Link Lab Weekly 2023

November 13, 2023

Award

• Nazirah Farach Rojo, Hudson Burke, Ryan Gao, Marty Qian – Winners of the 8th Annual AMR Competition in Nicola Bezzo's Robotics Course

Research Publication

• Mehdi Taghizadeh, Mohammad Amin Nabian, Negin Alemazkoor- Journal: Computing and Information Science in Engineering Title: Multi-fidelity Physics-informed Generative Adversarial Network for Solving Partial Differential Equations

Qualifying Exam

• Yimin Gao (11/09) - Faculty Advisor Mircea Stan

November 6, 2023

Award

• Avery Walters – Runner-up in American Geophysical Union (AGU) Michael H. Freilich Student Visualization Competition
• Benjamin Goffin – Grand-Prize Winner in American Geophysical Union (AGU) Michael H. Freilich Student Visualization Competition
• Duc Tran – Grand-Prize Winner in American Geophysical Union (AGU) Michael H. Freilich Student Visualization Competition

Research Publication

• Aashutosh Aryal, Rieks Bosch, Venkat Lakshmi - Journal: Climate Paper Title: Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment of Georgian Hydrology under Future Climate Change Scenarios
• Kole Lutz – Journal: AIAA ARC Journal Paper Title: Sunlight Induced Biosynthesis of Vitamins, Aminos, and Precursors

Book Publication

• Eric Loth – "Fluid Dynamics of Particles, Drops, and Bubbles"

October 30, 2023

Research Publication

• Lahiru Wijayasingha, John Stankovic, Homa Alemzadeh - Conference: WACV 2024 Paper Title: Camera-Independent Single Image Depth Estimation from Defocus Blur
• Nabeel Nasir, Viswajith Govinda Rajan, Pat Pannuto (UCSD), Branden Ghena (Northwestern), Bradford Campbell Conference: ACM SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) Technical Symposium 2024 Paper Title: Experiences Teaching a Wireless for the Internet of Things Course Cooperatively at Multiple Universities

Award

• Duc Tran – AGU Michael H. Freilich Student Visualization Competition

In The News

• Jon Goodall and Venkat Lashmi - Navigating Climate Challenges: UVA Engineers and Environmental Scientists Aid Virginia’s Eastern Shore
• Nicola Bezzo – featured on one of the top Italy news stations: Intelligenza artificiale per la sicurezza

October 23, 2023

Funded Proposal

• Madhur Behl (UVA, PI) and Michael Reynolds (VSU, Co-PI) – $100,000 from the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) - Central Virginia Node (CVN) for their proposal “SafePath: Automated Extraction of Temporal Logic Based Trajectory Embeddings for Enhanced Autonomous Vehicle Safety”

Conference Presentation

• Matthew Clark, Zhiyuan Wang, Amanda Watson – presentation at UBiComp

October 16, 2023

In The News

• Ciara Horne – The October 2023 Featured Fellow in the Bill Anderson Fund Newsletter.

October 9, 2023

Research Publication

• Li Fan, Ruida Zhou, Chao Tian, and Cong Shen Conference: Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Paper Title: Federated Linear Bandits with Finite Adversarial Actions

• Zhiyuan Wang, Maria A. Larrazabal, Mark Rucker, Emma R. Toner, Katharine E. Daniel, Shashwat Kumar, Mehdi Boukhechba, Bethany A. Teachman, Laura E. Barnes Journal: Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies Paper Title: Detecting Social Contexts from Mobile Sensing Indicators in Virtual Interactions with Socially Anxious Individuals

• Zhiyuan Wang, Mark Ruck, Emma R. Toner, Maria A. Larrazabal, Mehdi Boukhechba, Bethany A. Teachman, Laura E. Barnes Conference: IEEE International Conference on Body Sensor Networks Paper Title: Understanding Privacy Risks versus Predictive Benefits in Wearable Sensor-Based Digital Phenotyping: A Quantitative Cost-Benefit Analysis

Awards

• Adil Rahman, Seongkook Heo - MobileHCI 2023 Best Paper Award

Ph.D. Defense

• Chengshuai Shi – Sequential Decision Making in Intelligent Multi-agent Systems

October 2, 2023

Research Publication

• Josephine Lamp, Mark Derdzinski, Christopher Hannemann, Joost van der Linden, Lu Feng, Tianhao Wang, David Evans – Conference: NeurIPS 2023 Paper Title: GlucoSynth: Generating Differentially-Private Synthetic Glucose Traces
• Aashutosh Aryal, Duc Tran, Venkat Lakshmi – Journal: Remote Sensing Journal Paper Title: "Evaluation of Satellite-Derived Precipitation Products for Streamflow Simulation of a Mountainous Himalayan Watershed: A Study of Myagdi Khola in Kali Gandaki Basin, Nepal."
• Xiaoyuan Ma, Eric Pierce, Harsh Anand, Natalie Aviles, Paul Kunk & Negin Alemazkoor – Journal: BMC Cancer Paper Title: " Early prediction of response to palliative chemotherapy in patients with stage-IV gastric and esophageal cancer”

Funded Proposal

• Arsalan Heydarian, Somayeh Asadi, Brad Campbell, Roshni Raveendhran (Darden) – $2M from the NSF for Collaborative Research: Future of Digital Facility Management (Future of DFM)

Speaking Engagement

• Dong Chen – invited talk at IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC)

Awards

The following students were awarded the UVA Endowed Graduate Fellowship:

• Harsh Anand
• Benjamin Goffin
• Jiacheng Guo
• Negin Moghadasi
• Nabeel Nasir
• Binata Roy
• Sudipta Saha Shubha
• Yeonbin Son
• Thanh-Nhan-Duc Tran
• XIZIXIANG WEI
• Shan Xu
• Mohammad Yasar
• Xugui Zhou

September 25, 2023

Funded Proposal

• Madhur Behl (PI) and Shangtong Zhang (Co-PI) –$800k from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the proposal: SLES: CRASH - Challenging Reinforcement-learning based Adversarial scenarios for Safety Hardening

Research Publication

• John Chrosniak and Madhur Behl – Conference: ROSCon 2023 Paper Title: ROSBag2NuScenes: Share the Bags, Spread the Joy - Autonomous Vehicle ROS Datasets Deploy

In the News

• Zack Landsman - UVA graduate student shredding plastics down to reuse for 3D printing
• Jon Goodall and Laura Barnes – Podcast: HOOS in STEM promoting the Link Lab

Invited Speaker

• Madhur Behl – Invited Speaker at the 2023 Thornton Society Dinner

September 18, 2023

Congratulations

Funded Proposal

• Negin Alemazkoor –$100k from CCI for the proposal: Graph Neural Networks for Smart Infrastructure Systems with Large Number of Heterogeneous IoT Sensors

Awards

• Gigi Pavur - ARCS Foundation Fellowship – Scholar Spotlight  

Research Publication

• Alexander B. Chen, Jonathan L. Goodall, Julianne D. Quinn – Journal: Journal of Hydrology Paper Title: Exploring the relationship between flood insurance Claims, crowdsourced Rainfall, and tide levels for coastal urban Communities: Case study for the Mid-Atlantic United States

In the News

• Osman Ozbulut: Morocco Earthquake: UVA Professor Says Construction Techniques Created Worse Outcomes

September 11, 2023

Speaking Engagement

• Madhur Behl - Invited panelist at the 2024 US National Robotics Roadmap Workshop – UPenn

Publications

• Fateme Nikseresht, Brad Campbell Conference: ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys) Paper Title: FTM-Sense: Robust Sensor-free Occupancy Sensing Leveraging WiFi Fine Time Measurement (FTM)

In the News

• Osman Ozbulut: CNBC video: The next earthquake: Is time running out for Europe’s largest city?
• Venkat Lakshmi: What Is A ‘Flash Drought’? And How Did It Contribute To The Deadly Maui Fires?

September 4, 2023

Publications

• Amar Kulkarni, John Chrosniak, Emory Ducote, Florian Sauerbeck, Andrew Saba, Utkarsh Chirimar, John Link, Marcello Cellina, Madhur Behl Conference: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Paper Title: RACECAR -- The Dataset for High-Speed Autonomous Racing
• Jingyun Ning and Madhur Behl Conference: The Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2023) Paper Title: Scalable Deep Kernel Gaussian Process for Vehicle Dynamics in Autonomous Racing

Exciting Employment News

• Faysal Hossain was hired as an assistant professor at University of Texas at Arlington (started this fall semester).

August 28, 2023

Award

• Jon Goodall – is now an IEEE senior member.
• Nicola Bezzo – is now an IEEE senior member.

August 14, 2023

Publication Accepted

• Choi, Y.D., Roy, B., Nguyen, J., Ahmad, R., Maghami, I., Nassar, A., Li, Z., Castronova, A.M., Malik, T., Wang, S. and Goodall, J.L. -Environmental Modelling & Software. (2023). p.105760 Paper Title: Comparing containerization-based approaches for reproducible computational modeling of environmental systems.

In The News

• Venkat Lakshmi - Dam in Norway partially bursts after days of heavy rain, flooding and evacuations
• Venkat Lakshmi - Maui’s fire became deadly fast. Climate change, flash drought, invasive grass and more fueled it

August 7, 2023

Publication Accepted

• W. Chen, Z. Wang, P. Quan, Z. Peng, S. Lin, M. Srivastava, J. Stankovic, Robust Finger Interactions with COTS Smartwatches via Unsupervised Siamese Adaptaton, UIST 2023, to appear.

In the News

• Mircea Stan – UVA Joins the BrainChip University AI Accelerator Program

July 31, 2023

Publication Accepted

• Mehdi Taghizadeh, Dongbin Xiu, Negin Alemazkoor - Publication: International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification Paper Title: Improving Accuracy and Computational Efficiency of Optimal Design of Experiment via Greedy Backward Approach

Funded Proposal

• Tomonari Furukawa - $1.2M - Office of Naval Research for “Collaborative Robots for Longer Autonomy with Enhanced Perception and Mobility”

In the News

• Venkat Lakshmi was named a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy. (ARTICLE)

July 24, 2023

Publication Accepted

• Anika Kao, Zackary Landsman, M. Terry Loghmani and Gregory Gerling - Conference: IEEE World Haptics Conference Paper Title: Optical Measurements of the Skin Surface to Infer Bilateral Distinctions in Myofascial Tissue Stiffness

• Shan Xu, Chang Xu, and Gregory Gerling - Conference: IEEE Transactions on Haptics Paper Title: Social and emotional touch between romantic partners is affectively more pleasant due to finely tuned contact interactions

• Thanh-Nhan-Duc Tran, Runze Zhang, Venkataraman Lakshmi - Publication: Atmospheric Research Paper Title: Robustness of gridded precipitation products for vietnam basins using the comprehensive assessment framework of rainfall

• Zackary Landsman, Anika Kao and Gregory Gerling - Conference: IEEE World Haptics Conference Paper Title: Human-Delivered Brushstroke Characterization using an Instrumented Brush Focused on Torque

In the News

• Tariq Iqbal – “Engineering Professor Foresees AI Robots Working With Humans, Not Replacing Them”

July 17, 2023

Publication Accepted

• C. Shi, C. Shen, and N. Sidiropoulos - Conference: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Paper Title: On High-Dimensional and Low-Rank Tensor Bandits

• Giovanna Camacho, Matthew Bolton, Joseph Loggi, Kallia Smith & Emmett Rice - Conference: AHFE International Paper Title: To Shoot or Not to Shott? Human, Robot, & Automated Voice Directive Compliance with Target Acquisition and Engagement

• Giovanna Camacho, Matthew Bolton, Jingan Peng, Prashanth Wagle - Conference: AHFE International Paper Title: A Formal Method for the Analysis of the Veteran's Ebenefits' Website

• Y. Mu and C. Shen - Conference: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Paper Title: Communication and Storage Efficient Federated Split Learning

Funded Proposal

• Cong Shen – NSF CPS Medium ($400k) Proposal: Collaborative Research: CPS Medium: Learning through the Air: Cross-Layer UAV Orchestration for Online Federated Optimization

In the News

• Giovanna Camacho – “Tillman Scholar and Systems Engineering Ph.D. Student Applies Boxing’s Lessons to Life”

July 10, 2023

In the News

• Madhur Behl - Professor Stomps the Gas So We Can Take Our Hands Off the Wheel

July 3, 2023

Publication Accepted + Featured on Cover

• Victor Sobral, Kae Nelson, Loza Asmare, Abdullah Mahmood, Glen Mitchell, Kwadwo Tenkorang, Conor Todd, Brad Campbell, Jon Goodall - Publication: Smart Cities Paper Title: A Cloud-Based Data Storage and Visualization Tool for Smart City IoT: Flood Warning as an Example Application Cover: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/6/3

Award

• Giovanna Camacho – Ph.D. student Giovanna Camacho was selected as a 2023 Tillman Scholar

Presentation

• Benjamin Goffin – Ph.D student Benjamin Goffin and Assistant Professor Lindsay Ivey-Burden gave a podium presentation at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference

Best Paper Award Nomination

• The following was nominated for Best Paper Award:

Gao, A;  Bascom, B; Rose, K; Gordon, K; Wang, H; Stankovic, J

E-ADDA: Unsupervised Adversarial Domain Adaptation Enhanced by a New Mahalanobis Distance Loss for Smart Computing, SmartComp, June 2023.

June 26, 2023

Publication Accepted

• Kay Hutchinson, Ian Reyes, Zongyu Li, and Homa Alemzadeh Publication: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Paper Title: Evaluating Task Generalization of Temporal Convolutional Networks for Surgical Gesture and Motion Recognition using Kinematic Data

• Yimin Gao, Sergiu Mosanu, Mohammad Nazmus Sakib, Vaibhav Verma, Xinfei Guo, Mircea Stan Conference: IEEE System-on-Chip Conference 2023 Paper Title: LiteAIR5: A System-Level Framework for the Design and Modeling of AI-Extended RISC-V Cores

June 20, 2023

Publication Accepted

• Harsh Anand, Roshanak Nateghi and Negin Alemazkoor Publication: Data-Centric Engineering Journal Paper Title: Bottom-up forecasting: Applications and limitations in load forecasting using smart-meter data
• Adil Rahman, Seongkook Heo Conference: ACM MobileHCI 2023  Paper Title: Frappé: An Ultra Lightweight Mobile UI Framework for Rapid API-based Prototyping and Environmental Deployment
• Md Aashikur Rahman Azim, Adil Rahman, Seongkook Heo Conference: ACM MobileHCI 2023  Paper Title: UnifiedSense: Enabling Without-Device Gesture Interactions Using Over-the-shoulder Training Between Redundant Wearable Sensors

Promotion & Tenure

Assistant Professor with term to Associate Professor without term

• Madhur Behl, Computer Science
• Tong Donna Chen, Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Lu Feng, Computer Science
• Arsalan Heydarian, Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Daniel Quinn, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Associate Professor without term to Professor without term

• Qing (Cindy) Chang, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
• Osman Ozbulut, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Other

The Commonwealth Cyber Initiative selected the following two papers to promote on their website as part of the Research Showcase June 2023:

• Xugui Zhou; Anna Schmedding; Haotian Ren; Lishan Yang; Philip Schowitz; Evgenia Smirni; Homa Alemzadeh Title: Strategic Safety-Critical Attacks Against an Advanced Driver Assistance System Publication/Conference: 2022 52nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
• Xugui Zhou; Bulbul Ahmed; James H. Aylor; Philip Asare; Homa Alemzadeh Title: Hybrid Knowledge and Data Driven Synthesis of Runtime Monitors for Cyber-Physical Systems Journal: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2023

June 12, 2023

Publication Accepted

• K. Cai, Q. Xia, P.Li, J. Stankovic, and C. Lu, Conference: EWSN 2023 Paper Title: Robust Human Detection under Visual Degradation via Thermal and mmWave Radar Fusion

June 5, 2023

Awards

• Sudhir Shenoy - Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

Publications

• Sudhir Shenoy Conference: ICRA 2023 Poster Presentation + Paper Publication: A Framework for Emotion Adaptation and Interactive Reinforcement Learning for Personalized Interaction in Social Robots

May 30, 2023

Awards

• Aya Yehia - Systems and Information Engineering award: ROBERT T. FERGUSON III MEMORIAL AWARD - Peer nominated and presented to the graduate student who has been the most helpful to other graduate students.
• Jon Goodall - Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellowship – which “honors tenured faculty members who have made significant contributions to their departments and schools.” (details)

Publications

• Skye Taylor Publication: Frontiers in Psychology Special Issue on Trust in Automation Paper Title: Reliable and transparent in-vehicle agents lead to higher behavioral trust in conditionally automated driving systems
• Sudipta Saha Shubha, Haiying Shen Conference: SIGCOMM 2023 Paper Title: An Efficient DNN Inference Serving System

May 22, 2023

Awards

• Harsh Anand - Systems and Information Engineering Department Outstanding Graduate Service Award

• Negin Alemazkoor - Harold S. Morton. Jr. award for excellence in undergraduate teaching

May 15, 2023

Awards

• Aya Yehia - Link Lab Outstanding Service Student Award
• Fateme Nikseresht - Computer Science Department Outstanding Graduate Service Award
• Haley Green - Link Lab Outstanding Service Student Award
• Kay Hutchinson - Link Lab Outstanding Graduate Research Award
• Kelley Tobler - Graduate Engineering Student Council Outstanding Staff Award
• Marshall Clyburn - Computer Science Department Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
• Md Mofijul Islam - Link Lab Outstanding Graduate Research Award
• Nabeel Nasir - Computer Science Department Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award

Publications

• Matthew Landers, Afsaneh Doryab Publication: ACM Computing Surveys Paper Title: Deep Reinforcement Learning Verification: A Survey
• Tushar K Routh, Nurani Saoda, Md Fazlay Rabbi Masum Billah, Nabeel Nasir, Brad Campbell Conference: EnvSys 2023 (International Workshop on Advances in Environmental Sensing Systems) for Smart Cities, ACM MobiSys, 2023 Paper Title: Sensing Indoor Lighting Environments and Analysing Dimension Reduction for Identification

May 8, 2023

Awards

• De'Ajree Branch was awarded the MAE Outstanding Graduate Student in Leadership and Diversity for excellence in leadership, engagement within our local, national, and international communities, and a commitment to advancing our mission related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Research Highlights

• Chukwuemeka Ochiez – showcasing his research on human-like robotics focused on the complex movement of the fingers.

• Nazirah Farach Rojo – showcasing her research on how robotic assistive technology can be designed to aid those suffering from neuromuscular disease.

May 1, 2023

Research Publication Acceptance

• Ashley Gao, Brian Baucom, Karen Rose, Kristina Gordon, and Jack Stankovic – Conference: SMARTCOMP 2023 Paper Title: E-ADDA: Unsupervised Adversarial Domain Adaptation Enhanced by a New Mahalanobis Distance Loss for Smart Computing

• Harsh Anand, Majid Shafiee-Jood, Negin Alemazkoor  Conference: 2023 57th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) Paper Title: Perspicuity of Evacuation Behavior in Communities during Hurricanes using Large-scale Mobility Patterns and Communal Characteristics

Exciting News

• Sirat Samyoun has accepted a Post Doc offer from Cornell Tech to begin in July 2023.

April 24, 2023

Research Publication Acceptance

• Ashley Gao – Conference: SMARTCOMP 2023 Paper Title: E-ADDA: Unsupervised Adversarial Domain Adaptation Enhanced by a New Mahalanobis Distance Loss for Smart Computing

• Kay Hutchinson, Ian Reyes, Zongyu Li, and Homa Alemzadeh – Journal: International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery Paper Title: COMPASS: A Formal Framework and Aggregate Dataset for Generalized Surgical Procedure Modeling

• M Arif Rahman, Leon Jia, Eimara Mirza, Sarah Masud Preum, Homa Alemzadeh, Ronald Williams, and John Stankovic. Conference: The 19th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT). Paper Title: emsReACT: A Real-Time Interactive Cognitive Assistant for Cardiac Arrest Training in Emergency Medical Services.

• M Arif Rahman, Sarah Masud Preum, Ronald Williams, Homa Alemzadeh, and John Stankovic.  Conference:  The Proceedings of The 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE).  Paper Title: EMS-BERT: A Pre-Trained Language Representation Model for the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Domain.

Awards

• Adil Rahman, Md Aashikur Rahman Azim, Seongkook Heo - ACM CHI 2023 Best Paper Award

• Nurani Saoda – CPS Rising Star 2023

• Xugui Zhou - CPS Rising Star 2023

April 10, 2023

Research Publication Acceptance

• Paul J Bonczek and Nicola Bezzo - Journal/Conference Name: IEEE American Control Conference (ACC) Paper Title: RSSI-based Localization with Adaptive Noise Covariance Estimation for Resilient Multi-Agent Formations

Awards

• Jessica Besnier - National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award
• Lauren Horde - National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award
• Nicholas Gardella - National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award

In the News

• Larry Band - ‘Coastal Futures Hub’ Aims To Protect Rural Communities Threatened By Climate Change
• Tomo Furukawa - Robot Thomas Jefferson Welcomes Prospective Students At Engineering Open House
• Zack Landsman - Transforming Plastics Recycling at UVA

April 3, 2023

Research Publication Acceptance

• Md Aashikur Rahman Azim, Adil Rahman, Seongkook Heo – Journal/Conference Name: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Paper Title: FreezeTime: SequenceSense: A tool for designing usable foot-based gestures using a sequence-based gesture recognizer

• M Arif Rahman, Keshara Weerasinghe, Lahiru Wijayasingha, Homa Alemzadeh, Ronald D. Williams, and John Stankovic - Conference Name: The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), May 9-12, 2023, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Poster Title: SenseEMS - Towards A Hand Activity Recognition and Monitoring System for Emergency Medical Services

• Z. Chen, I. Li, H. Zhang, S. Preum, J. Stankovic, and M. Ma - Journal Name: Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Paper Title: CitySpec: An Intelli[1]gent Assistant for Requirement Specification in Smart Cities

Awards

• Wen Ying, Seongkook Heo - IEEE VR 2023 Best Poster Award: "VRScroll: A Shape-Changing Device for Precise Sketching in Virtual Reality"

• Thanh Nhan Duc - COVES Fellowship - The COVES Fellowship program aims to strengthen ties between the scientific community and state government in the Commonwealth of Virginia, while encouraging and equipping more scientists and engineers to be effective advisors for public policy in the state of Virginia. Graduate student fellow will serve as science advisor in a variety of possible placements, including legislative offices, executive agencies, or prominent companies and nonprofits in the state of Virginia.

March 27, 2023

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February 27, 2023

Research Publication Acceptance

• Gigi Pavur, Venkat Lakshmi – Journal/Conference Name: Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies Paper Title: Observing the recent floods and drought in the Lake Victoria Basin using Earth observations and hydrological anomalies

Announcements

• Jon Goodall - ENGINEERING PROFESSOR JON GOODALL NAMED NEW DIRECTOR OF UVA’S LINK LAB
• Malik Corum - a second-year NRT program trainee and PhD student in civil engineering, was selected to participate in the PREEMPTIVE New Zealand Advanced Studies Institute (ASI) to be held April 15–30, 2023, in Auckland and Christchurch. This NSF-funded ASI aims to build a diverse community of researchers across the Pacific Rim and will focus on structural control and geotechnical challenges during earthquakes.

February 20, 2023

Research Publication Acceptance

• Faysal Hossain Shezan, Zihao Su, Mingqing Kang, Nicholas Phair, Patrick William Thomas, Michelangelo van Dam, Yinzhi Cao, Yuan Tian - Journal/Conference Name: Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium Paper Title: CHKPLUG: CHECKING GDPR COMPLIANCE OF WORDPRESS PLUGINS VIA CROSS-LANGUAGE CODE PROPERTY GRAPH
• Faysal Hossain Shezan, Minjun Long, David Hasani, Gang Wang, Yuan Tian - Journal/Conference Name: Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETs/PETS), 2023 Paper Title: SenRev: Measurement of Personal Information Disclosure in Online Health Communities

Awards

• Ben Calhoun - UVA ENGINEERING PROFESSOR BEN CALHOUN NAMED A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INVENTORS
• Mehrdad Shafiei Dizaji - NRC Research Associate award at the Federal Highway Administration/Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center

February 13, 2023

Research Publication Acceptance

• Lauren Bramblett, Nicola Bezzo – Journal/Conference Name: IRCA ’23 Paper Title: Epistemic Planning of Multi-Robot Systems
• Xugui Zhou; Bulbul Ahmed; James H. Aylor; Philip Asare; Homa Alemzadeh – Journal/Conference Name: IIEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC'23, Impact Factor ~ 6.78) Paper Title: HYBRID KNOWLEDGE AND DATA DRIVEN SYNTHESIS OF RUNTIME MONITORS FOR CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

In the News

• Jack Stankovic - A VISIONARY LEADER IN COMPUTER SCIENCE - SET TO RETIRE THIS YEAR, ‘FATHER OF REAL-TIME COMPUTING’ JACK STANKOVIC IS LEAVING BEHIND A LEGACY OF SEMINAL RESEARCH AND A LASTING IMPACT ON UVA

February 6, 2023

Research Publication Acceptance

• Matthew BoltonJournal Name: IEEE Technology and SocietyPaper Title:Humanistic Engineering: Engineering for the People

In the News

• Mircea Stan – UVA-Led Center Forged Pathways to Processing Speeds to Meet the Needs of Big Data

Speaking Engagements

• Devin Harris – Keynote speaker at the 4th Annual UVA Research Achievement Awards Ceremony

Awards

• Giovanna Camacho – was selected to receive the Laurel Clark Sea to Space Physiology Research Grant sponsored by Jonathan Clark by the Women Divers Hall of Fame (WDHOF).
• The following Link Lab faculty were honored with a Research Achievement Award:
  • Homa Alemzadeh
  • Brad Campbell
  • Jon Goodall
  • Devin Harris
  • Venkat Lakshmi
  • Jack Stankovic

January 30, 2023

Award

• Mehrdad Shafiei Dizaji – ASCE-SEI Recent Grad Presenter Scholarship (nominated to receive the Presenter Scholarship to participate at Structures Congress May 3-6 in New Orleans)
• Zack Landsman - $30,000 from the Jefferson Trust for his project Printers 4 Kids.

In the News

• Zack Landsman on NBC29: Jefferson Fund awarding $1.5 million to UVA innovators

Research Publication Acceptance

• Sudipta Saha Shubha, Shohaib Mahmud, Haiying Shen, Geoffrey C. Fox, Madhav Marathe – Journal/Conference Name: IPDPS 2023 Paper Title: Accurate and Efficient Distributed COVID-19 Spread Prediction based on a Large-Scale Time-Varying People Mobility Graph
• Sudipta Saha Shubha, Haiying Shen – Journal/Conference Name: BigData 2022 Paper Title: Trustworthy Distributed Deep Neural Network Training in an Edge Devices Network

January 23, 2023

In the News

• Laura Barnes - Watch Your Words

Speaking Engagement

• Jack Stankovic– Invited Speaker – University of Pisa Seminar Series

Research Publication Acceptance

• Adil Rahman, Md Aashikur Rahman Azim, Seongkook Heo – Journal/Conference Name:CHI 2023Paper Title:Take My Hand: Automated Hand-Based Spatial Guidance for the Visually Impaired
• Erzhen Hu, Jens Emil Sloth Grønbæk, Austin Kendrick Houck, Seongkook Heo –Journal/Conference Name:CHI 2023Paper Title:OpenMic: Utilizing Proxemic Metaphors for Conversational Floor Transitions in Multiparty Video Meetings>
• Erzhen Hu, Jens Emil Sloth Grønbæk, Wen Ying, Ruofei Du, Seongkook Heo –Journal/Conference Name: CHI 2023Paper Title:ThingShare: Ad-Hoc Digital Copies of Physical Objects for Sharing Things in Video Meetings
• Logan Clark, Mohamad El Iskandarani, Sara Riggs – Journal/Conference Name:CHI 2023Paper Title:The Effect of Movement Direction, Hand Dominance, and Hemispace on Reaching Movement Kinematics in Virtual Reality

January 17, 2023

In the News

• Madhur Behl –On the road in San Francisco, riding in a driverless taxi