Computer Sciences

(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)

May 2025:

• Prof Ilias Diakonikolas was awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award. Congratulations! To the knowledge of the staff at Good News, this is the first time someone from our university has won this prestigious honor. [1]
• Prof Yong Jae Lee was awarded the H.I. Romnes Fellowship as one of the university’s highly distinguished young faculty members. [2]
• Prof Paul Barford was named the Carl de Boor Professor of Computer Sciences. [3]
• Prof Yong Jae Lee was named the Susan B. Horwitz Professor of Computer Sciences. [4]
• The CS department once again hosted MadHacks, a student-run hackathon. Check out this podcast with Prof Manolis Vlatakis and students.  [5]
• Prof Manolis Vlatakis and colleagues had the paper “Solving Zero-Sum Convex Markov Games” accepted at ICML ‘25 and the paper “A Quadratic Speedup in Finding Nash Equilibria of Quantum Zero-Sum Games” accepted in the journal Quantum. [6]
•  Prof Paul Barford and colleagues had the papers “Unsteady Underwater – On the Constancy of Submarine Path Properties”, “Squatspotting: Towards the Systematic Measurement of Typosquatting Techniques” at the IFIP Networking Conference and “Toward a Representative DNS Data Corpus: A Longitudinal Comparison of Collection Methods” accepted at.  [7]
• Prof Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau’s former post-doc, Prof Sudarsun Kannan, was granted tenure at Rutgers and also received the Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship Excellence as one of the university’s five most distinguished young faculty members.  [8]
• Prof Miron Livny and former Prof Raghu Ramakrishnan’s BIRCH algorithm finds yet another use, as shown in a seminar in the Chemistry department.  [9]
• Prof Shivaram Venkataraman’s paper “Decoding Speculative Decoding” received the SAC Award for Generation at NAACL 2025. [10]
• Prof Shivaram Venkataraman and students had two papers accepted into ICML ‘25: “LV-XAttn: Distributed Cross-Attention for Long Visual Inputs in Multimodal Large Language Models” and “Scaling Inference-Efficient Language Models”. [11]
• Wenxuan Tan, advised by Prof Shivaram Venkataraman, received the Hilldale Fellowship and the Dewitt Scholarship.  [12]
• Prof Ming Liu and students had the paper “Understanding and profiling CXL.mem using PathFinder” accepted into SIGCOMM ‘25.  [13]
• Prof Matt Sinclair gave an invited talk at AMD Research & Advanced Development entitled “Rethinking the Control Plane for Chiplet-Based Heterogeneous Systems”.  [14]
•  Prof Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau was interviewed in the Cap Times.  [15]
• Prof Jin-Yi Cai or students or both had the following papers accepted: “Holant* Dichotomy on Domain Size 3: A Geometric Perspective” and “The Converse of the Real Orthogonal Holant Theorem” at ICALP and “Quantum Algorithms for Discrete Log Require Precise Rotations” at ACM TQC. [16]
• Prof Rishab Goyal and students published “A Note on Adaptive Security in Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption” and “Succinct Arguments for BatchQMA and Friends under 8 rounds” at CRYPTO ‘25 and “Boosting SNARKs and Rate-1 Barrier in Arguments of Knowledge” at ICALP ‘25.  [17]
• Prof Jin-Yi Cai’s student, Benjamin Young, won the Best Student Paper award at ICALP ‘25.  [18]
• Prof Miron Livny’s and team’s Condor pool usage reached some amazing usage numbers, including over 600 distinct users and over 240M jobs in the past 12 months. ! [19]
• Many CS faculty, including Profs Mohit Gupta, Michael Gleicher, Yuhang Zhao, Robert Nowak, Dan Negrut, Junjie Hu, Rahul Chatterjee, Sushmita Roy, Rishab Goyal, Aws Albarghouthi, Fred Sala, Yong Jae Lee, Swamit Tannu, Xiangyao Yu, Josiah Hanna, Tom Reps, Hanbaek Lyu, and Sharon Li, participated in advising various Master’s projects and theses to completion.  [20]

Notes and more good news!