Computer Sciences Dept.

BEST PAPER AWARDS
CS STUDENTS & FACULTY
2009-2010
Asim Kadav , Mahesh Balakrishnan, Vijayan Prabhakaran, and Dalhia Malkhi awarded Best Paper of ACM Hot Storage 2009 (Big Sky,MT, October, 2009) for Differential RAID: Rethinking RAID for SSD Reliability.

Vivek Shrivastava , Nabeel Ahmed, Shravan Rayanchu,Suman Banerjee , Srinivasan Keshav, Konstantina Papagiannaki, and Arunesh Mishra awarded Best Paper of ACM MobiCom 2009 (Beijing, September, 2009) for CENTAUR: Realizing the Full Potential of Centralized WLANs through a Hybrid Data Path.

Saumitra Das, Konstantina Papagiannaki, Suman Banerjee, Y. C. Tay recognized as one of the top three papers at ACM CoNEXT 2009 for SWARM: The Power of Structure in Community Wireless Mesh Networks.

Michael J. Brim and Barton P. Miller awarded Best Paper of 16th Annual International Conference on High Performance Computing (Cochin, India, December 2009) for Group File Operations for Scalable Tools and Middleware.

2008-2009
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau awarded Best Paper of USENIX '09 for Tolerating File-System Mistakes with EnvyFS

N. Agrawal, A. C. Arpaci-Dusseau, R. H. Arpaci-Dusseau awarded Best Paper for Generating Realistic Impressions for File-System Benchmarking in FAST '09.

Archit Gupta, Pavan Kuppili, Aditya Akella, and Paul Barford awarded Best Paper for An Empirical Study of Malware Evolution in COMSNETS '09.

Olvi Mangasarian awarded Best Paper of 2007 in the journal Computational Optimization and Applications for "Absolute Value Programming", Vol 36 (1), January 2007, pp. 43-53.

Venkatraman Govindaraju awarded Best Student Presentation at MICRO 2008.

2007-2008
Olvi Mangasarian and Edward Wild awarded Best Academic Research Paper at the 4th Int'l. Conf. on Data Mining (DMIN'08) for "Privacy-Preserving Classification of Horizontally Partitioned Data via Random Kernels"

Dattatraya Gokhale, Sayandeep Sen, Kameswari Chebrolu and Bhaskaran Raman awarded one of three fast track to ACM Transactions on Networking awards for their Infocom 2008 paper, "On the Feasibility of the Link Abstraction in (Rural) Mesh Networks", April 2008.

Junghee Lim and Thomas Reps awarded the European Assoc. for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS) Best Paper at ETAPS 2008, for their CC 2008 paper, "A system for generating static analyzers for machine instructions", April 2008.

Lakshmi Bairavasundaram, Garth Goodson, Bianca Schroeder, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau awarded Best Student Paper at FAST 2008 for "An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack", February 2008.

Jayaram Bobba, Kevin E. Moore, Haris Volos, Luke Yen, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift, and David A. Wood awarded one of ten IEEE Micro's Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences of 2007 for their paper "Performance Pathologies in Hardware Transactional Memory", January 2008.

Michael R. Marty and Mark D. Hill awarded one of ten IEEE Micro's Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences of 2007 for their paper "Virtual Hierarchies", January 2008.

David Plonka, Archit Gupta, and Dale Carder awarded Best Paper at 21st Large Installation System Administration Conf. (LISA '07) for their paper "Application Buffer-Cache Management for Performance: Running the World's Largest MRTG", November 2007.

Mihai Christodorescu, Christopher Kruegel, and Somesh Jha, awarded one of four ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Papers at 6th joint meeting of ESEC/FSE for their paper "Mining Specifications of Malicious Behavior", September 2007.

2006-2007
Jin-Yi Cai and Pinyan Lu awarded one of three Best ICALP Papers at the 34th Int'l. Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2007), for their paper "Holographic Algorithms: The Power of Dimensionality Resolved", July 2007.

Lakshmi Bairavasundaram, Garth Goodson, Shankar Pasupathy and Jiri Schindler awarded Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper for their 2007 ACM Sigmetrics paper "An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives", June 2007.

Min Xu, Rastislav Bodik, and Mark D. Hill awarded one of eleven IEEE Micro's Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences in 2006 for their paper "A Hardware Memory Race Recorder for Deterministic Replay", January 2007.

Randy Smith, Cristian Estan, and Somesh Jha awarded
Best Paper at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conf. (ACSAC 2006) for "Backtracking Algorithmic Complexity Attacks Against a NIDS", December 2006.

Geng Deng with Michael Ferris receive I-Sim/ACM-SIGSIM
Best Computer Science-Focused Student Paper

for their 2006 Winter Simulation Conf. paper, "Adaptation of the UOBQYA algorithm for noisy functions", December 2006.

Geng Deng with Michael Ferris received the first INFORMS Computing Society Annual Best Student Paper Award for "Variable-Number Sample-Path Optimization", November 2006.

2005-2006

Rachel Heck, Lucas Kovar, and Michael Gleicher awarded Best Paper - 2nd Prize at Eurographics 2006 for their paper "Splicing Upper-Body Actions with Locomotion", August 2006.

Tian Zhang, Raghu Ramakrishnan, and Miron Livny awarded the 2006 ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award for their 1996 ACM SIGMOD paper, BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases

2004-2005

John Bethencourt, Jason Franklin, and Mary Vernon awarded Best Paper at the 14th USENIX Security Symp. for "Mapping Internet Sensors with Probe Response Attacks", August 2005.

Jesse Davis, Ines Dutra, David Page, and Vitor Santos Costa, awarded Best Technicial Paper for their Proc. Int'l. Conf. on Intelligence Analysis paper, "Establishing Identity Equivalence in Multi-Relational Domains", May 2005.

Shai Rubin, Somesh Jha and Barton Miller were awarded both Best Paper and Best Student Paper for their 20th Annual Computer Security Applications Conf. (ACSAC 2004) paper, "Automatic Generation and Analysis of NIDS Attacks", December 2004.

Brian A. Fields, Rastislav Bodik, Mark D. Hill, and Chris J. Newburn, were awarded one of thirteen IEEE Micro's Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences in 2004 for their paper "Interaction Cost: For when event counts just don't add up", November-December 2004.

Jaehyuk Huh, Doug Burger, Jichuan Chang, and Gurindar S. Sohi were awarded Micro's Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences in 2004 for their paper "Speculative Incoherent Cache Protocols", November-December 2004.

Mark Goadrich and Louis Oliphant with Jude Shavlik recieved the Best Student Paper award for their 14th Int'l. Conf. on Inductive Logic Programming paper, "Learning Ensembles of First-Order Clauses for Recall-Precision Curves: A Case Study in Biomedical Information Extraction", September 2004.

2003-2004

Mihai Christodorescu and Somesh Jha received the Distinguished Paper award for their Int'l. Symp. on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2004) paper, "Testing Malware Detectors", July 2004.

Shai Rubin, Ian Alderman, David Parter, and Mary Vernon received one of seven "Best and Most Interesting" papers selected for journal publication from DIMVA 2004, for their paper "Foundations for Intrusion Prevention", July 2004.

Gogul Balakrishnan andThomas Reps awarded the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS) Best Paper at the 2004 European Joint Conferences on Theory and and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2004), for their 13th Int'l. Conf. on Compiler Construction (CC '04) paper titled "Analyzing Memory Accesses in X86 Executables", April 2004.

Yanping Zhao, Derek L. Eager, and Mary Vernon received one of four fast track to ACM Transactions on Networking awards for their Infocom 2004 paper, "Scalable On-Demand Streaming of Non-linear Media", April 2004.

 Muthian Sivathanuand Vijayan Prabhakaran, with Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau received the Best Student Paper award for their 3rd Usenix Conf. on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2004) paper, "Improving Storage System Availaility with D-GRAID", March 2004.

Stephen Wright and Jeff Linderoth received the Best Paper in 2003 award for their Computational Optimization and Applications paper, "Decomposition Algorithms for Stochastic Programming on a Computational Grid", January 2004.

Alaa Alameldeen and David Wood received one of fifteen IEEE MICRO's Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences in 2002-2003 for their HPCA 2003 paper, "Addressing Workload Variability in Architectural Simulations", November/December 2003.

Milo Martin, Mark Hill and David Wood received one of fifteen IEEE MICRO's Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences in 2002-2003 for their ISCA 2003 paper, "Token Coherence: A New Framework for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors", November/December 2003.

Ravi Rajwar and James Goodman received one of fifteen IEEE MICRO's Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences in 2002-2003 for their paper, "Transactional Execution: Toward Reliable, High-Performance Multithreading", November/December 2003.

PREVIOUS PAPER AWARDS

Michael Ferris, Jinho Lim, and David Shepard, awarded the INFORMS Pierskalla Best Paper Award for their INFORMS 2002 Health Applications Section paper, "An Optimization Approach for Radiosurgery Treatment Planning", 2002.

 
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