Winners, SRC 2021-2022

SIGCSE 2022 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Emily Relkin - Tufts University
Title of Submission: Cross-grade Comparison of Computational Thinking in Young Children Using Normalized Unplugged Assessment Scores

Second Place:Tie

Gillian Bausch - SUNY Albany
Title of Submission: Equipping Middle School Teachers with Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Computer Science Through Community-centered Professional Development

Second Place:Tie

Sagun Giri - Pennsylvania State University
Title of Submission: TSupporting Novice Youth Learners’ Coding and Computational Thinking through Productive Failure-Based Debugging and Troubleshooting Activities

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Alia Alramahi - Benedictine University
Title of Submission: Using LSTM Networks for Multiparameter Physiological Signal Reconstruction to Reduce Training Time

Second Place:

Nathan Hurtig - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: Interactive Network Visualization of Learning Progressions

Third Place:

Ugo Dos Reis - University of Toronto
Title of Submission: Celer: A Smart Fleet Management System

ISEC 2022 Winners
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Karthik Shaji - Georgia Institute of Tecnhology
Title of Submission: Using Ant Colony Optimization to Route a Team of UAVs to Fires Based on Known Fire Intensities

POPL 2022 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Daniel Marshall - University of Kent
Title of Submission: Linearity, Uniqueness, Ownership: An Entente Cordiale

Second Place:

Paulette Koronkevich - University of British Columbia
Title of Submission: Dependent-Type-Preserving Memory Allocation

Third Place:

Jonathan Chan - University of British Columbia
Title of Submission: Towards a Syntactic Model of Sized Dependent Types

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Michael Fitzgibbons - Northeastern University
Title of Submission: CapableWasm: Bringing Better Interop Down to WebAssembly

Second Place:

Noah Lev Bartell-Mangel - College of Marin
Title of Submission: Filling a Niche: Using Spare Bits to Optimize Data Representations

Third Place:

Noble Mushtak - Northeastern University
Title of Submission: A Realizability Model for Interoperability Between Languages with Garbage-Collected and Manually Managed Memory

ASE 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Ali Shokri - Rochester Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: A Program Synthesis Approach for Adding Architectural Tactics to An Existing Code Base

Second Place:

Duc Ly Vu - University of Trento, Italy
Title of Submission: py2src: Towards the Automatic (and Reliable) Identification of Sources for PyPI Package

Third Place:

Zihui Wang - National University of Defense Technology
Title of Submission: Program Synthesis with Algorithm Pseudocode Guidance

SC 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Connor F Scully-Allison - University of Arizona
Title of Submission: Missing the Trees for the Branches: Graphical-Scripting Interaction with Large-Scale Calling Context Trees

Second Place:

Ankit Srivastava - Georgia Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: Parallel Algorithms and Generalized Frameworks for Learning Large-Scale Bayesian Networks

Third Place:

JianNan Tian - Washington State University
Title of Submission: cuSZ(+): Optimizing Error-Bounded Lossy Compression for Scientific Data on Modern GPUs

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Ayah Ahmad - University of California, Berkeley
Title of Submission: Datastore Design for Analysis of Police Broadcast Audio at Scale

Second Place:

Ryang Wong - Northwestern University
Title of Submission: Delving Into the Abyss: A Distributed Decompression System for Indexing Compressed Repositories

Third Place:

Kevin Gao - University of California, Berkeley
Title of Submission: Regulating Traffic in a Crowded Cache: Overcoming the Container Explosion Problem

SIGPATIAL 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Yu-En Chang - National Cheng Kung University
Title of Submission: An Interpretable Deep Learning Framework for Assessing Financial Potential of Urban Spaces

Second Place:

Jingyi Wan - Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Title of Submission: Efficient Shortest Distance Query Processing in Road Networks for Spatially Skewed Workloads

Third Place:

Ruoying Li - University of Konstanz
Title of Submission: Barrier-Free Pedestrian Routing with Contraction Hierarchies

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Yuankan Jiao - Huazhong Agricultural University
Title of Submission: Incorporating Geographic Information for Building a Location-based Recommendation System

Second Place:

Israa Fahmy - The American University in Cairo
Title of Submission: MonoFi: Efficient Indoor Localization based on Single Radio Source And Minimal Fingerprinting

Third Place:

Mohamed Hemdan - The American University in Cairo
Title of Submission: Data Augmentation using GANs for Deep Learning-based Localization Systems

ICCAD 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Xiaofan Zhang - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title of Submission: Bridge the Hardware-Software Gap: Exploring End-to-End Design Flows for Building Efficient AI Systems

Second Place:

Sanmitra Banerjee - Duke University
Title of Submission: Optimizing Emerging AI Accelerators under Random Uncertainties

Third Place:

Qi Sun - Chinese University of Hong Kong
Title of Submission: Fast and Efficient Deployment of Deep Learning Algorithms via Learning-based Methods

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Zizheng Guo - Peking University
Title of Submission: Accelerating Static Timing Analysis with Parallel and Heterogeneous Computing

Second Place:

Cynthia Chen - California Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: Optimizing Quantum Circuit Synthesis for Permutations on Limited Connectivity Topologies

Third Place:

Yu Qian - Zhejiang University
Title of Submission: Energy-Aware Designs of Ferroelectric Ternary Content Addressable Memory

SOSP 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

David Chu - University of California at Berkeley
Title of Submission: Automatic Compartmentalization of Distributed Protocols

Second Place:

Jack Clark - ETH Zurich
Title of Submission: Verifying Serializability with Version Order Recovery

Third Place:

Yu-Chen Wang - University of Toronto
Title of Submission: FIntegrating Persistent Memory in a Deterministic Database

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Benjamin Carleton - University of Rochester
Title of Submission: Evaluation the Impact of Delayed Hits in Multi-Level Caches

Second Place:

Andrew Huang - California Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: NetLynx: Delta Debugging Programmable Switch Systems

Third Place:

Maximilian Apodaca - University of California at San Diego
Title of Submission: Enabling Fast Recovery for Autonomous Vehicle Systems with Linux Container Checkpointing

ASSETS 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Samine Hadadi - The University of Sydney
Title of Submission: Adee: Bringing Accessibility Right Inside Design Tools/p>

Second Place:

Gabriele Galimberti - Università di Milano - Bicocca
Title of Submission: Auditory feedback to compensate audible instructions to support people with visual impairment

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Sabahat Fatima - University of Maryland, College Park
Title of Submission: Activity Recognition in Older Adults with Training Data from Younger Adults: Preliminary Results on in Vivo Smartwatch Sensor Data

Second Place:

Andreas Säuberli - University of Zurich
Title of Submission: Measuring Text Comprehension for People with Reading Difficulties Using a Mobile Application

Third Place:

Hyeon Jeong Byeon - Ewha Womans University
Title of Submission: Voice Creator: Giving Customized Voice to the Voiceless for Online Communication

SPLASH 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Madhurima Chakraborty - University of California, Riverside
Title of Submission: A Study of Call Graph Effectiveness for Framework-Based Web Applications

Second Place:

Sebastian Kloibhofer - Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Title of Submission: Run-time Data Analysis to Drive Compiler Optimizations

Third Place:

Lukas Makor - Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Title of Submission: Run-Time Data Analysis in Dynamic Runtimes

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Hwei-Shin Harriman - Olin College of Engineering
Title of Submission: Edgeworth: Authoring Diagrammatic Math Problems Using Program Mutation

Second Place:

Shmuel Berman - Columbia University
Title of Submission: Programming-By-Example by Programming-By-Example: Synthesis of Looping Programs

Third Place:

Alina Bogdanova - Innopolis University
Title of Submission: Source code authorship attribution using file embeddings

MICRO 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Tarun Solanki - Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Title of Submission: SpecPref: High Performing Speculative Attacks Resilient Hardware Prefetchers

Second Place:

Neelu Shivprakash Kalani - Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Title of Submission: Instruction Criticality-based Energy-efficient Hardware Data Prefetching

Third Place:

Liu Liu - University of California, Santa Barbara
Title of Submission: Transformers Acceleration with Dynamic Sparse Attention

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Shixin Song - University of Michigan
Title of Submission: HWC: Profile-Guided Branch Target Buffer Replacement for Data Center Applications

Second Place:

Shabnam Sheikhha - Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Title of Submission: LAVIA: Locality-Aware Vector Indexed Architecture for Efficient Graph Processing

Third Place:

Jim Zhou - University of California, Los Angeles
Title of Submission: CNN-based Position Decoding from Calcium Images

SIGDOC 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Ian Stark - Texas Tech University
Title of Submission: Neuro-Positionality in User-Centered Design: The Case of Student Disability Services

Second Place:

Jiaxin Zhang - Texas Tech University
Title of Submission: Designed for Equitable Learning: A Study of UCD and Liquid Syllabus in an Online Synchronous Course

Third Place:

Yingying Tang - Texas Tech University
Title of Submission: A Robot Wrote This?: Readers’ Perceptions of Automated Technical Writing

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Hannah Goodsell - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Title of Submission: “A Jersey for Helmutt”: How Video Games Communicate Information

Second Place:

Kylie Call - Virginia Tech
Title of Submission: Strategies for International Communication Design

Third Place:

Koyo Nakamura - University of Washington
Title of Submission: Designing to Support Bedtime Reflection

Grace Hopper 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Natasha Scannell - University of Wisconson-Madison
Title of Submission: The Search for Life: Exoplanet Detection with Deep Learning

Second Place:

Hajar Emami Gohari - Wayne University
Title of Submission: Shape-Preserving Generative Adversarial Network (SP-GAN) for Medical Image Synthesis

Third Place:

Gyeongeun Lee - University of Illinois - Chicago
Title of Submission: A Content-based Skincare Product Recommendation System

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Serafina Kamp - University of Michigan
Title of Submission: Robustness of Fairness in Machine Learning

Second Place:

Isabel Gallegos - Stanford University
Title of Submission: Predicting Disease Diagnoses using Electronic Health Records and Computed Tomography Image Biomarkers

Third Place:

Kainat Abbasi - Habib University, Pakistan
Title of Submission: Digital Handwritten Character Scoring System for Urdu e-Learning Application

PACT 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Yuke Wang - University of Georgia
Title of Submission: TC-GNN: Accelerating Sparse Graph Neural Network Computation Via GPU Dense Tensor Core

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Seongyeon Park - Yonsei University
Title of Submission: GPU Accelerated Long-read Sequence Alignment

TAPIA 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Oluwafolake A. Ayano - Purdue University
Title of Submission: Shape-Preserving Generative Adversarial Network (SP-GAN) for Medical Image Synthesis

Second Place:

Wenfan Jiang - Mount Holyoke College
Title of Submission: Node Centric Community Detection in Evolving Networks

Third Place:

Huy Tu - North Carolina State University
Title of Submission: GAN-driven Synthetic Tool Image Generation for Endoscopic Surgical Tool Segmentation

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

First Place:

Winfield Zhao - University of Southern California
Title of Submission: Improving color vision accessibility in scientific research literature

Second Place:

Elizabeth Copps - Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Middlebury College
Title of Submission: Analyzing scientific data-sharing patterns for in-network data caching

Third Place:

Minh Nguyen - University of Houston-Downtown
Title of Submission: Predicting Fruit Fly’s Genotypes from Locomotion Trajectories using Machine Learning

SIGCOMM 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Rashna Kumar - Northwestern University
Title of Submission: Decentralization, Privacy and Performance for DNS

Second Place:

David Cordova Morales - Sorbonne University
Title of Submission: Blockgraph proof of concept

Third Place:

David Pujol-Perich - Barcelona Neural Networking Center
Title of Submission: IGNNITION: Fast Prototyping of Graph Neural Networks for Communication Networks

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Xi Jiang - Colgate University
Title of Submission: Non-interoperability Detection for Routing Protocol Implementations

Second Place:

Paula Bol - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Title of Submission: Modular Switch Deployment in Programmable Forwarding Planes with Switch(De)Composer

Third Place:

Nico Mexis - University of Passau
Title of Submission: A Design for a Secure Network of Networks Using a Hardware and Software Co-Engineering Architecture

ICFP 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Minh Nguyen - University of Bristol
Title of Submission: Composable, Modular Probabilistic Models

Second Place:

Harrison Goldstein - University of Pennsylvania
Title of Submission: Ungenerators

Third Place:

Roger Bosman - KU Leuven
Title of Submission: Mechanizing an elaboration algorithm for the Hindley-Damas-Milner system

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Wojciech Rozowski - University of Southampton
Title of Submission: Formally verified derivation of an executable and terminating CEK machine from call-by-value 𝜆𝑝ˆ-calculus

Second Place:

Artem Yurchenko - ITMO University
Title of Submission: Automatic concurrency with free applicatives/monads, side effects supported

Third Place:

Yanjun Chen - University of Michigan
Title of Submission: An Interactive Stepper for Expression with Holes

ESEC/FSE 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Malinda Dilhara Malwala Arachchige - University of Colorado at Boulder
Title of Submission: Discovering Repetitive Code Changes in ML Systems

Second Place:

Linghui Luo - Paderborn University
Title of Submission: A General Approach to Modeling Java Framework Behaviors

Third Place:

Shazibul Islam Shamim - Tennessee Technological University
Title of Submission: Mitigating Security Attacks in Kubernetes Manifests for Security Best Practices Violation

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Yang Chen - Tianjin University
Title of Submission: Accelerating Redundancy-Based Program Repair via Code Representation Learning and Adaptive Patch Filtering

Second Place:

Jiwon Parki - Ecole Polytechnique
Title of Submission: SMT solver testing with type and grammar based mutation

Third Place:

Chaofan Shou - University of California, Santa Barbara
Title of Submission: PorkFuzz: Testing Stateful Software-Defined Network Applications with Property Graphs

SIGGRAPH 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Aaron Demolder - Bournemouth University
Title of Submission: Enabling Reflective and Refractive Depth Representation in Computer-generated Holography Contact

Second Place:

Wei Sen Loi - University of British Columbia
Title of Submission: Multi-scale Computational Visualization of Angle-dependent and Roughness-sensitive Plasmonic Structural Coloration

Third Place:

Jessica Baron - Clemson University
Title of Submission: Procedural Shading for Rendering the Appearance of Feathers

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Félix Cantet - ESGI
Title of Submission: Exact Response Time Analysis of Preemptive Priority Scheduling with Switching Overhead

SIGMETRICS 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Shreshth Tuli - Imperial College London
Title of Submission: SplitPlace: Intelligent Placement of Split Neural Nets in Mobile Edge Environments

Second Place:

Yige Hong - Carnegie Mellon University
Title of Submission: Sharp Zero-Queueing Bounds for Multi-Server Jobs

Third Place:

Mahshid Ghasemi - Columbia University
Title of Submission: Video-Based Social Distancing Evaluation in the COSMOS Testbed Pilot Sites

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Edwin Peng - Carnegie Mellon University
Title of Submission: Exact Response Time Analysis of Preemptive Priority Scheduling with Switching Overhead

ICSE 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

David Berend - Nanyang Technical University
Title of Submission: Distribution Awareness for AI System Testing

Second Place:

Jingling Sun - East China Normal University
Title of Submission: SetDroid: Detecting User-configurable Setting Issues of Android Apps via Metamorphic Fuzzing

Third Place:

Nina Körber - University of Passau, Germany
Title of Submission: Anomaly Detection in Scratch Assignments

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Reem Aleithan - York University, Canada
Title of Submission: Explainable Bug Prediction for Code Changes: Are We There Yet?

Second Place:

Jinyang Shao - Wuhan University, China
Title of Submission: Testing Object Detection for Autonomous Driving Systemsvia 3D Reconstruction

Third Place:

Ananga Thapaliya - Innopolis University
Title of Submission: Effect on brain activity while programming with (without)music

CPS-IOT Week 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Hussein Sibai - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title of Submission: Symmetry abstraction-refinement algorithm for faster scenario verification

Second Place:

Jiameng Fan - Boston University
Title of Submission: Towards Reliable Automatic Learning Systems: (Im)proving the Safety of Learning-enabled Systems

Third Place:

Jack West - Loyola University, Chicago
Title of Submission: Moonshine: An Online Randomness Distiller for Zero-Involvement Authentication

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Armand Ahadi-Sarkani - University of California, Irvine
Title of Submission: ADAS-RL: Adaptive Vector Scaling Reinforcement Learning For Human-in-the-Loop Lane Departure Warning

Second Place:

Emily Baschab - University of Alabama
Title of Submission: Safer Adaptive Cruise Control for Traffic Wave Dampening

CHI 2021 Winners
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Ali Shtarbanov - MIT Media Lab
Title of Submission: FlowIO Development Platform – the Pneumatic “Raspberry Pi” for Soft Robotics

Second Place:

Natalia Obukhova - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Title of Submission: A Meta-Analysis of Effect Sizes of CHI Typing Experiments

Third Place:

Justin Lubin - University California, Berkeley
Title of Submission: How Statically-Typed Functional Programmers Author Code

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First Place:

Dhruva Bansal - Georgia Institute of Technology
Title of Submission: CopyCat: Using Sign Language Recognition to Help Deaf Children Acquire Language Skills

Second Place:

Bhavya Chopra - Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology
Title of Submission: Reality Tales: Facilitating User-Character Interaction with Immersive Storytelling

Third Place:

Melissa M.F. Li - McGill University
Title of Submission: Seek: A Telehealth System for Preventing Age-Related Vision Loss Inspired by the Quantified

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