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The C3SR Faculty, Prof. Bo Li, has won the 2020 Amazon Research Awards for her work, titled “Machine learning evaluation as a service for robustness, fairness, and privacy utilities.”

Congratulations!

The C3SR faculty, Professors Josep Torrellas received the prestigious 2021 IEEE Computer Society Harry H. Goode Award for his contribution to “energy efficient and programmable shared-memory multiprocessor architectures.” More detailed coverage can be found at here.

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A Collaborative Journey from Architecture Research to Operating System Security Innovation with Real-world Impact by Tianyin Xu, Hubertus Franke A team of researchers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, IBM, and RedHat, affiliated with the IBM-Illinois C3SR center, have upstreamed their work on operating system (OS) security to the Linux kernel. As reported by Phoronix (one of the largest open-source news sites), the feature named constant-action bitmaps is yielding “a very nice speedup” for system-call security, a cornerstone for protecting shared OS kernels.

The C3SR student, Mert Hidayetoglu, has won the Firt Place Winner award from the very competitive ACM Student Research Competition Out of 12 ACM Student Research Competition posters that were accepted at SC20, three finalists were asked to give an additional presentation of their work. The C3SR student Mert Hidayetoglu’s presentation finally took the trophy and won the First Place Winner award. Mert will move on to the Grand Finale next year and compete with the winners of 22 ACM-sponsored conferences.

The C3SR student, Mert Hidayetoglu, and C3SR faculty, Prof. Wen-mei Hwu, together with their collaborators have won the Best Paper Award at SC20, for their paper, titled “Petascale XCT: 3D Image Reconstruction with Hierarchical Communications on Multi-GPU Nodes”. This year, SC20 accepted 95 papers for its proceedings, after an extensive double-blind review of 378 submissions. Nine papers were nominated for the best paper award, and the paper led by Mert Hidayetoglu won the award.

One of the joint research work between the C3SR team, IBM Research and Nvidia, titled “At-Scale Sparse Deep Neural Network Inference With Efficient GPU Implementation” won the IEEE HPEC Graph Challenge Champion at the 2020 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC). The winning team members were Mert Hidayetoglu, Carl Pearson, Vikram Sharma Mailthody, Eiman Ebrahimi, Jinjun Xiong, Rakesh Nagi, Wen-mei W. Hwu. A detailed report about this winning can be found at CSL news.

The C3SR post-doc, Dr. Cong (Callie) Hao, has accepted the offer to join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2021. Prior to that, she will be a postdoctoral researcher in ECE, GeorgiaTech, from Sep. 2020 to Aug. 2021,

Congratulations, Callie!

One of C3SR’s Alchemy Teams, Co-Tracker, helped to design the Safer Illinois Apps to help the Campus to combat the Covid-19 and re-open the campus for the Fall semester.

A detailed coverage about this effort can be found at CSL news.

The C3SR faculty, Professors Josep Torrellas and Tianyin Xu, and their students, Dimitrios Skarlatos and Apostolos Kokolis, won a Best Paper Award at the 25th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS’20). The award-winning paper is titled “Elastic Cuckoo Page Tables: Rethinking Virtual Memory Translation for Parallelism”. This year, ASPLOS’20 accepted 86 papers for its proceedings, after an extensive double-blind review of 476 submissions. Four papers were selected for the best paper award.

The C3SR faculty, Prof. Bo Li, was the recent recipient of the competitive AWS Machine Learning Research Awards (MLRA) for her project, titled “Trustworthy Machine Learning as Services via Robust AutoML and Knowledge Enhanced Logic Inference”.

MLRA aims to advance machine learning (ML) by funding innovative research and open-source projects, training students, and providing researchers with access to the latest technology.

Congratulations, Bo!