VT Department of Computer Science
Highlights: April-June 2022

1. The following PhD students were awarded summer fellowships by the department: Jessie Harden (Nance Fellowship), Joshua Detwiler (Nance Fellowship), Jiameng Pu (Kafura Fellowship), Fengjiao Li (Kafura Fellowship).
2. Bo Ji was invited to give the Renouard Distinguished Lecture at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Gonzaga University.
3. Daphne Yao gave an invited talk at Zhejiang University.
4. Daphne Yao received an Inspiring Innovator Award from Virginia Tech's LINK+LICENSE+LAUNCH.
5. PhD student Xinyu Yang received a 2022 Black Hat Student Scholarship. Xinyu is advised by Peng Gao.
6. Kurt Luther and PhD student Vikram Mohanty received a People's Choice Award from an NSF I-Corps (national) cohort for their team's final presentation.
7. MS Student Emma Meno was a finalist for the COE Torgersen Graduate Student Research Excellence Award.
8. Papers accepted in top conferences:
   • Brown, ESEC/FSE 2022
   • Cho, I. Chen, ICWSM 2022
   • Hicks, USENIX Security 2022
   • Ji, IEEE ICCCN 2022
   • Ji, IEEE WiOpt 2022
   • Kelliher, McCrickard, CSCW 2022
   • Lee, ACM UIST 2022
   • Luther, AIES 2022
   • Ramakrishnan, KDD 2022
   • Viswanath, IEEE S&P 2023
9. Papers accepted in top journals:
   • Cho, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
   • Gulzar, Meng, ACM Trans on Software Engineering
   • Lu, Ramakrishnan, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
   • Yao, Communications Medicine

New External Funding (with CS PI)

1. Cho, Agency for Defense Development (South Korea), "DALNIM: Dependency-based Assessment of Litigious Network events Impacting the Mission," $260,000.
2. Chung, CCI, "Improving routing security with a complete view of Routing Origin Validation (ROV) in RPKI," $15,000.
3. Chung, Comcast, "Towards a complete view of Route Origin Validation in RPKI," $75,000.
4. Hasan, NSF, "RINGS: Reshaping the Last Mile for High Availability and Resilience," $286,501.
5. Hoang, CCI, "Verifiable and Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning as a Service," $15,000.
6. Huang, Meta, "Towards Robust and Scalable Multimodal Entity Linking," $110,001.
7. Luther, NSF, "I-Corps: Historical Photo Identification with Crowdsourcing and Automated Face Recognition," $49,309.
8. Raghvendra, NSF, "Efficient Algorithms for Optimal Transport in Geometric Settings," $308,000.
9. Yao, CCI, "Market Research for No-train AI in Enterprise Defense-in-depth Applications," $30,000.
10. Yao, CCI, "High Accuracy Automatic Code Repair for Mission-critical Software," $75,000.

Professional Service, Recognition, and Outreach

1. Adrian Sandu received a College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research.
2. Daphne Yao received a College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research.
3. Ali Butt received a College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Service.
4. Anuj Karpatne received a College Award for Outstanding New Assistant Professor.
5. Jin-Hee Cho was recognized by the College as a Faculty Fellow.
6. Dwight Barnette received the Department Outstanding Contribution in Teaching Award.
7. Doug Bowman received the Department Outstanding Contribution in Faculty Service Award.
8. Robert Marcum received the Department Outstanding Contribution in Administrative Service Award.
9. Muhammad Gulzar received the Department Rising Star Faculty Award.
10. Recent PhD recipient Setor Zilevu was named one of the top global 35 Innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review.
11. The leadership of the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2022) included several Virginia Tech faculty members: Kirk Cameron (General Co-chair), Dimitris Nikolopoulous (Program Co-Chair), Ali Butt (Finance Chair).
12. Daphne Yao joined the Steering Committee for NDSS.
13. Dan Williams will serve as Program Committee Co-chair for USENIX ATC 2023
14. Bo Ji will serve as Workshop Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2023
15. Bo Ji was named a Senior Member of the ACM.
16. Dawei Zhou has joined the editorial board of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
17. Dawei Zhou will serve on the senior program committee for CIKM 2022.
18. Na Meng received the Distinguished Reviewer Award from the 30th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2022).
19. Trey Mayo, Director of Graduate Programs, was named to the 40 Under 40 Class of 2022 Alumni Recognition Program at Old Dominion University

PhD Students Successfully Defending

1. Stefan Nagy, "Practical Feedback and Instrumentation Enhancements for Performant Security Testing of Closed-source Executables," Hicks (chair).
2. Yuan Li, "Assisting Spatial Referencing for Collaborative Augmented Reality," Bowman (chair).
3. Xianhao Jin, "Cost-saving in Continuous Integration: Development, Improvement, and Evaluation of Build Selection Approaches," Servant (chair).
4. Debanjan Datta, "A Framework for Automated Discovery and Analysis of Suspicious Trade Records," Ramakrishnan (chair).
5. Subhodip Biswas, "Spatial optimization techniques for redistricting," Ramakrishnan (chair).
6. Chandani Shrestha, "ThoughtSwap: Reinfrastructuring Classroom Discourse," Tatar (chair).

Other Notables

1. The initial cohort of Innovation Campus faculty includes CS faculty members Kirk Cameron, Sara Hooshangi, CT Lu, Kurt Luther, and Naren Ramakrishnan
2. Master's recipient Neelma Bhatti spoke at the the Graduate School commencement ceremony. In addition, retiring staff member Roxanne Paul spoke at the D.C. area commencement ceremony.