Image: Starting this year, the School of Computing has instituted new awards to recognize students with publications in top venues. The first cohort of advisees was announced during the annual research day on 18th April. The awardees were: Aiman Munir for their publication Anchor-Oriented Localized Voronoi Partitioning for GPS-denied Multi-Robot Coverage at IROS ’24. Nicolas Nino for their publication Unveiling IoT Security in Reality: A Firmware-Centric Journey, which was presented in USENIX Security ’24, Yucheng Shi for their publication Black-box Backdoor Defense via Zero-shot Image Purification at NeurolPS ’23, and Aditya Shinde for their publication in Modeling Cognitive Biases in Decision-Theoretic Planning for Active Cyber Deception at AAMAS ’24, Aiman, Nicolas, Yucheng, and Aditya are advised by Professors Ramaviyas Parasuraman, Le Guan, Ninghao Liu, and Prashant Doshi. We congratulate these students (and their advisors) for their high-quality work and the awards. Type of News/Audience: Student Success 2025 SoC Research Day Graduate Student Awardees
