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Purdue Collaborators
- Chris Brinton: Secure distributed ML
- David Inouye: Secure distributed ML
- Aniket Kate: Secure distributed protocols for CPS
- Milind Kulkarni: Reliable parallel applications
- Aravind Machiry: Secure IoT systems
- Chunyi Peng: Reliable edge computing
- Qiang Qiu: Secure distributed learning
- Vishal Shrivastav: In-network inferencing
- Eugene Spafford: Deception for enhancing computer security
- Shreyas Sundaram: Game theory for embedded security
Outside Purdue External Collaborators
- Salman Avestimehr, Ramesh Govindan: University of Southern California
- Yin Li: University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Rajesh Panta, Kaustubh Joshi: AT&T Labs
- Sameh Elnikety: Microsoft Research
- Mathias Payer: EPFL, Switzerland
- Rudi Eigenmann: University of Delaware
- Subrata Mitra, Kanak Mahadik, Shiv Saini: Adobe Research
- Arash Nourian, Bratin Saha: Amazon AWS
- Shin Matsumura, Rosa Lahiji: Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T)
- Kevin Chan, Zach Hare, Peng Wang: Army Research Lab
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Undergraduate Students
DCSL Award Winners
Year | Group Champ Awardee | Best Fresher Awardee |
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Fall 2021 | Mustafa Abdallah "For making the twain meet: theory and practice of distributed security" | Joshua Zhao "For showing how to secure decentralized learning" |
Spring 2021 | Ran Xu "For uncovering video power on tiny devices" | Joshua Majors "For making our tiny devices more secure" |
Fall 2020 | Mustafa Abdallah "Showing that applying game theory to improve security is serious business" | Akhil Sai "Showing that tiny devices can agree even in Byzantium" |
Fall 2019 | Heng Zhang "For making mobile magic" | Atul Sharma "For making ML meaningful" |
Spring 2018 | Ashraf Mahgoub "Taming the power of Cassandras" | Pradeep Venkata Kotipalli "Fast and accurate: in GPU programs" |
Fall 2017 | Ran Xu "Accuracy, Reliability, & Speed: Making the twains meet" | Mustafa Abdallah "For gaming all the way to security" |
Spring 2017 | Paul Wood "All systems firing on all cylinders" | Joint winners: Ran Xu "For showing that we do not have to choose between accuracy and speed" Heng Zhang "For harnessing the wisdom of the crowds" |
Spring 2016 | Subrata Mitra "For bringing reliable system design principles to real systems" | Tara Elizabeth Thomas "For bringing optimization and simulation to an alien world of GE advanced manufacturing" |
Fall 2015 | Nawanol Theera-Ampornpunt "For application of ML to computer systems and genomics problems" | Christopher Michael Wright "For creating a new DSL and its compiler infrastructure" |
Fall 2014 | Kanak "For bringing the discipline of dependable computing to the magical work of genomics | Not Awarded |
Spring 2014 | Fahad "For work on NEES operations and systems debugging " | Raghav "For fearlessly working with Androids and Blades" |
Fall 2013 | Bowen "For work on performance evaluation and debugging of distributed applications For handling multiple bosses " | Kanak "For infusing path-breaking bioinformatics work into DCSL" |
Spring 2013 | Matt "For innovative work in embedded system debugging and taking bold steps toward commercializing it" | Subrata "For innovative work in large-scale system debugging and leading the LLNL collaboration" |
Fall 2012 | Gaspar | Chris |
Spring 2012 | Matt | Paul |
Spring 2011 | Ignacio | Bowen |
Spring 2010 | DongHoon | N/A |
Fall 2009 | Tanzima | N/A |
Spring 2009 | Rajesh | N/A |
Fall 2008 | Ignacio | N/A |
Fall 2007 | Rajesh | N/A |
Spring 2007 | Issa | Ignacio |
Fall 2006 | Issa | Gaspar |