Conferences Best Paper Awards 2021

 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.  

Use of Intelligent Voice Assistants by Older Adults with Low Technology Use
By Alisha Pradhan, Amanda Lazar, Leah Findlater
TOCHI best paper awards 2020

Entanglement HCI The Next Wave?
By Christopher Frauenberger
TOCHI best paper awards 2019

Participatory Design that Matters—Facing the Big Issues
By Susanne Bødker, Morten Kyng
TOCHI best paper awards 2018

Content-rich and Expansive Virtual Environments Using Passive Props As World Anchors
By Steven G. Wheeler, Simon Hoermann, Robert W. Lindeman, George Ghinea, Alexandra Covaci
Best Poster/Demo Award Voted by Attendees at VRST '21: 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

HapticPanel: An Open System to Render Haptic Interfaces in Virtual Reality for Manufacturing Industry
By Bram van Deurzen, Patrik Goorts, Tom De Weyer, Davy Vanacken, Kris Luyten
Best Demo Award Voted by Committee at VRST '21: 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

Using Hand Tracking and Voice Commands to Physically Align Virtual Surfaces in AR for Handwriting and Sketching with HoloLens 2
By Florian Kern, Thore Keser, Florian Niebling, Marc Erich Latoschik
Best Poster Award Voted by Committee at VRST '21: 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

Capturing Expert Knowledge for Building Enterprise SME Knowledge Graphs
By Martin Mansfield, Valentina Tamma, Phil Goddard, Frans Coenen
Best Paper Honorable Mention at K-CAP '21: Knowledge Capture Conference

Expressing High-Level Scientific Claims with Formal Semantics
By Cristina-Iulia Bucur, Tobias Kuhn, Davide Ceolin, Jacco van Ossenbruggen
Best Paper Honorable Mention at K-CAP '21: Knowledge Capture Conference

Spread2RML: Constructing Knowledge Graphs by Predicting RML Mappings on Messy Spreadsheets
By Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Andreas Dengel
Best Paper at K-CAP '21: Knowledge Capture Conference

Time in a Box: Advancing Knowledge Graph Completion with Temporal Scopes
By Ling Cai, Krzysztof Janowicz, Bo Yan, Rui Zhu, Gengchen Mai
Best Student Paper at K-CAP '21: Knowledge Capture Conference

Deployment and scalability of an inter-domain multi-path routing infrastructure
By Cyrill Krähenbühl, Seyedali Tabaeiaghdaei, Christelle Gloor, Jonghoon Kwon, Adrian Perrig, David Hausheer, Dominik Roos
Best paper award at CoNEXT '21: The 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies

TCPLS: modern transport services with TCP and TLS
By Florentin Rochet, Emery Assogba, Maxime Piraux, Korian Edeline, Benoit Donnet, Olivier Bonaventure
Best community award at CoNEXT '21: The 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies

VPN: Video Provenance Network for Robust Content Attribution
By Alexander Black, Tu Bui, Simon Jenni, Viswanathan (Vishy) Swaminathan, John Collomosse
Best Paper Award at CVMP '21: European Conference on Visual Media Production

FacialFilmroll: High-resolution multi-shot video editing
By Bharath Bhushan Damodaran, Emmanuel Jolly, Gilles Puy, Philippe-Henri Gosselin, Cédric Thébault, Junghyun Ahn, Tim Christensen, Paul Ghezzo, Pierre Hellier
Best Paper Award at CVMP '21: European Conference on Visual Media Production

Catching Jellies in Immersive Virtual Reality: A Comparative Teleoperation Study of ROVs in Underwater Capture Tasks
By Aviv Elor, Tiffany Thang, Benjamin Paul Hughes, Alison Crosby, Amy Phung, Everardo Gonzalez, Kakani Katija, Steven H. D. Haddock, Eric J. Martin, Benjamin Eric Erwin, Leila Takayama
Best Paper Award at VRST '21: 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

Flyables: Haptic Input Devices for Virtual Reality using Quadcopters
By Jonas Auda, Nils Verheyen, Sven Mayer, Stefan Schneegass
Honorable Mention Award at VRST '21: 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

Presenting Sense of Loud Vocalization Using Vibratory Stimuli to the Larynx and Auditory Stimuli
By Yuki Shimomura, Yuki Ban, Shin'ichi Warisawa
Honorable Mention Award at VRST '21: 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

Analysis of Detection Thresholds for Hand Redirection during Mid-Air Interactions in Virtual Reality
By Judith Hartfill, Jenny Gabel, Lucie Kruse, Susanne Schmidt, Kevin Riebandt, Simone Kühn, Frank Steinicke
Honorable Mention Award at VRST '21: 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

No Reservations Required: Achieving Fairness between Wi-Fi and NR-U with Self-Deferral Only
By Ilenia Tinnirello, Alice Lo Valvo, Szymon Szott, Katarzyna Kosek-Szott
Best Paper Award at MSWiM '21: 24th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

V-Shuttle: Scalable and Semantics-Aware Hypervisor Virtual Device Fuzzing
By Gaoning Pan, Xingwei Lin, Xuhong Zhang, Yongkang Jia, Shouling Ji, Chunming Wu, Xinlei Ying, Jiashui Wang, Yanjun Wu
Best Paper Award at CCS '21: 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

On the (In)Security of ElGamal in OpenPGP
By Luca De Feo, Bertram Poettering, Alessandro Sorniotti
Best Paper Award at CCS '21: 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

On the Rényi Differential Privacy of the Shuffle Model
By Antonious M. Girgis, Deepesh Data, Suhas Diggavi, Ananda Theertha Suresh, Peter Kairouz
Best Paper Award at CCS '21: 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

One Glitch to Rule Them All: Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization
By Robert Buhren, Hans-Niklas Jacob, Thilo Krachenfels, Jean-Pierre Seifert
Best Paper Award at CCS '21: 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

XSinator.com: From a Formal Model to the Automatic Evaluation of Cross-Site Leaks in Web Browsers
By Lukas Knittel, Christian Mainka, Marcus Niemietz, Dominik Trevor Noß, Jörg Schwenk
Best Paper Award at CCS '21: 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Electromyography Data Transmission via Galvanic Coupling Intra-body Communication Link
By Anna Vizziello, Pietro Savazzi, Giovanni Magenes
Best Paper Award at Nanocom 2021 at NANOCOM '21: The Eighth Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication

A Smart Adversarial Attack on Deep Hashing Based Image Retrieval
By Junda Lu, Mingyang Chen, Yifang Sun, Wei Wang, Yi Wang, Xiaochun Yang
ICMR 2021 Best Paper Award at ICMR '21: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

Leveraging Two Types of Global Graph for Sequential Fashion Recommendation
By Yujuan Ding, Yunshan Ma, Wai Keung Wong, Tat-Seng Chua
ICMR 2021 Best Student Paper Award at ICMR '21: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

Cross-Modal Self-Attention with Multi-Task Pre-Training for Medical Visual Question Answering
By Haifan Gong, Guanqi Chen, Sishuo Liu, Yizhou Yu, Guanbin Li
ICMR 2021 Best Poster Paper Award at ICMR '21: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

Motor Babble: Morphology-Driven Coordinated Control of Articulated Characters
By Avinash Ranganath, Avishek Biswas, Ioannis Karamouzas, Victor Zordan
MIG2021 Best Paper at MIG '21: Motion, Interaction and Games

PIRMedic: physics-driven fault diagnosis for PIR sensors
By Ashish Kashinath, Sibin Mohan, Akshay Nambi, Sumukh Marathe
Best Paper at BuildSys '21: The 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation

NELoRa: Towards Ultra-low SNR LoRa Communication with Neural-enhanced Demodulation
By Chenning Li, Hanqing Guo, Shuai Tong, Xiao Zeng, Zhichao Cao, Mi Zhang, Qiben Yan, Li Xiao, Jiliang Wang, Yunhao Liu
Best paper award at SenSys '21: The 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Real-Time Magnification in Augmented Reality
By Zubin Choudhary, Jesus Ugarte, Gerd Bruder, Greg Welch
Best Poster/Demo Award at SUI '21: Symposium on Spatial User Interaction

FarOut Touch: Extending the Range of ad hoc Touch Sensing with Depth Cameras
By Vivian Shen, James Spann, Chris Harrison
Best Paper Award at SUI '21: Symposium on Spatial User Interaction

Exploration of Techniques for Rapid Activation of Glanceable Information in Head-Worn Augmented Reality
By Feiyu Lu, Shakiba Davari, Doug Bowman
Honorable Mention Award at SUI '21: Symposium on Spatial User Interaction

Don’t Block the Ground: Reducing Discomfort in Virtual Reality with an Asymmetric Field-of-View Restrictor
By Fei Wu, George S Bailey, Thomas Stoffregen, Evan Suma Rosenberg
Honorable Mention Award at SUI '21: Symposium on Spatial User Interaction

From Community Search to Community Understanding: A Multimodal Community Query Engine
By Zhao Li, Pengcheng Zou, Xia Chen, Shichang Hu, Peng Zhang, Yumou Zhang, Bingsheng He, Yuchen Li, Xing Tang
CIKM 2021 Demonstration track at CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

DORA THE EXPLORER: Exploring Very Large Data With Interactive Deep Reinforcement Learning
By Aurélien Personnaz, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laure Berti-Equille, Maximilian Fabricius, Srividya Subramanian
CIKM 2021 Demonstration track - best paper at CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

DL-Traff: Survey and Benchmark of Deep Learning Models for Urban Traffic Prediction
By Renhe Jiang, Du Yin, Zhaonan Wang, Yizhuo Wang, Jiewen Deng, Hangchen Liu, Zekun Cai, Jinliang Deng, Xuan Song, Ryosuke Shibasaki
CIKM 2021 Resource track at CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

PyTorch Geometric Temporal: Spatiotemporal Signal Processing with Neural Machine Learning Models
By Benedek Rozemberczki, Paul Scherer, Yixuan He, George Panagopoulos, Alexander Riedel, Maria Astefanoaei, Oliver Kiss, Ferenc Beres, Guzmán López, Nicolas Collignon, Rik Sarkar
CIKM 2021 Resource track - best paper at CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

A Formal Analysis of Recommendation Quality of Adversarially-trained Recommenders
By Vito Walter Anelli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Felice Antonio Merra
CIKM 2021 Short paper track at CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

Neuron Campaign for Initialization Guided by Information Bottleneck Theory
By Haitao Mao, Xu Chen, Qiang Fu, Lun Du, Shi Han, Dongmei Zhang
CIKM 2021 Short paper track - best paper at CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

Mining Software Entities in Scientific Literature: Document-level NER for an Extremely Imbalance and Large-scale Task
By Patrice Lopez, Caifan Du, Johanna Cohoon, Karthik Ram, James Howison
CIKM 2021 Applied paper track at CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

Detection of Illicit Drug Trafficking Events on Instagram: A Deep Multimodal Multilabel Learning Approach
By Chuanbo Hu, Minglei Yin, Bin Liu, Xin Li, Yanfang Ye
CIKM 2021 Applied paper track at CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

AudiBERT: A Deep Transfer Learning Multimodal Classification Framework for Depression Screening
By Ermal Toto, ML Tlachac, Elke A. Rundensteiner
CIKM 2021 Applied paper track - best paper at CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

Principled Multi-Aspect Evaluation Measures of Rankings
By Maria Maistro, Lucas Chaves Lima, Jakob Grue Simonsen, Christina Lioma
CIKM 2021 Full paper track at CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

Cycle or Minkowski: Which is More Appropriate for Knowledge Graph Embedding?
By Han Yang, Leilei Zhang, Bingning Wang, Ting Yao, Junfei Liu
CIKM 2021 Full paper track at CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

RxNet: Rx-refill Graph Neural Network for Overprescribing Detection
By Jianfei Zhang, Ai-Te Kuo, Jianan Zhao, Qianlong Wen, Erin Winstanley, Chuxu Zhang, Yanfang Ye
CIKM 2021 Full paper track - best paper at CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

Robust Routing Using Electrical Flows
By Ali Kemal Sinop, Lisa Fawcett, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Kostas Kollias
ACM SIGSPATIAL 2021 Best Paper Award at SIGSPATIAL '21: 29th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Rudra: Finding Memory Safety Bugs in Rust at the Ecosystem Scale
By Yechan Bae, Youngsuk Kim, Ammar Askar, Jungwon Lim, Taesoo Kim
Distinguished artifact award at SOSP '21: ACM SIGOPS 28th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

Using Lightweight Formal Methods to Validate a Key-Value Storage Node in Amazon S3
By James Bornholt, Rajeev Joshi, Vytautas Astrauskas, Brendan Cully, Bernhard Kragl, Seth Markle, Kyle Sauri, Drew Schleit, Grant Slatton, Serdar Tasiran, Jacob Van Geffen, Andrew Warfield
Best paper award at SOSP '21: ACM SIGOPS 28th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

LineFS: Efficient SmartNIC Offload of a Distributed File System with Pipeline Parallelism
By Jongyul Kim, Insu Jang, Waleed Reda, Jaeseong Im, Marco Canini, Dejan Kostić, Youngjin Kwon, Simon Peter, Emmett Witchel
Best paper award at SOSP '21: ACM SIGOPS 28th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

Kangaroo: Caching Billions of Tiny Objects on Flash
By Sara McAllister, Benjamin Berg, Julian Tutuncu-Macias, Juncheng Yang, Sathya Gunasekar, Jimmy Lu, Daniel S. Berger, Nathan Beckmann, Gregory R. Ganger
Best paper award at SOSP '21: ACM SIGOPS 28th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

Bringing Accessibility Right Inside Design Tools
By Samine Hadadi
Best Artifact Award at ASSETS '21: The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

SciA11y: Converting Scientific Papers to Accessible HTML
By Lucy Lu Wang, Isabel Cachola, Jonathan Bragg, Evie Yu-Yen Cheng, Chelsea Haupt, Matt Latzke, Bailey Kuehl, Madeleine N van Zuylen, Linda Wagner, Daniel Weld
Best Artifact Award at ASSETS '21: The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Sidewalk Gallery: An Interactive, Filterable Image Gallery of Over 500,000 Sidewalk Accessibility Problems
By Michael Duan, Aroosh Kumar, Michael Saugstad, Aileen Zeng, Ilia Savin, Jon E. Froehlich
Best Artifact Award at ASSETS '21: The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Bringing Accessibility Right Inside Design Tools
By Samine Hadadi
Best Artifact Award at ASSETS '21: The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

SciA11y: Converting Scientific Papers to Accessible HTML
By Lucy Lu Wang, Isabel Cachola, Jonathan Bragg, Evie Yu-Yen Cheng, Chelsea Haupt, Matt Latzke, Bailey Kuehl, Madeleine N van Zuylen, Linda Wagner, Daniel Weld
Best Artifact Award at ASSETS '21: The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Sidewalk Gallery: An Interactive, Filterable Image Gallery of Over 500,000 Sidewalk Accessibility Problems
By Michael Duan, Aroosh Kumar, Michael Saugstad, Aileen Zeng, Ilia Savin, Jon E. Froehlich
Best Artifact Award at ASSETS '21: The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Bi-Bimodal Modality Fusion for Correlation-Controlled Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
By Wei Han, Hui Chen, Alexander Gelbukh, Amir Zadeh, Louis-philippe Morency, Soujanya Poria
Honorable Mention at ICMI '21: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION

Exploiting the Interplay between Social and Task Dimensions of Cohesion to Predict its Dynamics Leveraging Social Sciences
By Lucien Maman, Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Mohamed Chetouani, Giovanna Varni
Best Paper at ICMI '21: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION

A Multimodal Dataset and Evaluation for Feature Estimators of Temporal Phases of Anxiety
By Hashini Senaratne, Levin Kuhlmann, Kirsten Ellis, Glenn Melvin, Sharon Oviatt
Honorable Mention at ICMI '21: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION

How Online Tests Contribute to the Support System for People With Cognitive and Mental Disabilities
By Qisheng Li, Josephine Lee, Christina Zhang, Katharina Reinecke
Best Paper Award at ASSETS '21: The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Aided Nonverbal Communication through Physical Expressive Objects
By Stephanie Valencia, Mark Steidl, Michael Rivera, Cynthia Bennett, Jeffrey Bigham, Henny Admoni
Best Student Paper Award at ASSETS '21: The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Language Minorities’ Localization in COVID-19 Recovery: An Ecological Approach to Navigating Community-based User Experience
By Soyeon Lee
Best Research Paper Award at SIGDOC '21: The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Disaster Documentation Revisited: The Evolving Damage Assessments of Emergency Management in Oregon
By Henry Covey
Best Experience Report at SIGDOC '21: The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

UCLP: A Novel UAV Cybersecurity Laboratory Platform
By Ashok Raja, Julio Galvan, Yanyan Li, Jiawei Yuan
Best Student Paper Award at SIGITE '21: The 22nd Annual Conference on Information Technology Education

Applying Aviation Training Techniques in the IT Classroom
By Stephen J. Zilora
Best Paper Award at SIGITE '21: The 22nd Annual Conference on Information Technology Education

NkhukuProbe: Using a Sensor-Based Technology Probe to Support Poultry Farming Activities in Malawi
By George Hope Chidziwisano, Alex Mariakakis, Susan Wyche, Vitumbiko Mafeni, Esau Gideon Banda
Best Paper at COMPASS '21: ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS)

In-group bias in the Indian judiciary: Evidence from 5.5 million criminal cases
By Aditi Bhowmick, Paul Novosad, Sam Asher, Elliott Ash, Bilal Siddiqi, Christoph Goessman, Daniel Chen, Tanaya Devi
Best Paper at COMPASS '21: ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS)

“How’s Shelby the Turtle today?” Strengths and Weaknesses of Interactive Animal-Tracking Maps for Environmental Communication
By Matt Ziegler, Michael Quinlan, Zage Strassberg-Phillips, Manasi Shah, Lauren Vreeken, Chris Jones, Karen Goodfellow, Jes Lefcout, Richard Anderson, Kurtis Heimerl
Honorable Mention at COMPASS '21: ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS)

Temporal Cluster Matching for Change Detection of Structures from Satellite Imagery
By Caleb Robinson, Anthony Ortiz, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Brandon Anderson, Daniel E. Ho
Honorable Mention at COMPASS '21: ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS)

Web-based Simulator for Studying Shared Control of Autonomous Platoons
By Utkarsh Singh, Chris S Crawford
Best Work In Progress Award at AutomotiveUI '21: 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Conception, Development and First Evaluation of a Context-Adaptive User Interface for Commercial Vehicles
By Lasse Schölkopf, Maria-Magdalena Wolf, Veronika Hutmann, Frank Diermeyer
Honorable Mention at AutomotiveUI '21: 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Investigating the Interplay between eHMI and dHMI for Automated Buses: How Do Contradictory Signals Influence a Pedestrian's Willingness to Cross?
By Merle Lau, Meike Jipp, Michael Oehl
Honorable Mention at AutomotiveUI '21: 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Eye-Gaze Analysis of HUD Interventions for Conditional Automation to Increase Situation Awareness
By Michael A. Gerber, Ronald Schroeter, Daniel Johnson, Andry Rakotonirainy
Best Video Demo at AutomotiveUI '21: 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Fast Corotated Elastic SPH Solids with Implicit Zero-Energy Mode Control
By Tassilo Kugelstadt, Jan Bender, José Antonio Fernández-Fernández, Stefan Rhys Jeske, Fabian Löschner, Andreas Longva
Best Paper at SCA '21: The ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation

Livelyzer: analyzing the first-mile ingest performance of live video streaming
By Xiao Zhu, Subhabrata Sen, Z. Morley Mao
Best paper of the MMSys'21 Research Track at 12th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys '21)

StressShoe: A DIY Toolkit for just-in-time Personalised Stress Interventions for Office Workers Performing Sedentary Tasks
By Don Samitha Elvitigala, Philipp M. Scholl, Hussel Suriyaarachchi, Vipula Dissanayake, Suranga Nanayakkara
Honorable mention award at MobileHCI '21: 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

SF-LG: Space-Filling Line Graphs for Visualizing Interrelated Time-series Data on Smartwatches
By Ali Neshati, Fouad Alallah, Bradley Rey, Yumiko Sakamoto, Marcos Serrano, Pourang Irani
Honorable mention award at MobileHCI '21: 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

Towards Transparent Behavior of Automated Vehicles: Design and Evaluation of HUD Concepts to Support System Predictability Through Motion Intent Communication
By Henrik Detjen, Maurizio Salini, Jan Kronenberger, Stefan Geisler, Stefan Schneegass
Best paper award at MobileHCI '21: 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

How to Design the Perfect Prompt: A Linguistic Approach to Prompt Design in Automotive Voice Assistants – An Exploratory Study
By Anna-Maria Meck, Lisa Precht
Honorable Mention at AutomotiveUI '21: 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Automatic Generation of Road Trip Summary Video for Reminiscence and Entertainment using Dashcam Video
By Kana Bito, Itiro Siio, Yoshio Ishiguro, Kazuya Takeda
Honorable Mention at AutomotiveUI '21: 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Why Drivers Feel the Way they Do:An On-the-Road Study Using Self-Reports and Geo-Tagging
By Monique Dittrich
Honorable Mention at AutomotiveUI '21: 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

After You! Design and Evaluation of a Human Machine Interface for Cooperative Truck Overtaking Maneuvers on Freeways
By Jana Fank, Christian Knies, Frank Diermeyer
Honorable Mention at AutomotiveUI '21: 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Enhancing Interactions for In-Car Voice User Interface with Gestural Input on the Steering Wheel
By Zhitong Cui, Hebo Gong, Yanan Wang, Chengyi Shen, Wenyin Zou, Shijian Luo
Honorable Mention at AutomotiveUI '21: 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Mode Awareness Interfaces in Automated Vehicles, Robotics, and Aviation: A Literature Review
By Yasemin Dönmez Özkan, Alexander G. Mirnig, Alexander Meschtscherjakov, Cansu Demir, Manfred Tscheligi
Best Paper Award at AutomotiveUI '21: 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Learning Speech-driven 3D Conversational Gestures from Video
By Ikhsanul Habibie, Weipeng Xu, Dushyant Mehta, Lingjie Liu, Hans-Peter Seidel, Gerard Pons-Moll, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
Best Paper Award for IVA '21 at IVA '21: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Speech2Properties2Gestures: Gesture-Property Prediction as a Tool for Generating Representational Gestures from Speech
By Taras Kucherenko, Rajmund Nagy, Patrik Jonell, Michael Neff, Hedvig Kjellström, Gustav Eje Henter
Honorable Mention Extended Abstract at IVA '21: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Towards Designing Enthusiastic AI Agents
By Carla Viegas, Malihe Alikhani
Honorable Mention Extended Abstract at IVA '21: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Human or Robot?: Investigating voice, appearance and gesture motion realism of conversational social agents
By Ylva Ferstl, Sean Thomas, Cédric Guiard, Cathy Ennis, Rachel McDonnell
Best Paper Nominee at IVA '21: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Attention-Guidance Method Based on Conforming Behavior of Multiple Virtual Agents for Pedestrians
By Naoto Yoshida, Tomoko Yonezawa
Best Paper Nominee at IVA '21: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

A Lightweight Deep Learning Approach to Mosquito Classification from Wingbeat Sounds
By Myat Su Yin, Peter Haddawy, Borvorntat Nirandmongkol, Tup Kongthaworn, Chanaporn Chaisumritchoke, Akara Supratak, Chaitawat Sa-ngamuang, Patchara Sriwichai
Best paper award at GoodIT '21: Conference on Information Technology for Social Good

Social and rewarding microscopical dynamics in blockchain-based online social networks
By Cheick Tidiane Ba, Matteo Zignani, Sabrina Gaito
Best paper runner-up award at GoodIT '21: Conference on Information Technology for Social Good

Deep learning and collaborative training for reducing communication barriers with deaf people
By Manuel Vázquez-Enríquez, Pablo Losada-Rodríguez, Mateo González-Cid, José L. Alba-Castro
Best work-in-progress paper award at GoodIT '21: Conference on Information Technology for Social Good

Client-server sessions in linear logic
By Zesen Qian, G. A. Kavvos, Lars Birkedal
Distinguished Paper Award at 26th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP '21)

Getting to the point: index sets and parallelism-preserving autodiff for pointful array programming
By Adam Paszke, Daniel D. Johnson, David Duvenaud, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Alexey Radul, Matthew J. Johnson, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Dougal Maclaurin
Distinguished Paper Award at 26th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP '21)

An existential crisis resolved: type inference for first-class existential types
By Richard A. Eisenberg, Guillaume Duboc, Stephanie Weirich, Daniel Lee
Distinguished Paper Award at 26th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP '21)

Theorems for free from separation logic specifications
By Lars Birkedal, Thomas Dinsdale-Young, Arma&#;l Gu&#;neau, Guilhem Jaber, Kasper Svendsen, Nikos Tzevelekos
Distinguished Paper Award at 26th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP '21)

You too Brutus! Trapping Hateful Users in Social Media: Challenges, Solutions & Insights
By Mithun Das, Punyajoy Saha, Ritam Dutt, Pawan Goyal, Animesh Mukherjee, Binny Mathew
Ted Nelson Newcomer Award at HT '21: 32nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

This Item Might Reinforce Your Opinion: Obfuscation and Labeling of Search Results to Mitigate Confirmation Bias
By Alisa Rieger, Tim Draws, Mariët Theune, Nava Tintarev
Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award at HT '21: 32nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

Monte Carlo tree search for feature model analyses: a general framework for decision-making
By Jose-Miguel Horcas, José A. Galindo, Ruben Heradio, David Fernandez-Amoros, David Benavides
Best Research Paper Award at SPLC '21: 25th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference

A comparison of performance specialization learning for configurable systems
By Hugo Martin, Mathieu Acher, Juliana Alves Pereira, Jean-Marc Jézéquel
Best Research Paper Award at SPLC '21: 25th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference

Focused jump-and-repair constraint handling for fixed-parameter tractable graph problems
By Luke Branson, Andrew M. Sutton
FOGA 2021 Best Paper Award at FOGA '21: Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XVI

Simulation of droplet dispersion in COVID-19 type pandemics on Fugaku
By Rahul Bale, Chung-Gang Li, Masashi Yamakawa, Akiyoshi Iida, Ryoichi Kurose, Makoto Tsubokura
PASC21 Best Paper at PASC '21: Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference

A novel approach on the joint de-identification of textual and relational data with a modified mondrian algorithm
By F. Singhofer, A. Garifullina, M. Kern, A. Scherp
ACM DocEng 2021 Best Paper Award at DocEng '21: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2021

On minimizing cost in legal document review workflows
By Eugene Yang, David D. Lewis, Ophir Frieder
ACM DocEng 2021 Best Student Paper Award at DocEng '21: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2021

SmartCommit: a graph-based interactive assistant for activity-oriented commits
By Bo Shen, Wei Zhang, Christian Kästner, Haiyan Zhao, Zhao Wei, Guangtai Liang, Zhi Jin
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '21)

Probabilistic Delta debugging
By Guancheng Wang, Ruobing Shen, Junjie Chen, Yingfei Xiong, Lu Zhang
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '21)

Semantic bug seeding: a learning-based approach for creating realistic bugs
By Jibesh Patra, Michael Pradel
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '21)

Vet: identifying and avoiding UI exploration tarpits
By Wenyu Wang, Wei Yang, Tianyin Xu, Tao Xie
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '21)

Bias in machine learning software: why? how? what to do?
By Joymallya Chakraborty, Suvodeep Majumder, Tim Menzies
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '21)

A longitudinal analysis of bloated Java dependencies
By César Soto-Valero, Thomas Durieux, Benoit Baudry
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '21)

AlloyMax: bringing maximum satisfaction to relational specifications
By Changjian Zhang, Ryan Wagner, Pedro Orvalho, David Garlan, Vasco Manquinho, Ruben Martins, Eunsuk Kang
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '21)

Efficient module-level dynamic analysis for dynamic languages with module recontextualization
By Nikos Vasilakis, Grigoris Ntousakis, Veit Heller, Martin C. Rinard
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '21)

Analysis of specifications of multiparty sessions with dcj-lint
By Erik Horlings, Sung-Shik Jongmans
Tool demonstration award at 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '21)

AlloyFL: a fault localization framework for Alloy
By Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Allison Sullivan, Kaiyuan Wang
Tool demonstration award at 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '21)

Evaluating Proof Blocks Problems as Exam Questions
By Seth Poulsen, Mahesh Viswanathan, Geoffrey L. Herman, Matthew West
Honorable Mention ICER 2021: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research at ICER 2021: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

Identifying SQL Misconceptions of Novices: Findings from a Think-Aloud Study
By Daphne Miedema, Efthimia Aivaloglou, George Fletcher
Honorable Mention ICER 2021: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research at ICER 2021: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

Identity in K-12 Computer Education Research: A Systematic Literature Review
By Gregor Gro&#;e-B&#;lting, Dietrich Gerstenberger, Lara Gildehaus, Andreas M&#;hling, Carsten Schulte
Honorable Mention ICER 2021 at ICER 2021: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

Re-Examining Inequalities in Computer Science Participation from a Bourdieusian Sociological Perspective
By Maria Kallia, Quintin Cutts
Best Paper Award ICER 2021 at ICER 2021: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

Formulating a gene signature for diagnosis of autoimmune and infectious diseases
By Riya Gupta, Aditya M Rao, Lara Murphy Jones, Purvesh Khatri
Best Poster Award at BCB '21: 12th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics

Mechanistic model demonstrates importance of autocrine IL-8 secretion by neutrophils
By Wangui Mbuguiro, Feilim Mac Gabhann
Best Poster Award at BCB '21: 12th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics

The genetics of human aging: predicting age and age-related diseases by deep mining high dimensional biomarker data
By Hannah Guan
Best Poster Award at BCB '21: 12th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics

Signal quality detection towards practical non-touch vital sign monitoring
By Zongxing Xie, Bing Zhou, Fan Ye
Best Student Paper Award at BCB '21: 12th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics

Match2: hybrid self-organizing map and deep learning strategies for treatment effect estimation
By Xiao Shou, Tian Gao, Dharmashankar Subramanian, Kristin P. Bennett
Best Student Paper Award at BCB '21: 12th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics

Synthesized difference in differences
By Eric V. Strobl, Thomas A. Lasko
Best Paper Award at BCB '21: 12th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics

A lightweight framework for function name reassignment based on large-scale stripped binaries
By Han Gao, Shaoyin Cheng, Yinxing Xue, Weiming Zhang
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper at 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA '21)

Test-case prioritization for configuration testing
By Runxiang Cheng, Lingming Zhang, Darko Marinov, Tianyin Xu
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper at 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA '21)

Type and interval aware array constraint solving for symbolic execution
By Ziqi Shuai, Zhenbang Chen, Yufeng Zhang, Jun Sun, Ji Wang
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper at 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA '21)

SAND: a static analysis approach for detecting SQL antipatterns
By Yingjun Lyu, Sasha Volokh, William G. J. Halfond, Omer Tripp
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper at 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA '21)

Restorable Shortest Path Tiebreaking for Edge-Faulty Graphs
By Greg Bodwin, Merav Parter
PODC 2021 Best Paper Award at PODC '21: ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

DNA archival storage, a bottom up approach
By Omer S. Sella, Amir Apelbaum, Thomas Heinis, Jasmine Quah, Andrew W. Moore
Intel and Samsung Best Presentation at HotStorage '21: 13th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems

Isolating namespace and performance in key-value SSDs for multi-tenant environments
By Donghyun Min, Youngjae Kim
Intel and Samsung Best Paper Honorable Mention at HotStorage '21: 13th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems

SentiLog: Anomaly Detecting on Parallel File Systems via Log-based Sentiment Analysis
By Di Zhang, Dong Dai, Runzhou Han, Mai Zheng
Intel and Samsung Best Paper Honorable Mention at HotStorage '21: 13th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems

How the common retention acceleration method of 3D NAND flash memory goes wrong?
By Qiao Li, Min Ye, Tei-Wei Kuo, Chun Jason Xue
Intel and Samsung Best Paper Award at HotStorage '21: 13th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems

Ensemble Prediction of Job Resources to Improve System Performance for Slurm-Based HPC Systems
By Mohammed Tanash, Huichen Yang, Daniel Andresen, William Hsu
Phil Andrews Award at PEARC '21: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Separability Problems in Creative Telescoping
By Shaoshi Chen, Ruyong Feng, Pingchuan Ma, Michael F. Singer
Best Paper, ISSAC 2021 at ISSAC '21: International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation

Parallel Minimum Cuts in O(m log²n) Work and Low Depth
By Daniel Anderson, Guy E. Blelloch
SPAA2021 Best Paper at SPAA '21: 33rd ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

Exploring the Concept of Fairness in Everyday, Imaginary and Robot Scenarios: A Cross-Cultural Study With Children in Japan and Uganda
By Vicky Charisi, Tomoko Imai, Tiija Rinta, Joy Maliza Nakhayenze, Randy Gomez
Best Work In Progress Award at IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children

Do Shy Children Keep more Distance from a Social Robot? Exploring Shy Children’s Proxemics with a Social Robot or a Human
By Nils F. Tolksdorf, Fanziska E. Viertel, Camilla E. Crawshaw, Katharina J. Rohlfing
Honorable Mention Work in Progress at IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children

Jigsaw: A High-Utilization, Interference-Free Job Scheduler for Fat-Tree Clusters
By Staci A. Smith, David K. Lowenthal
Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award at HPDC '21: The 30th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing

Privacy-Preserving Energy Storage Sharing with Blockchain
By Nan Wang, Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Yue Zhou
ACM e-Energy'21 Best Paper Award at e-Energy '21: The Twelfth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems

Distributed transactions on serverless stateful functions
By Martijn de Heus, Kyriakos Psarakis, Marios Fragkoulis, Asterios Katsifodimos
ACM DEBS 2021 Best Paper Award at DEBS '21: The 15th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems

Designing Mobile Applications to Minimize Disorientation in Informal Learning Environments
By Neelma Bhatti, Morva Saaty, Scott McCrickard
Honorable Mention Award Short Paper at IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children

Opportunities and Limitations of Construction Kits in Culturally Responsive Computing Contexts: Lessons from ScratchJr and Family Creative Learning
By Ricarose Roque, Mariana Aki Tamashiro, Kathryn Mcconnell, Julisa Granados
Honorabel Mention Award Full Paper at IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children

A Systematic Review of Empowerment in Child-Computer Interaction Research
By Maarten Van Mechelen, Line Have Musaeus, Ole Sejer Iversen, Christian Dindler, Arthur Hjorth
Honorable Mention Award Full Paper at IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children

Sensor-Based Interactive Worksheets to Support Guided Scientific Inquiry
By Jiashuo Cao, Samantha W. T. Chan, Dawn L Garbett, Paul Denny, Alaeddin Nassani, Philipp M. Scholl, Suranga Nanayakkara
Best Short Paper Award at IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children

PlushPal: Storytelling with Interactive Plush Toys and Machine Learning
By Tiffany Tseng, Yumiko Murai, Natalie Freed, Deanna Gelosi, Tung D. Ta, Yoshihiro Kawahara
Best Full Paper Award IDC21 at IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children

It's a Bit Weird, but it's OK'? How Female Computer Science Students Navigate being a Minority
By Emily Winter, Lisa Thomas, Lynne Blair
Best Paper Award at ITiCSE 2021: 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Building a Social Machine for Graduate Mobility
By Neha Keshan
WebSci'21 Best PhD Symposium Presentation at WebSci'21 Best PhD Symposium Presentation

Wide-AdGraph: Detecting Ad Trackers with a Wide Dependency Chain Graph
By Amir Hossein Kargaran, Mohammad Sadegh Akhondzadeh, Mohammad Reza Heidarpour, Mohammad Hossein Manshaei, Kave Salamatian, Masoud Nejad Sattary
WebSci'21 Best Student Paper at WebSci '21 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021

Social Science for Natural Language Processing: A Hostile Narrative Analysis Prototype
By Stephen Anning, George Konstantinidis, Craig Webber
WebSci'21 Best Student Paper at WebSci '21 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021

Analysis and Prediction of Multilingual Controversy on Reddit
By Philipp Koncar, Simon Walk, Denis Helic
WebSci'21 at WebSci '21 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021

”Why are they all obsessed with Gender?” — (Non)binary Navigations through Technological Infrastructures
By Katta Spiel
Diversity and Inclusion Award at DIS '21: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021

Entangled Reflections on Designing with Leaky Breastfeeding Bodies
By Karey Helms
Diversity and Inclusion Award at DIS '21: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021

Monetizing Propaganda: How Far-right Extremists Earn Money by Video Streaming
By Megan Squire
ACM Europe Council Best Paper at WebSci '21 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021

Analysis and Prediction of Multilingual Controversy on Reddit
By Philipp Koncar, Simon Walk, Denis Helic
Best Student Paper at WebSci '21 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021

Data-Driven Modeling of Learners’ Individual Differences for Predicting Engagement and Success in Online Learning
By Kamil Akhuseyinoglu, Peter Brusilovsky
ACM UMAP Best Paper Award at UMAP '21: 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

Separating words and trace reconstruction
By Zachary Chase
Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award at 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC '21)

Discrepancy minimization via a self-balancing walk
By Ryan Alweiss, Yang P. Liu, Mehtaab Sawhney
Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award at 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC '21)

Indistinguishability obfuscation from well-founded assumptions
By Aayush Jain, Huijia Lin, Amit Sahai
STOC 2021 Best Paper Award at 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC '21)

A (slightly) improved approximation algorithm for metric TSP
By Anna R. Karlin, Nathan Klein, Shayan Oveis Gharan
STOC 2021 Best Paper Award at 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC '21)

The complexity of gradient descent: CLS = PPAD ∩ PLS
By John Fearnley, Paul W. Goldberg, Alexandros Hollender, Rahul Savani
STOC 2021 Best Paper Award at 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC '21)

Optimizing Additive Approximations of Non-additive Distortion Functions
By Solène Bernard, Patrick Bas, Tomáš Pevný, John Klein
Best Student Paper Award at IH&MMSec '21: ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security

Revisiting Perturbed Quantization
By Jan Butora, Jessica Fridrich
Best Paper Award at IH&MMSec '21: ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security

Data-driven Approaches for Discovery and Prediction of User-preferred Picture Settings on Smart TVs
By Hosub Lee, Youngmin Park
IMX 2021 Honorable Mention at IMX '21: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

Nudge: Stochastically Improving upon FCFS
By Isaac Grosof, Kunhe Yang, Ziv Scully, Mor Harchol-Balter
ACM SIGMETRICS'21 Best Paper Award at SIGMETRICS '21: ACM SIGMETRICS / International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

A Look Behind the Curtain: Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web
By Iman Akbari, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Leni Ven, Noura Limam, Raouf Boutaba, Bertrand Mathieu, Stephanie Moteau, Stephane Tuffin
ACM SIGMETRICS'21 Best Student Paper Award at SIGMETRICS '21: ACM SIGMETRICS / International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Valued Authorization Policy Existence Problem
By Jason Crampton, Eduard Eiben, Gregory Gutin, Daniel Karapetyan, Diptapriyo Majumdar
Best Paper Award for SACMAT '21 at SACMAT '21: The 26th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT)

HyQuas: hybrid partitioner based quantum circuit simulation system on GPU
By Chen Zhang, Zeyu Song, Haojie Wang, Kaiyuan Rong, Jidong Zhai
Best student paper at ICS '21: 2021 International Conference on Supercomputing

FULL-W2V: fully exploiting data reuse for W2V on GPU-accelerated systems
By Thomas Randall, Tyler Allen, Rong Ge
Best Paper at ICS '21: 2021 International Conference on Supercomputing

S2Dedup: SGX-enabled secure deduplication
By Mariana Miranda, Tânia Esteves, Bernardo Portela, João Paulo
Best Paper Award Runner-Up at SYSTOR '21: The 14th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference

BDUS: implementing block devices in user space
By Alberto Faria, Ricardo Macedo, José Pereira, João Paulo
Best Paper Award Runner-Up at SYSTOR '21: The 14th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference

To move or not to move?: page migration for irregular applications in over-subscribed GPU memory systems with DynaMap
By Chia-Hao Chang, Adithya Kumar, Anand Sivasubramaniam
Best Paper Award at SYSTOR 21 at SYSTOR '21: The 14th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference

Data-driven Microscopic Traffic Modelling and Simulation using Dynamic LSTM
By Htet Naing, Wentong Cai, Nan Hu, Tiantian Wu, Liang Yu
Best paper award for the ACM SIGSIM PADS 2021 at SIGSIM-PADS '21: SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation

EyeLogin - Calibration-free Authentication Method for Public Displays Using Eye Gaze
By Omair Shahzad Bhatti, Michael Barz, Daniel Sonntag
Honorable Mention - Short Paper at ETRA '21: 2021 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

OpenNEEDS: A Dataset of Gaze, Head, Hand, and Scene Signals During Exploration in Open-Ended VR Environments
By Kara J Emery, Marina Zannoli, James Warren, Lei Xiao, Sachin S Talathi
Best Paper Award - Short Paper at ETRA '21: 2021 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

HGaze Typing: Head-Gesture Assisted Gaze Typing
By Wenxin Feng, Jiangnan Zou, Andrew Kurauchi, Carlos H Morimoto, Margrit Betke
Best Paper Award - Full Paper at ETRA '21: 2021 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

Exploring the potential of context-aware dynamic CPU undervolting
By Emmanouil Maroudas, Spyros Lalis, Nikolaos Bellas, Christos D. Antonopoulos
CF'21 Best Paper Award at CF '21: Computing Frontiers Conference

Assessing the Alignment of Social Robots with Trustworthy AI Design Guidelines: A Preliminary Research Study
By Ankur Chattopadhyay, Abdikadar Ali, Danielle Thaxton
ACM CODASPY 2021 Best Poster Award at CODASPY '21: Eleventh ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

Membership Inference Attacks and Defenses in Classification Models
By Jiacheng Li, Ninghui Li, Bruno Ribeiro
ACM CODASPY 2021 Best Paper Award at CODASPY '21: Eleventh ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

Unikraft: fast, specialized unikernels the easy way
By Simon Kuenzer, Vlad-Andrei Bădoiu, Hugo Lefeuvre, Sharan Santhanam, Alexander Jung, Gaulthier Gain, Cyril Soldani, Costin Lupu, Ştefan Teodorescu, Costi Răducanuu, Cristian Banu, Laurent Mathy, Răzvan Deaconescu, Costin Raiciu, Felipe Huici
ACM EuroSys 2021 Best Paper at Sixteenth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '21)

PaSh: light-touch data-parallel shell processing
By Nikos Vasilakis, Konstantinos Kallas, Konstantinos Mamouras, Achilles Benetopoulos, Lazar Cvetković
ACM EuroSys 2021 Best Paper at Sixteenth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '21)

Detecting and categorizing Android malware with graph neural networks
By Peng Xu, Claudia Eckert, Apostolis Zarras
Runner-up Poster at SAC '21: The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

DeepTective: detection of PHP vulnerabilities using hybrid graph neural networks
By Rishi Rabheru, Hazim Hanif, Sergio Maffeis
Runner-up Poster at SAC '21: The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Heterogeneous document embeddings for cross-lingual text classification
By Alejandro Moreo, Andrea Pedrotti, Fabrizio Sebastiani
Best poster at SAC '21: The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

A decentralized document management system using blockchain and secret sharing
By Jongbeen Han, Heemin Kim, Hyeonsang Eom, Yongseok Son
Best poster at SAC '21: The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Called function identification of IoT devices by network traffic analysis
By Daichi Koike, Shigemi Ishida, Yutaka Arakawa
Best Paper for the Theme: System Software and Security at SAC '21: The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

An exploratory study on the identification and evaluation of bad smell agglomerations
By Amanda Santana, Daniel Cruz, Eduardo Figueiredo
Best Paper for the Theme: Software Design and Development at SAC '21: The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

GraphMDL+: interleaving the generation and MDL-based selection of graph patterns
By Francesco Bariatti, Peggy Cellier, Sébastien Ferré
Best Paper for the Theme: Information Systems at SAC '21: The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Exploring the storj network: a security analysis
By Sammy de Figueiredo, Akash Madhusudan, Vincent Reniers, Svetla Nikova, Bart Preneel
Best Paper for the Theme: Distributed Systems at SAC '21: The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Taxonomy extraction using knowledge graph embeddings and hierarchical clustering
By Félix Martel, Amal Zouaq
Best paper for the Theme: Artificial Intelligence and Agents at SAC '21: The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Compositional Evaluation of Stochastic Workflows for Response Time Analysis of Composite Web Services
By Laura Carnevali, Riccardo Reali, Enrico Vicario
Best Paper Award at ICPE '21: ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

Fast, flexible, and comprehensive bug detection for persistent memory programs
By Bang Di, Jiawen Liu, Hao Chen, Dong Li
ASPLOS Distinguished Paper at 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '21)

Benchmarking, analysis, and optimization of serverless function snapshots
By Dmitrii Ustiugov, Plamen Petrov, Marios Kogias, Edouard Bugnion, Boris Grot
ASPLOS Distinguished Paper at 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '21)

Compiler-driven FPGA virtualization with SYNERGY
By Joshua Landgraf, Tiffany Yang, Will Lin, Christopher J. Rossbach, Eric Schkufza
ASPLOS Distinguished Paper at 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '21)

Neural architecture search as program transformation exploration
By Jack Turner, Elliot J. Crowley, Michael F. P. O'Boyle
ASPLOS Distinguished Paper at 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '21)

VSync: push-button verification and optimization for synchronization primitives on weak memory models
By Jonas Oberhauser, Rafael Lourenco de Lima Chehab, Diogo Behrens, Ming Fu, Antonio Paolillo, Lilith Oberhauser, Koustubha Bhat, Yuzhong Wen, Haibo Chen, Jaeho Kim, Viktor Vafeiadis
ASPLOS Distinguished Paper at 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '21)

Autonomous NIC offloads
By Boris Pismenny, Haggai Eran, Aviad Yehezkel, Liran Liss, Adam Morrison, Dan Tsafrir
ASPLOS Distinguished Paper at 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '21)

Computing with time: microarchitectural weird machines
By Dmitry Evtyushkin, Thomas Benjamin, Jesse Elwell, Jeffrey A. Eitel, Angelo Sapello, Abhrajit Ghosh
ASPLOS Distinguished Paper at 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '21)

Who's debugging the debuggers? exposing debug information bugs in optimized binaries
By Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna, Davide Italiano, Luca Massarelli, Sebastian Österlund, Cristiano Giuffrida, Leonardo Querzoni
ASPLOS Distinguished Paper at 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '21)

Machine Learning-Enabled High-Frequency Low-Power Digital Design Implementation At Advanced Process Nodes
By Siddhartha Nath, Vishal Khandelwal
ISPD 2021 Best Paper Award at ISPD '21: International Symposium on Physical Design

Developing an Interdisciplinary Data Science Program
By Mariam Salloum, Daniel Jeske, Wenxiu Ma, Vagelis Papalexakis, Christian Shelton, Vassilis Tsotras, Shuheng Zhou
Best Papers for Positions and Curriculum Initiatives at SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Confronting Inequities in Computer Science Education: A Case for Critical Theory
By Aleata Hubbard Cheuoua
Best Papers for Positions and Curriculum Initiatives at SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Creating a Multifarious Cyber Science Major
By Raymond W. Blaine, Jean R. S. Blair, Christa M. Chewar, Rob Harrison, James J. Raftery, Jr., Edward Sobiesk
Best Papers for Positions and Curriculum Initiatives at SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Understanding Immersive Research Experiences that Build Community, Equity, and Inclusion
By Audrey Rorrer, Breauna Spencer, Sloan Davis, Sepi Hejazi Moghadam, Deborah Holmes, Cori Grainger
Best Papers for Experience Reports and Tools at SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Inside the Mind of a CS Undergraduate TA: A Firsthand Account of Undergraduate Peer Tutoring in Computer Labs
By Julia M. Markel, Philip J. Guo
Best Papers for Experience Reports and Tools at SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

How a Remote Video Game Coding Camp Improved Autistic College Students' Self-Efficacy in Communication
By Andrew Begel, James Dominic, Conner Phillis, Thomas Beeson, Paige Rodeghero
Best Papers for Experience Reports and Tools at SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Superficial Code-guise: Investigating the Impact of Surface Feature Changes on Students' Programming Question Scores
By Max Fowler, Craig Zilles
Best Papers for Computing Education Research at SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Investigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Computing Students' Sense of Belonging
By Catherine Mooney, Brett A. Becker
Best Papers for Computing Education Research at SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Real Talk: Saturated Sites of Violence in CS Education
By Yolanda A. Rankin, Jakita O. Thomas, Sheena Erete
Best Papers for Computing Education Research at SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Searching to Learn with Instructional Scaffolding
By Arthur C&#;mara, Nirmal Roy, David Maxwell, Claudia Hauff
CHIIR 2021 Best Student Paper at CHIIR '21: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

A Manifesto on Resource Re-Use in Interactive Information Retrieval
By Maria G&#;de, Marijn Koolen, Mark Hall, Toine Bogers, Vivien Petras
CHIIR 2021 Best Paper at CHIIR '21: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Unifying Online and Counterfactual Learning to Rank: A Novel Counterfactual Estimator that Effectively Utilizes Online Interventions
By Harrie Oosterhuis, Maarten de Rijke
Best Paper at WSDM '21: The Fourteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

NBR: neutralization based reclamati
By Ajay Singh, Trevor Brown, Ali Mashtizadeh
PPOPP 2021 Best Artifact Award at PPoPP '21: 26th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

Synthesizing optimal collective algorithms
By Zixian Cai, Zhengyang Liu, Saeed Maleki, Madanlal Musuvathi, Todd Mytkowicz, Jacob Nelson, Olli Saarikivi
PPOPP 2021 Best Paper Award at PPoPP '21: 26th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

AutoBridge: Coupling Coarse-Grained Floorplanning and Pipelining for High-Frequency HLS Design on Multi-Die FPGAs
By Licheng Guo, Yuze Chi, Jie Wang, Jason Lau, Weikang Qiao, Ecenur Ustun, Zhiru Zhang, Jason Cong
Best Paper at FPGA '21: The 2021 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays