ACM Student Research Competition


The ACM Student Research Competition 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.
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.

Structure

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.
First-round conferences include the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference, the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, and SIGPLAN's Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, and many others.

Previous Winners

YearUndergraduate WinnersGraduate Winners
20251. Jason Han
2. Craig Liu
3. Jizheng He 		1. Jordan Pettyjohn
2. Haowen Lai
3. Vaastav Anand
20241. Jakub Bachurski
2. Amar Shah
3. Rhett Olson 		1. Stefan Klessinger
2. Zhewen Pan
3. Chengjie Lu
20231. Takahito Murakami
2. Raphael Douglas Giles
3. Christopher Bain 		1. Zhe Liu
2. Juan Carlos Alonso Valenzuela
3. Irene Zanardi
20221. Zizheng Guo
2. Yihong Zhang
3. Chen Yang 		1. Ziliang Lai
2. Haotiang Zhang
3. Madhurima Chakraborty
20211. Thomas B. McHugh
2. Chuangtao Chen
3. Rakshit Mittal 		1. Jiaqi Gu
2. Konstantinos Kallas
3. Guyue Huang
20201. Zhaowei Xi
2. Alexander Zlokapa
3. Ocean Hurd 		1. Peter Li
2. James Davis
3. Hasindu Gamaarachchi
20191. Zhuangzhuang Zhou
2. Fandel Lin
3. Elizaveta Tremsina 		1. Gengjie Chen
2. Christie Alappat
3. Scott Kolodziej
20181. Tiancheng Sun
2. Patrick Thier
3. Ayush Kohli 		1. Meng Li
2. Jon Gjengset
3. Daniel George
20171. Victor Lanvin
2. Jennifer Vaccaro
3. Martin Kellogg 		1. Kazem Cheshmi
2. Omid Abari
3. Calvin Loncaric
20161. Jeevana Priya Inala
1. Swarnendu Biswas
2. Thomas Degueule
3. Christopher Theisen
20151. Thomas Effland
2. Mitchell Gordon
3. Shannon N. Lubetich 		1. Lu Xiao
2. Shupeng Sun
3. Omid Abara
20141. Bernd Huber
2. James Bornholt
3. Carlo del Mundo 		1. Aadithy V. Karthik
2. Sai Zhang
3. Ehsan Totoni
20131. Zack Coker
2. Olivier Savary-Belanger
3. Mairin C. Chesney 		1. Heather Underwood
2. Tiffany Inglis
3. Jevavijayan Rajendran
20121. Sarah Chasins
2. Vanessa Pena Araya 		1. Hyungsin Kim
2. Yuan Tian
3. Matthias Wilhelm
20111. Peter Calvert
2. Tsung-Wei Huang
3. Timothy Walsh 		1. Swapnil Patil
2. Nurcan Durak
3. Xiangyu Dong
20101. Manasi Vartak
2. Diego Cavalcanti
3. Eric Drewniak 		1. Patrick Kelley
2. Michal Tvarozek
3. Tae-Joon Kim
20091. Alice Zhu
2. Neha Singh
3. Sarah M. Loos 		1. Xu Liu
2. Stratis Ioannidis
3. Ye Kyaw Thu
20081. Anselm Grundhoefer
2. Maria A. Kazandjieva
3. Yuan-Ting E. Huang 		1. Eugene Borodin
2. Emerson Murphy-Hill
3. Bowen Hui
20071. Yuki Mori
2. Scott Hale
3. Jeffrey Adair 		1. Danny Dig
2. Yalling Yang
3. David S. Janzen
20061. Eric Bodden
2. Spiros Xanthos
3. Kamil Wnuk 		1. Jane Tougas
2. Kulesh Shanmugasundaram
3. Tao Xie