Graduate Student Workshop 2011
The focus of GSWC is to highlight graduate student research, promote the exchange of ideas among students, faculty, researchers, and industry, and familiarize new graduate students with the research conducted within our department and the larger computer science community. Each year, GSWC adopts a theme which invites discussion from a panel formed by industry speakers. The theme of the workshop this year is Mobile computing.
Workshop Information
GSWC 2011 will be held Friday October 7, 2011 in the Engineering Sciences Building room 1001. The Engineering Science building is located on the campus map at location D5 with the label "Engineering Science". The actual room is approximately located where the 'S' in Science is on the label. The nearest Parking structure for the event is Parking Structure 10 located just to the right of Engineering Science on the map.
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Proceedings
You can grab a pdf copy of the proceedings here.
Workshop Schedule
| Opening | ||
|---|---|---|
| 08:00-08:15 | Breakfast | |
| 08:15-08:30 | Opening remarks | Subhash Suri Chair of UCSB Computer Science Department |
| Security Session led by Gianluca Stringhini | ||
| 08:30-08:43 | Fear the EAR: Automated Discovery of Execution after Redirection Vulnerabilities | Adam Doupe |
| 08:43-08:56 | BareBox: Efficient Malware Analysis on Bare-Metal | Dhilung Kirat |
| 08:56-09:10 | New Hardware Description Language for Secure Information Flow | Xun Li |
| Industry Panel moderated by Adam Doupe | ||
| 09:10-10:00 | The Mobile Revolution |
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| Networking and Architecture Session led by Maria Zheleva | ||
| 10:05-10:18 | The Implications of MIMO and Channel Bonding on Channel Management in 802.11n | Lara Deek |
| 10:18-10:31 | VillageCell: Cellular Connectivity in Rural Areas | Veljko Pejovic |
| 10:31-10:44 | Barely Alive Memory Servers: Keeping Data Active in a Low Power State | Vlasia Anagnostopoulou |
| 10:44-10:57 | Ranking Security-Important Assets in Corporate Networks | Ali Zand |
| Academic Keynote | ||
| 11:00-11:45 | (Computer) Vision without Sight Mobile computer vision may seem like the ideal sensing modality for supporting persons with visual impairment in their activities of daily life. If you cannot see, let the machine see for you. Yet, very few computer vision systems have found acceptance by the visually impaired community so far. In this talk I will report on several years of efforts and lessons learned trying to develop "useful" assistive technology based on computer vision (and other sensors). In particular, I will touch upon issues in mobility and wayfinding, and I will highlight some challenges of mobile vision without sight. |
Roberto
Manduchi Director of Computer Vision Lab Director of Assistive Technology Lab UCSC |
| Multifarious Session A led by Steffen Gauglitz | ||
| 11:45-11:58 | Complete Information Pursuit Evasion in Polygonal Environments | Kyle Klein |
| 11:58-12:11 | Temporal Cross-Sell Optimization Using Action Proxy-Driven Reinforcement Learning | Nan Lee |
| 12:11-12:24 | A Flexible Open-Source Toolbox for Scalable Complex Graph Analysis | Adam Lugowski |
| Lunch and Poster Session | ||
| 12:25-01:25 | ||
| Multifarious Session B led by Nichole Stockman | ||
| 01:25-01:38 | Melody Matcher: A Music-Linguistic Approach to Analyzing the Intelligibility of Song Lyrics | Jennifer Hughes |
| 01:38-01:51 | The Composition Context in Point-and-Shoot Photography | Daniel Vaquero |
| 01:51-02:04 | iSketchVis: Integrating Sketch-based Interaction with Computer Supported Data Analysis | Jeff Browne |
| Industry Keynote | ||
| 02:05-02:40 | YouTube News: Broadcasting the World Ubiquitous presence of video cameras significantly increases the possibilities for news coverage by regular citizens. Most recent cell phones and nearly all consumer cameras are capable of recording videos. These videos are often uploaded to YouTube and then shared via social networks. In this talk, we explain how YouTube already changed news coverage around the world and explain how we surface user-generated videos published on YouTube in Google News. |
Zoran Dimitrijevic Software Engineer |
| Closing | ||
| 02:40-03:00 | Closing Remarks followed by walk to Goleta Beach | Lara Deek |
External Participants
Roberto Manduchi
Academic Keynote
Roberto Manduchi obtained his "Dottorato di Ricerca" in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1993. After a few
years roaming around Northern and Southern California in various
postdoctoral positions, he landed a job at Apple in the Interactive Media
Group. From 1998 to 2001 he was with the Machine Vision Group at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory. In 2001 he joined the faculty at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, where he is currently an Associate Professor of
Computer Engineering. Roberto's main research interest is in the
application of computer vision and sensor processing to assistive
technology for people with visual impairment. His research is supported by
the NSF and the NIH.
Zoran Dimitrijevic
Industry Keynote
Zoran Dimitrijevic has been with Google as a Software Engineer since
2004. While at Google he has been working on Google File System, video
streaming, search infrastructure, News Archives, and News. Prior to joining
Google, he graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the
University of California, Santa Barbara in 2004 and with a Dipl.Ing. degree
from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
in 1999.
Andrew Mutz
Panelist
Dr. Andrew Mutz is the Director of Software Engineering at AppFolio,
inc. AppFolio is the fastest growing provider of online residential
property management software. Prior to joining AppFolio, he completed his
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
His dissertation, "Eliciting Honest Behavior on Computational Grids,"
focused on the problem of maximizing the amount of useful work accomplished
on a computational cluster by incentivizing accurate revelation from users
of the value of the work being performed. Prior to graduate school, he
worked as a Software Engineer at ExpertCity, inc. (now Citrix Online). He
received his B.S. in Computer Science in the College of Creative Studies at
UCSB.
Chad Sweet
Panelist
Chad Sweet is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Qualcomm in
the Corporate R&D division. He has led their augmented reality software
research and development for the past three and a half years. He has more
than a dozen patents pending in the wireless communications and augmented
reality fields. Chad has a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering from
Vanderbilt University and has been with Qualcomm for more than 13
years.
Saty Bahadur
Panelist
Saty is the Principle Developer Manager for the Windows Phone
Team. Particularly, he is a member of the Windows Phone CX Engineering
group that works on developing software that enables more mobile operators,
geographies, and variants, and adds end-user value. Previously, he was a
Principal Development Manager in the Windows Devices and Networking Team,
and, prior to that, he worked at Intel Corporation in various leadership
roles for 12 years. Saty received his M.S. in Computer Science from Clemson
University and, before that, his B.E. in (Hons) Instrumentation from BITS,
Pilani, India.
Program Committee
| Member | Position |
|---|---|
| Lara Deek | Chair |
| Steffen Gauglitz | Vice-Chair |
| Adam Doupe | Industry Liason |
| Ludovico Cavedon | Financial Coordinator |
| Nichole Stockman | Proceedings Coordinator |
| Bryce Boe | Website Coordinator |
| Gianluca Stringhini | General Committee |
| Nan Lee | General Committee |
| Petko Bogdanov | General Committee |
| Mariya Zheleva | General Committee |
| Ceren Budak | General Committee |
| Shiyuan Wang | General Committee |
| Vineeth Kashyap | General Committee |
| Hassan Wassel | General Committee |
| Aaron Elmore | General Committee |
| Sudipto Das | General Committee |
| Arijit Khan | General Committee |
| Wim van Dam | Faculty Adviser |
