OOPSLA 2007 Student Research Competition winners

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After its remarkable success in previous years, OOPSLA has again hosted an ACM Student Research Competition. The competition, sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for students to present their original research at top ACM conferences before a panel of judges and attendees.

We received 20 submissions to the OOPSLA 2007 Student Research Competition. Of those 20 submissions, 7 were accepted to the competition. Those students received a stipend for their travel expenses related to attending OOPSLA. The judges evaluated their work during the poster session. The judges selected 5 submissions to advance to the second round of the competition, wherein the students gave 10-minute presentations about their work. After a vigourous debate, the judges selected the winning submissions.

The winners are as follows:

  • In third place, for the work titled "Activating Refactorings Faster", Emerson Murphy-Hill.
  • In second place, for the work titled "Assuring the Execution Architecture of Object-Oriented Programs using Ownership Domain Annotations", Marwan Abi-Antoun.
  • In first place, for the work titled "Code Genie: A Tool for Test-Driven Source Code Search", Otavio Lemos, Sushil Bajracharya, and Joel Ossher.

All three of these submissions now advance to the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals. A different panel of judges will evaluate the winners of all of the Student Research Competitions from the various ACM conferences. Three Grand Finals winners will be selected. These winners, along with their advisors, will be invited to the annual ACM Awards Banquet, where they will receive formal recognition for their work. The winning submissions from the OOPSLA Student Research Competition have historically fared very well in the Grand Finals. Given the high quality of work that has been presented here by these students, I anticipate similar results at this year's Grand Finals.

OOPSLA 2008 will host a Student Research Competition. I would like to invite all students to begin to think now about the work that they can do to submit to the competition next year.