CoCoSys PhD students Akshat Ramachandran and Zishen Wan, both advised by PI Tushar Krishna, won second and third position, respectively, at the ACM Student Research Competition held at MICRO 2024. Their respective papers were “MicroScopiQ: Accelerating Foundational Models through Outlier-Aware Microscaling Quantization” and “Demystifying Neuro-Symbolic AI through Workload Characterization and Software-Hardware Co-Design.”