IACS Young Writer's Award

The IACS Young Writer’s Award is granted to a graduate* or undergraduate student working with a faculty member or affiliate of the institute. The award consists of a one-time prize of $500 to celebrate the student’s first paper that is accepted in a peer-reviewed publication or conference proceedings. You do not have to be the first author. Only full-time, fully supported students are eligible to receive this award. Both international and domestic students are eligible.

Students cannot name themselves for selection. Faculty supervisors must propose students for the award based on the faculty member’s assessment of the student’s first significant publication. Faculty must submit the student's name, department, title of paper, name and date of publication to iacs@stonybrook.edu. Award winners may be required to present their papers at an annual IACS event in honor of their achievements.  

*Note  - In order to be eligible for any IACS financial award, all graduate students who joined their research group as of fall 19 or later must have completed the Professional Development Program (PDP) or be currently enrolled.

Past Winners

• 2024
   

  Name	Title
  Kenneth Hanson	A TSL analysis of Japanese case
  Scott Nelson	The blueprint model of production (link TBA)
  Anthony Mannino	Anti-Coulomb ion-ion interactions: A theoretical and computational study
  Danial Vahabli	From the global South to the human rights stage: A study of global frame resonance using a comparative case of Women, Life, Freedom and Bloody November in Iran
  Hongji Gao	Efficient and Scalable Wave Function Compression Using Corner Hierarchical Matrices
  Ioannis Nikforakis	Understanding Pre-Chamber Combustion Performance in a Closed-Cycle Model of a Novel Rotary Engine
  Rodrigo Ristow Hadlich	A Deep Learning Approach to Predict In-Cylinder Pressure of a Compression Ignition Engine

• 2023
   

  Name	Title
  Darya Stepanenko	SpikeScape: A Tool for Analyzing Structural Diversity in Experimental Structures of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein
  Clare Flynn	Adélie penguins north and east of the ‘Adélie gap’ continue to thrive in the face of dramatic declines elsewhere in the Antarctic Peninsula region
  Sarah Payne	Re-evaluating the evaluation of neural morphological inflection models
  Baodi Shan	MPI-based Remote OpenMP Offloading: A More Efficient and Easy-to-use Implementation
  Catherine Feldman	Experiences with Porting the FLASH Code to Ookami, an HPE Apollo 80 A64FX Platform
  Jason Loprete	Enabling Residential Heating Decarbonization through Hydronic Low-Temperature Thermal Distribution using Forced-Air Assistive Devices" has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy.
  Jacob Jones	Preserving superconvergence of spectral elements for curved domains via h- and p-geometric refinement
  Juan Alcantara	Rapid Rescoring and Refinement of Ligand–Receptor Complexes Using Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics with a Monte Carlo Pose Reservoir

• 2022
   

  Name	Title
  Gaofeng Deng	Diagnosis of COVID-19 using Chest CT
  Haotian Yang	Enhancing CO Oxidation Activity via Tuning a Charge Transfer Between Gold Nanoparticles and Supports
  Gaurav Guleria	A comparative study of gasoline skeletal mechanisms under partial fuel stratification conditions using large eddy simulations
  Fangchun Liang	Linear and Nonlinear Optical Processes Controlling S2 and S1 Dual Fluorescence in Cyanine Dyes
  Ram Mohan Telikicherla	Treatment of near-incompressibility and volumetric locking in higher order material point methods
  Mohammad Naqib Rahimi	A smoothed particle hydrodynamics approach for phase field modeling of brittle fracture
  Caitlin Hetherington	Vibronic Excitons and Conical Intersections in Semiconductor Quantum Dots
  John Murzaku	Re-Examining FactBank: Predicting the Author's Presentation of Factuality

• 2021
   

  Name	Title
  Xiaoning Wu	Coupled Aqua and Ridge Planets in the Community Earth System Model
  Alec Wills	Role of water model on ion dissociation at ambient conditions
  Yimin Zhu	Fast Stencil Computations using Fast Fourier Transforms
  Changnian Han	Artificial Intelligence for Accelerating Time Integrations in Multiscale Modeling

• 2020
   

  Name	Title
  Piotr Sokol	Information Geometry of Orthogonal Initializations and Training
  Yousef El-Laham	Stochastic Gradient Population Monte Carlo
  Mohammad Javanmard	Toward Efficient Architecture-Independent Algorithms for Dynamic Programs
  Darius Coelho	PeckVis: A Visual Analytics Tool To Analyze Dominance Hierarchies in Small Groups
  Hossep Dolatian	Cyclicity and Prosodic Misalignment in Armenian Stems
  Jonathan Rawski	No Free Lunch in Linguistics or Machine Learning
  Kiran Eiden	Dynamics of Laterally Propagating Flames
  Vidushi Sharma	Water-induced formation of an alkali-ion dimer in cryptomelane nanorods
  Qiao Chen	WLS-ENO Remap: Superconvergent and Non-Oscillatory Weighted Least Squares Data Transfer on Surfaces
  Xuebin Wang	WLS-ENO Remap: Superconvergent and Non-Oscillatory Weighted Least Squares Data Transfer on Surfaces
  Jonathan Gentile	Shear Localization and its Dependence on Microstructural Length Scales in Metallic Glass Composites
  Marija Iloska	A Particle Gibbs Sampling Approach to Topology Inference in Gene Regulatory Network
  Wenbin Lu	Enabling Low-Overhead Communication in Multi-threaded OpenSHMEM Applications using Contexts
  Yulun Wang	Prospect of using Grover's search in the noisy-intermediate-scale quantum-computer era
  Bhavya Ghai	Explainable Active Learning (XAL): Toward AI Explanations as Interfaces for Machine Teachers
  Noah Strycker	Presence of King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Elephant Island provides further evidence of range expansion
  Michael Wethington	Presence of King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Elephant Island provides further evidence of range expansion
  Gaurav Verma	Enhancing DataRaceBench for Evaluating Data Race Detection Tools

• 2019

  Name	Title
  Sergei Kotelnikov	Monte Carlo on the manifold and MD refinement
  Charuta Pethe	The Trumpiest Trump?
  Anjul Kumar Tyagi	ICE: An Interactive Configuration Explorer for High Dimensional Categorical Parameter Spaces
  Bento Goncalves	Weakly Labeling the Antarctic
  Ayush Kumar	Visual Multi-Metric Grouping of Eye-Tracking Data
  Dakotah Lambert	Extracting Subregular constraints from Regular stringsets
  Sebastian Dick	Learning from the Density to Correct Total Energy and Forces in First Principle Simulations
  Yipeng Li	Compact feature-aware Hermite-style high-order surface reconstruction
  Chuan Tian	ff19SB: Amino-Acid-Specific Protein backbone Parameters Trained against Quantum Mechanics Energy Surfaces in Solution
  Koushik Kasavajhala	ff19SB: Amino-Acid-Specific Protein backbone Parameters Trained against Quantum Mechanics Energy Surfaces in Solution
  Kellon A. A. Belfon	ff19SB: Amino-Acid-Specific Protein backbone Parameters Trained against Quantum Mechanics Energy Surfaces in Solution
  Lauren Raguette	ff19SB: Amino-Acid-Specific Protein backbone Parameters Trained against Quantum Mechanics Energy Surfaces in Solution

   
• 2018
   

  Name	Title
  Michael Schrimpf	population_status_of_the_antarctic_shag_phalacrocorax_atrice
  Alexander Borowicz	multi-modal-survey-of-adeliie-penguin-mega-colonies.pdf
  Mikhail Ignatov	cluspro-fmft-saxs.pdf
  Meghan Henderson	Effects of Spring onset
  Wenbo Wang	Nanocrystalline Al-Mg
  W. Streit Cunningham	Softening due to Grain Boundary
  Aditi Ghai	A Comparison of Preconditioned Krylov Subspace
  Mohammad Ruhul Amin	Re-annotation of 12,495 Prokaryotic
  Saeed Boor Boor	Visualization of Neuronal Structures
  Cecilia O'Leary	Understanding Historical Summer Flounder

• 2017

  Name	Title
  Phillip McDowall	Ultra-Fine Scale Spatially-Integrated Mapping of Habitat and Occupancy Using Structure-From-Motion
  Maureen Lynch	Improving the Use of Biological Data in Antarctic Management
  Longtao Han	A path for Synthesis of Boron-nitride Nanostructures in Volume of Arc Plasma
  Casey Youngflesh	Circumpolar analysis of the Adelie Penguin reveals the importance of environmental variability in phenological mismatch
  Yang Zhang	Stress-assisted_grain_growth_in_nanocrystalline_metals.pdf
  Mozhgan Rahimi Boldaji	cfd_simulations_of_the_effect_of_water_injection_characteristics_on_tsci.pdf

• 2016

  Name	Title
  Maximilian Katz	White Dwarf Mergers on Adaptive Meshes I. Methodology and  Code Verification
  Nicole Bender	Patterns of Tourism in the Antarctic Peninsula Region:a 20-year analysis
  Junting Ye	Discovering Opinion Spammer Groups by Network Footprints
  Hongxu Liu	WLS-ENO: Weighted-least-squares based essentially non-oscillatory schemes for finite volume methods on unstructured meshes
  Lukasz Orlowski	Creating Interconnect Topologies by Algorithmic Edge Removal: MOD and SMOD graphs
  Emaad Ahmed Manzoor	Fast Memory-Efficient Anomaly Detection in Streaming Heterogenous Graphs
  Adrian Soto-Cambres	Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter with Semiconductor Targets
  Bin Cheng	Mechanistic Coupling of Dislocation and Shear Transformation Zone Plasticity in Crystalline-Amorphous Nanolaminates
  Simon Divilov	Coupling of Bias-induced Crystallographic Shear Planes with Charged Domain Walls in Ferroelectric Oxide Thin Films
  Dzmitry Padhorny	Protein-protein Docking by Fast Generalized Fourier Transforms on 5D Rotational Manifolds
  Donald Willcox	Type Ia Supernova Explosions from Hybrid Carbon–Oxygen–Neon White Dwarf Progenitors

• 2015

  Name	Title
  Vivek Kulkarni	Statistically Significant Detection of Linguistic Change
  Cao Lu	Hybrid geometric + algebraic multigrid method with semi-iterative smoothers
  Shebuti Rayana	Less is More: Building Selective Anomaly Ensembles with Application to Event Detection in Temporal Graphs
  Huafeng Dong	The phase diagram and hardness of carbon nitrides
  Xinglin Zhao	Conformal and Non-conformal Adaptive Mesh Refinement with Hierarchical Array-based Half-Facet Data Structures
  Aimilios Sofianopolous	Effects of Hydrogen Addition on Automotive Lean-Burn 1 Natural Gas Engines – A Critical Review

• 2014

  Name	Title
  Dan Elton	Polar nanoregions in water: A study of the dielectric properties of TIP4P/2005, TIP4P/2005f and TTM3F
  Pramod Ganapathi	The Range 1 Query (R1Q) Problem