Computer Sciences

(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)

September/October 2025:

• Prof Guri Sohi and many colleagues celebrated 40 years of Prof Sohi’s contributions to computer architecture. [1]
• Prof Somesh Jha and colleagues had their paper “Model Inversion Attacks that Exploit Confidence Information and Basic Countermeasures” win the ACM CCS Test of Time award. [2]
• Prof Michael Gleicher was selected to the IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy. [3]
• Prof Sharon Li (and many colleagues) released the paper “A Definition of AGI”.  [4]
• Prof Somesh Jha was awarded the SIGSAC Excellence in Service Award.  [5]
• Prof Matt Sinclair received an AMD AUP Grant on “Characterizing, Harnessing, & Managing Power Excursions in GPUs”. [6]
• Prof Mohit Gupta received a SONY Faculty Innovation award for “Computer Vision in Extreme Low-Light” and an NSF Core Small award for work on “Weak 3D Cameras”. [7]
• Prof Kirthi Kandasamy and a student had the paper “Balancing Performance and Costs in Best Arm Identification” accepted for publication at NeurIPS; in addition, Prof Kirthi Kandasamy and Prof Jerry Zhu had the paper “A Cramér-von Mises Approach to Incentivizing Truthful Data Sharing” accepted there too. [8]
• Prof Paul Barford and colleagues had the paper “A Breath of Fresh Air: Visualizing How Networks ‘Breathe’” accepted at HotNets. [9]
• Prof Miron Livny and the Condor Team joined nearly 40 colleagues from 10 countries at the HTCondor European Workshop in Prague. [10]
• Prof Mohit Gupta and colleagues have an invited paper on “Quanta Computer Vision” at ACM XRDS. [11]
• Prof Ethan Cechetti, Prof Matt Sinclair, Prof Kassem Fawaz, and Prof Joshua San Miguel were awarded an NSF grant for their proposal on “NSF Safe-OSE: Scalably Detecting Inconsistencies Between Git Commit Messages and Code in Open-source Projects”.  [12]
• Prof Ming Liu and colleagues had the paper “Server Chiplet Networking” accepted into HotNets ‘25. [13]
• Prof Somesh Jha and Prof Bilge Mutlu mentioned in L&S news on “AI” here. [14]
• Prof Junjie Hu was awarded an NSF award for his proposal on “Towards Large Open-World Foundation Models: Construction, Adaptation, and Deployment”.[15]
• Prof Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau celebrated 25 years at Wisconsin (with most of their 32 PhD students and a number of other masters/undergraduate collaborators). [16]
• Prof Mohit Gupta and colleagues have a paper accepted at ACM TOG (to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2026) on “Radiance Fields from Photons”. [17]
• Prof Michael Gleicher and colleagues had two papers accepted for presentation at IEEE VIS entitled “Anchoring and Alignment: Data Factors in Part-to-Whole Visualization” and “RSVP for VPSA : A Meta Design Study on Rapid Suggestive Visualization Prototyping for Visual Parameter Space Analysis”. [18]
• Prof Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau gave an invited talk entitled “Systems Research in the AI Era” at KAIST. [19]
• Prof Mohit Gupta and Prof Yin Li and colleagues have a paper on “Adapting Frame-Based Networks for Stable and Robust Video Inference” accepted at NeurIPS 2025. [20]
• Prof Matt Sinclair gave an invited talk at Google entitled “Characterizing and Mitigating Performance Variability in Accelerator-Rich Systems” and an invited talk at the University of Michigan entitled “Rethinking the Control Plane for Chiplet-Based Heterogeneous Systems”. [21]
• Prof Michael Gleicher and Prof Mohit Gupta had a paper accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters entitled “Efficient Detection of Objects Near a Robot Manipulator via Miniature Time-of-Flight Sensors”. [22]
• Prof Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau had the paper “Getting the MOST out of your Storage Hierarchy with Mirror-Optimized Storage Tiering” accepted into FAST ‘26. [23]
• Prof Michael Gleicher and a student had the paper “Anytime Planning for End-Effector Trajectory Tracking” (published in IEEE RAL) selected for presentation into IROS ‘26. [24]
• Prof Mohit Gupta and Prof Yin Li had the paper “Adapting Frame-Based Networks for Stable and Robust Video Inference” accepted for publication at NeurIPS 2025. 25]
• Prof Junjie Hu and colleagues had the paper “PyramidKV: Dynamic KV Cache Compression based on Pyramidal Information Funneling” selected as a “spotlight paper” at COLM 2025. [26]

Notes and more good news!