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

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

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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