CS News Briefs

V. Layne Berry, a third-year Computer Science student, has been named one of CRA's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Honorable Mention recipients.The Computing Research Association (CRA) award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.

Elaheh Sadredini won a Best Presentation award for her work on "A Scalable and Efficient In-Memory Interconnect Architecture for Automata Processing" at SRC's TECHCON in Austin, Texas.Elaheh Sadredini, a postdoc in Kevin Skadron's research group and part of the CRISP center, won the best presentation award at SRC TECHCON for her work on “A Scalable and Efficient In-Memory Interconnect Architecture for Automata Processing.” This is joint work with Reza Rahimi, Vaibhav Verma, Mircea Stan, and Kevin Skadron.

UVA has won a $2.5M NSF MRI award, led by Ron Hutchins, VP of IT and a member of the Computer Science Department. This is a partnership between the UVA Main Campus and UVA Wise, with Wise formally taking the lead.The University of Virginia at Wise (UVA-Wise) and the University of Virginia Main Campus are collaborating with ten other public universities in Virginia to develop ACCORD, an innovative research-computing cyberinstrument to support the storage, access, and usage of sensitive data. ACCORD is accessible to researchers at participating institutions across the State.

Hongning Wang and his group of four students earned the Best Paper Award at the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference.The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval was held July 21 to 25, 2019 in Paris, France.
Professor Hongning Wang and his group Huazheng Wang (PhD student), Sonwoo Kim (Masters student), Eric McCord-Snook (recent BSCS grad), and Qingyun Wu (PhD student) won the Best Paper award for their paper “Variance Reduction in Gradient Exploration for Online Learning to Rank”.