Graduate Student Workshop 2012
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.
Workshop Information
GSWC 2012 will be held Friday October 5th, 2012 in the Corwin Pavillion. Corwin Pavillion is located to the side of UCSB's University Center (UCEN). It can be found in the center of this campus map with the entrance on the eastern side of the UCEN building. The nearest Parking lot for the event is Parking lot 3 located just to the north-east right of the Corwin Pavillion, but it can fill up quickly so arrive early.
GSWC Awards 2012
Best Paper Award:- Xia Zhou, "Mirror Mirror on the Ceiling: Flexible Wireless Links for Data Centers"
- Runner-Up Best Paper Award: Mariya Zheleva, "ImmuNet: Improved Immunization of Children Through Cellular Network Technology"
Jeffrey Browne, "Sketch Recognition (Practically) Anywhere with SPARK"
Best Poster: Saiph Savage, "Directed Social Queries"
Runner-Up Best Poster: Alexandros Kapravelos, "Revolver: Detecting Evasion Attacks in Malicious JavaScript Code"
- Yanick Fratantonio
- Luca Invernizzi
- Ana Nika
- Veronika Strnadova
- Ali Zand
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A special Thanks to all of our supporters for helping ensure that our 7th annual grad student workshop is possible.
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Workshop Schedule
Download the proceedings: gswc2012proceedings.pdf 
| 08:00-08:15 | Breakfast | |
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| 08:15-08:30 | Opening Remarks | |
| First Session - Security - led by Adam Doupé | ||
| 08:30-08:48 | Jarhead | Johannes Schlumberger |
| 08:48-09:06 | Message In A Bottle: Sailing Past Censorship | Luca Invernizzi |
| 09:06-09:24 | Shellzer: A Tool for the Dynamic Analysis of Malicious Shellcode | Yanick Fratantonio |
| 09:30-10:15 | Industry Panel - moderated by Mariya Zheleva | |
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| Second Session - Vision - led by Steffen Gauglitz | ||
| 10:20-10:38 | User-Perspective Augmented Reality Magic Lens | Domagoj Baričević |
| 10:38-10:56 | Sketch Recognition (Practically) Anywhere with SPARK | Jeffrey Browne |
| 10:56-11:14 | Catch Me If You Can: Pursuit and Capture in Polygonal Environments with Obstacles | Kyle Klein | Third Session - Social and Quantum - led by Nazli Dereli |
| 11:20-11:38 | Hidden Subgroup Problem for Semi-direct Product Groups | Siladitya Dey |
| 11:38-11:56 | A Distance Based Algebra for Boolean Expression Queries over Large Networks | Arijit Khan |
| 11:56-12:14 | Identifying User Groups and Topic Evolution in Web Discussions | Theodore Georgiou |
| 12:15-01:15 | Lunch and Poster Session | |
| Fourth Section - Wireless - led by Lara Deek | ||
| 01:15-01:33 | Delay Tolerant Disaster Communication Using the One Laptop Per Child XO | Daniel Iland |
| 01:33-01:51 | Mirror Mirror on the Ceiling: Flexible Wireless Links for Data Centers | Xia Zhou |
| 01:51-02:09 | ImmuNet: Improved Immunization of Children Through Cellular Network Technology | Mariya Zheleva |
| Keynote | ||
| 02:15-03:00 | The Adaptation of Technology to Social Media This talk will first show the impact of social media on user behavior by looking at recent industry and social media trends. Next, there will be demonstrations of how software features have evolved to take advantage of these trends. |
Gus Class Developer Relations Google+ |
| 03:00-03:10 | Closing Remarks followed by walk to Goleta Beach | |
External Participants
Gus Class
Keynote
Gus is a developer advocate for the Google+ platform. Before joining Google, he worked on Microsoft Windows, Zune, Xbox, and developed anti-spam and web-based email software. You can find out more about him on Google+ at http://gusclass.com/+
Luca Bertelli
Industry Panelist
Luca received the D.Ing. degree (summa cum laude) in electronic engineering from the University of Modena, Italy, in 2003, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2005 and 2009, respectively.
During the summer of 2008, he was an intern at Google Research, working on salient object detection. After graduating he joined Mayachitra and later moved to Like.com, always working on computer vision related problems.
He is now at Google where he is a tech lead within Google Shopping, working on making your online shopping experience as amazing as possible
Kevin Haas
Industry Panelist
Kevin Haas earned dual Bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from UC Santa Barabara, and a MS from Stanford University, where he studied databases and operating systems. Since graduating, he’s held a variety of software development and management positions at IBM, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Currently, he leads Bing Social’s engineering team, and responsible for the integration of data from Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks; and dabbles with unstructured text analysis and large-scale entity graphs on the side.
Chad Sweet
Industry Panelist
Chad Sweet has been with Qualcomm for more than 14 years and is currently leading a project to apply biologically inspired neural networks to robotics applications in Corporate R&D. He has a BS in Computer Engineering from Vanderbilt University, and has a number of patents granted or pending in the area of wireless technology.
Program Committee
| Member | Position |
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| Adam Doupé | Chair |
| Gianluca Stringhini | Vice-Chair |
| Mariya Zheleva | Industry Liason |
| Ana Nika | Financial Coordinator |
| Nazli Dereli | Proceedings Coordinator |
| Sean Maloney | Website Coordinator |
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Ali Zand Vineeth Kashyap Arijit Khan Yun Teng Adam Lugowski Siladitya Dey Jane Iedemska Lara Deek Steffen Guaglitz Dhilung Kirat Hassan Wassel |
Program Committee |
