Best Paper Award Winners
Congratulations to the authors of the 2021 Best Paper Award winners and runners-up!

The IEEE Computer Society Publications Board has awarded the following 2021 Best Paper Awards based on nominations submitted by each publication’s awards committee.

Winners

S. Furnell, J. Haney and M. Theofanos, “Pandemic Parallels: What Can Cybersecurity Learn From COVID-19?Computer, vol. 54, no. 03, pp. 68-72, March 2021

P. Gu, J. Han, D. Chen and C. Wang, “Reconstructing Unsteady Flow Data From Representative Streamlines via Diffusion and Deep-Learning-Based DenoisingIEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 41, no. 06, pp. 111-121, November – December 2021

B. Granger and F. Perez, “Jupyter: Thinking and Storytelling With Code and DataComputing in Science & Engineering, vol. 23, no. 02, pp. 7-14, March – April 2021

K. Cheng, et al.,”SecureBoost: A Lossless Federated Learning FrameworkIEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 36, no. 06, pp. 87-98, November – December 2021

M. Gaur, K. Faldu and A. Sheth, “Semantics of the Black-Box: Can Knowledge Graphs Help Make Deep Learning Systems More Interpretable and Explainable?IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 25, no. 01, pp. 51-59, January – February 2021

T. Norrie, et al., “The Design Process for Google’s Training Chips: TPUv2 and TPUv3IEEE Micro, vol. 41, no. 02, pp. 56-63, March – April 2021

Y. Wu, et al., “Modeling Incongruity between Modalities for Multimodal Sarcasm DetectionIEEE MultiMedia, vol. 28, no. 02, pp. 86-95, April – June 2021

O. Bates, C. Lord, H. Alter, A. Friday and B. Kirman, “Lessons From One Future of Work: Opportunities to Flip the Gig EconomyIEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 20, no. 04, pp. 26-34, October – December 2021

W. Ahmad and D. Clark, “A Systems Approach Toward Addressing Anonymous Abuses: Technical and Policy Considerations IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 19, no. 02, pp. 38-47, March – April 2021

J. Bader, S. Seohyun Kim, F. Sifei Luan, S. Chandra and E. Meijer, “AI in Software Engineering at FacebookIEEE Software, vol. 38, no. 04, pp. 52-61, July – August 2021

Q. Tran, et al., “A Survey on Privacy-Preserving Blockchain Systems (PPBS) and a Novel PPBS-Based Framework for Smart AgricultureIEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, vol. 2, no. 01, pp. 72-84, 2021

G. Yannakakis, R. Cowie and C. Busso, “The Ordinal Nature of Emotions: An Emerging ApproachIEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 12, no. 01, pp. 16-35, January – March 2021

J. Johnson, M. Douze and H. Jégou, “Billion-Scale Similarity Search with GPUsIEEE Transactions on Big Data, vol. 7, no. 03, pp. 535-547, July 2021

S. Liang, et al.,”EnGN: A High-Throughput and Energy-Efficient Accelerator for Large Graph Neural NetworksIEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 70, no. 09, pp. 1511-1525, September 2021

S. Das and S. Sahni, “Two-Aggregator Topology Optimization Using Single Paths in Data Center NetworksIEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 9, no. 02, pp. 807-820, April – June 2021

F. Zhang, et al., “An Efficient Parallel Secure Machine Learning Framework on GPUsIEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, vol. 32, no. 09, pp. 2262-2276, September 2021

X. Wang, L. Yang, X. Chen, M. Deen and J. Jin, “Improved Multi-Order Distributed HOSVD with Its Incremental Computing for Smart City ServicesIEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, vol. 6, no. 03, pp. 456-468, July – September 2021

V. Manes, et al., “The Art, Science, and Engineering of Fuzzing: A Survey” in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 2312-2331, November 2021

Z. Yang, et al.,”CDPath: Cooperative Driver Pathways Discovery Using Integer Linear Programming and Markov Clustering” in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 18, no. 04, pp. 1384-1395, July – August 2021

Runners-Up

A. Holzinger and H. Muller, “Toward Human–AI Interfaces to Support Explainability and Causability in Medical AIComputer, vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 78-86, October 2021

M. Karyda, D. Wilde and M. Kjarsgaard, “Narrative Physicalization: Supporting Interactive Engagement With Personal DataIEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 41, no. 01, pp. 74-86, January – February 2021

B. Haworth, et al., “Gamification of Crowd-Driven Environment Design” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 41, no. 04, pp. 107-117, July – August 2021

S. Pennycook, J. Sewall, D. Jacobsen, T. Deakin and S. McIntosh-Smith, “Navigating Performance, Portability, and ProductivityComputing in Science & Engineering, vol. 23, no. 05, pp. 28-38, September – October 2021

V. Moscato, A. Picariello and G. Sperli, “An Emotional Recommender System for MusicIEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 36, no. 05, pp. 57-68, September – October 2021

D. Giri, K. Chiu, G. Eichler, P. Mantovani and L. Carloni, “Accelerator Integration for Open-Source SoC DesignIEEE Micro, vol. 41, no. 04, pp. 8-14, July – August 2021

R. de Abreu, D. Mattos, J. Santos, G. Ghinea and D. Muchaluat-Saade, “Toward Content-Driven Intelligent Authoring of Mulsemedia ApplicationsIEEE MultiMedia, vol. 28, no. 01, pp. 7-16, January – March 2021

V. Ang and L. Shar, “COVID-19 One Year on – Security and Privacy Review of Contact Tracing Mobile AppsIEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 20, no. 04, pp. 61-70, October – December 2021

S. Eismann, et al.,”Serverless Applications: Why, When, and How?IEEE Software, vol. 38, no. 01, pp. 32-39, January – February 2021

L. Liu, S. Zhou, H. Huang and Z. Zheng, “From Technology to Society: An Overview of Blockchain-Based DAOIEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, vol. 2, no. 01, pp. 204-215, 2021

J. Gideon, M. McInnis and E. Provost, “Improving Cross-Corpus Speech Emotion Recognition with Adversarial Discriminative Domain Generalization (ADDoG)IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 12, no. 04, pp. 1055-1068, October – December 2021

J. Santos, T. Syed, M. Naldi, R. Campello and J. Sander, “Hierarchical Density-Based Clustering Using MapReduceIEEE Transactions on Big Data, vol. 7, no. 01, pp. 102-114, March 2021

W. Wu, et al., “SAFA: A Semi-Asynchronous Protocol for Fast Federated Learning With Low Overhead” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 70, no. 05, pp. 655-668, May 2021

Y. Zhang, C. Xu, X. Lin and X. Shen, “Blockchain-Based Public Integrity Verification for Cloud Storage against Procrastinating AuditorsIEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 9, no. 03, pp. 923-937, July – September 2021

C. Wang, Y. Yang and P. Zhou, “Towards Efficient Scheduling of Federated Mobile Devices Under Computational and Statistical Heterogeneity IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, vol. 32, no. 02, pp. 394-410, February 2021

S. Ram, S. Sahoo, B. Das, K. Mahapatra and S. Mohanty, “Eternal-Thing: A Secure Aging-Aware Solar-Energy Harvester Thing for Sustainable IoTIEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, vol. 6, no. 02, pp. 320-333, April – June 2021

Z. Wan, X. Xia, D. Lo and G. Murphy, “How does Machine Learning Change Software Development Practices?IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 47, no. 09, pp. 1857-1871, September 2021