CS News Briefs

William & Mary professor and UVA computer science alumnus Gang Zhou has been elevated to IEEE fellow effective in January 2023. The distinction recognizes his “contributions to sensor networks and low-power wireless networks.”The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Board of Directors confers the grade of fellow upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed 1/10 of 1% of the total voting membership.

Jundong Li joins research effort funded by National Science Foundation's Strengthening American Infrastructure Program.The water well has a mythical and storied place as the heart of a community. Our ancestors approached underground springs as a providential place, for which they gave thanks in the form of small tokens — the original wishing well.

Congratulations to Jing Ma and her co-authors who earned the best research paper award at KDD '22, a premier scientific conference in knowledge discovery and data mining.Conference judges deemed their paper, Learning Causal Effects on Hypergraphs, as best among 1659 research papers submitted.

Congratulations to Professor Matthew Dwyer for receiving Association for Computing Machinery SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis Impact Paper Award for “Probabilistic Symbolic Execution” at the ISSTA 2022 conference.The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) is the leading research symposium on software testing and analysis, bringing together academics, industrial researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas, problems and experience on how to analyze and test software systems.

The Harold S. Morton Jr. Undergraduate Teaching Award for 2022 has been awarded to Raymond Pettit, an associate professor of computer science.
UVA Engineering dean Jennifer L. West announced the award at the School of Engineering and Applied Science's annual reception marking the end of the academic year, during which retiring faculty also are honored.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021-2022 annual Department of Computer Science awards! We were so excited to present these awards in-person at the ceremony on May 4, 2022. You can view the presentation pdf at the bottom of this page!Undergraduate Awards
Louis T. Rader Teaching Awards
Caroline Britt
Kalman Buterbaugh
Nicki Choquette
Jack Goodman
Juliette Laburthe
Rachel McNamara
Sindhura Mente
Jimmy Njuguna
Maria Parnell
Faisal Refai
Jane Weng
Natalie Zhang

Yixin Sun, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has published research to help communication network managers strengthen security and privacy-preserving systems.Sun, who holds a joint appointment as the Anita Jones Career Enhancement assistant professor of computer science, collaborated with colleagues at Princeton, Purdue and ETH Zurich to identify risks of routing attacks.

Fourth year computer science student Hasan Mukati and computer science assistant professor Panagiotis Apostolellis are developing a mobile app called ImpaKarma as part of an independent study. The digital platform allows groups of friends or community members to join forces around a common actionable cause.

On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, the CS Graduate Student Group held a Research Symposium in Rice Hall. The event included keynote speakers, faculty talks, and a poster session during which 18 students presented their research. Attendees of the symposium voted on posters and the results are in! Congratulations to the winners of the student poster session! 

Best Poster Presentation: 

• Felipe Toledo 
• Ashley Gao 
• Josephine Lamp 

Best Poster Design: 

Christopher L. Barrett, a professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been elected as a member of the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Barrett is the UVA Biocomplexity Institute executive director and a Distinguished Professor in Biocomplexity.