{"id":31744,"date":"2021-03-25T09:39:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T13:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/?p=31744"},"modified":"2022-02-01T15:38:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T20:38:20","slug":"2021-cise-best-student-paper-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/2021-cise-best-student-paper-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CISE is delighted to announce the winners of the Spring 2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award. We received 20 submissions of excellent quality showcasing the strength and diversity of research pursued by CISE students and faculty. We are grateful for the support of the paper review team, which included 16 CISE faculty affiliates from the College of Engineering and the College of Arts & Sciences. Based on these reviews, we are awarding two Best Paper Awards, and recognize three papers as Finalists.<\/span><\/p>\n

First Place Winners<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

Ali Siahkamari<\/span><\/b> (Advisor, Brian Kulis<\/a>). \u201cPiecewise Linear Regression via a Difference of Convex Functions.\u201d <\/span>Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning Research<\/em> PMLR 119:8895-8904,\u00a02020 <\/a>119:8895-8904,\u00a02020.<\/p>\n

Sheila Seidel<\/span><\/b> (Advisor: Vivek Goyal<\/a>). \u201cTwo-Dimensional Non-Line-of-Sight Scene Estimation from a Single Edge Occluder.\u201d<\/span> IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging<\/em>, vol. 7, pp. 58-72, 2021, doi: 10.1109\/TCI.2020.3037405<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finalists<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

Beliz Kaleli<\/span><\/b> (Advisors: Gianluca Stringhini<\/a>,\u00a0 Manuel Egele<\/a>). \u201cTo Err.Is Human: Characterizing the Threat of Unintended URLs in Social Media.\u201d Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (<\/em>NDSS)<\/em> 2021. Session 3A-4<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Artin Spiridonoff<\/span><\/b> (Advisors: Yannis Paschalidis<\/a>, Alex Olshevsky<\/a>)\u00a0 \u201cRobust Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient-Push: Asymptotically Optimal and Network-Independent Performance for Strongly Convex Functions.\u201d <\/span>Journal of Machine Learning Research<\/em>\u00a0 JMLR. 21(58):1\u221247, 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n

James Queeney<\/span><\/b> (Advisors: Yannis Paschalidis<\/a>, Christos Cassandras<\/a>) \u201cUncertainty-Aware Policy Optimization: A Robust, Adaptive Trust Region Approach.\u201d Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21) 5930<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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