Computer Sciences

(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)

June/July 2025:

• Prof Jelena Diakonikolas, Prof Sharon Li, and Prof Shivaram Venkataraman all received an inaugural “Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award”. This was given to roughly 50 professors at 27 US universities; each faculty chosen received $100k in gift funds. [1]
  
• Prof Jin-Yi Cai was recognized as a WARF Named Professor, which he has chosen to call the Juris Hartmanis Professorship. [2] 
• Prof Miron Livny and the entire CHTC team celebrated 40 years of Condor. Wow! Read more about it here: https://morgridge.org/story/htcondor-celebrates-40-years-powered-by-community/. [3]
• Prof Fred Sala won a DARPA award through the SAFRON program for our proposal “ProD SAFe: Programmatic Distillation for Safe and Assured Foundation Models & Robots”.  [4] 
• Prof Paul Barford and colleagues received the Community Contribution Award at IFIPS for their work on the paper “Toward a Representative DNS Data Corpus: A Longitudinal Comparison of Collection Methods”. [5]
• Prof Karu Sankaralingam and his former student published “Defying Moore: Envisioning the Economics of a Semiconductor Revolution through 12nm Specialization” in CACM. [6]
• Prof Ilias Diakonikolas and his student and a collaborator’s paper “Faster Algorithms for Agnostically Learning Disjunctions and their Implications” has been selected for the Mark Fulk Award for best student paper at COLT 2025. 7] 
• Prof Mohit Gupta and colleagues had two papers accepted at ICCV and one at ICCP, entitled “Probabilistic Point Clouds from Single-Photon LiDARs for Robust 3D Inference”, “Quanta Vision: From Photons to Perception”, and “Predicting Important Photons for Energy-Efficient Single-Photon Videography”. [8] 
• In addition, Prof Michael Gleicher and Prof Mohit Gupta published “Recovering Parametric Scenes from Very Few Time-of-Flight Pixels” at ICCV. [9]
• Prof Rishab Goyal was awarded a  Stellar Development Foundation Academic Research Grant for his work on “Post-Quantum Homomorphic Commitments, Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Applications”. [10]
• Prof Akarsh Prabhakara and colleagues had the paper “Towards Foundational Models for Single-Chip Radar” accepted into ICCV. [11]
• Prof Fred Sala and colleagues had two papers accepted; one into ICML entitled “Rethinking Confidence Scores and Thresholds in Pseudolabeling-based SSL” and one into the ICML DataWorld workshop entitled “Evaluating Sample Utility for Efficient Data Selection by Mimicking Model Weights”. [12]
• Teaching faculty Marc Renault, Andrew Kuemmel, Tyler Caraza-Harter, and Hobbes Legault have all been promoted to the new campus title, Teaching Professor, at various ranks. [13]
• Prof Miron Livny gave the keynote “Is Your Data Handler Trustworthy?” at the National Science Data Fabric annual AHM at UCSD. [14] 
• Prof Ming Liu and colleagues achieved a “top 30” ranking in the highest performing filesystems in the world in the IO500 competition. [15] 
• Prof Sharon Li’s student, Shawn Im, and Prof Shivaram Venkataraman’s student, Seth Ockerman, were both chosen as NSF Graduate Fellows.  [16]
• Prof Miron Livny and CHTC enabled astronomers to discord “iconic black holes”. [17] 
• Prof Matt Sinclair and students had three papers accepted into the GEM5 Users workshop and presented them there as well, entitled “Implementing Support for Extensible Power Modeling in gem5”, “Narrowing the GAP: Enhancing gem5’s GPU Memory Bandwidth Accuracy”, and “Toward Full-System Heterogeneous Simulation: Merging gem5-SALAM with Mainline gem5”. 18]
• Prof Matt Sinclair presented “Simulating and Modeling Hardware for Machine Learning Workloads at Scale” at the 2025 SRC AIHW Annual Review.  [19]
• Prof Aws Albarghouthi, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Paul Barford, Rahul Chatterjee, Ilias Diakonikolas, Jelena Diakonikolas, Mohit Gupta, Somesh Jha, Paris Koutris, Yong Jae Lee, Sharon Li, Yingyu Liang, Patrick McDaniel, Dieter van Melkebeek, Bilge Mutlu, Efty Sifakis, Guri Sohi, Shivaram Venkataraman, Steve Wright, Xiangyao Yu and affiliate Profs Kassem Fawaz, Yu Hen Hu, Kangwook Lee, Dimitris Papailiopoulos all graduated PhDs in the past year. [20]

Notes and more good news!