The CS Department held its sixth Research Day on Tuesday, May 31 2016. A substantial number of posters and presentations (29) were exhibited by excellent M.Sc. and Ph.D. students before multitude of guests from the Technion and the industry.

The festive and joyful event lasted more than 3 hours during which the presenters repeatedly demonstrated their research to highly intrigued audience and both visitors and young researchers were greatly enthusiastic. An official judging committee ranked the posters and the visitors voted for the public's favorite.

The following posters were awarded first place, and will receive a prize of NIS 1,500 each:

Poster no. 6: Liat Peterfreund - Incorporating Information Extraction in Database Queries

Poster no. 19: Matan Sela - Computational Caricaturization of Surfaces

The following posters were awarded second place, and will receive a prize of NIS 750 each:

Poster no. 7: Gregory Schwartzman - A Fast Distributed 2+epsilon Approximation for Weighted Vertex Cover

Poster no. 9: Ran Ben Basat - Heavy Hitters in Streams and Sliding Windows

Poster no. 12: Arthur Kiyanovski - Network Controller Emulation on a Sidecore for Unmodified Virtual Machines

The following posters was awarded the Public's Favorites, and will receive a prize of NIS 500:

Poster no. 2: Nachshon Cohen - Memory Management for Lock-Free Data Structures

Poster no. 8: Liran Funaro - Ginseng: Market Driven LLC Allocation

Poster no. 10: Eran Gilad - O-structures: Parallelizing Irregular Data Structures using Memory Versioning

Poster no. 19: Matan Sela - Computational Caricaturization of Surfaces

The awards are in part a courtesy of the faculty Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP).

Thanks to all the participants and congratulation to the winners!

All participating posters in 2016 CS Research Day (by research interests).

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