Conferences Best Paper Awards

Best Paper Awards are presented at many ACM conferences to authors whose work represents groundbreaking research in their respective areas. By recognizing these select papers for their ingenuity and importance, ACM highlights some of the theoretical and practical innovations that are likely to shape the future of computing.  

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DocEng '25: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2025

Improving Lightweight Named Entity Recognition in Handwritten Documents by Predicting Pyramidal Histograms of Characters
By David Villanova-Aparisi, Carlos D. Martínez-Hinarejos, Verónica Romero, Moisés Pastor-Gadea
Best Student Paper at DocEng '25: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2025

Exploiting Query Reformulation and Reciprocal Rank Fusion in Math-Aware Search Engines
By Besat Kassaie, Andrew Kane, Frank Wm. Tompa
Best Paper at DocEng '25: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2025

SPLC '25: 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference

Pick Me: Judging Sample Quality with Binary Decision Diagrams
By Tobias Heß, Aaron Molt, Sabrina Böhm, Sebastian Krieter, Thomas Thüm
Best Research Paper Candidate at SPLC '25: 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference

Exploring Variability Modeling Challenges in UVL with a Dataset from the Restaurant Industry
By José Miguel Horcas, Mónica Pinto, Lidia Fuentes
Best Research Paper Candidate at SPLC '25: 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference

Investigating the Effects of T-Wise Interaction Sampling for Vulnerability Discovery in Highly-Configurable Software Systems
By Tim Bächle, Erik Hofmayer, Christoph König, Tobias Pett, Ina Schaefer
Best Artifact at SPLC '25: 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference

Software Variability as a New Dimension of Computational Thinking: an Exploration
By Jesús Moreno-León, David Romero-Organvídez, Gregorio Robles, David Benavides
Best Research Paper at SPLC '25: 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference

FOGA '25: Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XVIII

Diversity-Preserving Exploitation of Crossover
By Johannes Lengler, Tom Offermann
Honorable Mention Award for Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XVIII at FOGA '25: Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XVIII

A Fixed-Parameter Tractable GA for Data Clustering
By Liam Gaeuman, Andrew M. Sutton
Best Paper Award for Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XVIII at FOGA '25: Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XVIII

ASIACCS '25: ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Adversarial Fog: Exploiting the Vulnerabilities of LiDAR Point Cloud Preprocessing Filters
By Yuna Tanaka, Kazuki Nomoto, Ryunosuke Kobayashi, Go Tsuruoka, Tatsuya Mori
Best Paper Award at ASIACCS '25: ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Breaking Bad: How Compilers Break Constant-Time Implementations
By Moritz Schneider, Daniele Lain, Ivan Puddu, Nicolas Dutly, Srdjan Capkun
Best Paper Award at ASIACCS '25: ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security

C&C '25: Creativity and Cognition

Content Authenticities: A Discussion on the Values of Provenance Data for Creatives and Their Audiences
By Caterina Moruzzi, Ella Tallyn, Frances Liddell, Billy Dixon, John Collomosse, Chris Elsden
Best Paper Award at C&C '25: Creativity and Cognition

SIGIR '25: The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

GINGER: Grounded Information Nugget-Based Generation of Responses
By Weronika Łajewska, Krisztian Balog
Best Short Paper Award at SIGIR '25: The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Do LLMs Memorize Recommendation Datasets? A Preliminary Study on MovieLens-1M
By Dario Di Palma, Felice Antonio Merra, Maurizio Sfilio, Vito Walter Anelli, Fedelucio Narducci, Tommaso Di Noia
Best Short Paper Award at SIGIR '25: The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

WARP: An Efficient Engine for Multi-Vector Retrieval
By Jan Luca Scheerer, Matei Zaharia, Christopher Potts, Gustavo Alonso, Omar Khattab
Best Paper Award at SIGIR '25: The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Verification of Incomplete Graph Unlearning through Adversarial Perturbations
By Kun Wu, Wendy Hui Wang
Best Student Paper Honorable Mention, Research Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Brain Effective Connectivity Estimation via Fourier Spatiotemporal Attention
By Wen Xiong, Jinduo Liu, Junzhong Ji, Fenglong Ma
Best Student Paper Runner-Up, Research Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Taming Recommendation Bias with Causal Intervention on Evolving Personal Popularity
By Shiyin Tan, Dongyuan Li, Renhe Jiang, Zhen Wang, Xingtong Yu, Manabu Okumura
Best Student Paper Award, Research Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

SIGEM: A Simple yet Effective Similarity based Graph Embedding Method
By Masoud Reyhani Hamedani, Jeong-Seok Oh, Seong-Un Cho, Sang-Wook Kim
Best Paper Honorable Mention, Research Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Monitoring Robustness and Individual Fairness
By Ashutosh Gupta, Thomas A. Henzinger, Konstantin Kueffner, Kaushik Mallik, David Pape
Best Paper Runner-Up, Research Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Improving Group Robustness on Spurious Correlation via Evidential Alignment
By Wenqian Ye, Guangtao Zheng, Aidong Zhang
Best Paper Award, Research Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

HtFLlib: A Comprehensive Heterogeneous Federated Learning Library and Benchmark
By Jianqing Zhang, Xinghao Wu, Yanbing Zhou, Xiaoting Sun, Qiqi Cai, Yang Liu, Yang Hua, Zhenzhe Zheng, Jian Cao, Qiang Yang
Runner up, Best paper, Datasets and Benchmarks Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

A Guide to Misinformation Detection Data and Evaluation
By Camille Thibault, Jacob-Junqi Tian, Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski, Taylor Lynn Curtis, James Zhou, Florence Laflamme, Luke Yuxiang Guan, Reihaneh Rabbany, Jean-François Godbout, Kellin Pelrine
Runner up, Best paper, Datasets and Benchmarks Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

When Heterophily Meets Heterogeneity: Challenges and a New Large-Scale Graph Benchmark
By Junhong Lin, Xiaojie Guo, Shuaicheng Zhang, Yada Zhu, Julian Shun
Best paper, Datasets and Benchmarks Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

ICS '25: 2025 International Conference on Supercomputing

DIMPLES: Distributed Influence Maximization for Pandemic pLanning on Exascale Systems
By Marco Minutoli, Reece Neff, Naw Safrin Sattar, Hao Lu, John Feo, Henning Mortveit, Anil Vullikanti, Dawen Xie, Mandy L Wilson, Gregor von Laszewski, Parantapa Bhattacharya, S M Ferdous, Ananth Kalyanaraman, Michela Becchi, Madhav Marathe, Mahantesh Halappanavar
Best Paper Award at ICS '25: 2025 International Conference on Supercomputing

CI '25: Collective Intelligence Conference

Deliberative Polling in Sub-Saharan Africa Paper
By Alice Siu, Estelle Ciesla, Joshua Goodwin
Best Paper Award at CI '25: Collective Intelligence Conference

ICER '25: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

Needles in a Haystack: Student Struggles with Working on Large Code Bases
By Anshul Shah, Thomas Rexin, Anya Chernova, Gonzalo Allen-Perez, William G. Griswold, Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj
Best Paper Award at ICER '25: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Real-time Scientific Visualization and Interactive Steering for High-Performance Computing Simulations
By Thomas Marrinan, Andres Sewell, Victor A. Mateevitsi, Steve Petruzza, Jifu Tan, Dimitrios K. Fytanidis, Michael E. Papka
Best Visualization at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

A Pre-Processing Framework for Securing LLM-RAG Interfaces Against Information Leakage
By Ronald H Davies, Krish Sanghvi, Rahul Nalam, Rajiv Ramnath
Best Student Poster at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Combating Underutilization with the Jobstats Job Monitoring Platform
By Jonathan Halverson, Josko Plazonic
Best Poster at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

OpenSHMEM Performance on Bluefield-3 Data Processing Units (DPUs)
By Michael Beebe, Benjamin Michalowicz, Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Yong Chen, Wendy Poole, Steve Poole
Best Student Short Paper Systems & System Software at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Text Representations for Property Prediction of Organic Molecules Using RoBERTa
By Dana O'Connor, Sunny Sun, Paola A. Buitrago
Best Short Paper Applications & Software at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

T3-CIDERS: Train-the-Trainer and Community Building to Increase Cyberinfrastructure Adoption in Cybersecurity Research and Education
By Wirawan Purwanto, Mohan Yang, Peng Jiang, Shanan Chappell Moots, Masha Sosonkina, Hongyi Wu
Best Full Paper Workforce Development, Training, Education & Community at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Automating HPC Software Compilation, Deployment, and Error Resolution through an LLM-based Multi-Agent System
By Sean Mondesire, Emmanuel Nsiye, Bulent Soykan, Glenn Martin
Best Full Paper Systems & System Software at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

ML Field Planner: Analyzing and Optimizing ML Pipelines For Field Research
By Joe Stubbs, Sowbaranika Balasubramaniam, Samuel Khuvis, Sachith Withana, Manikya Swathi Vallabhajosyula, Richard Cardone, Christian Garcia, Nathan Freeman, Carlos Guzman, Beth Plale, Rajiv Ramnath, Tanya Berger-Wolf
Best Full Paper Applications & Software at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Posits Solve the ``Light Leak' Problem in Computer Graphics
By Arman Singh, Gil Speyer, John Gustafson
Best Student Short Paper Applications & Software at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

FAIR-CS: Framework for Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations in Online Computing Programs
By Breanna Shi, Thomas Deatherage, Jeanette Schofield, Charles R. Clark, Thomas Orth, Nicholas Lytle
Best Student Full Paper Workforce Development, Training, Education & Community at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Analyzing GPU Utilization in HPC Workloads: Insights from Large-Scale Systems
By Efe Sencan, Dhruva Kulkarni, Ayse Coskun, Kadidia Konate
Best Student Full Paper Systems & System Software at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Toward an Education Hub Linking Research Data and Compute to Learning Workflows in the National Data Platform
By Melissa Floca, Kate O'Laughlin, Pedro Ramonetti Vega, Amarnath Gupta, Ilkay Altintas, Manish Parashar
Best Short Paper Workforce Development, Training, Education & Community at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Secure API-Driven Research Automation to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
By Tyler J. Skluzacek, Paul Bryant, A.J. Ruckman, Daniel Rosendo, Suzanne Prentice, Michael J. Brim, Ryan Adamson, Sarp Oral, Mallikarjun Shankar, Rafael Ferreira da Silva
Best Short Paper Systems & System Software at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

The Invisible Participants: How Computing Education Research Fails Students with Disabilities
By Nadia S. J. Morrow, Atayliya Irving, Jasmine McKenzie, Alaina Smith, Juan E. Gilbert
Exemplary Perspective Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Breaking Barriers to Inclusion: Empowering Special Education Teachers with CS Professional Learning
By Jessica Williams, Joanne Barrett, Maya Israel, Debra Kelly Thomas
Exemplary Perspective Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Shaping the Future of K-5 CS: Transforming Education with Equity Driven Framework and Expert Collaboration
By Lien Diaz, Heather Cunningham
Exemplary Work-in-Progress Experience Report at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

TACTICS: A Statewide Professional Learning Community to Expand CS Education for Students with Disabilities
By Sara B. Frey, Ethan Pan
Best Work-in-Progress Experience Report at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Boosting Professional Participation in Computing Through Greater and Wider Conference Access
By Sarah Hug, Patricia Morreale, Ann Quiroz Gates, Brianna Rivera, Bianca Alvarez, Heather Thiry
Exemplary Experience Report at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Inspiring Blind and Low Vision High School Students and their Teachers to Access STEM in College
By Isabela Figueira, Josahandi M. Cisneros, Julieta Lindo, Vinh H. Luong, Stacy M. Branham
Exemplary Experience Report at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Educator's Implementation and Understanding of Translanguaging and Universal Design for Learning in Teaching Culturally Responsive Computer Science Education
By Summer Wildbill, Cheri Fancsali, Kathryn Hill, Alexandra Adair
Exemplary Work-in-Progress Research Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Black in the Cloud: Race, Retention, and Representation in Online Computing Programs
By Mika Hurd, Tyler Clark, Rebecca Zarch
Best Work-in-Progress Research Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Teachers' POUR Evaluation of Computer Science Technologies
By Andrew Bennett, Maya Israel
Exemplary Research Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Strategies for Increasing Young Women's Participation in Secondary Computer Science Education
By Madeline Haynes, Lisa S. Garbrecht, Carol L. Fletcher, Alejandro Madrigal, Mona Baniahmadi
Exemplary Research Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Redefining Data Science: Where Transformative Youth Organizing Meets Arts-Based Abolitionist Education
By Raechel Walker, Brady Cruse, Aisha Cora, Cynthia Breazeal
Best Research Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Transforming Perceptions of Black Achievement in Computing Research: A Multi-Institutional Intervention
By Marlon Mejias, Dale-Marie Wilson, Eric Betties, Oluwagbeminiyi Johnson, Felesia Stukes, Gloria Washington, Jody Marshall
Best Experience Report at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Intersectional Conference Accessibility: A Call to Action
By Bedour Alshaigy
Best Perspective Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

ICTIR '25: International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR)

Impersonating the Crowd: Evaluating LLMs' Ability to Replicate Human Judgment in Misinformation Assessment
By David La Barbera, Riccardo Lunardi, Mengdie Zhuang, Kevin Roitero
Best Paper Award at ICTIR '25: International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR)

Axioms for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
By Jan Heinrich Merker, Maik Fröbe, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen
Honorable Mention at ICTIR '25: International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR)

Correctness is not Faithfulness in Retrieval Augmented Generation Attributions
By Jonas Wallat, Maria Heuss, Maarten de Rijke, Avishek Anand
Honorable Mention at ICTIR '25: International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR)

Rethinking Click Models in Light of Carousel Interfaces: Theory-Based Categorization and Design of Click Models
By Jingwei Kang, Maarten de Rijke, Santiago de Leon-Martinez, Harrie Oosterhuis
Honorable Mention at ICTIR '25: International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR)

ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

Emotions Shape Effort-Reward Choices: Positive Valence Decreases Effort, Except Under High Arousal
By Jamie C. Chiu, Nicholas Budny, Aetizaz Sameer, Persis A. Baah, Dan-Mircea Mirea, Isabel M. Berwian, Yael Niv
Best Student Late Breaking Work at ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

Estimating the level of ability of English learners using eye movement features during text reading
By Yusuke Oyama, Minoru Nakayama
Best Late Breaking Work Honorable Mention at ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

Combining Intuitive Gaze-Based Control with EEG-Based Detection of Motor Imagery and Quasi-Movements
By Artem S. Yashin, Yulia G. Shevtsova, Evgeniy P. Svirin, Anatoly N. Vasilyev, Sergei L. Shishkin
Best Late Breaking Work at ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

Proxy-Based Pre-Training for Eye-Tracking Applications
By David Robert Reich, Cui Ding, Lena Sophia Bolliger, Patrick Haller, Paul Prasse, Lena A. Jäger
Best Short Paper Honorable Mention at ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

Imperceptible Gaze Guidance Through Ocularity in Virtual Reality
By Virmarie Maquiling, Li Zhaoping, Enkelejda Kasneci
Best Paper Honorable Mention at ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

PupilSense: A Novel Application for Webcam-Based Pupil Diameter Estimation
By Vijul Shah, Ko Watanabe, Brian Moser, Andreas Dengel
Best Short Paper at ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

A Framework for Leveraging LLMs for Scene Analysis and Cognitive Processing
By Catarina Moreira, Jeffrey Cockburn, Monica S. Castelhano
Best Paper Award at ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

HotStorage '25: 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems

SnapBPF: Exploiting eBPF for Serverless Snapshot Prefetching
By Stratos Psomadakis, Dimitrios Siakavaras, Chloe Alverti, Symeon Porgiotis, Orestis Lagkas Nikolos, Christos Katsakioris, Konstantinos Nikas, Georgios Goumas, Nectarios Koziris
Futurewei Best Paper at HotStorage '25: 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems

ByteExpress: A High-Performance and Traffic-Efficient Inline Transfer of Small Payloads over NVMe
By Junhyeok Park, Junghee Lee, Youngjae Kim
Pure Storage Best Paper at HotStorage '25: 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems

ICMR '25: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

TourMLLM: A Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Large Language Model for Multitask Learning in the Tourism Domain
By Hiromasa Yamanishi, Ling Xiao, Toshihiko Yamasaki
ICMR 2025 Best Paper Award at ICMR '25: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

SACMAT '25: The 30th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies

Safety Analysis in the NGAC Model
By Brian Tan, Ewan S. D. Davies, Indrakshi Ray, Mahmoud A. Abdelgawad
Best Paper Runner-Up Award at SACMAT '25: The 30th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies

Towards Explainable Access Control [BlueSky Paper]
By Gelareh Hasel Mehri, Charles Morisset, Nicola Zannone
Best Paper Award at SACMAT '25: The 30th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies

FSE '24: 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering

BARO: Robust Root Cause Analysis for Microservices via Multivariate Bayesian Online Change Point Detection
By Luan Pham, Huong Ha, Hongyu Zhang
ACM SIGSOFT Best Artifact Award at FSE '24: 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering

A Transferability Study of Interpolation-Based Hardware Model Checking for Software Verification
By Dirk Beyer, Po-Chun Chien, Marek Jankola, Nian-Ze Lee
ACM SIGSOFT Best Artifact Award at FSE '24: 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering

DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

LLMs Enable Context-Aware Augmented Reality in Surgical Navigation
By Hamraz Javaheri, Omid Ghamarnejad, Paul Lukowicz, Gregor Alexander Stavrou, FEBS (HPB/SURGONC), Jakob Karolus
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Exposing the Ideology of Large Language Models with Creative Practices
By Michele Cremaschi, Paolo Grigis, Max Dorfmann, Antonella De Angeli
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Ambient Awareness: Experiencing Always-On Displays in the Life of PV Households
By Arjun Rajendran Menon, Jorge Luis Zapico
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Thinking Outside the Data Box: Investigating the Potential of Data Manipulation for Self-Reflection on Personal Data
By Yeohyun Jung, Kwangyoung Lee, Hwajung Hong
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Designing with Decolonial Intent: Towards a Decolonial Archive in Resistance to Epistemicide
By Rob Comber, Cecilia Järdemar, Freddy Tsimba, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Akshata Murdeshwar, Serge Lunyanga
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Research as Care: A Reflection on Incorporating the Ethics of Care in Design Research with People Living with Dementia
By Long-Jing Hsu, Janice Bays, Manasi Swaminathan, Weslie Khoo, Hiroki Sato, Kyrie Jig Amon, Sathvika Dobbala, Min Min Thant, Alex Foster, Kate Tsui, Philip B. Stafford, David Crandall, Selma Sabanovic
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

From Diagrams to Experience: Data Visceralisation of Ecosystem State-and-Transition Models in Virtual Reality
By Adélaïde Genay, Michael James Neylan, Warwick Laird, Thomas Romanis, Katrina Szetey, Anna E Richards, Bernhard Jenny, Tom Chandler
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Towards a Framework for Exploring Synthetic Voices in VUI Design
By Jonas Fritsch, Pelin Karaturhan, Stina Marie Hasse Jørgensen, Ada Ada Ada, Søren Lyngsø Knudsen
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Making the Right Thing: Bridging HCI and Responsible AI in Early-Stage AI Concept Selection
By Ji-Youn Jung, Devansh Saxena, Minjung Park, Jini Kim, Jodi Forlizzi, Ken Holstein, John Zimmerman
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

SiCo: An Interactive Size-Controllable Virtual Try-On Approach for Informed Decision-Making
By Sherry X. Chen, Alex Christopher Lim, Yimeng Liu, Pradeep Sen, Misha Sra
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

IKIWISI: An Interactive Visual Pattern Generator for Evaluating the Reliability of Vision-Language Models Without Ground Truth
By Md Touhidul Islam, Imran Kabir, Md Alimoor Reza, Syed Masum Billah
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Towards Societally Beneficial Personalized Realities: A Conceptual Foundation for Responsible Ubiquitous Personalization Systems
By Jannis Strecker, Simon Mayer, Kenan Bektaş
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

From Temporal to Spatial: Designing Spatialized Interactions with Segmented-audios in Immersive Environments for Active Engagement with Performing Arts Intangible Cultural Heritage
By Yuqi Wang, Sirui Wang, Shiman Zhang, Kexue Fu, Michelle Lui, Ray Lc
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Searching for the Words that "Feel Right": Resonating with our Bodies and Felt Senses Through Haiku and Large Language Models (LLMs)
By Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Pedro Sanches, Jorge Olivares-Retamal
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Values as Problems, Principles, and Tensions in Sociotechnical System Design for Journalism
By Sachita Nishal, Nicholas Diakopoulos
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

WovenCircuits: A 3-Step Fabrication Process for Weaving Electric Circuit Layouts in Everyday Artefacts
By Ahmed Awad, Salma Ibrahim, Sara Nabil
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Empowering Sustainable E-Textiles: DIY Biofiber Wet Spinning for Community Material Exploration
By Jingwen Zhu, Megan Wu, Ruth Zhao, Samantha Chang, Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Designing for Secondary Users of Intimate Technologies
By Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Joo Young Park, Anupriya Tuli, Deepika Yadav, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Madeline Balaam, Airi Lampinen
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Teenagers and the Data Economy: Understanding Their Dreams, Desires and Anxieties with Metaphor Workbooks
By Samuel Barnett, William Odom, Samien Shamsher
Best Pictorial Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Prompt Machine: A Tangible Generative AI Tool for Supporting Children's Learning and Literacy
By Martin Lindrup, Rune Møberg Jacobsen, Joel Wester, Niels van Berkel, Dimitrios Raptis, Peter Axel Nielsen
Best Paper Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Copyrighting Generative AI Co-Creations
By Jeff Huang, Rui-Jie Yew, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Best Paper Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

HapticWings: Enhancing the Experience of Extra Wing Motions in Virtual Reality through Dynamic 2D Weight Shifting
By Yingjie Chang, Junyu Chen, Yilong Lin, Xuesong Zhang, Seungwoo Je
Best Paper Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Narrative Motion Blocks: Combining Direct Manipulation and Natural Language Interactions for Animation Creation
By Samuelle Bourgault, Li-Yi Wei, Jennifer Jacobs, Rubaiat Habib Kazi
Best Paper Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Domestic Cultures of Plant Care: A Moss Terrarium Probe
By Nirit Binyamini Ben-Meir, Patrick G.T. Healey, Sebastian Deterding
Best Paper Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

SONARIOS: A Design Futuring-Driven Exploration of Acoustophoresis
By Ceylan Beşevli, Lei Gao, Narsimlu Kemsaram, Giada Brianza, Orestis Georgiou, Sriram Subramanian, Marianna Obrist
Best Paper Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

"Pray For Green, Play For Green": Integrating Religion into Climate Change Serious Games
By Sai Siddartha Maram, Yash Malegaonkar, Niveditha Dudyala, Mário Escarce Junior, Magy Seif El-Nasr
Best Paper Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

WiSec '25: 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

DEMO: Radio Unit Activity Fingerprinting through Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis in O-RAN Networks
By Sreenithya Somavarapu, Harshita Chaudhari, Nour El Houda Aidlaid, Nongnapat Adchariyavivit, Qais Dib, Moinul Hossain, Vijay K. Shah, Md. Tanvir Arafin
Best Poster/Demo at WiSec '25: 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

BlindSpot: Efficient Single-Node Selective Jamming for LoRaWAN
By Vincenz Mechler, Frank Hessel, Matthias Hollick, Bastian Bloessl
Best Short Paper at WiSec '25: 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

Distributed Multi-Antenna GPS Spoofing Attack using Off-the-Shelf Devices
By Xiang Cheng, Hanchao Yang, Shinan Liu, Yaling Yang
Best Paper Award at WiSec '25: 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

ITiCSE '25: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Investigating the Impact of Classroom Structure, Sociality, and Inclusivity on Student Perceptions of Mastery
By Celine Latulipe, Andrew Rosen, Audrey Rorrer, Sri Yash Tadimalla, Sabrin Nowrin, John Fiore, Marlon Mejias, Gene Kwatny, Jamie Payton, Mary Lou Maher
Best Paper at ITiCSE '25: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

EC '25: The 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

Swap Regret and Correlated Equilibria Beyond Normal-Form Games
By Eshwar Ram Arunachaleswaran, Natalie Collina, Yishay Mansour, Mehryar Mohri, Jon Schneider, Balasubramanian Sivan
Best Paper Award at EC '25: The 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

FAccT '25: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

WEIRD Audits? Research Trends, Linguistic and Geographical Disparities in the Algorithm Audits of Online Platforms - A Systematic Literature Review
By Aleksandra Urman, Mykola Makhortykh, Aniko Hannak
Honorable Mention at FAccT '25: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

The World Wide recipe: A community-centred framework for fine-grained data collection and regional bias operationalisation
By Jabez Magomere, Shu Ishida, Tejumade Afonja, Aya Salama, Daniel Kochin, Yuehgoh Foutse, Imane Hamzaoui, Raesetje Sefala, Aisha Alaagib, Samantha Dalal, Beatrice Marchegiani, Elizaveta Semenova, Lauren Crais, Siobhan Mackenzie Hall
Honorable Mention at FAccT '25: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Auditing the Audits: Lessons for Algorithmic Accountability from Local Law 144's Bias Audits
By Marissa Kumar Gerchick, Ro Encarnación, Cole Tanigawa-Lau, Lena Armstrong, Ana Gutiérrez, Danaé Metaxa
Honorable Mention at FAccT '25: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

“You Cannot Sound Like GPT": Signs of language discrimination and resistance in computer science publishing
By Haley Lepp, Daniel Scott Smith
Best Paper at FAccT '25: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

External Evaluation of Discrimination Mitigation Efforts in Meta's Ad Delivery
By Basileal Imana, Zeyu Shen, John Heidemann, Aleksandra Korolova
Best Paper at FAccT '25: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

A Framework for Auditing Chatbots for Dialect-Based Quality-of-Service Harms
By Emma Harvey, Rene F. Kizilcec, Allison Koenecke
Best Paper at FAccT '25: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

IMX '25: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

Co-creating a VR Narrative Experience of Constructing a Food Storage Following OvaHimba Traditional Practices
By Kaulyaalalwa Peter, Isaac Makosa, Selma Auala, Laurinda Ndjao, Donovan Maasz, Uariaike Mbinge, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Best Work-in-Progress Award at IMX '25: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

Demonstrating the Screenless Optical Theremin with Tremolo (ScOTT)
By Michael Gancz, Justin Berry, Shu Wei, Kimberly Hieftje, Asher Marks
Demo Honorable Mention at IMX '25: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

Immersive Cognitive Training for Job Integration with people with Intellectual Disabilities
By Marta Goyena, Matteo Dal Magro, Martina Merolli, David Barbero García, Carlos Cortés, Marta Orduna, Ainhoa Fernández-Alcaide, María Nava-Ruiz, Jesus Gutiérrez, Pablo Perez, Narciso García
Best Demo Award at IMX '25: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

Spoiler Alert! Understanding and Designing for Spoilers in Social Media
By Ville Mäkelä, Kartik Chinda, Irtika Khan
Paper Honorable Mention at IMX '25: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

An AI-driven Music Visualization System for Generating Meaningful Audio-Responsive Visuals in Real-Time
By Jenny Huang, Christoph Johannes Weber, Sylvia Rothe
Best Paper Award at IMX '25: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

EICS '25: The 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

Comparative Testing of 2D Stroke Gesture Recognizers in Multiple Contexts
By Nathan Magrofuoco, Arthur Sluÿters, Paolo Roselli, Jean Vanderdonckt
Honorable Mention at EICS '25: The 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

Augmenting graphical modeling workbenches with semantic-aware interactive features
By Théo Giraudet, Arnaud Blouin, Benoit Combemale, Mélanie Bats, Pierre-Charles David
Best Paper at EICS '25: The 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

SIGMOD/PODS '25: International Conference on Management of Data

DPconv: Super-Polynomially Faster Join Ordering
By Mihail Stoian, Andreas Kipf
SIGMOD Best Paper Honorable Mention at SIGMOD/PODS '25: International Conference on Management of Data

CRDV: Conflict-free Replicated Data Views
By Nuno Faria, José Pereira
SIGMOD Best Paper Honorable Mention at SIGMOD/PODS '25: International Conference on Management of Data

Low-Latency Transaction Scheduling via Userspace Interrupts: Why Wait or Yield When You Can Preempt?
By Kaisong Huang, Jiatang Zhou, Zhuoyue Zhao, Dong Xie, Tianzheng Wang
SIGMOD Best Paper Award at SIGMOD/PODS '25: International Conference on Management of Data

LpBound: Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation Using ℓp-Norms of Degree Sequences
By Haozhe Zhang, Christoph Mayer, Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Dan Olteanu, Dan Suciu
SIGMOD Best Paper Award at SIGMOD/PODS '25: International Conference on Management of Data

ISCA '25: The 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

CORD: Low-Latency, Bandwidth-Efficient and Scalable Release Consistency via Directory Ordering
By Yanpeng Yu, Nicolai Oswald, Anurag Khandelwal
Best Artifact at ISCA '25: The 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

OptiPIM: Optimizing Processing-in-Memory Acceleration Using Integer Linear Programming
By Jiantao Liu, Minxuan Zhou, Yue Pan, Chien-Yi Yang, Lana Josipović, Tajana Rosing
Best Artifact at ISCA '25: The 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

Chimera: Communication Fusion for Hybrid Parallelism in Large Language Models
By Le Qin, Junwei Cui, Weilin Cai, Jiayi Huang
Best Artifact at ISCA '25: The 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

H2-LLM: Hardware-Dataflow Co-Exploration for Heterogeneous Hybrid-Bonding-based Low-Batch LLM Inference
By Cong Li, Yihan Yin, Xintong Wu, Jingchen Zhu, Zhutianya Gao, Dimin Niu, Qiang Wu, Xin Si, Yuan Xie, Chen Zhang, Guangyu Sun
Best Paper at ISCA '25: The 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

Precise exceptions in relaxed architectures
By Ben Simner, Alasdair Armstrong, Thomas Bauereiss, Brian Campbell, Ohad Kammar, Jean Pichon-Pharabod, Peter Sewell
Best Paper at ISCA '25: The 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

PASC '25: Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference

Toward More Usable, Reproducible, and Sustainable Scientific Software: The Impact of User-Centered Design in Research Software Development
By Katherine Arneson, Lijiang Fu, Lisa Gatzke
Best Paper at PASC '25: Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference

IFL '24: 36th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages

Context-Free Binding Grammars
By Björn Lötters, Uwe Meyer
Peter Landin prize at IFL '24: 36th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages

PLDI '25: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

Destabilizing Iris
By Simon Spies, Niklas Mück, Haoyi Zeng, Michael Sammler, Andrea Lattuada, Peter Müller, Derek Dreyer
Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI '25: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

Tree Borrows
By Neven Villani, Johannes Hostert, Derek Dreyer, Ralf Jung
Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI '25: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

Principal Type Inference under a Prefix: A Fresh Look at Static Overloading
By Daan Leijen, Wenjia Ye
Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI '25: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

Verifying General-Purpose RCU for Reclamation in Relaxed Memory Separation Logic
By Jaehwang Jung, Sunho Park, Janggun Lee, Jeho Yeon, Jeehoon Kang
Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI '25: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

Practical Type Inference with Levels
By Andong Fan, Han Xu, Ningning Xie
Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI '25: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

AWDIT: An Optimal Weak Database Isolation Tester
By Lasse Møldrup, Andreas Pavlogiannis
Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI '25: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

IH&MMSEC '25: ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security

Modality-Agnostic Deepfakes Detection
By Yu Cai, Peng Chen, Jiahe Tian, Jin Liu, Jiao Dai, Xi Wang, Shan Jia, Siwei Lyu, Jizhong Han
Best Student Paper Award at IH&MMSEC '25: ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security

Effect of Acquisition Noise Outliers on Steganalysis
By Edgar Kaziakhmedov, Jessica Fridrich, Patrick Bas
Best Paper Award at IH&MMSEC '25: ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security

IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

"SAM" - School Attachment Monitor for the Assessment of Attachment in Children aged 4-8
By Michael John Saiger, Yara Aleid, Helen Minnis, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Stephen Brewster
Best Demo at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

“Whispers of Hope”: A Narrative-Driven, Immersive, Digital Game to Foster Hope and Emotional Growth in Children
By Devasena Pasupuleti, Zareen Hasna Chowdhury, Shyamli Suneesh, Sreeja Sri Ramoji, Shruti Chandra
Research and Design Challenge Award at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

From Users to Co-Designers: Youth Participation in Understanding Cyberbullying
By Kanishk Verma, Brian Davis, Tijana Milosevic, Rebecca Umbach
Honorable Mention for Best Work-in-Progress at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

"If They Have No Choice, They'll Accept!": How Children and Adolescents Assess Deceptive Designs
By René Schäfer, Sarah Sahabi, Lucia Karl, Sophie Hahn, Jan Borchers
Best Work-in-Progress at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

HopeFix: An AR System for Building Hope Through Toy Repair
By Wenjing Deng, Minxuan He, Xintong Wu, Peixi Sheng, Shuzi Yin, Bingjie Gao, Jiachen Du, Haipeng Mi
Research and Design Challenge Award at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

Beyond the Algorithm: Speculative Approaches to Critical AI Literacies with Diverse Youth
By Sadhbh Kenny, Alissa N. Antle, Gillian Russell, Alexandra Kitson, Annemiek Veldhuis
Honorable Mention at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

Beyond Categories: Towards a Continuum Model to Capture the Characteristics of Neurodiverse Social Play
By Brooke Morris, Alison Oldfield, Oussama Metatla
Honorable Mention at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

The Secret Lives of Children’s Money: Exploring Children’s Financial Interactions in Transitions from Cash to Digital Monies
By Valentina Andries, Cara Wilson, Harvey Everson, Caroline McKinley, Chris Elsden
Best Full Paper at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

On the Good-Enough Effect: Children Reflect on their AI-Generated Portraits
By Irene Zanardi, Shana Dedò, Monica Landoni
Best Pictorial at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

"Hey Curio, Can You Tell Me More?": Children's Information-Seeking and Trust in AI
By Sunhyo Oh, Chao Zhang, Lauren Girouard-Hallam, Zihao Zhou, Halie March, Srushti Jayaramu, Ying Xu
Best Short Paper at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

SIGMETRICS '25: ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Beaver: A High-Performance and Crash-Consistent File System Cache via PM-DRAM Collaborative Memory Tiering
By Qinglin Pan, Ji Qi, Jiatai He, Heng Zhang, Jiageng Yu, Yanjun Wu
Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award at SIGMETRICS '25: ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Adversarial Network Optimization under Bandit Feedback: Maximizing Utility in Non-Stationary Multi-Hop Networks
By Yan Dai, Longbo Huang
Best Paper Award at SIGMETRICS '25: ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

DEBS '25: The 19th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems

Impact of Network Topologies on Blockchain Performance
By Vincenzo P. Di Perna, Marco Bernardo, Francesco Fabris, Sebastiao Amaro, Miguel Matos, Valerio Schiavoni
ACM DEBS 2025 Best Student Paper at DEBS '25: The 19th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems

Histrio: a Serverless Actor System
By Luca De Martini, Giorgio Natale Buttiglieri, Alessandro Margara
ACM DEBS 2025 Best Paper at DEBS '25: The 19th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems

CODASPY '25: Fifteenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

CryptMove: Moving Stealthily through Legitimate and Encrypted Communication Channels
By Md Rabbi Alam, Jinpeng Wei, Qingyang Wang
CODASPY 2025 Best Paper Award at CODASPY '25: Fifteenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

Probabilistic Data Structures in the Wild: A Security Analysis of Redis
By Mia Fili?, Jonas Hofmann, Sam A. Markelon, Kenneth G. Paterson, Anupama Unnikrishnan
CODASPY 2025 Best Paper Award at CODASPY '25: Fifteenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

Espresso: Robust Concept Filtering in Text-to-Image Models
By Anudeep Das, Vasisht Duddu, Rui Zhang, N. Asokan
CODASPY 2025 Best Paper Award at CODASPY '25: Fifteenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

Websci '25: 17th ACM Web Science Conference

Beyond the Lens: Quantifying the Impact of Scientific Documentaries through Amazon Reviews
By Beyond the Lens: Quantifying the Impact of Scientific Documentaries through Amazon Reviews
WebSci 2025 Best Poster Award at Websci '25: 17th ACM Web Science Conference

How Personal Narratives Empower Politically Disinclined Individuals to Engage in Political Discussions
By How Personal Narratives Empower Politically Disinclined Individuals to Engage in Political Discussions
WebSci 2025 Best Paper Honorable Mention at Websci '25: 17th ACM Web Science Conference

Beyond Sentiment: Examining the Role of Moral Foundations in User Engagement with News on Twitter
By Beyond Sentiment: Examining the Role of Moral Foundations in User Engagement with News on Twitter
WebSci 2025 Best Paper Award at Websci '25: 17th ACM Web Science Conference

SAC '25: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Mamba-PKD: A Framework for Efficient and Scalable Model Compression in Image Classification
By José Medina, Amnir Hadachi, Paul Honeine, Abdelaziz Bensrhair
Best Poster at SAC '25: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Efficient Scheduling of Weakly-Hard Real-Time Tasks with Sufficient Schedulability Condition
By Victor Gabriel Moyano, Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Selma Saidi, Daniel Lüdtke
Best Paper: System Software & Security at SAC '25: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

An Adversarial Model with Diffusion for Robust Recommendation against Shilling Attack
By Thi-Hanh Le, Padipat Sitkrongwong, Panagiotis Andriotis, Quang-Thuy Ha, Atsuhiro Takasu
Best Paper: Software Design & Development at SAC '25: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Language Flavors in the Lusophone World: A BERT-Based Social Media Study of Portuguese in Brazil, Portugal, and Mozambique
By Annie Amorim, Gabriel Assis, Laura Ribeiro, Daniel de Oliveira, Aline Paes
Best Paper: Information Systems at SAC '25: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Leveraging Contrastive Learning and Spatial Encoding for Prediction in Traffic Networks with Expanding Infrastructure
By You Xu, Marwan Hassani
Best Paper: Distributed Systems at SAC '25: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

RAGCol: RAG-Based Automatic Video Colorization Through Text Caption Generation and Knowledge Enrichment
By Rory Ward, Dhairya Dalal, Paul Buitelaar, John Breslin
Best Paper: AI & Agents at SAC '25: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

I3D '25: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

BlendFusion: Procedural 3D Texturing Assistant with View-Consistent Generative Models
By Qinchan Li, Finley Torrens, Kenneth Chen, Qi Sun
Best Poster at I3D '25: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

Foveated Animations for Efficient Crowd Simulation
By Florin-Vladimir Stancu, Tomer Weiss, Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos
Best Student Paper at I3D '25: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

Transform-Aware Sparse Voxel Directed Acyclic Graphs
By Mathijs Molenaar, Elmar Eisemann
Best Paper at I3D '25: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

ACMSE '25: 2025 ACM Southeast Conference

Improving Merge Sort and Quick Sort Performance by Utilizing Alphadev’s Sorting Networks as Base Cases
By Anas Gamal Aly, Anders E. Jensen, Hala Elaarag
Best Short Paper at ACMSE '25: 2025 ACM Southeast Conference

Secure Edge Computing Reference Architecture for Data-driven Structural Health Monitoring: Lessons Learned from Implementation and Benchmarking
By Sheikh Muhammad Farjad, Sandeep Reddy Patllola, Yonas Kassa, George Grispos, Robin Gandhi
Best Full Paper at ACMSE '25: 2025 ACM Southeast Conference

ICPE '25: 16th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

Platform Performance Suite (PPS): A Framework for Performance Analysis & Diagnosis of Complex Cyber-physical Systems
By Konstantinos Triantafyllidis, Yuri Blankenstein, Sobhan Niknam, Jos Hegge
Best Industry Paper Award at ICPE '25: 16th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

HeteroBench: Multi-kernel Benchmarks for Heterogeneous Systems
By Hongzheng Tian, Alok Mishra, Zhiheng Chen, Rolando P. Hong Enriquez, Dejan Milojicic, Eitan Frachtenberg, Sitao Huang
Best Artifact Paper Award at ICPE '25: 16th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

Introducing GPU Persistent Graphs for Time-sensitive Workflows
By Cyril Cetre, Florian Ferreira, Rémi Barrere, Damien Gratadour
André van Hoorn Best Paper Award at ICPE '25: 16th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

WWW '25: The ACM Web Conference 2025

Behavioral Homophily in Social Media via Inverse Reinforcement Learning: A Reddit Case Study
By Lanqin Yuan, Philipp J. Schneider, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
Best Paper Award at WWW '25: The ACM Web Conference 2025

MMSys '25: ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2025

TVMC: Time-Varying Mesh Compression Using Volume-Tracked Reference Meshes
By Guodong Chen, Filip Hácha, Libor Váša, Mallesham Dasari
Best Reproducible Paper at MMSys '25: ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2025

Multimodal User Experience in Extended Reality: Exploring Hand Tracking, Voice, and Passthrough Interactions
By Tanja Kojic, Maurizio Vergari, Maximilian Warsinke, Danish Ali, Sebastian Möller, Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons
Best Workshop Paper at MMSys '25: ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2025

uvgVPCCenc: Practical Open-Source Encoder for Fast V-PCC Compression
By Louis Fréneau, Guillaume Gautier, Alexandre Mercat, Jarno Vanne
Best Open Source Software and Dataset Paper at MMSys '25: ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2025

Real-time Point Cloud Transmission for Immersive Teleoperation of Autonomous Mobile Robots
By Nunzio Barone, Walter Brescia, Gabriele Santangelo, Antonio Pio Maggio, Ivan Cisternino, Luca De Cicco, Saverio Mascolo
Best Demo Award at MMSys '25: ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2025

LTS: A DASH Streaming System for Dynamic Multi-Layer 3D Gaussian Splatting Scenes
By Yuan-Chun Sun, Yuang Shi, Cheng-Tse Lee, Mufeng Zhu, Wei Tsang Ooi, Yao Liu, Chun-Ying Huang, Cheng-Hsin Hsu
Best Paper Award at MMSys '25: ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2025

ASPLOS '25: 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

SmoothE: Differentiable E-Graph Extraction
By Yaohui Cai, Kaixin Yang, Chenhui Deng, Cunxi Yu, Zhiru Zhang
Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '25: 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

Orion: A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Framework for Deep Learning
By Austin Ebel, Karthik Garimella, Brandon Reagen
Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '25: 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

MetaSapiens: Real-Time Neural Rendering with Efficiency-Aware Pruning and Accelerated Foveated Rendering
By Weikai Lin, Yu Feng, Yuhao Zhu
Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '25: 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

H-Houdini: Scalable Invariant Learning
By Sushant Dinesh, Yongye Zhu, Christopher W. Fletcher
Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '25: 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

Extended User Interrupts (xUI): Fast and Flexible Notification without Polling
By Berk Aydogmus, Linsong Guo, Danial Zuberi, Tal Garfinkel, Dean Tullsen, Amy Ousterhout, Kazem Taram
Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '25: 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

CXLfork: Fast Remote Fork over CXL Fabrics
By Chloe Alverti, Stratos Psomadakis, Burak Ocalan, Shashwat Jaiswal, Tianyin Xu, Josep Torrellas
Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '25: 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

EuroSys '25: Twentieth European Conference on Computer Systems

Enabling Virtual Priority in Data Center Congestion Control
By Zhaochen Zhang, Feiyang Xue, Keqiang He, Zhimeng Yin, Gianni Antichi, Jiaqi Gao, Yizhi Wang, Rui Ning, Haixin Nan, Xu Zhang, Peirui Cao, Xiaoliang Wang, Wanchun Dou, Guihai Chen, Chen Tian
Best Student Paper Award of EuroSys 2025 at EuroSys '25: Twentieth European Conference on Computer Systems

Understanding the Linux Kernel, Visually
By Hanzhi Liu, Yanyan Jiang, Chang Xu
Best Student Paper Award of EuroSys 2025 at EuroSys '25: Twentieth European Conference on Computer Systems

SpInfer: Leveraging Low-Level Sparsity for Efficient Large Language Model Inference on GPUs
By Ruibo Fan, Xiangrui Yu, Peijie Dong, Zeyu Li, Gu Gong, Qiang Wang, Wei Wang, Xiaowen Chu
Best Paper Award of EuroSys 2025 at EuroSys '25: Twentieth European Conference on Computer Systems

CacheBlend: Fast Large Language Model Serving for RAG with Cached Knowledge Fusion
By Jiayi Yao, Hanchen Li, Yuhan Liu, Siddhant Ray, Yihua Cheng, Qizheng Zhang, Kuntai Du, Shan Lu, Junchen Jiang
Best Paper Award of EuroSys 2025 at EuroSys '25: Twentieth European Conference on Computer Systems

IUI '25: 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

Under the Hood of Carousels: Investigating User Engagement and Navigation Effort in Multi-list Recommender Systems
By Behnam Rahdari, Peter Brusilovsky
IUI 2025 Honourable Mention Award at IUI '25: 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

Unequal Opportunities: Examining the Bias in Geographical Recommendations by Large Language Models
By Shiran Dudy, Thulasi Tholeti, Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Muhammad Ali, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Ricardo Baeza-Yates
IUI 2025 Honourable Mention Award at IUI '25: 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

One Does Not Simply Meme Alone: Evaluating Co-Creativity Between LLMs and Humans in the Generation of Humor
By Zhikun Wu, Thomas Weber, Florian Müller
IUI 2025 Honourable Mention Award at IUI '25: 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

“You Always Get an Answer”: Analyzing Users’ Interaction with AI-Generated Personas Given Unanswerable Questions and Risk of Hallucination
By Ilkka Kaate, Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Trang Thi Thu Xuan, Essi Häyhänen, Jinan Y. Azem, Bernard J. Jansen
IUI 2025 Honourable Mention Award at IUI '25: 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

Text-to-Image Generation for Vocabulary Learning Using the Keyword Method
By Nuwan T. Attygalle, Matjaž Kljun, Aaron Quigley, Klen Čopič Pucihar, Jens Grubert, Verena Biener, Luis A. Leiva, Juri Yoneyama, Alice Toniolo, Angela Miguel, Hirokazu Kato, Maheshya Weerasinghe
IUI 2025 Best Paper Award at IUI '25: 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

A picture is worth a thousand words? Investigating the Impact of Image Aids in AR on Memory Recall for Everyday Tasks
By Elizaveta Lukianova, Jae-Yeop Jeong, Jin-Woo Jeong
IUI 2025 Best Paper Award at IUI '25: 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

WSDM '15: Eighth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Sarcasm Detection on Twitter: A Behavioral Modeling Approach
By Ashwin Rajadesingan, Reza Zafarani, Huan Liu
Test of Time at WSDM '15: Eighth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

DFDS '25: Digital Forensics Doctoral Symposium

Advancing Event Reconstruction in Network Forensics: Extending and Evaluating SMB Command Fingerprinting
By Jan-Niclas Hilgert, Martin Lambertz
Best Paper at DFDS '25: Digital Forensics Doctoral Symposium

WSDM '25: The Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

How Do Recommendation Models Amplify Popularity Bias? An Analysis from the Spectral Perspective
By Siyi Lin, Chongming Gao, Jiawei Chen, Sheng Zhou, Binbin Hu, Yan Feng, Chun Chen, Can Wang
WSDM 2025 Best Paper Award at WSDM '25: The Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

ADIST '24: 2024 International Conference on Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Sensing Technology

Intelligent Vehicle Navigation Tests Based on LiDAR
By Xingshu Liu, Yifei Yin, Qian Liu
Best Paper Award at ADIST '24: 2024 International Conference on Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Sensing Technology

Improved sparrow search algorithm for autonomous vehicle path planning
By Tian Ding, Yunfeng Gu, Huihui Gao, Xiaohua Song, Suping Zhao, Yujia Zheng, Song Gao
Best Paper Award at ADIST '24: 2024 International Conference on Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Sensing Technology

ISPD '25: International Symposium on Physical Design

Cypress: VLSI-Inspired PCB Placement with GPU Acceleration
By Niansong Zhang, Anthony Agnesina, Noor Shbat, Yuval Leader, Zhiru Zhang, Haoxing Ren
ISPD Best Paper Award 2025 at ISPD '25: International Symposium on Physical Design

WSDM '25: The Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

How Do Recommendation Models Amplify Popularity Bias? An Analysis from the Spectral Perspective
By Siyi Lin, Chongming Gao, Jiawei Chen, Sheng Zhou, Binbin Hu, Yan Feng, Chun Chen, Can Wang
WSDM 2025 Best Paper Award at WSDM '25: The Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

PPoPP '25: The 30th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

Publish on Ping: A Better Way to Publish Reservations in Memory Reclamation for Concurrent Data Structures
By Ajay Singh, Trevor Brown
Distinguished Paper at PPoPP '25: The 30th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

EVeREST: An Effective and Versatile Runtime Energy Saving Tool for GPUs
By Anna Yue, Pen-Chung Yew, Sanyam Mehta
Distinguished Paper at PPoPP '25: The 30th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

BerryBees: Breadth First Search by Bit-Tensor-Cores
By Yuyao Niu, Marc Casas
Distinguished Paper, Best Artifact at PPoPP '25: The 30th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

A Primal-Dual Perspective on Program Verification Algorithms
By Takeshi Tsukada, Hiroshi Unno, Oded Padon, Sharon Shoham
Distinguished Paper Award at POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Data Race Freedom à la Mode
By Aïna Linn Georges, Benjamin Peters, Laila Elbeheiry, Leo White, Stephen Dolan, Richard A. Eisenberg, Chris Casinghino, François Pottier, Derek Dreyer
Distinguished Paper Award at POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Affect: An Affine Type and Effect System
By Orpheas van Rooij, Robbert Krebbers
Distinguished Paper Award at POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Barendregt Convenes with Knaster and Tarski: Strong Rule Induction for Syntax with Bindings
By Jan van Brügge, James McKinna, Andrei Popescu, Dmitriy Traytel
Distinguished Paper Award at POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

TensorRight: Automated Verification of Tensor Graph Rewrites
By Jai Arora, Sirui Lu, Devansh Jain, Tianfan Xu, Farzin Houshmand, Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, Mohsen Lesani, Praveen Narayanan, Karthik Srinivasa Murthy, Rastislav Bodik, Amit Sabne, Charith Mendis
Distinguished Paper Award at POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Guaranteed Bounds on Posterior Distributions of Discrete Probabilistic Programs with Loops
By Fabian Zaiser, Andrzej S. Murawski, C.-H. Luke Ong
Distinguished Paper Award at POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Relaxed Memory Concurrency Re-executed
By Evgenii Moiseenko, Matteo Meluzzi, Innokentii Meleshchenko, Ivan Kabashnyi, Anton Podkopaev, Soham Chakraborty
Distinguished Paper Award at POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages