Travel Awards and their Recipients

Funds Provided by the Dept. of CISE and College of Engineering (since Fall 2005)

Awarded in the Fall Semester 2005

• Oguzhan Topsakal: "Schema Matching with Report Analysis." 2005 International IEEE Workshop on Ontologies-based Techniques for DataBases and Information Systems (ODBIS 2005), Trondheim, Norway, September 2005. Co-located with VLDB 2005, 31st International Conference on Very Large DataBases.
  (http://www.i3s.unice.fr/odbis2005/)
• John Quarles*: "A Pipeline for Rapidly Incorporating Real Objects into a Mixed Environment." 4th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2005), Vienna, Austria, October 2005.
  (http://campar.in.tum.de/ISMAR/WebHome)
• Fei Wang: "Simultaneous Registration and Segmentation of Anatomical Structures from Brain MRI." 8th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Palm Springs, California, October 2005.
  (http://www.kent.ac.uk/miccai/)
• Jianhua Fan: "Root Classification of Constraint Solving." 2005 SIAM Conference on Geometric Design & Computing, Phoenix, Arizona, November 2005.
  (http://www.siam.org/meetings/gd05/)
• Hyunju Shim: "Programming Using Dynamic System Modeling Via a 3D-based Multimodeling Framework." IEEE and ACM Winter Simulation Conference 2005 (WSC05), Orlando, FL, December 2005.
  (http://www.wintersim.org/prog05.htm)
• Heping Gao: "Combinatorial Classification of 2D Underconstrainted Systems." 7th Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics, Seoul, Korea, December 2005.
  (http://newton.kias.re.kr/ASCM2005/)
• Xu Zhang: "A New Approach for Multiple Sequence Alignment." Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2006, Wailea, Maui, January 2006.
  (http://psb.stanford.edu/)
• Eunsam Kim: "Efficient Scheduling Schemes for HD-quality Content Distribution." IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2006 (CCNC 2006), Las Vegas, NV, January 2006.
  (http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/)

Awarded in the Spring Semester 2006

• Zhen Yang: "MLP Exploitation with Seamless Preload." Workshop on Memory Performance Issues (WMPI) in the 12th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, Austin, TX, February 2006.
  (http://www.cs.utah.edu/wmpi/2006/)
• Jayendra Venkateswaran*: "Finding Data Broadness Via Generalized Nearest Neighbors." International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), München, Germany, March 2006.
  (http://www.edbt2006.de/index.htm)
• Subramanian Arumugam: "Closest-Point-of-Approach Join for Moving Object Histories." International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), IEEE Computer Society, Atlanta, GA, April 2006.
  (http://icde06.cc.gatech.edu/)
• Xudong Shi: "Coterminous Locality and Coterminous Group Data Prefetching on Chip-Multiprocessors." International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium 2006, IEEE Society & ACM, Rhodes Island, Greece, April 2006.
  (http://www.ipdps.org/)
• Jungmin Shin: "Distributed Process Integration: Experiences and Opportunities for Future Research." International Workshop on Web and Mobile Information Systems (WAMISÕ06), IEEE Computer Society, Vienna, Austria, April 2006.
  (http://euler.acadiau.ca/~eshakshu/CIDS/WAMIS06/)
• Alejandro Pauly: "Topological Reasoning for Identifying a Complete Set of Topological Predicates between Vague Spatial Objects." 19th International FLAIRS Conference, The American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Orlando, FL, April 2006.
  (http://www.indiana.edu/~flairs06/)
• Ajit Vilas Rajwade: "A New Method of Probablity Density Estimation with Application to Mutual Information Based Image Registration." IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE Computer Society, New York, NY, June 2006.
  (http://www.cvpr.org/2006/)
• Yongling Song: "Item Sets Based Graph Mining Algorithm and Application in Genetic Regulatory Networks." 2006 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, IEEE Computer Society, Atlanta, GA, May 2006.
  (http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~grc/)
• Wencheng Lu: Paper 1 - "Packet forwarding using pipelined multibit tries." Paper -2 "Packet classification using pipelined two-dimensional multibit tries."IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'06), IEEE Computer Society, Sardinia, Italy, June 2006.
  (http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2006/)
• Mark McKenney: "Advanced Operations for Maps in Spatial Databases." 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH 2006), Geoinformation Connecting Societies (GICON 2006), Vienna, Austria, July 2006.
  (http://www.igugis.org/conference.htm)

Awarded in the Summer Semester 2006

• Florin Rusu: "Fast Range-Summable Random Variables for Efficient Aggregate Estimation." ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, Chicago, IL, June 2006.
  (http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/sigmod-pods06/)
• Tianyun Ni: "Tuned Ternary Quad Subdivision." Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP 2006), Pittsburg, PN, July 26 - 28, 2006.
  (http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/org/GMP2006/)
• Scooter Willis: "Predicting co-evolving pairs in Pfam using information theory where entropy is determined by phylogenetic mutation events." Probabilistic Modeling and Machine Learning in Structural and Systems Biology (PMSB 2006), Helsinki, Finland, June 17-18, 2006.
  (http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/bioinformatiikka/events/pmsb06/)

Awarded in the Fall Semester 2006

• Lord, Nicholas: "An Intrinsic Geometric Framework for Simultaneous Non-Rigid Registration and Segmentation of Surfaces." The 9th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 1-6,2006.
  (http://www.miccai2006.dk/)
• Xu, Xiaochun(*): "Approximation Algorithms For Sensor Deployment." Innovations and Real-time Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks (DSN) Symposium 2006, Washington D.C., Oct. 16-17, 2006.
  (http://www.ira-dsn.org/)
• Kumar, Mahendra: "STRBAC-An Approach Towards Spatio-Temporal Role-based Access Control" IASTED International Conference on COMMUNICATION, NETWORK, AND INFORMATION SECURITY, Cambridge, USA, Oct. 9-11, 2006.
  (http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2006/cambridge/c547.htm)
• Kotranza, Aaron: "Mixed Reality: Are Two Hands Better Than One?" ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Limassol, Cyprus, November 1-3, 2006.
  (http://www.vrst.ploegos.com/)
• Koo, Heon-Mo: "Directed Micro-architectural Test Generation for an Industrial Processor: A Case Study", IEEE International Workshop on Microprocessor Test and Verification, Austin, Texas, December 4-5, 2006.
  (http://mtv.ece.ucsb.edu/MTV)

Awarded in the Spring Semester 2007

• Johnsen, Kyle: "The Validity of a Virtual Human Experience for Interpersonal Skills Education", ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI 2007), San Jose, CA, April 28 - May 03, 2007.

• Jian, Ying(*): "Protecting Receiver-Location Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks", 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer and Communications Society (INFOCOM 2007), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 06-12, 2007.
  (http://www.ieee-infocom.org/)
• Roberson, Christian: "A Morphological Neural Network Approach to Information Retrieval", Annual Conference for the Florida Reseach Artificial Intelligence Society , Key West, FL, May 06-09, 2007.
  (http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ddd/FLAIRS/flairs2007/)
• Jian, Bing: "A Continuous Mixture of Tensors Model for Diffusion Weighted MR Signal Reconstruction", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging , Washington DC, USA, Apr12-15, 2007.
  (http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/)
• Degwekar, Seema: "Event-triggered Data and Knowledge Sharing among Collaborating Government Organizations", International Conference on Digital Government Research , Philadelphia, PA, USA, May 20-23, 2007.
  (http://www.dgsociety.org/conference.php)
• Yu, InKwan: "Node Selection Algorithm for Many-to-many Mapping in Peer-to-Peer Networks", International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services , Mauritius, May 13-19, 2007.
  (http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICIW07.html)
• Hsu, Wei-jen: "Modeling Time-variant User Mobility in Wireless Mobile Networks", 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer and Communications Society (INFOCOM 2007), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 06-12, 2007.
  (http://www.ieee-infocom.org/)

Awarded in the Summer Semester 2007

• Barmpoutis, Angelos: "Symmetric Positive 4th Order Tensors & their Estimation from Diffusion Weighted MRI", International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Roduc Abbey, Netherlands, July 2-6, 2007.
  (http://www2.wiau.man.ac.uk/caws/Conferences/40/index.html)
• Zare, Alina: "SPICE: Sparsity Promoting Iterated Constrained Endmember Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery", International Conference on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, July 23-27, 2007.
  (http://www.igarss07.org/frontal/Inicio.asp)
• Li, Xuehui: "Quality-Based Similarity Search for Biological Sequence Databases", International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Las Vegas, NV, June 25-28, 2007.
  (http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/BIOCOMP07)
• Song, Xiuyao: "Statistical Change Detection for Multi-Dimensional Data", ACM SIGKDD Conference, San Jose, CA, Aug 12-15, 2007.
  (http://www.kdd2007.com/)
• Boyaci, Cem: "Triangulations Loosing Bundles and Weight", The 19th Annual Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, Ottawa, Canada, Aug 20-22, 2007.
  (http://2007.cccg.ca/program.html)

Awarded in the Fall Semester 2007

• McKenney, Mark: "PLR Partitions: A Conceptual Model of Maps", "Ensuring the Semantic Correctness of Complex Regions", and "Modeling Historical and Future Spatio-Temporal Relationships of Moving Objects in Databases", Workshop on Semantic and Conceptual Issues in Geographic Information Systems (SeCoGIS 2007) in conjunction with the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2007) , Auckland, New Zealand, November 05-09, 2007.
  ( http://cs.ulb.ac.be/conferences/secogis07/ )
• Myles, Ashish: "Extending Catmull-Clark Subdivision and PCCM with Polar Structures", Pacific Graphics 2007 in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH , Maui, Hawaii, Oct 29 - Nov 2, 2007.
  ( http://mm.cse.wustl.edu/pg07/index.php )
• Xu, Fei: "Randomized Algorithms for Data Reconciliation in Wide Area Aggregate Query Processing", 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, , Vienna,Austria, September 23-27, 2007.
  ( http://www.vldb2007.org/ )
• Zhang, Xu(*): "Optimizing the alignment of many sequences", IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering , Boston, MA, October 14-17, 2007.
  ( http://www.cs.gsu.edu/BIBE07/ )
• Gummuluru, Vandana: "An Intelligent System for Searching Genomic Sequences", IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering , Boston, MA, October 14-17, 2007.
  ( http://www.cs.gsu.edu/BIBE07/ )

Awarded in the Spring Semester 2008

• Quarles, John*: "A Mixed Reality Approach to Merging Abstract and Concrete Knowledge" and "Tangible User Interfaces Compensate for Low Spatial Cognition", IEEE Virtual Reality 2008, 3D User Interfaces 2008 (concurrent) , Reno, NV, Mar. 8 - 12, 2008.
  (http://conferences.computer.org/vr/2008/prelim/) (http://conferences.computer.org/3dui/3dui2008/)
• Harsh, Piyush: "An Overlay solution to IP-Multicast Address Collision Prevention", IASTED Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications , Innsbruck, Austria, Mar. 17-19, 2008.
  (http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-612.html)
• Basu, Kanad: "A Novel Test-Data Compression Technique using Application-aware Bitmask and Dictionary Selection Methods", ACM GLSVLSI Conference , Orlando, FL, May 04-06, 2008.
  (http://www.glsvlsi.org/)
• Manna, Parbati:"DAWN: A Novel Strategy for Detecting ASCII Worms in Networks" and "Exact Modeling of Propagation for Permutation- Scanning Worms", IEEE INFOCOM International Conference , Phoenix, AZ, Apr. 14-17, 2008.
  (http://www.ieee-infocom.org/)
• Zheng, Xiaoying: "Optimal Peer-to-Peer Technique for Massive Content Distribution", IEEE INFOCOM International Conference , Phoenix, AZ, Apr. 14-17, 2008.
  (http://www.ieee-infocom.org/)
• Gao,Jianwei: "Parallel Integration of Planetary Systems on GPUs", ACM ACMSE Conference , Auburn, AL, Mar. 28-29, 2008.
  (http://www.eng.auburn.edu/acmse/)

Awarded in the Summer Semester 2008

• Bolton, Jeremy: "Random Set Model for Context-Based Classification", IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Hong Kong, China, June 1-6, 2008.
  (http://www.wcci2008.org/)
• Zhang, Liang: "Achieving Global End-to-End Maxmin in Multihop Wireless Networks", International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Beijing, China, June 17 - 20, 2008.
  (http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/icdcs/)
• Kumar, Ritwik: "Beyond the Lambertian Assumption: A generative model for Apparent BRDF field for Faces using Anti-Symmetric Tensor Splines" and "Multi-Fiber Reconstruction from DW-MRI using a Continuous Mixture of von Mises-Fisher Distributions", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis , Anchorage, Alaska, June 24-28, 2008.
  (http://vision.eecs.ucf.edu/)
• Nejhum, S M Shahed: "Visual Tracking with Histograms and Articulating Blocks", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , Anchorage, Alaska, June 24-28, 2008.
  (http://vision.eecs.ucf.edu/)
• Wang, Shao-Cheng: "BEWARE: Background Traffic-Aware Rate Adaptation for IEEE 802.11", IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks , Newport Beach, CA, June 23-27, 2008.
  (http://wowmom08.ics.uci.edu/)