2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award Winners
CISE is delighted to announce the winners of the Spring 2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award. We received 20 submissions of excellent quality showcasing the strength and diversity of research pursued by CISE students and faculty. We are grateful for the support of the paper review team, which included 16 CISE faculty affiliates from the College of Engineering and the College of Arts & Sciences. Based on these reviews, we are awarding two Best Paper Awards, and recognize three papers as Finalists.
First Place Winners
Ali Siahkamari (Advisor, Brian Kulis). “Piecewise Linear Regression via a Difference of Convex Functions.” Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning Research PMLR 119:8895-8904, 2020 119:8895-8904, 2020.
Sheila Seidel (Advisor: Vivek Goyal). “Two-Dimensional Non-Line-of-Sight Scene Estimation from a Single Edge Occluder.” IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, vol. 7, pp. 58-72, 2021, doi: 10.1109/TCI.2020.3037405.
Finalists
Beliz Kaleli (Advisors: Gianluca Stringhini, Manuel Egele). “To Err.Is Human: Characterizing the Threat of Unintended URLs in Social Media.” Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2021. Session 3A-4.
Artin Spiridonoff (Advisors: Yannis Paschalidis, Alex Olshevsky) “Robust Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient-Push: Asymptotically Optimal and Network-Independent Performance for Strongly Convex Functions.” Journal of Machine Learning Research JMLR. 21(58):1−47, 2020.
James Queeney (Advisors: Yannis Paschalidis, Christos Cassandras) “Uncertainty-Aware Policy Optimization: A Robust, Adaptive Trust Region Approach.” Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21) 5930.
