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CS News
PhD student Xinlei Wang is the 2013 recipient of the GGCS Best Graduate Student Researcher Award. Congratulations to Xinlei and his advisor, Professor Prasant Mohapatra.
Associate Professor Raissa D'Souza has been awarded a 5-year, $6.25 million grant from the DoD Multidisciplinary Universty Research Initiation (MURI) for the project on control of collective phenomena in complex systems entitled "Predicting and Controlling Systems of Interdependent Networks: Exploiting Interdependence for Control." Prof. D'Souza is PI on the project, with collaborators from UC Davis, Rice University, University of Washington, Caltech, and University of Wisconsin. More information on the team and project can be found at the project website.
ACM's Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) together with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) will award the team of CS Professor Matt Franklin and Dan Boneh the 2013 Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science at the ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computer (STOC) June 1-4, in Palo Alto, CA. Read thepress release
Professor Prasant Mohapatra has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). IEEE TMC a scholarly archival journal published monthly and is considered as the top-most journal in the areas of mobile computing. His terms of service will start effective January 1, 2014.
Dr. Daryl Posnett, his postdoc advisor Prof. Filkov, and their collaborators Profs. Prem Devanbu and Raissa D'Souza were awarded an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2013 in San Francisco, for their paper "Dual Ecological Measures of Focus in Software Development." ICSE, the International Conference on Software Engineering, is the premier software engineering conference. From 461 papers submitted to ICSE this year, only 85 papers were accepted for publication. Based on reviews and input from the ICSE Program Committee, their paper was selected as one of only 6 Distinguished Paper Award winners. This is second ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award for Dr. Posnett, the fourth such award for the DECAL Grooup, and the fifth such award won by software engineering students and faculty at UC Davis in the past 10 years. The software engineering group has won two additional Best paper awards at other leading IEEE-sponsored conferences, also in the past decade.
Recently a team comprised of UC Davis students and Aaron Jubbal (Aaron is the leader of our UC Davis IPhone App Project, graduating a couple of years ago) placed first at the SF Angelhack. The reward is the opportunity to go through an accelerator program to help build out their hack into a fully-fledged startup. They will be mentored, pitch to angel investors, and potentially have the ability to launch their startup at the #1 startup conference in the world: Disrupt SF. The students Aaron worked with on the Angelhack project are: Stefan Peterson, Jake Zieve, So Choi, and Cameron March.
It was recently announced that CS graduate Mark Gabel has won the Zuhair A. Munir Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation. The Zuhair A. Munir Award honors the individual who has submitted the best doctoral dissertation within the College of Engineering. The Awards Committee made the selection from extremely competitive submissions submitted by the graduate programs. Congratulations to Mark (who is now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UT Dallas) and his advisor, Professor Zhendong Su. Mark also won the 2012 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award at FSE 2012 last November.