| Yr. | Award | Authors / Papers |
| 2024 | CCS | Christian Mouchet, Sylvain Chatel, Apostolos Pyrgelis, and Carmela Troncoso. “Helium: Scalable MPC among Lightweight Participants and under Churn”. Distinguished Artifact Award (ACM CCS 2024) |
| 2024 | CCS | Bozhidar Stevanoski, Ana-Maria Cretu, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye. “QueryCheetah: Fast Automated Discovery of Attribute Inference Attacks Against Query-Based Systems”. Distinguished Paper Award (ACM CCS 2024) |
| 2024 | RAID | Ahmad Hazimeh, Duo Xu, Qiang Liu, Yan Wang, and Mathias Payer. “Tango: Extracting Higher-Order Feedback through State Inference”. Best paper award (RAID ’24) [PDF] |
| 2024 | ESWEEK | Srinivasan Murali, Almir Mutapcic, David Atienza, Rajesh Gupta, Stephen Boyd, and Giovanni De Micheli. “Temperature-aware Processor Frequency Assignment for MPSoCs Using Convex Optimization” (CODES+ISSS 2007). Test-of-Time Award 2024 of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS) [PDF] |
| 2024 | CODASPY | Ana-Maria Cretu, Miruna Rusu, and Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye. “Re-pseudonymization Strategies for Smart Meter Data Are Not Robust to Deep Learning Profiling Attacks”. Best paper award (Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy 2024) [PDF] |
| 2024 | ICBS | Emmanuel Abbe, Jianqing Fan, and Kaizheng Wang. “An âp theory of PCA and spectral clustering”. Frontiers of Science Award (Annals of Statistics, 50(4):2359-2385, 2022) [PDF] |
| 2024 | WOOT | Philipp Mao, Elias Valentin Boschung, Marcel Busch, and Mathias Payer. “Exploiting Android’s Hardened Memory Allocator”. Best Paper Award (Usenix Workshop on Offensive Technologies, 2024) [PDF] |
| 2024 | SEC | Alexander Bulekov, Qiang Liu, Manuel Egele, and Mathias Payer. “HyperPill: Fuzzing for Hypervisor-bugs by leveraging the Hardware Virtualization Interface”. Distinguished Paper Award (Usenix Security Symposium, 2024) [PDF] |
| 2024 | ALIFE | Ehsan Pajouheshgar, Yitao Xu, and Sabine SĂŒsstrunk. “NoiseNCA: Noisy Seed Improves Spatio-Temporal Continuity of Neural Cellular Automata”. Best Student Paper Award (ALIFE 2024) [PDF] |
| 2024 | FPL | Andrea Guerrieri, Srijeet Guha, Chris Lavin, Eddie Hung, Lana JosipoviÄ, and Paolo Ienne. “DynaRapid: Fast-Tracking from C to Routed Circuits”. 2024 Michal Servit Best Paper Award (FPL’24) [PDF] |
| 2024 | CRYPTO | Gal Arnon, Alessandro Chiesa, Giacomo Fenzi, and Eylon Yogev. “STIR: ReedâSolomon Proximity Testing with Fewer Queries”. Best Paper Award (CRYPTO 2024) [PDF] |
| 2024 | IEEE S&P | Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Eran Tromer, and Madars Virza. “Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin”. Test of Time Award (2014 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy)[PDF] |
| 2024 | AIAA | Zhen Wei, Aobo Yang, Jichao Li, MichaĂ«l Bauerheim, Rhea P. Liem, and Pascal Fua. “DeepGeo: Deep Geometric Mapping for Automated and Effective Parameterization in Aerodynamic Shape Optimization”. AIAA Best student paper award (AIAA AVIATION Forum 2024) [PDF] |
| 2024 | ACM SIGMOD/PODS | Viktor Sanca, Periklis Chrysogelos, and Anastasia Ailamaki. “LAQy: Efficient & Reusable Query Approximations via Lazy Sampling”. ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award (ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2024) [PDF] |
| 2024 | PLDI 24 SRC | NoĂ© De Santo, “Mechanized semantics for ECMAScript regexes”. (PLDI 24 SRC) PLDI’s ACM Student Research Competition Award, First place (graduate division) [LINK] |
| 2024 | ICWSM | Giuseppe Russo, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, and Robert West. “Stranger Danger! Cross-Community Interactions with Fringe Users Increase the Growth of Fringe Communities on Reddit”. ICWSM Best Paper Award (ICWSM 2024) [PDF] |
| 2023 | EAB | Hatef Otroshi Shahreza, Yanina Y. Shkel, and Sebastien Marcel. “Measuring Linkability of Protected Biometric Templates Using Maximal Leakage”. European Biometrics Research Award 2023 [PDF] |
| 2023 | ICCAD | Mingfei Yu and Giovanni De Micheli. “Striving for Both Quality and Speed: Logic Synthesis for Practical Garbled Circuits”. IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award (ICCAD 2023) [PDF] |
| 2023 | VLSI-SoC | Rassul Bairamkulov, Alessandro Tempia Calvino, and Giovanni De Micheli. “Synthesis of SFQ Circuits with Compound Gates”. Best Paper Award (VLSI-SoC 2023) [PDF] |
| 2023 | SOSP | Diyu Zhou, Vojtech Aschenbrenner, Tao Lyu, Jian Zhang, Sudarsun Kannan, and Sanidhya Kashyap. “Enabling High-Performance and Secure Userspace NVM File Systems with the Trio Architecture”. Best Paper Award (SOSP 2023) [PDF] |
| 2023 | DISC | Pierre Civit, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, Jovan Komatovic, Matteo Monti, and Manuel Vidigueira. “Every Bit Counts in Consensus”. Best Paper Award (DISC 2023) [PDF] |
| 2023 | ICML | Emmanuel Abbe, Samy Bengio, Aryo Lotfi, and Kevin Rizk. “Generalization on the Unseen, Logic Reasoning and Degree Curriculum”. Outstanding Paper Award (ICML 2023) [PDF] |
| 2023 | ICBS | Ola Svensson, Jakub Tarnawski, and LĂĄszlĂł A. VĂ©gh. “A Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithm for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem”. Proceedings of the 50th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing (2018). Frontiers of Science Award (ICBS 2023) [PDF] |
| 2023 | IEEE SSP | Mert Kayaalp, Yunus Inan, Visa Koivunen, Emre Telatar, and Ali H. Sayed. “On the Fusion Strategies for Federated Decision Making”. Best Student Paper Award (IEEE SSP 2023) [PDF] |
| 2023 | ASPLOS | Michael Ferdman, Almutaz Adileh, Onur Kocberber, Stavros Volos, Mohammad Alisafaee, Djordje Jevdjic, Cansu Kaynak, Adrian Daniel Popescu, Anastasia Ailamaki, and Babak Falsafi. “Clearing the Clouds: A Study of Emerging Scale-out Workloads on Modern Hardware”. Influential Paper Award (Test-of-Time, ASPLOS 2012) [PDF] |
| 2022 | ACM SIGMOD | Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Miguel Branco, Stratos Idreos, Anastasia Ailamaki. “NoDB: efficient query execution on raw data files”. Test of Time Award (ACM SIGMOD 2022) [PDF] [news] |
| 2022 | FSE | Subhadeep Banik, Khashayar Barooti, F. BetĂŒl Durak, Serge Vaudenay. “Cryptanalysis of LowMC instances using single plaintext/ciphertext pair”. Best Paper Award (FSE 2022) [PDF] |
| 2022 | ACM SIGGRAPH | Yael Vinker, Ehsan Pajouheshgar, Jessica Y. Bo, Roman Christian Bachmann, Amit Bermano, Daniel Cohen-Or, Amir Zamir, Ariel Shamir. “CLIPasso: Semantically Aware Object Sketching”. Best Technical Paper award (ACM SIGGRAPH 2022) [news] |
| 2022 | FPL | Sahand Kashani, Mahyar Emami, James R. Larus. “Bitfiltrator: A General Approach for Reverse-Engineering Xilinx Bitstream Formats”. Michael Servit Best Paper Award (FPL 2022) |
| 2022 | ESEC/FSE | Chijin Zhou, Quan Zhang, Mingzhe Wang, Lihua Guo, Jie Liang, Zhe Liu, Mathias Payer, and Yu Jiang. “Minerva: Browser API Fuzzing with Dynamic Mod-Ref Analysis”. Distinguished Paper Award (FSE 2022) [PDF] |
| 2022 | NDSS | Derrick McKee, Yianni Giannaris, Carolina Ortega Perez, Howard Shrobe, Mathias Payer, Hamed Okhravi, and Nathan Burow. “Preventing Kernel Hacks with HAKCs”. Distinguished Paper Award (NDSS 2022) [PDF] |
| 2020 | ACM WEBSCI | Naman Goel, Boi Falting, and Maxime Rutagarama. “Trackling Peer-to-Peer Discrimination in the Sharing Economy”. Conference Papers Awards (ACM WEBSCI 2020) [PDF]. |
| 2022 | IEEE ICDCS | Civit Pierre, Gilbert Seth, Gramoli Vicent, Guerraoui Rachid, and Komatovic Jovan. “Crime and Punishment in Distributed Byzantine Decision Tasks”. Conference Papers Awards (ICDCS 2022)[PDF] |
| 2022 | IEEE IPDPS | Pierre Civit, Seth Gilbert, Vincent Gramoli, Rachid Guerraoui, and Jovan Komatovic. “As easy as ABC: Optimal (A)ccountable (B)yzantine (C)onsensus is easy!”. Conference Papers Awards (IPDPS 2022) [PDF] |
| 2022 | DISC | Pierre Civit, Muhammad Ayaz Dzulfikar, Seth Gilbert, Vincent Gramoli, Rachid Guerraoui, Jovan Komatovic, Manuel Vidigueira. “Byzantine Consensus is “$(n^2)$: The Dolev-Reischuk Bound is Tight even in Partial Synchrony!'”. Conference Papers Awards (DISC 2022) [PDF] |
| 2022 | USENIX | Giovanni Cherubin, Rob Jansen, and Carmela Troncoso. “Online Website Fingerprinting: Evaluating Website Fingerprinting Attacks on Tor in the Real Wolrd”. Distinguished Paper Award (Internet Defense Prize 2022) [PDF] |
| 2021 | IEEE ITSOC | E. AbbĂ©e, A.S. Bandeira, G. Hall. “Exact Recovery in the Stochastic Block Model”. Best Paper Award (IEEE ITSOC 2021) [PDF] |
| 2021 | COLT | Emmanuel AbbĂ©e, Elisabetta Cornacchia, Yuzhou Gu, and Yury Polyanskiy. “Stochastic block model entropy and broadcasting on trees with survey”. Best Paper Award (COLT 2021) [PDF] |
| 2021 | ACSA | Huang, M. Johanes, F. Kim, C. Doumpioti, and C. Holz, Technology. “On GANs, NLP and Architecture: Combining Human and Machine Intelligences for the Generation and Evaluation of Meaningful Designs”. Architectural Education Awards (ACSA 2021) [PDF] |
| 2021 | FL-ICML | Felix Grimberg, Mary-Anne Hartley, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, and Martin Jaggi. “Optimal Model Averaging: Towards Personalized Collaborative Learning.” Best Paper Award (FL-ICML 2021) [PDF] |
| 2021 | ICDCS | Antoine Desjardins, Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli, Igor Zablotchi, and Karolos Antoniadis. “Leaderless consensus” (ICDCS 2021) [PDF] |
| 2021 | ICWSM | Kiran Garimella, Tim Smith, Rebecca Weiss, and Robert West. “Political Polarization in Online News Consumption” Best Paper Award (ICWSM 2021) [PDF] |
| 2021 | NeurIPS | Mathieu Even, RaphaĂ«l Berthier, Francis Bach, Nicolas Flammarion, Pierre Gaillard, Hadrien Hendrikx, Laurent MassouliĂ©, and Adrien Taylor. âContinuized Accelerations of Deterministic and Stochastic Gradient Descents, and of Gossip Algorithmsâ. Outstanding Paper Award (NeurIPS 2021) [PDF] |
| 2021 | IEEE MDM | Karl Aberer, Mandred Hauswirth, Ali Salehi. “Infrastructure for data processing in large-scale interconnected sensor networks”. Test of Time Award (IEEE MDM 2007) [PDF]. |
| 2021 | IEEE EDBT | Zhixian Yan, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra, and Karl Aberer. “SeMiTri: a framework for semantic annotation of heterogeneous trajectories”. Test of Time Award (EDBT 2011) [PDF]. |
| 2021 | IEEE SP | Reza Shokri, George Theodorakopoulos, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, and Jean-Pierre Hubaux. “Quantifying Location Privacy”. Test of Time Award (IEEE SP 2011) [PDF]. |
| 2020 | FPL | Stefan NikoliÄ, Grace Zgheib, and Paolo Ienne. âTiming-Driven Placement for FPGA Architectures with Dedicated Routing Pathsâ. 30th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) 2020 [PDF]. |
| 2020 | FPGA | Lana JosipoviÄ, Shabnam Sheikhha, Andrea Guerrieri, Paolo Ienne, and Jordi Cortadella. âBuffer Placement and Sizing for High-Performance Dataflow Circuitsâ. 28th ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) 2020 [PDF]. |
| 2020 | Middleware | Georgios Damaskinos, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Vlad Nitu, Rhicheek Patra, Francois Taiani. “FLeet: Online Federated Learning via Staleness Awareness and Performance Prediction”. ACM/IFP Middleware 2020 [PDF]. |
| 2020 | ACM CCS | Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Bryan Ford. “Dissent: accountable anonymous group messaging”. Test of Time Award (CCS 2010) [PDF]. |
| 2020 | IEEE DSN | Daniel Collins, Rachid Guerraoui, Jovan Komatovic, Matteo Monti, Athanasios Xygkis, Matej Pavlovic, Petr Kuznetsov, Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, and Andrei Tonkikh. “Online Payments by Merely Broadcasting Messages”. Conference Papers Awards (IEEE DSN 2020) [PDF]. |
| 2020 | ECCV | Michael Calonder, Vincent Lepetit, Christoph Strecha, and Pascal Fua. “BRIEF: Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features”. Koenderink Prize (ECCV 2010) [PDF]. |
| 2020 | USENIX WOOT | Jianliang Wu, Yuhong Nan, Vireshwar Kumar, Dave (Jing) Tian, Antonio Bianchi, Mathias Payer, and Dongyan Xu. “Spoofing Attacks against Reconnections in Bluetooth Low Energy”. Best Paper Award (WOOT 2020) [PDF] |
| 2020 | EUROSYS | Marios Kogias, and Edouard Bugnion. “HovercRaft: Achieving Scalability and Fault-tolerance for microsecond-scale Datacenter Services”. Best Student Paper Award (EuroSys 2020) [PDF] |
| 2020 | ACM RECSYS | Faltings Boi, Fei Mi and Xiaoyu Lin. “ADER: Adaptively Distilled Exemplar Replay Towards Continual Learning for Session-based Recommendation”. Best Short Paper Award (RecSys 2020) [PDF] |
| 2020 | OPODIS | Amine Boussetta, El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi, Rachid Guerraoui, Alexandre Maurer, and SĂ©bastien Rouault. “Fast Byzantine SGD”. Best Paper Award (OPODIS 2020) [PDF] |
| 2019 | ASIACRYPT | Thomas BaignĂšres, Pascal Junod, Serge Vaudenay. “How Far Can We Go Beyond Linear Cryptanalysis?”. Test-of-Time Award (ASIACRYPT 2019) [PDF] |
| 2019 | IBM Q | FrĂ©dĂ©ric Gessler, Chun Lam Chan, and Nicolas Macris, with their co-authors from the Institute of Physics. âBell Diagonal and Werner state generation: entanglement, non-locality, steering and discord on the IBM quantum computerâ. 2nd Prize Winner. IBM Quantum Awards 2019 [PDF] |
| 2019 | Caspar Bowden PET | Hamza Harkous, Kassem Fawaz, RĂ©mi Lebret, Florian Schaub, Kang G. Shin, and Karl Aberer. âPolisis: Automated Analysis and Presentation of Privacy Policies Using Deep Learningâ. USENIX Security Symposium 2018 [PDF] |
| 2019 | ICWSM | Ramtin Yazdanian, Leila Zia, Jonathan Morgan, Bahodir Mansurov, and Robert West. “Eliciting New Wikipedia Usersâ Interests via Automatically Mined Questionnaires: For a Warm Welcome, Not a Cold Start”. Outstanding Paper Award (ICWSM 2019) [PDF] |
| 2019 | ANRP | Georgia Fragkouli, Katerina Argyraki, and Bryan Ford. âMorphIT: Morphing Packet Reports for Internet Transparencyâ. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2019 [PDF] |
| 2019 | DISC | Rachid Guerraoui, Petr Kuznetsov, Matteo Monti, Matej Pavlovic, and Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi. “Scalable Byzantine Reliable Broadcast”. Best Conference Paper Award (LIPIC 2019) [PDF] |
| 2019 | EDBT | Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Nikos Hardavellas, Anastasia Ailamaki, and Babak Falsafi. “Shore-MT: a scalable storage manager for the multicore era”. Test-of-Time Award (EDBT’09) [PDF] |
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| 2018 | MICRO 51 | Thomas Ball and James R. Larus. “Efficient Path Profiling”. Test-of-Time Award (MICRO 29) [PDF] |
| 2016 | EuroSys | Manuel FĂ€hndrich, Mark Aiken, Chris Hawblitzel, Orion Hodson, Galen C. Hunt, James R. Larus, and Steven Levi. “Language support for fast and reliable message-based communication in singularity OS”. Test-of-Time Award (EuroSys 2006) [PDF] |
