VT CS Highlights --- 2018 Q2

New Funding

Wang, NSF, "CAREER: Machine Learning Assisted Crowdsourcing for Phishing Defense," $538,522.
Mayer, Ford, "Rapid Predictive Analytical Model Deployment in Vehicles" $204,396.
Butt, NSF, "Workshop on Data Storage Research Vision," $49,999.
Prakash, ORNL, "Designing interactive systems for Critical Infrastructure Analysis," $20,000.
Butt, ORNL, "Large-Scale Machine Learning" $31,559.
Jung, ETRI (Korea), "Efficient Compiler-Architecture Co-Design for Intermittent Energy-Harvesting Systems," $26,500.
Lee, NSF, "Repurposing Spatial Memory Safety Support in Commodity Processors for Temporal Memory Safety, Other Program Analyses, Hardware‐Accelerated Data Structures, and More," $500,000.
Ramakrishnan, IARPA, "Cost-Effective Semi-Automated Identification, Classification, and Coding of Significant Societal Events," $1,113,612.
Feng, DoD via NSF, "End-to-End Productivity for Heterogeneous Computing," $80,000

Professional Service, Recognition, and Outreach

Bert Huang received a 2018 Excellence in Access and Inclusion Award from VT's Services for Students with Disabilities office.
Wu Feng was named an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Daphne Yao gave a keynote presentation at ACM SACMAT 2018
Doug Bowman gave a keynote presentation at Graphics Interface 2018
Godmar Back received a 2018 ICPC Foundation Coach Award, in recognition for bringing teams to the ICPC World Finals five (consecutive) times
Madhav Marathe received a Dean's Award for Excellence in Research
Steve Edwards received a Dean's Award for Excellence in Service
Kurt Luther received a College Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award
Daphne Yao received a College Faculty Fellow Award
Osman Balci received the W.S. "Pete" White Award in Engineering Education
Steve Harrison received a College Certificate of Teaching Excellence
Barbara Ryder received the 2018 TCSE Distinguished Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Leadership Award
Wenjing Lou recieved the Alumni Award for Excellence in Research
Wenjing Lou was named W.C. English Professor
Aditya Prakash was recognized as one of "AI's 10 to Watch" by IEEE Intelligent Systems
Amy Loeffler received a Silver Award in the 2018 Association for Communication Excellence (ACE) Critique and Awards Program.
Alumna Lucy Nowell was inducted into the Academy of Engineering Excellence

PhD Students Successfully Defending

Ahmed Abdelnaeim Elbery, "Large-Scale Modeling of Smart Cities Considering the Mutual Impact of Transportation and Communication Systems," Marathe (co-chair with Rakha)
Ali Anwar, "Towards Efficient and Flexible Object Storage Using Resource and Functional Partitioning," Butt (chair)
Mariam Umar, "Energy and Performance Models Enabling Design Space Exploration for High Performance Computing," Cameron (chair)
Siddharth Krishnan, "Seeing the Forest for the Trees: New approaches to Characterizing and Forecasting Cascades," Heath (chair)
Kaixi Hou, "Exploring Performance Portability for Accelerators via High-level Parallel Patterns," Feng (chair)
Yue Ning, "Capturing Precursors: Information Reciprocity, Event Modeling and Forecasting," Ramakrishnan (chair)
Wenhai Sun, "Towards Secure Outsourced Data Services in the Public Cloud," Lou (chair)
Changlai Du, "Exploring the Sensing Capability of Wireless Signals," Lou (chair)
Ke Tian, "Learning-based Mobile App Analysis and Binary Customization for Security," Yao (chair)
Wallace Lages, "Walk-Centric User Interfaces for Mixed Reality," Bowman (chair)
Andrey Esakia, "Smartwatch Centered System for Facilitating Group Processes of Small Teams in a Statewide Health Promotion Program," McCrickard (chair)
Rupinder Paul Khandpur, "Augmenting Dynamic Query Expansion in Microblog Texts," Ramakrishnan (chair), Lu (co-chair)

Notable Publications