Microsoft Research presents the Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) Awards to support academic research in software engineering technologies, tools, practices, and teaching methods. Read more...
SEIF 2013 Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the SEIF 2013 awards!
This year, we received 141 proposals for research grants in foundational software engineering, NUI for digital inclusion, devices and services, and cloud computing. After a thorough review process within Microsoft Research, we selected 16 projects. This is an increase over 2012, when we selected 10 projects. The SEIF 2013 Award recipients are:
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Nilanjan Banerjee
Project: Wearable Multi-Sensor Gesture Recognition in Assistive Devices for Paralysis Patients | |
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University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
Project: CheckCell: Data Debugging for Spreadsheets | |
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Marcelo d'Amorim
Project: Human-Centric Test Generation | |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Project: Understanding Parallelism and Automating Refactoring for Readability and Performance | |
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University of Nevada, Reno, United States
Project: ASK— An Assistive Spatial Knowledge Navigator for People Who Are Blind | |
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University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Project: Fully Automated Software Testing for Natural User Interfaces |
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Roberto Giacobazzi and Francesco Ranzato Università di Verona and University of Padova, Italy
Project: Abstract Interpretation of Self-Modifying Code |
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University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Project: Automatically Synthesizing Integration Tests | |
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University of California, Irvine, United States
Project: Empowering Interactive Surfaces with Body-Based Interactions to Provide Step-by-Step Guidance to Children with ASD | |
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University of Alberta, Canada
Project: Green Mining and Mobile App Energy Ratings | |
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University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States
Project: Wheeltop Interaction: Full-Body Gesture Control for Power Wheelchair Users |
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University of Washington, United States
Project: Mobile/Social Debugging Games for Computing Education | |
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University of British Columbia, Canada
Project: Adaptive Touch Targeting for Mobile Devices: Supporting Users Across the Adult Lifespan | |
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Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil
Project: Cloud Detours: Non-Intrusive Code Transformations to Support Automatic Software Adaptation to the Cloud | |
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Technical University Munich, Germany
Project: Deriving Modular Type Inferences that Compute Best Types Using Abstract Interpretation | |
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Rice University, United States
Project: Engineering Integrity and Confidentiality for the STAR-Vote Electronic Voting System | |
