CS News Briefs

The 2023-2024 CS Department Awards were announced in a ceremony on May 1st to honor the success and accomplishments this year.

On October 3, 2023, the Computer Science Graduate Student Group (CSGSG) held their annual research symposium in Rice Hall. The event included a mix of talks from faculty and students, as well as two breakout poster sessions where graduate students presented their research. Awards were given at the conclusion of the event based for “Faculty's Choice” and “Student's Choice” from the two poster sessions. (Read on to find the results!)Nakshatra Yalagach, Leadership Co-Rep with the CSGSG, provided insight to the event goals and outcomes.

During a ceremony on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, the recipients of our department end-of-year awards were announced and presented with certificates. We congratulate these undergraduate and graduate student for their tremendous work and efforts this year!

UVA students cracked more than few smiles during HooHacks 2023, the 10th year of the student-run hackathon event.
HooHacks recently marked 10 years of running what has become one of the largest collegiate hackathons in the state — a streak that includes pivoting to an all-virtual format during the pandemic, then relearning how to host hundreds of hackers on site.

From left are UVA coach Daniel Graham; UVA team members August Bresnaider, Maxim Gorodchanin, Chase Hildebrand, Christopher Marotta, Kyle McDonald and Ethan Steere; Col. David Gray, director of the VMI Center for Leadership and Ethics; David Raymond, head of Virginia Cyber Range; and Sarah Solari Hayes, portfolio director, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative.
The team from the University of Virginia Department of Computer Science brought the Virginia Cyber Cup home to Charlottesville after an impressive runaway performance in the cyber security competition.

Department of Computer Science chair Sandhya Dwarkadas has won the Technical Committee on Computer Architecture's 2022 Test of Time Award for “Energy-efficient processor design using multiple clock domains with dynamic voltage and frequency scaling,” a paper she co-authored in 2002.
Dwarkadas, the Walter N. Munster Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, received the award with her colleagues at HPCA2023, the 29th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, in February.

Hongning Wang is UVA Engineering's new Copenhaver Associate Professor of Computer Science. Wang was nominated by the Department of Computer Science and appointed by the School of Engineering for a three-year period to the professorship, which is supported by the Copenhaver Faculty Excellence Fund for Student Research, established by a bequest from 1966 civil engineering alumnus Edwin Copenhaver III. The fund supports Copenhaver Associate Professors in their work with graduate students.