Computer Sciences

(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)

August 2025:

• Prof Xiangyao Yu won the VLDB 2025 Early Career Research Contribution Award, for his work on scalable transactions and cloud databases. [1]
• Prof Eric Bach’s former students (Andrew Shallue and Jon Sorenson) are organizing a special session to celebrate his retirement at the upcoming AMS meeting in St Louis, Oct 18. [2]
• Prof Kirthi Kandasamy received an NSF CAREER award for his proposal on “Game-theoretic Foundations for Incentive-aware Data Sharing and Collaborative Machine Learning”. [3]
• Prof Mohit Gupta and colleagues were awarded two patents: “Systems, Methods, and Media for Estimating Depths in a Scene using Single-Photon Detectors and Binary Structured Light Patterns” and “Systems, methods, and media for high dynamic range imaging using single-photon and conventional image sensor data”. [4]
• Prof Miron Livny gave two talks: “PATh – Translational Computer Science at Work” and a keynote entitled “Is Your Data Handler Trustworthy?” [5]
• Prof Matt Sinclair and student gave two talks at the GRC Annual Review: “Evaluating Accelerator Performance Under Advanced Cooling” and “Simulating and Modeling Hardware for Machine Learning Workloads at Scale”.  [6]
• Prof Ali Abedi led a measurement campaign at the VLA telescope in New Mexico, a joint effort with NRAO, NTIA, and SpectrumX. [7]
• Prof Paul Barford had the paper “Take The Long Way Home – Distant Peering to the Cloud” accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.  [8]
• Prof Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau had papers accepted at VLDB entitled “LiquidCache: Efficient Pushdown Caching for Cloud-Native Data Analytics” and ACM SYSTOR entitled “PANGOLIN: a Comprehensive Testing Framework for Configuration-Rich Key-Value Stores”. [9]
• CDIS ran a new summer program for undergrads called “Summer AI Laboratory”, in partnership with OpenAI. [10]
• Prof Ming Liu and students had a paper accepted into NSDI entitled “Switched or Switchless: An Empirical Study of SAN Architecture for Disaggregated Storage”. [11]
• Prof Bilge Mutlu and colleagues had two papers accepted into Science Robotics, entitled “Robotic Reading Companions Can Mitigate Oral Reading Anxiety in Children” and “How can educational robots enhance family life? Through careful integration.” [12]
• Prof Ethan Cecchetti and his student and a colleague had a paper accepted into OOPSLA entitled “Choreographic Quick Changes: First-Class Location (Set) Polymorphism”. [13]
• Prof Matt Sinclair was awarded an NSF CIRC grant (in collaboration with Purdue) entitled “Enabling Detailed, Open-Source Accelerator Modeling”. [14] 
• Prof Josiah Hanna led a team of students in RoboCup ‘25, placing third. [15]
• Prof Kirthi Kandasamy and Prof Jerry Zhu had a paper accepted into ICML entitled “Collaborative Mean Estimation Among Heterogeneous Strategic Agents: Individual Rationality, Fairness, and Truthful Contribution”. [16]
• Prof Fred Sala had two papers accepted; “Pretrained Hybrids with MAD Skills” at COLM ‘25 and “Theoretical Physics Benchmark (TPBench) – a Dataset and Study of AI Reasoning Capabilities in Theoretical Physics” in Machine Learning: Science and Technology. [17] 
• Prof Josiah Hanna was nominated for an IJCAI Early Career Spotlight talk and gave the talk at the conference. [18]
• Prof Paul Barford co-chaired a non-paper session at ACM SIGCOMM ’25 entitled “Internet Visualization Exhibition”. [19] 
• Prof Kirthi Kandasamy’s undergraduate student, Shangyuang Yang, received an honorable mention for a CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. [20]
• Morgridge Hall opened! Tremendous job by Shannon Timm and her marketing/communications team within CDIS. [21]
• A gaggle of new professors have joined the CS department: Prof Gavin Brown, Prof Mike Hagenow, Prof Junjie Hu, Prof Misha Khodak, Prof Charles Yuan, and Prof Jiawei Zhang. Welcome! [22]

Notes and more good news!