VT Department of Computer Science
Highlights: 3rd Quarter 2017

1. CS PhD student Elaheh Raisi was lead author on a paper recognized with the best paper award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2017). The paper, "Cyberbullying Detection with Weakly Supervised Machine Learning," was co-authored with her advisor, Bert Huang.
2. Briane Goode received one of the two innovation awards in the Fragile Families Challenge (http://www.fragilefamilieschallenge.org/), organized by Princeton University.
3. Papers accepted in top tier conferences and journals:
   • ICS 2017, Wu Feng (2 papers)
   • KDD 2017, Madhav Marathe and Naren Ramarkrishnan
   • FOCS 2017, Sharath Raghvendra
   • IJCAI 2017, CT Lu (2 papers)
   • NIPS 2017, Bert Huang
   • SC 2017, Ali Butt
   • SODA 2018, Sharath Raghvendra (2 papers)
   • ACM TOPS, Danfeng Yao and Naren Ramakrishnan
   • Proceedings of the IEEE, CT Lu and Naren Ramakrishnan

New Funding

1. Ramakrishnan, Lockheed Martin, "Integrated Tipping and Cueing," $90,000
2. Butt, General Dynamics Mission Systems, "Data Plane Management," $190,000.
3. Wang, Yao, NSF, "Securing Web‐to‐Mobile Interface Through Characterization and Detection of Malicious Deep Links," $500,000.
4. Tilevich, NSF, "Systematic Quality Analysis and Improvement for Block-Based Software: Promoting the Culture of Quality From the Ground Up," $300,000.
5. Tilevich, NSF, "Perpetuum Mobile: Orchestrating the Provisioning of Pervasive Resources for Emerging Mobile Applications" $500,000.
6. Ramakrishnan, Lockheed Martin, "Cognitive Fusion," $70,000.
7. Shaffer and Edwards, NSF, "Community-Building and Infrastructure Design for Data-Intensive Research in Computer Science Education," $268,941.
8. Feng, LLNL, "Directive-Based Pipeline Extensions and Unified Memory for GPU Computing," $71,203.
9. Sandu, NSF, "Space‐Time Parallel Algorithms for Solving PDE‐Constrained Optimization Problems," $500,000.
10. Chen, AFOSR, "Rule Specification-based Misbehavior Detection for IoT-Embedded Cyber Physical Systems," $300,000.

Professional Service, Recognitions, and Outreach

1. Dwight Barnette, Steve Edwards, and Margaret Ellis, along with several students, led a week-long TechGirls camp for 28 girls from North Africa and the Middle East. The program, organized by CEED, received extensive media coverage.
2. Daphne Yao is co-chair of the 1st Workshop for Women in Cybersecurity (CyberW), to be held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), on October 30.
3. Daphne Yao was selected as Program Committee Chair for the IEEE Cybersecurity Development (SecDev) 2018 Conference.
4. Eli Tilevich will serve as Program Committee Chair for the 15th International Conference on Managed Languages & Runtimes (ManLang 2018)
5. Kurt Luther will serve as co-chair of the Program Committee for the Collective Intelligence 2018 conference.
6. Ed Fox will serve as lead Program Committee Co-Chair for the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2018)

PhD Students Completing

1. Sichao Wu, "Computational Framework for Uncertainty Quantification, Sensitivity Analysis and Experimental Design of Network-based Computer Simulation Models," Madhav Marathe (chair)
2. Saurav Ghosh, "Text Analytics Methods for Global Infectious Disease Surveillance using Online News Media," Naren Ramakrishnan (chair)
3. Jing Zhang, "Transforming and Optimizing Irregular Applications for Parallel Architectures," Wu Feng (chair)
4. Farzaneh Tabataba, "On the 3 M's of Epidemic Forecasting: Methods, Measures, and Metrics," Madhav Marathe (chair)
5. Wei Wang, "Event Detection and Extraction from News Articles," Naren Ramakrishnan (chair)
6. Md Hasanuzzaman Bhuiyan, "Parallel Algorithms for Switching Edges and Generating Random Graphs from Given Degree Sequences using HPC Platforms," Madhav Marathe (chair)
7. Yao Zhang, "Optimizing and Understanding Network Structure for Diffusion," Aditya Prakash (chair)
8. S M Shamimul Hasan, "A Semantic Web-Based Digital Library Infrastructure to Facilitate Computational Epidemiology," Ed Fox and Madhav Marathe (co-chairs)
9. Andrew Reach, "Smooth Interactive Visualization," Chris North (chair)
10. Anamary Leal, "Negotiating Ambiguity in Describing Fabrics Through Technology," Steve Harrison (chair)
11. Yinlin Chen, "A High-quality Digital Library Supporting Computing Education: The Ensemble Approach," Ed Fox (chair)