VT Department of Computer Science
Highlights: July-September 2019

1. PhD student Zheng Song and his advisor, Eli Tilevich, received the best paper award at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing for their paper entitled "A Programming Model for Reliable and Efficient Edge-Based Execution Under Resource Variability."
2. Wu Feng and co-authors Mohamed Hassan (ECE PhD student) and Scott Pakin (LANL) were recognized with the Innovative Paper Award at the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference. Their paper is entitled "C to D-Wave: A high-level C compilations framework for quantum annealers."
3. PhD student Frank Wanye, along with advisor Wu Feng and collaborator Vitaliy Gleyzer (MIT Lincon Lab), was recognized with the Graph Challenge Student Innovation Award at the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference. Their contribution is entitled "Fast stochastic block partitioning via sampling".
4. Dimitris Nikolopoulos was co-author on a paper recognized with a best paper award 17th International Conference on Manufacturing Research.
5. Papers accepted in top conferences:
   • Jian, Micro 2019
   • Raghvendra, NeurIPS 2019
   • Yao, CCS 2019 (2 papers)
   • Gracanin, IEEE VIS 2019
   • Servant, FSE 2019 (2 papers)
   • Reddy, CIKM 2019 (2 papers)
   • Bowman, ISMAR 2019
   • Luther, CSCW 2019 (2 papers)
   • Luther, HCOMP 2019
   • Lu & Ramakrishnan, IJCAI 2019
   • Lu, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019
   • Feng, PACT 2019
6. Papers accepted in top journals:
   • Hicks, IEEE Micro
   • Cho & Chen, IEEE Access
   • Lu & Reddy, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering
   • Lu, ACM Trans. on Knowledge Discovery from Data
   • Nikolopoulos, ACM Trans. on Parallel Computing
   • Feng, IEEE Trans. on Parallel & Distributed Systems
   • Murali, PLOS Computational Biology
   • Onufriev, J. of Chemical Theory and Computation

New Funding (with CS PI)

1. Onufriev, NIH, ""Accurate yet fast implicit solvation," $420,691.
2. Onufriev, NIH, "Explicit ions in implicit solvent: fast and accurate," $378,839.
3. Cao, NSF, "Spatial Stochastic Modeling and Simulation with application in the Caulobacter Cell Cycle control," $499,906.
4. Lou, NSF, "Toward Enforceable Data Usage Control in Cloud‐based IoT Systems," $749,988.
5. Lou, NSF, "S2Guard: Building Security and Safety in Autonomous Vehicles via Multi-Layer Protection" $1,000,000.
6. Butt, NSF, "Cross‐stack Memory Optimizations for Boosting I/O Performance of Deep Learning HPC Applications," $952,884.
7. Cameron, NSF, "iLORE: Computer Systems Performance Integrated Lineage Repository," $500,000.
8. Yao, NSF, "Deployment‐quality and Accessible Solutions for Cryptography Code Development," $1,200,000.
9. Feng, NSF/Capital One, "An Integrated Approach to HPC, ML, and Big Data," $40,000.
10. Feng, NSF/AMD, "Automated Task Scheduling at Run Time in Heterogeneous Computing Environments," $60,000.

Professional Service, Recognition, and Outreach

1. Jin-Hee Cho accepted a position on the Editorial Board for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
2. Dimitris Nikolopoulos was appointed to the Strategic Advisory Team for the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
3. Daphne Yao chaired the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Committee for the Best Dissertation Award

PhD Students Successfully Defending

1. Saima Tithi, "Computational Analysis of Viruses in Metagenomic Data," Zhang (chair)
2. John Wenskovitch, "Dimension Reduction and Clustering for Interactive Visual Analytics," North (chair)
3. Xiaodong Yu, "Fast and Scalable Cybersecurity: Algorithms, and Frameworks for Accelerating Security Applications on HPC Platforms," Yao (chair)
4. Run Yu, "Designing Coherent Interactions for Virtual Reality," Bowman (chair)
5. Shuo Niu, "Investigating Awareness-Supporting Techniques in Co-located Sensemaking," McCrickard (chair)