VT Department of Computer Science
Highlights: 3rd Quarter 2016

Notable Publications and Scholarship
  1. Aleksander V. Drozdetski, Igor S. Tolokh, Lois Pollack, Nathan Baker, and Alexey V. Onufriev, "Opposing Effects of Multivalent Ions on the Flexibility of DNA and RNA," Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 028101 (2016). Featured as the cover story.
  2. Vignesh Adhinarayanan, Indrani Paul, Joseph Greathouse, Wei Huang, Ashutosh Pattnaik, Wu-chun Feng, "Measuring and Modeling On-chip Interconnect Power on Real Hardware," IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC 2016). Won best paper award.
  3. CS faculty and students presented six research papers and one tutorial at the 22nd ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2016), the premier annual international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining. The most viewed video and the second most downloaded paper at KDD were written by VT CS students and faculty.
  4. CS PhD student Wei Wang published his paper in Science describing the first large-scale study of the effectiveness of event coding research.
  5. Qingrui Liu, Changhee Jung, Dongyoon Lee, and Devesh Tiwari, "Low-Cost Soft Error Resilience with Unified Data Verification and Fine-Grained Recovery," to appear in IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2016. First VT paper to be accepted in this prestigious conference.

New Funding

  1. Feng, SSAI, "HPC Development using Rapid Prototyping with GLA," $22,667.
  2. Murali, NSF, "Cell Signaling Hypergraphs: Algorithms and Applications," $287,993.
  3. Tilevich, NSF, "Addressing Resource Scarcity via Distributed Mobile Services," $100,000.
  4. Cameron et al., "VarSys: Managing variability in high-performance computing systems," $3,000,000.
  5. Sandu, NSF, "Multirate Multimethod Time Integration Algorithms for Multiscale Multiphysics Problems," $500,000.
  6. Murali, Luther, NIH, "Using Crowdsourced Design to Visualize Effects of Environmental Chemicals on Signaling Networks," $626,159.
  7. Reddy, NSF, "An Integrated Predictive Modeling Framework for Crowdfunding Environments," $99,858.
  8. Fox, NSF, "Global Event and Trend Archive Research (GETAR)," $446,000.
  9. Cao, Tyson (Bio), NSF, "Identifying and modeling the advantages of regulating protein abundance in Caulobacter crescentus," $270,650.
  10. Kafura et al., NSF, "A Scaffolded Data-Centric Approach to Improved Learning of Introductory Computing Concepts,"$594,314.
  11. Edwards, NSF, "Promoting a Growth Mindset Using Automated Feedback," $367,382.
  12. Yao, NSF, "Privacy‐enhancing CrowdPCR for Early Epidemic Detection," $50,000.
  13. Lu, Northrop Grumman, "Cyber and Advanced Data Analytics and Processing," $50,000.

Professional Service and Outreach

  1. Wu Feng has been named Steering Committee Chair for the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP).
  2. C.T. Lu has been named General Chair for the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD 2017).
  3. SeeMore, a kinetic sculpture project led by Kirk Cameron and Sam Blanchard (SOVA), was named the 2nd greatest Raspberry Pi project ever by MagPi magazine.

PhD Student Defenses

  1. Peter Radics, "A Novel Approach to Modeling Contextual Privacy Preference and Practice," Nicholas Polys (chair).
  2. Maoyuan Sun, "Visual Analytics with Biclusters: Exploring Coordinated Relationships in Context," Chris North (chair).
  3. S M Arifuzzaman, "Parallel Mining and Analysis of Triangles and Communities in Big Networks," Madhav Marathe (chair).
  4. Ning Zhang, "Attack and Defense with Hardware-Aided Security," Wenjing Lou (chair).
  5. Mohamed Farag, "Intelligent Event Focused Crawling," Ed Fox and Riham Mansour (co-chairs).
  6. Pejman Khadivi, "Online Denoising Solutions for Forecasting Applications," Naren Ramakrishnan (chair).
  7. Ahmed Attia, "Advanced Sampling Methods for Solving Large-Scale Inverse Problems," Adrian Sandu (chair).
  8. K S M Tozammel Hossain, "Couplings for Modeling Evolutionary Constraints and Improving Multiple Sequence Alignments," Naren Ramakrishnan (chair).
  9. Shuo Wang, "Analysis and Application of Haseltine and Rawlings's Hybrid ODE/SSA Stochastic Simulation Algorithm," Yang Cao (chair).
  10. Huijuan Shao, "Temporal Mining Approaches for Smart Buildings Research," Naren Ramakrishnan (chair).
  11. Serdar Aslan, "Digital Educational Games: Methodologies for Development and Software Quality," Osman Balci (chair)
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