CS News Briefs

Read the latest news briefs from and about students and faculty in the UVA Computer Science Department.

  • Ashish Venkat Honored as a 2020 Top Pick in Hardware and Embedded Security

    William Wulf Career Enhancement Assistant Professor of computer science Ashish Venkat and his two collaborators have been honored as a 2020 Top Pick in Hardware and Embedded Security for their paper “Context-Sensitive Fencing: Securing Speculative Execution via Microcode Customization.”Featured at the 2020 International Conference on Computer Aided Design, the paper was selected among hardware security conference papers that have appeared in the last five years in leading architecture, security, and very large-scale integration design conferences.

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  • Sihang Liu Awarded Google Ph.D. Fellowship

    Computer science Ph.D. student Sihang Liu has been awarded a 2020 Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Systems and Networking, based on his research on “Holistic Support for Persistent Memory Systems.” Liu is advised by assistant professor of computer science Samira Kahn.Google created the PhD Fellowship Program in 2009 to recognize and support outstanding graduate students who seek to influence the future of technology by pursuing exceptional research in computer science and related fields.

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  • Mary Lou Soffa Receives Distinguished Faculty Award

    Congratulations to Mary Lou Soffa, Owens R. Cheatham Professor of Sciences, on being awarded the School of Engineering and Applied Science Distinguished Faculty Award in recognition of excellence in teaching, research and service. She has published over 175 articles and has directed 32 Ph.D.

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  • UVA Engineering Alumnus Appointed Chair of CS at Iowa State

    Dr. Hridesh Rajan, a UVA Engineering alumnus, has been appointed chair of the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University.Rajan, the Kingland Professor of Data Analytics, is Professor-in-Charge of Iowa State's Data Science program. He helped co-lead the effort to establish a new undergraduate data science degree, minor and certificate. In 2016, he founded the Midwest Big Data Summer School to deliver broadly accessible data science curricula to early career researchers from across the nation.

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  • Six Students Awarded During CS Research Symposium on June 5th

    The Computer Science Department Graduate Student Group hosted the Summer Virtual Research Symposium 2020 on June 5 with six awardees for Best Presentations at the end of the event.Kevin Skadron, Harry Douglas Forsyth Professor and chair of computer science, opened the symposium by sharing that the objective of the forum was to learn more about what other researchers are doing and to identify opportunities for collaborating.

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  • 2020 CS Outstanding Graduate Service Award Winner: Jack Lanchantin

    About Jack:
    My research interests include sequence representation learning, and in particular learning the language of DNA and proteins.
    What has kept Jack motivated:
    I enjoy reading and walking around UVA.

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  • 2020 CS Outstanding Graduate Service Award Winner: Josephine Lamp

    About Josie:

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  • 2020 CS Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award Winner: Anastasia Lalamentik

    About Anastasia:
    I am originally from Jakarta, Indonesia. I went to UNC-Chapel Hill for my undergraduate degree and worked as a software developer for three years before joining UVA. My area of research is Human-Computer Interaction, specifically haptics and accessibility. Some of my hobbies include music, photography, aerial arts, and traveling. A fun fact about me is that I have been studying abroad ever since I was eleven years old.

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  • 2020 CS Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award Winner: Trey West

    About Trey:
    I'm currently a 2nd-year Ph.D. student at UVA. My research at UVA includes thermal modeling and, more recently, acceleration and emulation using FPGAs. I received my undergraduate degree from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Computer Engineering. While there, I worked on the RaPID prototyping project in which we researched re-purposing Blu-ray drives to be photolithography prototyping tools.

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  • 2020 John A. Stankovic Graduate Research Award Winner: Huazheng Wang

    About Huazheng:
    I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at University of Virginia, supervised by Prof. Hongning Wang. My current research focuses on multi-armed bandit algorithms with application to online recommendation and information retrieval systems.
    What has kept Huazheng motivated:
    While I spend most of the time in my room, I try to talk a walk outdoor every day. Breathing fresh air helps me to keep positive!

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