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International computing research competition
The ACM Student Research Competition (ACM SRC ) is an international computing research competition for university students. The competition is held annually and split into undergraduate and graduate divisions, organized by the Association for Computing Machinery . With several hundred annual participants, the Student Research Competition is considered the world's largest university-level research contest in the field of computing.[ 1] [ 2]
The competition started as a travel grant program in 2003 and was previously sponsored by Microsoft . The winners of the competition are recognized at the ACM Awards Banquet, alongside the Turing Award winners.[ 3]
The first round of competition spans more than 20 major ACM conferences, hosting special poster sessions to showcase research submitted by students. Selected semi-finalists add a slide presentation and compete for prizes in both undergraduate and graduate categories based on their knowledge, contribution, and quality of presentation. Those taking first place at the second-level competitions are invited to compete in the annual Grand Finals. Three top students in each category are selected as winners each year.[ 1] [ 3]
First-round conferences include the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference , the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) ,[ 4] International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) ,[ 5] Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing ,[ 6] SIGPLAN's Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation , and many others.
Year
Undergraduate Winners
Graduate Winners
2025
1. Jason Han (Rice University )2. Craig Liu (Purdue University )University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign )
1. Jordan Pettyjohn (Colorado School of Mines )2. Haowen Lai (University of Pennsylvania )Max Planck Institute for Software Systems )
2024
1. Jakub Bachurski (University of Cambridge )2. Amar Shah (University of California, Berkeley )University of Minnesota )
1. Stefan Klessinger (University of Passau )2. Zhewen Pan (University of Wisconsin-Madison )Simula Research Laboratory )
2023
1. Takahito Murakami (University of Tsukuba )2. Raphael Douglas Giles (University of New South Wales )University of Maryland, Baltimore County )
1. Zhe Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences )2. Juan Carlos Alonso Valenzuela (University of Seville )Università della Svizzera italiana )
2022
1. Zizheng Guo (Peking University )2. Yihong Zhang (University of Washington )Tianjin University )
1. Ziliang Lai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong )2. Haotiang Zhang (University of Texas at Arlington )University of California, Riverside )
2021
1. Thomas B. McHugh (Northwestern University )2. Chuangtao Chen (Zhejiang University )Birla Institute of Technology )
1. Jiaqi Gu (University of Texas at Austin )2. Konstantinos Kallas (University of Pennsylvania )Tsinghua University )
2020
1. Zhaowei Xi (Tsinghua University )2. Alexander Zlokapa (California Institute of Technology )University of California, Santa Cruz )
1. Peter Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology )2. James Davis (Virginia Tech )University of New South Wales )
2019
1. Zhuangzhuang Zhou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University )2. Fandel Lin (National Cheng Kung University )University of California, Berkeley )
1. Gengjie Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong )2. Christie Alappat (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg )Texas A&M University )
2018
1. Tiancheng Sun (University of California, San Diego )2. Patrick Thier (Technische Universität Wien )Southern Illinois University Carbondale )
1. Meng Li (University of Texas, Austin )2. Jon Gjengset (Massachusetts Institute of Technology )University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign )
2017
1. Victor Lanvin (École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay )2. Jennifer Vaccaro (Olin College of Engineering )University of Washington )
1. Kazem Cheshmi (Rutgers University )2. Omid Abari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology )University of Washington )
2016
1. Jeevana Priya Inala (Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
1. Swarnendu Biswas (Ohio State University )2. Thomas Degueule (INRIA )North Carolina State University )
2015
1. Thomas Effland (University at Buffalo )2. Mitchell Gordon (University of Rochester )Pomona College )
1. Lu Xiao (Drexel University )2. Shupeng Sun (Carnegie Mellon University )Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
2014
1. Bernd Huber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology )2. James Bornholt (Australian National University )Virginia Tech )
1. Aadithy V. Karthik (University of California, Berkeley )2. Sai Zhang (University of Washington )University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign )
2013
1. Zack Coker (Auburn University )2. Olivier Savary-Belanger (McGill University )University of Michigan )
1. Heather Underwood (University of Colorado, Boulder )2. Tiffany Inglis (Universityof Waterloo )NYU Tandon School of Engineering )
2012
1. Sarah Chasins (Swarthmore College )2. Vanessa Pena Araya (Universidad de Chile )
1. Hyungsin Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology )2. Yuan Tian (Auburn University )TU Kaiserslautern )
2011
1. Peter Calvert (University of Cambridge )2. Tsung-Wei Huang (National Cheng Kung University )University of Delaware )
1. Swapnil Patil (Carnegie Mellon University )2. Nurcan Durak (University of Louisville )Penn State University )
2010
1. Manasi Vartak (Worcester Polytechnic Institute )2. Diego Cavalcanti (Federal University of Campina Grande )Wheaton College )
1. Patrick Kelley (Carnegie Mellon University )2. Michal Tvarozek (Slovak University of Technology )
2009
1. Alice Zhu (Harvey Mudd College )2. Neha Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay )Indiana University )
1. Xu Liu (University of Maryland )2. Stratis Ioannidis (University of Toronto )Waseda University )
2008
1. Anselm Grundhoefer (Bauhaus University Weimar )2. Maria A. Kazandjieva (Mount Holyoke College )University of British Columbia )
1. Eugene Borodin (Stony Brook University )2. Emerson Murphy-Hill (Portland State University )University of Toronto )
2007
1. Yuki Mori (University of Tokyo )2. Scott Hale (Eckerd College )Hiram College )
1. Danny Dig (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign )2. Yalling Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign )University of Kansas )
2006
1. Eric Bodden (RWTH Aachen University )2. Spiros Xanthos (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign )Harvey Mudd College )
1. Jane Tougas (Dalhousie University )2. Kulesh Shanmugasundaram (Polytechnic Institute of NYU )University of Washington )
