VT Department of Computer Science
Highlights: October-December 2021

1. Steve Harrison was recognized with the Lasting Impact Award from CSCW 2021, for his 1996 paper with Paul Dourish, "Replaceing space: the roles of place and space in collaborative systems.”
2. Kurt Luther gave a keynote talk at the "Behind the Scenes of the City" conference held at the Stockholm City Museum, Sweden.
3. Peng Gao gave invited talks at Nanjing University and at the 2021 Westlake International Forum on Cyber Security Research (organized by Zhejiang University).
4. Papers accepted in top conferences:
   • Eldardiry, IEEE Big Data 2021
   • Hicks, ASPLOS 2022 (2 papers)
   • Hoang, NDSS 2022
   • Hoang, USENIX Security 2022
   • Ji, IEEE INFOCOM 2022
   • Lee, CHI 2022
   • Reddy, AAAI 2022
   • Reddy, WSDM 2022
5. Papers accepted in top journals:
   • Cho, IEEE Trans on Network and Service Management
   • Fox & Reddy, Information Sciences
   • Luther & Murali, ACM Trans on Computer-Human Interaction
   • Nikolopoulos, Future Generation Computer Systems
   • Onufriev, Nature Communications
   • Seyam, IEEE Access
   • Yang, IEEE Trans on Visualization & Computer Graphics

New External Funding (with CS PI)

1. Reddy, PNNL, "Holonic approach towards Data Model Convergence," $68,001.
2. Cho, CCI, "Deep Resilience for Multifaceted Federated Learning in Internet-of-Everything," $125,000.
3. Gao, CCI, "Automated Construction of Threat Knowledge Graph for ICS Security," $125,000.
4. Feng, LLNL, "Disaggregated Persistent Memory Datastores for High-Performance Data Science,” $62,522.
5. Hu, Meta, "Core Techniques and Algorithms for Scalable Geo-distributed Data Analytics," $50,000.
6. Yao, ONR, "Soft Auditing on Trust for Detecting Clandestine Executions with Maximum Deployability,” $900,000.
7. Hoang, Bosch, "Privacy-Enhancing Technologies," $50,000.

Professional Service, Recognition, and Outreach

1. Dimitrios Nikolopoulos will serve as Program Chair for the 36th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing
2. Chandan Reddy will serve as Program Co-Chair for Deep Learning Day at KDD 2022.
3. Thang Hoang will serve as Short Talks Chair for IEEE S&P 2022.
4. Bo Ji recieved an Excellent Editor Award from the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
5. Sang Won Lee served as Online Experience Chair for the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) and as Technology Chair for the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP).
6. Yalong Yang served on the Program Committee for IEEE VR 2022.

PhD Students Successfully Defending

1. You Lu, "Modeling Structured Data with Invertible Generative Models," Bert Huang (chair).
2. Md Salman Ahmed, "Quantitative Metrics and Measurement Methodologies for System Security Assurance ," Yao (chair).
3. Lei Zhang (iPhD in Human-Centered Design), "Investigating Interactivity and Storytelling in Immersive Virtual Reality for Science Education," Bowman (chair).