VT Department of Computer Science
Highlights: July-September 2020

1. Matthew Hicks work (Defensive Wire Routing for Untrusted Integrated Circuit Fabrication) was awarded a 2020 R&D 100 Award.
2. Sang Won Lee was co-author on a paper that received the best short paper award at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages & Human-Centric Computing.
3. Dimitrios Nikolopoulos received an HiPEAC Paper Award for a paper he co-authored that appeared at ASPLOS 2020.
4. Kurt Luther gave one of two invited "Frontiers Talks" at SIGGRAPH 2020.
5. Ed Fox gave an invited keynote talk at JCDL 2020
6. Ed Fox will give an invited keynote talk at ETD 2020
7. Papers accepted in top conferences:
   • Butt, USENIX ATC 2020
   • Butt, HiPC 2020
   • Cho, NeurIPS 2020
   • Chung, IMC 2020
   • Gulzar, ASE 2020
   • Gulzar, SoCC 2020
   • Ji, NeurIPS 2020
   • Lee, HFES 2020
   • Lee, VL/HCC 2020
   • Meng, ASE 2020
   • Murali, PSB 2021
   • North & Luther, VIS 2020
   • Raghvendra, SODA 2021
   • Reddy, EMNLP 2020
   • Reddy & Viswanath, ACSAC 2020
   • Servant, IEEE S&P 2021
   • Wenskovitch & North, VIS 2020
8. Papers accepted in top journals:
   • Chen, IEEE Access
   • Cho, ACM Trans on Intelligent Systems and Technology
   • Cho, IEEE Trans on Cybernetics
   • Ji, IEEE Internet of Things Journal
   • Ji, IEEE Trans on Network and Service Management
   • Murali, Bioinformatics
   • Nikolopoulos, IEEE Trans on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
   • Nikolopoulos, IEEE Trans on Computers
   • Reddy & Ramakrishnan, IEEE Trans on Data Science

New External Funding (with CS PI)

1. Bowman, ONR, "Virtually Co-Located Augmented Reality Spaces for Visualization, Training, and Navigation," $52,118.
2. Bowman, Carilino Medical Center, "The Virtual Loupe: A Pilot Study Demonstrating the Use of Mixed Reality in Surgery," $10,000.
3. Lou, ARO, "A Special Workshop on AI Safety," $25,000.
4. Meng, NSF, "Reuse and Migration of GUI Tests," $250,000.
5. Ramakrishnan, Princeton University, "Automated Extraction, Encoding, and Modeling of Hate Incidents," $60,000.
6. Sandu, DOE, "Fast outer loop solution algorithms based on a coherent coupling of physical and machine learning models," $525,000.

Professional Service, Recognition, and Outreach

1. Chandan Reddy was named an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Big Data.
2. Bo Ji will serve as co-chair of the Technical Program Committee for the 33rd International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 2021).
3. Barbara Ryder is serving on the Selection Committee for the newly established ACM India Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman Award.

PhD Students Successfully Defending

1. Bharti Wadhwa, "Scalable Data Management for Object-based Storage Systems," Butt (chair)
2. Arnab Paul, "An Application-Attuned Framework for Optimizing HPC Storage Systems," Butt (chair)
3. Sazzadur Rahaman, "From Theory to Practice: Deployment-grade Tools and Methodologies for Software Security," Yao (chair)
4. Amirsina Torfi, "Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Medical Data Generation with Deep Learning," Fox (chair)
5. Mansooreh Ahmadian, "Hybrid Modeling and Simulation of Stochastic Effects on Biochemical Regulatory Networks," Cao, Tyson (co-chairs)
6. Aditya Bharadwaj, " Mixed-initiative methods for following design guidelines in creative tasks," Luther, Murali (co-chairs)
7. Ziqian Song, "The Impact of Corporate Crisis on Stock Returns: An Event-driven Approach," Fox, Fan (co-chairs)
8. Steve Jan, "Robustifying Machine Learning based Security Applications," Viswanath, Wang (co-chairs)
9. Thomas Lux, "Interpolants, Error Bounds, and Mathematical Software for Modeling and Predicting Variability in Computer Systems," Watson, Hong (co-chairs)
10. Manu Shukla, "Big Data tools based Distribution of Graph and Applied Learning Techniques," Lu (chair)
11. Nannan Zhao, "Towards a flexible high-efficiency storage system for containerized applications," Butt (chair)