VT Department of Computer Science
Highlights: July - September 2018

1. Reddy, Criteo AI Lab Faculty Research Award, $25,000.
2. Reddy, NSF, "Data-driven Stratification and Prognosis for Traumatic Brain Injury", $695,600.
3. Murali, NSF, "ABI Innovation: Automated Prioritization and Design of Experiments to Validate and Improve Mathematical Models of Molecular Regulatory Systems," $1,520,000.
4. Feng, NSA via NSF-funded CHREC, $240,003
5. Lou, ARO, "Hardware-aided Secure Architecture for Software Defined Radio," $59,999.
6. Ramakrishnan, "Mercury Program Phase 2", $61,522.
7. Feng, LLNL, "Directive-Based Pipeline Extensions and Unified Memory for GPU Computing," $79,465.
8. Tatar, 4-VA, "Teaching STEM Ethics Through Conscientious Discussion," $95,000

Professional Service, Recognition, and Outreach

1. Daphne Yao received the Excellence in Community Service Award from the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy.
2. Kurt Luther with Vikram Mohanty (CS PhD student), David Thames (CS BS student). Won Grand Prize at the Microsoft Cloud AI Research Challenge
3. Doug Bowman was appointed to the Board on Army Research and Development at the National Academies

PhD Students Successfully Defending

1. Michael Stewart, "CoListen," Tatar (chair)
2. Xuan Zhang, "Product Defect Discovery and Summarization from Online User Reviews," Fan (chair), Fox (co-chair)

1. PhD student Bo Li was lead author on a paper recognized with a best paper award at the Eighth International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation (INFOCOMP 2018). The paper, "Understanding Power Measurement Capabilities on Zaius Power9," was co-authored by Edgar Leon and Kirk Cameron.
2. Bo Li received a LLNL Deputy Director’s Science and Technology Excellence in Publication Award in recognition of his paper (published at HPDC 17), which was co-authored by Edgar Leon (LLNL) and Bo's advisor, Kirk Cameron
3. Kurt Luther and students Vikram Mohanty and David Thames received the best poster/demo presentation award at The sixth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2018).
4. Sarunya Pumma and Wu Feng received a best poster award at the 47th International Conference on Parallel Processing
5. Papers accepted in top conferences:
   • MICRO 2018, Jian
   • MICRO 2018, Jung
   • MICRO 2018, Jung, Lee
   • SODA 2019, Raghvendra (2 papers)
   • IMC 2018, Yao, Wang
   • CCS 2018, Wang
   • UBICOMP 2018, Wang
   • SC 2018, Lee, Butt
   • ICDM 2018, Prakash
   • ICDM 2018 Ramakrishnan, Prakash
   • ICDM 2018 Cho
   • CIKM 2018, Reddy
   • PDC 2018, Harrison, Tatar (2 papers)
   • CSCW 2018, Harrison, Tatar
6. Papers accepted in top journals
   • IJDL, Fox
   • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DAMI) Journal, Prakash
   • SoftwareX, Feng
   • IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Cho
   • ACM Computing Surveys, Cho
   • Scientific Reports, Murali