Outstanding Paper Awards

The outstanding paper award is assigned yearly to recognize papers published in high-quality and highly-selective venues. Papers must be first authored by graduate students on the Computer Science department.

The name in bold is the PhD student author of the paper.

Aram Ansary Ogholbake & Qiang Cheng
"Gene expression clock: an unsupervised deep learning approach for predicting circadian rhythmicity from whole genome expression"
Springer Neural Computing and Applications, Vol. 36, Issue 33, 2024.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-024-10316-w

Mingze Xia, Sheng Di, Franck Cappello, Pu Jiao, Kai Zhao, Jinyang Liu, Xuan Wu, Xin Liang, Hanqi Guo,
“Preserving Topological Features with Sign-of-Determinant Predicates in Lossy Compression: A Case Study of Vector Field Critical Points”,
40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDE60146.2024.00378

Enrico Casella, A. R. Khamesi, S. Silvestri, D. A. Baker, and S. K. Das,
“Hvac power conservation through reverse auctions and machine learning,”
2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/PerCom53586.2022.9762402

Ankan Bhattacharyya, S. Chatterjee, S. Sen, A. Sinitca, D. Kaplun, R Sarkar
"A Deep Learning Model for Classifying Human Facial Expressions from Infrared Thermal Images" Scientific Reports Published by Springer Nature, Vol. 11, Issue 1, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99998-z

Ashutosh Timilsina, A. R. Khamesi, V. Agate, S. Silvestri,
"A Reinforcement Learning Approach for User Preference-aware Energy Sharing Systems"
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, Vol. 5, Issue 3, 2021.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGCN.2021.3077854

C. Seth Parker, Stephen Parsons, Jack Bandy, Christy Chapman, Frederik Coppens, and W. Brent Seales
"From invisibility to readability: Recovering the ink of Herculaneum"
Plos ONE, Vol. 14, Issue 5, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215775

Nathaniel Hudson, Hana Khamfroush,
"Behavioral information diffusion for opinion maximization in online social networks"
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, Issue 2,  2020.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSE.2020.3034094

Xinxin Zuo, Sen Wang, Jiangbin Zheng, Zhigeng Pan, and Ruigang Yang,
"Detailed Surface Geometry and Albedo Recovery from RGB-D Video Under Natural Illumination"
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2955459

Yu Zhao, T. Yu, T Su, Y. Liu, W. Zheng, J. Zhang, W. GJ Halfond
"Recdroid: automatically reproducing android application crashes from bug reports"
IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2019.00030