VT Department of Computer Science
Highlights: 2nd Quarter 2017

Notable Publications and Scholarship
  1. The 2nd edition of Doug Bowman's widely acclaimed book "3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice," was published by Addison-Wesley. Doug's co-authors are Joseph LaViola, Ernst Kruijff, (VT CS alum) Ryan McMahan, and Ivan Poupyrev.
  2. CS PhD student Bo Li was lead author on a paper recognized with the best paper award at the 26th International Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2017). The paper, "COS: A parallel performance model for dynamic variations in processor speed, memory speed, and thread concurrency," was co-authored with Edgar Leon (LLNL) and Bo's advisor, Kirk Cameron.
  3. Daphne Yao gave the opening keynote address at the Fifth International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (SCC), held in conjunction with the 12th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS).

New Funding

  1. Lee, Agency for Defense Development (ROK), "Study on evaluation and verification methods for security improving code transformation," $180,000.
  2. Feng, Argonne National Lab (ANL), "Performance Evaluation and Optimization of Parallel Runtime Systems for Large-Scale, Data-Analytics Applications on HPC Supercomputing Environments," $98,815.
  3. Yao et al., ONR, "Data-driven Vulnerability Repair in Programs with a Cloud Analytics Architecture for Practical Deployment," $1,200,000.
  4. Ramakrishnan, NSWC Dalhgren, "Big Data Analysis," $78,437.
  5. Gracanin, Washington County Public Schools, "Using Microsoft HoloLens Mixed-Reality Device in Curriculum Development," $9,461.

Professional Service, Recognition, and Outreach

  1. Godmar Back received the College of Engineering Dean's Award for Teaching
  2. Anil Vullikanti was recognized as a College of Engineering Faculty Fellow.
  3. Cliff Shaffer received the 2017 XCaliber Award from TLOS.
  4. Cliff Shaffer received a 2017 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award from CIDER.
  5. Danfeng Yao was elected Secretary/Treasurer of the ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC)

PhD Students Completing

  1. Doaa Altarawy, "DeTangle: A Framework for Interactive Prediction and Visualization of Gene Regulatory Networks," Lenny Heath (chair)
  2. Fatma Eid, "Predicting the Interactions of Viral and Human Proteins," Lenny Heath (chair)
  3. Haitham Elmarakeby, "Deep Learning for Biological Problems," Lenny Heath (chair)
  4. Mohammed Seyam , "Multifaceted Approach for Teaching Mobile Software Development: Class Experiences With Lectures, Tutorials, and Pair Programming," Scott McCrickard (chair)
  5. Hanaa Torkey, "Machine Learning Approaches for Identifying microRNA Targets and Conserved Protein Complexes," Lenny Heath (chair)
  6. Yao Wang, "Exploring the Role of Prospective Memory in Location-Based Reminders," Manuel Perez-Quinonez (chair)
  7. Ayat Mohammed, "High-dimensional Data in Scientific Visualization: Representation, Fusion and Difference," Nicholas Polys (chair).
  8. Andrew Warren, "Methods for Analysis of Prokaryotic Genome Architecture," Lenny Heath and Joao Setubal (co-chairs)
  9. Yue Cheng, "Workload-aware data management towards more efficient storage: A systemic and algorithmic perspective," Ali Butt (chair).
  10. Fang Liu, "Mining Security Risks from Massive Datasets," Danfeng Yao (chair)
  11. Umar Kalim, "Cognizant Networks: A Model and Framework for Session-based Communications and Adaptive Networking," Wu Feng (chair)

Graduate Program Factoid: the Department awarded 32 PhD degrees this past year, equaling our high for one year.

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