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