{"689428":{"#nid":"689428","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Build AI Tutor Grounded in Course Materials","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs students increasingly turn to artificial intelligence (AI) to help with coursework, some worry that their learning could be compromised. Georgia Tech researchers are working to counter this potential decline with an AI tool they hope will promote learning rather than hinder it.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETokenSmith is a citation-supported large language model (LLM) tutor that can be hosted locally on a user\u2019s personal computer. The tutor only provides answers based on course materials, such as the textbook or lecture slides.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~jarulraj\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoy Arulraj\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E began the project with support from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/c21u-announces-inaugural-bill-kent-ai-higher-education-fellows\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBill Kent Family Foundation AI in Higher Education Faculty Fellowship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E last year. The fellowship, led by Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for 21st Century Universities, supports faculty projects exploring innovative and ethical uses of AI in teaching.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArulraj has enlisted assistant professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/kexinrong.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKexin Rong\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/steve.mussmann.us\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESteve Mussmann\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E to help build TokenSmith.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMussmann said TokenSmith is a synergistic blend of a database system and a machine learning system. The model stores textbooks, textbook annotations by course staff, common questions and answers, a learning state of the student, and student feedback in a structured database system. However, machine learning plays a key role in the answer generation as well as adapting the system to the student, course staff guidance, and user feedback.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What excites me most is demonstrating how data-driven ML and principled database systems design can reinforce each other \u2014 one providing adaptability and flexibility, the other providing structure and traceability \u2014 in a way that benefits students,\u0022 Mussmann said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKeeping the model local has been an important focus of the project. The team wanted to create an AI tutor that helps students learn from their class resources rather than just giving answers. With each response, TokenSmith cites the origin of the answer in the provided documents.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne problem with LLMs is that they can hallucinate and provide wrong answers, but in this controlled environment, we can add these guardrails to make sure it\u2019s actually helpful in an educational setting,\u201d Rong said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERong said she feels that students often undervalue textbooks, and she hopes TokenSmith can motivate students to make better use of them.\u202f\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTextbooks can sometimes be daunting, but maybe if we combine them with the model, students might be more willing to read a paragraph or page in the textbook, and that could help clarify something for them,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERunning the model locally is more cost-effective and helps preserve the user\u2019s privacy. But running the new tool locally comes with technical challenges.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne challenge with creating the model is speed. Since it is a locally based model, TokenSmith depends solely on the user\u2019s computer memory. \u0026nbsp;Tests have also shown that the tutor currently struggles to answer more complex questions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are interested in pushing the boundaries of these local models so that they give students good answers and also run fast enough to keep students engaged,\u201d Arulraj said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETokenSmith is a citation-supported large language model (LLM) tutor that can be hosted locally on a user\u2019s personal computer. The tutor only provides answers based on course materials, such as the textbook or lecture slides.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~jarulraj\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoy Arulraj\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E began the project with support from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/c21u-announces-inaugural-bill-kent-ai-higher-education-fellows\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBill Kent Family Foundation AI in Higher Education Faculty Fellowship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E last year. The fellowship, led by Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for 21st Century Universities, supports faculty projects exploring innovative and ethical uses of AI in teaching.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"TokenSmith is a citation-supported large language model (LLM) tutor that can be hosted locally on a user\u2019s personal computer. The tutor only provides answers based on course materials, such as the textbook or lecture slides.  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Over time, that idea evolved into something much bigger: \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/03\/18\/technology\/what-is-defi-cryptocurrency.html\u0022\u003Edecentralized finance\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d or \u201cDeFi.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith decentralized finance, people trade, borrow and earn interest on crypto assets without relying on traditional intermediaries. DeFi services run on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/external\/document\/X29AE5PK000000\/tech-telecom-professional-perspective-an-introduction-to-blockch\u0022\u003Eblockchains\u003C\/a\u003E, which are essentially digital ledgers, and use \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/external\/document\/X4SGO17O000000\/tech-telecom-professional-perspective-blockchain-smart-contracts\u0022\u003Esmart contracts\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d \u2212 self-executing code that automates financial transactions. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mitsloan.mit.edu\/ideas-made-to-matter\/decentralized-finance-4-challenges-to-consider\u0022\u003ETens of billions of dollars\u003C\/a\u003E have poured into the DeFi market.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut with innovation comes risks. The lack of centralized oversight has made crypto, including decentralized finance, a prime target for hackers and scammers. In 2024 alone, people lost \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/downloads.ctfassets.net\/t3wqy70tc3bv\/2LqNkvjajiCS5sPJmWLakc\/9715af967dd95a55da05d2ad373edb0d\/Immunefi_Crypto_Losses_in_2024_Report.pdf\u0022\u003Enearly US$1.5 billion\u003C\/a\u003E due to security exploits and fraud. And unlike traditional finance, there\u2019s usually no way to recover stolen crypto.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mingyiliu.me\u0022\u003Ea computer scientist\u003C\/a\u003E, I wanted to better understand how people perceive and respond to these risks. So my colleagues and I first conducted in-depth interviews with 14 crypto investors, then surveyed nearly 500 others to validate our findings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/system\/files\/usenixsecurity24-liu-mingyi.pdf\u0022\u003EOur study\u003C\/a\u003E found that people often made the same mistakes, driven by recurring misconceptions and gaps in security awareness. Here are some of the most important.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EMistake 1: Thinking the blockchain guarantees security\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany people told us they thought decentralized finance was secure \u2013 but their reasoning wasn\u2019t very convincing. Some seemed to confuse decentralized finance with blockchain technology itself, which is designed to ensure transactions are tamper-resistant through so-called \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/c\/consensus-mechanism-cryptocurrency.asp\u0022\u003Econsensus mechanisms\u003C\/a\u003E.\u201d One told us that DeFi is secure \u201cbecause a hacker would have to override an entire blockchain\u201d to steal funds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut services on the blockchain are still vulnerable to implementation and design flaws. These include smart contract breaches, in which bad guys exploit bugs in a service\u2019s code, and front-end attacks, where a user interface is altered to redirect funds into a hacker\u2019s wallet. A \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/bybit-heist-and-future-us-crypto-regulation\u0022\u003Efront-end attack\u003C\/a\u003E was reportedly to blame for a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-02-24\/bybit-cryptocurrency-hack-what-we-know\/104974512\u0022\u003Erecent $1.5 billion crypto heist\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ciframe width=\u0022440\u0022 height=\u0022260\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nCZh9xdp43U?wmode=transparent\u0026amp;start=0\u0022 frameborder=\u00220\u0022 allowfullscreen=\u0022\u0022\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfigcaption\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022caption\u0022\u003ECNBC reports on the record-breaking $1.5 billion crypto theft.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EMistake 2: Thinking safe keys mean safe funds\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother common misconception is that DeFi is secure if private keys are well stored. A private key is a secret code that allows someone to access their crypto assets. It\u2019s true that in DeFi \u2013 unlike in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/tech\/what-are-centralized-cryptocurrency-exchanges\/\u0022\u003Ecentralized crypto finance\u003C\/a\u003E where an exchange holds private keys \u2013 users have full control over their own private keys.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut even with perfect private key management, users can still lose funds by interacting with compromised DeFi platforms. That\u2019s because safeguarding private keys can prevent only direct attacks targeting private key access, such as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/phishing-scams-7-safety-tips-from-a-cybersecurity-expert-216198\u0022\u003Ephishing attempts\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe people we spoke with also failed to follow best practices for securing their private keys. Using a hardware wallet \u2013 a physical device that stores private keys offline \u2013 is one of the most secure options for protecting keys from online threats. However, our study found that only a handful of participants actually used hardware wallets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EMistake 3: Thinking 2-factor authentication is a silver bullet\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo-factor authentication, or 2FA, is a standard security mechanism in which two forms of verification are required to access an account. Think being texted a one-time code before you can log into your bank account.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo prevent account breaches, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/tech\/what-are-centralized-cryptocurrency-exchanges\/\u0022\u003Ecentralized crypto exchanges\u003C\/a\u003E such as Binance and Coinbase use two-factor authentication for logins, account recovery and withdrawal confirmations. But while 2FA is crucial to security in the traditional and centralized crypto finance system, it plays a much smaller role in decentralized finance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDeFi wallets give users access based on private key ownership rather than identity verification, which means traditional 2FA can\u2019t be used. Instead, only 2FA-like mechanisms are available in DeFi. For instance, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/multi-signature-wallets-definition-5271193\u0022\u003Emultisignature wallets\u003C\/a\u003E require approval from multiple private key holders. However, if your private key is compromised, attackers can perform wallet operations on your behalf without any additional verification. In addition, even users who adopt 2FA-like measures can\u2019t prevent the security breaches on the DeFi services\u2019 end.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnfortunately, our participants were overly confident regarding the effectiveness of 2FA, with one saying, \u201cTwo-factor authentication has been one of the best solutions for keeping wallets safe.\u201d In our survey, 57.1% of users relied on 2FA as their only technical countermeasure against \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.coinbase.com\/learn\/tips-and-tutorials\/what-is-a-rug-pull-and-how-to-avoid-it\u0022\u003Erug pulls\u003C\/a\u003E \u2013 scams where project creators suddenly withdraw funds \u2013 and 49.3% did so for smart contract exploits. This misplaced trust could lead them to ignore more effective security strategies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EMistake 4: Not managing token approvals\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne such effective strategy is revoking token approvals. In DeFi, tokens are digital assets on a blockchain that represent value or rights, and users often need to approve smart contracts to access or spend them. But if you leave these approvals open, a malicious contract \u2013 or one that\u2019s been hacked \u2013 can drain your wallet. So it\u2019s crucial to routinely check all token approvals you\u2019ve granted to prevent losses caused by fraudulent or hacked DeFi services. Specifically, you should limit spending allowances instead of using the default \u201cunlimited\u201d option, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/support.metamask.io\/more-web3\/learn\/how-to-revoke-smart-contract-allowances-token-approvals\u0022\u003Erevoke approvals\u003C\/a\u003E for apps you no longer use or trust.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorryingly, we found that only 10.8% and 16.3% of participants regularly checked and revoked token approvals to protect against rug pulls and smart contract exploits, respectively. In light of this, we recommend that wallet providers introduce a reminder feature to prompt users to review their token approvals periodically.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EMistake 5: Not learning from past incidents\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven after they\u2019re hacked or scammed, people often don\u2019t do anything to improve their security practices, we found. Just 17.6% of those who reported being victims of a DeFi scam regularly checked token approvals afterward. Worse, 26% took no action at all after a scam, and 16.4% doubled down by investing even more in other DeFi services.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESurprisingly, more than half of the victims said their belief in DeFi either stayed the same or grew stronger after the incident. One user who lost $4,700 due to a rug-pull incident said, \u201cMy belief in cryptocurrency has grown stronger after that because I made good money from it.\u201d That person added, \u201cAn opportunity to make money is something I believe in.\u201d This suggests that DeFi users\u2019 financial motivations can sometimes outweigh their security concerns \u2013 and, perhaps, their better judgment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere\u2019s no one-size-fits-all solution to DeFi security. But awareness is the first step. To stay safe, crypto investors should use hardware wallets, revoke unused token approvals and continually learn new techniques to protect themselves from evolving threats. Most importantly, they should stay rational and not let the allure of profits cloud their security practices.\u003C!-- Below is The Conversation\u0027s page counter tag. 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Read the \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/decentralized-finance-is-booming-and-so-are-the-security-risks-my-team-surveyed-nearly-500-crypto-investors-and-uncovered-the-most-common-mistakes-251305\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eoriginal article\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"full_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe lack of centralized oversight has made crypto, including decentralized finance, a prime target for hackers and scammers.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The lack of centralized oversight has made crypto, including decentralized finance, a prime target for hackers and scammers."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2025-05-08 14:58:26","changed_gmt":"2026-03-19 13:16:39","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-05-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-05-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677055":{"id":"677055","type":"image","title":"Cryptocurrency Illustration","body":"\u003Cp\u003ECryptocurrency Illustration\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1746805311","gmt_created":"2025-05-09 15:41:51","changed":"1746805311","gmt_changed":"2025-05-09 15:41:51","alt":"Cryptocurrency Illustration","file":{"fid":"260917","name":"file-20250416-62-k0tjqh-copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/05\/09\/file-20250416-62-k0tjqh-copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/05\/09\/file-20250416-62-k0tjqh-copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":137180,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/05\/09\/file-20250416-62-k0tjqh-copy.jpg?itok=hvYp-oXG"}}},"media_ids":["677055"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/decentralized-finance-is-booming-and-so-are-the-security-risks-my-team-surveyed-nearly-500-crypto-investors-and-uncovered-the-most-common-mistakes-251305","title":"Read This Article on The Conversation"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"658168","name":"Experts"},{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Ch5\u003EAuthor:\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/mingyi-liu-2337663\u0022\u003EMingyi Liu\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EMedia Contact:\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:shelley.wunder-smith@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eshelley.wunder-smith@research.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"685554":{"#nid":"685554","#data":{"type":"news","title":"From Socrates to ChatGPT: The Ancient Lesson AI-powered Language Models Have Yet to Learn","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlthough developed by some of the brightest minds of the 21st century, AI-powered large language models (LLMs) could learn something from one of the greatest minds of the 1st century BCE.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESocrates, widely regarded as the founder of Western philosophy, declared, \u0022I know that I know nothing.\u0022 This simple statement highlights the wisdom of acknowledging the limits of one\u0027s own knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA simple statement, yes, but like some people, LLMs struggle with saying \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d In fact, LLMs often can\u0027t admit that they don\u0027t know something because of the way they are trained, according to a research team that includes a Georgia Tech computer science (CS) professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPre-training LLMs involves them learning to predict the next word correctly by training on massive datasets of text, images, or other data. Models are evaluated and adjusted based on their performance against standard benchmarks, which are \u0022rewarded\u0022 for preferred outputs or answers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrent evaluation protocols, however, penalize non-responses the same as incorrect answers and do not include an \u0022I don\u0027t know\u0022 option.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to CS Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/santosh-vempala\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESantosh Vempala\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, these pre- and post-training shortcomings are what lead LLMs to provide seemingly plausible but false responses known as hallucinations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVempala is a co-author of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2509.04664\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy Language Models Hallucinate\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a research study from OpenAI and Georgia Tech, released in September. He says that there is a direct correlation between an LLM\u0027s hallucination rate and its misclassification rate regarding the validity of a given response.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This means that if the model can\u0027t tell fact from fiction, it will hallucinate,\u0022 Vempala said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The problem persists in modern post-training methods for alignment, which are based on evaluation benchmarks that penalize \u0027I don\u0027t know\u0027 as much as wrong answers.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause of the penalties for knowing that it knows nothing \u2013 to paraphrase Socrates \u2013 guessing is a more rewarding option for current LLMs than admitting uncertainty or ignorance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research incorporates and builds on prior work from Vempala and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/kal.ai\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam Kalai\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an OpenAI researcher and lead author of the current paper. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3618260.3649777\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETheir earlier work found that LLM hallucinations are mathematically unavoidable for arbitrary facts, given current training methodologies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve been talking about this for about two years. One corollary of our paper is that, for arbitrary facts, despite being trained only on valid data, the hallucination rate is determined by the fraction of missing facts in the training data,\u0022 said Vempala, Frederick Storey II Chair of Computing and professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of CS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo illustrate this point, imagine you have a huge Pok\u00e9mon card collection. Pikachu is so familiar that you can confidently describe its moves and abilities. However, accurately remembering facts about Pikachu Libre, an extremely rare card, would likely be more difficult.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMore to the point, if your collection has a large fraction of unique cards, then it is likely that you are still missing a large fraction of the overall set of cards. This is known as the Good-Turing estimate,\u201d Vempala said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch6\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/why-language-models-hallucinate\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[OpenAI Blog: Why Language Models Hallucinate]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Kalai and Vempala, the same is true for LLMs based on current training protocols.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThink about country capitals,\u201d Kalai said. \u201cThey all appear many times in the training data, so language models don\u2019t tend to hallucinate on those.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOn the other hand, think about the birthdays of people\u2019s pets. When those are mentioned in the training data, it may just be once.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSo, pre-trained language models will hallucinate on those. However, post-training can and should teach the model not to guess randomly on facts like those.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVempala thinks tinkering with pre-training methods could be risky because, overall, they work well and deliver accurate results. However, he and his co-authors offered suggestions for reducing the occurrence of hallucinations with changes to the evaluation and post-training process.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong the team\u0027s recommended changes is that more value be placed on the accuracy of an LLM\u0027s responses rather than on how comprehensive their responses are. The team also suggests implementing what it refers to as \u201cbehavioral calibration.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing this methodology, LLMs would only answer if their confidence level exceeds target thresholds. These thresholds would be tuned for different user domains and prompts. They would also appropriately reduce penalties for \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d responses, along with appropriate expressions of uncertainty and wrong answers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVempala believes that implementing some of these modifications could result in LLMs that are trained to be more cautious and truthful. This shift could lead to more intelligent systems in the future that can handle nuanced, real-world conversations more effectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We hope our recommendations will lead to more trustworthy AI,\u0022 said Vempala. \u0022However, implementing these modifications to how LLMs are currently evaluated will require acceptance and support from AI companies and users.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn an effort toward building more trustworthy AI, Georgia Tech CS Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ESantosh\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EVempala\u003C\/strong\u003E is a co-author of a new OpenAI study that examines why large language models struggle to say, \u0027I don\u0027t know.\u0027\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A Georgia Tech CS professor is a co-author of a new OpenAI study that examines why large language models struggle to say, \u0027I don\u0027t know.\u0027"}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2025-10-06 15:06:14","changed_gmt":"2025-10-09 01:29:46","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678273":{"id":"678273","type":"image","title":"AI-generated image of Socrates, sculpted in marble, looking contempletively at a laptop.","body":"\u003Cp\u003EAn Adobe Stock AI-generated image of Socrates, sculpted in marble, looking contemplatively at a laptop.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1759763189","gmt_created":"2025-10-06 15:06:29","changed":"1759763189","gmt_changed":"2025-10-06 15:06:29","alt":"AI-generated image of Socrates, sculpted in marble, looking contemplatively at a laptop.","file":{"fid":"262277","name":"AdobeStock_622388016.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/10\/06\/AdobeStock_622388016.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/10\/06\/AdobeStock_622388016.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":67628,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/10\/06\/AdobeStock_622388016.jpeg?itok=ZHGUtAFf"}},"678281":{"id":"678281","type":"image","title":"CS Professor Santosh Vempala is a co-author of a recent research study that explores the role current training and evaluation protocols play in causing LLMs to hallucinate.","body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECS Professor Santosh Vempala is a co-author of a recent research study that explores the role current training and evaluation protocols play in causing LLMs to hallucinate. 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Mgr. II\u003Cbr\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Computing\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealbert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"684172":{"#nid":"684172","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Research Scientist Explores How Data Can Empower Communities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs technology becomes increasingly intertwined with all aspects of society, more researchers are interested in how to use these tools to advance social equity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of these researchers is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.amandahmeng.com\/home\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAmanda Meng\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, senior research scientist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Computer Science (SCS)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. The overarching theme in Meng\u2019s work is the relationship between power and data and how different social groups can make use of data to shift power.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the only social scientist in SCS, Meng sees her role as an \u201cimportant and potentially powerful interdisciplinary connection.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EConnecting Social Justice with Data\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough focused on political and social change, Meng\u2019s work has always had links to technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter completing her undergraduate education at Georgia Tech, Meng joined the Peace Corps, where she served in the Dominican Republic. She spent two years there working to improve computer literacy in schools and create community computer labs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeng said her time in the Peace Corps made her interested in how communities advocated for themselves. She explored this idea further while completing her Ph.D. from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith her Ph.D. in hand, Meng was hired as a research scientist in SCS, working under Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ezegura.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and School of Interactive Computing Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.carldisalvo.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECarl DiSalvo\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E on civic data projects based in Atlanta.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis experience made her curious about the interaction between data literacy and civic literacy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe live in such a data-fied society that a lot of advocacy work often does involve data because to make your claims legitimate, policy makers want to see and understand the data,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFollowing a brief stint in the private sector as a data consultant, Meng returned to SCS, this time as a research scientist working on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIODA (Internet Outage Detection and Analysis)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E with Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~adainotti6\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlberto Dainotti\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. IODA is a research project and online platform that provides real-time measurements on global internet connectivity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn her contribution to the IODA project, Meng aims to improve the usability of IODA, particularly by users affected by government-ordered shutdowns, by developing IODA users\u2019 internet measurement literacy. Currently, IODA provides the most granular, near-real-time data on Internet infrastructure connectivity. Meng uses this data to collaborate with global advocacy groups to publish reports detailing IODA\u2019s measurements alongside its sociopolitical context. Meng said the eventual goal of her work with IODA is for others to know how to use the platform to monitor for events and advocate against shutdowns.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe platform is really only as successful as its userbase is at understanding, making use, and acting on its data,\u201d Meng said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the past year, Meng was awarded her first grant as principal investigator. The grant uses Aggie, an open-source tool developed at Tech that aggregates content from the internet.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, Aggie has been used to monitor elections on social media. Meng said she wants to explore using it to monitor internet shutdowns or censorship events. She is currently conducting a pilot study to test the system, which will determine whether Aggie offers a more collaborative and coordinated way to monitor connectivity across measurement and social media data.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Role of a Research Scientist\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a research scientist, almost all of Meng\u2019s work is oriented toward research. This includes working on proposals and existing grants, as well as advising students.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe love to involve students in our research,\u201d she said. \u201cWe aren\u2019t just here to do research. We are here to involve students in research so they can learn and develop domain skills and research skills.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince 2024, Meng has served on the School Advisory Committee in SCS. She says it\u2019s important to have research faculty in service roles, as they have a different set of needs in their position.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThrough the funding we can apply for, the research we do, and the work we do with students, we are an important multiplier for the work that the School wants to cultivate,\u201d Meng said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommunity Driven\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven as a Ph.D. student, Meng said she wanted to contribute to local community groups. An important value she learned in the Peace Corps was to be an active participant in the community she lived in.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeng started getting involved in a housing justice project in Atlanta\u2019s Westside neighborhood that was collecting data related to their mission. They soon discovered that some residents\u2019 data was more accurate than official records because they lived there.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe also learned it\u2019s not all about impacting legislation,\u201d Meng said. \u201cIt\u2019s about mobilizing resources within the community, and the fact that data could be used to do that was an important finding, and it\u2019s something that I want to continue to draw out with data and AI.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeng has continued to work with the group from that project and wants to continue ethnographic research into how data and AI are used to create change.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAI could have the ability to consolidate power in the hands of those who develop closed-source models,\u0022 Meng said. \u0022It\u2019s important to study the entities that are developing AI as much as we study the communities that might make use of or be most minoritized by AI.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmanda Meng, a senior research scientist in the School of Computer Science, explores how data and technology can shift power dynamics and promote social equity. Her interdisciplinary work bridges computer science and social justice, focusing on how communities can use data to advocate for themselves. Meng has contributed to projects like IODA, a platform that monitors global internet connectivity, and is now leading a pilot study using Aggie, a tool that tracks online content, to detect censorship events.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Research Scientist Amanda Meng researches how data and technology are used in social advocacy. "}],"uid":"36532","created_gmt":"2025-08-26 16:44:15","changed_gmt":"2025-08-26 16:45:59","author":"Morgan Usry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-08-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-08-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677809":{"id":"677809","type":"image","title":"Amanda-Meng_main.jpeg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EResearch Scientist Amanda Meng\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1756226667","gmt_created":"2025-08-26 16:44:27","changed":"1756226667","gmt_changed":"2025-08-26 16:44:27","alt":"Woman standing on walking path","file":{"fid":"261749","name":"Amanda-Meng_main.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/26\/Amanda-Meng_main.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/26\/Amanda-Meng_main.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":117503,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/08\/26\/Amanda-Meng_main.jpeg?itok=lp-Hb4T2"}},"677810":{"id":"677810","type":"image","title":"Amanda-Meng_86A1314-Enhanced-NR.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EAmanda Meng\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1756226722","gmt_created":"2025-08-26 16:45:22","changed":"1756226722","gmt_changed":"2025-08-26 16:45:22","alt":"woman standing in front of brick building","file":{"fid":"261750","name":"Amanda-Meng_86A1314-Enhanced-NR.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/26\/Amanda-Meng_86A1314-Enhanced-NR.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/26\/Amanda-Meng_86A1314-Enhanced-NR.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":77462,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/08\/26\/Amanda-Meng_86A1314-Enhanced-NR.jpg?itok=GB1FYNz4"}}},"media_ids":["677809","677810"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"194701","name":"go-resarchnews"},{"id":"9153","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"11883","name":"internet censorship"},{"id":"167595","name":"social justice"},{"id":"169129","name":"internet access"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMorgan Usry, School of Computer Science Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["morgan.usry@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"678269":{"#nid":"678269","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AI Model Creates Invisible Digital Masks to Defend Against Unwanted Facial Recognition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJust as a chameleon changes colors to mask itself from predators, new AI-powered technology is protecting people\u2019s photos from online privacy threats.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe innovative model, developed at Georgia Tech, creates invisible digital masks for personal photos to thwart unwanted online facial recognition while preserving the image quality.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnyone who posts photos of themselves risks having their privacy violated by unauthorized facial image collection. Online criminals and other bad actors collect facial images by web scraping to create databases.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese illicit databases enable criminals to commit identity fraud, stalking, and other crimes. The practice also opens victims to unwanted targeted ads and attacks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new model is called Chameleon. Unlike current models, which produce different masks for each user\u2019s photos, Chameleon creates a single, personalized privacy protection (P-3) mask for all of a user\u2019s facial photos.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA bespoke P-3 mask is created based on a few user-submitted facial photos. After applying the mask, protected photos won\u2019t be detectable by someone scanning for the user\u2019s face. Instead, the unwanted scan will identify the protected photos as being someone else.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Chameleon model was developed by Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~lingliu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELing Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E of the School of Computer Science (SCS), Ph.D. students \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bayi-hu.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESihao Hu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/huangtiansheng.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETiansheng Huang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/khchow.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKa-Ho Chow\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong and Liu\u2019s former Ph.D. student.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring development, the team accomplished its two main goals: protecting the person\u0027s identity in the photo and ensuring a minimal visual difference between the original and masked photos.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers said a notable visual difference often exists between the original and photos using current masking models. However, Chameleon preserves much of the original photo\u2019s quality among various facial images.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn several research tests, Chameleon outperformed three top facial recognition protection models in visual and protective metrics. The tests also showed that Chameleon offers more substantial privacy protection while being faster and more resource-efficient.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the future, Huang said they would like to apply Chameleon\u2019s methods to other uses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe would like to use these techniques to protect images from being used to train artificial intelligence generative models. We could protect the image information from being used without consent,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research team aims to release Chameleon code publicly on GitHub to allow others to improve their work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPrivacy-preserving data sharing and analytics like Chameleon will help to advance governance and responsible adoption of AI technology and stimulate responsible science and innovation,\u201d said Liu.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper on Chameleon, \u003Cem\u003EPersonalized Privacy Protection Mask Against Unauthorized Facial Recognition\u003C\/em\u003E, was presented earlier this month at ECCV 2024.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new new AI-powered technology is protecting people\u2019s photos from online privacy threats. The technology, Chameleon, creates invisible digital masks for personal photos to thwart unwanted online facial recognition while preserving the image quality.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new new AI-powered technology is protecting people\u2019s photos from online privacy threats."}],"uid":"36532","created_gmt":"2024-11-07 20:24:54","changed_gmt":"2024-11-08 15:19:42","author":"Morgan Usry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2024-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675550":{"id":"675550","type":"image","title":"Chameleonstory.jpg","body":null,"created":"1731011119","gmt_created":"2024-11-07 20:25:19","changed":"1731011119","gmt_changed":"2024-11-07 20:25:19","alt":"A digital face","file":{"fid":"259187","name":"Chameleonstory.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/11\/07\/Chameleonstory.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/11\/07\/Chameleonstory.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":329962,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/11\/07\/Chameleonstory.jpg?itok=cZWadnnM"}}},"media_ids":["675550"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10199","name":"Daily Digest"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"1404","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"174713","name":"facial recognition"},{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMorgan Usry, Communications Officer, School of Computer Science\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["morgan.usry@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"678085":{"#nid":"678085","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Aims to Bolster Internet Research Infrastructure","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENetwork telescopes detect cybersecurity threats, measure internet traffic, and serve many research purposes. Despite these benefits, the use of this technology has declined in recent years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~adainotti6\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlberto Dainotti\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, however, is revolutionizing network telescopes through a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENetwork telescopes use large sets of inactive IP addresses to observe unsolicited internet traffic, typically considered \u201cpollution,\u201d to reveal many internet phenomena. These observations can be used to detect denial-of-service attacks and find viruses or other malicious activity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENetwork telescopes\u0027 ability to monitor this pollution also provides a way to track internet connectivity. Network telescopes are one of the tools used by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIODA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a system tracking connectivity worldwide created by Dainotti\u2019s lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe larger and more accurate the telescope, the more inactive IP addresses it has. Due to the increasing cost and decreasing availability of IP addresses, creating and maintaining large network telescopes has become difficult for universities. Institutions have sold many of the addresses they own or allocated them to devices using the internet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDainotti will use his NSF grant to help universities and other organizations again have powerful network telescopes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf we stop seeing pollution coming from a particular area, maybe there\u2019s something wrong with connectivity there since that pollution is typically happening constantly,\u201d Dainotti said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile universities might not have large numbers of inactive IP addresses to dedicate solely to a network telescope, many addresses aren\u2019t always in use. Until now, it has not been easy to track this activity. However, Dainotti has created a system to detect this automatically. Using this method, organizations can create what Dainotti calls a dynamic network telescope.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe dynamic network telescopes also solve another problem: some malicious actors have learned how to detect and block the sets of IP addresses used in network telescopes. Using the dynamic approach makes it harder for them to track which addresses are currently being used.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe spirit of this proposal is to reenable organizations to have this precious research infrastructure in a different way, but with the same purpose,\u201d Dainotti said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Associate Professor Alberto Dainotti is revolutionizing network telescopes through a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Computer Science Associate Professor Alberto Dainotti is revolutionizing network telescopes through a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation."}],"uid":"36532","created_gmt":"2024-11-01 15:10:23","changed_gmt":"2024-11-01 15:27:52","author":"Morgan Usry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675508":{"id":"675508","type":"image","title":"Alberto Dainotti.jpg","body":null,"created":"1730474811","gmt_created":"2024-11-01 15:26:51","changed":"1730474811","gmt_changed":"2024-11-01 15:26:51","alt":"Alberto Dainotti","file":{"fid":"259139","name":"Alberto Dainotti_86A5113-Enhanced-NR.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/11\/01\/Alberto%20Dainotti_86A5113-Enhanced-NR.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/11\/01\/Alberto%20Dainotti_86A5113-Enhanced-NR.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":68255,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/11\/01\/Alberto%20Dainotti_86A5113-Enhanced-NR.jpg?itok=g3iwI63T"}}},"media_ids":["675508"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10199","name":"Daily Digest"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"1404","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMorgan Usry, Communications Officer, School of Computer Science\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Morgan.usry@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677284":{"#nid":"677284","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Award-winning Software Tool Uses Innovative Approach","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vganesh1.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVijay Ganesh\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is leading the way in the innovation of SMT solvers, a class of tools key to software engineering, security, and trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGanesh and his student, John Lu, have been working on their own solver, Z3-alpha, for several years. It recently won several categories at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/smt-comp.github.io\/2024\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESMT-COMP 2024\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a competition held to determine the best solvers from around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESMT solvers are automated logical reasoning tools used widely to test and analyze programs. They are also used to identify potential security issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSMT solvers are like a Swiss Army Knife for all kinds of tasks for software engineering and trustworthy AI. You need a tool that can understand and analyze formulas obtained from analysis of programs,\u201d Ganesh said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Z3-alpha solver is derived from the z3 solver from Microsoft Research, but Ganesh and Lu implemented machine learning (ML) into their solver to automatically synthesize strategies, making it more efficient.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGanesh said the solver illustrates one of his biggest research goals: effectively combining the fields of automated reasoning and ML.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith this solver, we\u2019re using ML to make automated reasoning more efficient. In another line of research, we are going in the reverse direction by using automated reasoning to analyze, test, and improve ML models,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing ML with SMT solvers this way is a relatively new line of research that Ganesh has been working on. He said this is among the first known instances of the successful use of machine learning for SMT solver strategy synthesis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGanesh said they want to work to further improve the Z3-alpha solver and apply these ML techniques to other solvers.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vganesh1.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVijay Ganesh\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is leading the way in the innovation of SMT solvers, a class of tools key to software engineering, security, and trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI). His solver recently won several categories at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/smt-comp.github.io\/2024\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESMT-COMP 2024\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a competition held to determine the best solvers from around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Computer Science Professor Vijay Ganesh is leading the way in the innovation of SMT solvers, a class of tools key to software engineering, security, and trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI)."}],"uid":"36532","created_gmt":"2024-10-02 20:50:33","changed_gmt":"2024-10-02 20:56:21","author":"Morgan Usry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675201":{"id":"675201","type":"image","title":"Vijay Ganesh_86A0209.jpg","body":null,"created":"1727902245","gmt_created":"2024-10-02 20:50:45","changed":"1727902245","gmt_changed":"2024-10-02 20:50:45","alt":"Vijay Ganesh","file":{"fid":"258802","name":"Vijay Ganesh_86A0209.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/02\/Vijay%20Ganesh_86A0209.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/02\/Vijay%20Ganesh_86A0209.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":47498,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/10\/02\/Vijay%20Ganesh_86A0209.jpg?itok=78ZtABVs"}}},"media_ids":["675201"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10199","name":"Daily Digest"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMorgan Usry, Communications Officer at the School of Computer Science\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["morgan.usry@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"676190":{"#nid":"676190","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Receive $1M+ to Track Internet Outages, Censorship in Iran and Elsewhere Around the World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAuthoritarian regimes worldwide have weaponized the internet, using censorship, restricted access, and outages to control their citizens.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo counter these tactics and raise awareness, researchers with Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inetintel.notion.site\/Internet-Intelligence-Research-Lab-d186184563d345bab51901129d812ed6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInternet Intelligence Lab\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E will use $1.4 million in new grants to advance the state-of-the-art in global internet connectivity detection, tracking, and analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Open Technology Fund awarded Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAlberto Dainotti\u003C\/strong\u003E and Research Scientists \u003Cstrong\u003EZachary Bischof\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EAmanda Meng\u003C\/strong\u003E $960,840 to improve research infrastructure and methods to study internet censorship worldwide.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe funding supports efforts to improve the coverage and accuracy of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIODA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (Internet Outage Detection and Analysis). Developed in the Internet Intelligence Lab, IODA tracks internet outages worldwide caused by natural disasters, configuration issues, or censorship. IODA collects this data and provides it to the public on its website.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the years, IODA has provided data to the United Nations, Amnesty International, and other international organizations. Meng said one of their goals is to make IODA\u2019s measurement data more accessible and usable for activists, intergovernmental organizations, and others in the internet freedom community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to enhance our tool to further enable them to monitor and track internet connectivity so that they can use that as evidence in their advocacy efforts,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeng and her colleagues will also use the grant to pilot two projects with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dataworkforce.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDataWorks\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. Housed in Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing, DataWorks hires and trains people from the local community and provides data services to non-profit organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDataWorks employees will help the researchers to:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPilot a global outage tracking team.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EClean and complete historic outage dataset which contributed to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3603269.3604883\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Egroundbreaking research published at SIGCOMM on political and technical signatures of internet shutdowns\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second grant, totaling $499,442, was awarded to Meng by the U.S. State Department. This funding supports a project to develop systems and processes that can provide a more coordinated and collaborative way of tracking censorship events in Iran. This award is Meng\u2019s first federal grant as lead principal investigator.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECollaborating to Track Censorship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlong with these projects, the IODA team collaborates with other censorship measurement groups. Recently, the IODA team worked with M-Lab, who secured funding from the Open Technology Fund, to coordinate a series of meetings to bring the internet measurement community together to share research and best practices and learn from each other.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first of these meetings convened at Georgia Tech in June. Along with the IODA team, attendees included:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/censoredplanet.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECensored Planet\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a University of Michigan research group\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ooni.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Open Observatory for Network Interference\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EM-Lab\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cloudflare.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECloudflare\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeng says the overall goal of the first meeting was to identify ways in which these groups could coordinate more closely and become more knowledgeable about one another\u2019s work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are a set of groups that work together to verify outages or shutdowns as soon as they happen by comparing our data and making sure that we\u2019re seeing similar patterns,\u201d Meng said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhile we work together in that way, we realized there was a lot that we didn\u2019t know about each other\u2019s datasets, and we could learn from each other in terms of infrastructure or how we go about detecting outages and censorship events.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will host the next meeting in December.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInternet Intelligence Lab researchers have recieved two grants to track Internet outages and censorship across the world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Internet Intelligence Lab researchers have recieved two grants to track Internet outages and censorship across the world. 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When a GPS navigation app finds a route affected by construction or traffic congestion, it uses dynamic algorithms to quickly find new routes for the user.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy research comes up with new techniques for how computers can maintain solutions for a problem that changes over time,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis proposal focuses on dynamic algorithms and linear programs, a type of optimization algorithm, and the relation between the two.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough studied extensively, researchers know little about dynamic linear programs from a theoretical perspective. Van den Brand\u2019s proposal explores the synergy between dynamic and optimization algorithms to build a theory for dynamic optimization problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough this, van den Brand hopes to develop more general algorithm techniques that researchers can apply to many problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s foundational research constructing tools and techniques for other engineers or scientists to solve their problems more efficiently,\u201d van den Brand said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs part of his proposal, he is launching a summer school program. The program will be a platform to introduce Ph.D. students to dynamic and optimization algorithms. Van den Brand says he hopes to introduce a new generation of students to theoretical computer science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u0027m excited about the award and the new projects that it will fund. I want to thank NSF for the award and my colleagues for helpful advice during the proposal process,\u201d van den Brand said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~vdbrand\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJan van den Brand\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his groundbreaking work developing more efficient algorithms.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVan den Brand hopes to develop more general algorithm techniques that researchers can apply to many problems.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Assistant Professor Jan van den Brand was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his groundbreaking work developing more efficient algorithms."}],"uid":"36532","created_gmt":"2024-06-06 15:32:36","changed_gmt":"2024-06-24 15:34:47","author":"Morgan Usry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674147":{"id":"674147","type":"image","title":"jan.jpg","body":null,"created":"1717687963","gmt_created":"2024-06-06 15:32:43","changed":"1717687963","gmt_changed":"2024-06-06 15:32:43","alt":"Jan van den Brand","file":{"fid":"257623","name":"2X6A5805.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/06\/06\/2X6A5805.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/06\/06\/2X6A5805.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":42085,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/06\/06\/2X6A5805.jpg?itok=rKptM_iK"}}},"media_ids":["674147"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:morgan.usry@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMorgan Usry\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ECommunications Officer\u003Cbr\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"669338":{"#nid":"669338","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Technology Promises More Efficient and Practical Virtual Reality Systems","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGlitchy games and bulky headsets may soon be things of the past thanks to a\u0026nbsp;new\u0026nbsp;eye-tracking system\u0026nbsp;for\u0026nbsp;virtual reality\/augmented reality\u0026nbsp;(VR\/AR).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEye tracking is an essential component of AR\/VR systems, but current systems have some limitations. These include a large size due to bulkier lens-based cameras and the high communication cost between the camera and the backend system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech School of Computer Science Associate Professor Yingyan (Celine) Lin, Ph.D. student Hoaran You, and postdoctoral student Yang (Katie) Zhao have\u0026nbsp;developed a new\u0026nbsp;eye-tracking\u0026nbsp;system\u0026nbsp;that works around these limitations by combining\u0026nbsp;a\u0026nbsp;recently developed lens-less\u0026nbsp;camera, algorithm, and acceleration processor designs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe current VR headsets are too heavy, gaming can lag, and using the controller is cumbersome. Combined, this prevents users from having a truly immersive experience. We mitigate all these problems,\u201d said You.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis new system,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEyeCoD: An Accelerated Eye Tracking System via FlatCam-based Algorithm \u0026amp; Accelerator Co-Design\u003C\/em\u003E, replaces the traditional camera lens with FlatCam, a lensless camera 5x \u2013 10x thinner and lighter. Combined with FlatCam, the team\u2019s system enables eye tracking to function at a reduced size, with improved efficiency, and without sacrificing the accuracy of the tracking algorithm. The system could also enhance user privacy by not including a lens-based camera.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother feature of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEyeCoD\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;system\u0026nbsp;is that it\u0026nbsp;only puts the\u0026nbsp;portion\u0026nbsp;of the\u0026nbsp;screen\u0026nbsp;that\u0026nbsp;a\u0026nbsp;user\u2019s eyes focus on\u0026nbsp;in high resolution.\u0026nbsp;It does this by predicting where a user\u2019s eyes may land, then\u0026nbsp;instantaneously\u0026nbsp;rendering\u0026nbsp;these areas\u0026nbsp;in high\u0026nbsp;res. These\u0026nbsp;computational savings,\u0026nbsp;plus\u0026nbsp;a dedicated accelerator,\u0026nbsp;underpin\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEyeCoD\u003C\/em\u003E\u2019s\u0026nbsp;ability to boost\u0026nbsp;processing speeds and efficiency.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;team received the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/licensing.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOffice of Technology Licensing\u2019s\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Tech Ready Grant\u0026nbsp;for its efforts earlier this year. Tech Ready Grants\u0026nbsp;offer\u0026nbsp;$25,000 to help faculty\u0026nbsp;transition\u0026nbsp;projects from the lab to\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;marketplace.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team hopes to use the funds to integrate the current demos into a compact eye-tracking system for use in commercial VR\/AR headsets.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong with winning the Tech Ready Grant, the\u0026nbsp;team presented\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEyeCoD\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eat\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;International Symposium\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eon Computer Architecture\u202f(ISCA) 2022.\u0026nbsp;IEEE\u0026nbsp;Micro\u0026nbsp;included the\u0026nbsp;work\u0026nbsp;in its\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ETop Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;for 2023.\u0026nbsp;The annual publication\u0026nbsp;highlights \u201csignificant research papers in computer architecture based on novelty and potential for long-term impact.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEyeCoD\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eis a collaborative work.\u0026nbsp;Collaborators include\u0026nbsp;Rice University Professor\u0026nbsp;Ashok\u0026nbsp;Veeraraghavan, whose team provided\u0026nbsp;the technical support and design of the\u0026nbsp;FlatCam\u0026nbsp;camera in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEyeCoD\u003C\/em\u003E;\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;Ziyun\u0026nbsp;Li, of Meta, who provided\u0026nbsp;technical inputs to ensure that the\u0026nbsp;EyeCoD\u0026nbsp;system aligns with industry AR\/VR specifications.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new eye-tracking system called EyeCoD, developed by researchers at Georgia Tech, uses a lensless camera to reduce the size and weight of VR\/AR headsets, improve efficiency, and enhance user privacy while selectively rendering high-resolution screen areas based on where the user is focusing at any given moment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new eye-tracking system developed at Georgia Tech uses a lensless camera to reduce the size and weight of VR\/AR headsets, improves efficiency, and enhances user privacy."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2023-09-01 12:51:20","changed_gmt":"2024-05-13 14:47:55","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"671567":{"id":"671567","type":"image","title":"A closeup of glass panels on the College of Computing\u0027s Binary Bridge","body":null,"created":"1693572695","gmt_created":"2023-09-01 12:51:35","changed":"1693572695","gmt_changed":"2023-09-01 12:51:35","alt":"A closeup of glass panels on the College of Computing\u0027s Binary Bridge","file":{"fid":"254652","name":"news-default-image - New.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/09\/01\/news-default-image%20-%20New.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/09\/01\/news-default-image%20-%20New.png","mime":"image\/png","size":549085,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/09\/01\/news-default-image%20-%20New.png?itok=xvPJxjiG"}}},"media_ids":["671567"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10199","name":"Daily Digest"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMorgan Usry, Communications Officer I\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Emorgan.usry@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"670495":{"#nid":"670495","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Office to Provide Open-Source Expertise for Campus Community ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA philanthropic award is transforming the future of open-source software at Georgia Tech and establishing a new resource for students and faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA recent $623,790 grant from the Alfred P. 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The grant will support the office in its first two years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s OSPO will be a virtual community served by members of the College of Computing, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/library.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Library\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ssecenter.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Scientific Software Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pace.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EPartnership for an Advanced Computing Environment (PACE).\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Senior Research Scientist Jeffrey Young and PACE Senior Research Scientist Fang (Cherry) Liu will lead the new office. PACE Research Software Engineer Ron Rahaman, Interim Dean of Computing Alex Orso, and Susan Parham, Digital Curation Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library will provide support.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf a student says, \u2018I did something really cool for a class. I\u0027d like to open-source it and get more users,\u2019 we will give them advice on the best open-source license to pick, how to promote it to a community that would be interested in it, or how to package it in a way so that people can find it and use it easily,\u201d said Young.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong with answering questions about creating open-source software, contributing to existing open-source content, and curating open-source resources and tools, OSPO will develop a standard for open-source practices at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEverybody knows or claims to know what open source is. The reality is that open source means so many different things to different people,\u201d said Young. \u201cWe\u0027d like to provide some guidance on developing your open-source work, encouraging external contributions to your project, and being consistent with university best practices for publishing and sharing your work.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYoung said the OSPO will work with the Georgia Tech Library to create and maintain an archive of open-source programs and develop strategies for preserving open-source projects for future use.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of their grant proposal, Young and Liu will also create a summer internship program to get students involved in open-source software and match students with faculty to create open-source projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce the office is fully established, Young said they hope to engage with other groups to host workshops at Georgia Tech and other colleges and universities in the Atlanta area.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith support from philanthropic organizations like the\u0026nbsp;Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, alumni, parents, friends, and corporations, Georgia Tech is securing the resources that will help achieve the most ambitious goals in the Institute\u0027s history as part of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/transformingtomorrow.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETransforming Tomorrow:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EThe Campaign for Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s new Open Source Program Office, funded by a philanthropic grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, aims to provide expert guidance, resources, and a virtual community for students and faculty interested in open-source software. 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Computer Science Professor Calton Pu is one of three Georgia Tech faculty members contributing to a new report seeking to answer this question.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EElon University\u2019s Imagining the Internet Center and the Pew Research Center published \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.elon.edu\/u\/imagining\/surveys\/xvi2023\/the-best-worst-digital-future-2035\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAs AI Spreads, Experts Predict the Best and Worst Changes in Digital Life By 2035\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, on June 21. The 232-page report includes insights from more than 300 experts on how they imagine digital trends might change by 2035.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong with Pu, Associate Professor Richard Barke from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dm.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EDigital Media\u003C\/a\u003E Associate Professor Christopher Le Dantec, also represent Georgia Tech in the report.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen asked how they feel about possible developments in digital technology in the next decade, 42% of experts said they were equally excited and concerned. Thirty-seven percent said they were more concerned than excited.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPu said he expects digital trends to be beneficial in many ways. But one of the main roadblocks in progress has been the standard ML practice of training models that are insensitive to evolutionary changes in time, making them obsolete at some point. Pu, who is the John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software in the School of Computer Science, says future technology will likely overcome this obstacle. But he also thinks that as the power of technology increases, so will its influence, for better or worse.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe power of AI\/ML tools, particularly if they become sustainable and remain amoral, will be greater for both good and evil. We have seen significant harm from misinformation on the Covid-19 pandemic, dubbed as an \u2018infodemic\u2019 by the World Health Organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMore generally, it is being implemented in political propaganda in every election and every war. It is easy to imagine the depth, breadth, and constant renewal of such propaganda and infodemic, as well as their impact, all growing with the capabilities of future AI\/ML tools used by powerful companies and governments,\u201d said Pu, who is co-director of Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cercs.gatech.edu\/www.cercs.gatech.edu\/index.html\u0022\u003ECenter for Experimental Research in Computer Systems.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPu said AI\/ML tools will likely become more widespread in the coming years. This might be an exciting idea for content producers, but it could be a problem when online users consume such content without critically thinking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe great digital divide is not going to be between the haves and have-nots of digital toys and information,\u201d said Pu. \u201cWith more than six billion smartphones in the world (estimated in 2022), an overwhelming majority of the population already has access to and participates in the digital world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe digital divide in 2035 will be between those who think critically and those who believe misinformation and propaganda. This is a big challenge for democracy, a system in which we thought more information would be unquestionably beneficial. In a brave new digital world, a majority can be swayed by the misuse of amoral technological tools.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESurvey results from the Pew Research Center and Elon University examine what experts think will be the best and worst changes in digital life by 2035. 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Officer I\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Computer Science\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:morgan.usry@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emorgan.usry@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674479":{"#nid":"674479","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Racing to the Finish Line","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETrey Quinn fulfilled a dream when he graduated from Georgia Tech with a bachelor\u2019s degree in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ecomputer science\u003C\/a\u003E. At the end of the master\u2019s computer science program, he fulfilled another by racing the Ramblin\u2019 Wreck in his powerchair.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBorn with cerebral palsy, Quinn has never let his condition slow him down, and he sees parallels between himself and the Institute\u2019s iconic mascot.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI like the Wreck because I am a bit of a Ramblin\u2019 Wreck myself. I self-manage my own team of caretakers who keep me running throughout the day, and I am infamous for speeding around campus in my wheelchair,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EQuinn always believed he could give the 1930 Ford Model A a run for its money in a race and got the opportunity to prove it. He led the Wreck throughout the race, from the starting line to the finish line at the end of Cherry Street. The speed of Quinn\u2019s chair surprised Ramblin\u2019 Wreck driver Matthew Kistner, but the master\u2019s candidate has always approached life with a full-speed-ahead mentality. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom the time he taught himself to use a computer in kindergarten, Quinn developed a passion for assistive technology and accessibility engineering. At 7 years old, he began working with Georgia\u2019s Assistive Technology Act Program, Tools for Life, and went on to deliver keynote speeches across the state, including one at the University of Georgia. But he knew he wanted to go to Georgia Tech. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EQuinn was appointed as the youth advocate on the Tools for Life board following its adoption as a public service unit within the College of Design, where he began exploring the integration of artificial intelligence into human-centered design to enhance accessibility \u2014 a concept that he has been thinking about for some time. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAI will be one of the most important innovations in modern history for people with disabilities. Growing up, the running joke in my house was that I was going to live independently one day with the help of robots and self-driving cars. From autonomous vehicles hopefully making transportation more accessible, to generative AI models assisting with typing speed and productivity, the potential applications of AI for accessibility are truly endless,\u201d he said. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs an undergraduate, Quinn earned scholarships and awards from multiple organizations for academic achievements and leadership in disability advocacy. As the founding president of the ABLE Alliance (GTABLE), he has worked with Disability Services to advocate for students requiring more advanced accommodations and to secure independent living services through partnerships with state agencies. The alliance also hosted disability-focused professional development events with companies such as Google, Bloomberg, and Georgia Power. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EQuinn and GTABLE\u2019s advocacy led to establishing a part-time dean\u2019s list to honor students who cannot carry a minimum of 12 credit hours per semester due to extenuating life circumstances.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am proud of the legacy of accessibility and inclusion I am leaving on campus,\u201d he said. \u201cMy goal coming into Georgia Tech was to help make sure the Institute\u2019s motto of progress and service was actively being practiced with respect to disability accommodations on campus. Through my work in disability advocacy and mentoring other up-and-coming disabled student leaders on campus, I am proud to have done my small part in making Georgia Tech work better for everyone.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter Commencement, Quinn will be a software engineer at Bloomberg, where he completed multiple internships. He plans to continue his advocacy work and hopes to one day lead product accessibility and inclusive design programs in the software industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Trey Quinn will leave Georgia Tech with two degrees and a victory over the Ramblin\u2019 Wreck.  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Trey has cerebral palsy and uses an electric wheelchair. He also already holds an undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech and is earning a master\u0027s degree in computer science this spring. Trey is the president of Georiga Tech\u0027s ABLE Alliance \u2014 a student organization dedicated to improving on-campus disability inclusion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1714656630","gmt_created":"2024-05-02 13:30:30","changed":"1714656683","gmt_changed":"2024-05-02 13:31:23","video":{"youtube_id":"H53fJ7madjk","video_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H53fJ7madjk"}},"673915":{"id":"673915","type":"image","title":"Trey Quinn poses next to the Ramblin\u0027 Wreck after a race. ","body":null,"created":"1714656821","gmt_created":"2024-05-02 13:33:41","changed":"1714656821","gmt_changed":"2024-05-02 13:33:41","alt":"Trey Quinn poses next to the Ramblin\u0027 Wreck after a race. 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Resulting benefits include improved accuracy, increased efficiency, and reduced computational costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDeveloped by Georgia Tech researchers, the ScaleFL framework advances federated learning, which is an ML approach inspired by the personal data scandals of the past decade.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFederated learning (FL), a term coined by Google in 2016, enables a DNN model to be trained across decentralized devices or servers. Because data aren\u2019t centralized with this approach, threats to data privacy and security are minimized.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe FL process begins with sending the initial parameters of a global DNN model to smartphones, IoT devices, edge servers, or other participating devices. These edge clients train their local version of the model using their unique data. All local results are aggregated and used to update the global model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe process is repeated until the new model is fully trained and meets its design specifications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFederated learning works best when remote clients involved in training a new DNN model have comparable computational power and bandwidth. But training can bog down if some participating remote-client devices have limited or fluctuating computing resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn most real-life applications computational resources tend to differ significantly across clients. This heterogeneity prevents clients with insufficient resources from participating in certain FL tasks that require large models,\u201d said School of Computer Science (CS) Ph.D. student Fatih Ilhan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFederated learning should promote equitable AI practice by supporting a resource-adaptive learning framework that can scale to heterogeneous clients with limited capacity,\u201d said Ilhan, who is advised by Professor Ling Liu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIlhan is the lead author of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/openaccess.thecvf.com\/content\/CVPR2023\/papers\/Ilhan_ScaleFL_Resource-Adaptive_Federated_Learning_With_Heterogeneous_Clients_CVPR_2023_paper.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScaleFL: Resource-Adaptive Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Clients\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, which he is presenting at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cvpr2023.thecvf.com\/\u0022\u003E2023 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition\u003C\/a\u003E. CVPR 23 is set for June 18-22 in Vancouver, Canada.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECreating a framework that can adaptively scale the global DNN model based on a remote client\u2019s computing resources is no easy feat. Ilhan says the balance between a model\u2019s basic and complex feature extraction capabilities can be easily thrown out of whack when manipulating the number of neurons or the number of neuron layers of a DNN model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSince a deeper model is more capable of extracting higher order, complex features while a wider model has access to a finer resolution of lower-order, basic features, performing model size reduction across one dimension causes unbalance in terms of the learning capabilities of the resulting model,\u201d said Ilhan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team overcomes these challenges in part by incorporating early exit classifiers into ScaleFL.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese ML-based tools are designed to optimize accuracy and efficiency by introducing intermediate decision points in the classification process. This capability enables a model to complete an inference task as soon as it is confident in its prediction, without having to process the whole model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cScaleFL injects these classifiers to the global model at certain layers based on the model architecture and computational constraints at each complexity level. This enables forming low-cost local models by keeping the layers up to the corresponding exit,\u201d said Ilhan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTwo-dimensional scaling with splitting the model along depth and width dimensions yields uniformly scaled, efficient local models for resource-constrained clients. As a result, not only does the global model achieves better performance compared to baseline FL approaches and existing algorithms, but local models at different complexity levels also perform significantly better for clients that are resource-constrained at inference time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe exit classifiers that help balance a model\u2019s basic and complex features also play into the second part of ScaleFL\u2019s secret sauce, self-distillation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESelf-distillation is a form of knowledge distillation, which has been used to transfer knowledge from a \u2018teacher\u2019 model to a smaller \u2018student\u2019 model. ScaleFL applies this process within the same network by comparing early predictions made by the exit classifiers (students) and the final predictions of the last exit (teacher) of local models during optimization. This technique prevents isolation and improves the knowledge transfer among subnetworks of different levels in ScaleFL.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIlhan and his collaborators extensively tested ScaleFL on three image classification datasets and two natural language processing datasets.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur experiments show that ScaleFL outperforms existing representative heterogeneous federated learning approaches. In local model evaluations, we were able to reduce latency by two times, and the model size by four times, all while keeping the performance loss below 2%,\u201d said Ilhan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science researchers have developed a new framework that advances federated learning, a distributed, real-time approach for training deep neural network models. The new framework enables remote clients to equitably participate in training regardless of their computing resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new machine learning framework promotes equitable AI practice while advancing a popular distributed model training approach."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2023-06-02 02:05:38","changed_gmt":"2023-07-12 18:11:20","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-06-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-06-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670912":{"id":"670912","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech CS Ph.D. student Ilhan Fatih","body":null,"created":"1685672138","gmt_created":"2023-06-02 02:15:38","changed":"1685672138","gmt_changed":"2023-06-02 02:15:38","alt":"An outdoor photo portrait of Georgia Tech CS Ph.D. student Ilhan Fatih","file":{"fid":"253878","name":"Screen Shot 2023-06-01 at 2.48.19 PM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/06\/01\/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-01%20at%202.48.19%20PM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/06\/01\/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-01%20at%202.48.19%20PM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":740954,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/06\/01\/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-01%20at%202.48.19%20PM.png?itok=hmXEAi5v"}}},"media_ids":["670912"],"groups":[{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBen Snedeker, Communications Manager II\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ealbert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"666271":{"#nid":"666271","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech and Collaborators Receive Grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to Improve Understanding of the Mobile Broadband Experience","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile cellular networks are a key method for internet access, millions of Americans in rural communities and on tribal lands lack basic connectivity access, affecting their ability to search for jobs, access healthcare, and participate in educational opportunities. To make connectivity more equitable, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing open-source software to empower citizens to report on cellular network quality and places without any connectivity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith a new grant from The Rockefeller Foundation, combined with funding from the National Science Foundation, researchers aim to create CellWatch, a technology ecosystem comprised of a mobile application for network measurements, a community planning dashboard and map, and a cellular quality prediction tool. CellWatch will enable everyday people to take connectivity measurements and merge their data with others in their community. This will allow communities to build maps of coverage and challenge cellular provider claims of coverage that are often misrepresented across Federal Communications Commission\u0026rsquo;s (FCC) maps, preventing communities from applying to available federal funding. The goal is to eventually have informed machine learning algorithms and statistical analysis be able to predict the quality of service in other areas that have not yet been measured and empower communities to improve their own cell coverage.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Mapping mobile broadband turns out to be a very hard technical problem because quality of coverage depends on complex factors, not just how close you are to a tower,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~ewz\/Welcome.html\u0022\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the School of Computer Science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZegura is one of three principal investigators on the grant. Her collaborators include Elizabeth Belding, a computer science professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Morgan Vigil-Hayes, an assistant professor in computer science at Northern Arizona University. At Georgia Tech, Scott Robertson in the Institute for People and Technology is leading the software development effort and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~yxie77\/\u0022\u003EYao Xie\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)\u003C\/a\u003E, will be doing machine learning and statistical modeling.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EConnectivity Complications\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnderstanding cell coverage and quality is difficult. The FCC requires all network providers report their coverage areas, but provider maps generally overestimate where coverage exists. While the FCC makes the provider coverage data available to the public, it\u0026rsquo;s notoriously inaccurate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s even harder for everyday customers to figure out. To challenge a provider\u0026rsquo;s coverage claim, the FCC has a 100 page document detailing its requirements for citizen reporting including breaking down the coverage grid into hexagons and requiring citizens submit data from multiple hexagons to prove an area is lacking service. There are also requirements for the mix of positive and negative measurement results and the time of day of measurement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s a huge gap between the FCC requirements document and what regular people understand about connectivity and quality,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said. \u0026ldquo;Our goal with CellWatch is to empower everyday citizens to get involved in advocating for high quality internet to their communities to increase access to services, employment, health, and education.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECreating CellWatch\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers involved intend CellWatch to make it accessible for citizens to map their own networks and challenge the FCC through CellWatch\u0026rsquo;s three-prong project:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ECellWatch Mobile Application: The Android measurement app will be built to comply with FCC requirements so users can successfully challenge provider coverage claims. A backend database will maintain data security and allow aggregation of measurements from different sources.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ECellWatch Community Coordination Tool: This interactive dashboard and map will aid citizens in organizing campaigns to challenge providers while meeting FCC requirements.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ECellWatch Prediction: Machine learning algorithms will predict mobile broadband performance using data collected by CellWatch tools and other public datasets.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAll tools will be publicly available and open source to enable access for everyone. Ultimately, CellWatch\u0026rsquo;s goal is let citizens into the reporting process to democratize coverage and eventually collect enough data that the process can be automated.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026#39;s hard to know where there\u0026#39;s coverage, and you\u0026#39;re never going to measure everywhere,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said. \u0026ldquo;But if you have taken measured data in some places, you can use machine learning and statistical analysis to make predictions in new locations.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe information won\u0026rsquo;t just aid citizens but can also be used to help allocate federal funding to add infrastructure where and when needed. The project is just the start of ensuring all of America has access to reliable network coverage and doesn\u0026rsquo;t miss out on any opportunities. Out of network will be a thing of the past.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"To make connectivity more equitable, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing open-source software to empower citizens to report on cellular network quality and places without any connectivity."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2023-02-28 16:59:56","changed_gmt":"2023-02-28 17:08:58","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"666272":{"id":"666272","type":"image","title":"NM network","body":null,"created":"1677603871","gmt_created":"2023-02-28 17:04:31","changed":"1677603871","gmt_changed":"2023-02-28 17:04:31","alt":"phone in front of measuring device","file":{"fid":"251929","name":"4CE9DDB9-9F8D-434C-8DCD-1D300FFF87E5 copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/4CE9DDB9-9F8D-434C-8DCD-1D300FFF87E5%20copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/4CE9DDB9-9F8D-434C-8DCD-1D300FFF87E5%20copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1059825,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/4CE9DDB9-9F8D-434C-8DCD-1D300FFF87E5%20copy.jpg?itok=M0Vsp9_c"}}},"media_ids":["666272"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Senior Research Writer\/Editor\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"664618":{"#nid":"664618","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Manufacturing, Finance Among Industries to Benefit from What\u0027s Next in AI for 2023","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EArtificial intelligence is already making headlines in the new year with the box office success of the movie\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EM3GAN\u003C\/em\u003E. Along with a TikTok dance craze and lots of laughs, the over-the-top horror movie\/dark comedy about an AI-powered robot that runs amok is also inspiring discussion about the growing presence and impact of artificial intelligence in everyday life.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom the movie\u0026nbsp;house to the warehouse\u0026nbsp;to your house, AI seems like it\u0026#39;s everywhere. That\u0026#39;s because with a steady stream of new research and innovative applications reaching into nearly every industry and business sector, it\u0026nbsp;is everywhere.\u0026nbsp;Nevertheless, AI still holds enormous potential as the field continues to evolve.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo get a sense of what this evolution could look like in 2023, we turned to a small group of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/phd\u0022\u003EPh.D. students from the College of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E community that are currently pushing foundational and applied AI research forward in a broad spectrum of disciplines and fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe students shared their opinions on where AI might be headed in the new year, what some of the big tech stories could be, and why ethics in AI are so critically important.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003EWhere will artificial intelligence and machine learning have the most impact in 2023?\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Artificial intelligence and machine learning\u0026nbsp;will continue to have a huge impact on manufacturing and warehouses with labor shortages and worker turnover continuing to be a concern as more manufacturing and operations jobs are brought back to the United States from overseas. Additionally, AI\/ML will continue to help ensure that manufacturing and warehouse facilities are operating as efficiently as possible from energy and material savings to worker safety and parts quality.\u0026quot; \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Zoe-Klesmith\u0022\u003EZoe Klesmith Alexander\u003C\/a\u003E, computational science and engineering Ph.D. student\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Right now, deep learning is on a trajectory to transform\u0026nbsp;the creation space. Artwork and images, videos, data representation and storytelling, co-authoring, and summarizing documents... It\u0026#39;s gotten really good.\u0026quot; \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/benhoov\/\u0022\u003EBen Hoover\u003C\/a\u003E, machine learning Ph.D. student\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I think machine learning and AI will keep playing a huge role\u0026nbsp;in how the world and society will be shaped over the next decade in many ways. It will make many other fields more efficient through ML and AI tools we are developing. In 2023, I think ML and AI will have the most impact on social media platforms, helping reduce hate speech, rumor spread, etc.\u0026quot; \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/agam-shah\/\u0022\u003EAgam A. Shah\u003C\/a\u003E, machine learning Ph.D. student\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;One of the big impacts this year\u0026nbsp;may be driverless cars\u0026nbsp;being in your neighborhood. Otherwise, it will be a slow steady drip of GPT3 and other OpenAI models suffusing all applications, making programmers much faster, making journalists faster, making academic articles and lit reviews much faster. We\u0026#39;re at a 4th grader level, and I hope by the end of this year we\u0026#39;ll be at the 6th grader level. Also, indoor turn-by-turn navigation will be everywhere in 2023 as well.\u0026quot; \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brandonkeithbiggs\/\u0022\u003EBrandon Biggs\u003C\/a\u003E, human-centered computing Ph.D. student\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003EWhat will be some of the big tech stories in 2023?\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;ChatGPT and the GitHub Copilot lawsuit\u0026nbsp;will keep making it into the news and cause more controversies. In general, AI ethics will become more important and get more focus as the technology keeps advancing.\u0026quot; \u0026ndash; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fab1ano.github.io\/\u0022\u003EFabian Fleischer\u003C\/a\u003E, cybersecurity, and privacy Ph.D. student\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Driverless car fleets will be coming\u0026nbsp;to a city near you.\u0026nbsp;A new battery technology will allow phones to keep their charge for a week. Meta realizes virtual reality (VR) head-mounted displays are for a limited market and uses headphones and phones to provide VR experiences.\u0026quot; \u0026ndash; Brandon Biggs\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003EWhat\u0026rsquo;s an issue or industry that you think could benefit from a computing solution?\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Our reinterpretation of modern deep learning\u0026nbsp;as energy-based associative memories\u0026nbsp;has the potential to transform any industry that relies on foundation models -- giant architectures that require models that are \u0026quot;self-supervised\u0026quot; (learn on their own from data).\u0026quot; \u0026ndash; Ben Hoover\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Inclusion in everything.\u0026nbsp;Over 90 percent of websites on the internet have elements that are inaccessible to 25 percent of the world\u0026#39;s population who have disabilities. Inclusive design will be the most important area where technology can be redesigned and created to have multiple sensory modalities and be properly programmed.\u0026quot; \u0026ndash; Brandon Biggs\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Currently, financial markets are far from efficient\u0026nbsp;because they do not fully incorporate information available in large unstructured text data. With the latest development in natural language processing techniques, we can better understand the economy and therefore price financial markets better.\u0026quot; \u0026ndash; Agam A. Shah\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003EThere\u0026rsquo;s been increasing recognition of the vital role ethics should play in artificial intelligence. How do you see this issue evolving in the next year?\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Specifically in my research, I think explainable AI (XAI) is very important, especially if non-experts in ML will be using black-box ML solutions in a factory. It will be important for humans to trust and to understand the models especially if the models are being using to monitor quality on a safety-critical part.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Additionally, using XAI for human interaction with robots that utilize deep learning to make decisions will be increasingly important as technologies like collaborative robots (cobots) are integrated into factories. I think in my area of research that it is always important to use automation to aid humans in jobs that are safe for humans to do and not to replace them.\u0026quot; \u0026ndash; Zoe Klesmith Alexander\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Big data is pretty much at its peak. Deep data, where your Alexa knows everything about you, or your phone knows everything about you, and rather than saying \u0026#39;other people who watched this show liked this show,\u0026#39; it\u0026#39;s going to say, \u0026#39;I know you liked these shows, I think you\u0026#39;ll like this show because of these reasons, one of which is because other people who liked all these other shows liked this show.\u0026#39; The ethical element will be how much of this data should these models use, and are people going to build a personal dataset that they can share with other apps, or is each app going to need to build their own dataset? The ethical question is who owns this data.\u0026quot; \u0026ndash; Brandon Biggs\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I think ethics will become more and more important going forward. We are making huge breakthroughs in machine learning and artificial intelligence, but the systems we are creating are producing racist, sexist, and stereotypical results. For example, a recent system, Galactica, developed by Facebook (Meta) is powerful. It can produce research articles by just simply providing it with the title. It comes with some serious ethical concerns, in some cases, it produces racist, sexist text. So, as we will keep developing better models and making success in parallel, we need to always keep in mind the ethical implications of these models.\u0026quot; \u0026ndash; Agam A. Shah\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003EWhat research are you working on that you think people should know about or will have impact in 2023?\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Part of my research focuses on data-driven modeling of additive manufacturing processes\u0026nbsp;to better control dimensional quality of the final part. Another part of my research focuses on detecting anomalies in real-time using computer vision and machine learning for both warehouses and manufacturing processes.\u0026quot; \u0026ndash; Zoe Klesmith Alexander\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Right now, deep learning is built on feed-forward mathematical operations\u0026nbsp;that have little resemblance to the brain. I am working on a physics inspired approach to deep learning built around recurrent networks and energy functions. These architectures have the same mathematical foundation as the famous, biologically plausible Hopfield Network.\u0026quot; \u0026ndash; Ben Hoover\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I am currently working on two projects which, in my opinion, will have an impact in 2023. In one project, we are measuring the exposure of public firms to ongoing inflation. We are also understanding how inflation affects different firms differently based on the pricing power of the firm. As inflation is the highest in the last 40 years, our study is highly relevant now and in the coming years till we get inflation back in control.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The second work is related to the first work in some ways. As inflation is rising, to control the inflation Federal Reserve Bank is tightening its monetary policy. In our second work, we are measuring the stance of monetary policy (measuring hawkish vs dovish stance) of the Fed using state-of-the-art NLP models to see its impact in various financial markets (Treasury market, Stock market, Crypto market, etc.)\u0026quot; \u0026ndash; Agam A. 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Mgr. II\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu?subject=What\u0027s%20Next%20in%20AI%20for%202023\u0022\u003Ealbert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"660697":{"#nid":"660697","#data":{"type":"news","title":"PetTrack Lets Owners Know Exactly Where Their Dog Is","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe pandemic gave people a lot more time with their dogs and cats, but \u0026nbsp;return to the office has disrupted that connection. Pet cameras can help but are needed in every room and don\u0026rsquo;t really tell owners what their furry friend has been up to without reviewing all footage. Now, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a new device that can put pet owners at ease.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPetTrack uses a combination of sensors to give the accurate, real-time indoor location of an animal. Ultra-wideband (UWB) radio wireless sensors locate the pet and accelerometers determine if it\u0026rsquo;s sitting or moving regardless of objects or walls in the way, giving owners more detail on what their pet is doing than a camera or GPS. All of this is located on a small sensor that can be put on a collar for minimal invasiveness and can be viewed via a compatible smartphone app.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;PetTrack comprises two things: one is knowing the pet\u0026rsquo;s indoor location and second is trying to understand their activity,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~dhekne\/\u0022\u003EAshutosh Dhekne\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science (SCS).\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDhekne and his students presented the research in the paper \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/pettrack-tracking-pet-location-and-activity-indoors\/\u0022\u003EPetTrack: Tracking Pet Location and Activity Indoors\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rdquo; at BodySys 2022 in July, a workshop on body-centric computing systems that was part of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sigmobile.org\/mobisys\/2022\/\u0022\u003EMobiSys 2022\u003C\/a\u003E in Portland, Oregon.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow PetTrack Works\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPetTrack\u0026rsquo;s innovative combination of sensors makes it unique compared to other pet-monitoring devices. The UWB radio wireless signal locates where the pet is in the home from up to 100 feet away, while the accelerometer acts as an inertial sensor that can track the pet\u0026rsquo;s pose. This means owners can learn whether their pet is standing, sitting, or even lying down.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnlike with cameras, owners can always know where their pet is because the UWB network is accessible through walls, furniture, doors, or anything else a cat or dog can hide behind. The UWB network is plug-and-play and doesn\u0026rsquo;t interfere with existing WiFi but should be connected to a home WiFi network to give the owner smartphone updates. Location data takes up far less bandwidth than images and doesn\u0026rsquo;t burden the owner\u0026rsquo;s WiFi. Multiple UWB sensors and a central anchor data collection module help determine the location via multilateration, or individual distance measurements from different anchors,keeping it accurate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Together, combining where the pet is and what the orientation of the pet is, we can create a summary map of where the pet has been during the day and what activity the pet was doing,\u0026rdquo; Dhekne said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis could reassure owners who are concerned about pets getting into forbidden places or comfort owners worried about their sick or elderly animals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPetTrack Privacy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrivacy is another major advantage of PetTrack. Just like a router, PetTrack has at least one central anchor device in the home or backyard, making it less invasive than a camera in every room. It also doesn\u0026rsquo;t take up the entire room because the device is small enough to hide behind a lampshade . One set of anchor devices can track up to four pets with updates every second. PetTrack functions even when only a few anchor devices are reachable, albeit with lower location accuracy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPetTrack\u0026rsquo;s local focus also keeps it safer. Whereas hackers can take over cameras and compromise privacy for owners, PetTrack\u0026rsquo;s network only functions in the area it\u0026rsquo;s in. This means it doesn\u0026rsquo;t have the same vulnerabilities cameras do such as enabling a hacker to watch owners or locate expensive objects or valuables in the house.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPetTrack\u0026rsquo;s Future Possibilities\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrently PetTrack is designed just to monitor an animal\u0026rsquo;s location and position, but it has a lot of potential. Pet daycares could use the technology, so owners have a sense of how their dog is doing away from home. It could also become a training tool where a buzzer could sound if a pet were in an area they were not meant to be.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPetTrack could not only be the future of animal-monitoring technology but could provide a whole new way for owners to connect with their dogs or cats.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Overall, the idea is to connect better with your pet, using PetTrack,\u0026rdquo; Dhekne said. \u0026ldquo;You could detect changing pet behaviors and interact with the pet using location-aware robotic toys.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOther researchers think PetTrack could improve the pet training process. Neeraj Alavala, the lead SCS master\u0026rsquo;s student on the project, \u0026nbsp;shared the feedback other researches provided at BodySys.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One good piece of feedback that we got was that we could use our existing setup to also track when pets make accidents in the house during potty training,\u0026rdquo; Alavala said. \u0026ldquo;We already have the technology to track when and where these accidents happen and can ensure that those areas get cleaned up. As an extension, we can also give the pet feedback like a buzzer to train the pet to not go in the house.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhatever its applications, PetTrack could make the bond people have with their pets even stronger.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECITATION: Alavala, N., Chen, H., Singhal, R., Dhekne, A. 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Qureshi earned this year\u0026rsquo;s distinction for work he\u0026rsquo;s done to advance high- performance memory systems since earning his Ph.D. in 2007.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a wonderful and much deserved honor - my heartiest congratulations,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBabak\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFalsafi\u003C\/strong\u003E, EPFL computer science professor and SIGARCH chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe announcement was made during an award luncheon during\u0026nbsp;ISCA\u0026#39;22: The 49th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, which was held in New York City this summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Research is a very rewarding profession. When you solve a difficult problem, the kick that you get is completely unlike any other. When your ideas get adopted, the satisfaction you get is unlike any other.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;And if the community recognizes the work, that\u0026rsquo;s the cherry on top,\u0026rdquo; said Qureshi during remarks at the event.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award is named after\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMaurice V. Wilkes\u003C\/strong\u003E, a British computer scientist and a Turing Award winner. Wilkes is widely considered as the father of microprogramming and played a pivotal role in the electronic delay storage automatic calculator, which started operating in 1949.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~moin\/\u0022\u003EQureshi\u0026#39;s research\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;has impacted many design aspects of high-performance memory systems according to School of Computer Science Chair\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vsarkar.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVivek\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Moin\u0026#39;s selection for this award clearly demonstrates the leadership impact of his research career thus far and reflects positively on both his accomplishments and on Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;His highly cited publications have become household names in the computer architecture community and continue to have a major impact on subsequent research and product development,\u0026rdquo; said Sarkar, who is also the Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications in the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/645219\/professor-wins-intel-outstanding-researcher-award\u0022\u003E[RELATED:\u0026nbsp;Professor Wins Intel Outstanding Researcher Award]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESarkar points to two facets of high-performance memory systems design\u0026ndash; caches and non-volatile memory (NVM) \u0026ndash; as examples of Qureshi\u0026rsquo;s lasting contributions to the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe took a new approach to the design and configuration of memory caches by introducing novel policies. These policies placed larger caches at the outermost level of the cache hierarchy relative to smaller caches placed at the innermost level. This new approach ultimately influenced how cache architectures for 3D memory systems are developed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EQureshi\u0026rsquo;s work has also influenced the evolution of NVM and the design of future hybrid memory systems. His research demonstrated that phase-change memory can be combined with standard dynamic random-access memory to create a hybrid system that delivers the benefits of both memory types. This breakthrough allowed for cost-effective and power-efficient increases in memory capacity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are all proud of this achievement and can already see signs of influential impact of his more recent research in computer architecture, including in the field of quantum computing,\u0026rdquo; said Sarkar.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EQureshi, who holds nearly two dozen patents, began his career as a research staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he developed the caching algorithms for Power-7 processors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe earned best paper award in 2018 at \u0026nbsp;IEEE\/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture,. Qureshi won a 2019 Persistent Impact Prize for his ISCA 2009 paper on phase-change memory and 2021 Persistent Impact Prize for his MICRO 2009 paper on PCM wear leveling, both recognized for \u0026ldquo;exceptional impact on the fields of study related to non-volatile memories.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong with his research, Qureshi is contributing to the field by developing the next generation of researchers, with several of his Ph.D. students placed at top academic places, including at UIUC, University of Wisconsin, University of British Columbia, and University of Toronto.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe is the director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/memlab.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMemory Systems Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, which designs and develops future computing systems. Current work in the lab focuses on quantum computing, secure hardware, and robust artificial intelligence.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech School of Computer Science Assistant Professor Moin Qureshi was recently named as the winner of the 2022 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2022-08-23 15:52:19","changed_gmt":"2022-08-23 19:05:40","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"660418":{"id":"660418","type":"image","title":"Moin Qureshi-School of CS-2022","body":null,"created":"1661269442","gmt_created":"2022-08-23 15:44:02","changed":"1661269442","gmt_changed":"2022-08-23 15:44:02","alt":"Moin Qureshi","file":{"fid":"250265","name":"moin-crop.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/moin-crop.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/moin-crop.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":72270,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/moin-crop.jpg?itok=HLbAnKDU"}}},"media_ids":["660418"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlbert Snedeker, Communications Mgr.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu?subject=ACM%20Award\u0022\u003Ealbert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"658637":{"#nid":"658637","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dhekne Receives NSF CAREER Award to Create Greener, More Advanced Indoor Navigation and Security Systems","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPrecision, millimeter-level 3D tracking of robotic arm movements \u0026ndash; without cameras and in the dark \u0026shy;\u0026ndash; is just one of the expected benefits of new research into ultra-wideband radio (UWB) technology underway at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUWB technology uses low-level energy signals to enable short-range, high-bandwidth communications that do not interfere with other types of radio communications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo push forward on what\u0026rsquo;s next in the field, School of Computer Science Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAshutosh\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDhekne\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for his proposal,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EClosing the Gaps in UWB Localization and Sensing: Algorithms, Architectures, and Prototypes\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDhekne expects his UWB research to not only eliminate the need for cameras to sense and track the minute movements of a robotic arm, he anticipates that it will also enable the development of infinitely scalable indoor navigation systems and advanced intrusion detection systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EThese advancements would have applications in homes as well as large, complex indoor spaces like malls, government buildings, and warehouses.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESystems using these new technologies are expected to be more environmentally friendly. They will require less computational power and generate much less data, which will significantly reduce energy usage for processing, transportation, and data storage. Privacy concerns will also be reduced because these systems do not rely on cameras.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The overarching goal of this proposal is to carefully address some of the important challenges for indoor localization and sensing using wireless signals. This award provides an impetus to advance the state-of-the-art for indoor localization and will help support my research in the field,\u0026rdquo; said Dhekne.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe challenges Dhekne mentions relate to current algorithms and system architecture.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe technology shows promise because UWB frequencies can easily penetrate walls and the returning signals can be precisely timed. However, the algorithms and architecture used for current wireless systems cannot meet the needs for large indoor spaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When we try to use the same algorithm\u0026shy;s for fine-grained localization, such as for localizing a pen on a whiteboard or tracking a robotic arm, we face hard-to-overcome limits of precision,\u0026rdquo; said Dhekne.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOvercoming these limitations won\u0026rsquo;t be easy. But Dhekne is confident he and his team of student researchers can develop innovative architectural solutions to dramatically advance the capabilities of UWB technology. These potential solutions include developing new multi-antenna systems that leverage the advantages of UWB and use signal phase to pinpoint an object\u0026rsquo;s location to within a millimeter.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce more robust algorithms and improved architectural structures are developed, the team plans to move from the theoretical to the practical and create working prototypes to demonstrate the feasibility of their work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/631199\/newest-professor-explores-possibilities-wireless-sensing\u0022\u003E[RELATED:\u0026nbsp;Newest Professor Explores the Possibilities of Wireless Sensing]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe expected improvements in fine-grained location and precision tracking of the 3D movements of a robotic arm will enable systems to detect deviations from nominal behavior. This is crucial to improving maintenance, auditing, and compliance record-keeping efficiencies for automated devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECoupled with these advances in sensing and tracking, the ability to infinitely scale systems will enable next-generation personal navigation in large spaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing UWB receivers that capture signals sent by installed anchor devices, these systems will allow an unlimited number of users to pinpoint their exact location and navigate airports, parking decks, and other complex indoor areas. These systems will ensure privacy because they do not require a user\u0026rsquo;s device to transmit a UWB signal.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdvances in UWB sensing and tracking capabilities could also be used to provide better context to digital personal assistants.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Localization makes digital personal assistants such as Google Home and Alexa more context aware. Commands given to digital assistants can become more natural when the user\u0026rsquo;s location is known.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;For example, just saying \u0026lsquo;turn on the lights\u0026rsquo; can be understood as a request to turn on the living-room lights if the user is in the living room,\u0026rdquo; said Dhekne.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother application of wireless sensing, according to Dhekne, will be for advanced security systems. Transmitted UWB signals travel in all directions and bounce off obstructions in an indoor space. People entering a space will cause detectable disturbances of the wireless signal-reflection patterns.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis approach allows a UWB-based system to ignore disturbances caused by a pet, an elderly person living in the house, or another known entity. This capability means a security system can remain constantly armed with much less chance for false alarms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Along with household use, this technology can also be used in museums or other high-value locations where guards are also present, since the proposed idea can ignore the movements of friendly entities,\u0026rdquo; Dhekne explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to supporting Dhekne\u0026rsquo;s theoretical and practical research, his NSF CAREER award is also funding several upcoming educational activities related to the work including graduate student projects focused on mobile computing and the internet of things (IoT). These projects will be part of Dhekne\u0026rsquo;s CS8803-MCI course offered this coming Fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEducational activities planned through this grant go beyond just Georgia Tech students. For example, Dhekne and his team plan to create educational IoT kits and conduct workshops for students from local middle and high schools.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team also intends to open source the software and other technologies produced from their research. This will enable a larger community of researchers and enthusiasts to explore wireless localization and sensing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs for what\u0026rsquo;s next, Dhekne says that a lot more can be done to advance UWB technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In the future, I hope to work on innovative solutions to some of the most pressing issues that we face today such as sustainability.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Wireless localization and sensing can reduce resource waste through smarter, contextually aware IoT in homes, factories, warehouses, and other large indoor spaces. Localization can improve efficiencies of these vast spaces, help us find lost items, and overall improve quality of life,\u0026rdquo; said Dhekne.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Computer science professor is pushing forward on ultra-wideband radio technology to improve precision sensing and tracking of objects in complex indoor spaces."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2022-06-01 16:11:23","changed_gmt":"2022-06-02 19:35:04","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"658636":{"id":"658636","type":"image","title":"Ashutosh Dhekne composite image - june 22","body":null,"created":"1654099563","gmt_created":"2022-06-01 16:06:03","changed":"1654099563","gmt_changed":"2022-06-01 16:06:03","alt":"Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Ashutosh Dhekne","file":{"fid":"249663","name":"ashutosh_dhekne-graphic-850x478.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ashutosh_dhekne-graphic-850x478.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ashutosh_dhekne-graphic-850x478.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":146258,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ashutosh_dhekne-graphic-850x478.jpg?itok=PQnGrdMB"}}},"media_ids":["658636"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"190727","name":"Dhekne"},{"id":"190728","name":"ultra-wideband radio"},{"id":"190729","name":"uwb"},{"id":"7842","name":"NSF CAREER Award"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlbert Snedeker, Comms. Mgr. II\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu?subject=NSF%20CAREER%20Award\u0022\u003Ealbert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"654649":{"#nid":"654649","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Major Philanthropic Grant Will Create New Center to Advance Open-Source Software","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech College of Computing has received an $11 million grant from Schmidt Futures to create one of the four software engineering centers within the newly launched Virtual Institute for Scientific Software (VISS). The new center will hire half-a-dozen software engineers to write scalable, reliable, and portable open-source software for scientific research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Scientific research involves increasingly complex software, technologies, and platforms,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAlessandro Orso\u003C\/strong\u003E, the software engineer and professor of computer science who is heading up the project. \u0026ldquo;Also, platforms constantly evolve, and the complexity and amount of data involved is ever-growing.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe result is that these software systems are often developed as prototypes that are difficult to understand, maintain, and use, which limits their efficacy and ultimately hinders scientific progress.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESoftware engineers are trained to address these kinds of issues and know how to build high-quality software, but their time is too expensive for a typical research project\u0026rsquo;s budget. In typical grants, software is often treated as a byproduct of research, meaning that limited funding is allocated for it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0026rsquo;s where\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.schmidtfutures.com\/\u0022\u003ESchmidt Futures\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;comes in. Schmidt Futures is\u0026nbsp;a philanthropic initiative\u0026nbsp;founded by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EEric\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EWendy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESchmidt\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;that bets early on exceptional people\u0026nbsp;making the world better.\u0026nbsp;They are investing $40 million in VISS over five years at four universities: Georgia Tech, University of Washington, Johns Hopkins University, and University of Cambridge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Schmidt Futures\u0026rsquo; Virtual Institute for Scientific Software is a core part of our efforts to mobilize exceptional talent to solve specific hard problems in science and society,\u0026rdquo; said Executive Vice President\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EElizabeth Young-McNally\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, the funds will hire a software engineering lead, as well as three senior and two junior software engineers. A faculty director and an advisory board will help guide the group\u0026rsquo;s work, which will include collaborations with Georgia Tech scientists.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;We are very proud to host one of the four inaugural Schmidt Futures Virtual Institute of Scientific Software centers,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/strong\u003E, Dean and John P. Imlay Jr. Chair of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s center will advance and support scientific research by applying modern software engineering practices, cutting-edge technologies, and modern tools to the development of scientific software. 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The one-year award contract provides unrestricted funds and Amazon Web Services credits for customer-driven research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am excited to receive the award,\u0026rdquo; said Zhang, an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science (SCS). \u0026ldquo;As a programming languages researcher, I enjoy what I do and believe it is important to continue working on fundamental problems to improve software reliability.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe will use the award for interleaved Dyck-reachability research, which makes program analysis simpler and more efficient by eliminating ineffective parts of the graph. This funding will lead to practical tools that can analyze real-world software and foster collaboration with Amazon automated reasoning researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis work has been widely recognized by the research community. 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The conference showcases groundbreaking computer architecture research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech had a very strong presence at MICRO, representing about 5 percent of the papers appearing at the conference and placing us among the top five institutions in paper count this year,\u0026rdquo; said SCS Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandros Daglis\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESCS papers included:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3466752.3480075\u0022\u003ECOSPlay: Leveraging Task-Level Parallelism for High-Throughput Synchronous Persistence\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarina Vemmou, Alexandros Daglis\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3466752.3480055\u0022\u003ECerebros: Evading the RPC Tax in Datacenters\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EArash Pourhabibi, Mark Sutherland (EPFL); Alexandros Daglis (GT); Babak Falsafi (EPFL)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3466752.3480128\u0022\u003EVortex: Extending the RISC-V ISA for GPGPU and 3D-Graphics Research\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBlaise Tine, Krishna Praveen Yalamarthy, Fares Elsabbagh, Kim Hyesoon\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3466752.3480044\u0022\u003EJigSaw: Boosting Fidelity of NISQ Programs via Measurement Subsetting\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPoulami Das (GT); Swamit Tannu (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Moinuddin Qureshi (GT)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3466752.3480059\u0022\u003EADAPT: Mitigating Idling Errors in Qubits via Adaptive Dynamical Decoupling\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPoulami Das (GT); Swamit Tannu (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Siddharth Dangwal (IIT Delhi); Moinuddin Qureshi (GT)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is both an exciting and disruptive time for computer architecture research as we approach the end of Moore\u0026rsquo;s law,\u0026rdquo; said SCS Chair\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s great to see this forward-looking research by Georgia Tech faculty and their collaborators being showcased at MICRO.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Computer Science (SCS) professors had five papers at the\u00a0IEEE\/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)\u00a0this October."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2021-11-05 18:48:09","changed_gmt":"2021-11-05 18:48:09","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-11-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-11-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"603992":{"id":"603992","type":"image","title":"GT Computing Binary Bridge code close up","body":null,"created":"1521483862","gmt_created":"2018-03-19 18:24:22","changed":"1521483862","gmt_changed":"2018-03-19 18:24:22","alt":"Close up of Binary Bridge at Georgia Tech","file":{"fid":"230210","name":"BinaryBridge_july16 copy 2.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/BinaryBridge_july16%20copy%202.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/BinaryBridge_july16%20copy%202.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":244714,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/BinaryBridge_july16%20copy%202.JPG?itok=t4Ue_YCg"}}},"media_ids":["603992"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"652505":{"#nid":"652505","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Device Cuts Cost of Digitizing Whiteboard Content","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDespite almost two years of online education, digitally capturing a whiteboard is still a challenge. Now, Georgia Tech researchers have created an attachment that can replicate any writing instrument\u0026rsquo;s movements for a virtual setting.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tool uses wireless location, inertial sensors, and pressure sensing to determine where the pen is on the board and digitize those movements to stream to a computer. Costing only $100-$150, it\u0026rsquo;s nearly a tenth of the price of a smartboard. For an hour lecture, it uses just 1.5 MB of data, which is about 400 times smaller than filming the whole board.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore this innovation, the two primary ways of digitizing content both had logistical problems. While a smart board is accurate, it\u0026rsquo;s often prohibitively expensive for most school budgets. Although filming video of the whiteboard is more cost effective, it results in large video files that don\u0026rsquo;t transfer well over low internet speeds. The potential inequity of this among students inspired the researchers to work on solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Not being able to digitize the whiteboard increases the learning gap,\u0026rdquo; said School of Computer Science Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~dhekne\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAshutosh Dhekne\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;If you have good internet connection, you can see the whiteboard clearly in a video, but if you don\u0026rsquo;t, the learning experience deteriorates quickly.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers focused on making the experience seamless for the teacher. So, they decided not to modify the whiteboard or tip of pen itself but focus on attachments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe attachment needs to sense\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Ewhere\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;the pen was as a person wrote. Location tracking alone isn\u0026rsquo;t sufficient, so the researchers relied on a fusion sensor approach:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EInertial sensors: Each sensor contains an accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer that can determine exact orientation of the pen on a larger frame of reference, in this case the whiteboard.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EWireless radio technology: This tracks how far a pen is from the fixed wireless antenna sensors at the border of the whiteboard.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EPressure sensor: This sensor detects when the pen touches the whiteboard surface, based on how much pressure is coming from the user\u0026rsquo;s grip.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers believe this attachment could be used for more than just online learning and meetings; it could be also attached to scalpels or paintbrushes for medical or art instruction.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Documenting the process of creating something by hand is difficult, but this tool has the potential to make that possible,\u0026rdquo; Dhekne said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDhekne, SCS Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Mostafa.Ammar\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMostafa Ammar\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and SCS Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ycao361\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYifeng Cao\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;presented the research in the paper,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~dhekne\/itracku_mobisys2021.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EITrackU: Tracking a Pen-like Instrument via UWB-IMU Fusion\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, at\u0026nbsp;The\u0026nbsp;19th\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sigmobile.org\/mobisys\/2021\/\u0022\u003EACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services\u0026nbsp; (MobiSys\u003C\/a\u003E) in June.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers have created an attachment that can replicate any writing instrument\u2019s movements for a virtual setting."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2021-11-05 17:29:06","changed_gmt":"2021-11-05 17:38:53","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-11-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-11-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"652506":{"id":"652506","type":"image","title":"Whiteboard and pen","body":null,"created":"1636133888","gmt_created":"2021-11-05 17:38:08","changed":"1636133888","gmt_changed":"2021-11-05 17:38:08","alt":"Whiteboard and pen","file":{"fid":"247555","name":"mobisys_composite.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mobisys_composite.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mobisys_composite.png","mime":"image\/png","size":585610,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mobisys_composite.png?itok=xQEZ1BZ-"}}},"media_ids":["652506"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"651246":{"#nid":"651246","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Graduate Fellowship Encourages Research Collaborations ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Computer Science (SCS) has launched a new graduate fellowship. The Incubator Graduate Fellowship Program is designed to foster research collaborations between faculty who have not worked together before by dedicating funding to innovative pairings.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETwenty students submitted applications for the fellowship and four were selected by a committee of SCS faculty members including Professors \u003Cstrong\u003EDana Randall\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E, Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAda Gavrilovska\u003C\/strong\u003E, Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EQirun Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Senior Research Scientist \u003Cstrong\u003EGreg Eisenhauer\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fellowship recipients, along with their primary advisors and faculty collaborators, are:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlind Khare \u003C\/strong\u003E(Assistant Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Alexey Tumanov, \u003C\/strong\u003Ewith Associate Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Tushar Krishna\u003C\/strong\u003E)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EXinya Liu \u003C\/strong\u003E(Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Alessandro Orso, \u003C\/strong\u003Ewith Assistant Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Joy Arulraj\u003C\/strong\u003E)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarina Vemmou \u003C\/strong\u003E(Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandros Daglis, \u003C\/strong\u003Ewith Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Moin Qureshi\u003C\/strong\u003E)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERenzhi Wu \u003C\/strong\u003E(Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EXu Chu, \u003C\/strong\u003Ewith Assistant Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Joy Arulraj\u003C\/strong\u003E)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I think the SCS Incubator Fellowship is a great initiative to kickstart collaborations,\u0026rdquo; said Daglis, who will be revisiting research on memory hierarchy design policies for modern architectures with intense networking activity. \u0026ldquo;It is exciting to embark on this joint SCS-backed research effort together, combining our expertise in memory systems and networked architectures.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWinners will have the 2021-22 academic year to seed their collaborative research and present their work at the end of the academic year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am delighted by the outcome of this first round of the new SCS Incubator Graduate Fellowship Program,\u0026rdquo; said SCS Chair \u003Cstrong\u003EViv\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s exciting to see so many junior faculty members involved, and I look forward to seeing the fruits of these new collaborations.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The School of Computer Science (SCS) has launched a new graduate fellowship. "}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2021-09-29 21:55:43","changed_gmt":"2021-09-29 21:57:20","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"651247":{"id":"651247","type":"image","title":"Mentorship image","body":null,"created":"1632952609","gmt_created":"2021-09-29 21:56:49","changed":"1632952609","gmt_changed":"2021-09-29 21:56:49","alt":"People at laptop","file":{"fid":"247095","name":"mentoring.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mentoring.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mentoring.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":62576,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mentoring.jpg?itok=VrBcBwY3"}}},"media_ids":["651247"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu \u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"651210":{"#nid":"651210","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Using Edge Computing to Bridge the Digital Divide","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers are planning to bring edge computing to Atlanta\u0026rsquo;s Westside. With National Science Foundation funding, the group will deploy edge-based information services to increase internet access for the community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe $150,000 planning grant will enable researchers to explore the possibilities of the project, develop community relationships, and gather a team of students. They believe their methods in the Westside could serve as a test case for applying the solution to similar urban neighborhoods elsewhere.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The digital divide in urban communities is getting worse: They don\u0026rsquo;t have reliable connectivity, or affordability for connections,\u0026rdquo; School of Computer Science (SCS) Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EUmakishore Ramachandran\u003C\/strong\u003E said. \u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech should be able to do something to help our neighbors.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project started three years ago when researchers approached Westside leaders to figure out their needs for increasing access to information. To develop trust with the community, undergraduate and graduate students have been regularly attending Westside community meetings.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey determined the community would most benefit from local area network (LAN) based connectivity and streaming services that are not reliant on cloud connectivity. For sustainability, they aim to train high school students and other community members to maintain these systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBuilding relationships is just as important as the technology. As a concrete use case, they plan to provide a streaming service using an open-source LAN-based platform akin to Zoom for Tech students to tutor Westside area children.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Technology is the easy part; the hard part is earning trust of community,\u0026rdquo; Ramachandran said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERamachandran is co-principal investigator along with SCS Assistant Professor faculty \u003Cstrong\u003EAshutosh Dhekne\u003C\/strong\u003E and Professors \u003Cstrong\u003EMustaque Ahamad, and Mostafa Ammar;\u003C\/strong\u003E School of Economics Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EShatakshee Dhongde\u003C\/strong\u003E; and City and Regional Planning Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ENisha\u0026nbsp;Botchwey\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"With National Science Foundation funding, the group will deploy edge-based information services to increase internet access for the community."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2021-09-29 17:13:03","changed_gmt":"2021-09-29 17:13:23","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"649162":{"id":"649162","type":"image","title":"Welcome to the 404: A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Atlanta","body":null,"created":"1627841851","gmt_created":"2021-08-01 18:17:31","changed":"1627841851","gmt_changed":"2021-08-01 18:17:31","alt":"","file":{"fid":"246464","name":"Screen Shot 2021-08-01 at 2.02.23 PM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202021-08-01%20at%202.02.23%20PM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202021-08-01%20at%202.02.23%20PM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":2150315,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202021-08-01%20at%202.02.23%20PM.png?itok=jp8W3sFS"}}},"media_ids":["649162"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"650427":{"#nid":"650427","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computer Science Graduate Students Foster Community","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGraduate students in the School of Computer Science (SCS) have formed a new student association, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scsgsa.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESCS Graduate Student Association\u003C\/a\u003E. The group hosts social events, career workshops, and provides support for SCS students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter the faculty held a graduate student listening session in December 2020, it was clear students wanted more peer support.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo this end, a group of graduate students started creating programing to connect to their fellow students. The first event was a game night and photo contest judged by Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandra Boldyreva\u003C\/strong\u003E held on Gathertown, a participatory video chat platform that creates a virtual party environment. Next they hosted a panel called \u0026quot;Things nobody told me about a Ph.D.!\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the success of early programming, the group formed and officially registered as the first-ever School of Computer Science Graduate Student Association (SCS GSA), which officially launched in August.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s great to see our students take the initiative to come together and form this organization,\u0026rdquo; SCS Chair \u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E said. \u0026ldquo;I look forward to the SCS GSA contributing to an increased vitality in our school\u0026rsquo;s community.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe founders of the association say they hope to create a sense of belonging for students, improve student \u0026ndash; faculty relationships, and provide students with an opportunity to give back and become leaders.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I see it as an avenue to create cherished memories of our graduate school journeys beyond the walls of our research and labs,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EHarshit Daga\u003C\/strong\u003E, SCS GSA president and final-year Ph.D. student.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith this in mind, \u0026nbsp;SCS GSA\u0026rsquo;s programing is tailored to be both practical and personable. The group recently helped the school with onboarding the incoming master\u0026rsquo;s and Ph.D. students by combining them on a single \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/join.slack.com\/t\/gt-scs-grad\/signup\u0022\u003ESlack\u003C\/a\u003E platform. For the semester the team has planned events such as a Ph.D. welcoming event, monthly TGIF gatherings, and townhalls.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I envision GSA to better the lives of graduate students by improving the mental health and well-being of the student body and providing opportunities for them to succeed,\u0026rdquo; said third-year Ph.D. student and treasurer \u003Cstrong\u003ESharjeel Khan\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong with Daga and Khan, the GSA leadership team includes: fourth-year Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EBhuvesh Kumar\u003C\/strong\u003E as vice president, second-year Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EManasvini Sethuraman\u003C\/strong\u003E as events chair, second-year Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EMehrdad Ghadiri\u003C\/strong\u003E as student and faculty affairs chair, and third-year Ph.D. student Kuchhal as communications chair. 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Now she\u0026rsquo;s bringing this expertise to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/software.imdea.org\/\u0022\u003EMadrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Software Development Technologies (IMDEA)\u003C\/a\u003E as a tenure-track assistant professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I really wanted to stay in academia so I could work on cutting-edge research and problems I am excited about, and lead my own research group,\u0026rdquo; Doudali said\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoudali will build from her research on memory systems, using machine learning to optimize resource management. IMDEA is a world-renowned research institution that builds cost-effective and high-quality software.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Spanish location also lets Doudali establish herself in the European research community she started in when she completed her undergraduate education at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am not just going to be a professor but part of a community, collaborating with researchers and industry partners, attending conferences, reviewing papers, and having even more exposure to cutting-edge ideas,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThriving at Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearch collaborations have always been important to Doudali, who chose SCS for her Ph.D. for this reason.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech is a great place to do research because it\u0026rsquo;s big, very diverse, and you have a lot of support,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA big part of the support Doudali had was her advisor, SCS Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/home\/ada\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAda Gavrilovska\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who introduced her to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/634916\/scs-phd-student-forefront-emerging-memory-systems-research\u0022\u003Eheterogeneous memory systems research\u003C\/a\u003E. This area builds novel systems that use new memory hardware technologies with maximum application and resource efficiency.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoudali\u0026rsquo;s dissertation contributed system-level mechanisms to manage heterogeneous memory resources with machine learning methods. It provided the design foundations for the practical use of machine learning and lays the grounds for future use of machine learning and computer vision methods for resource management.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer work has received numerous accolades: a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/623810\/machine-learning-makes-memory-management-more-efficient\u0022\u003Ebest paper award finalist\u003C\/a\u003E at the 28th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2019) and a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/641655\/phd-student-rising-star-computer-science\u0022\u003ERising Star Award\u003C\/a\u003E for Doudali.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong with guiding her research, Gavrilovska also advised on Doudali\u0026rsquo;s career track. Although Doudali did several industry internships, including VMWare, AMD Research, and Dell EMC, Gavrilovska was very supportive and encouraging during Doudali\u0026rsquo;s academic job search.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Having a female role model has helped me immensely,\u0026rdquo; Doudali said. \u0026ldquo;She was always very good at letting me improve my technical and soft skills and encouraging of service work. It\u0026rsquo;s very important to work with someone who is not only a great researcher, but a lifelong mentor.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Legacy of Service\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoudali hopes to pay it forward as a professor herself by mentoring students. Service has been an important part of Doudali\u0026rsquo;s career at Georgia Tech. In fact because her Ph.D. visit day convinced her to attend SCS, and she volunteered on visit day every year during her time at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When you have a nice experience, you want to recreate it for future generations,\u0026rdquo; Doudali said. \u0026ldquo;It was one of the early signs of me wanting to go academia because I really like to mentor students and give advice about Tech and Atlanta.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter discovering this passion, Doudali decided to be more involved than just one day a year. She helped found the SCS Graduate Student Association to advocate for and bring the school\u0026rsquo;s graduate students together. Although Doudali will be graduating before the group can be official, she will help with alumni relations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoudali also held multiple roles at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Hellenic Society for Greek students. 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These range from the ability to sort faculty members by school to being able to sort events by type and function.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research needed to complete such a major transformation was compiled by two student teams from the School of Interactive Computing master\u0026rsquo;s in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mshci.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EHuman Computer Interaction (HCI) program\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeam members\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EHarshali Wadge,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESantiago Arconada Alvarez,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrabodh Sakhardande, Shihui Ruan, Jordan Hill, Jordan Cox, Chaoyuan Luo, Yuhan Zhou,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ELu Meng\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;were all leads on this research as part of the HCI Special Topics class taught by Senior Research Scientist\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ECarrie Bruce\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese student teams spent the 2019 Fall semester assembling a series of evidence-based design methods, field surveys, and testing groups that were used to inform the overall user experience of this new site.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the student teams\u0026rsquo; initial research and the efforts of a dedicated team of staff, the college has successfully condensed several thousand pages of content into hundreds. 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The workshop received a strong response, which organizers say indicates a growing desire for ethics at the center of computer science courses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMembers of the College of Computing\u0026rsquo;s Division of Computing Instruction, the Schools of Interactive Computing, Computational Science and Engineering, Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, along with attendees from Georgia State all participated in the online workshop.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s really gratifying to have broad representation because it demonstrates the desire for people from so many different areas to think more deeply about the role of ethics in our education,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the School of Computer Science and Fleming Chair in Telecommunications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the workshop was to help instructors consider ways in which to implement ethics as a central piece in courses not just later in a student\u0026rsquo;s study, but from the very beginning. There\u0026rsquo;s an issue of urgency, Zegura said, that needed to be considered.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Computing has reached a point where it is being used for critical decision making that really affects people\u0026rsquo;s lives,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;The need to use computing responsibly has moved up incredibly. And if we don\u0026rsquo;t talk about ethics early in the curriculum, we\u0026rsquo;re sending a message that it\u0026rsquo;s not important. If you only hear about it in one course and it\u0026rsquo;s later in your career, then what does that say about the importance? Students see that.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile official plans aren\u0026rsquo;t currently in place to continue the program, Zegura said the idea is to continue this as a series of activities that are responsive to what people\u0026rsquo;s needs are, specifically those who want to do a better job of embedding ethics into their computer science curriculum.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech graduate \u003Cstrong\u003EKathy Pham (CS \u0026rsquo;07, MS CS \u0026rsquo;09)\u003C\/strong\u003E, now at Mozilla, has been instrumental in engaging the computer science community from 15-20 universities on focusing on ethics, Zegura said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLF0CYxpffvKx5W-y_xJ9xhrGapmeF70Og\u0022\u003EPortions of the workshop can be viewed on YouTube here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"To help students begin thinking about ethics with regards to research, faculty at Georgia Tech \u2013 in conjunction with Mozilla \u2013 held the first workshop on integrating ethics and responsible computing into courses this summer."}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2021-07-19 13:16:20","changed_gmt":"2021-07-19 13:16:20","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"644759":{"id":"644759","type":"image","title":"Ethics stock image","body":null,"created":"1614365518","gmt_created":"2021-02-26 18:51:58","changed":"1614365518","gmt_changed":"2021-02-26 18:51:58","alt":"","file":{"fid":"244800","name":"AdobeStock_117212757.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/AdobeStock_117212757.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/AdobeStock_117212757.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":725547,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/AdobeStock_117212757.jpeg?itok=3tPD5rC9"}}},"media_ids":["644759"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mitchell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:david.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edavid.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"648840":{"#nid":"648840","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Phone Storage Prioritizes Developers Over Users","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen a user downloads a new app, they probably use just a few features. In fact, according a new study, people use only 10 percent of each app.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science (SCS) alumnus \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ashishbijlani\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAshish Bijlani\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E discovered this at the start of his Ph.D. when he tried to install an operating system update and was told he didn\u0026rsquo;t have enough space on his device.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t play a lot of games, take a lot of pictures, and have very few apps I installed myself, so I was shocked. I wanted to find out what was going on so I started to look into this,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBijlani spent his Ph.D. studying phone storage consumption to confirm how much space apps were really taking up and how little users were actually engaging with them. His solution is to make context-specific storage that follows the behavior of the user.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStudying Storage\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo determine how each app uses storage, Bijlani had to download the most popular apps and analyze their consumption. Downloading millions of apps to determine their storage size required a large distributed system. When Bijlani started the project in 2014, he downloaded 1.1 million apps; by 2016 the number was up to 2.2 million.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team analyzed popular apps released in two-year intervals from 2014 to 2019. When an app becomes especially popular, it often turns into a super app with more features than its initial purpose. For example, Uber may have started as a ride-sharing app, but now offers food delivery and scooter rental.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Developers add a lot of features so users stay engaged with the app because that\u0026rsquo;s how they monetize it,\u0026rdquo; Bijlani said. \u0026ldquo;But only a few users are going to use the majority of these features.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBijlani found that most users engage with just 10 percent of app after conducting a user study with 140 participants from the University of Buffalo\u0026rsquo;s phone lab testbed, where researchers can deploy Android changes to participants\u0026rsquo; phones and carry out studies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince these apps are optimized for performance, storage often gets ignored to the detriment of the user. For example, apps include residual files, such as logs on how users interact with ads, that never get cleaned up. There is no incentive for vendors to maximize storage because they can sell bigger phones or more cloud storage.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposing a Solution \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe phone lab also showed that though most users take advantage of just 10 percent of the app, they\u0026rsquo;re not all using the same percentage. With gaming apps, for example, some users are content to play just the first few levels, whereas others play the game to completion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBijlani believes apps could be context sensitive to users\u0026rsquo; behavior in the same way they already track screentime and Bluetooth devices. With that in mind, he developed a lightweight storage-tracing tool, Cosmos, that collects traces of how users interact with apps to determine the best customized storage model. For example, if a user only opens the weather app in the morning, then future phones could offload it for the rest of the day.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe presented this research at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sigmetrics.org\/sigmetrics2022\/\u0022\u003EACM SIGMETRICS\u003C\/a\u003E in June. Bijlani co-wrote the paper, \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3460095\u0022\u003EWhere did my 256 GB go? 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I wish all the graduating students the best of success and happiness in the future.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Ph.D. students included \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/prithayan.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrithayan Barua\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~bdeng33\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBobin Deng\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/grads\/r\/rding30\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERen Ding,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/prasungera\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrasun Gera\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ramyadhadidi.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERamyad Hadidi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, Jinho Jung, Joshua Kimball, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~xli354\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EXiangyu Li\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~snewman36\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStacey Truex\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/grads\/j\/jwang774\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJun-Kun Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. The master\u0026rsquo;s students were \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jonathan-ciak-190a8b\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJonathan Ciak\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/apurvsinghgautam.me\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EApruv Singh Gautam\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, Andrew Leitheiser, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/maneel-modi\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EManeel Modi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tanishq.page\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETanishq Rupaal\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rahulsaranjame\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERahul Saranjame\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, Farzam Tafreshian, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ruhao-tang\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERuhao Tang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, Kai Yi\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yiwen-zhou-903104204\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYiwen Zhou\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe students are off to exciting futures. Gautam, who was advised by Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iisp.gatech.edu\/mustaque-ahamad\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMustaque Ahamad\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, will be a threat researcher at Cyble after graduation. His experience as a teaching assistant prepared him for the role.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My favorite memory is TAing CS 4235\/6035 Intro to Info Security for three semesters\u0026rdquo; Guatam said. \u0026ldquo;I really enjoyed helping students and also got to learn a lot from that experience.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESaranjame, who also was advised by and TA\u0026rsquo;d for Ahamad, will be a security engineer at Praetorian.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBarua, who was advised by Sarkar, will join SiFive, an open-source hardware startup.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFour master\u0026#39;s students and 11 Ph.D. students graduated earlier in the academic year and are headed off to academia (EPFL, UCLA) and industry (Facebook, IBM Research).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet all the graduate students will miss the SCS community in different ways. Hadidi, who studied computer architecture under Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~hyesoon\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHyesoon Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, will remember how supportive SCS was on every level, including catered events.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;I could go back to lab without worrying about what to eat when hunger strikes,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The School of Computer Science (SCS) graduated 11 Ph.D. students and 10 master\u2019s in cybersecurity students this spring."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2021-06-10 18:28:58","changed_gmt":"2021-06-10 18:53:24","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648057":{"id":"648057","type":"image","title":"phd 2021","body":null,"created":"1623351044","gmt_created":"2021-06-10 18:50:44","changed":"1623351175","gmt_changed":"2021-06-10 18:52:55","alt":"graduates","file":{"fid":"246007","name":"PhD Graduation Spring 2021_MG_9199-1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PhD%20Graduation%20Spring%202021_MG_9199-1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PhD%20Graduation%20Spring%202021_MG_9199-1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3077385,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/PhD%20Graduation%20Spring%202021_MG_9199-1.jpg?itok=JiaBJN6i"}}},"media_ids":["648057"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"647819":{"#nid":"647819","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Training Algorithm for Faster Deployment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMachine learning (ML) is the future of computing, but it\u0026rsquo;s still fairly inaccessible to many developers without ML expertise or deep pockets. Usually, developers need to train ML models for a wide variety of deployment targets while keeping in mind the hardware constraints. Training multiple models this way is a slow, expensive task, but Georgia Tech researchers have come up with a way to make it faster and cheaper.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECompOFA is an algorithm that trains hundreds of models simultaneously and makes this process inexpensive by identifying and focusing on the most efficient possible models.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This research is definitely in the spirit of democratizing ML,\u0026rdquo; School of Computer Science (SCS) Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~atumanov\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexey Tumanov\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said. \u0026ldquo;Only large companies with resources can afford to do research like this. Usually, for state of the art accuracy, you need money, a lot of GPUs at your disposal, or a lot of time.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChallenges with Training Multiple Models\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETraditionally, developers have to design and train ML models for each platform on which they want to deploy their application. This is a slow, costly process, requiring ML experts to put in several days\u0026rsquo; worth of computation on expensive hardware. Techniques like Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aim to automatically find good ML models but are even more resource intensive.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore recently, weight-sharing training algorithms were proposed to produce trillions of models during a query. However, only some models in this large search space can be \u0026ldquo;good\u0026rdquo; \u0026ndash; the vast majority of remaining models are inefficient and thus waste computation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers realized it\u0026rsquo;s possible to extract just the optimal models from this search space, \u0026nbsp;giving the most accurate models at a given latency target.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our observation is it\u0026rsquo;s not really necessary for specialists to spend time, resources, and effort to train this many architecture candidates if there is a high probability they won\u0026rsquo;t be optimal,\u0026rdquo; Tumanov said. \u0026ldquo;If we reduce the suboptimal space, we can come up with a faster training procedure.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir second key observation is that the design space, or a collection of hundreds of ML models, doesn\u0026rsquo;t need to be as dense. Rather, the researchers only need to pick the models that are sufficiently different in their size \u0026mdash;any smaller differences are too fine-grained to be distinguishable \u0026mdash; a systems insight leveraged to further reduce computation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPruning the Architecture\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce optimal models are identified and extracted, the architecture space is pruned. This makes the training speed 2x faster and search speed 200x faster. What originally would take four hours now takes 70 seconds. CompOFA also halves the cost and CO\u003Csub\u003E2\u003C\/sub\u003E emissions over previous state-of-the-art methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You can remove models safely while keeping performance objectives,\u0026rdquo; SCS master\u0026rsquo;s student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sahnimanas.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EManas Sahni\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said. \u0026ldquo;We receive results that are just as good at half the time to train the model.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECompOFA can produce a family of models. While a lot of research in this area focuses on searching for and training a single architecture, the researchers wanted to produce a family of models that can run simultaneously, saving costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations. Tumanov and Sahni wrote the paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/openreview.net\/pdf?id=IgIk8RRT-Z\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECompOFA \u0026ndash; Compound Once-For-All Networks for Faster Multi-Platform Deployment\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E, \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003Ewith SCS master\u0026rsquo;s student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/github.com\/shreyavarshini\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShreya Varshini\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and SCS Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~akhare39\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlind Khare\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CompOFA is an algorithm that trains hundreds of models simultaneously and makes this process inexpensive by identifying and focusing on the most efficient possible models."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2021-05-28 15:50:05","changed_gmt":"2021-05-28 16:53:06","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647821":{"id":"647821","type":"image","title":"CompOFA","body":null,"created":"1622220561","gmt_created":"2021-05-28 16:49:21","changed":"1622220561","gmt_changed":"2021-05-28 16:49:21","alt":"Compofa","file":{"fid":"245916","name":"compofa-overview.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/compofa-overview.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/compofa-overview.png","mime":"image\/png","size":202358,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/compofa-overview.png?itok=FaccWQpV"}}},"media_ids":["647821"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"647688":{"#nid":"647688","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Programming Languages Researcher Wins Facebook Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science (SCS) Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yuanbo-li-2a2801132\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYuanbo Li\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has won the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.fb.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/announcing-the-recipients-of-the-2021-facebook-fellowship-awards\/\u0022\u003EFacebook Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E. Li will use the fellowship for concurrent computing research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECreated to fund research in top computing areas, the fellowship provides tuition support for two years and a $42,000 stipend. It also offers winners the opportunity to visit Facebook\u0026rsquo;s campus for a Fellowship Summit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am very honored and excited to win the fellowship,\u0026rdquo; Li said. \u0026ldquo;I am very grateful for the help from my advisor and collaborators as well.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELi will use the fellowship to explore better static analysis techniques for concurrent programs. These programs execute several computations simultaneously. As Moore\u0026rsquo;s law ends, concurrent computation could be a solution. However, detecting bugs is challenging even for experienced software developers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am delighted to hear that Yuanbo had been selected for the Facebook Fellowship award,\u0026rdquo; said Li\u0026rsquo;s advisor, SCS Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/helloqirun.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQirun Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;It is a highly competitive program that well recognizes his past accomplishments and future potential.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Computer Science (SCS) Ph.D. student Yuanbo Li has won the Facebook Fellowship."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2021-05-24 14:38:47","changed_gmt":"2021-05-24 14:52:19","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-05-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-05-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647690":{"id":"647690","type":"image","title":"Yuanbo Li","body":null,"created":"1621867901","gmt_created":"2021-05-24 14:51:41","changed":"1621867901","gmt_changed":"2021-05-24 14:51:41","alt":"Yuanbo Li","file":{"fid":"245872","name":"yuanbo_headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/yuanbo_headshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/yuanbo_headshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":737989,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/yuanbo_headshot.jpg?itok=MOt-Fkk9"}}},"media_ids":["647690"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"647283":{"#nid":"647283","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Machine Learning Center Awards Inaugural ML@GT Fellows","body":"","field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2021-05-10 14:02:50","changed_gmt":"2021-05-10 14:03:14","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"security dynamics","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3faFV6y","dateline":{"date":"2021-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"37041","name":"Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"647272":{"#nid":"647272","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CRNCH Announces New Fellow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/samanthanoorgt\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESamantha Lubaba Noor\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has been named a fellow of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.crnch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies\u003C\/a\u003E (CRNCH). Noor is a third-year Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My research highly aligns with the scope of the fellowship on novel computing paradigms,\u0026rdquo; Noor said. \u0026ldquo;It will also help me to reach a broader audience by presenting my work at the\u0026nbsp;CRNCH\u0026nbsp;Summit.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the fellowship period, she will work on plasmonic computing system. Surface plasmon is an electromagnetic wave that merges the miniaturization potential of electron and high-speed attributes of photon. Researchers can use surface plasmon to design logic devices and integrated circuits that\u0026nbsp;offer high-speed and high throughput computation with low footprint requirement. Plasmonic computing systems can be used in signal and data-processing applications in high-end server systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENoor\u0026rsquo;s project\u0026nbsp;focuses on the\u0026nbsp;design and optimization of the building blocks of a plasmonic computing network. As part of the project, she will design the couplers between plasmonic metal-insulator-metal (MIM) and metal-semiconductor-metal waveguides.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe will also explore the material choice for plasmonic MIM waveguide-based devices to determine best material factoring in energy efficiency,\u0026nbsp;footprint, and speed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECRNCH \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/642208\/crnch-creates-fellowship-program\u0022\u003Elaunched\u003C\/a\u003E the fellowship program in fall of 2020 to support innovative student research in post-Moore computing topics. The research center explores new computing paradigms after the end of Moore\u0026rsquo;s law.\u0026nbsp; Partnering with academics and industry, CRNCH researchers full-stack solutions on everything from quantum computing to approximate computation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Samantha Lubaba Noor has been named a fellow of the Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH)."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2021-05-07 20:41:10","changed_gmt":"2021-05-07 20:41:10","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647270":{"id":"647270","type":"image","title":"Samantha Noor","body":null,"created":"1620419317","gmt_created":"2021-05-07 20:28:37","changed":"1620419317","gmt_changed":"2021-05-07 20:28:37","alt":"Samantha Noor","file":{"fid":"245759","name":"pic_CRNCH.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pic_CRNCH.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pic_CRNCH.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":83557,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/pic_CRNCH.jpg?itok=U9GIjvmh"}}},"media_ids":["647270"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"576491","name":"CRNCH"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"647179":{"#nid":"647179","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Machine Learning to Present Seven Papers at Prestigious Deep Learning Conference","body":"","field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2021-05-05 13:06:08","changed_gmt":"2021-05-05 13:06:08","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3b63dtn","dateline":{"date":"2021-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"37041","name":"Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"647163":{"#nid":"647163","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Model Defense Strategy Prevents Cloning","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen a user enters a query into a deep neural network on the cloud, the model can offer a prediction. However, users aren\u0026rsquo;t the only ones who can use queries for their benefit. This easy access to the model\u0026rsquo;s predictions makes it easier for attackers to clone models, but Georgia Tech researchers are proposing a new strategy to keep models secure.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEnsemble of Diverse Models (EDM) diversifies the models in the cloud to create discontinuous predictions and severely weakens the attacker\u0026rsquo;s ability to clone a targeted model. The defense seamlessly works with other existing defenses, does not degrade accuracy, and only involves modest computational overheads.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;People generally make changes to a single model to prevent stealing, but we are proposing a different solution of using an ensemble of diverse models that makes model stealing harder to do,\u0026rdquo; said School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sanjay-kariyappa-74583924\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESanjay Kariyappa, \u003C\/strong\u003Ewho is advised by School of Computer Science Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EMoin Qureshi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow Cloning Works\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn several applications, model data is very inaccessible to attackers. The easiest way for them to steal secure data is to use out of distribution data (OOD) to query the target model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;An attacker does not have the in-distribution queries, but to clone models they do not need in-distribution queries, but OOD queries make it easier to figure out what function is and steal the model,\u0026rdquo; said Qureshi.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the target model\u0026rsquo;s predictions, attackers can train a clone model. This clone model learns to approximate the target model\u0026rsquo;s decision boundary and can achieve a high level of accuracy on in-distribution data.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow EDM Changes Things\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEDM, however, is made up of more than just one model. This research proposes a novel training technique to create an ensemble of diverse models that are harder to clone.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGiven an input query, a hashing algorithm will select a different model to provide an output. Each EDM model is trained to produce dissimilar predictions for OOD queries. In effect, these models provide highly discontinuous predictions for the attacker\u0026rsquo;s OOD queries. These discontinuous predictions make it almost impossible for an attacker to build a high-accuracy clone model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the researchers only used five diverse models, the number of models in the ensemble can be scaled up to improve security. When evaluated on several image classification tasks, EDM weakens the accuracy of clone models up to almost 40 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers will present at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iclr.cc\/\u0022\u003EInternational Conference on Learning Representations\u003C\/a\u003E. Kariyappa and Qureshi wrote the paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/openreview.net\/forum?id=LucJxySuJcE\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProtecting DNNs from Theft using an Ensemble of Diverse Models\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, with University of Michigan Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAtul Prakash\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers are proposing a new strategy to keep models secure."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2021-05-04 19:37:31","changed_gmt":"2021-05-04 19:54:33","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-05-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-05-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647169":{"id":"647169","type":"image","title":"EDM","body":null,"created":"1620157991","gmt_created":"2021-05-04 19:53:11","changed":"1620157991","gmt_changed":"2021-05-04 19:53:11","alt":"How EDM works","file":{"fid":"245706","name":"Screen Shot 2021-04-29 at 12.12.53 AM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202021-04-29%20at%2012.12.53%20AM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202021-04-29%20at%2012.12.53%20AM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":119112,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202021-04-29%20at%2012.12.53%20AM.png?itok=Ivl57VIy"}}},"media_ids":["647169"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"646716":{"#nid":"646716","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Cache Attack is Fastest in Decade","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new way of attacking a computer\u0026rsquo;s data storage cache is the fastest of its kind and may lead to stronger cybersecurity defenses. Known as Streamline, the new cache attach technique was developed by GT researchers and is more than three times faster than all other covert channel attacks and is the first attack to go faster than 1MB\/s after more than a decade of research in this area.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is the second cache attack paper for School of Computer Science Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~moin\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMoin Qureshi\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E group, who have been working on secure cache architectures for the past three years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It helps to think like an attacker,\u0026rdquo; said School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/gururajshome\/home\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGururaj Saileshwar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E, the lead author of the paper. \u0026ldquo;It is important to improve our understanding of attacks before a real attacker in the wild does so. In the process, we came up with the Streamline attack that is faster than all existing attacks and has fewer requirements.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Better attacks motivate better defenses,\u0026rdquo; Qureshi said. \u0026ldquo;Advancing the attack enables us to come up with good defenses for making cache memories secure.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow Covert Channel Attacks Work\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this type of attack, attackers use a covert channel to communicate and transmit data without detection. Memory caches are susceptible because they are often shared between processors. Such channels have become more popular recently after they were used to transmit data in speculative execution attacks like Spectre and Meltdown.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMemory cache covert channel attacks take advantage of the time difference between access to processor caches and DRAM memory. Senders can influence whether a shared address is in the cache and manipulate the receiver\u0026rsquo;s access to it. The two fastest attacks have been the Flush+Reload and the Flush+Flush.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a Flush+Reload, a sender installs an address in a cache and a receiver uses cache flush instructions to evict a shared address. In a Flush+Flush, a sender installs an address in the cache then the receiver measures the latency of the flush to access this address.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA major disadvantage of this type of attack is that it requires access to cache flush instructions, which are disabled in many new CPUs. Also, bit-by-bit synchronization between the sender and receiver that considerably slows the attack. This has limited the bit rate of current attacks to 500-600 KB\/s for more than a decade.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow Streamline Works\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstead Streamline relies on asynchronous communication and makes the following improvements:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Col\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EStreamline communicates over a sequence of shared addresses that enables the sender to keep transmitting successive bits without waiting for the receiver.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EThe addresses are preserved until the receiver can access them.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EWhen the receiver accesses the address, they get evicted from the cache automatically due to cache-thrashing, the act of accessing a large sequence of addressees by the sender and receiver, without relying on flushing.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers tested Streamline on an Intel Skylake central processing unit and achieved a bit-rate of 1801 kilobytes\/second, which is 3.1 times faster than the previous fastest attack. Given that Streamline relies on generic cache properties, it works on all architectures.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESaileshwar and Qureshi wrote the paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=2ahUKEwi6m__78OzvAhU6RDABHQ9tCSoQFjAAegQIBBAD\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fmemlab.ece.gatech.edu%2Fpapers%2FASPLOS_2021_1.pdf\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw2PDjK7N4Xt1iws9gN6DBUw\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStreamline: A Fast, Flushless Cache Covert-Channel Attack by Enabling Asynchronous Collusion\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, with University of Illinois\u0026mdash;Urbana Champaign Assistant Professor Christopher Fletcher. 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The most accurate forecasts are ranked on the Top Forecasters page.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsers can also provide their own forecasts and learn later how their forecasts performed relative to other users and professional modelers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Seeing how your predictions compare to others on different outcomes such as daily cases or daily deaths is what intrigues users,\u0026rdquo; New York University undergraduate research \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rachelombok.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERachel Ombok\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said. \u0026ldquo;Being able to see the shift in your own predictions and see what your forecasts over time can be useful to researchers, and also helps to engage users who may have private information about the pandemic\u0026rsquo;s spread in their region.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team believes the ranking system encourages users to develop better prediction models by creating a competitive environment around forecast accuracy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFuture iterations of the site will include more data to forecast on hospitalizations and infections, as well segment by country, state, and other regions. The team also plans to make the interface more customizable so users can write their own programs and use statistics or machine learning for automated submissions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We want people to see what forecast modeling is like first-hand, and we also want to use our evaluation metrics to quantify the accuracy of user and institution forecasts,\u0026rdquo; College undergraduate \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/aniruddhamurali\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAniruddha Murali\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe website was created by College of Computing undergraduates Muraliand Yoo and New York University undergraduate\u003Cstrong\u003E Ombok\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project is part of a Covid-19 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.covideas20reu.org\/\u0022\u003EResearch Experience for Undergraduates\u003C\/a\u003E (REU) started by School of Computer Science Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~jabernethy9\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJake Abernethy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E with School of Computational Science and Engineering Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~badityap\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAditya Prakash\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, University of Michigan Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/michiganross.umich.edu\/faculty-research\/faculty\/eric-schwartz\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEric Schwartz\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and University of Colorado Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bowaggoner.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBo Waggoner\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. The project was funded by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/crssprgm\/reu\/\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E and Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ideas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Engineering and Science\u003C\/a\u003E (IDEaS).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A team of undergraduates has created a forecasting dashboard that aggregates and compares prediction data to determine most likely outcomes."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2021-01-19 17:23:25","changed_gmt":"2021-01-19 17:24:25","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"643069":{"id":"643069","type":"image","title":"Covid Dashboard","body":null,"created":"1611077042","gmt_created":"2021-01-19 17:24:02","changed":"1611077042","gmt_changed":"2021-01-19 17:24:02","alt":"Forecast dashboard","file":{"fid":"244184","name":"Screen Shot 2021-01-19 at 12.22.58 PM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202021-01-19%20at%2012.22.58%20PM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202021-01-19%20at%2012.22.58%20PM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":200141,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202021-01-19%20at%2012.22.58%20PM.png?itok=OPa9pr6f"}}},"media_ids":["643069"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"642944":{"#nid":"642944","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Assistant Professor Named to IEEE\u2019s AI\u2019s 10 to Watch List","body":"","field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2021-01-14 18:58:54","changed_gmt":"2021-01-14 18:58:54","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"security dynamics","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3byNVOS","dateline":{"date":"2021-01-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-01-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"37041","name":"Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"589608","name":"Machine Learning"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"642724":{"#nid":"642724","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Linear Systems Research Wins SODA Best Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science researchers have won the Best Paper award at\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/conferences\/cm\/conference\/soda21\u0022\u003E ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms\u003C\/a\u003E (SODA) for their new approach to solving linear systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~rpeng\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERichard Peng\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eand Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~vempala\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESantosh Vempala\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who holds the Frederick Storey Chair in Computing, discovered that by combining symbolic computing tools with random matrix theory, sparse linear systems can be solved slightly faster than directly invoking matrix multiplication \/ inversion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESODA is the premier conference in algorithms and is known to be highly competitive. This year\u0026rsquo;s conference received 637 submissions and accepted 180 papers. Although up to three papers can be selected, the program committee chose just one paper for the best paper award.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe history of linear systems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESolving a linear system is one of the most foundational computational problems in science and engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This problem has been around for a long time, even before computers,\u0026rdquo; said Vempala. \u0026ldquo;Much of modern computation runs on linear systems \u0026mdash; including recommendation engines like web search, machine learning, and scientific computing simulations.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlgorithms for solving systems of linear equations are taught as early as grade school, with the most common ones involving manipulating matrices, which in turn represent coefficients on the variables. Yet as their applications become more complex, these methods become less efficient as the matrices become more costly to manipulate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The matrix-based algorithms work fine when you have a room full of mechanical calculators trying to solve a system on 50 variables, where the matrix fits on a single large blackboard,\u0026rdquo; said Peng. \u0026ldquo;One of the big differences in modern data is this matrix gets really big: instead of 50x50, it\u0026rsquo;s a billion x billion. Most of the entries start off as 0s, so it\u0026rsquo;s often not even feasible to write down dense matrices such as the inverse due to storage constraints.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne example of a large sparse matrix is modern networks. The matrix for a website has every vertex link to another website, creating a gigantic matrix. This matrix is also naturally sparse: it\u0026rsquo;s mostly made up of 0s. Similar situations also arise in everything from weather simulation to measuring road traffic. As a result, tremendous computing power, including supercomputers,\u0026nbsp; has been devoted to solving linear systems and problems related to them. For a long time, problems related to solving linear systems routinely consumed the most computational power, until the recent emergence of blockchains.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince the 1970s, computer scientists have preferred using iterative methods to solve large sparse linear systems due to the difficulty of storing dense matrices corresponding to inverses. Surprisingly little is known about the best possible runtime guarantees of these algorithms on arbitrary systems; analyzing iterative methods is particularly complex because more and more bits need to be maintained with each step to ensure overall accuracy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeedups via batching\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPeng and Vempala realized they could solve the systems using fewer steps by considering many partial solutions in parallel. Instead of iterating one vector at a time, they iterate on a block of s vectors. This reduces the number of iterations, and effectively the overhead in bit complexity, from n to n \/ s.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn the other hand, the interactions between the batches of s vectors across different steps become more complex. Instead of a single value, they become s-by-s blocks.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore surprisingly, the interactions across steps are also structured. In the Gram matrix, which measures the pair-wise projections between steps, the interactions between steps that add up to the same value are exactly the same. Effectively steps 1 and 7, steps 2 and 6, and steps 3 and 5 all have the same interactions.Turning this idea into an algorithm relies on generalized tools developed from symbolic computing, namely for Hankel matrices, to work in this more general block setting.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESemi-random matrices\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESymbolic computing methods are limited because they only work under exact arithmetic. Many previous works studied systems over finite fields, where there are no round-off errors. So existing literature does not address the bit-complexity issue at the crux of the runtime efficiency of iterative methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn order to bound the bit complexity of intermediate steps, a major undertaking in this research became lower bounding how close the block Krylov space is to being degenerate, or equivalently, how stable is the computation. A simplified version of this phenomenon arises inpicking n random numbers between 0 and 1: the closest pair should be roughly n\u003Csup\u003E-2\u003C\/sup\u003E apart. For the block Krylov method, however, this analysis has to be done to the batches of high-dimensional vectors that arise throughout the iterative steps.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research critically builds upon ideas developed from smoothed analysis: the study of near-degeneracies in problems under small random perturbations. This is a field of study going back two decades, originating with the study of perturbed linear programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWide implications\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new algorithm is a significant contribution to not only linear systems solving, but also the understanding of optimization and random matrix theory. \u0026ldquo;The\u0026nbsp; conjecture was that you cannot solve a system faster than matrix multiplication,\u0026rdquo; said Vempala. \u0026ldquo;The fact you can go beyond that opens up entire new lines of research.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/496534270\u0022\u003Ewill present\u003C\/a\u003E the paper,\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2007.10254\u0022\u003E Solving Sparse Linear Systems Faster than Matrix Multiplication\u003C\/a\u003E, at SODA Jan. 10 through 13.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Computer Science researchers have won the Best Paper award at ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) for their new approach to solving linear systems."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2021-01-08 16:30:22","changed_gmt":"2021-01-08 16:32:28","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"642725":{"id":"642725","type":"image","title":"block Krylov space","body":null,"created":"1610123469","gmt_created":"2021-01-08 16:31:09","changed":"1610123469","gmt_changed":"2021-01-08 16:31:09","alt":"block Krylov space","file":{"fid":"244078","name":"image1.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/image1_1.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/image1_1.png","mime":"image\/png","size":67915,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/image1_1.png?itok=0W7gyUgA"}}},"media_ids":["642725"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"642649":{"#nid":"642649","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Receives NVIDIA Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/damanisana.wordpress.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESana Damani\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has won a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/04\/graduate-fellowships-gpu-computing-research\/\u0022\u003E2021 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E for her research on compiler optimizations for GPU hardware.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Computer Science (SCS) Ph.D. student received one of five fellowships for 2021-2022 from a pool of more than 350 applicants. The fellowship includes $50,000 in research funding, a NVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU), and a guaranteed summer internship.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The fellowship is a great honor,\u0026rdquo; Damani said. \u0026ldquo;I am very excited about the opportunity to go back to NVIDIA, and further my research on GPU compiler optimizations.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is not Damani\u0026rsquo;s first experience with the company. She was an engineer at NVIDIA for five years before starting her Ph.D. at Georgia Tech in 2017. Her work enables programmers to exploit GPU hardware features to improve performance. She specifically works on compiler optimization, which transforms a program to run with improved performance on a specific architecture.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGPUs are used to accelerate deep learning, gaming, visual effects, and high-performance computing applications. They also power 40 percent of the TOP500 supercomputers. As a result, compiler optimizations for GPUs can speed up a wide range of applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne thread in her research has been to redesign classical compiler optimizations so that they can be applied to the unique hardware characteristics of GPUs. As an example, Damani redesigned common subexpression elimination, a well-known compiler transformation, so that it can be used to identify duplicate code across diverged threads in GPUs and instead execute them in a converged parallel code region. This optimization results in a reduced execution time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother project she has worked on is speculative reconvergence. This programmer-guided compiler optimization improves performance by maximizing parallelism within time-consuming code blocks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDamani\u0026rsquo;s research has also been used to accelerate real-time ray tracing, a computer graphics technique for creating realistic lighting in video games, as well as Monte Carlo simulations used in physics, finance, and medicine. She is advised by SCS Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/vivek-sarkar\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and is a member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/habanero.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EHabanero Extreme Scale Software Research Lab\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I was delighted to hear that Sana had been selected for this highly competitive fellowship award,\u0026rdquo; Sarkar said.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;It is well-deserved recognition of her accomplishments and future potential.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sana Damani has won a 2021 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship for her research on compiler optimizations for GPU hardware."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2021-01-07 16:53:38","changed_gmt":"2021-01-07 16:54:56","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"642650":{"id":"642650","type":"image","title":"Sana Damani","body":null,"created":"1610038464","gmt_created":"2021-01-07 16:54:24","changed":"1610038464","gmt_changed":"2021-01-07 16:54:24","alt":"Sana Damani","file":{"fid":"244071","name":"Sana.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sana.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sana.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1187951,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sana.jpg?itok=DGZX7wJZ"}}},"media_ids":["642650"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"642208":{"#nid":"642208","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CRNCH Creates Fellowship Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.crnch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies\u003C\/a\u003E (CRNCH) has launched a new fellowship program to support innovative student research in post-Moore computing topics. The first three fellows are Ph.D. students \u003Cstrong\u003EDingtian Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cstrong\u003E Muliang Zhu\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EChunxing Yin\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fellowship awards partial funding for four Ph.D. students working on novel research topics that fit in with CRNCH\u0026rsquo;s mission of post-Moore software and hardware designs. Fellows are required to create a poster and paper during their term, and also present at the annual CRNCH Summit in January of each year. This gives them the opportunity prepare for publication and the job market.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECRNCH is a research center that focuses on exploring new computing paradigms after the end of Moore\u0026rsquo;s law, sometimes called the post-Moore\u0026rsquo;s era. The center partners with academics and industry to explore full-stack solutions on everything from quantum computing to approximate computation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.crnch.gatech.edu\/content\/crnch-fellowship\u0022\u003EApplications\u003C\/a\u003E for the spring CRNCH fellowship are due Dec. 18, 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMeet the fellows:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~dzhang95\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDingtian Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool:\u003C\/strong\u003E School of Interactive Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvisor:\u003C\/strong\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ubicomp.cc.gatech.edu\/gregory-d-abowd\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGregory Abowd\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy did you apply for the CRNCH fellowship?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nI am developing computational materials that can weave into the fabric of everyday objects. My work falls under the categories of analog computing, computing based on novel device physics and materials, and optical computing, which is in line with the interest of CRNCH.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat project will you be working on during the fellowship?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWe are particularly interested in developing large-scaled sensing systems that can perform light-based sensing on the surfaces of everyday objects to detect implicit and explicit human activities. Such systems need to be self-sustained and easy to maintain, cost effective to scale, conformal to everyday objects, and protective of user privacy. Conventional vision systems based on cameras struggle to keep up with the ubiquitous deployment on these dimensions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe are developing computational photodetectors that not only sense, but also process the signal in the analog domain to extract mid-level vision features, reducing the inherent complexity and latency from digital signal acquisition and computing. This does not only make the system low-power and scalable, but also prevents capturing unwanted information from images. We adopt emerging organic semiconductor (OSC) devices in fabricating computational photodetectors with lightweight, thin, flexible, and conformal form factors. Computational photodetectors will enable a wide range of large-scale applications such as smart environment, health monitoring, asset tracking, and activity recognition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/muliang-zhu-18389211a\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMuliang Zhu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool: \u003C\/strong\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvisor: \u003C\/strong\u003EProfessor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/ali-adibi\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAli Adibi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy did you apply for the CRNCH fellowship?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBeing part of a larger community that focuses on new frontiers of computing technology is a great benefit for all people like me in the optical computing area. Because of this, I applied for the fellowship to bring the concept of computing using ultracompact photonic devices to CRNCH.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat project will you be working on during the fellowship?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nI will be working on nanostructure optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) for nonlinear control of light at the subwavelength scale, aiming at using photonics for neural-network-type computing. The main part of the project I am currently focusing on is the development of nonlinear meta-structure that can provide the optical nonlinearity that is needed for the development of any brain-inspired computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chunxing-yin-965a9a58\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChunxing Yin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool: \u003C\/strong\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvisor: \u003C\/strong\u003EProfessor\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vuduc.org\/v2\/\u0022\u003ERich Vuduc\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy did you apply for the CRNCH fellowship?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMy research focuses on neural networks compression using tensorization, which offers a systematic way to trade-off storage, execution time, and accuracy with respect to the capabilities of a given hardware platform. My advisor and I believe that this work fits well within CRNCH and would benefit from feedback from the CRNCH community, so we applied for this fellowship.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat project will you be working on during the fellowship?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWe propose to evaluate to what extent convolutional layers and embedding layers of recommender systems can be trained in a reduced form using the techniques of low-rank tensor train decomposition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERecent studies have shown an alarming growth in the environmental burden from AI, for example the number of parameters in state-of-the-art language models increased to over 175 billion for OpenAI\u0026rsquo;s GPT-3. To significantly reduce the environmental footprint of AI, we need order-of-magnitude reduction in the infrastructure demand while maintaining or even outperforming state-of-the-art model accuracy. We are exploring a new algorithmic approach, tensor train decomposition, to cope with the large memory requirement of DNNs. The core idea is to replace large weight tensors with a sequence of small tensor decompositions that trades of memory storage with computation. Initially, we will study the compressed networks in the context of heterogeneous CPU-GPU architectures. 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Along with being a Georgia Tech alumnus, Balasubramaniyan is co-founder and CEO of Pindrop.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper, titled\u003Cem\u003E PinDr0p: Using Single-Ended Audio Features to Determine Call Provenance\u003C\/em\u003E, was a team effort supported by Balasubramaniyan, Ahamad, Aamir Poonawalla, Michael T. Hunter, and Patrick Traynor. According to Balasubramaniyan, it has had a significant impact on security research and practice.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are so honored to have received this award,\u0026rdquo; said Balasubramaniyan. \u0026ldquo;This shows the impact this research has had in a world of instant gratification.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPublished in 2010, the research details the team\u0026rsquo;s novel approach to identifying and characterizing networks used to make calls in order to create detailed fingerprints for a call\u0026rsquo;s source. 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The opportunity to be part the College of Computing\u0026rsquo;s collaborative environment led him to the School of Computer Science (SCS) in 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow as its new chair, Sarkar wants to increase the scale of the school\u0026rsquo;s research leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech is a place where we can do big things at scale, make big bets, and be very supportive of our colleagues,\u0026rdquo; he said of taking on the role.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFinding a future in post-Moore\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESarkar started his career in parallel computing at IBM, but he saw new potential with the end of Moore\u0026rsquo;s law \u0026mdash; the expectation that transistors double annualy in a commodity semiconductor chip.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The entire computing ecosystem that we have right now in the cloud is predicated on rich system software stacks contributed to by worldwide open-source communities,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;As hardware gets more complicated, a primary concern is that it becomes harder to program in ways that are only accessible to a small number of people with advanced degrees.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile at Rice University, he created his research group, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/habanero.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EHabanero Extreme Scale Research Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E, to develop an entire software stack for the new post-Moore world of heterogeneous hardware. Now, at Georgia Tech, the Habanero lab includes five research faculty members and 11 Ph.D. students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPartnering with faculty in this area was vital for his research into software for future hardware, and what attracted Sarkar to the College.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One of my big draws for coming to Georgia Tech was having colleagues who are world experts in post-Moore computing,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.conte.us\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETom Conte\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/a\u003E creation of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/crnch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH)\u003C\/a\u003E provided a great framework for my research group when I arrived.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt didn\u0026rsquo;t take long for Sarkar to participate in multiple collaborative research efforts on campus. Conte invited Sarkar to become the co-director of CRNCH to help broaden the center\u0026rsquo;s research scope. Sarkar also led a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) $4.5 million project on software-defined hardware with Conte and Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vuduc.org\/v2\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERichard Vuduc\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech, and other faculty at University of Illinois, University of Michigan, and University of Southern California.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe has other research collaborations under way with fellow SCS faculty: Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/david-devecsery\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Devecsery\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/taesoo.kim\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Senior Research Scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~jyoung9\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJeffrey Young\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~qzhang414\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQirun Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, as well as a the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/tushar-krishna\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETushar Krishna\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[Related Content: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/616979\/college-computing-professors-receive-darpa-contract-award-improve-software-and-hardware\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing Professors Receive DARPA Contract Award to Improve Software and Hardware Co-optimization\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EServing the community\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet service is just as important to Sarkar as research. He has always served both the global and local computing community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When you are part of a community, it\u0026rsquo;s great to be able to contribute in every way you can,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESarkar is on the Computing Research Association\u0026rsquo;s Board of Directors and the U.S. Department of Energy\u0026rsquo;s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC). He is also an Association of Computing Machinery Fellow and was recently \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/631932\/vivek-sarkar-becomes-sixth-ieee-fellow-school-computer-science\u0022\u003Enamed\u003C\/a\u003E an IEEE fellow.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet as the Stephen P. Fleming Chair in Telecommunications, the service he does within the school and College has been just as important to him. In 2018, he served on the school\u0026rsquo;s Faculty Recruiting Committee and chaired it in 2019. He also was chair of the School Advisory Committee and a member of dean\u0026rsquo;s search committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBecoming chair of SCS is another form of service for him.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Service is leadership, and leadership is service \u0026mdash; it\u0026rsquo;s integral to what we do as professors,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a leader of SCS, Sarkar wants to bring the same collaborative spirit he\u0026rsquo;s found throughout the College.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One of my goals is to really boost our leadership in the core areas that our school contributes to the college that span architecture, databases, networking, programming languages, software engineering, systems, and theory,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m really keen to figure out how we can integrate research areas where appropriate to put together some really amazing and unique demonstrations of what can be done at Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;ve hired eight junior faculty members in the last three years who span all these core areas, and have added a new level of energy to the school.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWatch the interview:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ehttps:\/\/youtu.be\/_TB_xhl1Grs\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Vivek Sarkar became chair of the School of Computer Science in August 2020."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-12-03 00:02:14","changed_gmt":"2020-12-03 15:20:08","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"631693":{"id":"631693","type":"image","title":"Vivek Sarkar","body":null,"created":"1580136074","gmt_created":"2020-01-27 14:41:14","changed":"1580136074","gmt_changed":"2020-01-27 14:41:14","alt":"photograph of Vivek Sarkar","file":{"fid":"240350","name":"Vivek-Sarkar.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vivek-Sarkar.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vivek-Sarkar.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":574154,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Vivek-Sarkar.jpg?itok=A3KQxKSo"}}},"media_ids":["631693"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"576491","name":"CRNCH"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"641655":{"#nid":"641655","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ph.D. Student is Rising Star in Computer Science","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~tdoudali\/\u0022\u003EThaleia Dimitra Doudali\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/strong\u003E a Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science, was selected for Rising Stars 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHeld from Nov. 9 to 10, the University of California, Berkeley workshop is aimed at increasing women in academic careers in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering. Doudali was one of 152 women from 68 institutions who was chosen for her academic excellence, faculty career goals, and equity and inclusion work. The women were mentored by 87 from top-10 institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Getting selected as a rising star provides me with the endorsement of an elite selection committee that my research contributions and skills are appropriate for me to succeed in academia, boosting my confidence and candidate profile,\u0026rdquo; Doudali said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoudali\u0026rsquo;s research focuses on building machine intelligent data management for systems with hybrid memory components. The novelty, impact, and practicality of her approach led to a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/623810\/machine-learning-makes-memory-management-more-efficient\u0022\u003Ebest paper award finalist at HPDC \u0026rsquo;19\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[RELATED: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/634916\/scs-phd-student-forefront-emerging-memory-systems-research\u0022\u003ESCS Ph.D. Student is at the Forefront of Emerging Memory Systems Research\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I received valuable advice on how to navigate the academic job search and career, and made wonderful connections with peers and mentors,\u0026rdquo; Doudali said. \u0026ldquo;I am grateful for the opportunity and recognition.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe was also selected to present her thesis at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sc20.supercomputing.org\/presentation\/?id=drs104\u0026amp;sess=sess292\u0022\u003ESC \u0026rsquo;20 Doctoral Showcase\u003C\/a\u003E, has received diversity grants to attend Usenix ATC \u0026rsquo;20 and OSDI \u0026rsquo;20, and presented her\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~tdoudali\/\u0022\u003Elatest publication\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.memsys.io\/\u0022\u003EMEMSYS \u0026rsquo;20\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Thaleia Dimitra Doudali, a Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science, was selected for Rising Stars 2020. 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Mathematicians, engineers, and developers come together to present the most groundbreaking HPC research, and each year, the Georgia Tech name is one of the leading names in those presentations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough it is being hosted virtually, this year is no different for SC20 presentations. With\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/gtsc20\/research\/\u0022\u003Eseveral papers, awards, and workshops,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech, represented by the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), Partnership for Advanced Computing Environment\u0026nbsp;(PACE), School of Computer Science (SCS), and the Georgia Tech Research Institute,\u0026nbsp;is leading charge in the HPC discussion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s SC20 proceedings includes two notable awards.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESCS Chair\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is being recognized with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/awards.acm.org\/kennedy\u0022\u003EACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award\u003C\/a\u003E, Nov. 16. Sarkar\u0026rsquo;s recognition honors his leadership in several areas including foundational technical contributions to programmability and productivity.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[Related News:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/640112\/acmieee-recognizes-chairs-research-service-computer-science-community\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EACM\/IEEE Recognizes Chair\u0026#39;s Research, Service to Computer Science Community\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECSE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EVijay Thakkar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERich Vuduc\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eare being recognized with a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sc20.supercomputing.org\/program\/awards\/#schedule\u0022\u003EGordon Bell Prize nomination\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for their paper,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.zenodo.org\/record\/3980252#.X6H-YC2z10t\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScalable Knowledge Graph Analytics at 136 PetaFLOPS\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;Their work, developed with a team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is motivated by data mining large-scale bodies of scholarly publications to discover concepts that relate to one another. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sc20.supercomputing.org\/program\/awards\/#schedule\u0022\u003Eannouncement of the Gordon Bell Prize winner for 2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;will be held, Nov. 19 from 2 to 2:30 p.m. EST.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn invited talk by SCS and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ETom Conte\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is another notable agenda item. Conte\u0026rsquo;s talk,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sc20.supercomputing.org\/?post_type=page\u0026amp;p=3479\u0026amp;id=inv110\u0026amp;sess=sess298\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHPC After Moore\u0026rsquo;s Law\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, discusses the post-Moore computing era as seen from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rebootingcomputing.ieee.org\/\u0022\u003EIEEE Rebooting Computing Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;perspective and presents promising technologies to keep a close eye on.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcitingly, Georgia Tech students are also participating in a virtual\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sc20.supercomputing.org\/program\/studentssc\/student-cluster-competition\/\u0022\u003Estudent cluster competition\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(VSCC) this year. While this event hosts the non-stop 72-hour track of a traditional hackathon, the VSCC separates itself from the rest in that the students prepare up to 6 months in advance for the competition.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/gtsc20\/team-phoenix\/\u0022\u003ETeam Phoenix\u003C\/a\u003E, with sponsorship from vendor partner\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.penguincomputing.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPenguin Computing,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;will\u0026nbsp;compete with students from around the globe to complete a set of benchmarks and real-world scientific workloads from Nov. 8 to 11. Each team is tasked to design and build virtual clusters in the Microsoft Azure cloud, learn scientific applications, and apply optimization techniques for their chosen cloud configurations. Daily video interviews with the team can be\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/gtsc20\/events\/\u0022\u003Ewatched here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the conference\u0026rsquo;s papers, presentations, and competitions are underway, this extraordinary year has required extraordinary efforts to transcend the physical conference barriers. With its first ever fully virtual format, SC20\u0026rsquo;s platform is bringing the HPC discussion into the hands of more than ever before.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo capitalize on this opportunity of enhancing equity in HPC, Georgia Tech is hosting special virtual programming to run parallel to the SC20 agenda. 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Georgia Tech researchers have created a custom wearable device that helps users stay safely apart in public places.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe device, called 6Fit-A-Part, performs wireless localization using ultra-wideband radios to determine if two or more devices are in close proximity. Within seconds of contact, the device emits a red light and a beep to alert the wearer. It can be worn by users or placed on objects in hospitals, schools, grocery stores, warehouses, and similar locations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPairing Wireless Networking and Sensing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E6Fit-A-Part uses ultra-wideband radios, a relatively new technology gaining popularity in the latest smartphones. Radio waves are ideal for estimating distances because they travel at a fixed speed that can be measured. To determine which device the radio waves sensed the researchers rely on distributed ranging protocol, a wireless networking concept that extends the reach of a signal.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have previously explored various ways to measure distance between two wireless devices by exchanging special ranging packets,\u0026rdquo; said School of Computer Science (SCS) assistant professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~dhekne\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAshutosh Dhekne\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;We identified that similar distance measurements can help us raise an alarm if two or more devices come in close proximity to each other.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn operation, 6Fit-A-Part invites all neighboring devices to exchange wireless ranging packets to determine distance. Messages are limited, so each round of distance measurements isn\u0026rsquo;t time-consuming. For example, 10 nearby devices can calculate all-to-all distances within a second. The distance is accurate within 10 centimeters if there are no human or building obstructions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe device\u0026rsquo;s merging of wireless networking techniques and wireless sensing technology also makes it more precise than other comparable devices. Instead of alerting a user any time devices are in range, 6Fit-A-Part can distinguish if there is a physical barrier between devices, such as a wall, that would prevent close contact.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt can also observe the received signal and its echoes from nearby objects to determine if there was a human blocking the signals. It can then compensate for the distance accordingly. This prevents false negatives when two people are too close to each other, but their bodies obstruct the signals from their devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EContact Prevention Better than Contract Tracing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough many organizations are using contact tracing applications, the focus on social distancing makes 6Fit-A-Part a preventative measure before users are exposed to the virus. Users also don\u0026rsquo;t need a specific app downloaded or Bluetooth enabled to receive the benefits.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt protects privacy better, according to researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;6Fit-A-Part reminds everyone to maintain physical distancing, which reduces the possibility of infection without constantly tracking a person\u0026rsquo;s whereabouts,\u0026rdquo; said SCS Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ycao361\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYifeng Cao\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;This allows complete protection of the user\u0026rsquo;s privacy by not associating a particular person with the device.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers hope to test 6Fit-A-Part in additional real-world environments to understand how the device influences human behavior. Dhekne and Cao wrote the paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~dhekne\/6fitapart\/6Fit-A-Part_ICNP2020.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E6Fit-A-Part: A Protocol for Physical Distancing on a Custom Wearable Device\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, with SCS Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Mostafa.Ammar\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMostafa Ammar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. They presented the research at the 28th IEEE \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/icnp20.cs.ucr.edu\/\u0022\u003EInternational Conference on Network Protocols\u003C\/a\u003E in October.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers have created a custom wearable device that helps users stay safely apart in public places."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-11-05 15:28:09","changed_gmt":"2020-11-05 17:02:20","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"641024":{"id":"641024","type":"image","title":"Social distancing device","body":null,"created":"1604595546","gmt_created":"2020-11-05 16:59:06","changed":"1604595546","gmt_changed":"2020-11-05 16:59:06","alt":"shopping carts","file":{"fid":"243610","name":"devices story art.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/devices%20story%20art.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/devices%20story%20art.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":305774,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/devices%20story%20art.jpg?itok=6yV7JSTz"}}},"media_ids":["641024"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"640990":{"#nid":"640990","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Thought Leaders to Address How Bias and Lack of Diversity Impact Data, Software, and Institutions","body":"","field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2020-11-05 14:36:35","changed_gmt":"2020-11-05 14:36:35","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/bit.ly\/34PIcQL","dateline":{"date":"2020-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"37041","name":"Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"640901":{"#nid":"640901","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Meet ML@GT: Zhanzhan Zhou Uses Machine Learning to End Residential Segregation in Atlanta","body":"","field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2020-11-03 14:44:41","changed_gmt":"2020-11-03 14:44:41","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/bit.ly\/34Q8X7N","dateline":{"date":"2020-11-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-11-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"640727":{"#nid":"640727","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech\u2019s Secure and Safe Elections Research Group to Provide Live Wait Times to Fulton County Voters on Election Day ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers from Georgia Tech have formed the Safe and Secure Elections research group. The group is developing tools that will allow Fulton County election officials to balance competing demands of election management, help enhance security and safety during the Covid-19 pandemic at polling locations, reduce voting waiting times, and expand access.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBy testing the tools in Fulton County, Georgia\u0026rsquo;s largest county, the Georgia Tech team will be able to solve problems that might be shared by other jurisdictions in the country. The tools will ultimately be available to the general public and election officials nationwide so that people can better understand how public elections are conducted, which increases confidence in their outcome, according to the researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the early efforts of the group is to measure and report live wait times to voters at the 250 polling locations in Fulton County on election day, Nov. 3. The website wait.gatech.edu will go live that day and allow users to easily search for a location and view the current estimated wait time. The site also displays wait times recorded throughout the day.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe site is designed to be a utility for voters to help them plan when to vote, and that goal has informed the simple design and usability of the site, according to \u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor of computer science and a team lead in the research group.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZegura emphasized that the site does not forecast wait times into the future but rather gives current results based on voter text responses and volunteer observations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring early voting for the 2020 general election, a student-led team implemented a pilot test at four polling locations in the county. Signs at the polling locations prompted voters to text their wait times after voting. An optional survey let them share more details about equipment quality, Covid-19 concerns, and more.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EVlad Kolesnikov\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;associate professor of computer science who studies cryptography, said the team is mindful of data security and privacy and that\u0026nbsp;no personally identifiable user data is collected or stored.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;By expanding the scope of safe and secure elections from narrow technological problems to addressing physical access, availability, and public health, this project brings a new dimension to the design of modern voting systems,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003ERichard DeMillo\u003C\/strong\u003E, principle investigator for the project and chair of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s new School of Cybersecurity and Privacy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe election-day effort ties into a larger six-month project by the group that is supported by the Public Interest Technology University Network. It focuses on understanding the quantitative tradeoffs that local election officials are forced to make, and provides tools to help them better manage the voting process. Faculty and students involved in the effort come from the schools of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), Computer Science, and Cybersecurity and Privacy, as well as the College of Design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA second project team, led by ISyE Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EBenoit Montreuil\u003C\/strong\u003E, ISyE Director of Professional Practice \u003Cstrong\u003EDima Nazzal\u003C\/strong\u003E, and ISyE Adjunct Professor and IMT Mines Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EFrederic Benaben\u003C\/strong\u003E, is constructing 3-D maps and AI-based simulations of Covid-safe layouts for a number of Fulton County\u0026rsquo;s polling places. Their work also involves optimizing voting equipment allocations across all polling locations to minimize wait times, and projections of turn out and waiting times based on historical data and planned equipment provisioning.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s project is a comprehensive effort that puts much-needed tools and design methods in the hands of public officials that not only improve the process of voting but is a vehicle for communicating to the general public that elections can be both fair and safe in these times of public health crises and social unrest,\u0026rdquo; said DeMillo.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMichael Best\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the Sam Nunn School\u0026nbsp;of International Affairs and School of Interactive Computing, is another team lead and has a long track record of working across the globe to help build sustainable election systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The goal is very straightforward. We hope to enhance safety, security, and efficiency at polling locations, which of course should contribute to better voter turnout and trust,\u0026quot; said Best.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=u5ghSHuuJUuLem1_Mvqgg0lHORmR6SpJnt7p0sQsfExUNTQ1MzcwNURJNk43Q00zNEQ1TDlNOUc5TC4u\u0022\u003EVolunteers can help\u003C\/a\u003E the research group in providing live wait times at polling locations to Fulton County voters by observing voters on Nov. 3 and texting wait times, or by helping set up signs Nov. 1 so voters can directly text wait times.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOne of the early efforts of the group is to measure and report live wait times to voters at the 250 polling locations in Fulton County on election day, Nov. 3. 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Quantum computers require a full stack solution, where the system works well if it has both the right hardware and software. Developing the right software stack of quantum computers is where Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~moin\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMoinuddin Qureshi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Esteps in.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EQureshi joined the School of Computer Science in July to bring his expertise in this area.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Quantum Connection \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EQuantum wasn\u0026rsquo;t always Qureshi\u0026rsquo;s research area. He received his Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin, where he studied cache management. He then worked at IBM on emerging memory technology. When he started at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2011, Qureshi\u0026rsquo;s areas were memory systems, computer architecture, and hardware security.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt wasn\u0026rsquo;t until 2016 when a student came back from a Microsoft internship with a new interest in memory system for quantum computers that Qureshi started working in the area. Until 2016, research in quantum computing had mostly a theoretical bent, and Qureshi was skeptical of the practical implementation and use. That all changed once IBM made the 5-qubit machine available via cloud for public use and users could run programs on real quantum computers.\u0026nbsp; Since then, companies such as IBM and Google have demonstrated machines with 50+ qubits, and the progress in machine capacity is expected to accelerate in the coming years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My background is computer systems, not quantum physics or quantum information,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;Before 2016, there was no obvious bridge to do system-level research in quantum computing\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Quantum computers became really exciting for system research with the advent of the cloud-based IBM quantum machines,\u0026rdquo; Qureshi said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMoving from Engineering to Computing \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs Qureshi\u0026rsquo;s research shifted more into quantum, it became clear he could make more headway in the field if he joined the College of Computing, where it would be easier to work with researchers in programming languages and software.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The chance of collaboration, the chance of learning and doing impactful research, and teaching quantum computing courses is higher in College,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EQureshi\u0026rsquo;s goal is to improve software to make quantum computation less susceptible to errors. Some of his \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/10\/191015103411.htm\u0022\u003Erecent work\u003C\/a\u003E uses diversity to reduce the errors in quantum computation. Qureshi also led a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2020\/01\/08\/georgia-tech-collaborates-ibm-develop-software-stacks-quantum-computers\u0022\u003Ecollaboration\u003C\/a\u003E with Oak Ridge National Labs (ORNL) that allows Georgia Tech employees to have access to the state-of-the-art quantum computers from IBM.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EQureshi wants to make quantum accessible to students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The content on quantum computing can be intimidating, and sometimes it may feel like you need a Ph.D. in physics and another Ph.D. in mathematics to make sense of the material\u0026rdquo; said Qureshi. \u0026ldquo;However, if you are interested in doing research at the system and software level, then the problems are similar to typical systems and abstractions can go a long way in making progress.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith this in mind, Qureshi is teaching an Introduction to Quantum Computing graduate class this fall and hopes to bring quantum to the Online Master of Science Computer Science (OMSCS) program by 2021.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The exciting aspect of doing systems research in quantum computing is that the field is only getting defined right now, and you have more of a chance of making a bigger contribution in a field of when you go in early,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Qureshi joined the School of Computer Science in July to bring his expertise in quantum."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-10-30 17:46:03","changed_gmt":"2020-10-30 17:53:07","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-10-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-10-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"640831":{"id":"640831","type":"image","title":"Moin Qureshi 2020","body":null,"created":"1604080246","gmt_created":"2020-10-30 17:50:46","changed":"1604080246","gmt_changed":"2020-10-30 17:50:46","alt":"Moin Qureshi ","file":{"fid":"243560","name":"MoinPic.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MoinPic.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MoinPic.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":45053,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/MoinPic.jpg?itok=diB-Ssm_"}}},"media_ids":["640831"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"640661":{"#nid":"640661","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Pioneering Program Analysis Paper Honored","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~orso\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlessandro Orso\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and his former student William Halfond won the IEEE\/ACM International Conference on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/conf.researchr.org\/home\/ase-2020\/\u0022\u003EAutomated Software Engineering (ASE)\u003C\/a\u003E 2020 Most Influential Paper award for their innovative program analysis work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award honors research that had the most impact out of the papers published that year. Orso and Halfond, who is now an associate professor at the University of Southern California, won for their paper, \u003Cem\u003EAMNESIA: Analysis and Monitoring for NEutralizing SQL-injection Attacks.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmnesia is a fully automated technique for detecting and preventing one of the most catastrophic types of web application attacks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe research\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESQL injection attacks (SQLIAs) inject malicious code into databases to expose information. This can lead to private information being leaked or even entire databases being corrupted. SQLIAs are one of the most prominent attack types, and at the time of this research, were considered the number-one threat for web applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore Orso and Halfond introduced Amnesia, developers had to manually incorporate specific checks into their applications. This process was both time-consuming and prone to error.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmnesia was the first fully automated techniques for detecting and preventing SQLIAs that was widely applicable and successful.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our approach was based on the intuition that developers implicitly provide, in the web application code, a policy on what kind of database requests are allowed,\u0026rdquo; Orso said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith this in mind, Amnesia\u0026rsquo;s approach did three things:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Col\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EExtracted a policy from the code using static analysis\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EChecked database requests against this policy\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EStopped requests that violated the policy, as they were likely SQLIAs\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe impact\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper made ripples in the program analysis community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our paper was one of the first papers that successfully applied program analysis techniques to the problem of SQLIAs,\u0026rdquo; Orso said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a result, other research groups built on that work and its underlying idea. To date, the original paper has been cited over 700 times.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt also jump-started Orso\u0026rsquo;s career. The concept became the basis for a project sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, \u003Cem\u003EPreventing SQL Code Injection by Combining Static and Runtime Analysis\u003C\/em\u003E, in collaboration with Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wenke.gtisc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWenke Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOrso and Halfond continued to advance the SQLIAs detection and prevention area in both their careers. The work also motivated Orso\u0026rsquo;s research group to develop general testing and analysis techniques for web applications \u0026mdash; work that ultimately became Halfond\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. dissertation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Receiving this prestigious award from the research community for a paper already so close to my heart is a humbling, exciting, and incredibly rewarding experience that goes beyond my wildest expectations,\u0026rdquo; Orso said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Computer Science Professor Alessandro Orso and his former student William Halfond won the IEEE\/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2020 Most Influential Paper award for their innovative program analysis work."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-10-27 18:46:52","changed_gmt":"2020-10-27 19:20:28","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-10-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-10-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"640669":{"id":"640669","type":"image","title":"Alex Orso and Willian Halfond","body":null,"created":"1603826390","gmt_created":"2020-10-27 19:19:50","changed":"1603826390","gmt_changed":"2020-10-27 19:19:50","alt":"William Halfond and Alex Orso","file":{"fid":"243511","name":"OrsoHalfond.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/OrsoHalfond.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/OrsoHalfond.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":75456,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/OrsoHalfond.jpg?itok=5YLVZihN"}}},"media_ids":["640669"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"640112":{"#nid":"640112","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ACM\/IEEE Recognizes Chair\u0027s Service to Computer Science Community ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing is proud to announce that \u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E has received the 2020 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/awards.acm.org\/kennedy\u0022\u003EACM\/IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award\u003C\/a\u003E. Sarkar is the chair of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E and holds the Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications, and is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Kennedy Award was established in 2009 to recognize substantial contributions to programmability and productivity in computing and significant community service or mentoring contributions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I am delighted to receive this year\u0026rsquo;s Kennedy Award,\u0026quot; Sarkar said. \u0026quot;I have always believed that research and mentoring go hand in hand, and it is an honor to be recognized for my work in these areas.\u0026nbsp; The award is also meaningful because of the influence that Ken had on my career.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/30vZj6V\u0022\u003E[RELATED: Sarkar Named as School of Computer Science Chair]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESarkar began his career in IBM Research in 1987 after obtaining his Ph.D. from Stanford University supervised by \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Hennessy\u003C\/strong\u003E. His research projects at IBM include the PTRAN automatic parallelization system led by Fran Allen, the ASTI optimizer for IBM\u0026rsquo;s XL Fortran product compilers, the open-source Jikes Research Virtual Machine for the Java language, and the X10 programming language developed in the DARPA HPCS program. He was a member of the IBM Academy of Technology from 1995 to 2007.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Vivek is not just a leader in research, but also a generous teacher and mentor, which is to say he is a role model for our community,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/strong\u003E, dean of the College of Computing and John P. Imlay, Jr. chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince moving to academia, Sarkar has mentored more than 30 Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers in the Habanero Extreme Scale Software Research Laboratory, first at Rice University and then at Georgia Tech. While at Rice, Sarkar was the E.D. Butcher Chair in Engineering, served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Kennedy Award recognizes Sarkar\u0026rsquo;s leadership in several areas including foundational technical contributions to programmability and productivity. Sarkar has developed innovative programming-model, compiler, and runtime technologies for parallel computing that have influenced other researchers, as well as industry products and standards. Researchers in his lab have developed the Habanero-C\/C++ and Habanero-Java programming systems for parallel, heterogeneous, and distributed platforms.\u0026nbsp;These systems introduced new constructs for homogeneous and heterogeneous intra-node parallelism, as well as their integration with scalable inter-node communication libraries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESarkar has led open-source software projects that have had a significant impact on the research community: he has created new pedagogic materials to make parallel programming more accessible to undergraduate students and the Coursera learner community and has mentored junior colleagues at IBM and several Ph.D. students after moving to academia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESarkar has also demonstrated leadership in community service by serving as program chair and general chair for major conferences in his research area, serving on U.S. Department of Energy\u0026rsquo;s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC)\u0026nbsp;advisory committee since 2009, and on the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors since 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Kennedy Award carries a U.S. $5,000 honorarium endowed by the IEEE CS and the ACM, which Sarkar plans to donate to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/constellations.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Constellations Center for Equity in Computing\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Vivek is not just a leader in research, but also a generous teacher and mentor, which is to say he is a role model for our community,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/strong\u003E, dean of the College of Computing and John P. 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Georgia Tech researchers developed a virtual assistant that screens calls to block 97 percent of scammers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, people rely on blacklist apps to stop spam calls, but they are only up to 60 percent effective, according to School of Computer Science Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sharbani-pandit\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESharbani Pandit\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. This is because of the prominence of neighbor spoofing, or numbers similar to person\u0026rsquo;s own.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The caller number will look very similar to your own number, so you\u0026rsquo;re more likely to pick up, and each time they call, they use a new number, so it doesn\u0026rsquo;t show on the blacklist,\u0026rdquo; said Pandit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESo Pandit and her team tried a more direct approach, a virtual assistant (VA). Like a smart home device or a secretary, the VA determines whether calls are from people before it passes the call off to the user.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow It Works\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhether a call is spam or not can be determined by a simple question: does the caller know the name of the person they\u0026rsquo;re calling?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The idea is someone who is a wanted caller would know the full name of the person they\u0026rsquo;re trying to reach,\u0026rdquo; Pandit said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIf the caller can confirm the name, the VA would forward the call and a transcript of how the conversation went to the user. The entire interaction takes 10 seconds.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor callers who may not know the name but are not a bot, VA engages in a conversation and interrupts the caller as they are speaking to determine if the caller stops talking. This process takes a maximum of 30 seconds.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s very natural in human conversation that you would stop to listen to what the other party is saying on the call, but a bot wouldn\u0026rsquo;t do that,\u0026rdquo; Pandit said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor calls thought to be spam, the notification would be sent to the user with a label for each caller to indicate whether it was a human or a robot caller.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow Many Calls It Stops\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers did a user study with 21 people who determined they were comfortable talking to the VA. They also tested the VA on a database 8,000 robocall recordings, in which 97.8 percent of the robocalls were correctly labeled as such.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPandit presented the research in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2008.03554\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFighting Voice Spam with a Virtual Assistant Prototype\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. She co-wrote the paper with University of Georgia\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jienan-liu-144413157\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJienan Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/robertoperdisci\/Home\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERoberto Perdisci\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and SCS Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/mustaque-ahamad\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMustaque Ahamad\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; The work has already garnered media attention from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2251898-virtual-assistant-will-screen-your-phone-calls-to-block-spammers\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENew Scientist\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/news\/ai-assistant-screen-robocallers\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDigital Trends\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers are still making a few adjustments before they release the Android app. Robocalls are constantly evolving and getting more sophisticated, which introduces new challenges to researchers. Some robocalls even have lists of phone numbers and names, so the researchers are adding more questions in the screening conversation that only a human could answer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey believe that anything that can slow down the efficacy of robocalls will be a benefit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The goal of robocalls is to make as many calls as possible to target victims and make a profit from it, but as security researchers, if we can add hurdles in their step, then sometimes the cost isn\u0026rsquo;t worth it for the attacker,\u0026rdquo; said Pandit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers developed a virtual assistant that screens calls to block 97 percent of scammers.  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Some highlights from Georgia Tech include a fireside chat with \u003Cstrong\u003EJoy Buolamwini\u003C\/strong\u003E, an alumna and founder of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajl.org\/\u0022\u003EAlgorithmic Justice League\u003C\/a\u003E, on \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/web.cvent.com\/event\/84f26b13-25ef-458c-9d38-38432d71be09\/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce\u0022\u003EDecoding Bias\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E on Oct. 3.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/constellations.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EConstellations Center for Equity in Computing\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rsquo;s Director of Educational Innovation and Leadership \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/lien-diaz-0\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELien Diaz\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E joins the panel \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/web.cvent.com\/event\/84f26b13-25ef-458c-9d38-38432d71be09\/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce\u0022\u003ESeeing Beyond Yourself: Effective Allyship, Advocacy, and Activism for Women in Computing\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E on Sept. 29.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am particularly interested in the wide array of topics that GHC speakers will be addressing from tech careers to applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence,\u0026rdquo; said OMSCS student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/michelleadea\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMichelle Adea\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe conference is just as much about networking as learning. As a silver-level sponsor, the College will connect with prospective students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESome students are excited to meet other women in computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m looking forward to engaging with other like-minded women in different career positions and levels of education and making connections,\u0026rdquo; said undergraduate \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rashmi-athavale\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERashmi Athavale\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The College of Computing is sending more than 100 students to the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) from Sept. 29 to Oct. 3."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-09-29 15:57:56","changed_gmt":"2020-09-29 16:08:34","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"639696":{"id":"639696","type":"image","title":"GHC 2019","body":null,"created":"1601395682","gmt_created":"2020-09-29 16:08:02","changed":"1601395682","gmt_changed":"2020-09-29 16:08:02","alt":"GHC panel","file":{"fid":"243201","name":"IMG_1755 copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_1755%20copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_1755%20copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":365938,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_1755%20copy.jpg?itok=5wvNEkgn"}}},"media_ids":["639696"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"638962":{"#nid":"638962","#data":{"type":"news","title":" School of Computer Science Dominates at Top Databases Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Computer Science (SCS) is at the forefront of database research. SCS had six papers at the top databases conference, Very Large Data Bases (VLDB).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is the first time in the history of\u0026nbsp;VLDB that we have had such a diverse and dominating presence at the conference,\u0026rdquo; said SCS Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~sham\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShamkant Navathe\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026ldquo;We hope to continue this tradition of a strong presence at VLDB in the coming years.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese publications encompass many of SCS\u0026rsquo;s top research areas, including databases, systems, networking, security, and architecture.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have papers spanning a wide array of topics including graph systems, cloud computing, video analytics, similarity search, and database fuzzing,\u0026rdquo; said SCS Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~jarulraj\/\u0022\u003EJ\u003Cstrong\u003Eoy Arulraj\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/638534\/new-toolchain-automatically-finds-database-management-system-bugs\u0022\u003ERelated Content: New Toolchain Automatically Finds Database Management System Bugs\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~xchu33\/\u0022\u003EXu Chu\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ewas recognized as a distinguished reviewer this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESCS presented the following papers:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=2ahUKEwiuwqXzw9_rAhUImeAKHQZIDHsQFjAAegQIBBAB\u0026amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vldb.org%2Fpvldb%2Fvol13%2Fp2453-suprem.pdf\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw3HBt_OPYSl7VmioR9al4n1\u0022\u003EODIN: Automated Drift Detection and Recovery in Video Analytics\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAuthors: Abhijit Suprem (Georgia Tech)*; 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They also plan to expand the platform to cover all aspects of hardware acceleration, graphics, artificial intelligence, vision, and audio.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers presented Vortex in the poster, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2002.12151\u0022\u003EVortex: An Open Source Reconfigurable RISC-V GPGPU Accelerator for Architecture Research\u003C\/a\u003E, at\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hotchips.org\/\u0022\u003EHot Chips: A Symposium on High Performance Chips\u003C\/a\u003E from Aug. 16-18. 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"}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-08-28 19:40:58","changed_gmt":"2020-08-28 19:48:14","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"638556":{"id":"638556","type":"image","title":"Vortex","body":null,"created":"1598643997","gmt_created":"2020-08-28 19:46:37","changed":"1598643997","gmt_changed":"2020-08-28 19:46:37","alt":"Vortex","file":{"fid":"242822","name":"Picture1.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Picture1_6.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Picture1_6.png","mime":"image\/png","size":123767,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Picture1_6.png?itok=NmiQojy0"}}},"media_ids":["638556"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"638534":{"#nid":"638534","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Toolchain Automatically Finds Database Management System Bugs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have applied fuzzing techniques to find bugs in database management systems (DBMS). Their new toolchain APOLLO automatically detects, reports, and diagnoses a common DBMS bug.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAPOLLO automates the generation of regression-triggering queries, simplifies the bug reporting process for users, and enables developers to quickly pinpoint the root cause of performance regressions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers discovered 10 previously unknown and unique performance regressions, reduced query size by 4.2 times, and identified branches related to the root cause.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;We believe that Apollo will\u0026nbsp;assist database system developers with the tedious process of testing these complex systems,\u0026quot; said School of Computer Science (SCS) Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJoy Arulraj\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u0026quot;This\u0026nbsp;will allow them\u0026nbsp;to focus on more important problems in developing database systems.\u0026quot;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDBMS problems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe complexity of DBMS increases their potential for error. An upgrade on a DBMS can unexpectedly slow\u0026nbsp;down certain queries, a problem known as a performance regression bug.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;A critical regression can reduce\u0026nbsp;performance by orders of magnitude, in many cases converting an interactive\u0026nbsp;query to an overnight execution,\u0026rdquo; said SCS Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EJinho Jung\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo improve this issue, the researchers used the toolchain approach, a pipeline of distinct software development tools that are linked together by specific stages.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u0026rsquo;s new toolchain has three components:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESQLFuzz \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESQLFuzz generates structured query language (SQL), the language databases communicate with, to find performance regressions. It works by bombarding a system with many randomly generated inputs to trigger bugs, a technique known as fuzzing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;During the fuzzing test, we noticed that validating performance regressions is challenging because the ground\u0026nbsp;truth of the regression is unclear and may be heavily affected by the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eexecution environment and lead to a lot of false-positive bugs,\u0026rdquo; Jung said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo counter this, the researchers applied validation checks to reduce false positives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESQLMin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESQLMin minimizes the regression-triggering query, so performance isn\u0026rsquo;t compromised by trying to determine the essence of a regression-causing statement. The researchers achieve this by using both bottom-up and top-down approaches.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBottom-up strategy extracts one sub-query from the database and monitors whether there is still a regression problem. If there is one, SQLMin keeps the sub-query for further analysis. The top-down strategy removes as many expressions as possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This takes out as many elements of the statement as possible while ensuring that the reduced query still triggers the problem,\u0026rdquo; Jung says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESQLDebug\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce a regression report is filed, developers must diagnose its root cause. To simplify the diagnosis process, the researchers use two techniques to automatically identify the root cause.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFirst, they use the mathematical approximation method of bisecting to find the historical commit, or first code update, that the developer pushed to the code repository. Second, they leverage statistical debugging to determine if performance decreased because of suspicious source lines within the commit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers introduced Apollo at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vldb2020.org\/\u0022\u003EVery Large Data Bases\u003C\/a\u003E conference from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4. Jung wrote the paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/www.vldb.org\/pvldb\/vol13\/p57-jung.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAPOLLO: Automatic Detection and Diagnosis of Performance Regressions in Database Systems\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E with SCS Ph.D. postdoctoral student \u003Cstrong\u003EHong Hu\u003C\/strong\u003E, Arulraj, and Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E, and eBay\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cstrong\u003EWoonhak Kang\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers have applied fuzzing techniques to find bugs in database management systems (DBMS). 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Annulus decreases datacenter bottleneck by up to 3.5 times and improves datacenter traffic by 56x when the connect is from the wide area network (WAN).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the cloud continues to bring easy data storage to billions, operators are pushing their networks to peak efficiency to reduce costs. Datacenters are designed with the expectation that there will be more internal data than external, but as more people join the cloud, this paradigm is no longer true, according to the researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECloud conundrum\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs soon as the cloud became a prominent data storage method, cloud operators started leasing compute, storage, and network resources to their clients. The rise in demand for these resources means that networks are now more overloaded than ever.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECloud providers\u0026rsquo; solution to the influx of computers on the network was to allocate more \u0026nbsp;resources than necessary. Yet this isn\u0026rsquo;t cost effective, according to School of Computer Science (SCS) alumnus \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ahmadsa3ed\/?originalSubdomain=eg\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAhmed Saeed\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe cloud is made of interconnected datacenters. One machine in a datacenter can send traffic to other machines in the same datacenter and others outside of it. This is further complicated by data transmission speed, or latency, which is very fast inside the datacenter. However, the latency between datacenters is much longer because data must travel across the country through the WAN.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen both types of traffic compete, the faster reacting type of traffic shoulders the burden of reacting to any changes in network conditions, harming overall performance. This problem can be ignored when the demand of the slow traffic is low, but as the demand increases, the problem becomes more prominent.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When the bandwidth demand of datacenter-to-datacenter traffic is small, it is not very costly to dedicate that bandwidth within the datacenter network,\u0026rdquo; Saeed says. \u0026ldquo;However, as that demand increases, dedicating resources can be wasteful.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIf the network is bottlenecked, the datacenter traffic will immediately sense the problem and compensate for it. However, WAN traffic will take much longer. In effect, the entire network becomes 2.5 times less inefficient before all parts of the network are aware of it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Information has to travel from one data center through the WAN and back,\u0026rdquo; said Saeed. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s problematic.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECongestion control \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen demand for network bandwidth is larger than available capacity, the part of the network responsible for handling traffic is called congestion control. This is a fundamental concept in network research and how the internet functions. Yet this efficiency issue between datacenter traffic and WAN traffic has led to a new type of congestion, and the solution has to be time focused, according to Saeed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s not a matter of how good your network signal is or how smart your algorithm is, but how fast you react,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith this in mind, the researchers worked to the solve the problem in the datacenter, not through the end points. Annulus works by sending a message from the congested part of the network to the traffic source to let it know how to react, essentially cutting out the middleman.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnnulus has two control loops. One uses existing congestion control algorithms for bottlenecks at just one source, either the WAN or the datacenter. The other loop focuses on bottlenecks between the WAN and the datacenter and tries to solve the problem at the traffic source.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen tested, Annulus improves datacenter traffic by 56x when the bottleneck is the WAN. It also reduces datacenter flow issues by up to 3.5x.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESaeed presented the research in the paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3387514.3405899\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAnnulus: A Dual Congestion Control Loop for Datacenter and WAN Traffic Aggregates\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/conferences.sigcomm.org\/sigcomm\/2020\/\u0022\u003EACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM)\u003C\/a\u003E from Aug. 10 to 14. He co-wrote the paper with SCS\u0026rsquo;s Professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Mostafa.Ammar\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMostafa Ammar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/11077\/ellen-zeguras\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EVarun Gupta\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EPrateesh Goyal, Milad Sharif\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003ERong Pan\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EKeon Jang\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EMohammad Alizadeh\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EAbdul Kabbani\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAmin Vahdat\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers have identified a new congestion problem and have created a new congestion control scheme to alleviate the slow down. 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Georgia Tech researchers have created an automated tool that reveals how exploitable they are, though.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnlike other heap exploitation techniques that require considerable effort from the researcher, ArcHeap can autonomously explore the system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Many heap exploitation techniques have been discovered by researchers; however, this task always relies on manual efforts,\u0026rdquo; said School of Computer Science (SCS) Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/jakkdu.github.io\/\u0022\u003EInsu Yun\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u0026ldquo;We wanted to automate this process.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[RELATED CONTENT: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/634115\/team-ids-real-world-vulnerabilities-popular-browser-during-premier-hackathon\u0022\u003ETeam IDs Real-world Vulnerabilities In Popular Browser During Premier Hackathon\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHeap exploitation techniques\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHeap is dynamically allocated memory, or memory that\u0026rsquo;s size is determined during program execution. Heap allocators manage it efficiently, yet they are also very susceptible to attack.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExploitation techniques abuse underlying heap allocator mechanisms to exploit vulnerabilities. Popular systems software is plagued by heap-related vulnerabilities. Microsoft \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/epakskape\/status\/984481101937651713\u0022\u003Esaid\u003C\/a\u003E heap vulnerabilities led to more than half of their security problems in 2017. Heap vulnerability \u0026nbsp;attacks have also been seen in popular software such as WhatsApp, VMware, and Eximail in 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince each exploit is specific to the allocator, previous research was specialized and manually done. 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The approach is comparable to fuzzing, an automatic software testing technique that inputs random data to expose vulnerabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We found that fuzzing is very useful for finding software vulnerabilities, so we extended this idea into discovering heap exploitation techniques,\u0026rdquo; Yun said. \u0026ldquo;However, classical fuzzing cannot be naively applied to this new problem, so ArcHeap employs several new ideas.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers determined heap allocators share common design components that allowed them to abstract enough so that the tool can be applied to any allocator. ArcHeap also synthesizes its finding as it moves through the allocator to reduce redundancies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArcHeap\u0026rsquo;s findings\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers evaluated ArcHeap on 11 allocators and found five new exploitation techniques in Linux\u0026#39;s default allocator, ptmalloc2. Despite decades of research in this area, ArcHeap successfully discovered heap exploitation techniques in ptmalloc2.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our results show that their manual security analysis was insufficient to cover a large space of heap exploitation techniques,\u0026rdquo; Yun said. \u0026ldquo;As a result of\u0026nbsp;this insufficient manual testing, these allocators were actually not secure as their claims.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey also found vulnerabilities in seven of the 10 other popular allocators.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough right now ArcHeap can determine if a heap allocator is vulnerable or not, the researchers hope to put a quantitative value on that security in the future.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey presented the research in the paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/usenixsecurity20\/presentation\/yun\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAutomatic Techniques to Systematically Discover New Heap Exploitation Primitives\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/usenixsecurity20\u0022\u003EUsenix\u0026rsquo;s 29\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E Security Symposium\u003C\/a\u003E from August 12 to 14. Yun co-wrote the paper with SCS Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/taesoo.kim\/\u0022\u003ETaesoo Kim\u003C\/a\u003E and Facebook\u0026rsquo;s Dhaval Kapil.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Unlike other heap exploitation techniques that require considerable effort from the researcher, ArcHeap can autonomously explore the system. 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Although many companies have proposed adding human intervention to mitigate this, a Georgia Tech researcher says human-subject experiments must be a priority before human intervention is considered a one-size-fits-all solution.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Humans are biased themselves, so how can you resolve an issue of bias with a human?\u0026rdquo; School of Computer Science Ph.D. alumna \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/ssamadi\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESamira Samadi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said. \u0026ldquo;It might even make it worse.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe limits of facial recognition\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFacial recognition software supposedly automates building security. The software takes photos as people enter a building, which it \u0026nbsp;then cross-references with an employee database. If the software finds a match, a person can enter the building.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite many advances in image recognition and artificial intelligence, systems are often more accurate for men with lighter skin tones and less for women with darker skin tones. Companies have proposed adding a human evaluator to compensate for the software\u0026rsquo;s limitations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet Samadi, who researches algorithmic fairness, immediately recognized the potential for more bias. She wanted to know whether adding a human evaluator to the process increases fairness or bias.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EExperimental design\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet designing such a human\/user study is challenging as Samadi and colleagues at Microsoft Research realized. Working with actual security guards or receptionists would be ideal, but was not feasible in practice.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESamadi turned to recruiting people through Mechanical Turk as she had done in the past. These users would offer her volume, but they were not trained in recognizing faces. First, she studied how to compare faces. Then she learned how to teach Mechanical Turk users about facial recognition systems, how to make decisions about the accuracy of the system, and how to be confident in that decision.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter research, Samadi developed a user study and did some trials with friends to ensure the study was clear and understandable. Then she ran the study on 300 users on Mechanical Turk.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEach user was trained on how to distinguish faces and evaluate the software. Next, the user saw two images and how they were scored by the software. Samadi expected the human evaluator would show bias between two lighter versus dark-skinned people, but the results were much different.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFuture studies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We really tried to imitate a real world scenario, but that actually made it more complicated for the users,\u0026rdquo; Samadi said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers were unsure whether the problem with the study \u0026nbsp;was because users didn\u0026rsquo;t understand the study or biased behavior, but they ultimately decided not to publish the research. However, Samadi did publish a position paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1iH_KJXP5xD1ieZzrXZ2gKwFyFmdv93Bf\/view\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA Human in the Loop is Not Enough: The Need for Human-Subject Experiments in Facial Recognition\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, with Microsoft Research\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cstrong\u003EFarough Poursabzi-Sangdeh\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EJennifer Wortman Vaughan\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EHanna Wallach\u003C\/strong\u003E. Samadi presented the work at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chi2020.acm.org\/\u0022\u003EConference on Human Factors in Computer Systems (CHI)\u003C\/a\u003E in April.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper argued about both the necessity and issue with studies like these. There are four main challenges about both the efficacy and generalizability with a human-subject study like the one they conducted:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E-\u003Cstrong\u003EDatasets: \u003C\/strong\u003EFinding an appropriate dataset is difficult for a number of factors: Sourcing images ethically is challenging because past research has relied on celebrity or politician images who are easily recognizable and thus bias the study. Many datasets are also already biased and contain more lighter-skinned faces than darker. Also, many datasets are higher quality than what would be found in camera footage and not an effective real world comparison.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E-\u003Cstrong\u003EParticipants:\u003C\/strong\u003E Many available participants for studies like these are students or Mechanical Turk workers who are inexperienced in facial recognition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E-\u003Cstrong\u003EContext:\u003C\/strong\u003E Recognizing faces in an experiment is not comparable to on the job duties when an unfamiliar person may be a threat.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E-\u003Cstrong\u003EUser Interface:\u003C\/strong\u003E Companies do not release their user interfaces for facial recognition software, leaving it up to researchers to design something that may not reflect what is used in real world software.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If someone wants to attack this problem in the future, they should know the challenges they have ahead of them,\u0026rdquo; Samadi said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":" A Georgia Tech researcher says human-subject experiments must be a priority before human intervention is considered a one-size-fits-all solution."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-08-04 18:57:31","changed_gmt":"2020-08-04 19:02:47","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"637505":{"id":"637505","type":"image","title":"Facial Recognition ","body":null,"created":"1596567725","gmt_created":"2020-08-04 19:02:05","changed":"1596567744","gmt_changed":"2020-08-04 19:02:24","alt":"Facial recognition graphic","file":{"fid":"242495","name":"Face_Recognition_3252983.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Face_Recognition_3252983.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Face_Recognition_3252983.png","mime":"image\/png","size":126445,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Face_Recognition_3252983.png?itok=S7eOnQtZ"}}},"media_ids":["637505"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"637419":{"#nid":"637419","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Control Circuit for DIY Ventilator Empowers Patients","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Georgia Tech mechanical engineering students \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/news\/634789\/open-airventgt-emergency-ventilator-provides-patient-monitoring-feedback-control\u0022\u003Ecreated\u003C\/a\u003E a 3-D-printed ventilator to help the shortage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, it was the work of School of Computer Science (SCS) Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/prithayan.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrithayan Barua\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E that made their design standout.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBarua created the control circuit that enables the ventilator to be run remotely.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen lockdown started in early March, Barua\u0026rsquo;s friend \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/prasoon-suchandra-788977178\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrasoon Suchandra\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering, reached out for volunteers to develop a control circuit for their emergency low-cost ventilator project led by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/ranjan\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDevesh Ranjan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ea professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I had some experience in developing such circuits and programming the controllers, so I decided to help them,\u0026rdquo; said Barua, who normally works on program analysis and compiler optimizations for SCS Professor and incoming Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vsarkar.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/habanero.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EHabanero Extreme Scale Software Research Lab\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPower of the control circuit\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince the Covid-19 pandemic started, people across the world have been building makeshift ventilators, but most of them have no or minimal controls and work only on sedated patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Without the control circuit, a medical professional has to manually monitor and control all such parameters for patient safety,\u0026rdquo; Barua said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA control circuit makes it possible to control and monitor all the different vitals that doctors need for any ventilator to be useful: respiration rate, tidal volume \u0026mdash; a measure of how much air is inhaled in a breath \u0026mdash; inspiration and expiration ratio, and pressure on lungs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet the control circuit also empowers the patient. Barua added sensors and a RaspberryPi controller that\u0026nbsp;reads the sensors, performs some numerical computations, and updates a user interface continuously in a loop, eliminating the need for a medical professional to be present.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA patient can support the volume of air delivered, time their breathing, and cough without fighting the ventilator. In effect, the ventilator reduces the involvement of a medical professional.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFuture of the ventilator\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMaking a functional ventilator was one of the goals of the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our entire team has spent a lot of effort on developing a design that can be really useful in the current situation,\u0026rdquo; Barua said. \u0026ldquo;We have interacted with different doctors and hospitals and taken their feedback into account.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team has also ensured that it can be manufactured cheaply with easily available raw materials almost anywhere in the world. They hope to openly release the design, so that anyone can mass manufacture it. They are also exploring partnering with a few potential companies around the world to manufacture the ventilator. Whoever manufactures it will get the required certifications and have legal liability for the device.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch to reality\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the work doesn\u0026rsquo;t overlap much with his typical research, Barua applied some approaches he uses in his work on optimizing the memory access patterns on graphics processing units (GPUs). For the ventilator project, he selected, updated, and processed appropriate data structures to optimize the program. He also applied simple parallelization methods like multiprocessing to achieve the right sampling rate for the RaspberryPi.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was interesting to see the ventilator being built from scratch in the workshop, working with oscilloscopes to debug our circuit in the electronics lab, and developing programs to control actual mechanical systems,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor Barua, the main goal was having a positive impact during the pandemic and collaborate on a real-world problem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;This project was also unique since we were remotely collaborating with a very big team from different departments including the Georgia Tech Research Institute. 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Imlay, Jr. Chair of the College of Computing. \u0026ldquo;He will be a valuable leader for the School of Computer Science and the College of Computing, and I look\u0026nbsp;forward to working with him.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSarkar joined the School of Computer Science in 2017 as a professor and the Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications. Prior to that, he was a professor and the E.D. Butcher Chair in Engineering at Rice University during 2007-2017, where he served as the chair of the Department of Computer Science\u0026nbsp;from 2013-2016. He also created the Habanero Extreme Scale Software Research Laboratory at Rice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBefore entering academia, Sarkar served as Senior Manager of Programming Technologies at IBM Research. He became a member of the IBM Academy of Technology in 1995, and was inducted as a fellow of the ACM in 2008 and a fellow of the IEEE in 2020. He has\u0026nbsp;served as a member of the US Department of Energy\u0026rsquo;s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) since 2009, and on the board of directors for the Computing Research Association (CRA) since 2015.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026quot;It will be an honor and a privilege to serve as the next chair of the School of Computer Science,\u0026rdquo; Sarkar said. \u0026ldquo;We have a great community of faculty, staff and students in SCS, and I look forward to all of us pulling\u0026nbsp;together during these exciting but challenging times for the future of our school and college.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the past year, the School of Computer Science has been led by interim chair and Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EMostafa Ammar\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;d like to thank Mostafa for stepping into leadership when his school and his college needed him,\u0026rdquo; Isbell said. \u0026ldquo;He has shown the kind of commitment to community that we all strive to emulate. I truly appreciate his thoughtful efforts during the past year.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSarkar will start as chair on August 16.\u0026nbsp;Please join Dean Isbell in congratulating him and the School of Computer Science on this new chapter.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The College of Computing has announced its new school chair for computer science."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2020-07-21 13:26:40","changed_gmt":"2020-07-21 13:53:51","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"631693":{"id":"631693","type":"image","title":"Vivek Sarkar","body":null,"created":"1580136074","gmt_created":"2020-01-27 14:41:14","changed":"1580136074","gmt_changed":"2020-01-27 14:41:14","alt":"photograph of Vivek Sarkar","file":{"fid":"240350","name":"Vivek-Sarkar.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vivek-Sarkar.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vivek-Sarkar.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":574154,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Vivek-Sarkar.jpg?itok=A3KQxKSo"}}},"media_ids":["631693"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"170077","name":"Vivek Sarkar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnn Claycombe, Communications Director\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ann.claycombe@cc.gatech.edu?subject=New%20SCS%20Chair\u0022\u003Eann.claycombe@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ann.claycombe@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"636603":{"#nid":"636603","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Training Data Labeling System for Machine Learning Helps Developers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMachine learning (ML) has become one of the most prominent forms of data analysis for everything from fraud detection to visual quality control. Yet the analytic results can often suffer from insufficiently labeled training data.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA team of Georgia Tech researchers has created a system that allows users to more effectively label a training dataset with higher accuracy than current methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are looking at the problem from a data management perspective,\u0026rdquo; said School of Computer Science (SCS) Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~xchu33\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EXu Chu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;In contrast to a lot of ML research that tries to tackle the lack of sufficient training data from an ML algorithm design perspective, we aim at building a system that helps users effectively label a dataset.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe system, called GOGGLES, labels datasets using affinity coding, a paradigm that allows ML engineers to use various affinity functions that input two unlabeled examples and output a real-valued score.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You can think of affinity as similarity,\u0026rdquo; said Chu. \u0026ldquo;The core premise of the work is that two examples share the same label if they are similar according to some affinity functions (or similarity functions).\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe benefits of affinity coding\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGOGGLES uses a set of affinity functions that can capture various affinities found in the image. Next, using a new unlabeled dataset and these affinity functions, GOGGLES constructs an affinity matrix, from which it can assign classes to unlabeled images. This doesn\u0026rsquo;t require any metadata or developer intervention like previous .\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor each new dataset, users can potentially reuse many of the existing affinity functions already in the\u0026nbsp;library, making GOGGLES a domain-agnostic labeling system. Users and developers can always add more affinity functions to increase the labeling power of GOGGLES.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn five common image classifying tasks, GOGGLES reaches up to 98 percent accuracy without requiring extensive developer effort. It also outperforms other well-known data programming systems by up to 21 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChu co-wrote the paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~xchu33\/chu-papers\/GOGGLES-SIGMOD2020.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGOGGLES: Automatic Image Labeling with Affinity Coding, \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with Ph.D. students \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/nilakshdas.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENilaksh Das\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wurenzhi.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERenzhi Wu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, master\u0026rsquo;s alumni \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sanyachaba\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESanya Chaba\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sakshigandhi\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESakshi Gandhi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and School of Computational Science and Engineering Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/polochau\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. They presented it at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Association_for_Computing_Machinery\u0022 title=\u0022Association for Computing Machinery\u0022\u003EAssociation for Computing Machinery\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026#39;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sigmod2020.org\/\u0022 title=\u0022Symposium on Principles of Database Systems\u0022\u003ESpecial Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) and Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS)\u003C\/a\u003E held virtually from June 14 to 19. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A team of Georgia Tech researchers has created a system that allows users to more effectively label a training dataset with higher accuracy than current methods. 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Designed to be ultra-configurable to meet variable needs of labs across developing countries with minimal training for staff, it quickly grew to become one of C4G\u0026rsquo;s biggest success stories.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore than 10 nations in sub-Saharan Africa adopted the program, called the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/blis.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBasic Laboratory Information System\u003C\/a\u003E (BLIS), giving areas with little or poor internet connectivity an easy-to-use system for many who had minimal computing experience. These countries, which had over 1 million patients at the time, were using paper-based systems to manage information on disease spread, local illnesses, and much more. As information and communications technologies have expanded in the area, however, many labs gained a standardized reports system that could track prevalence rates of infections, slowing their spread.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut a lot can change in just 10 years. What was once designed for personal computing interfaces is now desired for a wide range of new platforms. Although laptops are still the device of choice for the majority of nurses \u0026ndash; 79.6 percent reported in a study of a Nigerian hospital -- smartphones and tablets have seen a steady increase. The coming years will include many more innovations that render even those obsolete.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs users in the global south aspire to embrace mobile computing in clinical settings, a flexible interface, adaptable to everchanging applications, is needed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEnter: \u003Cstrong\u003EJung Wook Park\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EAditi Shah\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Ph.D. student in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E (IC) and former master\u0026rsquo;s student in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E (SCS), respectively. Along with SCS Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ESantosh Vempala\u003C\/strong\u003E and IC Principal Research Scientist \u003Cstrong\u003ERosa Arriaga\u003C\/strong\u003E, Park and Shah published research updating the current interface of C4G BLIS\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir updates focused on a handful of key areas, primarily mobile support. A responsive user interface framework supporting various screen sizes and resolutions was developed and evaluated by real users at hospitals in Africa currently using BLIS.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey compared user experience with the current interface on desktops and smartphones with a proposed interface on both and found that there was a significant improvement on both the desktop and smartphone.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When you bring in a new system, they may feel uncomfortable with it,\u0026rdquo; Park said. \u0026ldquo;If we didn\u0026rsquo;t do a great job, you might get the same score or lower at the beginning. Over time, we saw improvements of 32 and 34 percent on desktops and smartphones.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShah, now at Microsoft, offered plenty of help in the development of the system, and her experience with a visual impairment allowed her to provide perspective on accessibility, as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe implications of this research extend far beyond ease of use for nurses, however. Park identified a growing problem across the globe in health care: communication. As the current pandemic can illustrate, viruses and diseases can spread quickly across many different populations. It isn\u0026rsquo;t sufficient to have just local data to mount an appropriate response; teams around the world must be able to rapidly share information.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA system like C4G BLIS, with its improved user interface that can be used across multiple platforms depending on the local needs of various communities, can help that communication.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If you notice something locally and maybe other areas of the country or continent notice something, how do you know if it is a pandemic?\u0026rdquo; Park posed. \u0026ldquo;You need to be able to share that information to manage the spread. By turning these local systems into a standardized cloud-based system, we can improve communication.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlready, Vempala said, he has heard reports from many labs that have adapted the flexible system to keep track of COVID-19 data in their communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper is titled \u003Cem\u003ERedesigning a Basic Laboratory Information System for the Global South\u003C\/em\u003E, and was presented at the International Telecommunication Union Kaleidoscope conference, earning a Best Paper award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A system that has helped bring digital record keeping to hospitals across Africa has received a needed update for new platforms like smartphones and tablets."}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2020-06-25 20:22:10","changed_gmt":"2020-06-25 20:22:10","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"636548":{"id":"636548","type":"image","title":"Jung Wook Park and Aditi Shah","body":null,"created":"1593116182","gmt_created":"2020-06-25 20:16:22","changed":"1593116182","gmt_changed":"2020-06-25 20:16:22","alt":"Jung Wook Park and Aditi Shah","file":{"fid":"242182","name":"Shah and Park Image.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Shah%20and%20Park%20Image.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Shah%20and%20Park%20Image.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1093782,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Shah%20and%20Park%20Image.png?itok=qfxEI99m"}}},"media_ids":["636548"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"184890","name":"cc-research; ic-hcc"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mitchell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:david.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edavid.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"636410":{"#nid":"636410","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School of Computer Science Professor Wins Award for Influential Cryptography Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~aboldyre\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandra Boldyreva\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has won a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iacr.org\/meetings\/pkc\/test_of_time_award\/\u0022\u003ETest of Time Award\u003C\/a\u003E from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iacr.org\/meetings\/pkc\/\u0022\u003EInternational Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC)\u003C\/a\u003E for her work on new multi-user digital signatures.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoldyreva, who is a professor and associate chair in the School of Computer Science, wrote the single-author winning paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=\u0026amp;ved=2ahUKEwipo6mT4ZPqAhXSUt8KHSePBbsQFjAAegQIAxAB\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iacr.org%2Farchive%2Fpkc2003%2F25670031%2F25670031.pdf\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw0hwXaSsUfFBrkf7bHvHyWu\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThreshold Signatures, Multisignatures and Blind Signatures Based on the Gap-Diffie-Hellman-Group Signature Scheme\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, in 2003 as a Ph.D. student at the University of California San Diego.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My advisor had to convince me to write the paper because I thought the results were too simple to deserve a publication,\u0026rdquo; Boldyreva said. \u0026ldquo;Of course, back then I would have never believed that the paper would do so well.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer new multi-user digital signature schemes were simpler and more efficient than existing schemes at the time. One of the most useful was a multisignature that allows a number of users to jointly digitally sign the same message while keeping the final signature as short and computationally efficient as a single signature. In effect, the length of the multisignature doesn\u0026rsquo;t grow as more users sign.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESecure networking protocols as well as blockchains and cryptocurrencies commonly rely on efficient multi-user signatures. Yet, at the same time, the schemes Boldyreva created are still simple enough that introductory cryptography courses teach them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoldyreva gave a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pZlvzGwC7rU\u0022\u003Efive-minute presentation\u003C\/a\u003E on the paper at this year\u0026rsquo;s virtually held PKC.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Now, I\u0026rsquo;m certain that simplicity is a big advantage as long as the result is useful or interesting.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Alexandra Boldyreva has won a Test of Time Award from the International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC) for her work on new multi-user digital signatures. 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Four researchers affiliated with the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMachine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT)\u003C\/a\u003E and one \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/omscs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EOnline Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS)\u003C\/a\u003E student examined different aspects of the virus\u0026rsquo; impact. From creating forecasting models to studying the psychological impact of the disease, these researchers are helping people understand the virus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn June 24, ML@GT faculty members \u003Cstrong\u003ESrijan Kumar \u003C\/strong\u003E(School of Computational Science and Engineering,) \u003Cstrong\u003EAditya Prakash \u003C\/strong\u003E(School of Computational Science and Engineering,) \u003Cstrong\u003EMunmun De Choudhury \u003C\/strong\u003E(School of Interactive Computing,) \u003Cstrong\u003ENicoleta Serban\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering,) and OMSCS student \u003Cstrong\u003EKenneth Miller\u003C\/strong\u003E will participate in a virtual panel discussing their work. The panel will be moderated by ML@GT executive director \u003Cstrong\u003EIrfan Essa\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPanelists will give individual presentations before participating in a general question-and-answer segment with audience members.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EKumar and De Choudhury will share details of their work regarding the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/635397\u0022\u003Epsychological impact of Covid-19\u003C\/a\u003E. Kumar will also discuss his work examining \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/635858\/predicting-hate-crimes-targeting-asian-americans-amid-covid-19-outbreak\u0022\u003Ehate and counter-hate messages on Twitter against Asian Americans\u003C\/a\u003E during the pandemic.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EPrakash is a member of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention\u0026rsquo;s (CDC) forecasting team, and will share their \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/635849\/forecasting-covid-19-pandemic-united-states\u0022\u003Enew data-driven approach to disease forecasting\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ESerban\u0026rsquo;s presentation will focus on her work creating an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.georgiahealthnews.com\/2020\/05\/georgia-tech-model-predicts-spike-covid-cases-deaths\/\u0022\u003Eagent-based simulation\u0026nbsp;forecasting model\u003C\/a\u003E. This model captures the progression of the disease in an individual and in households, schools, communities, and workplaces.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA lawyer by day and OMSCS student by night, Miller participated in a Kaggle challenge using natural language processing and machine learning to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/635081\/omscs-student-uses-machine-learning-help-understand-covid-19\u0022\u003Ehelp doctors and scientists read the most important studies\u003C\/a\u003E related to Covid-19.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe panel will take place virtually via a Bluejeans Event at 11 a.m. on June 24 and is open to the public. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/register\/sfpbpsgg\u0022\u003ERegistration is required\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Members of the ML@GT community will discuss their Covid-19 related research efforts in a panel discussion on June 24, 2020."}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2020-06-12 13:40:53","changed_gmt":"2020-06-15 19:52:10","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"636195":{"id":"636195","type":"image","title":"Members of the ML@GT community will discuss their Covid-19 related research efforts in a panel discussion on June 24, 2020.","body":null,"created":"1591969094","gmt_created":"2020-06-12 13:38:14","changed":"1591969094","gmt_changed":"2020-06-12 13:38:14","alt":"Members of the ML@GT community will discuss their Covid-19 related research efforts in a panel discussion on June 24, 2020.","file":{"fid":"242073","name":"Using Machine Learning to Respond to Covid-19.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Using%20Machine%20Learning%20to%20Respond%20to%20Covid-19.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Using%20Machine%20Learning%20to%20Respond%20to%20Covid-19.png","mime":"image\/png","size":504783,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Using%20Machine%20Learning%20to%20Respond%20to%20Covid-19.png?itok=HSZ2sXoG"}}},"media_ids":["636195"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAllie McFadden\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eallie.mcfadden@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"636232":{"#nid":"636232","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Win Distinguished Paper Award at Top Programming Language Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science (SCS) researchers\u0026#39; groundbreaking work on interleaved Dyck-reachability (InterDyck-reachability) received a Distinguished Paper Award at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/conf.researchr.org\/home\/pldi-2020\u0022\u003EProgramming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)\u003C\/a\u003E conference this month.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research makes program analysis simpler and more efficient by eliminating ineffective parts of the graph.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;InterDyck reachability is perhaps the most popular abstraction to perform interprocedural\u0026nbsp;program analysis,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yuanbo-li-2a2801132\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYuanbo Li\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student in SCS and co-author on the paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMany program analysis problems can be viewed as analyzing matching properties in graphs. InterDyck languages can help illuminate those properties. As a balanced-parentheses language, Dyck languages are often used to match one particular program property (such as function calls and returns), but the InterDyck language enables matching multiple balanced-parenthesis properties in program analysis simultaneously. Unfortunately, it\u0026#39;s impossible to obtain the exact solution for InterDyck-reachability problems in general.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis research offers a framework to make the existing InterDyck-reachability algorithms more precise and scalable. If a graph edge isn\u0026rsquo;t contributing, it can be eliminated from the underlying input graph G.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;An edge is removable if and only if it won\u0026#39;t affect the precise all-pairs reachability information, but computing the precise solution is undecidable,\u0026rdquo; Li said. \u0026ldquo;We are computing an over-approximation of InterDyck reachability. Therefore, we could safely identify a subset of removable edges.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers\u0026rsquo; algorithm simplifies the input graphs and improves exisiting InterDyck reachability algorithms. After applying the simplification algorithm to a taint analysis for Android, all existing InterDyck-reachability algorithms ran much faster and became more precise. In the future, the researchers hope to apply the concept to even more general static analyses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELi wrote the paper\u003Cem\u003E, \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~qzhang414\/papers\/pldi20_yuanbo2.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFast Graph Simplification for Interleaved Dyck-Reachability\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003Ewith SCS Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~qzhang414\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQirun Zhang \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003EUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EThomas Reps\u003C\/strong\u003E. They presented it at the 41st PLDI, an Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (ACM SIGPLAN) conference, held virtually from June 15 to 20.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis was one of three SCS papers at the conference. Zhang and Li presented another paper \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~qzhang414\/papers\/pldi20_yuanbo1.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDebug Information Validation for Optimized Code\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eco-authored with SCS Ph.D. student\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShuo Ding \u003C\/strong\u003Eand Apple\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cstrong\u003EDavide Italiano\u003C\/strong\u003E. Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/profsantoshpande\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESantosh Pande\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ealso presented \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3385412.3386017\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBlankIt Library Debloating: Getting What You Want Instead of Cutting What You Don\u0026rsquo;t\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E with SCS Ph.D. student co-authors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/prithayan.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrithayan Barua\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/grads\/g\/gmururu3\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGirish Mururu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chris-porter-057640113\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChris Porter\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Computer Science (SCS) researchers groundbreaking research on Interleaved Dyck-reachability (InterDyck-reachability) received a Distinguished Paper Award the Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) conference this month. 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Many Americans receive their news from social media, where rumors can be shared as much as memes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Rumors, hoaxes, fake cures, bioweapon claims, and disinformation campaigns about COVID-19 are prevalent on social media,\u0026rdquo; said School of Computational Science and Engineering Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cs.stanford.edu\/~srijan\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESrijan Kumar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;These induce anger, anxiety, and stress in readers, and in many cases, have even led to fatalities, such as hydroxychloroquine overdose.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENewsroom fact-checkers are at forefront of fighting against false information, but manually verifying every fact is time-consuming at best and nearly impossible in the age of COVID-19. So Kumar and School of Computer Science Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~mustaq\/#biography\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMustque Ahamad\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E are building data-driven, secure solutions for fact checking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Next-Generation Solution\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKumar and Ahamad are a well-matched team. In his past cybersecurity research, Ahamad has worked with professional fact-checkers to determine what they need to complete their work at news organizations. Kumar, for his part, has been building ML and data-driven tools to detect disinformation. COVID-19 seemed like a natural pairing for the two.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Together, we started collaborating to build the next generation of data-driven and security-minded solutions for effective fact checking,\u0026rdquo; Kumar said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir solution is to do early detection of disinformation before it even gets to the fact-checkers. With this in mind, they plan to develop ML techniques to remove deliberately misleading information from the news.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir ML models will be able to learn the difference between true versus false information with only a few training data points.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our models will triage the cases that are most likely to be false in order of their impact on the readers,\u0026rdquo; Kumar said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe models will also be customizable to the individual fact-checker\u0026rsquo;s topical, geographical, and language preferences. As the project develops, Kumar and Ahamad will collaborate with professional fact-checkers to ensure the models are effective throughout the research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our framework will bring together a one-stop-shop for group of fact checkers to collaboratively identify false information,\u0026rdquo; Kumar said. \u0026ldquo;This information can then be shipped to appropriate stakeholders, so that the readers can be appropriately alerted when they view it and the hoaxes can be\u0026nbsp;removed from social media circulation.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more coverage of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s response to the coronavirus pandemic, please visit our \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/helpingstories.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EResponding to COVID-19 page\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"To ensure Americans can find the most accurate information, College of Computing researchers are creating machine-learning (ML) and data science tools to help fact-checkers be more efficient."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-05-26 20:39:52","changed_gmt":"2020-06-04 13:08:20","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"635701":{"id":"635701","type":"image","title":"Disinformation","body":null,"created":"1590526655","gmt_created":"2020-05-26 20:57:35","changed":"1590526655","gmt_changed":"2020-05-26 20:57:35","alt":"","file":{"fid":"241879","name":"magnifier-424566_1280.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/magnifier-424566_1280.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/magnifier-424566_1280.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":274329,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/magnifier-424566_1280.jpg?itok=vxDo7lkL"}}},"media_ids":["635701"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"635803":{"#nid":"635803","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NSF Funds CRA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program to Bridge Job Market Gap","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMany Ph.D. students will have difficulty finding academic jobs in the upcoming recession. To keep the research pipeline flowing, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cra.org\/\u0022\u003EComputing Research Association (CRA)\u003C\/a\u003E has launched the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cifellows2020.org\/\u0022\u003EComputing Innovation Fellows (CIF) 2020 program\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program will fund at least 49 postdoctoral fellows in computing for a two-year career development experience. The National Science Foundation is funding the initial $14 million initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReviving the program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ewz\/Welcome.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is the principal investigator (PI) on CIF 2020. As the chair of the CRA Board of Directors, Zegura said they anticipated that the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout would impact graduating Ph.D. students, and have downstream effects on the U.S.\u0026rsquo;s computing research ecosystem.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In late March and early April, CRA gathered data on how many academic departments were curtailing hiring to understand the scope of the problem,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;Even at that time, this this led us to understand that many faculty positions were being pulled. We were wondering whether there was something CRA could be doing to be responsive to COVID-19.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn response to the 2008 recession, CRA did something similar, funding more than 100 postdoctoral fellows and helping to popularize the fellowship model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This postdoctoral fellow idea bubbled up again because the circumstances were quite similar to 2008, but more drastic and quite sudden,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis iteration of the program is also more flexible. Students can stay at their current institution but partner with a different advisor or work virtually with a mentor at a different university.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMatching researchers\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEach candidate will identify a potential faculty mentor and can submit for the fellowship with up to two. There is a limit of two fellows and two mentors per institution to ensure this opportunity is spread across computing departments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the NSF award has five PIs and a steering committee, there will also be a selection committee. These 8-10 faculty members broadly covering core computing research areas and will determine the matches.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet, according to Zegura, the goal is more than just bridging the job market gap. Each mentor and student pairing will plan a research topic and other ways the candidate can grow professionally, such as grant writing, teaching, or supervising junior students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is supposed to be a time of growth,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said. \u0026ldquo;The postdoc experience really helps the person further the career.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EApplication process\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe application process is similar to faculty hiring processes to make it easy on applicants. Applicants will be required to submit: a research statement and plan, a mentoring plan written collaboratively with their proposed mentor, a curriculum vitae, and a few letters of recommendation. Students must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident or have received a Ph.D. from a U.S. institution.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs with all CRA endeavors, increasing diversity in computing will be important in the selection process, Zegura said. The selection committee will consider under-represented minorities in computing \u0026mdash;including women and racial and ethnical minorities \u0026mdash; and geography, such as rural versus urban areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a great example of what CRA can do well,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said. \u0026ldquo;We feel so good about being able to do something for the community and do something that\u0026rsquo;s responsive to COVID-19.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"To keep the research pipeline flowing, the Computing Research Association (CRA) has launched the Computing Innovation Fellows (CIF) 2020 program."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-05-28 21:46:21","changed_gmt":"2020-05-28 22:31:33","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"635804":{"id":"635804","type":"image","title":"CRA Fellows","body":null,"created":"1590705006","gmt_created":"2020-05-28 22:30:06","changed":"1590705006","gmt_changed":"2020-05-28 22:30:06","alt":"CRA fellow program","file":{"fid":"241908","name":"cra1.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cra1.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cra1.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":400781,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cra1.jpeg?itok=VEL27r74"}}},"media_ids":["635804"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"635523":{"#nid":"635523","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ellen Zegura Named Second Regents\u2019 Professor in School of Computer Science","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ewz\/Welcome.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has been named a Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe University System of Georgia and Georgia Tech recognizes tenured professors with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usg.edu\/policymanual\/section8\/C245\/#p8.3.2_regents_professorships\u0022\u003Ethis honor\u003C\/a\u003E for their research excellence and contributions to the Institute. Zegura has made a career of networking and computing for social good research and teaching.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Over my 27 years on the faculty at Georgia Tech, I have frequently been asked if I considered going elsewhere,\u0026rdquo; said Zegura, who is a Stephen P. Fleming Chair in Telecommunications. \u0026ldquo;The answer is that I have been able to do so many interesting and different things all while remaining right here. I am proud to have witnessed and contributed to the incredible growth of the university.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZegura is a leader across computing. She was \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/news\/618991\/ellen-zegura-becomes-new-cra-board-chair\u0022\u003Enamed\u003C\/a\u003E head of the Computing Research Association\u0026rsquo;s Board of Directors in 2018. She also leads the Center for Computing and Societies and its partnership with Georgia State around public interest technologies, a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/2019\/10\/07\/new-partnership-georgia-state-looks-computing-solutions-social-challenges\u0022\u003Eprogram\u003C\/a\u003E that partners Georgia Tech computer scientists with Georgia State University social scientists to address social inequities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer research also connects networking and public interest. Last year, Zegura \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/news\/621419\/ellen-zegura-receives-mozilla-grant-teach-social-responsibility-computing\u0022\u003Ereceived\u003C\/a\u003E a $150,000 Mozilla grant to incorporate ethics to the undergraduate computing curriculum. She has also \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/news\/619656\/georgia-tech-researchers-are-bringing-better-networks-native-american-tribal-lands\u0022\u003Eresearched\u003C\/a\u003E how to bring better networks to Native American tribal lands.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-1-d\u0026amp;sxsrf=ALeKk02Em1aTkQ3HG__gLUCIw5JIH5uI9w:1589852546790\u0026amp;q=prasad+tetali\u0026amp;spell=1\u0026amp;sa=X\u0026amp;ved=2ahUKEwjooK-i5r7pAhUPJt8KHe3qA4sQBSgAegQIExAn\u0026amp;biw=1440\u0026amp;bih=697\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrasad Tetali\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a joint professor in the Schools of Computer Science and Math, also had his Regents\u0026rsquo; professorship renewed this year. Interim Chair \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Mostafa.Ammar\/\u0022\u003EMostafa Ammar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E is also a Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor, and Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/seymour-goodman\u0022\u003ESeymour Goodman\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eholds one joint with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Being named Regents\u0026#39; Professor at Georgia Tech is a recognition of a faculty member\u0026#39;s long-term distinguished scholarly and service contributions to their intellectual discipline, the academic profession and the Institute,\u0026rdquo; said Ammar. \u0026ldquo;I was very pleased to see Ellen Zegura receive such a well-deserved recognition. Prasad Tetali\u0026#39;s renewal of his 2017 Regents\u0026#39; Professor appointment is further recognition of his continued impact and contributions. \u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ellen Zegura was named a Regents\u0027 Professor."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-05-19 22:37:02","changed_gmt":"2020-05-22 16:29:44","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"618036":{"id":"618036","type":"image","title":"Ellen Zegura","body":null,"created":"1550524714","gmt_created":"2019-02-18 21:18:34","changed":"1550524714","gmt_changed":"2019-02-18 21:18:34","alt":"Ellen Zegura","file":{"fid":"235261","name":"zeguraellen.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/zeguraellen.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/zeguraellen.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":60255,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/zeguraellen.jpg?itok=6cHaVySr"}}},"media_ids":["618036"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"635435":{"#nid":"635435","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Google Awards Faculty Member for Systems Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~adaglis3\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandros Daglis\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E received a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.google\/outreach\/past-programs\/faculty-research-awards\/\u0022\u003EGoogle Faculty Research Award\u003C\/a\u003E for his work in systems. He is one of three College of Computing faculty members to be honored.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the past 14 years, Google has recognized more than 100 faculty members across the U.S. for cutting-edge research in top computing areas from machine learning to quantum computing. The program funds one student worker and enables Google employees to collaborate with top academic institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am particularly excited to receive this award,\u0026rdquo; Daglis said, \u0026ldquo;not only because it is the first form of direct support I\u0026rsquo;ve received from the industry, but also because I see it as a practical recognition of this research direction beyond academia, indicating a potential practical impact on datacenter systems in the near future.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDaglis\u0026rsquo;s work focuses on using hardware specialization to make datacenters run more efficiently. By upgrading a datacenter network from a passive to an active system component, Daglis can leverage new relationships between incoming network traffic and CPU processing to improve processing efficiency, response latency, and ultimately create better online services.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDatacenters are fundamental for internet access because they allow millions of users access to online services at scale. Traditionally, thousands of central processing units (CPUs) communicated across a network to create a datacenter. As demand increased, datacenters\u0026nbsp; kept up by growing in size and continuously upgrading their CPUs, but this approach is now hitting performance scaling limitations because of the end of silicon scaling, such as Dennard scaling and slowdown of Moore\u0026rsquo;s law.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;CPU performance improvements alone are not sufficient anymore to keep up with booming user bases, exploding datasets, and new demanding services,\u0026rdquo; Daglis said. \u0026ldquo;This realization has led to the ongoing phenomenon of hardware specialization.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith this in mind, Daglis\u0026rsquo;s research is to upgrade the datacenter network from a traditional passive approach that delivers data between two endpoints to an active component that performs smarter data manipulation. His emphasis is on the network\u0026rsquo;s endpoints \u0026ndash; particularly the use of modern programmable network interfaces that can be leveraged to accelerate common inter-CPU communication patterns within the datacenter.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The main underlying idea is that by judiciously exposing some application-level semantics to the network interface,\u0026rdquo; Daglis said, \u0026ldquo;new synergies between the incoming network traffic and the processing performed on the CPUs can emerge.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alex Daglis received a Google Faculty Research Award."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-05-18 17:31:47","changed_gmt":"2020-05-18 17:33:01","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"601656":{"id":"601656","type":"image","title":"Alex Daglis","body":null,"created":"1517408731","gmt_created":"2018-01-31 14:25:31","changed":"1517408731","gmt_changed":"2018-01-31 14:25:31","alt":"Alexandros Daglis","file":{"fid":"229323","name":"alex_portrait.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alex_portrait.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alex_portrait.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":924490,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/alex_portrait.jpg?itok=AaG5SzBs"}}},"media_ids":["601656"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"634175":{"#nid":"634175","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Four Machine Learning Faculty Members Earn Promotions and Tenure","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFour faculty members at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMachine Learning Center at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E have received promotions or been granted tenure.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJake Abernethy\u003C\/strong\u003E has been promoted to associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E and granted tenure. Abernethy\u0026rsquo;s research focus is machine learning, where he enjoys discovering connections between optimization, statistics, and economics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2011, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley before becoming a Simons postdoctoral fellow for the following two years. After the water crisis in Flint, Mich., Abernethy worked on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~jabernethy9\/flint\/\u0022\u003Edetecting lead contamination and infrastructure remediation\u003C\/a\u003E. Prior to studying and teaching machine learning, Abernethy performed comedy and juggling shows, opening for Sinbad and Dave Chappelle.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMunmun De Choudhury\u003C\/strong\u003E has been promoted to associate professor in the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E School of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E and granted tenure. De Choudhury is also affiliated with the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGVU\u003C\/a\u003E Center and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology (IPaT)\u003C\/a\u003E and leads the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/socweb.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESocial Dynamics and Wellbeing Lab (SocWeb Lab.)\u003C\/a\u003E De Choudhury studies problems at the intersection of computer science and social media, building computational methods and artefacts to help understand human behaviors and psychological states and how they manifest online.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining Georgia Tech in 2014, De Choudhury was a postdoctoral researcher in the nexus group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. In 2011, she received her Ph.D. from Arizona State University, Tempe. After graduate school, De Choudhury spent time at Rutgers University and was a faculty associate with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYajun Mei\u003C\/strong\u003E has been promoted to professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. Mei\u0026#39;s research interests include change-point problems and sequential analysis in mathematical statistics and sensor networks and information theory in engineering. Mei also examines longitudinal data analysis, random effects models, and clinical trials in biostatistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMei received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 2003. He has also worked as a postdoc in biostatistics at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In 2010, Mei was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and in 2008 was awarded Best Paper at FUSION. Mei was awarded the prestigious Abraham Wald Prize in Sequential Analysis in 2009.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlex Endert \u003C\/strong\u003Ehas been promoted to associate professor and granted tenure in the School of Interactive Computing. Endert directs the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtvalab.github.io\/\u0022\u003EVisual Analytics Lab\u003C\/a\u003E where he and his students apply fundamental research to\u0026nbsp;domains including text analysis, intelligence analysis, cybersecurity, and decision-making, and explore novel user interaction techniques for visual analytics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEndert earned his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 2012, and in 2013 his work on Semantic Interaction was awarded the IEEE VGTC VPG Pioneers Group Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the Virginia Tech Computer Science Best Dissertation Award. In 2018, Endert received the NSF CAREER Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEditors Note:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMolei Tao\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;has been promoted to associate professor with tenure in the School of Math. Tao is an applied and computational mathematician, designing algorithms for faster and more accurate computations and developing mathematical tools to analyze and design engineering systems or answer scientific questions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe earned his Ph.D. in control and dynamical systems with a minor in physics from the California Institute of Technolgy where he also worked as a postdoctoral researcher. He is the 2011 recipient of the W.P. 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They have always been valuable members of the SCS family, and I look forward to their continued success.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHyesoon Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKim joined SCS in 2007 as a computer architect. She focuses on developing tools to improve performance and efficiency on heterogeneous architectures such as central processing units, graphics processing units, and embedded systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am very excited about the promotion; it means all lot to me,\u0026rdquo; Kim said. \u0026ldquo;When I was promoted to associate, I felt that I should stop running and look around because where else would I go. Now I feel that I would learn how to fly. \u0026ldquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKim runs the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/comparch.gatech.edu\/hparch\/\u0022\u003EHigh Performance Architecture Lab\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech, where students and faculty develop high-performance and energy-efficient computing from microarchitectures to compilers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Thank you to all the people who helped me to build my career at Georgia Tech, including my graduate and undergraduate students, mentors, colleagues,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESantosh Pande\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPande has been with SCS since 2000. His work in compiler optimization is prolific and has considerable influence. Pande has published more than 100 papers, worked with top industry partners, and released several software systems\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;This promotion means a lot to me looking back as well as peeking into the future,\u0026rdquo; Pande said. \u0026ldquo;I feel gratified for the recognition of scholarship in terms of research and education and its impact on the body of students I worked with at all levels.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPande focuses on practical problems he can provide foundational solutions for, such as evolving architectures for systems and security problems. With this in mind, Pande is currently working on solving software debloating problems and model-based program analysis and optimizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I fell in love with compilers, which offered a unique blend of theory and practice and continue to be fascinated by its elegance (an art form), its deep theoretical moorings (science), and its robust engineering practices,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;As I assume my new rank, I feel even more empowered and excited about making deep contributions to the advancement of my area and towards shaping up ambitious careers of my students at all levels.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJacob Abernethy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbernethy \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/600231\/top-machine-learning-researcher-jake-abernethy-joins-school-computer-science\u0022\u003Estarted at SCS\u003C\/a\u003E in 2017 but has quickly made a mark with machine learning solutions to real-world problems such as the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/610023\/using-data-science-fix-flint-water-crisis\u0022\u003EFlint Water Crisis\u003C\/a\u003E. His work has received \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/video\/artificial-intelligence-helping-lead-out-flint\/\u0022\u003Enational news attention\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1910077\u0026amp;HistoricalAwards=false\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation funding\u003C\/a\u003E. He is also recognized as the leader in his field, working at Google Research in the Summer of 2019 and serving as program co-chair for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/learningtheory.org\u0022\u003E2020 Conference on Learning Theory (COLT)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbernethy has long felt part of the College of Computing and honored to receive this acknowledgment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In my first year in grad school, I watched [SCS Professor]\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~vempala\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESantosh Vempala\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E give a phenomenal keynote talk at a conference I was attending,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;I recall thinking at the time that becoming a tenured professor at Georgia Tech would be just an unimaginable accomplishment. It is amazing to think that 13 years later I would manage to get there myself!\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jake Abernethy, Hyesoon Kim, and Santosh Pande received promotions. 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At the same time, the field of machine learning (ML) was booming.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoudali saw a chance to have an influence on a new paradigm in computing and has built a research career on using ML-based methods to manage emerging memory systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAll in the Family\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoudali has always taken advantage of the opportunities around her. Computing runs in the family. Her father is an electrical engineer, and her older brothers took an interest in computing as kids. Their passion meant Doudali got to play around on her first computer at 12 to explore YouTube and other media.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite her early exposure to computers, Doudali didn\u0026rsquo;t think about computer science as a field of study until her final two years of high school. With a plan to be a doctor, she was taking a lot of biology classes but noticed how much her brothers enjoyed their computer science studies at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Athens, Greece.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen Doudali started NTUA, she joined undergraduate program of electrical and computer engineering. Doudali completed a thesis on databases, creating a dataset generator for social networks enriched with geographic and textual information. This research experience at the Computing Systems Laboratory (CSLab) at NTUA showed Doudali where she wanted to take her career.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I knew I wanted to stay in a university and wasn\u0026rsquo;t ready to go into industry yet,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;I really liked the research process and collaboration.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch Agenda\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA Ph.D. was the next step, and Doudali already knew about Georgia Tech thanks to her older brother, who completed a Ph.D. in computer architecture. She was instantly taken with the warm and welcoming environment of the school on her visit day.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe school embraced her, too. Doudali immediately started working with Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/home\/ada\/\u0022\u003EAda Gavrilovska\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, who introduced Doudali to her future research field \u0026mdash; heterogeneous memory systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHeterogeneous memory systems use new hardware technologies, such as persistent memory, or resource disaggregation techniques to meet the high capacity needs of big data applications at a reasonable cost compared to traditional systems. The varying access speeds of the available memory components make it necessary for intelligent data management methods to boost application performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was an interesting problem because heterogeneity now exists across the system\u0026rsquo;s hardware stack, like compute, memory, and storage units,\u0026rdquo; Doudali said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA New Opportunity\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs Intel\u0026rsquo;s Optane DC persistent memory rolled out, Doudali knew this was her window to do research that could really impact how a new product is used in real-time. Her research group harnessed ML to improve upon the challenging process of deciding where to place data in heterogeneous memory systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We were interested in how ML could shape better systems,\u0026rdquo; Doudali said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe result was Kleio, an ML-based data management methodology for heterogeneous memory systems. Kleio uses ML to predict data access pattern behavior and decide which data to move between the available memory units to improve application performance. The project has only continued to grow as more research questions open, such as how much data to move and at what times given network conditions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/623810\/machine-learning-makes-memory-management-more-efficient\u0022\u003EMachine Learning Makes Memory Management More Efficient\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoudali\u0026rsquo;s work has been recognized across the field. Kleio was a best paper award finalist at the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 28th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2019). Recently, her alma mater invited her to give a talk on Kleio. She also served on a committee for the top systems conference EuroSys, which allows researchers to become familiar with the selection process of the technical program in academic conferences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo boost her academic career, Doudali has acquired industry experience while interning at AMD, VMWare, and DellEMC. Ultimately, she plans to continue her research career after graduation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommunity Involvement\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoudali also gives back to the community she found a home in. She helps organize SCS visit days for prospective Ph.D. students and student meetings with faculty candidates. She is also an executive board member of the Hellenic Society, a cultural organization that connects students of Greek heritage and shares Greek traditions with the campus community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Doudali\u0026rsquo;s impact on the community has been appreciated. In April, she was invited to share four life quotes that shaped her Ph.D. journey as part of GT\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2020\/04\/15\/illuminate-tech-speaker-series-goes-virtual?fbclid=IwAR0ch_QM8Bv8aVH6CTAGtcY-YNODWKKb1nvcnNidCNjDo8p4IFIJ2ldE0oY\u0022\u003EIlluminate Tech\u003C\/a\u003E speaker series.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Just let go of the things you cannot control right now,\u0026rdquo; she said during the event, \u0026ldquo;keep working hard, and trust that whatever happens is for the best.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCS Ph.D. student Thaleia Dimitra Doudali is at the forefront of nonvolatile memory systems research."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-04-30 20:07:51","changed_gmt":"2020-04-30 20:23:26","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"634917":{"id":"634917","type":"image","title":"Thaleia Doudali","body":null,"created":"1588278190","gmt_created":"2020-04-30 20:23:10","changed":"1588278190","gmt_changed":"2020-04-30 20:23:10","alt":"Thaleia Doudali","file":{"fid":"241621","name":"Thaleia.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Thaleia.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Thaleia.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":835669,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Thaleia.jpg?itok=1fosLmbd"}}},"media_ids":["634917"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"634115":{"#nid":"634115","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Team IDs Real-world Vulnerabilities In Popular Browser During Premier Hackathon ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of School of Computer Science (SCS) students came in second at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thezdi.com\/blog\/2020\/3\/17\/welcome-to-pwn2own-2020-the-schedule-and-live-results\u0022\u003EPwn2Own\u003C\/a\u003E, one of the world\u0026rsquo;s top hacking competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gts3.org\/\u0022\u003ESystems Software \u0026amp; Security Lab\u003C\/a\u003E (SSlab) Ph.D. students \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/jakkdu.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInsu Yun\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EYong Hwi Jin,\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EJung Won Lim \u003C\/strong\u003Ecompeted in the annual event. Their objective was to exploit popular software with unknown vulnerabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As a hacker studying offensive security, we always dreamed of participating in Pwn2Own,\u0026rdquo; Yun said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe SCS team exploited Apple\u0026rsquo;s Safari internet browser. Although the browser category is known to be more difficult, the team was attracted to how technically interesting the challenge was, according to Yun.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team was also set up for success because the underlying Safari operating system is *nix, a category the team members were familiar with. Adding to their advantage, they also had written an exploit for Safari just last July so they were able to apply that knowledge here as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMultiple vulnerabilities are required to attack a modern browser. The team found new six vulnerabilities to compromise Safari, all of which were later confirmed by Apple. To exploit as many vulnerabilities as possible, they used several approaches, including fuzzing, source code review, and reverse engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, the competition allowed the team to sharpen skills they can bring back to their SCS research, such as designing automatic tools to find bugs, and identifying vulnerabilities on complex, real-world programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;SSlab gave us the opportunity to make a such wonderful team because our\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nlab is one of the best information security labs in the world with many talented students.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A team of School of Computer Science (SCS) students came in second at Pwn2Own, one of the world\u2019s top hacking competition. "}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-04-06 21:43:36","changed_gmt":"2020-04-06 22:08:43","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"634116":{"id":"634116","type":"image","title":"Pwn2Own","body":null,"created":"1586210538","gmt_created":"2020-04-06 22:02:18","changed":"1586210538","gmt_changed":"2020-04-06 22:02:18","alt":"Pwn2Own team","file":{"fid":"241295","name":"group_picture.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/group_picture.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/group_picture.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":417144,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/group_picture.JPG?itok=vRV7QGxe"}}},"media_ids":["634116"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"633007":{"#nid":"633007","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers Develop New Tool to Preserve Crash Report Privacy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen a user opts to send a crash report following a program failure, the report could share personal information including usernames, passwords, and other confidential details.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is why Georgia Tech researchers created a new tool called Desensitization that generates crash reports that preserve the original error \u0026mdash; whether a bug or attack \u0026mdash; without exposing privacy. The method is also smaller than half of all crash reports, taking less than 15 seconds to process and significantly saving resources for both users and developers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Crash dumps can have a severe outcome, including sensitive information leaking from end users, bad publicity, and financial liability for developers if a data breach happens,\u0026rdquo; said School of Computer Science Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/grads\/r\/rding30\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERen Ding\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;We came up with the idea to desensitize crashes while keeping necessary attack payloads before sharing it to the developers.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDesensitization is effective at removing more than 80 percent of potential sensitive data from Linux crash reports and nearly 50 percent of Windows crash reports.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe problem with crash reports\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECrash reports usually include a coredump file that contains the central processing unit context and memory of the program, or the program inputs that made it crash. Both can include sensitive data, from session tokens to personal contact information.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrevious techniques to remove this type of data weren\u0026rsquo;t effective. Relying on developers to hand-annotate the data is time consuming and error prone. Another method that uses a pattern-based search to identify private data, such as email addresses, doesn\u0026rsquo;t work on program-specific data. The biggest issue with both methods is how much computation they require.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow Desensitization works\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn contrast, Desensitization first runs on the user side to decouple general information and crash evidence from personal data. The order is strategic, according to Ding. End users may not have as much computation power as developers, so debugging and analysis isn\u0026rsquo;t efficient at the source.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s imperative to minimize necessary resources such as time and memory, making the program \u0026ldquo;lightweight.\u0026rdquo; The goal, said Ding, is to extract enough general information so developers can conduct the crash diagnostics on their end. Once the tool extracts the attack information from the user, it\u0026rsquo;s sent to the server for more thorough analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers\u0026rsquo; method is bug and attack oriented to ensure the tool only focuses on relevant data. With this in mind, they designed one general and four lightweight techniques.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe general technique scans the memory to identify all pointers, a programming language object that stores memory and where most attacks reside. The four other techniques either identify specific information or customize existing techniques in prominent bugs and attacks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our security model relies on the security guarantee of previous detection methods,\u0026rdquo; Ding said. \u0026ldquo;That\u0026rsquo;s why we try to make the current framework customizable by adopting the module design so that it can support more in the future.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe module design of Desensitization makes the tool easy to apply to future technique and works on existing crash report analysis formats.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe solution is available to developers via \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/github.com\/sslab-gatech\/desensitization\u0022\u003EGithub\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDing will present the research at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ndss-symposium.org\/\u0022\u003ENetwork and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)\u003C\/a\u003E in San Diego running from Feb. 23 through 26. He co-wrote the paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ndss-symposium.org\/ndss-paper\/desensitization-privacy-aware-and-attack-preserving-crash-report\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDesensitization: Privacy-Aware and Attack-Preserving Crash Reports\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, with fellow SCS Ph.D. students \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~hhu86\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHong Hu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gts3.org\/~wen\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWen Xu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/taesoo.kim\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This is why Georgia Tech researchers created a new tool called Desensitization that generates crash reports that preserve the original error \u2014 whether a bug or attack \u2014 without exposing privacy."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-02-26 21:51:33","changed_gmt":"2020-02-26 21:59:08","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-02-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-02-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"633008":{"id":"633008","type":"image","title":"Crash report","body":null,"created":"1582754158","gmt_created":"2020-02-26 21:55:58","changed":"1582754158","gmt_changed":"2020-02-26 21:55:58","alt":"Crash report","file":{"fid":"240861","name":"2865993206_73272da380.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2865993206_73272da380.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2865993206_73272da380.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":43872,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2865993206_73272da380.jpg?itok=TXtyiEf6"}}},"media_ids":["633008"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"632989":{"#nid":"632989","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Innovating on the Edge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEdge computing is one of the fastest growing fields, and School of Computer Science (SCS) researchers are at the forefront.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the cloud has enabled more complex applications everywhere, some of the most vital computing occurs at the edge of the network, from video processing to image recognition. Yet with these innovations come challenges, including latency, cost, and security. This is where SCS steps up.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAcross the school, networking and systems researchers tackle how best to take advantage of the edge\u0026rsquo;s many benefits while ensuring it\u0026rsquo;s secure and practical. Together they are shaping the future of the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=maLhmE7TC-M\u0026amp;feature=youtu.be\u0022\u003Ethis video\u003C\/a\u003E, several SCS professors, research scientists, and students explain the power of the edge, their research, and what to expect next. Interim Chair \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Mostafa.Ammar\/\u0022\u003EMostafa Ammar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Professor\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ewz\/Welcome.html\u0022\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/home\/ada\/\u0022\u003EAda Gavrilovska\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Research Scientist II \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/grads\/h\/hgupta40\/\u0022\u003EKetan Bhardwaj\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~rama\/\u0022\u003EUmakishore Ramachandran\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/grads\/h\/hgupta40\/\u0022\u003EHarshit Gupta\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E show how we are dominating in this field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCS releases edge computing video."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-02-26 16:44:58","changed_gmt":"2020-02-26 16:46:22","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-02-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-02-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"632920":{"#nid":"632920","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Find New Security Problem is Hardware Power Systems","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPasswords can be stolen just by monitoring unintentional electromagnetic emanations from a computer\u0026rsquo;s power management unit (PMU). Georgia Tech researchers discovered this new side-channel attack that can be used to extract sensitive data even if the attacker is 10 feet away or even separated by a wall.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In the past five years, researchers are showing a lot of different vulnerabilities in hardware,\u0026rdquo; School of Computer Science Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.prism.gatech.edu\/~nsehatbakhsh3\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENader Sehatbakhsh\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said. \u0026ldquo;Power management units are just one of many different hardware components that can leak secrets.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Power Problem\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile computer power used to be a simple on-off switch, new PMUs operate in up to 10 different states to preserve energy. Researchers found that each state emits a different electromagnetic signal that creates spikes in the frequency-domain spectrum, and as the activity increases so does the signal and the spikes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETyping characters creates periods of high-state activities in which the distance between state spikes can show the location of keys on a keyboard. With the right monitoring, an attacker can determine the number of characters or how many words are in a password, or even find the exact characters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis type of monitoring is called a side-channel attack, in which an attacker can extract sensitive data from physical signals produced by electronic activity within the device. Sound, temperature, power, and electromagnetic waves are common signals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[RELATED: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2018\/08\/09\/researchers-help-close-security-hole-popular-encryption-software\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearchers Help Close Security Hole in Popular Encryption Software\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPMU side-channel attacks can also be exploited to create a fast and stealthy covert communication. For example, a rogue employee could extract data outside of a secured company\u0026rsquo;s computer, breaking existing security.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStopping the Side-channel\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESide-channel vulnerabilities are becoming more pervasive because security is not the first priority for hardware designers, according to Sehatbakhsh. Their primary goals are to create something fast and cost-effective, and security often slows down the process and becomes more expensive. Yet with more research like this, things could change, Sehatbakhsh said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Now people are demanding extra security, so hopefully ignoring these vulnerabilities won\u0026rsquo;t be an option in the future.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt this point in their work, the researchers are mostly exposing the problem, but there are potential solutions, Sehatbakhsh suggested. Adding randomness to the PMU would unsync power states from the data they provide; however, this solution might consume too much power for developers to implement it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESehatbakhsh will present the research at the 26th International Symposium on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hpca-conf.org\/2020\/\u0022\u003EHigh-Performance Computer Architecture\u003C\/a\u003E in San Diego from Feb. 22 to 26. He co-wrote the paper with School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bakiberkayyilmaz\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBaki Berkay Yilmaz\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, ECE Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/alenka.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlenka Zajic\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and SCS Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/11067\/milos-prvulovics\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMilos Prvulovic\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Passwords can be stolen just by monitoring unintentional electromagnetic emanations from a computer\u2019s power management unit (PMU)."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-02-25 15:52:50","changed_gmt":"2020-02-25 15:56:26","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"632922":{"id":"632922","type":"image","title":"PMY set-up","body":null,"created":"1582646158","gmt_created":"2020-02-25 15:55:58","changed":"1582646158","gmt_changed":"2020-02-25 15:55:58","alt":"PMU set-up","file":{"fid":"240825","name":"near.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/near.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/near.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":876807,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/near.JPG?itok=bok9z29Z"}}},"media_ids":["632922"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"632375":{"#nid":"632375","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Dominates at Premier Conference for Parallel Processing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a leading international community that aims to integrate mathematics with science and technology to create solutions to real-world problems through conferences, publications, and workshops. Its premier conference for the exchange of updates and best practices in the field of parallel processing research,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mc.us1.list-manage.com\/pages\/track\/click?u=de853fab347fb5756a5423781\u0026amp;id=27e7568358\u0022\u003ESIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing 2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(PP20), begins today in Seattle, Washington and will run until Saturday, February 15.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech leads this year\u0026rsquo;s conference presence with 28 different forms of engagement from 25 researchers across units including the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mc.us1.list-manage.com\/pages\/track\/click?u=de853fab347fb5756a5423781\u0026amp;id=5f37a9e096\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CSE),\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mc.us1.list-manage.com\/pages\/track\/click?u=de853fab347fb5756a5423781\u0026amp;id=5b5c042521\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(SCS), and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mc.us1.list-manage.com\/pages\/track\/click?u=de853fab347fb5756a5423781\u0026amp;id=3f1e67978b\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(GTRI).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s presence includes an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mc.us1.list-manage.com\/pages\/track\/click?u=de853fab347fb5756a5423781\u0026amp;id=ce9810bfd6\u0022\u003Einvited plenary talk\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by SCS Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EHyesoon Kim\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ethat discusses different ways to apply and evaluate modeling techniques for heterogeneous computing systems; a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mc.us1.list-manage.com\/pages\/track\/click?u=de853fab347fb5756a5423781\u0026amp;id=c55c80ff78\u0022\u003Eposter presentation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by GTRI researchers\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMicah E. 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Because of this content focus, SIAM PP\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;sessions can create more interaction and spawn new ideas,\u0026rdquo; said Senior Research Scientist\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJason Riedy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;who is set to present at several sessions throughout the week, including one session focused on providing\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mc.us1.list-manage.com\/pages\/track\/click?u=de853fab347fb5756a5423781\u0026amp;id=d55e051a93\u0022\u003Eupdates from the Rogues Gallery\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe Rogues Gallery is a test bed established by Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mc.us1.list-manage.com\/pages\/track\/click?u=de853fab347fb5756a5423781\u0026amp;id=b2cb03efca\u0022\u003ECenter for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CRNCH). 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Microsoft gives the prestigious recognition to Ph.D. students at North American universities who are underrepresented in computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELaddha is a second-year student in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aco.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAlgorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization program\u003C\/a\u003E, where she specializes in creating faster algorithms for high-dimensional sampling and convex optimization. This work is foundational in improving machine learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fellowship funds three years of Laddha\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. and provides the opportunity to visit Microsoft Research for a two-day summit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This fellowship means a lot to me,\u0026rdquo; Laddha said. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s a very good opportunity to see the kind of research carried out in the industry.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe application process for the fellowship was competitive. 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This year the IEEE Board of Directors honored three GT faculty members: Sarkar, School of Computational Science and Engineering Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ERichard Fujimoto\u003C\/strong\u003E, and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EStanislav Emelianov\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[RELATED NEWS: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/631753\/fujimoto-and-sarkar-named-ieee-fellows\u0022\u003EFujimoto and Sarkar Named IEEE Fellows\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESarkar was recognized for contributions to high-performance computing compiler technologies. As a parallel computing expert, Sarkar\u0026rsquo;s work includes programming languages, compilers, runtime systems, and debugging and verification systems for high performance computers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is not Sarkar\u0026rsquo;s first honor in his field. He became a member of the IBM Academy of Technology in 1995 and an Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow in 2008. He has been serving as a member of the U.S. Department of Energy\u0026rsquo;s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) since 2009 and has served on Computing Research Association\u0026rsquo;s Board of Directors since 2015.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESarkar is the sixth IEEE fellow in SCS. He joins Interim Chair \u003Cstrong\u003EMostafa Ammar\u003C\/strong\u003E, CRNCH Co-Director \u003Cstrong\u003ETom Conte\u003C\/strong\u003E, Professors \u003Cstrong\u003ELing Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EUmakishore Ramachandran\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;In many ways, the synergies between ACM and IEEE is reflected in the synergies between the College of Computing and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, and can be seen in multiple close research collaborations on campus including in our CRNCH center,\u0026rdquo; said Sarkar.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Computer Science Professor Vivek Sarkar has been named an IEEE fellow."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-01-30 22:01:20","changed_gmt":"2020-01-30 22:01:20","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"631693":{"id":"631693","type":"image","title":"Vivek Sarkar","body":null,"created":"1580136074","gmt_created":"2020-01-27 14:41:14","changed":"1580136074","gmt_changed":"2020-01-27 14:41:14","alt":"photograph of Vivek Sarkar","file":{"fid":"240350","name":"Vivek-Sarkar.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vivek-Sarkar.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vivek-Sarkar.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":574154,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Vivek-Sarkar.jpg?itok=A3KQxKSo"}}},"media_ids":["631693"],"groups":[{"id":"576491","name":"CRNCH"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto: tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"631911":{"#nid":"631911","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CRNCH Brings Together Researchers Across Computing at Annual Summit","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/crnch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe Center for Research Into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH\u003C\/a\u003E) hosts its \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.crnch.gatech.edu\/content\/crnch-summit\u0022\u003Ethird summit\u003C\/a\u003E on Friday, Jan. 31.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis annual gathering has become one of the top forums to discuss the future of computing after Moore\u0026rsquo;s law, the past industry-wide trend of doubling transistors in a microchip nearly every two years that exponentially fueled computing innovation. Now dozens of experts will meet to discuss computing\u0026rsquo;s new frontier from the perspective of diverse areas including devices, edge computing, computer architecture, systems software, machine learning, quantum computing, and theory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The CRNCH Summit is an exciting opportunity for Georgia Tech researchers and our visitors to share their latest breakthrough ideas for post-Moore computing,\u0026rdquo; said CRNCH Co-Director \u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;We look forward to a productive meeting, and all the great research that will follow.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u0026rsquo;s keynote is on computer architecture by \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Mountain\u003C\/strong\u003E, the senior technical director at Advanced Computing Systems Research Program. Other leaders in their field follow, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory AI Institute Director \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Womble\u003C\/strong\u003E, Notre Dame Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EPeter Kogge\u003C\/strong\u003E, National Instruments Academic Business Development Manager \u003Cstrong\u003EIgor Alvarado\u003C\/strong\u003E, Northrop Grumman System Architect \u003Cstrong\u003EBrian Konigsburg\u003C\/strong\u003E, and GTRI Quantum Systems Division Senior Research Scientist \u003Cstrong\u003ECraig Clark\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe event is also a chance for Georgia Tech faculty to showcase their research. School of Computer Science (SCS) Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAda Gavrilovska\u003C\/strong\u003E discusses edge computing possibilities. SCS Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EDana Randall\u003C\/strong\u003E offers emergent computation as a possibility. SCS Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EHyesoon Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E presents heterogeneous computing systems. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professors \u003Cstrong\u003EArijit Raychowdhury \u003C\/strong\u003Eand \u003Cstrong\u003EMoin Qureshi\u003C\/strong\u003E bring their perspectives on future devices and quantum computers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe event highlights how CRNCH\u0026rsquo;s influence spans the entire institute with more than 30 dedicated faculty members from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E. With their expertise in quantum computing, neuromorphic computing, design science, approximate computing, and more, CRNCH\u0026rsquo;s team is uniquely qualified to tackle the challenges of computing\u0026rsquo;s future. Since it was founded in 2017 by Co-director \u003Cstrong\u003ETom Conte\u003C\/strong\u003E, the center has paired researchers with funding, students with internships, companies with research labs on campus to test their leading-edge products, and even started a collection of specialized hardware called the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/614253\/first-rogue-takes-flight-how-crnch-builds-strong-industry-partnerships\u0022\u003ERogues Gallery\u003C\/a\u003E (RG).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe RG has supported close to 75 users with a quarter coming from external labs and institutions. 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A distinction conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors, it is considered by the technical community to be a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmelianov was recognized for his contributions to ultrasound elasticity and photoacoustic imaging. He is the Joseph M. Pettit Chair Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.\u0026nbsp;An expert in biomedical imaging instrumentation and nanoagents for imaging and therapy, Emelianov\u0026nbsp;has joint appointments with the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He\u0026nbsp;is also a professor of Radiology at the Emory University School of Medicine and is affiliated with\u0026nbsp;Winship Cancer Institute\u0026nbsp;and other clinical units.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmelianov is the director of the\u0026nbsp;Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, where his group works on the discovery, development, and clinical translation of diagnostic imaging and therapeutic instrumentation, augmented with theranostic nanoagents\u0026ndash;small particles that can diagnose and then treat a specific disease. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and he has served as vice president for Ultrasonics of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFujimoto, a Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor in the\u0026nbsp;School of Computational Science and Engineering, was honored for his work in the field of parallel and distributed discrete event simulation. Discrete event simulations model operations within a system and have uses in a wide variety of applications. Fujimoto has authored and co-authored hundreds of technical papers on the subject as well as several books, which span application areas including transportation systems, telecommunication networks, and multiprocessor and defense systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe was also named a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iitsec.org\/\u0022\u003E2019 Interservice\/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I\/ITSEC) Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E. The announcement for both of these recognitions came only two years after he was named an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/awards.acm.org\/fellows\u0022\u003EAssociation for Computing Machinery Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESarkar, the Stephen P. Fleming Chair of Telecommunications in the School of Computer Science and co-director of the Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies, received his distinction\u0026nbsp;for contributions to compiler technologies for high-performance computing. His work in this area spans multiple aspects of parallel computing software including programming languages, compilers, runtime systems, and debugging and verification systems for high performance computers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESarkar has numerous recognitions in the field. He became a member of the IBM Academy of Technology in 1995 and an ACM Fellow in 2008. 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Creative freedom. Intellectual freedom. Freedom to self-actualize. Whatever choice will give him the most autonomy is how he\u0026rsquo;s made his biggest life decisions: coming to the US, getting into computer science, pursuing his Ph.D., and joining the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEntrepreneurial Edge\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGrowing up in Kiev, Ukraine, Tumanov was forged by the rigorous curriculum of the physics and mathematics specialized high school he attended, as well as the country\u0026rsquo;s emerging emphasis on business and entrepreneurship. He envisioned starting and running companies at as young as 12.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETumanov also had a creative streak. When he was 15, he made his first computer game. It was a multi-genre game that combined puzzles, quests, and accurate modeling of gravitational forces as the player dodged monsters and searched for treasure.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe was searching for something: a career path that combined his business acumen with his technical skills and creative tendencies, so he turned his attention and aspirations to the United States. \u0026ldquo;To spread my wings, I needed more room, more opportunities, a meritocratic community,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESelf-Actualization in America\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter writing a college essay on the importance of self-actualization, Tumanov was accepted to a private university in North Carolina. Tumanov quickly realized that hard work would be rewarded and having a more academic foundation could give him a boost in the industry. He double majored in computer science and math, and was just short of a triple major in business administration at the time of his graduation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve always been very freedom seeking and freedom loving, and I liked the fact I could carve out my own path in North America,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;I was relying almost exclusively on my own skill set, the invaluable mentorship of my teachers, and unconditional family support. It was liberating to be immersed in an environment where, with hard work and perseverance, everything seemed possible. I suppose I was on my way toward the American dream.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduating, Tumanov took a job in the industry as a software developer, but eventually decided that his academic aspirations and intellectual curiosity couldn\u0026rsquo;t stop at master\u0026rsquo;s. He craved innovation and working on the frontier of computer science and distributed systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In the industry, you are in the business of creating value for your customers, which is more about the efficiency of execution,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;In academia, you get to pursue higher-risk, longer-term projects with potentially higher reward and broader impact.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETrailblazing in Systems and ML\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETumanov initially discovered he could flex his creativity in research when he pursued his master of computer science at York University in Toronto. There, he became aware of his passion for the systems research he does today. He started in the virtual reality field, but found himself focusing on the distributed systems aspect.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I was always trying to get to the bottom of how and why things work, and if you apply this mentality to computer science, you inevitably try to figure why the operating system works the way it works, and the more you want to learn about this, you get to lower-level systems,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve always been a systems person, but I just didn\u0026rsquo;t know about it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith this new specialization, Tumanov transitioned to a full-time research assistant position in virtualization technologies at University of Toronto and eventually applied to Ph.D. programs. The Snowflock project he was involved in and extended recently won a\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eurosys2019.org\/awards\/\u0022\u003E EuroSys\u003C\/a\u003E Test of Time paper award for its innovative approach to abstracting the virtual memory fork to cloning virtual machines in seconds. With this research foundation, he went on to pursue his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETumanov made the burgeoning world of cloud computing his next focus during his Ph.D. His goal was to rewrite the operating system for the type of cluster needed in cloud computing. As he got into the research, he honed in on resource management, a crucial part of cloud computing, as resources are shared across heterogeneous operating systems and hardware.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETumanov wanted to find a programming language that could express resource constraints as algebra and therefore run more efficiently. The work increased the value and utility of cluster computing and won the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/eurosys16.doc.ic.ac.uk\/program\/awards\/\u0022\u003EEuroSys\u003C\/a\u003E Best Student Paper award in 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough Tumanov was making his mark in the systems world, he knew machine learning (ML) would be the next frontier. He did his post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, to research and develop a microkernel-like distributed system for next-generation artificial intelligence applications and frameworks\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;What truly excites me is trailblazing,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m really interested in working on new creative ideas with impact potential.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDemocratizing Knowledge\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETumanov now brings this entrepreneurial spirit to Georgia Tech, where he researches building better systems for ML. 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It\u0026#39;s a question that has stymied scientists for centuries. For the past few years, School of Computer Science Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~vempala\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESantosh Vempala\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has been exploring it using theoretical computer science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is one of the most fundamental questions in science,\u0026rdquo; Vempala said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis starting point is the observation that the brain is able to do many things computers still cannot \u0026mdash; and more reliably and robustly. For example, humans are great at pattern recognition and generalization, from identifying letters to walking on new surfaces, after just a few \u0026ldquo;training\u0026rdquo; examples.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA particularly striking example is language. After hearing relatively few sentences, a neurotypical 2-year-old can understand and generate \u0026nbsp;virtually infinite correct sentences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;How is the brain able to do this?\u0026rdquo; Vempala asks. \u0026ldquo;How does the mind emerge from the brain? From neurons and synapses, how do we get to perception, language, and stories?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EComputers, however, need a lot of data and computational power, and work only in limited settings \u0026mdash; at least for now. This is why Captchas became popular for keeping applications secure.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile machine learning is interested in using insights from the brain, it mostly examines it from a data perspective. Vempala, however, wants to develop an algorithmic theory of brain function. He plans to approach this at an intermediate scale that is higher than neurons and synapses, but doesn\u0026rsquo;t examine the brain as a whole.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVempala and Columbia Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EChristos Papadimitriou\u003C\/strong\u003E hypothesize that assemblies of large, densely inter-connected neurons are the engine of brain computation. Assemblies are a strong basis for a computational system because they can be used to perform higher-level operations while at the same time can be compiled down to tangible units, such as neurons and synapses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis has been an ongoing project. In the Spring of 2018, they co-organized a Simons Institute semester T\u003Cem\u003Ehe Brain and Computation\u003C\/em\u003E. In \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/869156v1.full\u0022\u003Erecent work\u003C\/a\u003E, assemblies have been shown to be able to explain several experimental findings by neuroscientists.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir research, currently funded by a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant, will develop a theory to understand how the brain functions from a computational perspective. 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The Southeast Region Public Interest Technology Fellows Program will pair social scientists from Georgia State with technologists from Georgia Tech to address social challenges through computing. The program is part of Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s new Center for Computing and Society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAround 40 faculty members and graduate students participated in the January 9 workshop at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E to meet potential collaborators, learn more about each other\u0026rsquo;s research, and explore ideas for joint projects in public interest technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E, the Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Computer Science and fellowship program co-lead, opened the workshop. She presented examples of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s current work in public interest technology \u0026ndash; projects that examine topics like the implications of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ledantec.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Spaces-Traces.pdf\u0022\u003Esmart technology in public housing\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1904.02418.pdf\u0022\u003Edeciphering hate symbols on social media\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This [workshop] is meant to jumpstart the conversation for some interesting funding proposals to be written,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said. \u0026ldquo;This topic calls for disciplinary expertise that we have in spades at both Georgia Tech and Georgia State. This work is really calling for this type of partnership.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia State\u0026rsquo;s\u003Cstrong\u003E Susan M. Snyder\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, and \u003Cstrong\u003EScott Jacques\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice \u0026amp; Criminology, co-organized the workshop. They presented overviews of the university\u0026rsquo;s research in child welfare, education, homelessness, health disparities, poverty, and criminal justice and how these areas connect to technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETogether with Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s expertise in computing, Jacques said Georgia State offers valuable knowledge in addressing the region\u0026rsquo;s pressing social issues. \u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech and Georgia State are the perfect match for tackling inequality, especially in the South. This is the kind of collaboration that our state needs.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring a breakout session Snyder described as a \u0026ldquo;speed-dating round for research,\u0026rdquo; workshop participants presented their individual research strengths and areas where they could use more expertise.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENext, in teams, the researchers will write seed grant proposals for their projects, which will be funded with mini-grants. At the end of the two-semester program, the teams will present their collaborative projects during a public showcase.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Fellowship Program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2018, the Ford Foundation and New America formed the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/public-interest-technology\/university-network\/\u0022\u003EPublic Interest Technology University Network\u003C\/a\u003E (PIT-UN). The purpose of the network is to encourage the development of education and research in \u0026quot;the study and application of technology expertise to advance the public interest, generate public benefits, and promote the public good.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech and 20 other colleges and universities across the country are charter members of the network, and in 2019 the institute \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2019\/10\/07\/new-partnership-georgia-state-looks-computing-solutions-social-challenges\u0022\u003Ereceived a $180,000 grant\u003C\/a\u003E to develop a regional faculty fellow program in public interest technology. Sixteen faculty members\u0026mdash;eight from Georgia Tech and eight from Georgia State\u0026mdash;will work together in pairs to develop interdisciplinary projects addressing historic and ongoing inequity challenges in the southeastern United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Ford Foundation, New America, and the Hewlett Foundation all support PIT-UN. 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Such an invention could be revolutionary for tracking glucose for people with diabetes and for anyone who wishes to keep a tab on their diet.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis isn\u0026rsquo;t fantasy. It\u0026rsquo;s the future thanks to wireless sensing technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is the kind of research that drives \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~dhekne\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAshutosh Dhekne\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a new assistant professor in the School of Computer Science. He focuses on wireless networking, mobile computing, embedded systems, and the Internet of Things (IoT). A cup like this combines all four areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe idea for the cup derives from the concept of light refraction. For example, a spoon placed in a cup will look bent because of refraction. The same principle applies to wireless signals, according to Dhekne. When going through a liquid, wireless signals slow down. The extent of slow-down is specific to every liquid, enabling researchers to identify the type of liquid.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Wi-Fi has advantages over light because Wi-Fi penetrates various substances that light cannot and reacts very differently with wireless signals,\u0026rdquo; Dhekne said. \u0026ldquo;By using wireless signals, we can even distinguish between Coca-Cola and Pepsi.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis isn\u0026rsquo;t just a novelty trick, but could have very practical applications, from scanning liquids in airport security to finding contaminated beverages.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOn the Cutting Edge\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDhekne has always pursued practical projects. As the son of a computer teacher, he started working with computers at age 8 using them to program graphics. A computer science and engineering degree was a natural fit when he was an undergraduate at Pune University. A master\u0026rsquo;s and Ph.D. seemed like the right next step because he enjoyed boundary-pushing research more than working on applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With research, you\u0026rsquo;re always on the cutting edge,\u0026rdquo; Dhekne said. \u0026ldquo;You\u0026rsquo;re essentially trying to expand the human knowledge of a certain area.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter a more traditional background in algorithms as an undergraduate, Dhekne switched to networking in his master\u0026rsquo;s at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay then took a few years to work in industry to determine if it was the right research area for him. At a wireless-router start-up, he found the intersection between IoT and wireless computing systems and the broad subject of his Ph.D.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This fading boundary between systems and networking is where the edge is,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe moved to the U.S. for his Ph.D. at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied the possibilities of using wireless signals as a sensing mechanism in addition to communication.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;The Possibilities of Networking\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDhekne started working on the sensing cup during this period, but he also has several other highly useful research projects in the areas of wireless communications such as mobile streaming and localization. The latter can be seen in research on using wireless sensing to track firefighters in a compromised building. He posits a drone could be used to locate each firefighter, saving lives and resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet, these concepts could also be applied to more everyday activities such as interactive grocery shopping lists that can locate a customer in the store and suggest the fastest navigation path, or even navigating complicated buildings like hospitals or museums.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis passion for these pragmatic projects is something he hopes to pass on to his students. Since graduate school, he has appreciated how explaining a concept has deepened his knowledge of it and helped him see its multiple uses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There is a delight in seeing that students are improving on a day-to-day basis,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;They\u0026rsquo;re learning something new and can now create an impact on the world on their own.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ashutosh Dhekne joined SCS in the fall of 2019."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-01-15 21:57:57","changed_gmt":"2020-01-17 18:19:30","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"631268":{"id":"631268","type":"image","title":"Ashutosh Dhekne Cropped","body":null,"created":"1579285148","gmt_created":"2020-01-17 18:19:08","changed":"1579285148","gmt_changed":"2020-01-17 18:19:08","alt":"Ashutosh Dhekne","file":{"fid":"240241","name":"head_shot_AshutoshDhekne.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/head_shot_AshutoshDhekne.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/head_shot_AshutoshDhekne.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":75221,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/head_shot_AshutoshDhekne.jpg?itok=GZjdet3o"}}},"media_ids":["631268"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"630824":{"#nid":"630824","#data":{"type":"news","title":" New Professor is Taking the Measure of Cybersecurity\u2019s Toughest Problems","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECybercrime is one of the most pressing security threats today, but it\u0026rsquo;s almost impossible to detect. Yet new Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~pearce\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Pearce\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E thinks measuring attacks is one of the first ways to better understand them and shutdown future threats.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If we want to figure out how to effectively mitigate these threats, really understanding how they work is a core facet of that,\u0026rdquo; Pearce said. \u0026ldquo;That\u0026rsquo;s where my work is: designing methods and systems, and conducting studies to really understand these threats.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPearce\u0026rsquo;s research in this area earned a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sigsac.org\/award\/diss-awards.html\u0022\u003ESpecial Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control Doctoral Dissertation Award\u003C\/a\u003E Runner-Up honor at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sigsac.org\/ccs\/CCS2019\/\u0022\u003EAssociation for Computing Machinery Conference on Computer and Communications Security\u003C\/a\u003E in London last month.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPractical computer science\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPearce has always been interested in computers. Although he never had a chance to take classes in high school, he won several hacking competitions at community colleges he attended before transferring to University of California, Berkeley to study electrical engineering and computer science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring his studies, he preferred research with practical applications, eventually discovering an interest in cybersecurity during his Ph.D. at Berkeley. Under his advisor, Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EVern Paxson\u003C\/strong\u003E, Pearce joined the Center for Evidence-based Security Research, a research center that focuses on the economic and social motivations behind cybercrime.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I gravitate toward stuff that has direct measurable impact in problems that are still important,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECombatting cybercrime\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring his Ph.D., Pearce tackled some of the largest and most nebulous cybersecurity problems: cybercrime and censorship.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECybercrime covers everything from denial of service attacks to malware. Despite its prevalence, cybercrime is difficult to recognize because the attackers\u0026rsquo; goal is to make money as quickly as possible rather than using advanced tactics that are easier to trace.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPearce\u0026rsquo;s research has focused on advertising abuse, such as bots that click on ads to make money for companies. Applying new hybrid tools to real-world situations, Pearce identified weak links in underground advertising abuse structures. Working with law enforcement and Microsoft, Pearce mitigated fraud in the network and helped take down one of the most prominent bots.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMeasuring censorship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECensorship is an entirely different problem, but equally as complex as cybercrimes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In the cybercrime case, you know where to start,\u0026rdquo; Pearce said. \u0026ldquo;With censorship, though, how do you even know what to measure and where do measure it from?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECompounding these issues, censorship is even more challenging to measure remotely, and even if there is one consistent source, that data may not be accurate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo measure censorship, Pearce developed methods and layers of the network stack to be able to remotely infer censorship. By using common cybersecurity concepts such as side channels and checking manipulation of the Domain Name Servers (DNS) layer, Pearce was able to obtain measurements.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the future, Pearce plans to continue this work here. 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Their new tool helps developers detect bugs related to hardware accelerator data mapping.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOpenMP Sanitizer (OMPSan) is a sanitizing tool that uses an advanced data flow analysis to determine the correctness of data mapping in OpenMP programs. It then reports diagnostics to help the developer understand and debug their data mapping specifications across heterogeneous devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tool saves developers considerable effort and time. OMPSan found 15 errors in a common data race benchmark for accelerators. The tool has already been used in hackathons for application developers to try the latest OpenMP standard.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOpenMP Challenges for Heterogeneous Computing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis research is an important contribution to the burgeoning challenges of programming heterogeneous accelerators, according to School of Computer Science (SCS) Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vsarkar.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications, and Co-Director for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.crnch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Heterogeneous computing is increasing in importance as we approach the end of Moore\u0026rsquo;s law, and there is a growing need for productive and portable approaches to programming computers with accelerators,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;While the OpenMP standard offers a possible solution to the programming problem, the community appreciates that there are many challenges in using this standard and that OMPSan can help developers in using OpenMP\u0026rsquo;s new data mapping constructs.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA key challenge in data mapping is managing the data movement to and from accelerators like graphic processing units (GPUs). Buggy data mappings can lead to incorrect data being used in the GPU, thereby resulting in erroneous outputs. Identifying and fixing these bugs requires considerable effort by the developer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOMPSan Improvements\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOMPSan is implemented in the LLVM tool chain and is comprised of several advancements that could have implications beyond the current version of the tool:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Ean algorithm to analyze OpenMP runtime library calls\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Ea dataflow analysis to infer relationships between CPU and GPU memories\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Ea static analysis technique that compares dataflow information between sequential and parallel versions of the same OpenMP program\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Ediagnostic information for developers to understand mapping errors\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough OMPSan provides great strides in this area, Sarkar\u0026rsquo;s lab hopes to create a follow-on dynamic tool that can find more bugs and even fix them on the fly.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research won a best paper award at the 2019 \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/parallel.auckland.ac.nz\/iwomp2019\/\u0022\u003EInternational Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP)\u003C\/a\u003E. SCS Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/prithayan.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrithayan\u0026nbsp;Barua\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Research Scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jun-shirako-787a6223\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJun\u0026nbsp;Shirako\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and Sarkar authored the paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-030-28596-8_1\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EOMPSan: Static Verification of OpenMP\u0026rsquo;s Data Mapping Constructs\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, along with IBM developers\u003Cstrong\u003E Whitney Tsang\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJeeva\u0026nbsp;Paudel\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EWang Chen\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;I am delighted to see this positive recognition of the OMPSan research led by Prithayan and of the great team effort with our IBM collaborators,\u0026rdquo; Sarkar said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers are at the forefront of making Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP) standard updates more usable for heterogeneous computing."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-10-14 19:22:33","changed_gmt":"2019-12-10 15:01:57","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-10-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-10-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"627577":{"id":"627577","type":"image","title":"OMPSan","body":null,"created":"1571081020","gmt_created":"2019-10-14 19:23:40","changed":"1571081020","gmt_changed":"2019-10-14 19:23:40","alt":"Vivek and students","file":{"fid":"238945","name":"_MG_3015.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/_MG_3015.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/_MG_3015.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":701432,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/_MG_3015.jpg?itok=5Yydkb4q"}}},"media_ids":["627577"],"groups":[{"id":"576491","name":"CRNCH"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"628671":{"#nid":"628671","#data":{"type":"news","title":"FairVis is Helping Data Scientists Discover Societal Biases in their Machine Learning Models ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Washington have developed a data visualization system that can help data scientists discover bias in machine learning algorithms.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1904.05419.pdf\u0022\u003EFairVis\u003C\/a\u003E, presented at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ieeevis.org\/year\/2019\/welcome\u0022\u003EIEEE Vis 2019\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in Vancouver, is the first system to integrate a novel technique that allows users to audit the fairness of machine learning models by identifying and comparing different populations in their data sets.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Professor and co-investigator\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/polochau\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ethis feat has never been accomplished by any platform before, and is a major contribution of FairVis to the data science and machine learning communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Computers are never going to be perfect. So, the question is how to help people prioritize where to look in their data, and then, in a scalable way, enable them to compare these areas to other similar or dissimilar groups in the data. By enabling comparison of groups in a data set,\u0026nbsp;FairVis allows data to become very scannable,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn order to do accomplish this, FairVis uses two novel techniques to find subgroups that are statistically similar.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first technique groups similar items together in the training data set, calculates various performance metrics like accuracy, and then shows users which groups of people the algorithm may be biased against. The second technique uses statistical divergence to measure the distance between subgroups to allow users to compare similar groups and find larger patterns of bias.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese outputs are then viewed and analyzed through FairVis\u0026rsquo; visual analytics system, which is designed to specifically discover and show intersectional bias.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIntersectional bias, or bias that is found when looking at populations defined by multiple features, is a mounting challenge for scientists to tackle in an increasingly diverse world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;While a machine learning algorithm may work very well in general, there may be certain groups for which it fails. For example, various face detection algorithms were found to be 30 percent less accurate for darker skinned women than for lighter skinned men. When you look at more specific groups of sex, race, nationality, and more, there can be hundreds or thousands of groups to audit,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;Carnegie Mellon University\u0026nbsp;Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cabreraalex.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlex Cabrera\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECabrera is the primary investigator of FairVis and has been pursuing this problem since he was an undergraduate student at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;During the summer of my junior year I had been researching various topics in machine learning, and discovered some recent work showing how machine learning models can encode and worsen societal biases. I quickly realized that not only was this a significant issue, with examples of biased algorithms in everything from hiring systems to self-driving cars, but that my own work during my internship had the possibility to be biased against lower socioeconomic groups.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is when Cabrera reached out to Chau who then recruited the help of CSE alumni\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/minsuk.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMinsuk Kahng\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, CSE Ph.D.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fredhohman.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFred Hohman\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ECollege of Computing undergraduate student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.willepperson.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWill Epperson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand University of Washington Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/jamiemorgenstern.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJamie Morgenstern\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMorgenstern is the lead researcher for a number of projects related to fairness in machine learning, including the study Cabrera mentioned about self-driving cars. This particular study shows the potentially\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/620309\/research-reveals-possibly-fatal-consequences-algorithmic-bias\u0022\u003Efatal consequences of algorithmic bias\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;which highlights the severity of software created without fairness embedded into its core.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFairVis is one of the first systems that helps us achieve a dramatic step towards understanding and addressing the problem of fairness in machine learning, and prevents similar headlines from making their way to reality in the future.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, Cabrera stressed that the solution does not simply end with better data practices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Fairness is an extremely difficult problem, a so-called \u0026lsquo;wicked problem\u0026rsquo;, that will not be solved by technology alone,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Social scientists, policy makers, and engineers need to work together to make inroads and ensure that our algorithms are equitable for all people. 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ML@GT research spans all of the categories, including work on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1908.07896.pdf\u0022\u003Eneural data\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2NS3Bz9\u0022\u003Efairness in machine learning algorithms\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/2NEH1Lr\u0022\u003Eteaching artificial intelligence to work in changing environments\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;NeurIPS continues to be an exciting conference to attend because of the diverse research that is being presented each year. It is one of the most sought-after and anticipated conferences every year, and it\u0026rsquo;s good to see ML@GT have a good variety of papers being accepted,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003ETuo Zhao\u003C\/strong\u003E, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)\u003C\/a\u003E. 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He was one of several School of Computer Science (SCS) researchers honored at the group\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sigsac.org\/ccs\/CCS2019\/\u0022\u003EACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)\u003C\/a\u003E in London this November.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELee was recognized for his pioneering contributions to network and systems security. His team was among the first to study how adversaries can subvert machine learning (ML)-based systems. Their work brought ML to security analytics such as tackling intrusion and botnet detection.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;While it is now a standard practice to apply ML to security analytics, we developed the first comprehensive ML framework for intrusion detection 20 years ago, and our papers have since been cited several thousands of times,\u0026rdquo; Lee said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELee\u0026rsquo;s team has continued to pursue forward-looking research in this important intersection of ML and security. Their recent work focuses on protecting user privacy in deep-learning based biometric authentication and surveillance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I have been very fortunate to have the opportunities to work on interesting research projects with my mentors, colleagues, and students in my career,\u0026rdquo; Lee said. \u0026ldquo;This award is really for all of us.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESCS received multiple awards at the conference. Lee\u0026rsquo;s students earned the best paper award. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www-users.cs.umn.edu\/~kjlu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKangjie Lu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a former student of Lee and SCS Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/taesoo.kim\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and SCS research scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~hhu86\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHong Hu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E won for their paper,\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~hhu86\/papers\/typedive.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Where Does It Go? Refining Indirect-Call Targets with Multi-Layer Type Analysis\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESCS Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~pearce\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Pearce\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E was also given the runner-up of the 2019 ACS SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCS faculty and students received several honors at this year\u0027s CCS conference."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-11-21 21:32:17","changed_gmt":"2019-11-22 14:29:04","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-11-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-11-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"447071":{"id":"447071","type":"image","title":"Dr. Wenke Lee, IISP","body":null,"created":"1449256246","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:10:46","changed":"1475895187","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:07","alt":"Dr. Wenke Lee, IISP","file":{"fid":"203234","name":"lee_iisp_sm.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lee_iisp_sm_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lee_iisp_sm_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1130772,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/lee_iisp_sm_0.jpg?itok=oQAB3JQs"}}},"media_ids":["447071"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Comminications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"629020":{"#nid":"629020","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fifth Year of Mary Jean Harrold Memorial Distinguished Lecture Invites Her Mentor Mary Lou Soffa","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESoftware testing expert \u003Cstrong\u003EMary Lou Soffa\u003C\/strong\u003E delivered the Mary Jean Harrold Memorial Distinguished Lecture on Nov. 8. Soffa was Harrold\u0026rsquo;s advisor and discussed the advancements the two made in the field in her talk, \u003Cem\u003ESoftware Testing: And the Challenges (and Opportunities) Keep Coming!\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow in its fifth year, the annual event honors former School of Computer Science (SCS) Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/features\/college-computing-remembers-mary-jean-harrold\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMary Jean Harrold\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E by inviting prominent women in computer science to share their work and research philosophies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Mary Jean was the third most prolific software engineer, but she also just contributed with her heart and soul to diversity and service of every aspect of the academic community,\u0026rdquo; SCS Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~randall\/\u0022\u003EDana Randall\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E said in her introduction.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor Soffa, the lecture was personal and a chance to pay tribute to someone whose career ran in tandem with hers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Mary Jean was my Ph.D. student, and she was also my dearest friend for a number of years,\u0026rdquo; Soffa said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the Owen R. Cheatham Professor of Sciences in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia, Soffa has made her career in software testing, program analysis, warehouse-scale computing, software systems for multi-core architectures, and compiler optimization.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor her talk, Soffa traced the evolution of testing. The idea of separating debugging from testing started in the 1970s. Testing only became a critical part of software development in the 1980s and 1990s, according to Soffa.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The software industry uses testing as primary way of ensuring software behaves the way we would like it behave and has the quality we want it to have,\u0026rdquo; Soffa said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer lecture broke down software testing field through four concepts:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Ecoverage criteria, determining how much of the code has been used in the test suite\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Eregression testing, making sure testing doesn\u0026rsquo;t make program behave incorrectly and doesn\u0026rsquo;t adversely impact code or structure\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u0026nbsp;input generation and test case prioritization and minimization, selecting the minimum number of text cases you need to meet all requirement\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Etesting oracles, checking the correctness of test cases\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAll these advances have made it easier for software testing to work with new technologies, such as the cloud or machine learning (ML), Soffa noted. Yet there are still challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If you make a change in the cloud environment, how do you retest your application?\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;If you\u0026rsquo;re running an app, you have to make sure there\u0026rsquo;s no change and expand accuracy with low testing costs.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EML is a completely new environment because it\u0026rsquo;s based on data, not code, so software engineers must develop a new systematic way of testing that ensures coverage. This is vital as innovations like autonomous vehicles get closer to market.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESoffa underscored the importance of this field by explaining the recent Boeing 737 Max crashes as a failure of software testing. When the plane\u0026rsquo;s engines were made larger for fuel efficiency, it fundamentally changed the overall design of the plane and its center of gravity. To compensate, Boeing relied on new software. Yet this software wasn\u0026rsquo;t consistently tested and often by those underqualified to handle such a complex design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Is this what we would expect in testing a critical system?\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;Perhaps using inexperienced software developers and testers is not a good idea.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Software testing expert Mary Lou Soffa delivered the Mary Jean Harrold Memorial Distinguished Lecture on Nov. 8. 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And, the number of computational problems that are too large to solve on standard computers is growing rapidly causing high-performance computing (HPC) to become a necessity for industry and academia alike.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers are stepping in to answer this growing need by leading HPC research from a variety of approaches and are preparing to present their latest findings in Denver, Colorado next week at the 2019\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sc19.supercomputing.org\/\u0022\u003EInternational Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso known as Supercomputing or SC19, the annual conference features leading research in the fields of HPC and exascale computing with an emphasis on real-world application.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s presence boasts four papers, four workshops, two posters, and one Birds of a Feather discussion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo of the four papers,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sc19.supercomputing.org\/?post_type=page\u0026amp;p=3479\u0026amp;id=pap373\u0026amp;sess=sess165\u0022\u003ECARE: Compiler-Assisted Recovery from Soft Failures\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sc19.supercomputing.org\/?post_type=page\u0026amp;p=3479\u0026amp;id=pap449\u0026amp;sess=sess158\u0022\u003EGPU Acceleration of Extreme Scale Pseudo-Spectral Simulations of Turbulence Using Asynchronism\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eare best student paper award finalists. The announcement naming the winner of the award will be made at the SC19 award ceremony on Nov. 21.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s presence also comprises a number of activities outside of the conference agenda, including the Georgia Tech booth (#1809) on the vendor floor, which will give SC19 attendees an opportunity to engage directly with researchers, students, and staff alike.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, booth #1809 features four live demos provided by researchers and students, including a presentation about the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/womeninhpc.org\/2019\/03\/mentoring-programme-2019\/\u0022\u003EWomen in High Performance Computing\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(WHPC) program by WHPC Director and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Research Scientist II\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/about\/staffdirectory\/lorna-rivera\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELorna Rivera\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo see a full listing of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s presence in the Supercomputing proceedings and a demo schedule click\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/59cdab896d2a\/gtsc19\u0022\u003Ehere.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA full listing of papers with Georgia Tech Affiliations this year are below:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sc19.supercomputing.org\/presentation\/?id=pap373\u0026amp;sess=sess165\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECARE: Compiler-Assisted Recovery from Soft Failures\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChao Chen, Greg Eisenhauer, Santosh Pande,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EQiang Guan\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sc19.supercomputing.org\/presentation\/?id=pap482\u0026amp;sess=sess170\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDistributed Enhanced Suffix Arrays: Efficient Algorithms for Construction and Querying\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPatrick Flick, Srinivas Aluru\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sc19.supercomputing.org\/presentation\/?id=pap449\u0026amp;sess=sess158\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGPU Acceleration of Extreme Scale Pseudo-Spectral Simulations of Turbulence Using Asynchronism\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKiran Ravikumar,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EDavid Appelhans,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EP.K. 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With big and small decisions potentially being swayed by these mathematical equations, research has become dedicated to making algorithms more transparent and fair.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUthaipon (Tao) Tantipongpipat\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003ESamira Samadi,\u003C\/strong\u003E Georgia Tech Ph.D. students in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E, recently published a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1902.11281.pdf\u0022\u003Enew paper\u003C\/a\u003E that takes large data sets for population analysis and reduces the dimension of those data sets while also preserving essential traits of the groups being analyzed. Algorithms can handle millions of records but the process might compress information and lose details. This, in turn, can lead to groups of people being unfairly associated with certain behaviors or characteristics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESamadi and Tantipongpipat\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/615576\/georgia-tech-researchers-working-improve-fairness-ml-pipeline\u0022\u003Eprevious work\u003C\/a\u003E uses principal component analysis (PCA), a dimension reduction technique that has been the gold standard for analyzing large data sets more efficiently. Their own version, Fair-PCA, uses the strength of PCA and retains more information so that algorithms can, in theory, have better data for decision-making.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn their latest work, the duo is optimizing Fair-dimensionality reduction, allowing populations to be more accurately represented when not only using PCA, but a wider class of dimension reduction techniques.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe updated algorithm incorporates multiple equity measurements for populations \u0026ndash; i.e. with respect to social and economic welfare \u0026ndash; and takes into account multiple demographical attributes. For example, gender is usually analyzed as male and female, but this leaves transgender people and other non-binary people out of an algorithm\u0026rsquo;s calculations leading to unfair or biased assessments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis new work is designed to allow machine learning researchers to analyze complex data sets more accurately, potentially leading to less bias.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I feel like if fairness and bias are not being taken seriously into account at this point, then our problems are only going to compound. Machine learning algorithms are dominating our lives every day and they learn to behave based on previous outcomes. If we just let this build up and if we don\u0026#39;t take care of it now, it will have a huge impact, one that may not be as positive as we had hoped,\u0026rdquo; said Samadi.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team will present \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1902.11281.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMulti-Criteria Dimensionality Reduction with Applications to Fairness\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in December at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neurips.cc\/\u0022\u003E33\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)\u003C\/a\u003E 2019 in Vancouver, British Columbia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers develop an algorithm that is less biased towards different populations."}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2019-11-08 15:33:06","changed_gmt":"2019-11-08 16:14:41","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-11-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-11-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628782":{"id":"628782","type":"image","title":"This summer, Samira Samadi presented work at the International Conference on Machine Learning.","body":null,"created":"1573226939","gmt_created":"2019-11-08 15:28:59","changed":"1573226939","gmt_changed":"2019-11-08 15:28:59","alt":"Samira Samadi","file":{"fid":"239466","name":"-4936141608470894095_IMG_3150.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/-4936141608470894095_IMG_3150.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/-4936141608470894095_IMG_3150.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":456090,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/-4936141608470894095_IMG_3150.jpg?itok=VJG_j7wE"}}},"media_ids":["628782"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAllie McFadden\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eallie.mcfadden@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"628763":{"#nid":"628763","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Hydra is the First Fuzzing Framework to Find Any System Bug","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have developed a new tool that can find one of the most challenging types of bug.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECalled Hydra, the framework provides building blocks for file system fuzzers to find semantic errors, helping developers save time. Using Hydra, the researchers have found 155 new bugs in Linux file systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The name Hydra comes from the Greek mythological monster that has multiple heads because our approach brings multiple bug checkers into a unified framework, enabling the testing of multiple aspects of file systems,\u0026rdquo; said School of Computer Science (SCS) Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/squizz617.github.io\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeulbae\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFinding\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESemantic\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBugs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFile systems are the center of any operating systems. Yet as they grow larger, the potential for bugs only increases. Bugs can cause chaos for users, from unwanted reboots to corruption of an entire system \u0026mdash; not to mention security vulnerabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEliminating bugs individually is nearly impossible, so developers often rely on fuzzing to expedite the process. The generalized automatic software testing technique injects mutated inputs to discover bugs and test how robust the system is. Typically, fuzzing is only designed for detecting memory errors, but the researchers wanted to tackle a more challenging category, semantic bugs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESematic bugs come in many forms, from violating main properties of the system like crash safety to the developers\u0026rsquo; incorrect assumptions. Each issue often requires a specialized checker to find the bug. Yet, all semantic bugs have one thing in common: Their failure does not register in the kernel in the same way memory bugs do. Their undetectable nature means previous fuzzers can\u0026rsquo;t be used out of the box.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Semantic bugs do not explicitly manifest themselves,\u0026rdquo; Kim said. \u0026ldquo;They are silent. The effects are often internal and only revealed upon some special condition.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EExpanding\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFuzzing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHydra enables plugged-in bug checkers to work on their own while offloading file system checking to Hydra. This helps eliminate any type of file system bugs, including three common types:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026middot;Crash inconsistency, when a file system fails to recover to a correct state after a crash\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026middot;Specification violation (often known as POSIX standards), when the file system\u0026rsquo;s behavior does not conform to the specifications of how it should behave\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026middot;Logic bugs, when bugs are specific to a file system\u0026rsquo;s implementation of an algorithm or an invalid assumption\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[RELATED CONTENT: \u003Ca href=\u0022Janus%20Finds%20More%20Bugs%20in%20File%20Systems%20than%20any%20Fuzzer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJanus Finds More Bugs in File Systems than any Fuzzer\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBuilding from the researchers\u0026rsquo; prior work with the fuzzer\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/622029\/janus-finds-more-bugs-file-systems-any-fuzzer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E Janus\u003C\/a\u003E, Hydra provides common tools developers need to debug a file system, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026middot;Input mutator to generate test cases that are likely to trigger bugs\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026middot; libOS-based executor that executes the test case against targeted file system and runs plugged-in bug checkers\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026middot; Feedback engines that summarize the effects of test cases and determine if they are effective enough to further mutate\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026middot;Bug reproducer with a test case minimizer that automatically verifies the reported test cases and reduces the size of the test case, respectively\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With these jobs offloaded, a developer now can only focus on writing a reliable bug checker (if it does not already exist) for the bug type he or she is interested in finding,\u0026rdquo; Kim said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKim presented the work at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sosp19.rcs.uwaterloo.ca\/program.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP)\u003C\/a\u003E in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada from Oct. 27 to 30. 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Now in its second year, the all-day event is a forum for Ph.D. candidates and post-doctoral students looking for feedback on how to join academia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We call it Rising Stars because we want to take the opportunity to learn about research from the top architecture students and give you advice on how to succeed in academia,\u0026rdquo; said School of Computer Science (SCS) Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~adaglis3\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandros Daglis\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who co-chaired the event with School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tusharkrishna.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETushar Krishna\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe workshop was co-hosted by SCS and ECE with faculty chairs providing welcomes and explaining why Tech is such a hotbed of promising computer architecture research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Innovation is in the DNA of everyone at Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; said SCS Interim Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Mostafa.Ammar\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMostafa Ammar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re never resting on anything. We do celebrate our achievement, but we\u0026rsquo;re always looking to improve.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EECE Associate Chair for Research \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/jrom.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJustin Romberg\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E also credited Tech\u0026rsquo;s influence with its location.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re nestled here right in the heart of Midtown Atlanta, the economic capital of the South,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;The city has dumped a lot of resources into things like startup incubators, and there is a budding culture of entrepreneurship here, too.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet the focus of the day was student research. Students from four top-ranked universities \u0026mdash; including University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Princeton \u0026mdash; came to give talks on cutting-edge computer architecture research like security and computing in the post-Moore era. More than 20 Georgia Tech faculty and students provided suggestions on how the students could make their research more accessible to stand out in the academic job market.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe workshop also offered a candid faculty panel on what life in academia is like, from interviewing for jobs to various faculty duties. The four panelists were SCS Assistant Professor SCS Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~pearce\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Pearce\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, SCS Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/vivek-sarkar\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, ECE Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/alenka.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlenka Zajic\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and ECE Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/arijit-raychowdhury\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArijit Raychowdhury\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPearce gave tips on how to apply for teaching positions strategically.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You will need to be your own advocate, but you will need to find people who can be your advocate and let you know which schools might be the best fit for you or who they know there,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESarkar spoke about how to pick the right department to join.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Think about the research problem you want to work on and where to find the best people to collaborate with,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStudent participants found the event useful for getting ahead on the job search.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I learned a lot from your feedback and from interacting with everyone at the workshop, and I think it is a great initiative and effort from Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EGokul Ravi\u003C\/strong\u003E, a student from University of Wisconsin-Madison.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seven Ph.D. students came to Georgia Tech for the Rising Stars in Computer Architecture Workshop (RISC-A) on Oct. 25."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-11-05 16:51:28","changed_gmt":"2019-11-05 17:39:05","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628620":{"id":"628620","type":"image","title":"Alex Daglis at RISCA","body":null,"created":"1572974878","gmt_created":"2019-11-05 17:27:58","changed":"1572974878","gmt_changed":"2019-11-05 17:27:58","alt":"Alex Daglis introduces workshop.","file":{"fid":"239409","name":"RISCA2019.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RISCA2019.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RISCA2019.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":68425,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/RISCA2019.jpg?itok=exIVn7ji"}}},"media_ids":["628620"],"groups":[{"id":"576491","name":"CRNCH"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"628504":{"#nid":"628504","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Edge Computing is the Future According to Satya Distinguished Lecture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESmartphones and sensors collect more data than current networks can process. To ensure data can be analyzed faster and for less money yet maintain security, the network needs to come closer. Using the edge of the network is known as edge computing, and it\u0026rsquo;s becoming the new paradigm.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECarnegie Mellon Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EMahadev (Satya) Satyanarayanan\u003C\/strong\u003E delivered the School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture on the future potential of edge computing on Friday, Oct. 11. In his talk, \u003Cem\u003EEdge Computing: A New Disruptive Force\u003C\/em\u003E, he spoke to why edge computing is dominating the field, how it can improve people\u0026rsquo;s lives, and what progress can be expected.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENetworks have changed drastically in the past decade. The cloud was seen as the biggest innovation, but now there are networks everywhere, from cloudlets to mobile devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESatya broke down the network down into three tiers:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Col\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ETier 1: cloud\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ETier 2: cloudlets (such as aircraft, vehicles, mounted racks)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ETier 3: Mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices (such as smartphones, sensors, augmented and virtual reality, drones, wearable computing)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s important to note that while tier 3 collects vast amounts of data, it\u0026rsquo;s not powerful enough to analyze it on its own. However, when that data is offloaded to tier 2, important advances can be made in the world of edge computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe edge could offer many potential advancements, according to Satya:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Col\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMore bandwidth for edge analytics in IoT, pushing video analytics or sensor data close to collection point\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EHighly responsive cloud-like services thanks to the lower latency the edge provides\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EExposure firewall in IoT or the ability to take sensor data from the source so it removes privacy-sensitive information\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAvailability of services when cloud goes down in natural disaster or remote military operation\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EHonor data export restrictions because it pushes compute to domain in which data has been captured\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;These are by definition future apps that have to be written that let go of the training wheels and are willing to be totally dependent on the properties that only the edge can provide,\u0026rdquo; Satya said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite the edge\u0026rsquo;s potential, many apps running at the edge take very little advantage of it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The only way to make edge work is to actually do it,\u0026rdquo; Satya said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis research group has been exploring the power of low latency at the edge with augmented reality. Using edge can not only reduce response time and therefore improve battery life, but also improve the user experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It has the look and feel of augmented reality, but with the functionality of artificial intelligence,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith this in mind, the group has been deploying the edge with wearable cognitive assistance and offloading data on a cloudlet. This enables scene analysis, object\/person recognition, speech recognition, language translation, and planning \u0026mdash; all applications where low latency is critical.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Human connection is fast, accurate, and robust, but to be superhuman, we need to beat those speeds,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group has created an app that gives task-specific assistance for difficult activities such as cooking or assembling furniture. The real-time context-sensitive feedback the edge offers provides a major value to the user they couldn\u0026rsquo;t get from just reading instructions or watching a video, Satya said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe implications are enormous and could improve everything from GPS to elder care.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is not some distant future; this is reality,\u0026rdquo; Satya said. \u0026ldquo;It may not be commercial reality, but there is no doubt about technical feasibility of systems I am talking about.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Carnegie Mellon Professor Mahadev (Satya) Satyanarayanan delivered the School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture on the future potential of edge computing on Friday, Oct. 11."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-11-01 19:11:37","changed_gmt":"2019-11-01 19:19:00","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628506":{"id":"628506","type":"image","title":"Satya talk","body":null,"created":"1572635920","gmt_created":"2019-11-01 19:18:40","changed":"1572635920","gmt_changed":"2019-11-01 19:18:40","alt":"Satya delivers lecture","file":{"fid":"239364","name":"IMG_2099.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_2099.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_2099.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":526188,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_2099.jpg?itok=G0WZz1og"}}},"media_ids":["628506"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"628434":{"#nid":"628434","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Taesoo Kim\u2019s Systems Group Has Strong Showing at SOSP","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science researchers have five papers accepted at one of the main systems conferences. Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/taesoo.kim\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gts3.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESystems Software \u0026amp; Security Lab\u003C\/a\u003E group contributed four of them, showing their strength in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sosp19.rcs.uwaterloo.ca\/program.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) \u003C\/a\u003Eis the premier conference for operating systems researchers. Now in its 27\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E year, the conference was held in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada, this year from October 27 to 30.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With five accepted papers in a single year, this puts Georgia Tech as one of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/the-systems-top-50.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethe best, active research group in systems\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026rdquo; Kim said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech papers contributed to work on file systems, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/taesoo.kim\/pubs\/2019\/kim:hydra.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFinding Semantic Bugs in File Systems with an Extensible Fuzzing Framework\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ESeulbae Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cstrong\u003E Meng Xu\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cstrong\u003E Sanidhya Kashyap\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cstrong\u003E Jungyeon Yoon\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cstrong\u003E Wen Xu\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim \u003C\/strong\u003E(Georgia Tech)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\tSemantic bugs are some of the most notorious in file systems. Researchers present a new extensible fuzzing framework called Hydra that can find multiple bugs and ease work for the developer.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N695042\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScalable and Practical Locking with Shuffling \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cstrong\u003ESanidhya Kashyap\u003C\/strong\u003E(Georgia Tech), \u003Cstrong\u003EIrina Calciu \u003C\/strong\u003E(VMware Research Group), \u003Cstrong\u003EXiaohe Cheng \u003C\/strong\u003E(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology),\u003Cstrong\u003E Changwoo Min \u003C\/strong\u003E(Virginia Tech),\u003Cstrong\u003E Taesoo Kim \u003C\/strong\u003E(Georgia Tech)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\tHigh-performance multicore system software is built on lock algorithms. This research identifies four performance factors in locks and offers a new technique to manage all these factors without slowing down the lock.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N695034\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERecipe: Converting Concurrent DRAM Indexes to Persistent-Memory Indexes\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cstrong\u003ESe Kwon Lee \u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E Jayashree Mohan\u003C\/strong\u003E (University of Texas at Austin), \u003Cstrong\u003ESanidhya Kashyap \u003C\/strong\u003Eand, \u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E (Georgia Tech), \u003Cstrong\u003EVijay Chidambaram\u003C\/strong\u003E (University of Texas at Austin and VMware Research)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\tRecipe is an approach to convert concurrent DRAM indexes into indexes that work in crashes for persistent memory.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N695046\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESplitFS: Reducing Software Overhead in File Systems for Persistent Memory\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cstrong\u003ERohan Kadekodi\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003ESe Kwon Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E (University of Texas at Austin), \u003Cstrong\u003ESanidhya Kashyap\u003C\/strong\u003E and\u0026nbsp; 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His qualities were unlike most. His actions, thoughts, and words made an impact on this world that many cannot do.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe had three separate memorial services: one held by his family in West Virginia, where he grew up, one at Georgia Tech, where he went to college, and one in San Francisco, where he moved to work afterward. There were many different gatherings and events to honor Sanat.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;That paints a true picture of how many people he impacted,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003ERyan Merklen\u003C\/strong\u003E, who knew Sanat from their time together in Chi Phi. \u0026ldquo;He always asked what he could do to help those around him.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn fact, everyone who knew Sanat says the same things about him. The words brilliant, caring, trustworthy, reliable, hilarious, and beautiful were used to describe Sanat. One crucial thing that separated Sanat from others was that he always, from his earliest childhood, knew exactly what he wanted to do in the world: help others.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the caring person he was, his family is honoring his spirit by endowing the Sanat Moningi Memorial Scholarship, which is being offered for the first time this fall. The scholarship, worth $4,000, will support a student who shares Sanat\u0026rsquo;s commitment to hard work and to using serving their community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.co1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_6WPCIhCtYndWNyR\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E[APPLY: Sanat Moningi Memorial Scholarship Application Deadline is Nov. 3]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We think Sanat would be proud of us for doing this for Georgia Tech students,\u0026rdquo; said his sister, \u003Cstrong\u003EShalini Moningi\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This scholarship represents who he was.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGrowing Up Generous\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESanat\u0026rsquo;s burning curiosity and selfless qualities were already seen at a young age. He offered to build a helper robot for his mother, Dr. Prasuna Jami, so that she could see more patients and spend more time with her children.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Mom, I don\u0026rsquo;t want to work like you, all day and all night,\u0026rdquo; she remembers him saying. \u0026ldquo;I want to change the world.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEven at school, Sanat was noticed for his selflessness. In 2011, he attended the American Legion\u0026rsquo;s Mountaineer Boys\u0026rsquo; State program and won the Frank Taylor, Jr. Award for his enthusiastic interest in the law and for displaying high moral character with honor, respect, and integrity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;San Francisco was blessed to have Sanat for the time we did. He contributed hundreds of hours of volunteer time applying his skills to help others. His contributions will surely impact others for years to come.\u0026quot; - \u003Cstrong\u003EJoy Bonaguro, City of San Francisco chief data officer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen his sister was having a tough time adjusting to college, Sanat decided to cheer her up.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;He planned a complete surprise birthday party with our family and friends,\u0026rdquo; Shalini Moningi said. \u0026ldquo;I still don\u0026rsquo;t know how \u0026mdash; I mean, he was in eighth grade, he didn\u0026rsquo;t even have a car.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It really meant a lot to me,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;He was a little boy genius, but he was also a lot more. He really cared for people.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESanat always made sure to make everyone as happy as they could ever be.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I remember when I was about 6 or 7, at a family gathering everyone was having fun and all the kids were older than me so they left me out,\u0026rdquo; his cousin Meenal explained. \u0026ldquo;As I was sitting in the corner bored, Sanat comes over to me. He starts making jokes and playing with me. Though he was 6 years older than me, he made sure I was having the best time I could have\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Tech Years\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt was obvious that Sanat blossomed at Georgia Tech, both socially and academically. He was the top student in the class and was named the Outstanding Freshman in Computing after his first year. In 2014, he won the ConocoPhillips Innovation Challenge before graduating with honors in 2015. These awards that Sanat got throughout his life are just symbols of the great kid Sanat was.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter his first semester, he joined Chi Phi. His parents were suspicious of fraternities at first, but Sanat\u0026rsquo;s enthusiasm and success changed their minds.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m very impressed with how much support his friends gave him,\u0026rdquo; Dr. Jami said. In return, Sanat gave a lot of his time and talents as the fraternity\u0026rsquo;s philanthropy chair. In his senior year, he won a national award from Chi Phi for his leadership and altruism.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;He set a new standard,\u0026rdquo; said Merklen. \u0026ldquo;He connected us to the Boys and Girls Club, to Habitat for Humanity. He encouraged us to always try to place ourselves in our community.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESanat\u0026rsquo;s drive to help also took him into less conventional channels. He spent time tutoring a local high school student in the basics of computing. One Thanksgiving, he and a friend were grabbing dinner when they ran into a homeless man. They brought him back to their dorm and shared their food. This stands for the caring man Sanat was and the love he had towards others.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;He was very empathetically aware,\u0026rdquo; Merklen said. \u0026ldquo;It bothered him when he saw someone he couldn\u0026rsquo;t help.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Real World\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduation, Sanat Moningi moved to San Francisco for a job with Salesforce, where he was quickly promoted to the position of product owner. He moved in with another Salesforce employee, Ryan Flood, and their shared house became the center of a vibrant social scene.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We had a lot of barbecues,\u0026rdquo; Flood said. \u0026ldquo;Sanat would invite anyone and everyone.\u0026rdquo; Once, a friend showed up at a barbecue in a suit, having come straight from a work function. The next thing Flood saw was that Sanat had changed into a suit to make his friend feel welcome.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe found time to do good as a member of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/codeforsanfrancisco.org\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECode for San Francisco\u003C\/a\u003E, a nonprofit that finds ways to use technology to improve life in the city. Sanat co-founded the nonprofit\u0026rsquo;s Data Science Working Group, which worked on issues including energy efficiency and housing approvals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;A couple of years into that, we decided we wanted to do something in the government and politics space full-time,\u0026rdquo; said Catherine Zhang, a fellow working group member. The two went on to found \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/voterly.com\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVoterly\u003C\/a\u003E, a nonprofit that provided data services to local political campaigns.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey were a couple of months into their new venture when Sanat died accidentally and unexpectedly on April 21, 2018. More than a year later, his parents still hear from people who were touched by Sanat\u0026rsquo;s kindness.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;He was so intelligent, so successful,\u0026rdquo; said his sister Shalini. \u0026ldquo;But the best word to describe him would be caring.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESanat used his data science skills since he was in college and developed his knowledge and talent to help the homeless all throughout the nation. He created data science working groups in San Francisco to better care for everyone, as well as projects for the environment and global state. He did all of this as part of his non-profit work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMoving Forward\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESanat loved Georgia Tech, and Sanat loved to help other people. He truly made a change and to honor his work, dedication, and love, his family, endowing a scholarship in his memory just seemed right.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.co1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_6WPCIhCtYndWNyR\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThe Sanat Moningi Memorial Scholarship\u003C\/a\u003E is for students with at least a 3.0 GPA and a drive to use technology to improve society and help others.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Sanat wanted to use his intelligence and technical skills to do good for society,\u0026rdquo; his mother said. \u0026ldquo;We are looking for someone with a passion to create who also wants to serve society in a creative way.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJami said that applicants should know a few other things about Sanat.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;He was selfless, and he never cared about publicity,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;He was goofy sometimes, and other times he was hilarious. 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Yet these systems are increasingly vulnerable to service outages caused by severe storms and rising sea levels.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo ensure computing and telecommunications networks can be counted on to work when they are most needed, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is earmarking part of a new $20 million networking project for Georgia Tech researchers to improve network resilience.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The five-year \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fabric-testbed.net\/about\/overview\u0022\u003EFABRIC\u003C\/a\u003E project aims to design and build a large-scale network structure with enhanced resiliency that can be programmed from anywhere and optimized for storage and performance. School of Computer Science Senior Research Scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Russell.Clark\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERussell Clark\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sealevelsensors.org\/\u0022\u003ESmart Sea Level Sensors\u003C\/a\u003E is one of the application test beds that will be used in validating the proposed infrastructure\u0026rsquo;s effectiveness.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The unique piece Georgia Tech is bringing to FABRIC is this emphasis on resilience and survivability,\u0026rdquo; Clark said. \u0026ldquo;We need networks to work during storms and earthquakes.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 2017, Clark and his team have installed \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dashboard.sealevelsensors.org\/?stURL=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.sealevelsensors.org%2Fv1.0%2F\u0022\u003E43 internet-enabled sensors\u003C\/a\u003E to collect real-time data on coastal flooding for Chatham County as part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.smartcities.gatech.edu\/georgia-smart\u0022\u003EGeorgia Smart Communities Challenge\u003C\/a\u003E. They next model the data to make projections for emergency response planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the sensors have improved data collection, they often lose network connectivity during storm events, according to Clark.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;These sensors are designed to meet a critical first responder need during a storm, so it is important that the network and applications are also available,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClark will consult on the network\u0026rsquo;s design and ultimately lead experiments on it using the sensor data. He is one of 23 principal investigators on the endeavor, which also includes researchers in distributed systems, machine learning, and cybersecurity. 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This is possible thanks in part to groundbreaking research by School of Computer Science Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~vempala\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESantosh Vempala\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and his collaborators 20 years ago.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The team won a test-of-time award for their impactful work on information retrieval. The annual conference Principles of Database Systems (PODS) gave their paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=4\u0026amp;ved=2ahUKEwjzmPWL1enkAhUSMawKHQwdD-gQFjADegQIBRAB\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcourses.cs.washington.edu%2Fcourses%2Fcse522%2F05au%2Fpapadimitriou_LSI.pdf\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw25jNkt6sbmSZh9-M2mrFDS\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELatent Semantic Indexing: A Probabilistic Analysis\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E its \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/databasetheory.org\/gems\u0022\u003EGems of PODS\u003C\/a\u003E honor at the this year\u0026rsquo;s conference in May.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 1998 paper analyzed a popular spectral algorithm and introduced the very first topic model, now a standard in unsupervised learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers discovered that if a database or corpus is viewed as a matrix, a computer algorithm can perform singular-value decomposition, a matrix reduction technique that pulls out the most significant directions to explain the data. 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The database aims to enable media and technology stakeholders to see what factors create high-quality journalism while also preserving freedom of expression and ensuring journalism continues to be economically viable.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe work is showcased in the paper \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cra.org\/ccc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/The-NewsQA-project.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMisinformation Needs a Data Community: the NewsQA project\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, for which School of Computer Science Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ewz\/Welcome.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E and Hacks\/Hackers - Credibility Coalition\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cstrong\u003EConnie Moon Sehat \u003C\/strong\u003Ewon the Computing Research Association\u0026rsquo;s Best Overall Paper award in a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cra.org\/ccc\/cs-social-good-white-paper-competition\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECS for Social Good\u003C\/a\u003E competition for their paper. The award includes a $10,000 grant from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/schmidtfutures.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchmidt Futures\u003C\/a\u003E, a computing for good venture facility.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The effort to create the database, and a community around it, is an effort to contribute to understanding and addressing this misinformation problem at scale,\u0026rdquo; said Sehat.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Project\u0026rsquo;s Goals\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.journalism.cuny.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECraig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York\u003C\/a\u003E, the project has three objectives:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECreating a database\u003C\/strong\u003E to determine the extent of the problem. From this data, it would be easier to see patterns of information (or \u0026ldquo;signals\u0026rdquo;), such as inflammatory language, award-winning reporting. and fact-checked stories.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStarting a collaborative discussion\u003C\/strong\u003E on characteristics of quality news and the role of freedom of expression with different communities.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInviting all stakeholders\u003C\/strong\u003E, including readers, journalists, and technological platforms, to the discussion in order to build solutions.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENewsQA Progress\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENewsQA currently has identified about 90 signals from more than 12,500 U.S.-based news and information sites that are being reviewed by advisors to the project. Signals include everything from internet traffic data to self-reported journalist correction policies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKey to the project is a strong group of advisors and stakeholders who represent all areas of media generation and consumption, and that can provide data. NewsQA\u0026rsquo;s advising group includes researchers from technological platforms, private artificial intelligence companies, non-profit organizations, and advertisers, such as members from the Facebook Journalism Project, Google Research, and Alphabet Jigsaw.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENewsQA is also establishing partnerships with news misinformation organizations such as Duke University \u0026nbsp;Reporters\u0026rsquo; Lab and ClaimReview, TED\u0026rsquo;s civic initiative, First Draft News, and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the project is to grow the database and the stakeholders participating in it. The researchers plan for NewsQA to scale across languages, countries, and topics, and to grow their community of users, researchers, and advisors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUltimately NewsQA aims to preserve freedom of expression while ensuring news is accurate across the internet. The database will show how misinformation enters the news cycle and how it can be mitigated, which will help focus research efforts and inform how media platforms design sites and algorithms. This affects everyone in the news ecosystem, from journalists who want to see their reporting prioritized to consumers who value fair news.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Democracies need a shared set of facts around which to have constructive conversation,\u0026rdquo; Sehat said. \u0026ldquo;Disagreement and conflict are absolutely a part of this, but we need to have confidence in basic narratives and our ability to describe reality, and our technologies should try to support this.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"News Quality Aggregator (NewsQA) is a database for news veracity."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-09-30 19:36:11","changed_gmt":"2019-09-30 19:44:55","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-09-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-09-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"626933":{"id":"626933","type":"image","title":"Fake News","body":null,"created":"1569872533","gmt_created":"2019-09-30 19:42:13","changed":"1569872533","gmt_changed":"2019-09-30 19:42:13","alt":"Woman reading fake newspaper","file":{"fid":"238700","name":"pexels-photo-1327218.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pexels-photo-1327218.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pexels-photo-1327218.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":618143,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/pexels-photo-1327218.jpeg?itok=-gcdK-d8"}}},"media_ids":["626933"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"626412":{"#nid":"626412","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School of Computer Science Adds Systems, Cybersecurity, and Networking Researchers to Faculty","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo new tenure-track faculty have joined the School of Computer Science. The assistant professors add to our expertise in the systems and networking fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~atumanov\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAlexey Tumanov\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E joins us from a post-doctoral fellowship at University of California, Berkeley. The systems researcher specializes in systems support and resource management for distributed machine learning (ML) frameworks and applications. Specifically, he works on soft-real time ML inference and co-scheduling ML inference and training. 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Pearce \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/610254\/school-computer-science-welcomes-five-new-assistant-professors\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewas hired\u003C\/a\u003E last year for his expertise in cybersecurity. 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When powerless individuals can accomplish powerful goals together, it\u0026rsquo;s called collective emergent behavior, and it\u0026rsquo;s something researchers in physics, robotics, and computer science are trying to understand better.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHarnessing collective emergent behavior could lead to exciting new initiatives in computing. More than 40 researchers gathered at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s CODA building on August 22 to discuss these possibilities at the kick-off for a $6.25 million Department of Defense\u0026rsquo;s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) grant to study the phenomena over a five-year period.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EADVANCE Professor in Computing \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~randall\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDana Randall\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E leads a diverse team, including mechanical and chemical engineering, physics, and computational science professors from Georgia Tech and three other universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team also includes Dunn Family Professor in the School of Physics\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDaniel Goldman\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003EArizona State computational science and engineering Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAndrea Richa\u003C\/strong\u003E, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) chemical engineering Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EMichael Strano\u003C\/strong\u003E, MIT physics Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJeremy England\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Northwestern mechanical engineering Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ETodd Murphey\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This really is the most exceptional group I\u0026rsquo;ve ever collaborated with, and collectively we\u0026rsquo;re trying to do something even greater than we\u0026rsquo;d do individually\u0026mdash;true to the theme of MURI,\u0026rdquo; said Randall, who is also a professor in the School of Computer Science and co-executive director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ideas.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Engineering and Science.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Possibilities of Emergent Behavior\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmergent behavior is when microscopic changes can impact an entire system, like in an ant colony or robotic swarm. Although this has been observed in physics and computation, there has been no formal theoretical framework to explain how it functions until this work. The researchers will use basic algorithms on simple machines to perform complex tasks to predict and design emergent behaviors within computation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtcomputing2017.cc.gatech.edu\/#research\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERELATED: Research and Collaboration Thrive @ GT Computing]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This MURI brings together Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s main areas of strength and expertise,\u0026rdquo; said Executive Vice President for Research \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/meet-dr-chaouki-t-abdallah\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChaouki Abdallah\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026ldquo;The partnership with other universities makes it really exciting. Hopefully we will solve some of these problems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe MURI\u0026rsquo;s Goals\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThroughout the day, researchers explained their respective plans to tackle each of MURI\u0026rsquo;s three aims:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026middot;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; identifying and predicting emergent computation\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026middot;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; actively evolving systems\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026middot;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; determining optimal design and control\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Richa, the first step is one of discovery.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;From a local distributed algorithm point of view, it\u0026rsquo;s very difficult,\u0026rdquo; said Richa. \u0026ldquo;For example, it\u0026rsquo;s easy to introduce phase transitions globally, but the challenge lies in handling multiple concurrent waves of transition in the system.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo do this, researchers must discover which experimental and theoretical characteristics create emergent computation. Then they must determine how to model system capabilities, find language for describing what is possible, and learn how things can be designed to perform certain tasks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce the systems are understood, researchers work to use them to perform directed initiatives. These include efficient computation, finding equivalences between computation and physical properties, and employing fluctuation reduction as a design principle for cultivating active matter.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGoldman will explore this through his \u0026quot;smarticles,\u0026rsquo;\u0026rsquo; a collective of simply computed robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re discovering how to make a task-specific robot made of non-specific task incapable robots,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe third aim intends to predictably manipulate the behavior by finding optimization-based principles to design and control emergent computation systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis portion of the project is about discovering limitations and possibilities to achieve collective emergent behavior of an ensemble. 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So, we have created the first-ever\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESuperheroes of Supercomputing\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ecard deck to showcase Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s HPC findings.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEach card represents one of four technical papers being presented at SC\u0026rsquo;18, which is being held in Dallas, Texas, Nov. 11 to 16. 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As of Aug 16., Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Mostafa.Ammar\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMostafa Ammar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is now the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/622221\/interim-chairs-guide-schools-during-search-process\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Einterim chair\u003C\/a\u003E of the School of Computer Science (SCS).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmmar steps into the position following \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/621174\/fortnow-leaving-georgia-tech-deans-position\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethe departure\u003C\/a\u003E of Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ELance Fortnow\u003C\/strong\u003E, and will lead SCS during a search for a permanent chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am honored by the trust that the School and College of Computing are placing in me by asking me to serve in this position,\u0026rdquo; Ammar said\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmmar joined Georgia Tech in 1985 as a network researcher and has taken on school leadership roles in the past. In fact, Ammar was associate chair of SCS when it was established during the 2006-07 academic year. He served in the role until 2012.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[RELATED: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/612371\/mostafa-ammar-studying-history-internet-find-its-future\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMostafa Ammar is Studying the History of the Internet to Find Its Future]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his new role, Ammar wants to continue to nurture the strengths of the School.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There is a lot to celebrate in SCS,\u0026rdquo; Ammar said. \u0026ldquo;We are a hardworking community of bright, dedicated, and ambitious students, faculty, and staff. 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It is\u0026nbsp;the first user-friendly, cloud-based framework that enables researchers and developers to rapidly evaluate and compare state-of-the-art adversarial attacks and defenses for ML models.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat Does MLsploit Do?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMLsploit\u0026rsquo;s web interface is open-source and allows researchers to quickly perform experiments on attack and defense algorithms by easily adjusting their parameters. Once tests are finished, the user may store the results in the framework to serve as a growing database for future adversarial ML research to build on.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;MLsploit is unique in that it is a collection and repository in the specific space of adversarial ML,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ENilaksh Das\u003C\/strong\u003E, a primary student investigator of the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMLsploit researchers built the tool as the springboard for students and researchers in adversarial ML, deep learning practitioners in industry who want to perform in-depth experimentation on a new model before rolling it out for private or public use.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Ultimately, our goal is for MLsploit to become a collection of all the literature in the adversarial ML space,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow Does MLsploit Work?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMLsploit was built to be modular so that users can easily integrate their own work into the framework.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMLsploit provides the user the web-user interface and the back-end computation engine. Then, the user can upload their own modules or functions. Once these are created, they can be used in conjunction with the whole MLsploit framework.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tool was developed at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/istc-arsa.iisp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIntel\u0026reg; Science \u0026amp; Technology Center for Adversary-Resilient Security Analytics\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(ISTC-ARSA) housed at Tech. The center specializes in\u0026nbsp;identifying vulnerabilities of ML algorithms and developing new security approaches to improve the resilience of ML applications.The project represents a culmination of the last three years of research in the center.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMLsploit was first presented at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.blackhat.com\/asia-19\/\u0022\u003EBlack Hat Asia 2019\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and will be presented again as a Project Showcase at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kdd.org\/kdd2019\/\u0022\u003E25\u003Csup\u003Eth\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/sup\u003EACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn extended abstract and complete listing of co-authors for the paper can be found\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/istc-arsa.iisp.gatech.edu\/mlsploit-extended-abstract-to-appear-in-kdd-2019.html\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech and Intel researchers launch MLsploit, a cloud-based platform for researching adversarial Machine Learning."}],"uid":"34540","created_gmt":"2019-07-31 14:10:52","changed_gmt":"2019-07-31 14:11:37","author":"Kristen Perez","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623781":{"id":"623781","type":"image","title":"MLsploit","body":null,"created":"1564432161","gmt_created":"2019-07-29 20:29:21","changed":"1564432161","gmt_changed":"2019-07-29 20:29:21","alt":"A diagram showing how MLsploit feeds algorithms through its framework","file":{"fid":"237584","name":"Screen Shot 2019-07-22 at 5.16.18 PM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-07-22%20at%205.16.18%20PM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-07-22%20at%205.16.18%20PM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":65861,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-07-22%20at%205.16.18%20PM.png?itok=pPvGjepm"}}},"media_ids":["623781"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181831","name":"MLsploit"},{"id":"83261","name":"Polo Chau"},{"id":"181832","name":"Nilaksh Das"},{"id":"181833","name":"cse-cyber"},{"id":"181220","name":"cse-ml"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKristen Perez\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kristen.perez@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"623810":{"#nid":"623810","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Machine Learning Makes Memory Management More Efficient","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs big data becomes more critical to society, computer scientists are searching for ways to make it run more efficiently. Georgia Tech researchers are finding solutions to this challenge by using machine learning (ML) to make data storage and access easier.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKleio is a hybrid memory management system that uses ML and more common historical methods to predict which data is most frequently accessed. The tool is 80 percent more effective than prior methods and shows the potential for applying ML to systems research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMixing Memories\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere are two popular memory types: the efficient yet expensive dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and the more affordable but slower non-volatile memory. Researchers often combine their benefits by merging DRAM and non-volatile into one system commonly referred to as heterogeneous memory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA heterogeneous memory system may be inefficient and must be used strategically to get maximum benefit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There is a difference in access speed, so we need to be clever on where we place the data,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/grads\/t\/tdoudali\/\u0022\u003EThaleia Dimitra Doudali\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, a fifth-year School of Computer Science (SCS) Ph.D. student.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMost computer scientists put frequently accessed data, or hot data, in DRAM and the remaining in non-volatile. Hot data is typically determined by which data is historically accessed most, but this can lead to faulty predictions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EML and Memory\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers knew using ML for systems problems like this was becoming a more popular solution and thought it could apply to memory management. They determined deep recurrent neural networks (RNN) were the best ML option because they use as input a sequence of data to make a prediction.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Recurrent neural networks fit perfectly because given past access information, they can predict future access patterns,\u0026rdquo; Doudali said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe challenge came in determining which part of the memory access process to predict. The researchers wanted ML prediction for every piece of data. Yet they also needed the system to be practical and scalable.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo achieve both, they created Kleio, a hybrid memory management system that combines ML and historical methods in order to predict the data access frequency and efficiently manage data across the memory components.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGiven the available system resources, Kleio prioritizes ML training for data that can increase application performance if placed in the right order. Periodically, Kleio combines the historical and ML access pattern predictions to identify hot data in real-time and migrate them in DRAM. In this way, Kleio can deliver on average 80 percent of the feasible application performance improvements.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We showed that the use of ML in memory management is very promising,\u0026rdquo; Doudali said. \u0026ldquo;Its accuracy can bridge the performance gap between existing and oracular solutions.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoudali presented the work at the eighth\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hpdc.org\/2019\/\u0022\u003E International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing\u003C\/a\u003E in Phoenix, Arizona, in June. The paper,\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?doid=3307681.3325398\u0022\u003E \u003Cem\u003EKleio: A Hybrid Memory Page Scheduler with Machine Intelligence\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, was honored as a best paper finalist. 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Among the participants were faculty and students from Columbia University, Brown University, Duke University, Stanford University, Rutgers University, the University of California, Berkeley, and dozens of other preeminent institutions. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMLSE 2019 featured plenary talks by well-known experts in machine learning, including Jennifer Neville, the Miller Family Chair and associate professor of Computer Science and Statistics at Purdue University; Eliu Antonio Huerta Escudero, head of the Gravity Group at the\u0026nbsp;National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn F. McDonald\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the School of Biology at Georgia Tech; Daniel B. Neill, associate professor of computer science, public service, and urban analytics at New York University; and Ross Thomson, solutions architect for Scientific Computing at Google Cloud Platform of Google. 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The honor is given to doctoral work that advances the computer architecture field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDaglis was selected for his dissertation, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/infoscience.epfl.ch\/record\/256864?ln=en\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENetwork-Compute Co-Design for Distributed In-Memory Computing\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E for \u0026ldquo;contributions to network-centric server architecture for in-memory datacenter services.\u0026rdquo; The research revisits the fundamentals of how communication-intensive systems function as distributed data retrieval systems grow in size and performance demands. Daglis suggested that co-designing network endpoint resources with central processing units can drastically improve the capabilities of distributed systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[Related: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/619934\/alexandros-daglis-finds-new-beginnings-end-moores-law\u0022\u003EAlexandros Daglis Finds New Beginnings in the End of Moore\u0026rsquo;s Law\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Traditionally, the network was so much slower than computation that designing the two subsystems completely independently was the right way to go,\u0026rdquo; Daglis said. \u0026ldquo;But with recent advancements in networking technology, that performance mismatch is a lot narrower; a datacenter\u0026rsquo;s network traversal only takes a few of microseconds. I advocate blurring the rigid boundaries between network and computation and pushing semantically richer functionality closer to the network endpoints is the way to go for next-generation distributed systems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe industry is starting to take an interest in this direction as well by provisioning extra computer resources on the network endpoints. Smart programmable network interface controllers are re-emerging and being used in production datacenter environments; a prime example is Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s Catapult project.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet Daglis wanted to take it a step further: instead of replicating computation resources on the network endpoint, fuse and co-design the conventionally discrete subsystems of compute and network endpoint. This not only improves efficiency, but also additional types of acceleration that are otherwise unattainable.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was truly an honor to have my dissertation work acknowledged by the architecture community,\u0026rdquo; Daglis said. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s definitely an exciting time to be working on network-centric architectures.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is not Daglis\u0026rsquo;s first recognition for his work. 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He had grown up in Atlanta, graduating from Mays High School, and he loved the city. More than that, he already knew that he wanted to work with computers, and he knew Georgia Tech was one of the best places in the world to do so.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen he got to campus, he knew right away that he had made a good decision.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I always felt I belonged at Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; Isbell said. \u0026ldquo;No, I didn\u0026rsquo;t join a frat, I wasn\u0026rsquo;t part of any of the big clubs,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;Hey, I went to zero parties. Zero. But I did build friendships. I built connections.\u0026rdquo; He also, in a nice bit of symmetry, served as the undergraduate representative on the committee that hired \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/peter-freeman\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPeter Freeman\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E to be the first dean of the brand new College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EToday, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~isbell\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/a\u003E becomes the John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing. He is the fourth person to hold the position. His philosophy as dean is built on the foundation he laid long ago as an undergraduate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;To me, it\u0026rsquo;s all about community,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;I want people to feel like they belong, and that the community reflects their experiences. I want people to feel that the things they\u0026rsquo;re learning apply to their worlds.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMachines Bringing People Together\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIsbell went to MIT after graduating from Georgia Tech, and after that spent four years working at AT\u0026amp;T Labs. During that time, he continued to pursue his interests in computing and human connection.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first project that earned Isbell a \u0026ldquo;best paper\u0026rdquo; award was his work on Cobot, a software agent whose goal was to become a functioning member of an online social community called LambdaMOO.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m interested in how humans express themselves in a way that computers can understand \u0026ndash; from a technical, machine learning point of view, that is,\u0026rdquo; Isbell said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe also found new ways to use technology to serve existing real-life communities. At MIT, he built what was most likely the first-ever online Black history database. He ran a website for hip-hop reviews.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo this day, he continues to mix his cultural experience and computing. All of his graduating students pose for photos dressed like members of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parliament_(band)\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Efunk band Parliament\u003C\/a\u003E in a silver top-hat, star-shaped sunglasses, and strings of Mardi Gras beads. The framed and funky photos line the walls of his office.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIsbell says that combining his passions keeps him engaged and that he likes to see others do the same.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If you\u0026rsquo;re passionate, people pick up on that passion,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The technology we develop is transformative, and we have to reckon with that. We have to accept our responsibility as leaders and our responsibility to bring other people along for this ride.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECharles Isbell, John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGiving Back\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2002, Isbell was hired as a junior faculty member in the College of Computing and moved back to Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;First thing that happened when I came back, my mother made me a bowl of cheese grits and bacon,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;I knew I was back home.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the Institute, things were more complicated.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was so exciting to be back, but the place was completely different,\u0026rdquo; he said. It was bigger, a stronger program with a ballooning reputation. \u0026ldquo;Still, I always felt I could build something here.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter earning tenure, Isbell dived into administrative work to do exactly that. He was one of the architects of the college\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/academics\/degree-programs\/bachelors\/computer-science\/threads\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eaward-winning Threads curriculum\u003C\/a\u003E, and also of its groundbreaking \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.omscs.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOnline Master\u0026rsquo;s of Science in Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E (OMSCS) program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I just kept volunteering,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;Then one day I woke up as dean.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERedefining the Field\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe didn\u0026rsquo;t, of course. Wake up as dean, that is. Isbell won the job in a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2wLZTP3\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Egrueling nationwide search\u003C\/a\u003E. He is the first internal candidate ever to be named as the dean of the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd as someone who has been in or around the college for decades, he has a unique view on its development. When Isbell arrived as an undergraduate, computing was still in its infancy at Georgia Tech \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;it wasn\u0026rsquo;t even a college yet.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThrough his tenure on the faculty, he has seen the college grow and mature. Now, he says, the college is truly entering adulthood, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/603980\/college-computing-rises-no-8-us-news-rankings\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ea top-10 program\u003C\/a\u003E with responsibilities not only to its faculty, staff, and students but also to the larger world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The technology we develop is transformative, and we have to reckon with that,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;We have to accept our responsibility as leaders and our responsibility to bring other people along for this ride.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs dean, he intends to build on the hard work of his predecessors in confronting the challenges of a field that is always changing and always short of labor. And as computing metastasizes into other fields \u0026ndash; finance, health, media, politics, art \u0026mdash; he sees social and ethical considerations becoming ever more important.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe good news is that the College of Computing is already addressing these problems, Isbell said. OMSCS has diversified and significantly increased the pipeline of trained talent to industry. Our \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/constellations.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EConstellations Center for Equity in Computing\u003C\/a\u003E is piloting a hybrid classroom-online model that holds the promise of making computer science education available to all children. The college has made ground-breaking commitments to not only teach ethics to the students, but to computing research that prioritizes transparency and the public good.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn other words, Isbell wants Georgia Tech to lead a re-thinking of the nature and importance of community in the field of computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It seems increasingly clear that computer scientists need to think more clearly about the impact of their work on society as a whole,\u0026rdquo; Isbell said. \u0026ldquo;That\u0026rsquo;s going to require the involvement of everyone who is affected \u0026mdash; which is to say, everyone.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Charles Isbell begins his service as the John P. 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These changes can take up considerable computational power and time. Georgia Tech researchers have offered a new algorithm to hande these updates and queries faster than recomputing the solution from scratch.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESocial networks like Facebook run on dynamic graphs. In fully dynamic model of graphs, edges can be added or removed. When a query is made, it searches for effective resistances on the graph like creating an electrical circuit for the network and measuring the voltage needed to pass one unit of current.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe effective resistance relates to network distance, taking into account the number of paths and their proximity. Adding or deleting one edge could change the resistance fairly dramatically.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers are able to maintain the graph by shrinking it to an important subset of vertices in a way that preserves pairwise resistances. Any query or update is answered by adding the involved vertices to this subset. The new algorithm forms a smaller graph.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;A major difficulty here is that information in the original graph may be evenly spread among all the vertices, but we want to move them to a much smaller subset while retaining key global structures\u0026rdquo; says \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ddurfee3\/\u0022\u003EDavid Durfee\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, a School of Computer Science (SCS) Ph.D. recent graduate who is now at LinkedIn.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EImproving dynamic graph analysis\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis breakthrough is part of a larger field of compressing and storing graph and network data to make them easier to work with. One method is the graph sparsifier, which allows graphs to be compressed while still having important properties. The two most common sparsifiers are edge and vertex, which both reduce their respective properties.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese sparsifiers have been vital in developing machine learning, approximation, and efficient graph algorithms, yet each has its challenges. Most real-world graphs already have a sparse edge count, but vertex sparsifiers are far more applicable and also much harder to generate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis research relies on a connection borrowed from scientific computing and physics to create such vertex sparsifiers, Schur complements, which preserve pairwise resistances between the subset of vertices. In this research, Schur complements are treated as the sum of random walks with one per original edge of the graph, and then a subset with only short random walks is slected.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough edge sparsifiers and dynamic graph data structures have been studied extensively, the researchers results give the first vertex sparsification based dynamic algorithm for general graphs undergoing edge insertions and deletions. It also extends to a variety of other important numerical quantities including solutions to systems of linear equations,and electrical flow energy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe runtimes obtained, min{n^{0.83}, m^{0.75}}, are the first provably sublinear time result for these important quantities in network science. Yet the researchers believe much faster routines exist for a much wider range of problems on dynamic networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper,\u003Cem\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1804.04038\u0022\u003EFully Dynamic Spectral Vertex Sparsifiers and Applications\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E is by SCS Ph.D. students Durfee and \u003Cstrong\u003EYu Gao\u003C\/strong\u003E; \u003Cstrong\u003EGramoz Goranci\u003C\/strong\u003E, a visiting student from the University of Vienna; and \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~rpeng\/\u0022\u003ERichard Peng\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, an assistant professor in SCS. 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When evaluated on social networks like Facebook, their algorithms improve the groups diversity by 10 to 34 percent on average.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPromoting fairness\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EML can automate complex social and financial processes, like lending, education, and marketing. Yet for all its innovation, potential for bias arises as many datasets have disproportionate examples of one demographic.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe challenge of keeping ML fair becomes only more complicated with grouped data, or clusters. Social networks, for example, rely on large graphs of data that connect various people to each other. Enough of these connections can indicate a community \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;valuable data for advertisers and other stakeholders.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESpectral clustering is a common ML technique to help find these communities. With the new emphasis on fairness in ML, though, ensuring these communities are diverse is becoming more important.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Obviously, you want to figure out who the communities are, but you also want them to be diverse,\u0026rdquo; said School of Computer Science (SCS) Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.samirasamadi.com\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESamira Samadi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKeeping the proportions\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESamadi and her team characterize diversity as each demographic group having proportional representation in the clusters with the same proportions as in the entire dataset. To do this, they designed clustering algorithms that find fairer clustering when available in the data.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers tested their algorithms on a natural variant of the stochastic block model, a famous random graph model used to study the performance of clustering algorithms. On this model, they proved the efficacy of their algorithms to recover the fairer clustering in the data with high probability.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet the algorithms are not just theoretical. The researchers also tested them on empirical datasets and proved that the algorithms can lead to more proportional clusters with minimal damage to the interconnectivity of the groups, or\u0026nbsp; the quality of clusters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Designing fair clustering algorithms helps ML to draw a more diverse image of communities in a network,\u0026rdquo; Samadi said. \u0026ldquo;This not only leads to less representational bias toward specific demographics, but could also help marketers to maximize their full potential customer base.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers presented their work in the paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1902.11281.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGuarantees for Spectral Clustering with Fairness Constraints\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/icml.cc\/\u0022\u003EInternational Conference on Machine Learning\u003C\/a\u003E (ICML) in Long Beach, California, from June 9 to 15. 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The papers touch on a variety of aspects of machine learning including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mlatgt.blog\/2019\/05\/29\/mixing-frank-wolfe-and-gradient-descent\/?utm_source=mailchimp\u0026amp;utm_campaign=030010e6e1f0\u0026amp;utm_medium=page\u0022\u003Eblended unconditional gradients\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/news\/622219\/new-machine-learning-algorithms-keep-group-data-diverse\u0022\u003Eclustering with fairness constraints\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/622215\u0022\u003Eobservational agents.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E assistant professor, \u003Cstrong\u003EByron Boots \u003C\/strong\u003Eis a 2019 area chair. 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Year after year, cutting edge research is presented and published and it\u0026rsquo;s a sign of ML@GT\u0026rsquo;s strength that Georgia Tech is consistently a top contributor in the accepted papers.\u0026rdquo; \u003Cstrong\u003EJustin Romberg, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E Schlumberger Professor and associate director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMachine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT).\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHosted June 9 through 15 at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, ICML is one of the fastest growing conferences in the world. 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Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are fortunate to have experienced leaders to guide these schools for the near term. Srinivas and Mostafa are each well known to their respective faculty, staff, and students, and will continue pushing forward as each school searches for its new chair,\u0026rdquo; Galil said. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ammar\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAmmar\u003C\/a\u003E is a Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor with SCS and served as the associate chair of the school from 2006 to 2012. His research interests are in network architectures, protocols, and services. He is a fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and of the Association for Computing Machinery.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~saluru\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAluru\u003C\/a\u003E is a CSE professor who also serves as the co-director for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ideas.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Engineering and Science\u003C\/a\u003E. His research interests are high-performance computing, data science, bioinformatics, and systems biology. 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This generalized automatic software testing technique injects mutated inputs to find bugs and test the strength of the system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrent fuzzers, however, have three limitations, according to the researchers:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFuzzing the disk image is inefficient.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFile systems run on two inputs: the disk image and operations, but no existing fuzzer can run both at the same time.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFuzzers don\u0026rsquo;t run on a real-time OS, instead producing crashes on no longer relevant OS.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We found that existing fuzzers normally keep running new test cases without rebooting the OS between two test runs, meaning after a certain amount of time, we are using an aging OS to test our input,\u0026rdquo; said School of Computer Science (SCS) Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gts3.org\/~wen\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWen Xu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;This results in unstable OS execution, and any found crash is very hard to reproduce.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFixing fuzzers\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJanus overcomes these limitations by mutating the metadata in the disk image directly and producing file operations in this context, called system calls, to explore the file system simultaneously. By mutating the metadata only, Janus creates smaller input test cases, which enables more comprehensive system-wide fuzzing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJanus runs both inputs at the same time by using the image to generate operations. It then strategically schedules the fuzzing image and fuzzing operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELastly, Janus relies on a library OS based application, or executor, to fuzz OS functionalities. This avoids using an aging OS or file system that results in unstable executions and irreproducible bugs. This requires less computing resources, which enables Janus to fuzz on a larger scale.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Janus provides a one-stop solution to generate test cases of high quality for comprehensive file system testing,\u0026rdquo; said Xu. \u0026ldquo;But this is just the start. By extending Janus, developers can easily find other types of bugs in file systems and file systems on other operating systems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EXu presented the work in the paper Fuzzing File Systems via Two-Dimensional Input Space Exploration, co-written with SCS Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gts3.org\/~sanidhya\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESanidhya Kashyap\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, master\u0026rsquo;s student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/poning\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPo-Ning Tseng\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, SCS Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/taesoo.kim\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hyungon.unist.ac.kr\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHyungon Moon\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/a\u003E The paper was accepted into \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ieee-security.org\/TC\/SP2019\/cfpapers.html\u0022\u003EIEEE\u0026rsquo;s Symposium on Security and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E in San Francisco in late May.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers have created the first fuzzing framework specifically for file systems that finds memory corruptions better than any existing tool."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-05-28 16:12:01","changed_gmt":"2019-05-28 16:27:33","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"622030":{"id":"622030","type":"image","title":"Janus","body":null,"created":"1559060825","gmt_created":"2019-05-28 16:27:05","changed":"1559060825","gmt_changed":"2019-05-28 16:27:05","alt":"Fuzzer infographic","file":{"fid":"236935","name":"Screen Shot 2019-05-28 at 11.21.02 AM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-05-28%20at%2011.21.02%20AM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-05-28%20at%2011.21.02%20AM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":20809,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-05-28%20at%2011.21.02%20AM.png?itok=7BJaYP_8"}}},"media_ids":["622030"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"621931":{"#nid":"621931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Number of Regents\u0027 Professors Hits Double Digits with New Appointments","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs part of its \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usg.edu\/assets\/regents\/documents\/board_meetings\/agenda_2019_05.pdf\u0022\u003EMay 14 board meeting\u003C\/a\u003E, the University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents appointed four College of Computing faculty members as Regents\u0026rsquo; Professors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe quartet are among the 11 Georgia Tech professors from across campus appointed to named faculty positions this month, and they represent each of the College\u0026rsquo;s three schools:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/seymour-goodman\u0022\u003ESeymour Goodman\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, a joint professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/people\/surya-kalidindi\u0022\u003ESurya Kalidindi\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, a joint professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science \u0026amp; Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorge W. 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For all their utility, downloading an app off a network onto an already cluttered phone isn\u0026rsquo;t convenient. But School of Computer Science (SCS) researchers have created a tool called AppSlicer that lets users install only the portion of the app with the same performance capabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAppSlicer saves users time and phone storage because it gives access to only the necessary parts of the app then automatically deletes it from the device when no longer in use. It also makes developers\u0026rsquo; work easier because the entire process is automated.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If the network is as fast as the card on my phone, why would I ever need to install an app? We created AppSlicer, so you wouldn\u0026rsquo;t have to,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~kbhardwa\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKetan Bhardwaj\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a research scientist in SCS who worked on the tool.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers are not the only ones to suggest only a portion of the app is necessary, but they are the first to automate it. Google Instant Apps, for example, allows users to try out apps before committing, but requires developers to create new code to facilitate app slicing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn app, in essence, is a set of files and resources executed at various times. AppSlicer employs a programming technique called dynamic program slicing to determine when the app uses each resource, then divides the app into only these functional elements, or slices. Each slice can carry out a single task, like determining a ride wait time at a theme park.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis research expands on existing dynamic program slicing capabilities because it takes advantage of the user\u0026rsquo;s smartphone network. If the slice isn\u0026rsquo;t complete or the user wants to access other app features, the app still works because AppSlicer relies on the network \u0026mdash; not the phone \u0026mdash; and handles any issues without the user ever knowing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In other domains, you have to be precise about the slice, but with app slicing even approximate slicing makes huge improvements in performance and doesn\u0026rsquo;t jeopardize service because because AppSlicer dynamically streams missing app components,\u0026rdquo; said SCS Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/home\/ada\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAda Gavrilovska\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;Correctness is never a factor.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAppSlicer was tested on the top 50 apps in the Google Play store. The researchers found that AppSlicer improves app delivery and maintains performance and security with no additional work for app developers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough AppSlicer only works on Android currently, Gavrilovska and Bhardwaj see this work only gaining momentum as the app economy grows. Soon apps could be customized for specific contexts and different types of devices. They also believe it\u0026rsquo;s part of a bigger trend in systems research, edge computing, where computation is done closer to the source.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There are a lot of user-facing cases that won\u0026rsquo;t work when served from the cloud, so this is just one example we can quantify where there are gaps in the traditional device-cloud model that edge computing can improve,\u0026rdquo; Gavrilovska said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBhardwaj and Gavrilovska presented the research in the paper \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=3303989\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EServing Mobile Apps \u0026mdash; A Slice at a Time\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, coauthored with master\u0026rsquo;s students \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nikitajuneja\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENikita Juneja\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/matt-saunders\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMatt Saunders\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. 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This award is given to the best database systems dissertation from the previous year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EArulraj\u0026rsquo;s dissertation made significant breakthroughs in how database systems use memory. Historically, database system performance has been limited by the trade-offs between volatile memory and non-volatile storage devices, but non-volatile memory has revolutionized its potential.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;The arrival of new non-volatile memory devices invalidates the key design assumptions in database systems,\u0026rdquo; Arulraj said. \u0026ldquo;Non-volatile memory offers an intriguing blend of traditional memory and storage technologies. It supports fast reads and writes similar to volatile memory, but all writes are persistent like a disk\u0026rdquo;.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EArulraj\u0026rsquo;s dissertation explored how the core components of a database system must be redesigned for non-volatile memory. To put this into practice, Arulraj and a team of students at Carnegie Mellon created \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pelotondb.io\/\u0022\u003EPeloton\u003C\/a\u003E, an experimental database system tailored for non-volatile memory devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When we started this project in 2013, it was a moonshot,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;We were not sure if non-volatile memory technologies would ever see the light of day, but Intel has finally started shipping non-volatile memory devices in 2019. I am super excited about the impact of non-volatile memory on next-generation database systems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis work was done in collaboration with Intel Labs as part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/istc-bigdata.org\/\u0022\u003EIntel Science \u0026amp; Technology Center for Big Data\u003C\/a\u003E. 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Morgan has recently begun investing heavily in artificial intelligence research, and Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EXu Chu\u003C\/strong\u003E is one of the first to receive support from the financial firm.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs one of 47 recipients of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jpmorgan.com\/global\/technology\/ai\/awards\u0022\u003EJ.P. Morgan AI Research Faculty Awards\u003C\/a\u003E, Chu plans to further explore his research in machine learning and data management. His work will optimize machine learning algorithms to produce better results by cleaning up \u0026ldquo;messy\u0026rdquo; datasets so that data scientists can glean better insights and build better data models.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe $150,000 grant will also help data scientists better predict how data provides more insight into different sectors, like how location might affect the price of a house or credit score might determine whether or not someone is awarded a loan. \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is my first industry award, and I am very excited about how it will help my research group continue to grow and explore ways to better interpret data. The project that this award funds is foundational to all of my other projects, and this award gives me the resources to be able to pursue it,\u0026rdquo; said Chu, an affiliate faculty member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMachine Learning Center at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe awards were created as a part of the bank\u0026rsquo;s commitment to \u0026ldquo;give people an almost unparalleled freedom in shaping their own future \u0026ndash; to tackle the challenges that matter to them, and solve the problems which\u0026nbsp;affect us all.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Xu Chu is one of the first people to receive a JP Morgan AI Faculty Research Award. 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One RPG will simulate an internal company discussion about the ethics of new technology such as facial recognition. The other RPG models a community meeting about allowing a new technology, like self-driving cars, into an area.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZegura, the Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications, will supplement the RPGs by creating a Responsible Computer Science Fellows Program for training undergraduate teaching assistants and lecturers on how to build ethics into a lecture. She will also conduct video interviews with College of Computing faculty members to show the ethical considerations they make in their work, which students will watch in class.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am delighted to work with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/about\/administration\/instruction\u0022\u003EDivision of Computing Instruction\u003C\/a\u003E, colleagues across the College of Computing, and ethics experts in public policy on bringing ethical considerations to our undergraduate students as they learn what it means to think like a computer scientist,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project is one of 17 initiatives receiving $2.4 million in prizes for the first phase of the program from Mozilla, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies. 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It can be used to evaluate video, image, and audio data, and also includes cybersecurity protections against malware and network intrusions. This research is vital as ML\u0026rsquo;s prominence makes it more at risk to attacks, which could include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/611783\/erasing-stop-signs-shapeshifter-shows-self-driving-cars-can-still-be-manipulated\u0022\u003Eforcing self-driving cars to run stop signs\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re not just interested in how accurately we can classify a dataset; we\u0026rsquo;re interested in how robust the model is and how well it thwarts attacks,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.evandowning.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEvan Downing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the SCS Ph.D. student who presented from the group.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Demo Day Finale was the culmination of a yearlong annual competition that gives students the opportunity to commercialize their research for up to $125,000 in prizes. Students first presented at IISP\u0026rsquo;s fall \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/613110\/school-computer-science-students-dominate-demo-day\u0022\u003ECybersecurity Summit\u003C\/a\u003E, where the most promising projects were offered funding and mentorship from industry leaders. The three student-led commercialization projects showcased the future of cybersecurity research, including biometric authentication, preventing power grid attacks, and ML security.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the April 16 finale, a student from each team gave a TED-style talk on their work and answered questions from three business leaders \u0026ndash; Tech Square Ventures Managing Partner \u003Cstrong\u003EBlake Patton\u003C\/strong\u003E, IBM Security Director of Business and Corporate Development \u003Cstrong\u003ERichard Telljohann\u003C\/strong\u003E, and TDF Ventures Venture Partner \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Schanz\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026ndash; who were looking for research that showed novelty and innovation in the market. They chose MLsploit for its practical applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the encouraging nod from the judges, and $7,000 from IISP in funding, Downing and his team plan to continue improving MLsploit\u0026rsquo;s capabilities and release it as an open source tool.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMLsploit is the work of SCS Ph.D. students Downing, \u003Cstrong\u003EJinho Jung\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/carteryagemann.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECarter Yagemann\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E; School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Ph.D. students \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~schen351\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShang-Tse Chen\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/nilakshdas.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENilaksh Das\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E; CSE Associate Professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/people\/polo-chau\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/people\/le-song\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELe Song\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E; 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She is a leader in her field, co-editing the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/eprint.iacr.org\/\u0022\u003ECryptology ePrint archive\u003C\/a\u003E, working as an associate editor of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=10206\u0022\u003EIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security\u003C\/a\u003E, and co-chairing the largest cryptography conference\u0026mdash;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/crypto.iacr.org\/2019\/\u0022\u003ECRYPTO\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026mdash;in 2018 and 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[RELATED CONTENT: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/610656\/new-associate-chair-alexandra-boldyreva-co-chairs-biggest-cryptography-conference\u0022\u003ENew Associate Chair Alexandra Boldyreva Co-chairs Biggest Cryptography Conference\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoldyreva recently stepped into the role of SCS\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/610656\/new-associate-chair-alexandra-boldyreva-co-chairs-biggest-cryptography-conference\u0022\u003Eassociate chair for graduate education\u003C\/a\u003E, in which she manages the school\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. program, helps with student orientation, supervises admission, and assigns teaching assistants.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Achieving full professor at Georgia Tech is a great honor and a privilege,\u0026rdquo; Boldyreva said. \u0026ldquo;I am thankful to my wonderful colleagues for their trust, mentoring, and support in reaching this milestone. I don\u0026#39;t view it as the last milestone, but the beginning of a new direction in the work that I am doing.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKim joined the SCS faculty in 2014. His research focuses on building secure computing systems to detect and recover from cyberattacks. He earned a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/603930\/assistant-professor-taesoo-kim-wins-nsf-career-award-fuzzing-research\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation CAREER award\u003C\/a\u003E for his work on fuzzing, an automatic software-testing technique for finding bugs in complex programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[RELATED CONTENT: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/585141\/college-computings-taesoo-kim-has-passion-nitty-gritty-details-internet-security\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u0026#39;s Taesoo Kim Has a Passion For the \u0026#39;Nitty-Gritty Details\u0026#39; of Internet Security\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKim is equally passionate about teaching. His classes often give students \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/615238\/school-computer-science-hosts-first-capture-flag-hacking-competition\u0022\u003Ereal-world hacking experience\u003C\/a\u003E and have led them to win international competitions such as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/609900\/team-georgia-tech-students-win-world-hacking-competition\u0022\u003EDEF CON\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor his efforts, Kim earned the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/599098\/school-computer-sciences-taesoo-kim-named-allchin-professor\u0022\u003ECatherine M. and James E. 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Our Ph.D. students are often at the forefront of this research. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mahajandivya\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDivya Mahajan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E not only designs hardware but revolutionizes access to it by making it open source. When she\u0026rsquo;s not pioneering in her field, she paints and advocates for women in tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHometown\u003C\/strong\u003E: Chandigarh, India\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvisor:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EHadi Esmaeilzadeh (a former Georgia Tech assistant professor now at University of California San Diego)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECurrent Georgia Tech degree program:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EPh.D. in Computer Science\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOther degrees earned:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, bachelor\u0026rsquo;s of technology from Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. I\u0026nbsp;am graduating with MBA from Tech this semester as well. My MBA gave me\u0026nbsp;a chance to broaden my\u0026nbsp;knowledge and holistic problem-solving skills. My complementary experience in the business\u0026nbsp;school has provided me the opportunity to collaborate with industry leaders across\u0026nbsp;geographies and understand the business aspect of our work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETell us about your research: \u003C\/strong\u003EI am working on\u0026nbsp;designing high-performance hardware frameworks and solutions for artificial intelligence.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECampus service:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;I am an active member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ncwit.org\/\u0022\u003ENational Center\u0026nbsp;for Women and IT (NCWIT)\u003C\/a\u003E. One of the main goals is to promote young women to be more active in research beginning from high school.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFavorite conference: \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hpca22.site.ac.upc.edu\/\u0022\u003EHigh Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) 2016\u003C\/a\u003E was my favorite conference. My first Ph.D. research paper was accepted there. It showed me how tightly knit our community is and made me feel connected.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFavorite Atlanta hangout:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Pho 24. It\u0026rsquo;s a Vietnamese place on Buford Highway that\u0026rsquo;s open 24 hours. It used to be a place where our entire lab went after late nights and conference deadlines. Having warm noodles after weeks of hard work and long hours was very satisfying and enjoyable. We shared a lot of laughs, jokes, and frustrations there.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFavorite hobbies:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EI\u0026nbsp;enjoy oil painting and am an avid reader. One of my favorite books is \u003Cem\u003EGone with the Wind\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026bull; Favorite Georgia Tech experience:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EWhen I first\u0026nbsp;came to Georgia Tech, I was excited but and scared about the new place and program. A Ph.D. is very different from whatever academic journey I had taken before. But within a month, my lab mates and I went to the Six Flags Night. We connected and discussed research and life in Atlanta, and I started to feel connected to this university and city. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho inspires you: \u003C\/strong\u003EMy father is a physician\u0026nbsp;and mother is a professor. Both of them balance their careers and family very well. I aspire to be as dedicated as them to my work and also take care of all\u0026nbsp;personal\u0026nbsp;responsibilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;What is something that you would most like to create?\u003C\/strong\u003E We were the first ones to develop \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/598241\/georgia-techs-act-lab-pushing-frontier-open-source-hardware\u0022\u003Eopen source hardware designs\u003C\/a\u003E for higher community and\u0026nbsp;industry engagement. One of the first frameworks to be open-sourced was Tabla, which generates accelerators for machine learning algorithms. It does this by using a\u0026nbsp;compiler that can turn high level language specification into deeper abstractions that work closer to the hardware. We can attribute this accomplishment to my advisor, Hadi, who tirelessly works to create the best quality research. He is an amazing researcher, and I hope to emulate some of his qualities in my research career.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Divya Mahajan is an SCS Ph.D. student."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-04-30 20:32:08","changed_gmt":"2019-04-30 20:49:24","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"621145":{"id":"621145","type":"image","title":"Divya Mahajan","body":null,"created":"1556656443","gmt_created":"2019-04-30 20:34:03","changed":"1556656443","gmt_changed":"2019-04-30 20:34:03","alt":"Divya Mahajan","file":{"fid":"236607","name":"IMG_4397.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_4397.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_4397.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":145572,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_4397.JPG?itok=6TNHHjY-"}}},"media_ids":["621145"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181209","name":"scs-architecture"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"620748":{"#nid":"620748","#data":{"type":"news","title":"                                     College of Computing Student Alex Cabrera Wins Love Family Foundation Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing student \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cabreraalex.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026Aacute;ngel (Alex) Cabrera\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has won the Love Family Foundation Scholarship. The annual award recognizes an undergraduate with outstanding scholastic record and is the highest honor Georgia Tech can give to a graduating student.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year associate and assistant deans from the six colleges awarded the $10,000 scholarship from the Gay and Erksine Love Foundation to both Cabrera and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/index.html\u0022\u003EScheller College of Business\u003C\/a\u003E student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/news-events\/latest-news\/2019\/articles\/scheller-undergraduate-meredith-wolpert-wins-love-family-foundation-scholarship.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMeredith Wolpert\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. 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The internships gave him the opportunity to work on difficult real-world problems, such as building an analytics dashboard to monitor errors in Google Maps, designing an anomaly detection system for Google\u0026rsquo;s data processing pipelines, and working on new car features for the next generation of Android Auto.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I really enjoyed working on this huge data system that improves the map millions of people use every day,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile Cabrera liked his software engineering internships, he was most passionate about the research portion of the work. He decided to pursue research directly during his junior year, when he became one of the few undergraduates in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/\u0027\u0022\u003EPolo Club of Data Science\u003C\/a\u003E, a research group run by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/people\/polo-chau\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I was immediately impressed by the leadership and academic achievements he had already accomplished,\u0026rdquo; Chau said. \u0026ldquo;I recruited him to join my research group right away.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECabrera\u0026rsquo;s first project with the lab was working to help people better understand deep learning models for image classification. He and his co-authors presented their work, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fredhohman.com\/papers\/interactive-classification\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EInteractive Classification for Deep Learning Interpretation\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, as a demo at the premier computer vision conference, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research group also introduced Cabrera to one of the biggest challenges machine learning (ML) faces: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/616279\/human-rights-may-help-shape-artificial-intelligence-2019\u0022\u003Eequity and fairness\u003C\/a\u003E. 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The research has been accepted to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/debug-ml-iclr2019.github.io\/\u0022\u003EDebugging Machine Learning Models\u003C\/a\u003E workshop at the upcoming Seventh International Conference on Learning Representations in May.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;ML models are marketed as being more fair and just, but in reality, they are often trained on biased data, and models can even worsen existing biases,\u0026rdquo; Cabrera said. \u0026ldquo;My goal is to create usable tools for fairness that can help developers discover these issues\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThroughout his internships and projects, Cabrera has maintained a 4.0 GPA and worked as a teaching assistant for CS1332 - Data Structures and Algorithms during three semesters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Alex does an amazing job as a TA. 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Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will be \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2DaFCqr\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Estepping down from the deanship on June 30\u003C\/a\u003E, concluding nine years of transformational achievement and numerous successes at the College. He will be returning to the faculty to teach, research, and serve as an ambassador of Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s online programs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGalil\u0026rsquo;s deanship was marked by accomplishments on many fronts. Under his leadership the College has risen into the top eight nationally, top seven internationally \u0026ndash; the only top 10 computer science program to rise either in rank or in score in the last ranking (2018).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a measure of the College\u0026rsquo;s public perception, applications to the College have grown ten-fold, and enrollment in on-campus degree programs has nearly doubled during Galil\u0026rsquo;s tenure as dean.\u0026nbsp;Computing is now the largest major at the university, and the most selective \u0026ndash; our majors average higher than 1500 on the SATs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2Xgdp96\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E[RELATED:\u0026nbsp;College of Computing Rises to No. 8 in U.S. News Rankings]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe College\u0026rsquo;s reputation among employers and alumni has seen dramatic enhancement, as well. As a result, the College\u0026#39;s career fairs\u0026nbsp;and its \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2xXpdDe\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ecorporate affiliates program\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;have grown in stature in recent years. The \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/content\/college-computing-career-fair-student-information\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGT Computing Career Fair\u003C\/a\u003E regularly sets new attendance records with more than 160 companies participating\u0026nbsp;(with nearly 20 companies waitlisted) this year\u0026nbsp;in the Klaus Building Atrium. Several hundred\u0026nbsp;students from across campus attended each day of the four-day event.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Being a dean is about community building, about involvement, support, and empowerment. You\u0026rsquo;re closer to students, you\u0026rsquo;re closer to staff\u0026nbsp;and faculty. I view my role as dean as working to inspire our community by helping them to connect, encouraging them to excel, increasing their confidence.\u0026rdquo; - Zvi Galil\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore and more companies are also participating in the College\u0026#39;s corporate affiliates program (CAP). During Galil\u0026#39;s tenure as dean, CAP grew from 14 companies generating $280,000 in membership fees in 2010, to 63 companies raising $1.13 million in the current academic year. Galil exceeded the annual campus fundraising campaign goal by 40 percent \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;the largest percentage above the goal of any unit at Georgia Tech. Alumnus \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/issuu.com\/gtalumni\/docs\/vol91_no2_low_res\/67\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJames Liang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026#39;s gift of $1.5 million for an endowed chair\u003C\/a\u003E was at the time the largest international gift in Georgia Tech history, and the only endowed chair by an international donor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe successful fundraising provided the resources for continued investment in the College and its faculty, and also helped fund four \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/content\/research-centers-and-initiatives\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Research Institutes and four Interdisciplinary Research Centers\u003C\/a\u003E led by the College. Galil doubled the number of endowed senior faculty chairs to 10, in addition to four new junior faculty chairs. Faculty rose from 85 to 102, with six or more to join later this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2xXpdDe\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E[RELATED:\u0026nbsp;Corporate Affiliates Program Paying Off for GT Computing Students]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt is a testament to the values and productivity of the College\u0026rsquo;s faculty that, with just 8 percent of Georgia Tech faculty, GT Computing teaches about 18 percent of the Institute\u0026rsquo;s credit hours (about 13 percent of undergraduate and about 24 percent of graduate credit hours).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Under Zvi\u0026rsquo;s leadership the standing of the college has improved along a host of traditional metrics \u0026ndash; but truly great universities are in the center of the important issues of the day,\u0026rdquo; said Executive Associate Dean \u003Cstrong\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2OGKckA\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewho will take over as dean on July 1\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;Through OMSCS, Zvi has led the way in moving the college to the center of perhaps the most important of national discussions: the role of affordability and access in computing. That is a transformative accomplishment.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOMSCS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECreating the College\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/617084\/omscs-five-years-cyber-pioneer\u0022\u003Enow-famous Online Masters of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program\u003C\/a\u003E took years of labor from dozens of faculty and staff members. Galil\u0026rsquo;s vision was the driving force behind the entire project, however, and guided many of the decisions that make the program so distinctive.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the most significant was OMSCS\u0026rsquo; unique admissions policy. Instead of admitting only a few of the highest-achieving applicants, Galil insisted that the program be open to anyone who had met the requirements. Those online students have been just as successful as the on-campus students admitted through a much more selective process.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow, five years after its founding, the online master\u0026rsquo;s has nearly 9,000 students and an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/620099\/omscs-revolution-will-be-digitized\u0022\u003Einternational reputation for changing the game in online education\u003C\/a\u003E. The OMSCS program embodies \u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026#39;s motto\u003C\/em\u003E of \u003Cem\u003EProgress and \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EService\u003C\/em\u003E with its unique combination of prestige, accessibility, and affordability. Its launch has changed national and international perspectives on Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2qg2OwD\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E[RELATED: Juggling Careers, Grad School, Kids: One Family\u0026rsquo;s Story of How They Make OMSCS Work]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;OMSCS offers wider access to the high quality of our residential program at a substantially lower cost. It helps realign today\u0026rsquo;s workforce with the requirements of a thriving 21st-century economy. This is a fundamental, revolutionary shift from the prevailing paradigm of higher education, in which a brand is bolstered by exclusion and high tuition fees,\u0026rdquo; Galil said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBuilding a community\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Being a dean is about community building, about involvement, support, and empowerment,\u0026rdquo; Galil said. \u0026ldquo;You\u0026rsquo;re closer to students, you\u0026rsquo;re closer to staff and faculty. I view my role as dean as working to inspire our community by helping them to connect, encouraging them to excel, increasing their confidence.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGalil has made particular efforts to integrate staff members into the community \u0026ndash; through regular meetings and an annual staff retreat \u0026ndash; and is well known for matching high standards with a collaborative approach and approachability.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Zvi pushes for excellence in a way that stretches everyone,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EAlan Katz\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant dean for finances and administration. \u0026ldquo;He believes in sharing information, serving others, and providing incentives \u0026ndash; he\u0026rsquo;s a carrot person, not a stick person.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You would never know Zvi has such a high status because he\u0026rsquo;s so down to earth,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EPam Ruffin\u003C\/strong\u003E, director of human resources for the college. \u0026ldquo;You can walk up to his door and he\u0026rsquo;ll take time to talk to you.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEven those who don\u0026rsquo;t make it to his office hear from Galil regularly, through a steady stream of e-mails he sends out to the entire GT Computing community. Although he is known as \u0026ldquo;the e-mail dean,\u0026rdquo; he almost never mentions himself in his missives. \u0026ldquo;I love to brag about the achievements of faculty, staff, and students,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;I want everyone to know they are the most important part of the College.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIn parting\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGalil \u0026ndash; a highly influential scholar in the fields of algorithmic design and analysis, and computational complexity and cryptography \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and of the American Academy of Arts \u0026amp; Sciences. Prior to coming to Georgia Tech, he served as the dean of engineering at Columbia University and the president of Tel Aviv University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet, he views his deanship at GT Computing as the most satisfying period of his career.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In OMSCS, we pioneered a program that proved high-quality, cost-reduced online education at scale is doable, and that it satisfies an unmet need \u0026ndash; being radically more accessible and affordable than on-campus options,\u0026rdquo; Galil said. \u0026ldquo;I view it as my greatest achievement.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs for his message to GT Computing faculty, staff, students, and alumni, \u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;GO JACKETS!\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Zvi Galil is stepping down following his highly successful tenure as dean of the College of Computing."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2019-04-16 14:37:10","changed_gmt":"2019-04-16 21:09:51","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"620501":{"id":"620501","type":"image","title":"Zvi Galil deanship banner","body":null,"created":"1555448959","gmt_created":"2019-04-16 21:09:19","changed":"1555448959","gmt_changed":"2019-04-16 21:09:19","alt":"web banner for Zvi Galil","file":{"fid":"236262","name":"Super Zvi rotator_april2019.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Super%20Zvi%20rotator_april2019.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Super%20Zvi%20rotator_april2019.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1328486,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Super%20Zvi%20rotator_april2019.jpeg?itok=K9UAyEyp"}}},"media_ids":["620501"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"606703","name":"Constellations Center"},{"id":"576491","name":"CRNCH"},{"id":"545781","name":"Institute for Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"430601","name":"Institute for Information Security and Privacy"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"66442","name":"MS HCI"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"9152","name":"zvi galil"},{"id":"46361","name":"GT computing"},{"id":"181043","name":"deanship"},{"id":"121521","name":"OMSCS"},{"id":"181044","name":"stepping down"},{"id":"10664","name":"charles isbell"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnn Claycombe, Director of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ann.claycombe@cc.gatech.edu?subject=Zvi\u0027s%20Deanship%20Story\u0022\u003Eann.claycombe@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ann.claycombe@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"620309":{"#nid":"620309","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Research Reveals Possibly Fatal Consequences of Algorithmic Bias","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESelf-driving cars are supposed to make driving safer, but they may endanger the lives of certain groups. New Georgia Tech research suggests that pedestrians with darker skin may be more likely to get hit by self-driving cars than those with lighter skin.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers tested machine learning (ML) object detection models\u0026shy; to see how well they could see people with different skin tones. Their results revealed models were nearly 5 percent less likely to detect darker-skinned pedestrians.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis predictive imbalance remained regardless of how researchers accounted for variables in the training data set, such as time of day, partially blocked views of pedestrians, and pixel size of the person.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Companies don\u0026rsquo;t want the public to know about any issues of inaccuracy, so consumers need to learn to ask a lot of questions,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/jamiemorgenstern.com\/\u0022\u003EJamie Morgenstern\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, School of Computer Science (SCS) assistant professor and the study\u0026rsquo;s lead author.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/616279\/human-rights-may-help-shape-artificial-intelligence-2019\u0022\u003E[RELATED: \u0026#39;Human Rights\u0026#39; May Help Shape Artificial Intelligence in 2019]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBiased data\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EThe prediction system is only one possible source of the inequity. The training data is another. The researchers used one of the most comprehensive publicly available self-driving car training datasets and wanted to determine if it represented all skin tones evenly. They classified the images using Fitzpatrick skin typing, a scale to predict UV sensitivity, and found the dataset has roughly 3.5 times as many examples of people with lighter skin.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis discrepancy might introduce problems because of the ML method known as loss function, which determines how well an algorithm models a dataset. A model learns by measuring loss function between predicted values and actual values. The goal is to get as small of a loss function output as possible, indicating the model fits the data well. This approach is more accurate with larger subsets in the data, but can minimize the value of smaller groups. In effect, this 3.5 difference made the results even more accurate for lighter-skinned pedestrians.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite the bias, Morgenstern remains optimistic. The team was able to correct for the inequity by reweighing the model to better analyze smaller groups.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe findings, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1902.11097.pdf\u0022\u003Epublished earlier this month\u003C\/a\u003E, have attracted media coverage and some criticism. Much of this stems from the fact that Morgenstern and her fellow researchers \u0026shy;\u0026ndash; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~judy\/\u0022\u003EJudy Hoffman\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E and machine learning Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/benjamin-r-wilson\u0022\u003EBenjamin Wilson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026mdash; were not able to investigate ML models and training data actually used by the self-driving car industry because they are not publicly available.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/615576\/georgia-tech-researchers-improve-fairness-machine-learning-pipeline\u0022\u003E[RELATED: Georgia Tech Researchers Improve Fairness in the Machine Learning Pipeline]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA bigger problem\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is not the first study of ML systems having varying predictive accuracy on different demographics. Other researchers have found examples in the financial sector. Yet in many of these scenarios, developers won\u0026rsquo;t take responsibility, according to Morgenstern.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Developers blame any biased outcomes of their system on biased historical trends, such as the fact that more loans were applied for and issued in whiter neighborhoods, or biased training data,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;For example, if the training labels used for creditworthiness instead reflect only the decisions of lenders who are now known to have had higher predictive accuracy on white applicants.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith self-driving cars, however, a system developer would have a harder time blaming object detection system bias on historical trends or behavior of certain demographic groups. This was what appealed to Morgenstern about this research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;There is no capacity for arguing that historical behavior of some group should affect the trade-offs made by self-driving cars,\u0026rdquo; Morgenstern said. \u0026ldquo;No one deserves to be hit by a car.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers found both the models and data for self-driving cars have bias."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-04-10 21:34:29","changed_gmt":"2019-04-10 21:46:47","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"620310":{"id":"620310","type":"image","title":"Crosswalk","body":null,"created":"1554932751","gmt_created":"2019-04-10 21:45:51","changed":"1554932751","gmt_changed":"2019-04-10 21:45:51","alt":"Crosswalk","file":{"fid":"236194","name":"architecture_buildings_bus_business_cars_city_cityscape_clouds-1495895.jpg!d.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/architecture_buildings_bus_business_cars_city_cityscape_clouds-1495895.jpg%21d.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/architecture_buildings_bus_business_cars_city_cityscape_clouds-1495895.jpg%21d.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":319882,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/architecture_buildings_bus_business_cars_city_cityscape_clouds-1495895.jpg%21d.jpeg?itok=eLgHkAQi"}}},"media_ids":["620310"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"620273":{"#nid":"620273","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College of Computing Researchers Awarded $6.25 Million to Study Collective Emergent Behavior","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have been awarded $6.25 million from the Department of Defense (DoD) to use collective emergent behavior to achieve task-oriented objectives.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoD\u0026rsquo;s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) Program funds projects that bring researchers together from diverse backgrounds to work on a complex problem. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ideas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Engineering and Science \u003C\/a\u003Eco-director and School of Computer Science Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~randall\/\u0022\u003EDana Randall\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E is project investigator and leads a team of six that includes \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003EDaniel Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Dunn Family Professor in the School of Physics. The Formal Foundations of Algorithmic Matter and Emergent Computation team also includes chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, and computational science researchers from other universities.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers are trying to predict and design emergent behavior within computation by using basic algorithms on simple machines to perform complex tasks. Emergent behavior is when a microscopic change in a parameter creates a macroscopic change to a system. This collective behavior is easy to find in nature, from a swarm of bees to a colony of ants, but also appears in other scientific disciplines.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;A MURI lets us take a deep dive toward understanding how many computationally limited components at the micro-scale can be programmed to work collectively to produce useful behavior at the macro-scale,\u0026rdquo; said Randall, who is also the ADVANCE Professor of Computing. \u0026ldquo;Our interdisciplinary team combines expertise in many fields, mimicking the research by forming a collaboration that is also greater than the sum of its parts.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe MURI hybrid approach to algorithmic matter combines traditional logic-based programming with non-traditional computational methods, such as using physical characteristics of the interacting matter to drive a system toward collective behavior. One of the goals is to program based on this predictable emergent behavior. The approach also predicts basic properties of the collective\u0026rsquo;s emergent behavior, like whether it will behave like a gas, fluid, or solid. In this context, emergent behavior turns into emergent collective computation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;MURI promises basic algorithms that allow very simple machines to work collectively to perform amazingly complex tasks,\u0026rdquo; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) chemical engineering Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/srg.mit.edu\/\u0022\u003EMichael Strano\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E said. \u0026ldquo;Our team will examine systems of autonomous cell-like particles that interact and respond to the movement of their neighbors in a programmable way. Theorists will be able to test ideas of emergent computation from these simple devices and learn how to execute tasks from the behavior of relatively simple, autonomous particles.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the behavior has footing in physics, computer science, and swarm robotics, there is no underlying framework to explain why until this research. The multidisciplinary approach allows theory and experiment to continuously inform each other and determine the computational capabilities of emergent behavior. The team has an ideal range of expertise in machine learning, control theory, and non-equilibrium physics and algorithms. They are also working with experimentalists who build collective systems at granular and microscopic scales.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;An exciting aspect of this collaboration will be our attempts to interface and integrate ideas and tools from robotics, non-equilibrium physics, control theory, and computer science to develop task-capable swarms,\u0026rdquo; Goldman said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis MURI project will run for five years and is funded by the Army Research Office. In addition to Randall, Goldman, and Strano, the team also includes Arizona State computational science and engineering Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAndrea Richa\u003C\/strong\u003E, MIT physics Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJeremy England\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Northwestern mechanical engineering Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ETodd Murphey\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe overarching goal is to find how simplistic the computation can be for this complexity. 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Computing Awarded Prestigious Fellowships","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach year, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Computing is home to a number of students and faculty who are recognized by the computing community with fellowships from industry across the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year is no different as six GT Computing individuals have been awarded fellowships with four different companies, including J.P. Morgan, IBM, Snap, and Facebook. Only those who accepted their awards are listed below.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJ.P. Morgan Chase \u0026amp; Co.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jpmorgan.com\/global\/technology\/ai\/awards\u0022\u003EJ.P. Morgan Chase \u0026amp; Co.\u003C\/a\u003E awarded \u003Cstrong\u003ECharles David Byrd\u003C\/strong\u003E (Research Scientist and Ph.D. student advised by Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ETucker Balch\u003C\/strong\u003E) and Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EXu Chu\u003C\/strong\u003E for efforts in artificial intelligence research. It is the company\u0026rsquo;s first AI Research Awards, which are aimed at studying the use of AI and machine learning in areas including investment advice, risk management, digital assistants, and trading behavior. Only 47 fellowships were awarded by the company.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EByrd\u0026rsquo;s work, along with Balch, is focused on machine learning for financial applications, investigating mutual fund portfolio inference, intraday equity market forecasting, stock market simulation, and machine learning approaches to the evaluation of market efficiency. Byrd has been recognized in the past as the 2018 Graduate Student Instructor of the Year Award in the School of Interactive Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChu\u0026rsquo;s research interests revolve around two themes: using data management technologies to make machine learning more usable and using machine learning to tackle hard data management problems like data integration. Chu also earned the Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship in 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIBM\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EStacey Truex\u003C\/strong\u003E of the School of Computer Science was named a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.ibm.com\/university\/awards\/2019_phd_fellowship_awards.shtml\u0022\u003E2019 IBM Ph.D. Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E. The Fellowship, which has been around since the 1950s, recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are focused on solving problems that are fundamental to innovation. This includes pioneering work in areas like cognitive computing and augmented intelligence, quantum computing, blockchain, data-centric systems, advanced analytics, security, radical cloud innovation, and more. This highly-competitive award was given to only 16 Ph.D. students worldwide.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETruex (advised by Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ELing Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E) focuses on research from two complementary perspectives: 1) privacy, security, and trust in machine learning models and algorithmic decision making, and 2) secure, privacy-preserving artificial intelligence systems, services, and applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESnap, Inc.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/snapresearchfs.splashthat.com\/\u0022\u003ESnap, Inc., recognized\u003C\/a\u003E Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EHarsh Agrawal\u003C\/strong\u003E of the School of Interactive Computing with the 2019 Snap Research Fellowship and Scholarship. This fellowship recognizes students carrying out research in areas of computer science relevant to the company, including computer graphics, computer vision, machine learning, data mining, computational imaging, human-computer interaction, and other related fields. Each awardee will receive a $10,000 award and an offer for a full-time paid internship with the company.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAgrawal (advised by Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EDhruv Batra\u003C\/strong\u003E) does research at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he spent time as a research engineer at Snap Research, where he was responsible for building large-scale infrastructure for visual recognition, search and developed algorithms for low-shot instance detection.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFacebook\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.fb.com\/announcing-the-2019-facebook-fellows-and-emerging-scholars\/\u0022\u003EFacebook Research announced the selection of 21 Fellows and seven Emerging Scholars\u003C\/a\u003E this year out of more than 900 submitted applications from Ph.D. students all over the world. Among the awardees were \u003Cstrong\u003EAbhishek Das\u003C\/strong\u003E with the Facebook Fellowship and \u003Cstrong\u003EVanessa Oguamanam \u003C\/strong\u003Ewith the Emerging Scholar Award. The Facebook Fellowship program, now in its eighth year, is designed to encourage and support doctoral students engaged in innovative research in computer science and engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDas (advised by Dhruv Batra) does research in deep learning and its applications in building agents that can see, think, talk, and act. His research has been supported by fellowships from Facebook, Adobe, and Snap, Inc., over the years. Oguamanam, who is in the School of Interactive Computing, pursues research in educational technology, human-computer interaction for development, diversity in STEM, and entrepreneurship. She is co-advised by Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EBetsy DiSalvo\u003C\/strong\u003E and Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ENeha Kumar\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"J.P. Morgan, IBM, Snap, and Facebook awarded six College of Computing faculty and students."}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2019-04-04 22:23:48","changed_gmt":"2019-04-04 22:23:48","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"620109":{"id":"620109","type":"image","title":"2019 College of Computing Fellowships","body":null,"created":"1554416151","gmt_created":"2019-04-04 22:15:51","changed":"1554416151","gmt_changed":"2019-04-04 22:15:51","alt":"Harsh Agrawal, Xu Chu, Abhishek Das, Vanessa Oguamanam, Charles David Byrd, and Stacey Truex","file":{"fid":"236101","name":"CoC Fellowships.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CoC%20Fellowships.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CoC%20Fellowships.png","mime":"image\/png","size":852597,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/CoC%20Fellowships.png?itok=TjGe8z44"}}},"media_ids":["620109"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mitchell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:david.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edavid.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"619948":{"#nid":"619948","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ML@GT Faculty Members Receive Tenure and Promotion","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEight faculty members affiliated with the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMachine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT)\u003C\/a\u003E have received tenure awards or promotions. These appointments are awaiting approval from the Board of Regents and will become effective Aug. 15, 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;ML@GT is stronger because of the immense amount of talent that our faculty bring to the community. We are thrilled that each of these faculty members are being recognized for their hard work and commitment to not only their research, but to investing in the next generation of machine learning and artificial intelligence pioneers,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EIrfan Essa\u003C\/strong\u003E, ML@GT director.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKaren Liu \u003C\/strong\u003Ewas promoted to full professor and is already tenured\u003Cstrong\u003E. \u003C\/strong\u003EAn integral part of the ML@GT community, Liu\u0026rsquo;s home school is the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E. She co-founded \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dartsim.github.io\/\u0022\u003EDART\u003C\/a\u003E alongside her students, which won the Grand Prize of Open Source Software World Challenge in 2016. Liu also received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and was named to the Young Innovators Under 35 List by Technology Review.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe earned her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and focuses on robotics and computer graphics, including optimal control, physics-based animation, computational biomechanics, and reinforcement learning. She is the Program Chair of SIGGRAPH Asia 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDhruv Batra \u003C\/strong\u003Ewas promoted to associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E and received tenure. Batra is also a research scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Batra\u0026rsquo;s research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and natural language processing. Featured in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/06\/14\/facebook-ai-negotiation-technology\/\u0022\u003EFortune\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/611040\/facebook-helped-create-an-ai-scavenger-hunt-that-could-lead-to-the-first-useful-home-robots\/\u0022\u003EMIT Technology Review\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2017\/12\/year-in-artificial-intelligence-most-impressive-ai-and-machine-learning-accomplishments.html\u0022\u003ESlate\u003C\/a\u003E, and more, Batra is an emerging leader in his craft. Batra earned his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDevi Parikh \u003C\/strong\u003Ereceived tenure and was promoted to the position of associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E. Parikh joined Georgia Tech in 2016 and continues to work as a research scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Parikh is consistently recognized for her work on artificial intelligence at the intersection of computer vision and machine learning by outlets like \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mariyayao\/2017\/05\/18\/meet-20-incredible-women-advancing-a-i-research\/#4b1c0d2c26f9\u0022\u003EForbes\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/projects\/13548844\/women-in-ai\/\u0022\u003EVogue\u003C\/a\u003E. She has also received numerous awards including the NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and four Google Faculty Research Awards. Parikh earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 and 2009 respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJimeng Sun \u003C\/strong\u003Erecently received tenure from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. Sun is an associate professor and focuses on machine learning and deep learning for healthcare and tensor analysis. He has published over 120 papers and holds five patents. He was recently named as one of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/news\/619095\/jimeng-sun-named-top-100-leaders-ai-health\u0022\u003Etop 100 global leaders\u003C\/a\u003E in artificial intelligence for health by Deep Knowledge Analytics. Sun earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERich Vuduc \u003C\/strong\u003Ehas been promoted to professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. Vuduc is an expert in high-performance computing (HPC), also known as supercomputing. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, several best paper awards at multiple ACM and IEEE conferences, and a DARPA Computer Science Study Group grant. Vuduc earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim \u003C\/strong\u003Ehas received tenure and been promoted to associate professor. Housed in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E, Kim researches programming languages, systems security, distributed systems, and operating systems. Kim holds a masters and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has earned numerous awards including a 2019 Google Research Award, 2017 Mozilla Research Award, and 2018 NSF CAREER Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYao Xie \u003C\/strong\u003Ehas been promoted to Associate Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ISyE). Xie has been with Georgia Tech since 2013 and focuses on signal processing, statistics, optimization, and machine learning. She is particularly interested in sequential analysis and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~yxie77\/change_point_simple.pdf\u0022\u003Echange-point detection\u003C\/a\u003E and their broad applications in sensor networks, social networks, imaging and communications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer work on redistricting design was \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/news\/data-driven-policing\u0022\u003Erecently implemented\u003C\/a\u003E by the Atlanta Police Department. Xie received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESantanu Dey \u003C\/strong\u003Ehas been promoted to professor in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ISyE). Dey served as a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/diversity.gatech.edu\/DIFellowsProgram\u0022\u003EDiversity and Inclusion Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech in 2017 and he currently serves on the editorial board of Computational Optimization and Applications, MOS-SIAM book series on optimization. His research interests include non-convex optimization, in particular with mixed integer linear and nonlinear programming. He received the NSF Career Award in 2012. 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Horizons will be a two-day event with the first day lasting from 6-11 p.m. and the second day running from 9 a.m. until 10:30 p.m.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring Horizons, participants will have the opportunity to brainstorm, design, and create projects that integrate technology with art. At the end of the event, students will showcase their projects for judges who will vote to award prizes in specific categories.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou can register for the event \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/registration.horizons.hack.gt\/login\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehere\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe event will also include special performances from Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s own \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gtseoulstice\/\u0022\u003ESeoulstice\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ATLBBX\/\u0022\u003EATL Beatbox\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/orgsync.com\/147210\/chapter\u0022 title=\u0022\ud2cc\u0026amp;#1072860;\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ud7da\uccd2\ubfc8\u0022\u003EWomen\u0026rsquo;s Choir\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/orgsync.com\/136080\/chapter\u0022\u003EMusician\u0026#39;s Network\u003C\/a\u003E. 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Some recognizable names of speakers and mentors include Digital Media and Music Technology Postdoctoral Fellow \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.astridbin.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAstrid Bin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and School of Literature, Media, and Communication Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/mark-leibert\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Leibert\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHorizons is the first make-a-thon hosted by HackGT with the aim to integrate the A into STEAM \u0026ndash; science, technology, engineering, art, and math \u0026ndash; more fully.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor those interested in participating or attending:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAnyone 18 years or older can attend.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EThe event is free and resources \u0026ndash; including food and specialty hardware \u0026ndash; will be provided.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EBring your laptop and whatever tools or art supplies you think would be helpful.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMentors will be on hand to help with projects, presentations, idea creation, and technical difficulties.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe event will be held on campus at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?safe=active\u0026amp;client=safari\u0026amp;rls=en\u0026amp;q=Georgia+Tech+Instructional+Center+Atlanta,+GA+30318\u0026amp;biw=1332\u0026amp;bih=752\u0026amp;um=1\u0026amp;ie=UTF-8\u0026amp;sa=X\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwj79aWNkKjhAhVLmK0KHY-LDgMQ_AUIDigB\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Instructional Center.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"HackGT is hosting Horizons, a make-a-thon that integrates art with computing, this weekend at Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"34540","created_gmt":"2019-04-03 13:52:41","changed_gmt":"2019-04-03 14:20:42","author":"Kristen Perez","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"620001":{"id":"620001","type":"image","title":"Horizons Flyer","body":null,"created":"1554298115","gmt_created":"2019-04-03 13:28:35","changed":"1554298115","gmt_changed":"2019-04-03 13:28:35","alt":"Horizons flyer - white background with minimalist abstract colored shapes ","file":{"fid":"236057","name":"Horizons.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Horizons.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Horizons.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":366977,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Horizons.jpg?itok=4AZI_C02"}}},"media_ids":["620001"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"42891","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"180954","name":"make-a-thon"},{"id":"98591","name":"hackgt"},{"id":"3798","name":"arts"},{"id":"208","name":"computing"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKristen Perez\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kristen.perez@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"619934":{"#nid":"619934","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alexandros Daglis Finds New Beginnings in the End of Moore\u2019s Law","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe number of computer chip transistors is no longer expected to double every year as Moore\u0026rsquo;s law declines. Most computer scientists see this as a problem, but new School of Computer Science Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~adaglis\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandros Daglis\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E thinks it\u0026rsquo;s an opportunity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There is a shifting balance of computing resources,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;The advancements in raw computing power are tapering off, so networks have the time to catch up.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe possibilities of hardware\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDaglis has always been fascinated by what can make hardware faster. Although he got into computer science by programming video games as a teenager, he quickly discovered the appeal of hardware during his undergraduate years at the National Technical University of Athens.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Caching and locality, they just felt so natural to me,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;This is why computers work. The fundamental techniques that make computers so fast really piqued my interest.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis undergraduate thesis was about how to improve caching. Yet during his Ph.D. at \u0026Eacute;cole polytechnique f\u0026eacute;d\u0026eacute;rale de Lausanne (EFPL), Daglis realized there were bigger problems to tackle.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECatching up with Moore\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnder Moore\u0026rsquo;s law, central processing units (CPUs) became faster, whereas networks lagged. Yet as the paradigm shifts, networks can finally close the gap. According to Daglis, now is the time to lower latency, or data transfer speed, and increase bandwidth.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a computer architect, Daglis wants to rethink the fundamentals of how communication-intensive systems, like social network applications running in datacenters, function. Users want to retrieve a small amount of data \u0026mdash;a message, a friend request \u0026mdash; fast. Yet, the existing network isn\u0026rsquo;t set up to make this run efficiently, according to Daglis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Fundamental latency bounds are catching up: we\u0026rsquo;re getting to speed-of-light data propagation within a datacenter\u0026rsquo;s internal network soon,\u0026rdquo; Daglis said. \u0026ldquo;But the way we build systems precludes leveraging the full potential of these faster networks. 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I know that that, together, the students, faculty, and staff, under Dr. Isbell\u0026rsquo;s leadership, will continue the trajectory of innovation in research and education that characterizes the College of Computing. \u0026ldquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIsbell joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an assistant professor in the College of Computing in 2002, serving in advancing academic, research, and administrative leadership roles. During that time, he has been in the midst of various educational innovation and diversity and inclusion initiatives in the College of Computing, such as the Threads program, the Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS), and the Constellations Center for Equity in Computing. In addition, Isbell has been a champion and supporter, at the Institute level, of many research initiatives and centers led by and originated by his colleagues in the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am honored to be selected as the next dean and John P. Imlay Jr. Chair of the College of Computing as we prepare for the next generation of learners,\u0026rdquo; Isbell said. \u0026ldquo;The breadth represented in the field of computing \u0026mdash; including information and data science, computer engineering, and others \u0026mdash; is central to the future of universities as we face changing student needs, increasing workforce demands, an evolving relationship with industry and the public, the need for new ways of supporting cutting-edge research, and persistent issues of equity and access.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIsbell\u0026rsquo;s research interests are varied and include artificial intelligence with particular emphasis on interactive machine learning, including using machine learning to model human behavior. He is a fellow of both the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Even in rapidly changing times, I believe Georgia Tech and the College of Computing are well-positioned for the future,\u0026rdquo; said Isbell. \u0026ldquo;I am committed to working with faculty, staff, and students within the College and our colleagues around campus to continue to take risks and effect change so that Georgia Tech continues to provide global leadership in the field of computing and beyond.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIsbell was one of four finalists in the international search for the College of Computing\u0026rsquo;s new leader. The search committee was chaired by Raheem A. Beyah, Motorola Foundation Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Jennifer Herazy, chief administrative officer for Academic and Research Administration, served as search director.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIsbell is a Georgia Tech alumnus and holds a Bachelor of Science in Information and Computer Science. He also holds a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Though born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Isbell grew up in Atlanta. He and wife Sheila D. Isbell (MS CS), division chief for the Software Engineering and Analytics Division at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), are parents to daughter Jacqueline, 14, and son Christopher, 11.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;d like to express my thanks to Provost Bras, Dr. Beyah, and the rest of the committee for their work throughout the search process. 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The three-year project is part of NSF\u0026rsquo;s Smart and Connected Communities initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Ellen.Zegura\/Welcome.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is co-principal investigator along with University of California Santa Barbara Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EElizabeth Belding\u003C\/strong\u003E, Arizona State University Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EMarisa Duarte\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Northern Arizona University Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EMorgan Vigil-Hayes\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe disconnect\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the rest of the country continues moving toward optical fiber and 5G connectivity in 2019, tribal lands can be a networking dead zone. Network research often operates under the assumption that a region has some pre-existing network, whether it\u0026rsquo;s an internet service provider or cellular data. Then researchers build a stronger network off of what is already available. Yet many tribal lands have no coverage because of difficult geography and low population density, creating little economic incentive for traditional providers to offer an affordable option.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This lack of connectivity does exist in other parts of the U.S., but it\u0026rsquo;s especially acute in Native American lands,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2018, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a report stating that 1.2 million Native Americans don\u0026rsquo;t have mobile broadband connectivity. Worse yet, a later Government Accountability Office report countered saying the FCC overestimated their coverage. This is because the FCC considers an area to be broadband accessible even if just one house has connectivity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis lack of network connectivity is detrimental to the health of Native American communities, who rely on the internet for online commerce, improving education, and tribal communications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENetworking researchers have been aware of the problem for years. Zegura and Belding have been working with collaborators on creating stronger networks for tribal lands since 2016 when NSF awarded $700,000 for a project called TribalNet that included Penn State, Georgia Tech, and UCSB. That project supported connectivity on Southern Californian tribal lands by expanding unused television broadcasting frequencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECreating a network\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the new NSF funding, the team will work to expand network access for Native American communities in Northern New Mexico. While the prior research focused on supporting downloadable content with underused networks, the new initiative emphasizes a network that can support new content creation and interaction where one doesn\u0026rsquo;t already exist.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group is using LoRa to help create this network. Its long transmission range makes it low cost enough to cover an entire area, even if that area has no pre-existing network. Devices can start as low as $15 and need very little maintenance, making them ideal for low-income areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet the way the researchers are using LoRa is also novel. Traditionally networks operate with two planes over the same network infrastructure: the data plane and control plane. The data plane carries user traffic and is what enables information to be downloaded. The control plane carries signal traffic and routing information for networks. The researchers will be decoupling the two planes and using LoRa for control traffic to optimize use of traditional networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWorking with a community\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the other goals of the project is to ensure the community gets value from the work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s a long history of researchers doing research in communities but not leaving behind anything of long-lasting value,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, this project will be building networks on-site and offering technical training short courses for community members. They are also partnering with three area native-serving nonprofits that promote digital literacy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Native American lands are one of the last frontiers for connectivity, though it does seem like there are some interesting technologies that should help,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said. \u0026ldquo;This research is about using creativity and on-the-ground networks to figure out how to make a technological advance into a real-world advance.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new NSF grant will help Georgia Tech researchers bring new network technology to New Mexico tribal lands."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-03-26 15:45:14","changed_gmt":"2019-03-26 15:48:49","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-03-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-03-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"619657":{"id":"619657","type":"image","title":"Native American Statue","body":null,"created":"1553615310","gmt_created":"2019-03-26 15:48:30","changed":"1553615310","gmt_changed":"2019-03-26 15:48:30","alt":"statue of Native American woman","file":{"fid":"235924","name":"IMG_0144.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_0144.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_0144.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1396467,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_0144.jpg?itok=iUgvcyMI"}}},"media_ids":["619657"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"619004":{"#nid":"619004","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Celebrating International Women\u0027s Day 2019 -- GVU style","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOf more than 100 faculty advancing human-centered technology research through the GVU Center at Georgia Tech, a\u0026nbsp;full third\u0026nbsp;are women.\u0026nbsp;To celebrate International Women\u0026#39;s Day and the release of Captain Marvel on March 8, the center created a data visualization using an image of actress Brie Larson, who plays Captain Marvel. 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Georgia Tech projects from more than 900 researchers through the years are mapped to the image of Larson and can be searched for more details on the center\u0026#39;s work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGVU also celebrated the day -\u0026nbsp;and hopes to continue the conversation through the year - through a data graphic highlighting\u0026nbsp;some of the women that have inspired its community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2019-03-08 18:57:26","changed_gmt":"2019-03-25 16:02:22","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2HnatDc","dateline":{"date":"2019-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"619010":{"id":"619010","type":"image","title":"\u0027Captain Marvel\u0027 visualization","body":null,"created":"1552072847","gmt_created":"2019-03-08 19:20:47","changed":"1552072847","gmt_changed":"2019-03-08 19:20:47","alt":"Brie Larson plays Captain Marvel","file":{"fid":"235638","name":"captain_marvel_viz.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/captain_marvel_viz.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/captain_marvel_viz.png","mime":"image\/png","size":304559,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/captain_marvel_viz.png?itok=Qv-N-7kD"}}},"media_ids":["619010"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"619122":{"#nid":"619122","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Students Win Second in NSA Cybersecurity Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech students finished second in the National Security Administration\u0026rsquo;s (NSA) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/codebreaker.ltsnet.net\/home\u0022\u003ECodebreaker Challenge\u003C\/a\u003E this January.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENSA designed the challenge for students to learn how to reverse engineer malware in a real-word setting. Running for 100 days from September to January 6, each task increased in difficulty and points. Tech students earned 32,750 points, beating out 376 other universities for the second spot.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis wasn\u0026rsquo;t just a cybersecurity competition for fun, though. It was a course requirement for School of Computer Science (SCS) Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/taesoo.kim\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tc.gts3.org\/cs6265\/2018\/\u0022\u003EInformation Security Lab\u003C\/a\u003E class.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo keep the things fair, students weren\u0026rsquo;t taught how to win Codebreaker, but they learned threat assessment at the binary code level and exploitation techniques to discover security vulnerabilities that helped them progress in the competition. Although most labs are graded by problems solved, teaching assistants monitored how many Codebreaker challenges each student completed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;By watching their progress, I knew that they really understood what we were teaching and were ready for real-world challenges,\u0026rdquo; teaching assistant \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/jakkdu.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInsu Yun\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EComputer science master\u0026rsquo;s student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/asutoshpalai.in\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAsutosh Palai\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E joined the class for a chance to learn binary exploitation and enjoyed testing it out at the renowned competition. Even though he had some experience with binary reversing, or understanding how a compiled program works without the source code, he couldn\u0026rsquo;t have completed the final challenge on a new open source blockchain called \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ethereum.org\/\u0022\u003EEthereum\u003C\/a\u003E without the knowledge he learned in the lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;They taught us how to think critically about our code, and to find the loopholes in the assumptions made while writing them.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech students finished second in NSA\u0027s Codebreaker Challenge."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-03-11 20:58:59","changed_gmt":"2019-03-11 20:59:43","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"619123":{"id":"619123","type":"image","title":"Binary Code","body":null,"created":"1552337964","gmt_created":"2019-03-11 20:59:24","changed":"1552337964","gmt_changed":"2019-03-11 20:59:24","alt":"Binary Code","file":{"fid":"235686","name":"496324-K-VAC94-835.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/496324-K-VAC94-835.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/496324-K-VAC94-835.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1415054,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/496324-K-VAC94-835.jpg?itok=JqEbOviG"}}},"media_ids":["619123"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"592775":{"#nid":"592775","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2017 GT Computing Summer Camps in Full Swing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s summer and camp at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Computing is in full swing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, nearly 500 elementary, middle school, and high school students are registered in the College\u0026rsquo;s summer camp program. The weeklong day camps scheduled this summer include:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EWeb design\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ERobotics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMinecraft\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EComputer game design\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMobile applications\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EStop-motion movies\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ECreating music through code\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENew this summer, high school students can take Java programming. 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Zegura has been a CRA board member since 2011, and an appointed member of the executive committee since 2014. Throughout her tenure, Zegura has served on several CRA committees and co-chaired the 2016 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cra.org\/conference-at-snowbird\/\u0022\u003ESnowbird\u003C\/a\u003E conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The CRA board service provides a unique opportunity to work across institutions and sub-disciplines of computing on challenges and opportunities that we face as a computing research community,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the organization continues to grow, it\u0026rsquo;s capabilities need to expand as well. This will be Zegura\u0026rsquo;s focus as chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I welcome the chance to work with the board and CRA leadership on scaling CRA to a medium-sized operation while retaining the responsive capability to create and act on opportunities, especially in collaboration with the National Science Foundation and industry,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZegura is the Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications and has been at the College of Computing since 1993, where she researches and teaches networking and computing for social good.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe is not the first GT Computing professor to shape the future of CRA. Founding Dean and Professor Emeritus \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/peter-freeman\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPeter Freeman\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E helped create the association, and Professor Emeritus \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/james-foley\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJim Foley\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E also served as chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGT Computing has a strong presence on the CRA board. 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But as traffic volumes increase, existing packet scheduling tools used to manage flow become less effective.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing a new approach, School of Computer Science (SCS) researchers have created a flexible packet scheduling software system that is scalable and up to 40 times faster than existing scheduling software tools.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnlike existing tools, the new scheduling system \u0026ndash; known as Eiffel \u0026ndash; uses a modified priority queue to efficiently rank and re-rank packets.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe power of packet scheduling\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBalancing a network\u0026rsquo;s traffic requires considering a lot of complex factors. If there are too many requests at once, it won\u0026rsquo;t run efficiently. 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Network scheduling techniques, however, aren\u0026rsquo;t keeping up because existing scheduling tools weren\u0026rsquo;t designed to scale to meet growing traffic volumes. Another research problem in packet scheduling is how to allow for complex scheduling (for example, pushing a bank transaction ahead of video streaming) and improved performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/612371\/mostafa-ammar-studying-history-internet-find-its-future\u0022\u003E[RELATED: Mostafa Ammar is Studying the History of the Internet to Find Its Future]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAn efficient and flexible system\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo increase efficiency, Eiffel uses a modified ranking function with find first set (FFS) bit operation to order packets in the queue based on their rank. To do so, an annotation mode first ranks a packet\u0026rsquo;s priority, then an enqueuer component calculates its rank and adds it to a queue in order of its priority.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEiffel also features a dequeuer component that can re-rank packets as needed for certain scheduling algorithms. The team\u0026rsquo;s novel use of FFS queues allows them to process large volume of packets without losing any CPU efficiency.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo make Eiffel flexible, researchers introduced new programming language abstractions. 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After his colleagues at Google expressed interest in addressing more complex scheduling issues, too, he made it a focus of his research, leading to Eiffel that improves the efficiency of all scheduling algorithms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It really comes down to the number of flows a single server handles,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;If we have a generally efficient building block that can handle large numbers of flows efficiently, we can also provide flexibility to implement multiple scheduling algorithms quite easily.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/598666\/georgia-tech-scs-phd-student-earns-prestigious-google-fellowship\u0022\u003E[RELATED: Georgia Tech SCS Ph.D. Student Earns Prestigious Google Fellowship]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers evaluated Eiffel in three network settings to ensure its performance in a variety of scenarios. 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Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing, would \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/606918\/dean-zvi-galil-step-down-after-next-academic-year\u0022\u003Estep down as dean at the end of the 2018\/19 academic year\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong the finalists announced today are College of Computing Executive Associate Dean and Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~isbell\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EEllen\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EZegura\u003C\/strong\u003E, Fleming Chair and Professor in the School of Computer Science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the final selection process, each candidate will visit campus and present an open seminar addressing their broad vision for the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe hour-long seminars are open to all students, faculty, and staff. Interested individuals can attend in person, watch real-time via live stream, or watch a post-event video of each candidate presentation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe finalists are included below in order of their campus seminar presentations:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;professor and executive associate dean for the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will present an open seminar on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFeb. 19, at 11 a.m. in Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, Room 152.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKathleen Fisher\u003C\/strong\u003E, chair of the Computer Science Department at Tufts University, will present an open seminar on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFeb. 21, at 11 a.m. in Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, Room 152\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERadha Poovendran\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor and chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Washington, will present an open seminar on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFeb. 26, at 11 a.m. in Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, Room 152.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E, Fleming Professor in the School of Computer Science and executive faculty co-director of the Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will present an open seminar on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFeb. 28, at 11 a.m.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003Ein Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, Room 152.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditional details can be found on the College of Computing\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.provost.gatech.edu\/dean-computing\u0022\u003Edean search site\u003C\/a\u003E, including each respective candidate\u0026rsquo;s bio and curriculum vitae, as well as links to the seminars and surveys. Note that Georgia Tech login credentials are required to access the live stream and post-event videos. 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This week, more than 500 people are in Atlanta for the\u0026nbsp;Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT) conference, Jan. 29 through 31,\u0026nbsp;to discuss improving ethics in ML.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs more and more products and services come to rely on artificial intelligence and ML, ethical issues continue to arise. According to School of Computer Science Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/jamiemorgenstern.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJamie Morgenstern\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who is one of the conference\u0026#39;s program chairs, this is because much of the data used to train these systems\u0026nbsp;is\u0026nbsp;historical and often reflects societal biases of the time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/610888\/jamie-morgenstern-wants-bring-fairness-machine-learning\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E[RELATED:\u0026nbsp;Jamie Morgenstern Wants to Bring Fairness to Machine Learning]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe FAT conference was established to mitigate these issues by developing awareness of this inherent bias. Morgenstern defines each term as follows:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFairness:\u003C\/strong\u003E This can also be called predictive equity. Systems should do a similarly good job improving services for all groups.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAccountability: \u003C\/strong\u003EResearchers should be able to explain why computational systems behave the way they do.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETransparency:\u003C\/strong\u003E A system should be understandable to the population it will serve.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause these issues impact more than just computer science, and\u0026nbsp;ML now touches everything from policy to business, conference attendees\u0026nbsp;include lawyers, policymakers, and a variety\u0026nbsp;of industry representatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If we\u0026rsquo;re just having this conversation ourselves as computer scientists, we will invariably get it wrong,\u0026rdquo; Morgenstern said. \u0026ldquo;We want to promote a broad, diverse population to come together, network, and be externally visible in this field.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/616279\/human-rights-may-help-shape-artificial-intelligence-2019\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E[RELATED:\u0026nbsp;\u0026#39;Human Rights\u0026#39; May Help Shape Artificial Intelligence in 2019]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow in its second year, the conference is affiliated with ACM this year. The program chairs are Morgenstern and Data \u0026amp; Society founder and Microsoft Research Principal Researcher \u003Cstrong\u003Edanah boyd\u003C\/strong\u003E. Local Chairs Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EDeven Desai\u003C\/strong\u003E of Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s Scheller College of Business and \u003Cstrong\u003EBrandeis Marshall\u003C\/strong\u003E of Spelman College have also been critical to the conference\u0026rsquo;s mission.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech also has a paper at the conference: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N675456\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA Taxonomy of Ethical Tensions in Inferring Mental Health States from Social Media\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E by School of Interactive Computing (IC) Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/steviechancellor.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStevie Chancellor\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Dr.\u003Cstrong\u003E Michael Birnbaum\u003C\/strong\u003E, University of Rochester Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Eric Caine\u003C\/strong\u003E and Associate Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Vincent Silenzio, \u003C\/strong\u003Eand IC Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.munmund.net\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMunmun De Choudhury\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCS Assistant Professor Jamie Morgenstern acts as program chair for important machine learning conference."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-01-28 21:26:10","changed_gmt":"2019-02-02 02:36:43","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"617002":{"id":"617002","type":"image","title":"Scales ","body":null,"created":"1548711313","gmt_created":"2019-01-28 21:35:13","changed":"1548711313","gmt_changed":"2019-01-28 21:35:13","alt":"Scales","file":{"fid":"234824","name":"2000px-Unbalanced_scales2.svg_.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2000px-Unbalanced_scales2.svg_.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2000px-Unbalanced_scales2.svg_.png","mime":"image\/png","size":85577,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2000px-Unbalanced_scales2.svg_.png?itok=HnFA9z_2"}}},"media_ids":["617002"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"617143":{"#nid":"617143","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School of Computer Science Professor Umakishore Ramachandran Builds Community ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvery Monday afternoon you can find Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/umakishore-ramachandran\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUmakishore Ramachandran\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E with new faculty around him in the School of Computer Science (SCS) lounge. These coffee breaks are a good time for junior professors to bring questions and concerns, but they\u0026rsquo;re also a chance to build community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Every situation is like a family,\u0026rdquo; Ramachandran said. \u0026ldquo;When we get new faculty in, it\u0026rsquo;s like growing the family. I want to make sure they feel they have a place in the family. If they feel they\u0026rsquo;re part of the family, then they will start doing more for it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEncouraging collegiality\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERamachandran has always valued community. When he started at Georgia Tech in 1986, the department was so small that it inherently felt close knit. He remembers everyone eating lunch together daily or catching up over the 10-cent coffee in the lounge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We had such a vibrant research community environment, and there was always conversation happening,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;Now it\u0026rsquo;s more common that people come into office, go teach, do their own research, then go home.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen a college grows from 18 faculty to more than 100, some fragmentation is expected, but Ramachandran has tried to bring back that sense of collegiality and collaboration. It often starts with the newest faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBuilding community\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERamachandran served as the recruiting chair for several consecutive terms in the 1990s and 2000s, and saw the challenges new professors face when starting at a different institution. Many assistant professors have never held a faculty position before and need help recruiting students for research, writing grant proposals, integrating their previous research with new endeavors, and finding ways to gain visibility in the wider computing community. Despite the learning curve, many new professors don\u0026rsquo;t ask for help, Ramachandran realized.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;People feel reticent to just barge into others\u0026rsquo; offices because they\u0026rsquo;re concerned if someone has time,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;Many new faculty may not feel comfortable asking for help.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is where Ramachandran\u0026rsquo;s weekly coffee gathering came from. There isn\u0026rsquo;t an agenda for these meetings because Ramachandran believes the most productive brainstorming sessions often happen when things are kept open.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When intelligent people meet, good ideas happen automatically,\u0026rdquo; Ramachandran said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENew Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/614683\/david-devecsery-wants-build-better-systems\u0022\u003EDavid Devecsery\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E regularly attends these meetings and has found the guidance invaluable for settling at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Kishore\u0026#39;s experience and knowledge is an invaluable resource,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;If I ever want to get something done, Kishore is one of the first people I ask about how to best accomplish it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFostering collaboration\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis was why Ramachandran hosted SCS\u0026rsquo;s first \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/613506\/school-computer-sciences-edge-computing-summit-fosters-collaboration%20%20%20%20https:\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/613506\/school-computer-sciences-edge-computing-summit-fosters-collaboration\u0022\u003EEdge Computing Summit\u003C\/a\u003E last semester. Although many professors were working on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/615276\/school-computer-science-researchers-innovate-edge-computing\u0022\u003Eedge computing\u003C\/a\u003E research, they weren\u0026rsquo;t working together. Ramachandran wanted to put them in the same room to create new projects and strengthen Tech\u0026rsquo;s work in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEach presenter gave a short talk about their research followed by a panel where they discussed potential joint efforts. This collaborative format was unique for a summit, and Ramachandran hopes to host more brainstorming sessions this semester to get faculty partnering on new projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhether he\u0026rsquo;s mentoring new professors or making sure everyone collaborates, the goal is to create a healthy community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s about how you create a culture where you naturally start thinking about how to give back,\u0026rdquo; Ramachandran said.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s an innate desire to do good in everybody, it\u0026rsquo;s just creating the channel.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCS Professor Umakishore Ramachandran has been a beacon of community since he started in 1986."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-02-01 15:57:57","changed_gmt":"2019-02-01 16:02:09","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"617144":{"id":"617144","type":"image","title":"Kishore","body":null,"created":"1549036751","gmt_created":"2019-02-01 15:59:11","changed":"1549036751","gmt_changed":"2019-02-01 15:59:11","alt":"Umakishore Ramachandran","file":{"fid":"234875","name":"_MG_9917.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/_MG_9917.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/_MG_9917.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":489254,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/_MG_9917.jpg?itok=l0XdSXZf"}}},"media_ids":["617144"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"616821":{"#nid":"616821","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Seeing is Believing: Atlanta Ranks #7 for STEM Professionals","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChoosing a job based on its location is never easy. This is particularly true for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professionals who often have multiple job offers in different cities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut thanks to a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/views\/Atlanta7STEM-friendlycity2019\/Dashboard1?:embed=y\u0026amp;:display_count=yes\u0026amp;publish=yes\u0026amp;:showVizHome=no\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Enew data visualization created by Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E, comparing the 100 largest metro areas in the United States just got a whole lot easier.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe interactive tool visualizes data compiled and published by personal finance site WalletHub, which was featured in a recent \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/world\/atlanta-named-one-the-best-metro-areas-for-stem-professionals\/5dCFqvf8XOmQ5ZARSV85dL\/\u0022\u003EAtlanta Journal-Constitution story\u003C\/a\u003E. 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The project is named \u003Cem\u003EDynamic Data-Aware Reconfiguration, INtegration and Generation (DDARING)\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Professors and Co-Directors of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.crnch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies\u003C\/a\u003E (CRNCH) \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vsarkar.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.conte.us\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETom Conte\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and School of Computational Science and Engineering\u0026rsquo;s Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~bader\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Bader\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vuduc.org\/v2\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERichard Vuduc\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E are co-investigators on this project from Tech. The award will also be used to support research collaborators at University of Illinois, University of Michigan, and University of Southern California.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a unique opportunity to address post-Moore computing challenges through new research on software and hardware co-optimization by adapting the hardware to executing applications and the data sets being analyzed,\u0026rdquo; said Sarkar. \u0026ldquo;Advancing data analysis algorithms and pushing the boundaries of hardware are areas of strength for Georgia Tech, and we\u0026rsquo;re excited to work with our partners at Illinois, Michigan, and USC on this important challenge for future computing platforms.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project is part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency\u0026rsquo;s (DARPA) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/work-with-us\/electronics-resurgence-initiative\u0022\u003EElectronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI)\u003C\/a\u003E, a five-year upwards of $1.5 billion investment in the future of domestic electronic systems. Building on the tradition of other successful government-industry partnerships, ERI aims to forge forward-looking collaborations among the commercial electronics community, defense industrial base, university researchers, and the Department of Defense. They expect to create a more specialized, secure, and heavily automated electronics industry that serves the needs of both the domestic commercial and defense sectors. Tech researchers will work under the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/program\/software-defined-hardware\u0022\u003ESoftware Defined Hardware (SDH)\u003C\/a\u003E program, which creates malleable hardware\/software architectures that allow an application to defer hardware configuration to runtime.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis research seeks to enable developers to easily create applications while the new system automatically optimizes their performance on new and emerging architectures. 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whether talking about \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Emachine learning\u003C\/a\u003E (ML), \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robotics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Erobotics\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vis.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Edata visualizations\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtnlp.wordpress.com\/\u0022\u003Enatural language processing\u003C\/a\u003E, or other facets of AI \u0026ndash; touched on the growing importance of recognizing the needs of people in AI systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In 2019, I hope we will see AI researchers and practitioners start to frame the debate about proper and improper uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning in terms of human rights,\u0026rdquo; said Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/eilab.gatech.edu\/mark-riedl\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Riedl\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/youtu.be\/o-YLQJ-oRqE\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E[RELATED: Is AI Coming For My Job?]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;More and more, interpretability and fairness are being recognized as critical issues to address to ensure AI appropriately interacts with society,\u0026rdquo; 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How do people seek remedy if they believe an AI system made a wrong decision?\u0026rdquo; said Riedl.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/jamiemorgenstern.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJamie Morgenstern\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E sees algorithmic bias as an ongoing concern in 2019 and gave banking as an example of an industry that may be in the news for its algorithmic decision-making.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I project that we\u0026rsquo;ll have more high-profile examples of financial systems that use machine learning having worse rates of lending to women, people of color, and other communities historically underrepresented in the \u0026lsquo;standard\u0026rsquo; American economic system,\u0026rdquo; Morgenstern said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/615576\/georgia-tech-researchers-working-improve-fairness-ml-pipeline\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E[RELATED:\u0026nbsp;Researchers Working To Improve Fairness in the ML Pipeline]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn recent years corporate responses to cases of bias have been hit or miss, but Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.munmund.net\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMunmun De Choudhury\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said 2019 may see a shift in how tech companies balance their shareholders\u0026rsquo; interests with the interests of their customers and society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;[Companies] will be increasingly subject to governmental regulation and will be forced to come up with safeguards to address misuse and abuse of their technologies, and will even consider broader partnerships with their market competitors to achieve this. For some corporations, business interests may take a backseat to ethics until they regain customer trust,\u0026rdquo; said De Choudhury.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWorking toward more transparency\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne way companies can regain that trust is through sharing their algorithms with the public, our experts said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Developers tend to walk around feeling objective because \u0026lsquo;it\u0026rsquo;s the algorithm that is determining the answer\u0026rsquo;. Moving forward, I believe that the algorithms will have to be increasingly \u0026lsquo;inspectable\u0026rsquo; and developers will have to explain their answers,\u0026rdquo; Executive Associate Dean and Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Charles.Isbell\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ypinter3\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYuval Pinter\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E agreed. In the coming year, \u0026ldquo;[I] think we will see that researchers are trying to [develop] techniques and tests that can help us to better understand what\u0026rsquo;s going on in the actual wiring of our very fancy machine learning models.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is not only for curiosity but also because legal applications or regulation in various countries are starting to require that algorithmic decision-making programs be able to explain why they are doing what they are doing,\u0026rdquo; said Pinter.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERegents\u0026rsquo; Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/aimosaic\/faculty\/arkin\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERon Arkin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E believes that these concerns are becoming more central precisely because artificial intelligence will continue to grow in importance in our everyday lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/podcasts\/ep-1-pt-1-whos-behind-wheel\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E[RELATED: Who\u0026#39;s Behind the Wheel?]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Despite continued hype and omnipresent doomsayers, panic and fear over the growth of AI and robotics should begin to subside in 2019 as the benefits to people\u0026rsquo;s lives are becoming more apparent to the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;However, I expect to see lawyers jumping into the fray so we may also see lawsuits determining policy for self-driving cars [and other applications] more so than government regulation or the legal system,\u0026rdquo; said Arkin.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech experts highlight need to address bias and transparency in ongoing debate about role of AI"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers say ethics and transparency are likely top 2019 trends in the burgeoning field of AI."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2019-01-11 20:36:29","changed_gmt":"2019-01-25 15:27:43","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"616435":{"id":"616435","type":"image","title":"GT Computing 2019 AI Predictions","body":null,"created":"1547573803","gmt_created":"2019-01-15 17:36:43","changed":"1547573803","gmt_changed":"2019-01-15 17:36:43","alt":"GT Computing 2019 AI Predictions","file":{"fid":"234636","name":"Predictions rotator_final main.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Predictions%20rotator_final%20main.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Predictions%20rotator_final%20main.png","mime":"image\/png","size":176681,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Predictions%20rotator_final%20main.png?itok=Y0ssml1r"}}},"media_ids":["616435"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"545781","name":"Institute for Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2556","name":"artificial intelligence"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"180204","name":"algorithmic bias"},{"id":"2947","name":"transparency"},{"id":"180205","name":"riedl"},{"id":"180206","name":"hohman"},{"id":"175631","name":"isbell"},{"id":"180207","name":"de choudhury"},{"id":"180208","name":"morgenstern"},{"id":"180209","name":"arkin"},{"id":"180210","name":"2019 trends"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlbert Snedeker, Communications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu?subject=2019%20AI%20Predictions\u0022\u003Ealbert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"615654":{"#nid":"615654","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Data Science Expert Jeannette Wing Delivers Mary Jean Harrold Memorial Distinguished Lecture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EData science is the future, and it must be used responsibly. This was the message of Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJeannette Wing\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E lecture, \u003Cem\u003EData for Good: Data Science at Columbia\u003C\/em\u003E. The Columbia University computer science professor delivered the Mary Jean Harrold Memorial Distinguished Lecture on Dec. 7.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENamed after former School of Computer Science (SCS) Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/features\/college-computing-remembers-mary-jean-harrold\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMary Jean Harrold\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the lecture honors women in computing who are changing the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We started this as a memorial to Mary Jean to find a lecturer who would really capture her excellence for service and spirit,\u0026rdquo; SCS Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~randall\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDana Randall\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said in her introduction. \u0026ldquo;Jeannette has had an incredibly distinguished career.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWing is the Avanessians Director of Columbia\u0026rsquo;s Data Science Institute (DSI). She has also served as corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, assistant director of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation, and chair of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. Her research spans a wide breadth of computer science\u0026mdash;including programming languages, software engineering, security, and distributed systems\u0026mdash;all areas that are vital to data science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDSI is comprised of \u0026nbsp;300 affiliated faculty in 12 schools, touching degrees in cybersecurity, smart cities, media, and more. Its mission is to advance research, bring data science to all fields, and ensure data is being used ethically.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have a chance with data science to get it right, and I think it\u0026rsquo;s important to start teaching data ethics from day one,\u0026rdquo; Wing said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWing\u0026rsquo;s institute is part of an international focus on data science, and Georgia Tech is also contributing to the conversation. Randall co-leads the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ideas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS)\u003C\/a\u003E to connect industry, academia, and government to our data science expertise and work on big data problems together.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESCS Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/11077\/ellen-zeguras\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E makes sure students incorporate responsible data science into their work. She has created the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/599626\/computing-and-social-good-school-computer-sciences-ellen-zegura-brings-computing\u0022\u003EComputing for Good\u003C\/a\u003E program to bring students into the communities they\u0026rsquo;re studying, works with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/serve-learn-sustain.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EServe-Learn-Sustain\u003C\/a\u003E to provide \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/604361\/school-computer-science-student-connects-community-through-serve-learn-sustain\u0022\u003Etools\u003C\/a\u003E for using data in the classroom, co-leads a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/608094\/fifth-summer-civic-data-science-program-presents-community-focused-solutions\u0022\u003Edata summer program\u003C\/a\u003E for college students from across the country, and is studying how to bring \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/607637\/georgia-tech-researchers-and-community-collaborate-data-science\u0022\u003Ecare\u003C\/a\u003E to data science research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWing discussed how ethics must be applied to the entire data science process, as follows:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EGenerating data. Everything from sensors to cameras generates data. It\u0026rsquo;s vital that researchers know companies and other third parties can find value in this data and use it to their advantage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EProcessing data. In this stage, data is wrangled, cleaned, compressed, encrypted, and managed to make it easier to use. Throughout this process, data must be kept secure.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EInterpreting data. Data is only useful when analyzed. Data visualization gives a narrative to what the data means, and the story researchers tell can alter how that data is used.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWing believes it\u0026rsquo;s fundamental that academics embed ethics in all parts of the process.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is academia\u0026rsquo;s reasonability to understand the fundamentals of why the world works or why something we engineer works,\u0026rdquo; Wing said. \u0026ldquo;Industry doesn\u0026rsquo;t have time to step back and figure it out. If we don\u0026rsquo;t have the academics thinking beyond deep learning, then it\u0026rsquo;s not good for the entire community.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"he Columbia University computer science professor delivered the Mary Jean Harrold Memorial Distinguished Lecture on Dec. 7."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-12-20 16:15:31","changed_gmt":"2018-12-20 16:19:05","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-12-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-12-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"614738":{"id":"614738","type":"image","title":"Jeanette Wing","body":null,"created":"1543439121","gmt_created":"2018-11-28 21:05:21","changed":"1543439121","gmt_changed":"2018-11-28 21:05:21","alt":"Jeannette Wing","file":{"fid":"234056","name":"Jeannette-Wing.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jeannette-Wing.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jeannette-Wing.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":503752,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Jeannette-Wing.jpg?itok=TYxi_LMm"}}},"media_ids":["614738"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"615576":{"#nid":"615576","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers Improve Fairness in the Machine Learning Pipeline","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have developed a new algorithm to mitigate bias from one of the first steps in the machine learning (ML) process. Known as fair principal component analysis (PCA), the new algorithm runs as fast as existing PCAs, but can reduce bias in low-dimensional representations of large datasets.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBias is one of the most \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/610888\/jamie-morgenstern-wants-bring-fairness-machine-learning\u0022\u003Epressing issues\u003C\/a\u003E as ML is used for everything from image classification to determining loans. Although there are plenty of stories about obvious bias like ML algorithms only showing images of white men when asked to query the term \u0026ldquo;CEO,\u0026rdquo; much of the bias is more insidious.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMany researchers believe unfair ML is the result of biased data or faulty algorithms, but Tech researchers determined it can start as early as the data processing step.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReducing the dimension, increasing bias\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EData with high dimension is often the start of the problem. When a dataset needs to be mathematically represented, each feature is represented as one dimension. For example, a 200x200-pixel image transforms into a vector with 40,000 dimensions. Working with such a large representation is often too difficult to process efficiently, so computer scientists use standard PCA to reduce the dimension while keeping as much information from the original data set as possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPCA runs by looking for the main directions that the data is distributed and projects the data onto those directions. Scientists then evaluate the accuracy by determining how far the projection is from the original data or how much information is being lost.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough this makes the data easier to work with, the low-dimensional representation can be biased, according to the researchers. They ran PCA on a dataset of 1,300 images of males and females and calculated the average error for the different populations. The male population always was more accurate than the female.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If you\u0026rsquo;re already representing one population much better at the preprocessing step, it injects some bias no matter what you\u0026rsquo;re trying to do,\u0026rdquo; School of Computer Science (SCS) Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.samirasamadi.com\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESamira Samadi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReducing bias\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne way to combat this bias is to have a definition of what a fair projection means. The researchers evaluate this through marginal error, which determines how far the output projection is from the best projection for each population in the data. They concluded the maximum marginal error must be low for both populations, or equal, to be considered fair.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis became the basis for the new fair PCA algorithm.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If you use PCA and care about fairness, now you can use fair PCA,\u0026rdquo; Samadi said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers presented the work at one of the leading \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/614427\/georgia-tech-will-show-latest-research-ais-hottest-conference\u0022\u003Emachine learning conferences\u003C\/a\u003E of the year, the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nips.cc\/\u0022\u003E Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)\u003C\/a\u003E, in Montreal Dec. 2-8. Samadi co-authored the paper,\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1811.00103\u0022\u003E \u003Cem\u003EThe Price of Fair PCA: One Extra Dimension\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, with SCS Ph.D. student\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~uthaipon3\/\u0022\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EUthaipon (Tao) Tantipongpipat\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Associate Professor\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~msingh94\/\u0022\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EMohit Singh\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, SCS Assistant Professor\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/jamiemorgenstern.com\/\u0022\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EJamie Morgenstern\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and SCS Professor\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~vempala\/\u0022\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ESantosh Vempala\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers have developed a new algorithm to mitigate bias from one of the first steps in the machine learning (ML) process. 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Her brother, himself an engineering major at another university, gave her suggestions of what he deemed to be the best engineering schools.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHoenig, a New Jersey native, decided to make the drive to Atlanta to see the place for herself.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I just fell in love with Georgia Tech and the campus,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThough she planned to study engineering, Hoenig participated in the Google Computer Science Summer Institute program just before FASET Orientation that led to her changing her major to computer science. She\u0026rsquo;s graduating this week and will soon use her computing skills as a software developer consultant to help companies do better work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EService has been a mark of Hoenig\u0026rsquo;s career as a student. She was involved in Key Club in high school and knew she wanted to continue that involvement in college. She joined \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtcirclek.weebly.com\/\u0022\u003ECircle K at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E, a service organization and collegiate chapter of Kiwanis International, and soon wanted to lead.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I didn\u0026rsquo;t like some of the things about how the club was going, so I decided I would change it,\u0026rdquo; she said. She became president her second year, and got involved at the district level after that as webmaster and editor for the state of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow, she\u0026rsquo;s the top Circle K student official in Georgia \u0026mdash; the governor \u0026mdash; serving as a leader for 16 colleges and universities throughout the state. Hoenig was elected to the role and will serve until April 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs governor, Hoenig visits other Circle K groups, leads a district board, and hosts events throughout the year. She also got to select a project for the year that all clubs take part in. Past projects had been more fundraising-oriented, but Hoenig wanted to focus on service. This year\u0026rsquo;s project is \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.georgiacirclek.org\/governors-project.html\u0022\u003EFood for All\u003C\/a\u003E, and clubs around the state are encouraged to participate in projects devoted to fighting hunger and food insecurity. It also aligns with one of Hoenig\u0026rsquo;s favorite local service opportunities \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;volunteering at the Atlanta Community Food Bank.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn campus, Hoenig served her fellow computing students as president of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/women.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWomen at the College of Computing (W@CC)\u003C\/a\u003E, which hosts networking and professional development events for women in computing. She started a mentoring program and increased outreach to the local tech community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThough she studied computing, people have been a central role during Hoenig\u0026rsquo;s time at Tech. For younger students, she emphasized the importance of building relationships in college.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The people you meet are so important, for relationships and also for future opportunities, learning from each other, and getting through classes,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;There are so many classes I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t have gotten through without having friends to help me study.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking with people is part of what led her to her career path \u0026mdash; that, and a love of travel that grew while studying abroad in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Barcelona program. In her consulting role, she\u0026rsquo;ll be based in New York but traveling much of the time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I love coding, but I don\u0026rsquo;t want to do it all day,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m a people person.\u0026rdquo; Hoenig said what she\u0026rsquo;d miss most about Tech would be the familiar faces she sees every day while walking across campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer parting advice for students is not to be afraid to go for something that might seem out of reach. And if you don\u0026rsquo;t get it, don\u0026rsquo;t fret. 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Venkateswaran Retires","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/profiles.cc.gatech.edu\/h-venkateswaran\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EH. Venkates\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ewaran\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, known as Venkat, pioneered the role of associate chair for graduate education to better serve graduate students in the School of Computer Science (SCS). The SCS faculty member, who has been with Georgia Tech for the last 32 years, has always seen himself as an advocate for students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It happened organically because I liked interacting with students,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;Going through a Ph.D. program is stressful. Students need to know how to navigate through the system by satisfying milestone requirements in a timely manner while conducting dissertation research, and that life doesn\u0026rsquo;t go in a straight line. I wanted to be of as much help as possible.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWorking with students\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVenkat joined Georgia Tech in 1986 and established himself as a student resource early on. He always enjoyed teaching because he got to interact with students and challenge himself.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Every time I\u0026rsquo;d walk into a new class, I\u0026rsquo;d feel nervous because even though I may be\u0026nbsp; comfortable with the subject material, there could still be students who could ask me something I didn\u0026rsquo;t know,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;Teaching curious students is like having the chance to become young again and again.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, he wanted to inspire students to learn rather than just transfer his knowledge. This respect for students made him a natural fit for a role as Ph.D. coordinator in the College of Computing, where he managed all aspects of the CS Ph.D. program in the College following the path laid by his predecessors in that role.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBecoming associate chair\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen SCS was \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/586711\/school-computer-science-celebrates-10th-anniversary\u0022\u003Ecreated\u003C\/a\u003E in 2007, though, this type of role didn\u0026rsquo;t transfer directly to the school even though it was vital. Students are the life blood of the school, but if they don\u0026rsquo;t have a strong support system, the school won\u0026rsquo;t be healthy. Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/home\/vigoda\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEric Vigoda\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who was SCS\u0026rsquo;s associate chair at the time in a different capacity, and SCS Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/lance-fortnow\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELance Fortnow\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E knew this and wanted to create an associate chair for graduate education position to help students. Given his prior experience in the College, Venkat was the perfect person for the job.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, being an associate chair was a much larger responsibility than Ph.D. coordinator. Venkat was in charge of everything related to graduate education in the school, including managing admissions and curriculum issues for both master\u0026rsquo;s and Ph.D. degrees. This entailed ensuring students got matched with the right advisor, completed degree milestones in time, and were assigned teaching assistantships. He also reviewed new courses to confirm they fulfilled curriculum requirements.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet the main task was offering a support system to students. Venkat had an open-door policy, and students would come in for advice about everything from what classes to take next to what to do if their advisor left the school.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVenkat\u0026rsquo;s success in the role was evident to everyone.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When Venkat took on responsibility for graduate students, it was as if he had come home,\u0026rdquo; Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Ellen.Zegura\/Welcome.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said. \u0026ldquo;His steady and careful approach was a perfect fit for the needs of the school and the students.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe other schools took note, too, and now the schools of Interactive Computing and Computational Science and Engineering also have associate chairs for graduate education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELeaving a legacy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn preparation for his retirement at the end of December, Venkat stepped down from the role in August and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/610656\/new-associate-chair-alexandra-boldyreva-co-chairs-biggest-cryptography-conference\u0022\u003Epassed the torch\u003C\/a\u003E to Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~aboldyre\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandra Boldyreva\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. He looks forward to spending more time with his family and also getting back into his research in computational complexity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVenkat is passionate about this work in one of the foundational areas in computer science. Of his many contributions to the field, one of the most influential was finding new ways to model complexity classes, which gave deeper insights into efficient computation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;His algebraic circuit characterization of the class #P, which counts the number of solutions to search problems, helped set the stage for understanding the surprising power of interactive proof systems,\u0026rdquo; Fortnow said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet, for Venkat, Tech was never about only research. 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The cloud allows the development of complex applications but has its limitations. Video processing, image recognition, and other computation need a closer server for improved latency, security, and cost. School of Computer Science researchers are leveraging existing devices at the edge of the network, a practice known as fog or edge computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo understand why the edge is so innovative, one must understand the understand the history of networks. \u0026ldquo;For a long time, we would compute on our own machines that were owned by one organization,\u0026rdquo; said Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Ellen.Zegura\/Welcome.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;What\u0026rsquo;s so revolutionary about the cloud is it allows access to the process in a much more accessible, cheaper, and widely used way.\u0026rdquo; But what if the cloud is too far or access is intermittent? This is where edge computing comes in because it allows computation to be spread on existing mobile devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERelying on the edge\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe two biggest issues with this effort are breaking the computing down into transitive pieces and then ensuring they return. Networking Professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Mostafa.Ammar\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMostafa Ammar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Zegura predict the churn of devices and how reliable the network will be. They have been attacking this problem from multiple angles, such as using mobile servers and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/609257\/scs-phd-student-karim-habak-finds-computing-solutions-edge\u0022\u003Efemtoclouds\u003C\/a\u003E. The latter is a mobile self-configuring cloud made from a cluster of mobile devices that provides a reliable compute service despite the churn of its devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEdge computing offers a lot of performance advantages, but there are challenges when harnessing a distributed network. One of the strengths of the cloud is its reliability, but ensuring multiple edge nodes also have this reliability is more complicated. Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~rama\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUmakishore Ramachandran\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/a\u003Eapproaches the edge from a systems angle.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis research ensures that if one node loses power, the computation isn\u0026rsquo;t lost, but also it isn\u0026rsquo;t distributed so far that latency suffers. One of the ways he\u0026rsquo;s working on improving the resilience of the edge is through Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s campus security camera network. He believes anomaly detection could be done in real-time if nodes tracked all vehicles and set a time bound on their activities. Ultimately, Georgia Tech Police wouldn\u0026rsquo;t need to save all video and could respond faster because the edge nodes could process the footage for threats faster.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETrusting the edge\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESecuring data is another benefit of edge computing. As a systems researcher, Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/home\/ada\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAda Gavrilovska\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E realized all the edge\u0026rsquo;s advantages for scalability and latency wouldn\u0026rsquo;t matter if data weren\u0026rsquo;t secure. However, securing the edge in the same way as the cloud made it too slow, so she and Research Scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~kbhardwa\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKetan Bhardwaj\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E built an edge security solution that uses a security feature in commodity hardware. Once a user can trust the edge, they can put critical services there, such as security for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. \u0026ldquo;I want to use the edge to make these applications faster, more scalable, and more efficient in how they use resources,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESCS professors are only just scratching the surface of how revolutionary edge computing could be. The edge can bring computing everywhere, from ensuring self-driving cars have the most up-to-date information to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/595715\/new-research-may-improve-communications-during-natural-disasters\u0022\u003Ekeeping communities connected\u003C\/a\u003E to the network during a natural disaster. \u0026ldquo;The vision of edge computing is limited; they say it\u0026rsquo;s a slave to the cloud, but the story is more compelling than that,\u0026rdquo; said Ramachandran. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s about creating a level playing field and having autonomy on the edge for decision-making.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIllustrations by Pikisuperstar\/Freepik.com\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCS researchers are pioneering in edge computing."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-12-12 20:41:01","changed_gmt":"2018-12-12 21:35:37","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"615278":{"id":"615278","type":"image","title":"Edge illo","body":null,"created":"1544650521","gmt_created":"2018-12-12 21:35:21","changed":"1544650521","gmt_changed":"2018-12-12 21:35:21","alt":"Illustration of cloud and edge computing elements","file":{"fid":"234287","name":"Artboard 1[1] copy.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Artboard%201%5B1%5D%20copy.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Artboard%201%5B1%5D%20copy.png","mime":"image\/png","size":532147,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Artboard%201%5B1%5D%20copy.png?itok=LpUcb5eG"}}},"media_ids":["615278"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"615274":{"#nid":"615274","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School of Computer Science Researchers Optimize Machine Learning ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMachine learning (ML) is one of the most promising fields in computing, but researchers can\u0026rsquo;t unlock its full potential without organization and oversight. 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For example, approximation query processing can answer SQL queries quickly on sample data. Similarly, Chu is researching approximate model training on only a portion of the training data instead of burdening a model with the complete dataset.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet the relationship is symbiotic. ML can help ensure data is consistent and easy to use, a process known as data cleaning. Traditionally, researchers use rule-based techniques to data clean. Generating these rules is a time-consuming and difficult process, so Chu is exploring ML-based techniques that leverage the statistical distributions of data used in cleaning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EML and systems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESystems also play a vital role in the predictive elements of ML. \u0026ldquo;Machine learning is still in its infancy from a systems perspective,\u0026rdquo; Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/home\/lingliu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELing Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said. Our researchers have found ways to build systems for ML and ML for systems that improve performance universally.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~hyesoon\/\u0022\u003EHyesoon Kim\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eboosts the coverage and accuracy of distributed ML systems. Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as thermostats or security cameras, rely on ML to detect anomalies in data. Yet analyzing the data on a main company\u0026rsquo;s server or the cloud could compromise security. Distributing the work across IoT devices allows researchers to do computations faster with less power.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELiu creates new systems optimization techniques and libraries for more effective ML. She also develops enhanced ML models and algorithms to improve the performance of cloud systems. This systems for ML and ML for systems perspective is only the start of her research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite the power of ML, it must be used responsibly. Liu wants to bring awareness to the need for fairness, privacy, trust, and accountability of algorithmic decision-making in ML and AI. \u0026ldquo;We need to encourage innovation in diverse ML algorithms that can extract features and learn different hidden correlations and perspectives over the same datasets,\u0026rdquo; Liu said. \u0026ldquo;It is also important to leverage ML as a valuable reference point, rather than the sole factor in decision-making.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOur hybrid expertise builds stronger ML that can be used in all areas of computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIllustrations by Pikisuperstar\/Freepik.com\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCS researchers develop ML for systems and systems for ML. "}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-12-12 20:30:19","changed_gmt":"2018-12-12 20:33:49","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"615275":{"id":"615275","type":"image","title":"ML Systems Illo","body":null,"created":"1544646673","gmt_created":"2018-12-12 20:31:13","changed":"1544646673","gmt_changed":"2018-12-12 20:31:13","alt":"Image of servers","file":{"fid":"234286","name":"Artboard 2[1] copy.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Artboard%202%5B1%5D%20copy.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Artboard%202%5B1%5D%20copy.png","mime":"image\/png","size":578208,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Artboard%202%5B1%5D%20copy.png?itok=ea33hQKA"}}},"media_ids":["615275"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"615269":{"#nid":"615269","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School of Computer Science Cybersecurity Researchers Are Securing the Future","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECybersecurity affects everything from policy to technology. Georgia Tech is at the forefront of many of these conversations on attribution and government responsibility. None of these discussions would be possible, though, without secure systems the public can rely on. In the School of Computer Science, we identify emerging threats and create these systems to defend against them. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENew attacks\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKeeping a pulse on the latest attack methods is one of our strengths. In order to create a more secure world, we must imagine threats outside of traditional devices. Yet the depth of our expertise ensures we also stay on top traditional methods. By tracking all attacks, we can build the necessary solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInternet of things (IoT) devices let us control the temperature of our home or track the food in our fridge from afar, but they are often built on simple software stacks. \u0026ldquo;All of these things were never meant to be connected to anything, so there is no notion of security when the code was designed and that creates a lot of vulnerabilities,\u0026rdquo; Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~milos\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMilos Prvulovic\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne such vulnerability is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/556931\/monitoring-side-channel-signals-could-detect-malicious-software-iot-devices\u0022\u003Eside channels\u003C\/a\u003E, the electromagnetic fields the device deploys when computation runs. An attacker can monitor these side channels to determine how a program runs down to when the program deploys a cryptokey and steal it. Yet Prvulovic surveys these side channels, too, determining whether a device is running expected programs and then updating it with more secure software. Prvulovic is applying the same technique to hardware. He measures radio frequency signals to determine how much power is going through a chip to ensure that chips operate as they should.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMany attackers still rely on classic phishing, but are trying more sophisticated techniques to monetize successful attacks. For example, the notorious tech support scammers use search poisoning and malicious advertisements to get victims to call them. These attacks employ both online and phone channels or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/602929\/georgia-tech-researchers-bring-transparency-telephone-blacklists\u0022\u003Ecross-channels\u003C\/a\u003E. Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~mustaq\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMustaque Ahamad \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Eresearches how to understand and defend against cross-channel attacks. Securing voice channels is a growing cybersecurity field as voice-controlled IoT devices become common.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENew defenses\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMuch of our work is preventative. We secure data users already have. The first step in data protection is authenticating users, and biometrics are the best tool. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s based on who you are, not what you know,\u0026rdquo; said Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wenke.gtisc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWenke Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. This \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/602606\/real-time-captcha-technique-improves-biometric-authentication\u0022\u003Ereal-time Captcha\u003C\/a\u003E offers new ways to authenticate users, but still has shortcomings. Lee is working on how to preserve the privacy of biometrics so that if a server were compromised, an attacker couldn\u0026rsquo;t use the stolen data to impersonate users.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESecuring the cloud is the next frontier. Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~aboldyre\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandra Boldyreva\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E works on searchable encryption. Users would be able to securely store data remotely on the cloud and perform searches. She also analyzes the cryptographic security guarantees of the newest networking and web authentication protocols. Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iisp.gatech.edu\/faculty\/vladimir-kolesnikov\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVladimir Kolesnikov\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E studies secure computation. This form of cryptography protects users\u0026rsquo; data during computation, so they can securely share healthcare data or private blockchain transactions. With the latter, users can verify they have enough money in their wallets for transactions without having to disclose the exact amount.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENew advances\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe combine our attack forecasting and prevention measures in our research labs. Our malware analysis lab offers a secure environment to run malware. Analysts can collaboratively explore and enumerate malware behaviors, which is a much more efficient effort than the current industry practice of reverse engineering malware in silos.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe are securing machine learning (ML) with a similar approach. Hackers can introduce dirty training data to corrupt an ML model or morph malware to evade an ML model. To combat adversarial ML, Lee\u0026rsquo;s team measures how robust a model is. They are creating an open source framework for researchers to test their models\u0026rsquo; strengths and improve their robustness.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENot all of this automation is bad. Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/taesoo.kim\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E sees the future of cybersecurity \u0026ldquo;as autonomous systems that assist human security experts handling large-scale security problems with small number of experts.\u0026rdquo; With this in mind, he\u0026rsquo;s been working on automated techniques to find bugs and cyber reasoning systems that create autonomous attack and defenses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOur efforts may be wide-ranging, but we are consistently creating the future of cybersecurity. Our cybersecurity researchers patch vulnerabilities in devices many didn\u0026rsquo;t even realize attackers compromised and ensure data is secure in our ever-connected world. Trust is a hard-won concept in the cybersecurity field, but our systems make people more confident their data is safe.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIllustrations by Pikisuperstar\/Freepik.com\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCS researchers cover the range of cybersecurity research."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-12-12 20:13:24","changed_gmt":"2018-12-12 20:26:50","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"615272":{"id":"615272","type":"image","title":"Cybersecurity Illo","body":null,"created":"1544646187","gmt_created":"2018-12-12 20:23:07","changed":"1544646187","gmt_changed":"2018-12-12 20:23:07","alt":"Graphic of computer and security","file":{"fid":"234285","name":"Artboard 3 copy.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Artboard%203%20copy.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Artboard%203%20copy.png","mime":"image\/png","size":654631,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Artboard%203%20copy.png?itok=KA5OaAd1"}}},"media_ids":["615272"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"615238":{"#nid":"615238","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School of Computer Science Hosts First Capture the Flag Hacking Competition ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EK-Pop music videos blasted from a room in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building one Friday in November. Inside, students were hunched over their laptops working on cyberattacks against each other. Every so often, they took a break for sodas or snacks and then returned to the battle. It was all part of the School of Computer Science\u0026rsquo;s (SCS) first Capture the Flag competition (CTF).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECTF is a\u0026nbsp;hacking competition where teams try to maintain control of a server by using real-world cyberattacks. With each successful attack, a team captures a flag, and the team with the most by the end of the contest wins. DEF CON hosts the largest CTF three-day competition, which a team from SCS \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/609900\/team-georgia-tech-students-win-world-hacking-competition\u0022\u003Ewon\u003C\/a\u003E last year. SCS Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/taesoo.kim\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E decided to bring it home to Tech with a 24-hour competition starting on Nov. 16.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We wanted to educate the George Tech community by organizing a high-quality CTF,\u0026rdquo; Kim said. \u0026ldquo;We want to make this an annual tradition among information security master\u0026rsquo;s students and undergraduates.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEighteen teams registered, including 51 students and 10 staff members. The winning team, 2young2simple, took home $1,000 and was made up of information security master\u0026rsquo;s students \u003Cstrong\u003EPo-Ning Tseng\u003C\/strong\u003E (also part of the winning DEF CON team), \u003Cstrong\u003EMo Chen\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022Wei-Han%20Huang\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWei-Han Huang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EMingsuan Yao\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis CTF was less about winning, though, and more about having an opportunity to practice adversarial attacks. Many participants had taken Kim\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tc.gts3.org\/cs6265\/2018\/\u0022\u003EInformation Security Lab\u003C\/a\u003E class, where students learn cyberattack strategies like reverse engineering, exploit writing, and how to find vulnerabilities. Competing in CTF allows them to see attacks in action and apply what they have learned.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I knew literally nothing about CTF challenges before I took Taesoo\u0026rsquo;s class, and now I won first place with my team members,\u0026rdquo; Chen said. \u0026ldquo;That\u0026rsquo;s why I always consider Taesoo\u0026rsquo;s class as the most valuable class I have ever taken in Georgia Tech.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet CTF isn\u0026rsquo;t just about learning how to deploy attacks; it\u0026rsquo;s also about learning how to collaborate. When most of the competitors know the same techniques, teamwork becomes the main way to secure a victory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We know each\u0026nbsp;other\u0026#39;s skill set, so we could distribute\u0026nbsp;challenges to a suitable person,\u0026rdquo; Tseng said. \u0026ldquo;There was a challenge that required knowledge\u0026nbsp;in both pwn and crypto. Two of our members worked closely\u0026nbsp;together and contributed their own strength\u0026nbsp;to solve\u0026nbsp;the problem.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCS hosted its first Capture the Flag hacking competition on November 16."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-12-11 22:16:11","changed_gmt":"2018-12-12 15:59:57","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"615239":{"id":"615239","type":"image","title":"CTF","body":null,"created":"1544566660","gmt_created":"2018-12-11 22:17:40","changed":"1544566660","gmt_changed":"2018-12-11 22:17:40","alt":"Students work on CTF competition at table.","file":{"fid":"234278","name":"45358322375_00cecf2dfe_z.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/45358322375_00cecf2dfe_z.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/45358322375_00cecf2dfe_z.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":141394,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/45358322375_00cecf2dfe_z.jpg?itok=wm4PuHW4"}}},"media_ids":["615239"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"614892":{"#nid":"614892","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Database Systems Expert Joy Arulraj Joins School of Computer Science","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDatabase systems is one of the most wide-reaching fields in computer science, influencing everything from healthcare to government. For new Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~jarulraj\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoy Arulraj\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, database systems allow him to make an impact in as many research areas as possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve always been into solving puzzles, and with databases, you\u0026rsquo;re free to explore different parts of the data processing pipeline and apply different skill sets,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith Arulraj\u0026rsquo;s arrival in fall 2018 as the Barry Dickman Early Career Professor, he strengthened an already robust data science team in the School of Computer Science. Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/profiles.cc.gatech.edu\/shamkant-navathe\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShamkant Navathe\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E designs and models databases. Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~xchu33\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EXu Chu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E focuses on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/611091\/assistant-professor-xu-chu-wants-make-data-analytics-accessible\u0022\u003Edata cleaning\u003C\/a\u003E. Arulraj complements the others with his emphasis on data processing on modern hardware.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBuilding non-volatile memory database systems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Hardware keeps changing all the time, so it\u0026rsquo;s important to revisit the design decisions you make in software systems,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EArulraj explored this in his doctoral work at Carnegie Mellon University on non-volatile memory database systems. In the past, databases have relied on two types of storage technologies: fast but volatile memory and slow but durable storage. Recently, however, device manufactures created a new class of memory technologies that are both fast and persistent, blurring the gap between memory and storage. These technologies invalidate many design assumptions that computer scientists have had for decades. Arulraj plans to fill the gap by redesigning database systems to work with these new protocols.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You were constrained by the characteristics of traditional memory and storage technologies for a long, long time, but finally you have something new,\u0026rdquo; Arulraj said. \u0026ldquo;Five years ago, working with these new technologies was like a moonshot, but now it\u0026rsquo;s a burgeoning field in computer science.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext-generation multimedia database systems \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince he arrived at Tech, Arulraj is refocusing his research on video analytics. Multimedia databases are challenging because data is unstructured. With the right tools, though, a user could automatically analyze their photostream to determine the last time they saw a friend or went hiking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERecent advances in machine learning and graphics processing units have increased the accuracy and speed of video analytics. These developments enable researchers to build systems that can query media, like the one Arulraj is currently working on.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EArulraj\u0026rsquo;s first course at Tech reflects this research. The seminar combines data analytics and deep learning, though he will regularly teach database system implementation in the spring. 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He is also the director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.arc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAlgorithms and Randomness Center\u003C\/a\u003E in SCS.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This honor recognizes Eric Vigoda\u0026rsquo;s high standing in the academic community for his work in algorithms, notably on mixing and other random processes,\u0026rdquo; SCS Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/lance-fortnow\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELance Fortnow\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVigoda joins SCS faculty Professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/dana-randall\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDana Randall\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/prasad-tetali\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrasad Tetali\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E as AMS Fellows.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Eric Vigoda is the third AMS fellow for SCS."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-12-03 17:19:09","changed_gmt":"2018-12-03 17:25:51","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"614885":{"id":"614885","type":"image","title":"Eric Vigoda","body":null,"created":"1543857934","gmt_created":"2018-12-03 17:25:34","changed":"1543857934","gmt_changed":"2018-12-03 17:25:34","alt":"Eric Vigoda","file":{"fid":"234140","name":"Vigoda-headshot-2017-low.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vigoda-headshot-2017-low.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vigoda-headshot-2017-low.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":24203,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Vigoda-headshot-2017-low.jpg?itok=Af9jh58S"}}},"media_ids":["614885"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"614427":{"#nid":"614427","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Will Show Off Latest Research at AI\u2019s \u2018Hottest\u2019 Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt is uncommon to hear about a machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) conference selling out like Taylor Swift concert, but the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nips.cc\/Conferences\/2018\u0022\u003ENeural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)\u003C\/a\u003E conference did just that.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe conference sold out in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medium.com\/syncedreview\/nips-tickets-sell-out-in-less-than-12-minutes-e3aab37ab36a\u0022\u003Eless than 12 minutes\u003C\/a\u003E for its Dec. 2 - 8 gathering in Montreal, Quebec. As one of the biggest AI conferences in the world, tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook come to find new talent, while renowned researchers present their latest work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA large number of Georgia Tech faculty and students will be among the throngs of attendees. With 26 papers by more than 23 Georgia Tech authors and several workshops to participate in, the Yellow Jackets are one of the leading contributors to the conference program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EByron Boots\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EDhruv Batra\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professors in the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT) and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing,\u003C\/a\u003E are serving as area chairs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are thrilled to be a top performing university at a conference of NeurIPS\u0026rsquo; caliber. Our faculty and students continue to push boundaries and revolutionize our field, and it shows at events like this,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EIrfan Essa,\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EML@GT\u003C\/a\u003E director.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs NeurIPS has increased in popularity since its first meeting in 1987, the conference receives thousands of submissions each year with a record high of 3,240 submissions in 2017. 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In his junior year as a computer science student\u0026nbsp;at\u0026nbsp;the University of Michigan, where he also completed his M.S. and Ph.D.,\u0026nbsp;Devecsery\u0026nbsp;joined an embedded systems project to help spread information in the developing world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Talking Book was\u0026nbsp;an audio computer\u0026nbsp;created\u0026nbsp;to transmit information in some of the world\u0026rsquo;s poorest countries,\u0026nbsp;where electricity is unreliable and cellphones are too expensive.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet the device\u0026rsquo;s original format cost $45 to build and wasn\u0026rsquo;t energy efficient, so\u0026nbsp;Devecsery\u0026nbsp;and his team\u0026nbsp;developed an\u0026nbsp;inexpensive\u0026nbsp;custom microprocessor.\u0026nbsp;He\u0026nbsp;helped design\u0026nbsp;the project from the original chip to the computer\u0026rsquo;s applications. The three-year\u0026nbsp;endeavor\u0026nbsp;solidified his interest in systems.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDesigning and building an entire computing stack from the ground up\u0026nbsp;came with challenges. Debugging the chip was no easy feat, especially when the debugging interface itself had a bug.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s very nice to look at buggy software and make it reliable and understand how it doesn\u0026rsquo;t work,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESolving system failure\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs software systems grow more complex, they become\u0026nbsp;more challenging\u0026nbsp;to debug. Having tools to analyze and understand the space is important if software is going to be scaled effectively. With this in mind,\u0026nbsp;Devecsery\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;systems research has focused on two\u0026nbsp;avenues:\u0026nbsp;eidetic systems and optimistic hybrid analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEidetic computer systems have the ability to recall any past setup or state of the computer. Therefore,\u0026nbsp;they\u0026nbsp;can be useful in recreating events to help figure out what happened during a system failure or a cyberattack. The process is typically time-consuming and manual, but Devecsery\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;research automates it. With this information, researchers can learn how to improve software or debug more efficiently.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Most\u0026nbsp;of these scenarios are preventable\u0026nbsp;with techniques we know today,\u0026nbsp;but most are too expensive to do practically,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Devecsery\u0026nbsp;said. \u0026ldquo;The research is how\u0026nbsp;we can\u0026nbsp;take techniques and make them more efficient so we can use them today.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers are already using\u0026nbsp;Devecsery\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;work.\u0026nbsp;One of the most promising cybersecurity breakthroughs of the last year was the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/598030\/instant-replay-computer-systems-shows-cyber-attack-details\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERefinable Attack INvestigation (RAIN)\u003C\/a\u003E, which is a new software system that enables researchers to accurately and quickly determine how and when intruders entered a network, what data they took, and what systems were compromised.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOptimistic hybrid analysis helps to prevent\u0026nbsp;many software bugs, such as\u0026nbsp;data-races.\u0026nbsp; A data-race occurs\u0026nbsp;when a system attempts to perform two or more operations\u0026nbsp;on the same data simultaneously. Although computer scientists already have the tools to do\u0026nbsp;data-race\u0026nbsp;detection, they slow the system down by 10 times and are often inaccurate.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDevecsery\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;work uses a strategic mix of static (examining code without running the program) and dynamic (examining code while running the program), or hybrid, analysis.\u0026nbsp;By making dynamic observations of the code, researchers can trim down how much static analysis they must do, making\u0026nbsp;it\u0026nbsp;much more efficient.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETraining\u0026nbsp;better\u0026nbsp;systems\u0026nbsp;researchers\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDevecsery\u0026nbsp;is also passionate about training future researchers to do this work.\u0026nbsp;He has been teaching since he joined his high school\u0026rsquo;s tutoring club and considers it\u0026nbsp;one of the main reasons he was drawn to academia.\u0026nbsp;He prefers an active learning approach where he gives students difficult questions to discuss with a partner and then apply to a real-world situation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter joining the School of Computer Science in the fall semester, he found the next generation of researchers. The students are \u0026ldquo;extremely intelligent and think creatively about research,\u0026rdquo; according to\u0026nbsp;Devecsery.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;I really believe when you give students a challenge and they come to you for help, you never really tell them the answer,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;You just turn on a light down that path and encourage them to take a step in the right direction.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"David Devecsery joined SCS as an assistant professor in fall 2018."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-11-27 21:50:11","changed_gmt":"2018-11-27 21:56:52","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-11-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-11-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"614686":{"id":"614686","type":"image","title":"Devecsery","body":null,"created":"1543355713","gmt_created":"2018-11-27 21:55:13","changed":"1543355713","gmt_changed":"2018-11-27 21:55:13","alt":"David Devecsery","file":{"fid":"234026","name":"DDevecsery2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DDevecsery2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DDevecsery2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":766840,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DDevecsery2.jpg?itok=01iK2hze"}}},"media_ids":["614686"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"614514":{"#nid":"614514","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Katabi Distinguished Lecture Shows How Machine Learning Can Revolutionize Healthcare","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMachine learning (ML) techniques could improve healthcare monitoring for the chronically ill. Now metrics can be measured without contacting the patient whatsoever.\u003Cstrong\u003E Dina Katabi\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, gave the School of Computer Science\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/calendar\/day\/2018\/11\/08\/13487\u0022\u003Edistinguished lecture\u003C\/a\u003E on this topic, \u003Cem\u003EDeep Learning Models for Tracking People through Walls and Sensing their Vital Signs, \u003C\/em\u003Eon Nov. 8.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Radio frequencies allow you to see through walls,\u0026rdquo; Katabi said. \u0026ldquo;This can offer valuable data on what people are doing and how they are doing it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough it\u0026rsquo;s easy enough to measure reflection time off the human body to determine if a person is moving, currently it\u0026rsquo;s harder to measure actual actions or poses. Reflections are a fallible measurement tool because most body parts don\u0026rsquo;t register and secondary reflections can muddle data. However, human motion across time can be measured. This is where deep learning comes in.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA neural network can fill in the missing information and create a body part that didn\u0026rsquo;t register during the first radio frequency reading. Once the neural network is trained on some data, a camera isn\u0026rsquo;t even necessary.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The network can see through walls even if we can\u0026rsquo;t,\u0026rdquo; Katabi said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is more than just a theory. Katabi and her research team have put it into practice. They trained the neural network on 50 hours of data over 50 locations, capturing daily activities. Then they applied the data to healthcare issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKatabi found that the neural network can determine a person\u0026rsquo;s breathing with 97 percent accuracy compared to the FDA-approved chest band. Sleep disorders can be analyzed with 80 percent accuracy. This is ground-breaking because these metrics are typically measured with invasive chest bands or wires that are uncomfortable to the patient.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUltimately this could revolutionize healthcare spending. Chronic conditions drive up healthcare costs because people usually seek treatment when they are most extreme. Using radio frequencies to monitor conditions like Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s or congestive heart disease could enable doctors to intervene before hospitalization is required. They have already deployed the technology to 200 homes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;All tools for monitoring health are cumbersome and invasive,\u0026rdquo; Katabi said. \u0026ldquo;No one will live like this continuously. A wireless device analyzes wireless signals and uses ML algorithms to measure breath, sleep, heart rate, or gait speed without asking a patient to wear any device or change his or her behavior. 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A team from Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Computer Science (SCS) has been working with an internet service provider (ISP) to make the viewing experience better.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith video streaming making up more than 80 percent of all network traffic, customers, carriers, and content providers all care about video quality. ISPs and content providers measure this through a metric called quality of experience (QoE), which takes image quality, buffering, and startup delay into account.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The quality of experience in video streaming directly translates to customer satisfaction and revenues for a company,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~tmangla3\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETarun Mangla\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an SCS Ph.D. student on the team. \u0026ldquo;Figuring out QoE is the first problem you should tackle before improving it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough most major streaming services \u0026ndash; like Netflix, Hulu, and others \u0026ndash; track QoE, they don\u0026rsquo;t share this data with ISPs. Moreover, these services have started using end-to-end encryption, severely limiting ISPs\u0026#39; view of network traffic. This is where SCS researchers can help. Instead of ISPs waiting for customers to complain about stalling videos, Tech researchers have found a way to use encrypted network traffic to estimate QoE for ISPs, enabling them to react sooner.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo determine the QoE for encrypted video, the researchers created eMIMIC, a methodology that looks at network traffic patterns in relation to how the video streams. video services use adaptive bitrates, in which media streaming quality is adjusted in real time to match a user\u0026rsquo;s bandwidth and device capability. \u0026nbsp;This is achieved by dividing the video into chunks, encoding each chunk into quality levels, and dynamically adapting chunk quality in response to changing user conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers developed a model that uses the network traffic to simulate how a typical streaming service session runs and estimate its QoE. The researchers show that their method works for a variety of streaming services and outperforms state-of-the-art QoE inference approaches, giving ISPs a more accurate view of customer experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMeasuring QoE is only the start of the research. Next the researchers want to determine whether a QoE error is the operator\u0026rsquo;s responsibility or a client or service error. If it is the operator\u0026rsquo;s problem, the researchers will work on improving the operator\u0026rsquo;s network by putting in policies that can adapt to whatever the issue is. Once ISPs have a better understanding of what the problem is and where it\u0026rsquo;s coming from, they can work to ensure a user\u0026rsquo;s viewing experience is consistent and clear. In other words, buffering will be a problem of the past.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMangla presented the work in the paper \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~tmangla3\/papers\/eMIMIC_TMA2018.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EeMIMIC: Estimating HTTP-based Video QoE Metrics from Encrypted Network Traffic\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E, \u003C\/em\u003Ecoauthored with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/halepovic\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEmir Halepovic\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who is a principal inventive scientist at AT\u0026amp;T, and SCS Professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Mostafa.Ammar\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMostafa Ammar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ewz\/Welcome.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. The team won the best paper award at IEEE\/IFIP Conference on Traffic Measurement and Analysis in Vienna, Austria, in June.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers\u0027 work could improve video streaming quality."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-11-15 20:43:56","changed_gmt":"2018-11-15 20:54:25","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-11-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-11-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"614315":{"id":"614315","type":"image","title":"Buffering","body":null,"created":"1542315242","gmt_created":"2018-11-15 20:54:02","changed":"1542315242","gmt_changed":"2018-11-15 20:54:02","alt":"Loading icon","file":{"fid":"233873","name":"1000px-Gray_circles.svg_.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1000px-Gray_circles.svg_.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1000px-Gray_circles.svg_.png","mime":"image\/png","size":58336,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/1000px-Gray_circles.svg_.png?itok=f2M5qFIV"}}},"media_ids":["614315"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"614253":{"#nid":"614253","#data":{"type":"news","title":"First Rogue Takes Flight: How CRNCH Builds Strong Industry Partnerships","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESome of the most unique computers in the world are housed in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/crnch.gatech.edu\/rogues-gallery\u0022\u003ERogues Galley\u003C\/a\u003E, a collection of uncommon architectures hosted by Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.crnch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH)\u003C\/a\u003E. Last September, the gallery received its first member, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/596243\/georgia-tech-awarded-iarpa-contract-evaluate-emu-technology-system\u0022\u003EEmu Chick\u003C\/a\u003E, and this year CRNCH researchers have made considerable progress programming the Chick to the benefit of CRNCH and their industry partner, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.emutechnology.com\/\u0022\u003EEmu Technology\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Emu Chick is an eight-node system housed in a tower case that is designed to move computation to data, providing sufficient memory and storage bandwidth for common data analysis applications. Having new architectures like the Emu Chick in the Rogues Gallery allows academics, students, and industry professionals the opportunity to collaborate on hardware.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking with this early release hardware has led to a strong partnership with Emu Technologies as students and researchers have learned how to use the machine effectively. Researchers submitted more than 15 bug requests related to Emu simulation framework, toolchain, and hardware execution. These requests allowed Emu to fix multiple bugs, improving the Emu toolchain and system\u0026rsquo;s performance and stability. \u0026ldquo;Students\u0026rsquo; creativity and persistence in running their codes with each agile iteration of both hardware and toolchain enabled Emu to test a far wider range of issues than we could have been able to develop and test on our own, resulting in Emu developing better bug diagnosis tools and delivering complete fixes,\u0026rdquo; said Emu Chief Operating Officer \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/marty-deneroff-2a554\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMartin Deneroff\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet this relationship was mutually beneficial to Tech, too. Emu and Tech collaborated on using the prototype to enhance Institute development priorities for irregular applications, tensor decomposition, and other applications. For many students, this was also the first time they were able to work directly with industry. \u0026ldquo;The Rogues Gallery gives researchers the opportunity to test their ideas on unique platforms and get actual results at larger scale,\u0026rdquo; said computer architecture Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cbraun31\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECameron Braun\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. Students get the rare opportunity to work with industry leaders also interested in the hardware, such as the researcher from Sandia National Laboratories who became Braun\u0026rsquo;s mentor and later offered him a summer internship.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor alumnus \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/eric-hein-607856a3\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEric Hein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Emu started off as a way to experiment with the coolest computers and eventually led to his first job after he finished his Ph.D. in spring 2018. Everything with the Chick was new and different, including how Hein started thinking about his approach to architecture. \u0026ldquo;Several weird aspects of the architecture like automatic thread migrations and hardware indexing modes forced me to rethink the way I wrote code from the ground up, reading between the lines to reason about how each decision would influence the behavior of the system,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHein got so good at thinking about the Emu programming model that he became a technical resource for Chick users at Tech and beyond, eventually creating a custom STREAM implementation that can handle memory errors and scale to a large number of threads. This work led to a full-time position at Emu, where he understands the architecture as well as its developers but can relate to it from a user perspective. Such a partnership wouldn\u0026rsquo;t have been possible without his work with the Rogues Gallery.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;If it weren\u0026#39;t for CRNCH, I might never have heard of Emu,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIndustry leaders are also recognizing the value of merging academic researchers with emerging technologies. In fall 2017, CRNCH met with Sandia researchers to discuss a Kokkos Cilk backend for running Kokkos on the Emu system. This discussion influenced a new partnership between Sandia and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering \u003C\/a\u003EProfessor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~umit\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUmit Catalyurek\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E Research Scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/jeffrey-young\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJeff Young\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/a\u003Ein 2018. These partnerships can also exist outside of the Rogues Gallery, such as with recent National Science Foundation funding for a project led by CRNCH Co-Director \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/vivek-sarkar\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Emu founder \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/engineering.nd.edu\/profiles\/pkogge\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPeter Kogge\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E that is focused on migrating thread architectures and asynchronous task models for graph analytics applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmu and CRNCH\u0026rsquo;s partnership has given every participant a competitive advantage. \u0026rdquo;The ability to tap into technically strong researchers who are grounded in hands-on experience with our product, coupled with the strong industry partnerships Tech engages in, gives Emu an immediate leg up as we do on-going market research related to product requirements to address market problems that are only just beginning to emerge,\u0026rdquo; said Anne Vincenti, Emu\u0026rsquo;s vice president of marketing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmu is just the first successful partnership for CRNCH. Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with stacked memory, neuromorphic devices, and other unique hardware are being added to the Rogues Gallery, and CRNCH is always looking for more collaborators. For more information on the Rogues Gallery and on related Emu work, please see the Rogues Gallery \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/crnch.gatech.edu\/rogues-gallery\u0022\u003Epage\u003C\/a\u003E and Emu\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.emutechnology.com\/.\u0022\u003Esite\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CRNCH has helped improve the Emu Chick computer in its first year."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-11-14 18:03:59","changed_gmt":"2018-11-14 18:25:51","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"614270":{"id":"614270","type":"image","title":"Emu Card","body":null,"created":"1542219878","gmt_created":"2018-11-14 18:24:38","changed":"1542219932","gmt_changed":"2018-11-14 18:25:32","alt":"emu card","file":{"fid":"233858","name":"image1.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/image1_1.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/image1_1.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1515913,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/image1_1.jpeg?itok=i3ZkrWa0"}}},"media_ids":["614270"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"576491","name":"CRNCH"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"613920":{"#nid":"613920","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies Explores Solutions from the Entire Stack","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe density of transistors in microchips can no longer be expected to double every year, but there are only a few researchers dedicated to solving the end of Moore\u0026rsquo;s law from all angles. They gathered at Georgia Tech for the second annual \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.crnch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH)\u003C\/a\u003E Summit on Nov. 2.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore than 80 faculty members, industry partners, and students attended the all-day summit, which featured 10 plenary talks on the future of computingand concluded with a panel discussion of these suggestions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe day reflected how much CRNCH has set the agenda for new computing hierarchies for the entire stack since it was founded in 2016 by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/profiles.cc.gatech.edu\/thomas-conte\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETom Conte\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the schools of Computer Science (SCS) and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EElectrical and Computer\u003C\/a\u003E Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Three years ago, when Moore\u0026rsquo;s law was on its death bed, most architects went into mourning, but Tom was different,\u0026rdquo; College of Computing Dean \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/zvi-galil\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZvi Galil\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said during his opening remarks. \u0026ldquo;Immediately after the funeral, he created CRNCH to actually do something.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECRNCH has grown ever since. Now the center has more than 30 dedicated faculty members from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E. This year, SCS Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/vivek-sarkar\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E was named co-director to offer his high performance computing and programming languages expertise. CRNCH\u0026rsquo;s first research lab \u0026mdash; the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/598660\/crnch-launches-summit-future-post-moore-computing\u0022\u003ERogues Gallery\u003C\/a\u003E , a collection of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/595889\/crnchs-rogues-gallery-wants-bring-weirdest-hardware-campus\u0022\u003Enovel hardware\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026ndash; continues to add \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/605825\/crnch-hosts-neuromorphic-workshop\u0022\u003Enew hardware\u003C\/a\u003E and has pioneered industry connections with partners such as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/596243\/georgia-tech-awarded-iarpa-contract-evaluate-emu-technology-system\u0022\u003EEmu Technologies\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Everyone is coming up with new architectures, but what happens when these architectures meet real programmers and real students?\u0026rdquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~jriedy\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJason Riedy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a research scientist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, said of the Rogues Gallery. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re trying to break the idea of \u0026lsquo;it\u0026rsquo;s too much work\u0026rsquo; to try something new.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECRNCH is all about trying something new, \u0026ldquo;the crazier the better,\u0026rdquo; as Conte said. The plenary talks covered a lot of innovations that could propel computing forward from architecture and artificial intelligence to quantum computing and algorithms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESome research highlights:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/dana-randall\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDana Randall\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in SCS and co-executive director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ideas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, suggested using emergent computation, which she defines as predictable macro changes to system as the user modifies a few parameters.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/moin.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMoinuddin Qureshi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in ECE, highlighted the potential of quantum computing.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Quantum computing is exotic and seems like something only physics and mathematics can touch, but it\u0026rsquo;s very important for the field that engineers are aware of this,\u0026rdquo; Qureshi said. \u0026ldquo;The real metric for success is reliability. If we can come up with good architectures and compilers that can reduce the error rate, that can be a big win.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother goal of the summit was to invite collaboration, and many presenters detailed how novel architectures could benefit their research, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ornl.gov\/staff-profile\/david-e-womble\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Womble\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, director of Artificial Intelligence Programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, discussed the lab\u0026rsquo;s efforts in AI for endeavors such as bioscience, material synthesis, and additive manufacturing that require thinking about computing in a new way to achieve success.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pnnl.gov\/science\/staff\/staff_info.asp?staff_num=9441\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJim Ang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, manager of Physical \u0026amp; Computational Sciences at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, presented the history and the future of high performance computing in the Department of Energy\u0026rsquo;s national labs.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/poovey\/index.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJason Poovey\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a research scientist at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, emphasized how the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chai.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Health Analytics and Informatics (CHAI)\u003C\/a\u003E needs new scalable architectures for the health data they work with.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA keynote from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/engineering.nd.edu\/profiles\/pkogge\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPeter Kogge\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a distinguished professor at Notre Dame and IEEE Computer Society Pioneer award winner, perhaps summed up best the challenges and opportunities of this post-Moore era that CRNCH is eager to take on.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Post-Moore is going to be heavily heterogeneous, lots of new technologies will show up first as accelerators, clock rates will continue to go flat meaning we will have billions of threads, and power efficiency is paramount,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;We need some new thinking to get around this.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CRNCH hosted its second annual summit."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-11-06 16:04:02","changed_gmt":"2018-11-06 16:59:39","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-11-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-11-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"613923":{"id":"613923","type":"image","title":"CRNCH Summit Poster","body":null,"created":"1541523553","gmt_created":"2018-11-06 16:59:13","changed":"1541523553","gmt_changed":"2018-11-06 16:59:13","alt":"CRNCH Summit poster session","file":{"fid":"233699","name":"0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":69515,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/0.jpg?itok=Acie5G2-"}}},"media_ids":["613923"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"613636":{"#nid":"613636","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School of Computer Science Professor Works with Microsoft Research to Make Data Transformation Easier","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe growing field of self-service data transformation took a big step forward with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/appsource.microsoft.com\/en-us\/product\/office\/WA104380727?src=office\u0026amp;corrid=8b212240-d845-415c-a651-f8a07215acf9\u0026amp;omexanonuid=bf0ab165-67fe-478f-9d82-b70d15b147e2\u0022\u003ETransform-Data-by-Example (TDE) service\u003C\/a\u003E. TDE works as a search engine for data transformation libraries, alleviating the difficulty of data wrangling.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project was at an early stage of conception at Microsoft Research when School of Computer Science Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~xchu33\/\u0022\u003EXu Chu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E joined and helped contribute to its success.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Data transformation is a big part of data cleaning, which is very time consuming and expensive,\u0026rdquo; Chu said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen data comes from different sources or is manually entered, it\u0026rsquo;s often inconsistent and challenging to work with until it\u0026rsquo;s prepared. Data preparation involves cleaning, standardizing, and transforming raw data sets so they can be analyzed effectively. Data scientists can spend up to 80 percent of their time just transforming data.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDevelopers have created custom code libraries for tasks, such as name parsing and address standardization, that data scientists might need for transformation. Yet these libraries are only useful if the data scientist can find them. Finding them hasn\u0026rsquo;t always been easy \u0026ndash; until now.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETDE indexes thousands of functions from GitHub and Stackoverflow, so users only need to provide their desired output for a few input examples to find the transformation program they need. Currently, TDE has a 72 percent accuracy rate for synthesizing correct transformation programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe front-end of TDE is a Microsoft Excel plug-in that users can download from Office. Once the user provides a few input\/output examples, TDE connects with the back-end on Microsoft Azure\u0026rsquo;s cloud to search thousands of functions and synthesize programs using relevant functions that will work for the user. This leverages techniques from the program synthesis field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a great example of how technologies from non-database domains can help with hard data management problems such as data cleaning,\u0026rdquo; Chu said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe believes this type of research has a lot of potential. For example, Chu is working on a project of using matrix and tensor factorization techniques in statistics and machine learning to do data cleaning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe work on TDE was presented at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vldb2018.lncc.br\/\u0022\u003EVery Large Databases\u003C\/a\u003E conference in Rio di Janeiro in late August. Chu coauthored the paper \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/06\/p1142-He.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETransform Data by Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E with Microsoft Research\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cstrong\u003ESurajit Chaudhuri\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EKris Ganjam\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EYeye He\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Narasayya\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Twitter\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cstrong\u003EYudian Zheng\u003C\/strong\u003E. 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School of Computer Science (SCS) Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/profiles.cc.gatech.edu\/umakishore-ramachandran\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUmakishore Ramachandran\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E organized the all-day summit to bring faculty together from various schools and encourage collaboration.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There are so many cool things happening across different research groups at Georgia Tech in edge computing,\u0026rdquo; Ramachandran said. \u0026ldquo;If we put them together, we can accomplish something really big. Georgia Tech has the opportunity to be the leader, but in order to do that we need to think as a collective.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEdge computing uses devices at the edge of a network, from smartphones to Internet of Things (IoT) devices, to perform computation. By processing the data close to its source, edge computing can improve latency, security, and cost.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the summit, 10 researchers from SCS and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE) gave 10-minute talks on their general research. They were divided into three sessions. After each round, there was a panel with the speakers moderated by a session chair, who asked each presenter to discuss possible joint research projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough there were different interpretations of what constitutes an edge, the breadth of research projects speaks to the wide-ranging possibilities of edge computing. SCS Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ewz\/Welcome.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E discussed her work with Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Mostafa.Ammar\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMostafa Ammar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E on creating a self-configuring cloud of clustered mobile devices called a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/609257\/scs-phd-student-karim-habak-finds-computing-solutions-edge\u0022\u003Efemtocloud\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; ECE Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/gee-kung-chang\u0022\u003EGee-Kung Chang\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E suggested using 5G radio access networks to achieve sub-millisecond latency for getting data to \u0026nbsp;edge node.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPresentations included system software technologies for edge computing, including programming frameworks, compiler technologies, algorithmic techniques, and management of big data in support of edge computing. SCS Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/vivek-sarkar\u0022\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E suggested software foundations for the edge platform. SCS Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/santosh-pande\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESantosh Pande\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is devising compiler annotations to data and trust verification to enable data sharing and migration among mobile devices on the edge. \u0026nbsp;SCS Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/home\/ada\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAda Gavrilovska\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E proposed ideas for distributing model generation between the cloud, edge, and devices for intelligent analytics. ECE Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/tusharkrishna.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ETushar Krishna\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E discussed opportunities for continuous learning via neuro-evolutionary algorithms involving hardware-software co-design at the edge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESecurity and privacy issues are paramount with edge computing. SCS Research Faculty \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~kbhardwa\/\u0022\u003EKetan Bharadwaj\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E identified the challenges in securing the edge infrastructure from malicious attacks.\u0026nbsp; ECE Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/abhijit-chatterjee\u0022\u003EAbhijit Chatterjee\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E offered algorithmic ideas for mitigating security attacks and increasing error resilience using robotics as a \u0026ldquo;killer app\u0026rdquo; for the edge. \u0026nbsp;SCS Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/vladimir-kolesnikov\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVladimir Kolesnikov\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E discussed efficient cryptographic techniques for ensuring secure communication and ideas for their deployment that would ensure low latency.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERamachandran concluded the summit presentations by offering challenges and opportunities for elevating the edge to become a peer of the cloud.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe summit\u0026rsquo;s afternoon focused on opportunities for collaboration. \u0026nbsp;his approach was one of the reasons Ramachandran organized the summit. By bringing together researchers with varied complementary interests, Ramachandran hopes to bridge the gap and help push the field further. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/elizabeth-mynatt\u0022\u003EBeth Mynatt\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E discussed leveraging existing research to make Tech a frontrunner in edge innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The industry leaders are not thinking yet about how cool and new the edge is,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;All the cool things are being done by small start-ups and academia. Here, we can think of things we can do that industry is not yet doing. 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The research showcase was part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cyber.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIISP\u003C\/a\u003E 16\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E annual \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/612794\/government-and-corporate-responsibility-focus-2018-cybersecurity-summit\u0022\u003ECybersecurity Summit\u003C\/a\u003E on Oct. 4.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESixteen Georgia Tech student groups entered the IISP Cybersecurity Demo Day Poster and Two-Minute Madness competition for the chance to win a total of $10,000 prizes. These teams are automatically eligible to participate in the Demo Day Program that offers $125,000 in total cash prizes and industry mentorship to help commercialize their work. The final winner will be chosen in the spring, but the summit was the participants\u0026rsquo; first opportunity to receive feedback on their projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the goals of Demo Day is to help students get comfortable with presenting their work. To achieve this, each group presented their research as part of a two-minute madness round during the summit and then participated in a poster session where cybersecurity industry leaders and academics could ask questions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If you\u0026rsquo;re doing a Ph.D., you need to be able to do public speaking to get research funding,\u0026rdquo; said SCS Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/carteryagemann.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECarter Yagemann\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAttendees voted for the most promising project, which won the first prize. A panel of local chief information security officers selected the other two winners. New this year was a prize for a spot in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECREATE-X\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;prize\u0026nbsp;$5,000\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(chosen by popular vote): \u003Cem\u003EHome-based IoT Evaluation\u003C\/em\u003E by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/alrawi.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOmar Alrawi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)) and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chazlever.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChaz Lever\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (SCS)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2\u003Csup\u003End\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;prize $3,000\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(chosen by panel of experts): \u003Cem\u003ELADIDS \u003C\/em\u003Eby \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cap.ece.gatech.edu\/tohid\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETohid Shekari\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE), \u003Cstrong\u003EChristian Bayens\u003C\/strong\u003E (ECE), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/morris-b-cohen\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMorris Cohen\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE associate professor), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/lukas-graber\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELukas Graber\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE assistant professor), and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/raheem-a-beyah\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERaheem Beyah\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE associate chair)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;prize $2,000\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(chosen by panel of experts)\u003Cstrong\u003E:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETelephony Blacklist\u003C\/em\u003E by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESharbani Pandit \u003C\/strong\u003E(SCS)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECREATE-X Prize: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJustitia \u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;by Carter Yagemann, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.prism.gatech.edu\/~euzun3\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EErkam Uzun\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (SCS), and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/pak-ho-simon-chung\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESimon Pak Ho Chung\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (SCS research scientist), \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wenke.gtisc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWenke Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (SCS professor)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough they did not place in the top three, the other teams are still eligible to compete in the 2019 finale, and can attend a three-month training course on how to commercialize a product. Students who could not attend the summit can still join the program if they email \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gloria.griessman@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGloria Griessman\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere are some SCS research highlights to look out for in the spring:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProject: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEnabling Cross-Host Refinable Attack Investigation\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam:\u003C\/strong\u003E SCS Ph.D. students \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/yangji\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYang Ji\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~mfazzini\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMattia Fazzini\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joey-allen-0802a299\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoey Allen\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.evandowning.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEvan Downing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and postdoctoral fellow \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sangho2.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESangho Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch Topic: \u003C\/strong\u003ELast year, the team introduced a tool that can replay a cyberattack. Now the team is expanding the tool \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/610376\/school-computer-science-researchers-make-investigating-multi-host-attacks-easier\u0022\u003Eto multiple hosts\u003C\/a\u003E to get a complete picture of an attack.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProject: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAn Anonymous Survey System Supporting Real-time Authorization\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam:\u003C\/strong\u003E SCS Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jiahui-lu-9a1997171\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJiahui Lu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Computational Science and Engineering student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/haowen-zhang-2a8259129\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHaowen Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch Topic: \u003C\/strong\u003ESurveys are vital for businesses, but how can a restaurant be sure that a customer leaving a Yelp review has actually dined at the restaurant? This research creates an anonymous survey system with real-time authentication.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProject:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cem\u003ETowards Measuring the Effectiveness of Telephony Blacklists\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam:\u003C\/strong\u003E SCS Ph.D. student Sharbani Pandit\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch Topic:\u003C\/strong\u003E Expanding off \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/602929\/georgia-tech-researchers-bring-transparency-telephone-blacklists\u0022\u003Eher research\u003C\/a\u003E on generating a telephone hacking blacklist, now she is focusing on how to overcome caller ID spoofing, where copycat phone numbers look exactly like a victim\u0026rsquo;s own. Eventually she hopes to build an Android app.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProject\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u003Cem\u003E Justitia: Privacy-Preserving and Recoverable Remote Biometric Authentication\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam:\u003C\/strong\u003E SCS Ph.D. students Erkam Uzun and Carter Yagemann, research scientist Simon Pak Ho Chung, and Professor Wenke Lee\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch Topic:\u003C\/strong\u003E Biometric data is more secure than any password, but replacing biometrics every time a user gets a new device is tedious. We need to be able to authenticate biometric data remotely while preserving privacy of a user. 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Academics, industry partners, and students come for the technical and professional development panels, mentoring sessions, and a career fair where companies and universities recruit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing had a strong presence with 24 undergraduates, six master\u0026rsquo;s students, five Ph.D. students, and 20 \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.omscs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Eonline Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS\u003C\/a\u003E) students in attendance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMany prominent faculty also represented the College, including Executive Associate Dean \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Charles.Isbell\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/people\/ayanna-howard\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAyanna Howard\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/home\/ada\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAda Gavrilovska\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. Howard co-led a session on professional branding, \u003Cem\u003EBuilding Your Professional Persona\u003C\/em\u003E, during which she gave \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/GTOMSCS\/status\/1045351752441188353\u0022\u003Efive tips\u003C\/a\u003E on how to network better.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a platinum-level sponsor, the College had a booth for prospective students run by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/student-life\/gt-computing-community\/oec-office\u0022\u003EOffice of Outreach, Enrollment and Community\u003C\/a\u003E and faculty. A College scholarship enabled many students to attend, from those just starting their academic careers to those looking for what comes after. First-year student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/salina-nihalani\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESalina Nihalani\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E took advantage of the technical panels to help her focus her studies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I would definitely recommend attending as a freshman because sometimes you aren\u0026rsquo;t sure about what you want to study, and it\u0026rsquo;s a great way to gain exposure to research areas you may not know,\u0026rdquo; she said, taking a particular interest in artificial intelligence thanks to the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFourth-year \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dina-kozlov-4ba56abb\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDina Kozlov\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is graduating this semester and was looking for jobs at GH, where she found a lot of opportunity without the downsides of competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Everyone is so nice that it doesn\u0026rsquo;t feel like a competitive, aggressive space,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re all just here to make the world a better place.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet for OMSCS students, it was a chance to do a different type of networking. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s been exciting because it\u0026rsquo;s the first time I\u0026rsquo;ve met people from the program in person,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anne-chepkeitany-83042130\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnne Chepkeitany\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a first-year OMSCS student, who traveled all the way from Nairobi, Kenya, to attend.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt also lets students put the classes in context. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s neat to hear keywords I\u0026rsquo;ve learned about in class on the machine learning panels,\u0026rdquo; said OMSCS student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kate-reading\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKate Reading\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet for many students, what mattered most wasn\u0026rsquo;t sessions or career opportunities, but the chance to be around by so many women in their field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I wanted to be surrounded by empowering women,\u0026rdquo; said fourth-year \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/devany-sandoval-23a38394\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDevany Sandoval\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;Hearing their side of the story reminds me that I have a good support system.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"55 College of Computing students attended the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-10-03 15:35:11","changed_gmt":"2018-10-18 18:34:25","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"612282":{"id":"612282","type":"image","title":"GHC Group","body":null,"created":"1538581032","gmt_created":"2018-10-03 15:37:12","changed":"1538581032","gmt_changed":"2018-10-03 15:37:12","alt":"GHC group photo","file":{"fid":"233074","name":"IMG_0221.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_0221.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_0221.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":458096,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_0221.JPG?itok=rKrFg7L7"}}},"media_ids":["612282"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"612794":{"#nid":"612794","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Government and Corporate Responsibility the Focus of 2018 Cybersecurity Summit","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECyberwarfare increasingly crosses international borders, affecting diplomacy, the global economy, and privacy of citizens. Governments and corporations must set new frameworks to defend against nation-state attacks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis issue was the focus of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cyber.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Information Security and Privacy\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/a\u003E (IISP) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cyber.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-cybersecurity-summit?_ga=2.139833521.303891271.1539043905-252725775.1501600503\u0022\u003ECybersecurity Summit\u003C\/a\u003E, featuring the\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESam Nunn Bank of America Policy Forum\u003C\/strong\u003E, on Oct. 4. More than 270 cybersecurity academics and professionals attended the 16\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E annual event. IISP Associate Director of Policy Peter Swire organized this year\u0026rsquo;s policy focus. The combined event was due in part to the generosity of sponsors \u0026mdash; including Bank of America for the Nunn Policy Forum, and Jones Day, Turner, and ADP for the Cybersecurity Summit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAndy Ozment\u003C\/strong\u003E, a College of Computing alumnus and chief information security officer at Goldman Sachs and former secretary for cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, delivered the keynote, \u003Cem\u003EIn the Crosshairs: When You\u0026#39;re the Target of Nation-State Cyberattacks\u003C\/em\u003E. His expertise in both government and corporate security set the tone for the day as he advocated for \u0026ldquo;reasonable cybersecurity.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If a sovereign adversary is willing to take a year of their time and thousands of their people, I can\u0026rsquo;t keep them from breaking in,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;You need to think about resilience strategies.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe suggested both companies and governments need to track threat environments to prevent attacks. Although the government can\u0026rsquo;t help every company, it can concentrate resources on certain areas and set a precedent to deter attacks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The more expertise the government can share the better,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t have a way of changing attackers\u0026rsquo; behavior, but the government does.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESenator \u003Cstrong\u003ESam Nunn\u003C\/strong\u003E, a champion of cybersecurity policy and research, also made remarks. He is focused on issues of cyberwarfare, effective deterrence, cyber offense, attribution, the role of private sector in working with the government, and cyber understandings with other countries to restrain attacks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I\u0026#39;m very proud of the role Georgia Tech is playing in security,\u0026quot; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENunn\u0026rsquo;s remarks led well into the first panel on how governments can better protect against cyberwarfare, \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Elephant in the Room: Cyberwarfare is War on the Economy\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, moderated by \u003C\/strong\u003EAnnie Ant\u0026oacute;n, IISP\u0026rsquo;s associate director of privacy engineering and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E professor. The panel included:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMich\u0026egrave;le Flournoy\u003C\/strong\u003E, co-founder and managing partner, WestExec Advisors; former undersecretary of defense policy, U.S. Department of Defense\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERick Ledgett\u003C\/strong\u003E, advisor, fellow, and trustee; former deputy director, National Security Agency\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMichael Morell\u003C\/strong\u003E, advisor and author; chairman of the National Security Task Force, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; former acting director and deputy director, Central Intelligence Agency\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENiloofar Razi Howe\u003C\/strong\u003E, technology investor, executive and entrepreneur; recently chief strategy officer and senior vice president of strategy and operations, RSA\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe discussion centered on deterrence and how governments could effectively deter nation state attacks without compromising security.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re in a deep deterrence hole,\u0026rdquo; Flournoy said. \u0026ldquo;State sponsors of cyberattacks have come to believe they can attack our core democratic processes, and we will do nothing. The first order of business is to try to reestablish some measure of deterrence in cyberspace.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJust before lunch IISP Co-Executive Directors, \u003Cstrong\u003EMichael Farrell\u003C\/strong\u003E, principal researcher at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGTRI\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EWenke Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E, Imlay Chair and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Eprofessor in the School of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E, presented an award to r00timentary for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/609900\/team-georgia-tech-students-win-world-hacking-competition\u0022\u003Etheir capture the flag (CTF) victory\u003C\/a\u003E at this year\u0026rsquo;s DEFCON conference.\u0026nbsp; r00timentary team members include Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E and his Ph.D. students \u003Cstrong\u003EInsu Yun\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EWen Xu\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003ESoyeon Park\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EJinho Jung\u003C\/strong\u003E, master\u0026rsquo;s student \u003Cstrong\u003EPo-ning Tseng\u003C\/strong\u003E, and alumnus \u003Cstrong\u003EYeongjin Jang\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe afternoon panel, \u003Cem\u003EWho\u0026rsquo;s Wearing Your Flak Jacket? Corporate Defense for Nation-State Attacks\u003C\/em\u003E, emphasized corporate responses to cyberattacks. Moderated by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/a\u003E distinguished professor and Admiral \u003Cstrong\u003ESandy Winnefeld\u003C\/strong\u003E, it included:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJim Harvey\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Epartner, Alston \u0026amp; Bird LLC; co-Chair of\u0026nbsp;Cybersecurity\u0026nbsp;Preparedness and Response; leader, Data Privacy and Security\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Kris\u003C\/strong\u003E, founder, Culper Partners LLC; former assistant attorney general for national security, U.S. Department of Justice; former deputy general counsel, chief ethics and compliance officer, Time Warner Inc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETony Scott\u003C\/strong\u003E, former chief information officer, U.S. Government, VMware, Walt Disney Company; former chief technology officer, General Motors Information Systems \u0026amp; Services\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe panel broke down how to find vulnerabilities in a company and why it\u0026rsquo;s so important for the government and corporations to work together.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The relationship between government and private sector regarding cybersecurity ebbs and flows,\u0026rdquo; Kris said. \u0026ldquo;Private companies generally don\u0026rsquo;t want the Feds in their network, but increasingly see the benefits from engaging DHS and, when needed, the FBI. From the government side, they\u0026#39;re puzzled that some of these companies tell the public about an advanced persistent threat first.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp; Enhanced information and threat sharing was highlighted as critically important for defending against nation-state attacks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe summit also included a \u0026ldquo;Two-Minute Madness\u0026rdquo; session, when students took the stage for short presentations on their cybersecurity research. This was followed by a poster session showcasing student research, where event participants engaged students in Q\u0026amp;A.\u0026nbsp; All of this was a part of IISP\u0026rsquo;s annual \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cyber.gatech.edu\/cyber-demo-day\u0022\u003EDemo Day\u003C\/a\u003E festivities, in which students compete for cash prizes and potential follow-up support to take their research to the next level. The top three teams walked away with a combined total of $10,000 in prize money, after a popular vote from all participants determined the first winner and an expert panel of local chief information security officers (CISOs) selected the second and third-place winners. A bonus award was given to a team of student researchers, giving them automatic entry into Tech\u0026rsquo;s exciting \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECreate-X\u003C\/a\u003E program, an initiative to instill entrepreneurial confidence in students and empower them to launch real startups.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe event ended with breakout sessions on FinTech, smart cities, and the role artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in cybersecurity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFinTech: Cybersecurity Risk in Financial Services and FinTech\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;explored cybersecurity and regulatory considerations for FinTech companies, financial exchanges, payment processors, banks, and other financial services companies.\r\n\r\n\t\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003EModerated by Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u003Cstrong\u003E Sudheer Chava\u003C\/strong\u003E, with cybersecurity executives from Jones Day, RELX Group, Intercontinental Exchange and Bank of America\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMachine Learning: The Essentials of Cybersecurity for AI and Machine Learning\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;explored the new considerations for CISOs, network administrators, and frontline responders associated with ML, and recent advances, including research underway at Georgia Tech.\r\n\r\n\t\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003EModerated by \u003Cstrong\u003EPatrick Gaul \u003C\/strong\u003Efrom National Technology Security Coalition and Wenke Lee of Georgia Tech, and executives from Turner Broadcasting and JASK\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESmart Cities: The Security of Smart Cities under Nation-State Threats\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Efocused on the critical risk factors that need to be assessed as smart cities and vendors prepare for the evolving risks.\u0026nbsp;\r\n\r\n\t\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003EModerated by Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u003Cstrong\u003E Margaret Loper\u003C\/strong\u003E, with executives from Honeywell, IPaT at Georgia Tech, Bastille Networks. and Prototype Prime\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"IISP hosts 16th annual Cybersecurity Summit."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-10-15 21:06:02","changed_gmt":"2018-10-15 21:40:23","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"612798":{"id":"612798","type":"image","title":"Def Con at summit","body":null,"created":"1539639596","gmt_created":"2018-10-15 21:39:56","changed":"1539639596","gmt_changed":"2018-10-15 21:39:56","alt":"winning team","file":{"fid":"233288","name":"Unknown-3.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Unknown-3_2.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Unknown-3_2.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":62739,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Unknown-3_2.jpeg?itok=RWifonxj"}}},"media_ids":["612798"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}