VT Department of Computer Science
Highlights: January-March 2018

1. Ramakrishnan, Mayfair Group, "Deposition Summarization," $255,615.
2. Jung, NSF, "CAREER: Rethinking HPC Resilience in the Exascale Era," $521,718.
3. Prakash, NSF, "CAREER: Bridging the Data Model Gap," $550,000.
4. Bowman, Google, Faculty Research Award from Google's AR/VR Research Program, $47,753.
5. Wang, Google, Google Faculty Research Award, $54,735.
6. Ramakrishnan, DHS-GMU Center for Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis, $75,000.
7. Mitra, NSF, "Empirical and Design Investigations to Address Misleading Online News in Social Media", $174,831.
8. Butt, NSF, "Improving Functional Reusability of Scalable Resource Management Frameworks," $180,001.
9. Lou, NSF, "A Novel Approach to Achieve Real-time Wireless Network Optimization," $300,000.

Professional Service, Recognition, and Outreach

1. Madhav Marathe was named a SIAM Fellow
2. Rachel Kohler received the William Preston Thesis Award from the Graduate School, which recognizes the outstanding MS thesis in STEM. Rachel was advised by Kurt Luther.
3. Gustavo Arango Argoty received the award for outstanding doctoral student in an interdisciplinary program from the Graduate School. Gustavo is advised by Liqing Zhang.
4. Danfeng Yao received a patent "Detection of Stealthy Malware Activities with Traffic Causality and Scalable Triggering Relation Discovery."

PhD Students Successfully Defending

1. Azam Zavar Moosavi, "Probabilistic and Statistical Learning Models for Error Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification," Adrian Sandu (chair)
2. Parang Saraf, "A Cost-Effective Semi-Automated Approach for Comprehensive Event Extraction," Naren Ramakrishnan (chair)
3. Jacob Porter, "Mapping Bisulfite-Treated Short DNA Reads," Liqing Zhang (chair)
4. Jia Guo, "Trust-based Service Management of Internet of Things Systems and Its Applications," Ing-Ray Chen (chair)
5. Liangzhe Chen, "Segmenting, Summarizing and Predicting Data Sequences," Aditya Prakash (chair)
6. Sebastien Corner (ME), "Modeling, Sensitivity Analysis, and Optimization of Hybrid, Constrained Mechanical Systems," Adrian Sandu (co-chair).

Notable Publications

1. Papers accepted in top conferences:
   • ISCA 2018, Jian
   • FAST 2018, Butt
   • NDSS 2018, Wang
   • HPDC 2018, Jung and Feng
   • IEEE VR 2018, Bowman
   • ICWSM 2018, Mitra
2. Papers accepted in top journals
   • IEEE Trans. on Dependable & Secure Computing, Chen
   • ACM/IEEE Trans. on Networking, Wang
   • IEEE Trans. on Parallel & Distributed Systems, Feng
   • Bioinformatics, Murali
   • J. Hydrology, Watson
   • IEEE Trans. Inform. Forensics Security, Watson