem - Rutgers University
Title of Submission: Designing a Decision Aid for Patients Considering Bone Marrow Transplant

Third Place:

Nicole Lowman - University at Buffalo
Title of Submission: Advising the Buffalo Police Advisory Board: Toward a More Usable Technology

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Sanjana Ponnada - Arizona State University
Title of Submission: Improving user experience and accessibility of CDC’s COVID-19 symptoms self-checker with better design practices

Second Place:

Rita Flanagan - University of Pittsburgh
Title of Submission: Principles of Technical and Public Communication as a Provisional Framework for Undergraduate Researchers Writing with and About Indigenous Peoples

Third Place:

Kenyan Burnham - Texas Tech
Title of Submission: Instructor Roles in Higher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

GRACE HOPPER 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Mandana Saebi - University of Notre Dame
Title of Submission: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Relational Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs

Second Place:

Niveditha Kalavakonda - University of Washington
Title of Submission: Concurrent segmentation and tracking of surgical instruments

Third Place:

Farzaneh Khoshnevisan - North Carolina State University
Title of Submission: Variational Recurrent Neural Network for Septic Shock Early Prediction

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Madeline Burbage - Williams College
Title of Submission: A Hardware Engine for Generating Number-Theoretic Sequences

Second Place:

Marina Shehzad - Habib University
Title of Submission: Neural Style Transfer for Personalized Audio Stories

Third Place:

Serena Xiong - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Title of Submission: Optimizing for Fairness in Recidivism Prediction Instruments

ASE 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Zhe Liu - Chinese Academy of Sciences
Title of Submission: Discovering UI Display Issues with Visual Understanding

Second Place:

Kamil Masalimov - UFA State Aviation Technical University
Title of Submission: A Machine Learning based Approach to Autogenerate Diagnostic Models for CNC machines

Third Place:

Zhengzi Xu - Nanyang Technological University
Title of Submission: Source Code and Binary Level Vulnerability Detection and Hot Patching

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Yi Wu - Southern University of Science and Technology
Title of Submission: Anti-patterns for Java Automated Program Repair Tools

Second Place:

Xiangzhe Xu - Nanjing University
Title of Submission: The Classification and Propagation of Program Comments

Third Place:

Beatriz Souza - Federal University of Campina Grande
Title of Submission: Identifying Mutation Subsumption Relations

MOBICOM 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Chia-Cheng Wang - National Chiao Tung University
Title of Submission: Using Magnetic Fingerprints to Position Cars on Multi-layer Roads

Second Place:

Yaman Singh Sangar - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title of Submission: WiChronos: Energy-Efficient Modulation for Long-Range,Large-Scale Wireless Networks

Third Place:

Ali J. Ben Ali - University at Buffalo
Title of Submission: Edge-SLAM: Edge-Assisted Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping g

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Anran Du - Boston College
Title of Submission: sCarML: Distributed Machine Learning in Vehicular Clouds

Second Place:

Asaad AlGhamdi - King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Title of Submission: BeeCast: A Collaborative Video Streaming System

TAPIA 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Deeksha Dixit - University of Maryland
Title of Submission: Evaluation of Cross-View Matching to Improve Ground Vehicle Localization with Aerial Perception

Second Place:

Yaxuan Wang - Rice University
Title of Submission: Speedup of Bayesian Inference of Species Phylogenies

Third Place:

Saba Dadsetan - University of Pittsburgh
Title of Submission: Breast Cancer Risk Assessment via Temporal Changes in Longitudinal Screening Mammograms

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Allison N. Turner - Wellesley College
Title of Submission: Crowdsourced Measurements of Internet Traffic Manipulation

Second Place:

Marina Zafiris - University of Houston-Downtown
Title of Submission: Employing Machine Learning in the Study of Differential Equations Related to Nuclear Engineering

Third Place:

Vianca Hurtado - Cornell University
Title of Submission: Changing How We Perceive Local Music

ICFP 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Cezar-Constantin Andrici - Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iași
Title of Submission: Gradual Enforcement of IO Trace Properties

Second Place:

Suneel Sarswat - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Title of Submission: Certified double sided auction mechanisms

Third Place:

Kai-Oliver Prott - CAU Kiel
Title of Submission: A GHC-Plugin to Compile Effectful Languages

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

James Lowenthal - University of Cambridge
Title of Submission: Certified Optimisation of Stream Operations Using Heterogeneous Staging

Second Place:

Christopher Lam - Cornell University
Title of Submission: Semantics for a Simple Differentiable Language Using Distribution Theory

Third Place:

Zhiyi Pan - University of Michigan
Title of Submission: Type Hole Inference

SIGGRAPH 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Dorian Chan - Carnegie Mellon University
Title of Submission: Bound-Constrained Optimized Dynamic Range Compression

Second Place:

Meena Subramanian - Texas A&M Universityi
Title of Submission: A Painterly Rendering Approach to Create Still-Life Paintings with Dynamic Lighting

Third Place:

Vincent WeiSen Loi - University of British Columbia
Title of Submission: Visualization of angle-dependent plasmonic structural coloration by FDTD-simulated BSDF and ray-tracing rendering

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Kohei Doi - Kyushu University
Title of Submission: Non-photorealistic Path Tracing

SIGCOMM 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Sebastiano Miano - Polictecnico di Torino
Title of Submission: Automatic Optimization of Software Data Planes

Second Place:

Robin Marx - Hasselt Universityi
Title of Submission: Visualizing QUIC and HTTP/3 with qlog and qvis

Third Place:

Suraj Jog - UIUC
Title of Submission: Millimeter-Wave Wireless Network on Chip Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Nishant Somy - IIT KGP
Title of Submission: System Call Interception for Serverless Isolation

Second Place:

Federico Parola - Politecnico di Torino
Title of Submission: A Proof-of-Concept 5G Mobile Gateway with eBPF

Third Place:

Lucas Castanheira - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Title of Submission: Optimized Tracing of iCF-enabled Programmable Data Planes

MobileSoft 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Irshad Khan - Kyungpook National University
Title of Submission: Collaborative Earthquake Detection and Response using Smart Devices

Second Place:

Julian Harty - Open University
Title of Submission: Improving App Quality Despite Flawed Mobile Analytics

ICSE 2020 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Alberto Martin- Lopez - Universidad de Sevilla
Title of Submission: Automated Analysis of Inter-Parameter Dependencies in Web APIs

Second Place:

Rangeet Pan - Iowa State University
Title of Submission: Does Fixing Bug Increase Robustness in Deep Learning?

Third Place:

Tegan Brennan - University of Calfornia, Irvine
Title of Submission: Detection and Mitigation of JIT-Induced Side Channels

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Vikram Subramanian - University of Waterloo
Title of Submission: An empirical study of first time open source contributors on GitHub

Second Place:

Shashij Gupta - IIT Bombay
Title of Submission: Machine Translation Testing via Pathological Invariance

Third Place:

Ananga Thapaliya - Innopolis University
Title of Submission: Evaluation of brain activity while Pair Programming

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