Robert Tairas Receives Dean's Graduate Student Research Award
Robert Tairas is a recipient of the 2010 Dean's Graduate Research Award in the College of Arts and Sciences. Robert was selected from among an elite group of students nominated by their major department for outstanding academic achievement in research. The award was presented by Professor and Interim Dean, Jean Ann Linney, Ph.D., at the College Faculty Meeting and Awards Reception on April 27, 2010.
During his Ph.D. studies, Robert has co-authored over a dozen papers, including 2 journal papers, 7 conference and workshop papers, 6 conference posters, 2 doctoral symposia publications, and 2 tool demonstrations that are indexed in the ACM Digital Library. Robert served as a Teaching Assistant at the start of his Ph.D. studies and subsequently became a Research Assistant on an NSF grant. He passed the Level 1 Qualifying Exam "With Distinction" and has served as both secretary and chair of the local student chapter of the ACM.
(Posted: May 7, 2010)
CIS Students Receive Several Awards at ACM Conference
Over 40 students from all over the southeast attended the ACM MidSoutheast conference (ACM's oldest conference now in its 51st year!). The conference was held in Gatlinburg, TN, on November 13, 2009.
The CIS department was represented well by many students who gave presentations:
- Undergrad: Robert Cloud
- Masters: Walker Haddock
- PhD: Soma Halder, Liping Zhou, Richa Tiwari, Song Gao, Yu Sun, and Robert Tairas
Among the five awards in the graduate category, UAB CIS students won four of the awards. The following students received awards at the conference banquet:
Masters
- Walker Haddock, Second Place
Ph.D.
- Richa Tiwari, First Place
- Robert Tairas, Second Place
- Yu Sun, Third Place
(Posted: November 17, 2009)
CIS Students Make it to Finals of ACM's Student Research Competition at OOPSLA
 CIS Ph.D. students Yu Sun and Robert Tairas reached the final round of the ACM Student Research Competition at this year's International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2009). Yu's presentation was entitled "Supporting Model Evolution through Demonstration-based Model Transformation." Robert's presentation was entitled "Centralizing Clone Group Representation and Maintenance."
The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research at well-known ACM sponsored and co-sponsored conferences before a panel of judges and attendees.
In addition, at this year's OOPSLA conference, Softcom members were involved in organizing workshops (Jeff Gray), participating in the Doctoral Symposium (Zekai Demirezen and Yu Sun), presenting two posters at the refactoring workshop (Ferosh Jacob and Robert Tairas), conducting two research demonstrations (Robert Tairas and Yu Sun), assisting as Student Volunteers (Zekai Demirezen, Ferosh Jacob, Qichao Liu, Yu Sun, and Robert Tairas), and moderating a panel (Jeff Gray).
(Posted: November 2, 2009)
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