Best-paper awards from prestigious research conferences won by personnel from Microsoft Research (li

Best-Paper Awards

Best-paper awards from prestigious research conferences won by personnel from Microsoft Research (list established in April 2010).

2012

European Conference on Computer Systems 2012

• MadLINQ: Large-Scale Distributed Matrix Computation for the Cloud—Zhengping Qian, Microsoft Research Asia; Xiuwei Chen, Microsoft Research Asia; Nanxi Kang, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Mingcheng Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Yuan Yu, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research Asia; and Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia.

2011

Eighth International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies 2011

• Reclaiming the White Spaces: Spectrum Efficient Coexistence with Primary Users—George Nychis, Carnegie Mellon University; Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research Redmond; Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research Asia; Ivan Tashev, Microsoft Research Redmond; and Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University.

Second International Workshop on Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones

• Can Your Smartphone Infer Your Mood?—Robert LiKamWa, Rice University; Yunxin Liu, Microsoft Research Asia; Nicholas D. Lane, Microsoft Research Asia; and Lin Zhong, Rice University.

Ninth International Conference on Pervasive Computing

• Learning Time-Based Presence Probabilities—John Krumm, Microsoft Research Redmond, and A.J. Bernheim Brush, Microsoft Research Redmond.

IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2011

• Real-time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth Images—Jamie Shotton, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Andrew Fitzgibbon, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Mat Cook, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Toby Sharp, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Mark Finocchio, Microsoft; Richard Moore, Microsoft; Alex Kipman, Microsoft; Andrew Blake, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

• How to Shop for Free Online — Security Analysis of Cashier-as-a-Service Based Web Stores—Rui Wang, Indiana University Bloomington; Shuo Chen, Microsoft Research; XiaoFeng Wang, Indiana University Bloomington; Shaz Qadeer, Microsoft Research.

USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

• A Study of Practical Deduplication—Dutch T. Meyer, Microsoft Research Redmond and The University of British Columbia; and William J. Bolosky, Microsoft Research Redmond.

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

• Your Noise is My Command: Sensing Gestures Using the Body as an Antenna—Gabe Cohn, Microsoft Research and the University of Washington; Daniel Morris, Microsoft Research; Shwetak Patel, Microsoft Research; and the University of Washington; and Desney Tan, Microsoft Research.
• Effects of Community Size and Contact Rate in Synchronous Social Q&A—Ryen White, Microsoft Research; Matthew Richardson, Microsoft Research; and Yandong Liu, Carnegie Mellon University.

Best Notes

• Interactive Generator: A Self-Powered Haptic Feedback Device—Akash Badshah, Phillips Exeter Academy; Sidhant Gupta, University of Washington; Gabe Cohn , University of Washington; Nicolas Villar, Microsoft Research; Steve Hodges, Microsoft Research; Shwetak Patel, University of Washington.

2010

ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies

• ICTCP: Incast Congestion Control for TCP in Data Center Networks—Haitao Wu, Microsoft Research Asia; Zhenqian Feng, Microsoft Research Asia and the National University of Defense Technology; Chuanxiong Guo, Microsoft Research Asia; and Yongguang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia.

14th biennial conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication

• From Holant to #CSP and Back: Dichotomy for Holant^c Problems—Jin-Yi Cai, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sangxia Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; and Pinyan Lu, Microsoft Research Asia.

European Conference on Computer Vision

• Graph Cut based Inference with Co-occurrence Statistics—Ľubor Ladický, Oxford Brookes University; Chris Russell, Oxford Brookes University; Pushmeet Kohil, Microsoft Research Cambridge; and Philip H.S. Torr, Oxford Brookes University.

Fourth International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2010

• Automatic Classification of Daily Fluid Intake—Jonathan Lester, University of Washington; Desney Tan, Microsoft Research Redmond; Shwetak Patel, University of Washington; A.J. Bernheim Brush, Microsoft Research Redmond.

 Foundations of Computer Science

• Computational Transition at the Uniqueness Threshold—Allan Sly, Microsoft Research Redmond.
• Subexponential Algorithms for Unique Games and Related Problems—Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University; Boaz Barak, Princeton University (now with Microsoft Research New England); and David Steurer, Princeton University (now with Microsoft Research New England).

Symposium on Usable Privacy and Secuirty

• Where Do Security Policies Come From?—Dinei Florêncio, Microsoft Research Redmond; and Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research Redmond.

ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

• Truthful Mechanisms with Implicit Payment Computation—Moshe Babaioff, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Robert D. Kleinberg, Cornell University; and Aleksandrs Slivkins, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley.

ACM SIGPLAN Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2010

• Akash Lal, for the unusual scope and depth of the dissertation Interprocedural Analysis and the Verification of Concurrent Programs and its excellent presentation.
• Bill Thies, for the novel and interdisciplinary nature of the work detailed in Language and Compiler Support for Stream Programs, the care given to evaluation, and the quality of the presentation.

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

• A Longitudinal Study of How Highlighting Web Content Change Affects People’s Web Interactions—Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research Redmond; Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research Redmond; and Dan Liebling, Microsoft Research Redmond.
• Mobile-izing Health Workers in Rural India—Divya Ramachandran, University of California, Berkeley; John Canny, University of California, Berkeley; Prabhu Dutta Das, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology; and Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India.
• Skinput: Appropriating the Body as an Input Surface—Chris Harrison, Carnegie Mellon University; Desney Tan, Microsoft Research Redmond; Dan Morris, Microsoft Research Redmond.