Student Best Paper Awards

Best Paper Awards

Pier Francesco Palamara
Cotterman Award [2013]

For paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics in 2012
that best represents outstanding scientific contributions to human genetics,
“Length Distributions of Identity by Descent Reveal Fine-Scale Demographic History”
(co-authors: Ariel Darvasi, Todd Lencz and Itsik Pe’er)
[advisor: Itsik Pe’er]

John Demme and Adam Waksman
IEEE Micro Top Picks [2013] (from computer architecture conferences)

originally in 2012 International Symposium on Computer Architecture (“ISCA-12”),
“A Quantitative, Experimental Approach to Measuring Processor Side-Channel Security”
(co-authors: Robert Martin and Simha Sethumadhavan)
[advisor: Simha Sethumadhavan]

Guillaume Ducoffe
Best Student Paper Award

2013 Rencontres Algotel Meeting,
“De la Difficulte de Garder Ses Amis (Quand On a des Ennemis)!”
(co-authors: Dorian Mazauric and Augustin Chaintreau)
[advisor: Augustin Chaintreau]

Melanie Kambadur
“IEEE Micro Top Picks [2013] (from computer architecture conferences)

originally in 2012 International Symposium on Computer Architecture (“ISCA-12”),
“Collection, Analysis, and Uses of Parallel Block Vectors”
(co-authors: Kui Tang and Martha Kim)
[advisor: Martha Kim]

Pier Francesco Palamara
Best Paper Award

2013 Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Genetics (“ESHG-13”),
“Haplotype Sharing Reveals Fine-Scale Demographic History”
(co-authors: Itsik Pe’er and the Genomes of the Netherland Consortium)
[advisor: Itsik Pe’er]

Younghoon Jung and Richard Neill
Best Paper Award

2012 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (“CloudCom-12”),
“A Broadband Embedded Computing System for MapReduce Utilizing Hadoop”
(co-author: Luca Carloni)
[advisor: Luca Carloni]

Hung-Yi Liu
Best Paper Award

2012 Design, Automation and Test in Europe (“DATE-12”),
“Compositional System-Level Design Exploration with Planning of High-Level Synthesis”
(co-authors: Michele Petracca and Luca Carloni)
[advisor: Luca Carloni]

Evangelia Sitaridi
Best Paper Award

2012 International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware (“DaMoN-12”),
“Ameliorating Memory Contention of OLAP Operators on GPU Processors”
(co-author: Kenneth Ross)
[advisor: Kenneth Ross]

Christos Vezyrtzis
Best Paper Award, Logic and Circuit Design Track

2012 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (“ICCD-12”),
“Designing Pipelined Delay Lines with Dynamically-Adaptive Granularity for Low-Energy Applications”
(co-authors: Yannis Tsividis and Steven Nowick)
[co-advisors: Yannis Tsividis and Steven Nowick]

Salman Abdul Baset
Best Paper Award

2010 IPTComm,
“Reliability and Relay Selection in Peer-to-Peer Communication Systems”
(co-author: Henning Schulzrinne)
[advisor: Henning Schulzrinne]

Oliver Cossairt
Best Paper Award

2010 International Conference on Computational Photography (“ICCP-10”),
“Spectral Focal Sweep: Extended Depth of Field from Chromatic Aberrations”
(co-author: Shree Nayar)
[advisor: Shree Nayar]

David Elson
Best Student Paper Award

2010 Association for Computational Linguistics (“ACL-10”),
“Extracting Social Networks from Literary Fiction”
(co-authors: Kathleen McKeown and Nicholas Dames)
[advisor: Kathleen McKeown]

Malek Ben Salem
Best Paper Award

2010 International Workshop on Managing Insider Security Threats (“MIST-10”),
“Detecting Masqueraders: A Comparison of One-Class Bag-of-Words User Behavior Modeling Techniques”

(co-author: Salvatore J. Stolfo)
[advisor: Salvatore J. Stolfo]

Steve Henderson
Best Paper Award

2009 IEEE ISMAR Conference,
“Evaluating the Benefits of Augmented Reality for Task Localization in Maintenance of
an Armored Personnel Carrier Turret”
(co-author: Steve Feiner)
[advisor: Steve Feiner]

Blake Shaw
Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award

2009 International Conference on Machine Learning (“ICML-09”),
“Structure Preserving Embedding”
(co-author: Tony Jebara)
[advisor: Tony Jebara]

Steve Henderson
Best Paper Award

2008 ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (“ACM VRST-08”),
“Opportunistic controls: Leveraging Natural Affordances as Tangible User Interfaces for Augmented Reality”
(co-author: Steven Feiner)
[advisor: Steven Feiner]

Patrick P.C. Lee
Best Paper Award

2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference,
“Opportunistic Use of Client Repeaters to Improve Performance of WLANs”
(co-authors: Victor Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Vishal Misra, Jitendra Padhye, Dan Rubenstein, Yan Yu)
[co-advisors: Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein]

Ron Shacham
VDE-ITG “Literaturpreis”

2008 ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications,
“Ubiquitous Device Personalization and Use: The Next Generation of IP Multimedia Communications”
(co-authors: Henning Schulzrinne, Srisakul Thakolsri, Wolfgang Kellerer)
[advisor: Henning Schulzrinne]

Charles Shen
Best Student Paper Award

2008 IPTComm Conference,
“SIP Server Overload Control: Design and Evaluation”
(co-author: Henning Schulzrinne)
[advisor: Henning Schulzrinne]

Matei Ciocarlie
Best Student Paper Award

2007 IEEE Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems,
“Soft Finger Model with Adaptive Contact Geometry for Grasping and Manipulation Tasks”
(co-authors: C. Lackner and Peter Allen)
[advisor: Peter Allen]

Sean White
CHI Best Note Award

2007 ACM CHI Conference,
“Designing a mobile user interface for automated species identification”
(co-authors: Dominic Marino and Steven Feiner)
[advisor: Steven Feiner]

Alp Atici (Mathematics Dept.)
E. M. Gold Award for Best Student Paper

2006 Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (“ALT-06”),
“Learning Unions of ω(1)-Dimensional Rectangles”
(co-author: Rocco Servedio)
[advisor: Rocco Servedio]

Seung Geol Choi
Best Student Paper Award

2006 International Workshop on Security (“IWSEC-06”),
“Short Traceable Signatures Based on Bilinear Pairings”
(co-authors: Kunsoo Park and Yung Moti)
[advisor: Tal Malkin]

Alex Haubold
Best Poster Award

2006 IEEE International Conference and Multimedia Expo (“ICME-06”),
“Semantic Multimedia Retrieval using Lexical Query Expansion and Model-Based Reranking”
[Advisor: John R. Kender]

Homin K. Lee,
Andrew Wan
Mark Fulk award for Best Student Paper

2006 Conference on Learning Theory (“COLT-06”),
“DNF are Teachable in the Average Case.”
(co-author: Rocco Servedio)
[co-advisors: Tal Malkin and Rocco Servedio]

Cristian Soviani
Best Paper Award

2006 Design Automation and Test in Europe (“DATE-06”),
“Optimizing Sequential Cycles through Shannon Decomposition and Retiming”
(co-authors: Olivier Tardieu, Stephen A. Edwards)
[advisor: Stephen A. Edwards]

Panagiotis Ipeirotis
Best Paper Award

2005 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (“ICDE-05”),
“Modeling and Managing Content Changes in Text Databases”
(co-authors: Alexandros Ntoulas, Junghoo Cho, Luis Gravano)
[advisor: Luis Gravano]

Ricardo Barratto,
Shaya Potter,
Gong Su
MobiCom Best Student Paper Award

2004 ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (“MobiCom-04”),
“MobiDesk: Mobile Virtual Desktop Computing.”
(co-author: Jason Nieh)
[advisor: Jason Nieh]

Vlad Branzoi
Best Paper Award

2004 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
“Programmable Imaging using a Digital Micromirror Array”
(co-authors: Shree K. Nayar, Terry E. Boult)
[advisor: Shree Nayar]

Eugene Agichtein
Best Student Paper Award

2003 19th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (“ICDE-03”),
“Querying Text Databases for Efficient Information Extraction”
(co-author: Luis Gravano)
[advisor: Luis Gravano]

Risi Kondor
Best Student Paper Award

2003 International Conference on Machine Learning (“ICML-03”),
“A Kernel Between Sets of Vectors”
(co-author: Tony Jebara)
[advisor: Tony Jebara]

Andrew T. Miller
Best Manipulation Paper Award

2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,
“Automatic Grasp Planning using Shape Primitives”
(co-authors: Steffen Knoop, Henrik I. Christensen and Peter K. Allen)
[advisor: Peter Allen]

Blaine Bell,
Tobias Hoellerer
Best Student Paper Award

2001 Proceedings of UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (“UIST-01”),
“View Management for Virtual and Augmented Reality.”
(co-author: Steven Feiner)
[advisor: Steven Feiner]

Matthew G. Schultz,
Eleazar Eskin
Best Student Paper Award

2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference – FREENIX Track,
“Malicious Email Filter – A UNIX Mail Filter that Detects Malicious Windows Executables”
(co-author: Sal Stolfo)
[advisor: Sal Stolfo]

Montek Singh
Best Paper Award

2000 IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits & Systems (“Async-00”),
“High-Throughput Asynchronous Pipelines for Fine-Grain Dynamic Datapaths”
(co-author: Steven Nowick)
[advisor: Steven Nowick]

Wenke Lee,
Kui Mok
Best Applied Research Award

1999 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (“KDD-99”),
“Mining in a Data-flow Environment: Experience in Network Intrusion Detection”
(co-author: Sal Stolfo)
[advisor: Sal Stolfo]

Michael Oren
David Marr Prize

1995 International Conference on Computer Vision,
“A Theory of Specular Surface Geometry”
(co-author: Shree Nayar)
[advisor: Shree Nayar]

Ushir B. Shah
Best Student Paper Award

1992 IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems,
“Extracting 3-D Structure and Focused Images Using an Optical Microscope”
(co-author: Shree K. Nayar)
[advisor: Shree Nayar]

Konstantinos Tarabanis
Anton Philips Award for Best Paper

1991 IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference
(co-authors P.K. Allen and R. Tsai)
[advisor: Peter Allen]

Best Paper Finalists, Honorable Mention

Lauren Wilcox
Nominee for ACM CHI 2010 Best Paper Award

2010 ACM CHI Conference (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems),
“Designing Patient-Centric Information Displays for Hospitals”
(co-authors: Dan Morris, Desney Tan, Justin Gatewood)
[advisor: Steven Feiner]

Sahar Hasan
2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Honorable Mention

2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Award competition by the Computing Research Association (“CRA”),
“Retina: Helping Students and Instructors Based on Observed Programming Activities”
(co-authors: Christian Murphy, Gail Kaiser, Kristin Loveland)
[advisor: Gail Kaiser]

Cheoljoo Jeong
Best Paper Finalist

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (“Async-08”),
“Block-Level Relaxation for Timing-Robust Asynchronous Circuits Based on Eager Evaluation”
(co-author: Steven Nowick)
[advisor: Steven Nowick]

Peggy McGee and Melinda Agyekum
Best Paper Finalist

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (“Async-08”),
“A Level-Encoded Transition Signaling Protocol for High-Throughput Asynchronous Global Communication”
(co-authors: Moustafa Mohamed and Steven Nowick)
[advisor: Steven Nowick]

Vishal Singh
Student Paper Finalist

2008 International Conference on Internet Multimedia Service Architecture and Application (“IMSAA-08”)
“A New SIP Event Package For Group Membership Management in Advanced Communications”
(co-authors: Henning Schulzrinne, Piotr Bio)
[advisor: Henning Schulzrinne]

Ian Vo
2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Honorable Mention

2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Award competition by the Computing Research Association (“CRA”),
“Quality Assurance of Software Applications Using the In Vivo Testing Approach”
(co-authors: Christian Murphy, Gail Kaiser, Matt Chu)
[advisor: Gail Kaiser]

Alex Olwal
CHI 2008 Best Paper Honorable Mention

2008 ACM CHI Conference,
“Rubbing and tapping for precise and rapid selection on touch-screen displays”
(co-authors: Steven Feiner, Susanna Heyman)
[advisor: Steven Feiner]

Gabor Blasko
Nominee for IEEE ISWC 2006 Best Paper Award

2006 ISWC Conference (IEEE Int. Symp. on Wearable Computers),
“Evaluation of an eyes-free cursorless numeric entry system for wearable computers”
(co-author: Steven Feiner)
[advisor: Steven Feiner]

Suhit Gupta,
David Neistadt,
Peter Grimm
Best/Student Paper Finalist

2003 International World Wide Web Conference,
“DOM-Based Content Extraction of HTML Documents”
(co-author: Gail Kaiser)
[advisor: Gail Kaiser]

Montek Singh
Best Paper Finalist

2002 IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits & Systems (“Async-02”),
“An Adaptively-Pipelined Mixed Synchronous-Asynchronous Digital FIR Filter Chip Operating at 1.3 GigaHertz.”
(co-authors: J.A. Tierno, A. Rylyakov, S. Rylov, S.M. Nowick)
[advisor: Steven Nowick]

Srinivasa G. Narasimhan
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award

2000 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
“Chromatic Framework for Vision in Bad Weather”,
(co-author: Shree Nayar)
[advisor: Shree Nayar]

Michael Theobald
Best Paper Finalist

1998 IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits & Systems (“Async-98”),
“An Implicit Method for Hazard-Free Two-Level Logic Minimization”
(co-author: Steven Nowick)
[advisor: Steven Nowick]

Kristin Dana
Best Paper of the Session

1997 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
“Reflectance and Texture of Real-World Surfaces Authors”
(co-authors: Shree K. Nayar, Bram van Ginneken, Jan J. Koenderink)
[advisor: Shree Nayar]

Billibon Yoshimi
Best Student Paper Finalist

1994 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,
“Active, Uncalibrated Visual Servoing”
(co-authors: Peter Allen)
[advisor: Peter Allen]

Monnett Hanvey
Best Student Paper Finalist

1990 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (“ICRA-90”),
“Reactive and Preplanned Control in a Mobile Robot”
(co-author: none)
[advisor: John R. Kender]