Lance Stafford Larson Student Award

• Isabella Poles
• Politecnico di Milano
• Dongjoon Park
• University of Pennsylvania
• Laura Schütz
• Technical University of Munich
• Yipeng Xu
• University of Nottingham
• Rashedul Arefin Ifty
• International Islamic University Chittagong
• Govind A
• Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering

• Abhijay Gopal, Sai Sriram Engineering College
• Justin Jacob, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University
• Robert Moss, Stanford University
• Harshit J. Mowtani, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
• Himashi Peiris, Monash University
• Mohammad Saim, University of Cincinnati

Graduate

• Davide Conficconi & Eleonora D’Arnese, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Sricheta Parui, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Undergraduate

• Chamika Sudusinghe, University of Moratuwa, Southern Province
• Aniruddha Ganguly, Tasin Ishmam, and Khandker Aftarul Islam, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka
• Giulia Gerometta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Graduate

• Elba Garza and Samira Mirbagher-Ajorpaz, Texas A&M University
• James Meech, University of Cambridge
• Swapnil Sayan Saha, University of California-Los Angeles

Undergraduate

• Gloris Cedeño, Universidad de Panamá
• Gaurav Sethia, BMS Institute of Technology
• Naveen Pasupuleti, SRM University

Graduate

Mingzhang Huang and Amir Kafshdar Goharshady

Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)

Mingzhang Huang, a Ph.D. student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria, won first place with a paper “Modular Verification for Almost-Sure Termination of Probabilistic Programs” that considers the important and classical problem of finding automated proofs for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs. More specifically, the paper examines modular approaches for proving termination.

Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi is a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He took second place for the paper “Tangram: Integrated Control of Heterogeneous Computers,” which developed the fundamental insights to build the future control frameworks for resource-efficient heterogeneous and warehouse-scale computers. The paper addresses a serious problem in the computer industry and develops a new solution that substantially advances the state of the art.

Omer Melih Gul

Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey

Omer Melih Gul, Ph.D. candidate at Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey, received third place for the paper, which investigates a scheduling problem in a wireless sensor network where a fusion center collects data from the low-power energy harvesting sensors some of which may have insufficient energy for transmission in some time intervals. The paper proposes Uniforming Random Ordered Policy (UROP) to reduce the time and energy consumption of the sensors in the IoT era.

Undergraduate

Xiangjun Peng

The University of Nottingham Ningbo China

An undergraduate student from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Xiangjun Peng took the undergraduate prize with the paper “Succinct Representations in Collaborative Filtering: A Case Study using Wavelet Tree on 1,000 Cores.” The paper took the case study of Succinct Representations in Collaborative Filtering, rather than using a U-I Matrix to examine Succinct Data Structures as a new infrastructure of CF.

• Sai Thejeshwar, India
• Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Austria and Nastaran Okati, Iran

• Artur Luis Fernandes de Souza, Brazil
• Davide Quarta, Italy

• Ahnaf Rashik Hassan, Bangladesh

• Pawel Karol Frankowski, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

• Diego Mamsoler, Free University of Bozen, Italy
• Forest Iandola, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

• Spencer Prost, Arizona State University, United States

• Raihan Masud Khulna, University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh

• Jonathan Villianueva Tavira, Centro Nacional de Ivest y Desarrollo Tecnologia, Mexico

• Akin Gunay, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey
• Haitham Kaddoura, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
• Rania Azhar Malik, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan

• Bhavin Jayprakash Shastri, McGill University, Canada
• Haitham M Kaddoura, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
• V.V. Balaji Viswanath, Thiagarjar College of Engineering, India

• Kalyana Sundaram, Thiagarjar College of Engineering, India

• B.I.P. Rubinstein, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Sung-Won Chung, Pusan National University, Korea
• Kevin James O’Mara, Jr., Loyola College of Maryland, United States

• Gaurav Tewari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
• Javed Asghar, University of Missouri, United States
• Bob Little, DeVry Institute, Calgary, Canada

• Daniel Keefe, Tufts University, United States
• Guido Pennella, University of Rome, Italy

• Showbhik Kakra, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Gim Soon Wan, Merrimack College, United States
• Kasra Haghighi, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

• Jonathan Becker

• Vikas Sethi, Institute of Technology, India

• Wu-chun Feng

• Bill Davenport