Research Showcase

Winner: ‘Video Organization and Exploration’ and ‘Interactive Video Analytics for Compositional Queries’ / Maureen Daum, Enhao Zhang, Dong He, Ranjay Krishna, Brandon Haynes, Magda Balazinska

Runner up: ClearBuds: Wireless Binaural Earbuds for Machine Learning Based Speech Enhancement / Ishan Chatterjee, Maruchi Kim, Vivek Jayaram, Shyam Gollakota, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Shwetak Patel, Steven M. Seitz

Runner up: Data Analysis Systems for Statistical Non-Experts / Eunice Jun, Jeffrey Heer, Rene Just

Runner up: Levity: Contactless Robotics and Automation for Synthetic Biology / Jared Nakahara and Professor Joshua R. Smith

Winner: CoAI: Cost-Aware Artificial Intelligence for Health Care / Gabriel Erion, Joseph Janizek, Allen School professor Su-In Lee, Dr. Carly Hudelson, Dr. Nathan White

Runner up: AuraRing: Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking via Smart Ring / Farshid Salemi Parizi Alvin Cao; Eric Whitmire (Ph.D., ‘19); Ishan Chatterjee; Tianke Li; and Allen School professor Shwetak Patel

Runner up: Molecular Tagging with Nanopore-orthogonal DNA Strands / Katie Doroschak, Melissa Queen, Karen Zhang, Aishwarya Mandyam (B.S., ‘19); research scientist Jeff Nivala; Allen School affiliate professor Karin Strauss, Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research; and Allen School professor Luis Ceze

Runner up: HomeSound: Exploring Sound Awareness in the Home for People Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing / Dhruv Jain, Kelly Mack, Steven Goodman; professor Leah Findlater of the Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering; and Allen School professor Jon FroehlichRunner up: Levity: Contactless Robotics and Automation for Synthetic Biology / Jared Nakahara and Professor Joshua R. Smith

Winner: EMBARKER: A hierarchical Bayesian approach empowering big data with prior knowledge for expression marker discovery and its application to Alzheimer’s disease / Safiye Celik, Josh C. Russell, Cezar R. Pestana, Ting-I Lee, Shubhabrata Mukherjee, Paul K. Crane, C. Dirk Keene, Jennifer F. Bobb, Matt Kaeberlein, and Allen School professor Su-In Lee

Runner up: Puddle: A System for High-Level Microfluidic Programming / Max Willsey, Ashley Stephenson, Chris Takahashi, Pranav Vaid, Bichlien Nguyen, Michal Piszczek, Christine Betts, Sharon Newman, Sarang Joshi , Allen School professor Luis Ceze and Allen School affiliate professor Karin Strauss

Runner up: Slim: OS Kernel Support for a Low-Overhead Container Overlay Network / Danyang Zhuo, Kaiyuan Zhang, Yibo Zhu, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Matthew Rockett, and Allen School professors Arvind Krishnamurthy and Tom Anderson

Runner up: Implantable Wireless Brain-Computer Interface / Jared Nakahara, Vaishnavi Ranganathan, Soshi Samejima, Nicholas Tolley, and Chet Moritz, and Allen School professor Joshua R. Smith

Winner: LabintheWild: Large-scale online experimentation with diverse uncompensated samples / Allen School postdoc Nigini Abilio Oliveira; Allen School Ph.D. student Eunice Jun; and Allen School professor Katharina Reinecke

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Augury: predicting visual appeal of website design / visiting scientist Manuel Nordhoff and Allen School professor Katharina Reinecke

Runner up: A Unified Approach to Interpreting Model Predictions / Allen School Ph.D. student Scott Lundberg and Allen School professor Su-In Lee

Runner up: Real-Time VR Video Processing with the Hardware-Friendly Bilateral / Allen School Ph.D. student Amrita Mazumdar; Allen School post doc Armin Alaghi; and Allen School professors Luis Ceze and Mark Oskin

Runner up: TVM: End-to-End IR Stack for Deep Learning Systems / Allen School Ph.D. students Tianqi Chen, Thierry Moreau, Haichen Shen; Fudan University undergraduate and AWS intern Ziheng Jiang; Allen School professors Luis Ceze, Carlos Guestrin, and Arvind Krishnamurthy

Winner: The Next Big Leap in Backscatter Communication / Mehrdad Hessar (EE), Bryce Kellogg (EE), Vamsi Talla, Shyam Gollakota, Joshua R. Smith

Runner-Up: Just Say NO to Paxos Overhead: Replacing Consensus with Network Ordering / Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres, Dan R. K. Ports

Runner-Up: PipeGen: Data Pipe Generator for Hybrid Analytics / Brandon Haynes, Alvin Cheung, Magda Balazinska

Runner-Up: Programming by Examples for Industrial Data Wrangling / Alex Polozov; Sumit Gulwani and the PROSE team at Microsoft

Winner: What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks (Total Moving Face Reconstruction) / Supasorn Suwajanakorn, Steve Seitz, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman

Runner-Up: ApneaApp – Diagnosing Sleep Apnea / Rajalakshmi Nandakumar

Runner-Up: Building Consistent Transactions with Inconsistent Replication (TAPIR) / Irene Zhang, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Dan R. K. Ports

Runner-Up: HyperCam – Hyperspectral Imaging and Their Applications / Mayank Goel, Eric Whitmire, Alex Mariakakis, Scott Saponas, Neel Joshi, Shwetak Patel

Winner: Arrakis: The Operating System is the Control Plane / Simon Peter, Jialin Li, Irene Zhang, Dan R.K. Ports, Doug Woos, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas Anderson, Timothy Roscoe

Runner-Up: WiBreathe: Estimating Respiration Rate Using Wireless Signals in Natural Settings in the Home / Ruth V. Ravichandran, Elliot N. Saba, Ke-Yu Chen, Mayank Goel, Sidhant Gupta, Shwetak N. Patel

Runner-Up: Total Moving Face Reconstruction / Supasorn Suwajanakorn, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Steven M. Seitz.

Winner: Ambient Back Scatter: Battery Free Communication / Aaron Parks, Vincent Liu, Vamsi Talla

Runner-Up: Personalized SLAs in the Cloud / Jennifer Ortiz, Victor Texeira de Almeida

Runner-Up: iHome 3D: Capturing Indoor Scenes with Smartphone / Aditya Sankar

Runner-Up: WiSee: Whole Home Gesture Recognition Using WiFi / Ruth Ravichandran, Sidhant Gupta, Qifan Pu

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Winner: SpiroSmart: Using a Microphone to Measure Lung Function on a Mobile Phone / Eric C. Larson, Mayank Goel

Runner-Up: FreeDOM: a New Baseline for the Web / Raymond Cheng, Will Scott

Runner-Up: Wireless Power for Left Ventricular Assist Device / Ben Waters, Scott Wisdom, Brody Mahoney, Chen Shi

Winner: Humantenna: Sensing Whole-Body Gestures Using the Human Body as an Antenna / Gabe Cohn

Runner-Up: ShareMeNot: Protecting users from third-party social media buttons / Franzi Roesner

Runner-Up: Playing Games with Robots: Autonomous Small-Scale Manipulation / Cynthia Matuszek

Winner: Prefab: Modifying Any Graphical User Interface / Morgan Dixon & Daniel Leventhal

Runner-Up: SNUPI: Sensor Nodes Utilizing Powerline Infrastructure / Gabe Cohn

Runner-Up: Comet: An active distributed key-value store / Amit Levy & Roxana Geambasu

Runner-Up: Scalable Distributed Network Management / Colin Dixon & Dane Brandon

Winner: HydroSense / Jon Froehlich, Sidhant Gupta, Eric Larson, Gabe Cohen & Tim Campbell

Runner-Up: Reverse Traceroute / Ethan Katz-Bassett

Runner-Up: Deterministic Multiprocessing / Joseph Devietti & Brandon Lucia

Runner-Up: Vanish: Increasing Privacy with Self-Destructing Data / Roxana Geambasu & Amit Levy

Winner: One Swarm / Michael Piatek & Tomas Isdal

Runner-Up: Developing a Wayfinding Application for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments / Alan Lui & Harlan Hile

Runner-Up: Fold-It / Seth Cooper

Runner-Up: Semi-private Internet via Shared Knowledge Questions / Michael Toomin

Winner: Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene Graduate student participants / Pravin Bhat & Noah Snavely

Runner-Up: A Case for OneSwarm / Michael Piatek & Tomas Isdal

Runner-Up: On Best-Response Bidding in Ad Auctions Graduate Student Participant / Yionnis Giotis

Runner-Up: The Organization and Sharing of Web-Service Objects with Menagerie / Roxana Geambasu, Cherie Chung, & Alex Moshchuk

Winner: Summarizing Personal Web Browsing Sessions / Mira Dontcheva

Runner-Up: Interactive Cutaway Illustrations of Complex Models / Wil Li

Runner-Up: SpyProxy: On-the-fly Protection from Malicious Web Content / Alex Moshchuk & Tanya Bragin