Paper, Poster, and Demo Awards

IEEE VR – IEEE Virtual Reality
Best Paper Honorable Mention
“Multimodal Neural Acoustic Fields for Immersive Virtual Reality and Telepresence”
Guansen Tong, Johnathan Chi-Ho Leung, Xi Peng, Haosheng Shi, Liujie Zheng, Shengze Wang, Arryn O’Brien, Ashley Neall, Grace Fei, Martim Gaspar, Praneeth Chakravarthula

WACV – IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision
Oral Spotlight
“My3DGen: A Scalable Personalized 3D Generative Model”
Luchao Qi, Jiaye Wu, Annie N. Wang, Shengze Wang, Roni Sengupta

2023 At A Glance:

• 4 Best/Outstanding Paper Awards
• 1 Long-Term Impact Award
• 2 Presentation/Demo Awards
• 5 Papers Receiving Other Recognition

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ACM CompEd – ACM Global Computing Education Conference
Program Chair’s Award
“Guiding the Development of Undergraduate Educational Robotics”
Bryce Ikeda, Janine Hoelscher, Ron Alterovitz, Daniel Szafir

ASPLOS – International Conference on Architectural Support for Operating Systems and Programming Languages
Distinguished Paper Award
“Mosaic Pages: Big TLB Reach with Small Pages”
Krishnan Gosakan, Jaehyun Han, William Kuszmaul, Ibrahim Nael Mubarek, Nirjhar Mukherjee, Karthik Sriram, Guido Tagliavini, Evan West, Michael Bender, Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Alex Conway, Martin Farach-Colton, Jayneel Gandhi, Rob Johnson, Sudarsun Kannan, Donald Porter

CVPR – Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Highlighted Paper
“Unifying Vision, Text, and Layout for Universal Document Processing”
Zineng Tang, Ziyi Yang, Guoxin Wang, Yuwei Fang, Yang Liu, Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng, Cha Zhang, Mohit Bansal

Frontiers in Computer Science (Journal)
Outstanding Paper Award
“Skeletons, Object Shape, Statistics”
Steve Pizer, Steve Marron, James Damon, Jared Vicory, Akash Krishna, Zhiyuan Liu, Mohsen Taheri

ICCV – International Conference on Computer Vision
Selection for Oral Presentation
“Scaling Data Generation in Vision-and-Language Navigation”
Zun Wang, Jialu Li, Yicong Hong, Yi Wang, Qi Wu, Mohit Bansal, Stephen Gould, Hao Tan, Yu Qiao

IEEE VIS – IEEE Visualization Conference
Best Paper Honorable Mention
“A Computational Design Pipeline to Fabricate Sensing Network Physicalizations”
Sandra Bae, Takanori Fujiwara, Anders Ynnerman, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Michael L. Rivera, Danielle Szafir

IEEE VIS – IEEE Visualization Conference
Best Paper Honorable Mention
“CLAMS: A Cluster Ambiguity Measure for Estimating Perceptual Variability in Visual Clustering”
Hyeon Jeon, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Hyunwook Lee, Paul Rosen, Danielle Szafir, Jinwook Seo

IEEE VR – IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces
VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award
“Towards Everyday-Use Augmented Reality Eyeglasses”
Praneeth Chakravarthula

IROS – IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Best Poster Award, Data vs Model in Medical Robotics Workshop
“A Dataset of Anatomical Environments for Medical Robots: Modeling Respiratory Deformation”
Inbar Fried, Janine Hoelscher, Jason Akulian, Ron Alterovitz

NeurIPS – Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Spotlighted Paper
“Does Localization Inform Editing? Surprising Differences in Causality-Based Localization vs. Knowledge Editing in Language Models”
Peter Hase, Mohit Bansal, Been Kim, Asma Ghandeharioun

NeurIPS – Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Spotlighted Paper
“Paxion: Patching Action Knowledge in Video-Language Foundation Models”
Zhenhailong Wang, Ansel Blume, Sha Li, Genglin Liu, Jaemin Cho, Zineng Tang, Mohit Bansal, Heng Ji

UNC Data Science Day
Best Poster Award
“An Autonomous Medical Robot for Accessing Peripheral Lung Nodules”
Inbar Fried, Janine Hoelscher, Mengyu Fu, Jason Akulian, Yueh Lee, Ron Alterovitz

2022 At A Glance:

• 11 Best/Outstanding Paper Awards
• 1 Long-Term Impact Award
• 1 Presentation/Demo Awards

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ACM BCB – ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics
Best Paper Award
“Image Features Influence Reaction Time: A Learned Probabilistic Perceptual Model for Saccade Latency”
Budmonde Duinkharjav, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Rachel Brown, Anjul Patney, Qi Sun

ACM BCB – ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics
Best Paper Award
“Transparent Single-Cell Set Classification with Kernel Mean Embeddings”
Siyuan Shan, Vishal Baskaran, Haidong Yi, Jolene Ranek, Natalie Stanley, Junier Oliva

ACM SIGGRAPH – ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Best Paper, Honorable Mention
“Joint Neural Phase Retrieval and Compression for Energy- and Computation-efficient Holography on the Edge”
Yujie Wang, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Qi Sun, Baoquan Chen

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (Journal)
Best Paper Award
“Energy Modeling for the Bluetooth Low Energy Protocol”
Philipp Kindt, Daniel Yunge, Robert Diemer, Samarjit Chakraborty

ASPLOS – Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
Influential Paper Award
“Rethinking the Library OS from the Top Down”
Donald Porter, Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Jon Howell, Reuben Olinsky, Galen C. Hunt

CoNLL – SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Best Paper, Runner-Up
“Summary-Source Proposition-level Alignment: Task, Datasets and Supervised Baseline”
Ori Ernst, Ori Shapira, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Michael Lepioshkin, Jacob Goldberger, Mohit Bansal, Ido Dagan

CPS-IoT Week – Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week
1st place, Generalized Racing Intelligence Competition
Abel Karimi, Sridhar Duggirala

CVPR – Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Best Student Paper Honorable Mention
“Less is More: ClipBERT for Video-and-Language Learning via Sparse Sampling”
Jie Lei, Linjie Li, Luowei Zhou, Zhe Gan, Tamara Berg, Mohit Bansal, Jingjing Liu

ECRTS – Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems
Outstanding Paper Award
“Tight Tardiness Bounds for Pseudo-Harmonic Tasks under Global-EDF-Like Schedulers”
Shareef Ahmed, James Anderson

IEEE Design & Test
Hardware Security Top Pick
“End-to-End Automated Exploit Generation for Processor Security Validation”
Rui Zhang, Calvin Deutschbein, Peng Huang, Cynthia Sturton

IEEE ISORC – IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing
Best Paper Award
“CUPiD^RT: Detecting Improper GPU Usage in Real-Time Applications”
Tanya Amert, James Anderson

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
2nd place, Intel Hardware Security Academic Award
“Transys: Leveraging Common Security Properties Across Hardware Designs”
Rui Zhang, Cynthia Sturton

RSS – Robotics: Science and Systems
Best Paper Award Finalist
“Toward Certifiable Motion Planning for Medical Steerable Needles”
Mengyu Fu, Oren Salzman, Ron Alterovitz

EACL – Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Best Long Paper, Honorable Mention
“Hidden Biases in Unreliable News Detection Datasets”
Xiang Zhou, Heba Elfardy, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Thomas Butler, Mohit Bansal

IEEE VR – IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces
Best Paper Award
“Mobile, Egocentric Human Body Motion Reconstruction Using Only Eyeglasses-mounted Cameras and a Few Body-worn Inertial Sensors”
Young-Woon Cha, Husam Shaik, Qian Zhang, Fan Feng, Andrei State, Adrian Ilie, Henry Fuchs

RTNS – International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems
Best Paper Award
“Exploring AMD GPU Scheduling Details by Experimenting With ‘Worst Practices’”
Nathan Otterness, James Anderson

UbiComp – ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Best Presentation, Judges Award
“Intermittent Learning: On-Device Machine Learning on Intermittently Powered System”
Seulki Lee, Bashima Islam, Yubo Luo, Shahriar Nirjon

AIChallengeIoT – Workshop on Challenges in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Internet of Things
Best Paper Award
“Learning in the Wild: When, How, and What to Learn for On-Device Dataset Adaptation”
Seulki Lee, Shahriar Nirjon

IEEE RTCSA – IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications
Best Paper Award
“Exploiting Simultaneous Multithreading in Priority-Driven Hard Real-Time Systems”
Sims Osborne, Shareef Ahmed, Saujas Nandi, James Anderson

UbiComp – ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Best Presentation, Judges Award
“Intermittent Learning: On-Device Machine Learning on Intermittently Powered System”
Seulki Lee, Bashima Islam, Yubo Luo, Shahriar Nirjon

ACL – Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Best Paper Award Nominee
“Improving Visual Question Answering by Referring to Generated Paragraph Captions”
Hyounghun Kim, Mohit Bansal

ACM CCS – ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Test-of-Time Award
“False Data Injection Attacks against State Estimation in Electric Power Grid”
Yao Liu, Peng Ning Michael K. Reiter

CPS-IoT Week – Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week
1st Place, F1/10 Autonomous Racing Competition
Nathan Otterness, Charlotte Dorn, Tanya Amert, Abel Karimi, Manish Goyal, Sridhar Duggirala

DCOSS – International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
Best Student Paper Award
“ZenCam: Context-Driven Control of Autonomous Body Cameras”
Shiwei Fang, Ketan Mayer-Patel, Shahriar Nirjon

EuroSys – European Conference on Computer Systems
Best Student Paper Award
“Efficient and Safe Network Updates with Suffix Causal Consistency”
Sheng Liu, Theophilus A. Benson, Michael K. Reiter

IEEE SciVis – IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference
Test of Time Award
“Simplifying Flexible Isosurfaces Using Local Geometric Measures”
Hamish Carr, Jack Snoeyink, Michiel van de Panne

MICCAI – International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
Best Presentation Award
“Real-time 3D Reconstruction of Colonoscopic Surfaces for Determining Missing Regions”
Ruibin Ma, Rui Wang, Stephen Pizer, Julian Rosenman, Sarah McGill, Jan-Michael Frahm

RTNS – International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems
Best Student Paper Award
“Optimal Soft Real-Time Semi-Partitioned Scheduling Made Simple (And Dynamic)”
Clara Hobbs, Zelin “Peter” Tong, James Anderson

ACM SIGGRAPH – ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Emerging Technologies Best in Show Award
“Steerable Application-Adaptive Near-Eye Displays”
Kishore Rathinavel, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Turner Whitted, Kaan Aksit, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, David Luebke, Henry Fuchs

COLING – International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Area Chair Favorite Paper Award
“Dynamic Multi-Level, Multi-Task Learning for Sentence Simplification”
Han Guo, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Mohit Bansal

EMNLP – Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
First Place, Fact Extraction and Verification (FEVER) Challenge
“Combining Fact Extraction and Verification with Neural Semantic Matching Networks”
Yixin Nie, Han Guo, Mohit Bansal

FAST – USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Best Paper Nominee
“The Full Path to Full-Path Indexing”
Yang Zhan, Alex Conway, Yizheng Jiao, Eric Knorr, Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton, William Jannen, Rob Johnson, Donald E. Porter, Jun Yuan

ISMAR – IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
Best Paper Award
“FocusAR: Auto-focus Augmented Reality Eyeglasses for both Real and Virtual”
Praneeth Chakravarthula, David Dunn, Kaan Aksit, Henry Fuchs

RTNS – International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems
Best Paper Award
“Supporting I/O and IPC via Fine-Grained OS Isolation for Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Tasks”
Namhoon Kim, Stephen Tang, Nathan Otterness, James Anderson, F. Donelson Smith, Donald Porter

ACL – Association for Computational Linguistics
Outstanding Paper Award
“Multi-Task Video Captioning with Video and Entailment Generation”
Ramakanth Pasunuru, Mohit Bansal

ACM SIGGRAPH – ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques
DCEXPO Prize for Best Emerging Technology Exhibition
“Membrane AR: Varifocal, Wide-Field-of-View Augmented Reality Display from Deformable Membranes”
David Dunn (in collaboration with NVIDIA)

EWSN – International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
Best Paper Nominee
“SteamBlue: Seamless Bluetooth Low Energy Connection Migration for UnModified IoT Devices”
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Shagufta Mehnaz, Sahriar Nirjon, Elisa Bertino

GCPR – German Conference on Pattern Recognition
Best Paper, Honorable Mention
“Down to Earth: Using Semantics for Robust Hypothesis Selection for the Five-Point Algorithm”
Andreas Kuhn, True Price, Helmut Mayer, Jan-Michael Frahm

i3D – ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on
Interactive 3D Graphics and Games
Best Paper, Second Place
“Scene-Adaptive High Dynamic Range Display for Low Latency Display”
Peter Lincoln, Alex Blate, Montek Singh, Andrei State, Mary C. Whitton, Turner Whitted, Henry Fuchs

ICCV – International Conference on Computer Vision
Helmholtz Prize
“Recognizing Action at a Distance”
Alexei A. Efros, Alexander C. Berg, Greg Mori, Jitendra Malik

IEEE VR – IEEE Virtual Reality
Best Paper Award
“Wide Field of View Varifocal Near-Eye Display Using See-Through Deformable Membrane Mirrors”
David Dunn, Cary Tippets, Kent Torell, Petr Kellnhofer, Kaan Aksit, Piotr Didyk, Karol Myszkowski, David Luebke, Henry Fuchs

RSS – Robotics: Science and Systems
Best Paper Award
“Asymptotically Optimal Design of Piecewise Cylindrical Robots Using Motion Planning”
Cenk Baykal, Ron Alterovitz

RTNS – International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems
Best Paper Award
“Real-Time Multiprocessor Locks with Nesting: Optimizing the Common Case”
Catherine Nemitz, Tanya Amert, and James H. Anderson

ACM SenSys – ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Best Demo, Runner-Up
“SEUS – A Wearable Multi-Channel Acoustic Headset Platform to Improve Pedestrian Safety”
Rishikanth Chandrasekaran, Daniel de Godoy, Stephen Xia, Md Tamzeed Islam, Bashima Islam, Shahriar Nirjon, Peter Kinget, Xiaofan Jiang

IEEE ISMAR – IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
Best Paper Award
“Towards Kilo-Hertz 6-DoF Visual Tracking Using an Egocentric Cluster of Rolling Shutter Cameras”
Akash Bapat, Enrique Dunn, Jan-Michael Frahm

IEEE RTAS – Real-Time Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium
Best Paper Award
“Attacking the One-Out-Of-m Multicore Problem by Combining Hardware Management with Mixed-Critically Provisioning”
Namhoon Kim, Bryan Ward, Micaiah Chisholm, Cheng-Yang Fu, James Anderson, F. Donelson Smith

IEEE VR -IEEE Virtual Reality
Best Paper Award
“From Motion to Photons in 80 Microseconds Towards Minimal Latency for Virtual and Augmented Reality”
Peter Lincoln, Alex Blate, Montek Singh, Turner Whitted, Andrei State, Anselmo Lastra, Henry Fuchs

IEEE VR – IEEE Virtual Reality
Best Paper Honorable Mention
“Interactive Coupled Sound Synthesis-Propagation using Single Point Multipole Expansion”
Atul Rungta, Carl Schissler, Ravish Mehra, Chris Malloy, Ming Lin, Dinesh Manocha

National Security Agency
Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Award
“Nomad: Mitigating Arbitrary Cloud Side Channels via Provider-Assisted Migration”
Soo-Jin Moon, Vyas Sekar, Michael K. Reiter

North Carolina Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America
Royster Award
“Acoustic Material Optimization”
Nicolas Morales, Dinesh Manocha

GCPR – German Conference on Pattern Recognition
Best Paper, Honorable Mention
“Efficient Two-View Geometry Classification”
Johannes L. Schonberger, Alexander C. Berg, Jan-Michael Frahm

MIUA – Medical Image Understanding and Analysis
Best Paper Award
“Surface Registration in the Presence of Missing Patches and Topology Change”
Quingyu Zhao, James Price, Stephen Pizer, Marc Niethammer, Ron Alterovitz, Julian Rosenman