Here is my list of failures
outlining shortcomings with regard to research publications and grant-writing since joining Virginia Tech. Some have been revised and then successful after resubmitting, which are available here and here are also available.
The only way to never get a rejected paper, is not to submit.
Unsuccessful Opportunities
Publications
- TOCHI 2025 ❌
- MSR Tool Demo 2025 ❌
- FSE 2025 ❌❌
- CHASE 2025 ❌
- ICSE SEIP 2025 ❌
- WETSEB 2025 ❌
- SANER 2025 ❌
- ICSE 2025 ❌❌❌❌
- SIGCSE 2024 ❌
- ESEM 2024 ❌❌
- VL/HCC 2024 ❌❌❌❌
- L@S 2024 ❌
- ISMAR 2024 ❌
- FSE IVR 2024 ❌
- FSE Tool Demo 2024 ❌
- CHIWORK 2024 ❌
- MSR 2024 ❌❌
- CHASE 2024 ❌
- ICSE Tool Demo 2024 ❌
- ICSE SEET 2024 ❌❌
- FSE 2024 ❌❌
- USENIX 2024 ❌
- CHI 2024 ❌
- ICSE 2024 ❌❌
- CSCW 2024 ❌❌
- ICWSM 2024 ❌
- IEEE S&P 2024 ❌
- SecDev 2023 ❌
- CSF 2024 ❌
- FSE 2023 ❌
- FSE Tool Demo 2023 ❌
- FSE IVR 2023 ❌
- IEEE Software: Developing your Software Engineering Career 2023 ❌
- Computers and Peope Research 2023 ❌
- NeuRIPS Datasets and Benchmark Track 2022 ❌
- ICLR 2022 ❌
Grants
- 2025
- Cooperative AI Foundation
- NSF Workplace Equity for Persons with Disabilities in STEM and STEM Education ❌
- 2024
- NSF CAREER ❌
- SCHEV Fund for Excellence and Innovation ❌
- Russell Sage Future of Work ❌
- NSF Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) ❌
- Microsoft AI and the New Future of Work ❌
- FAccT DEI Scholar ❌
- CCI Addressing Inclusion and Accessibility in Cybersecurity ❌
- 4-VA Collaborative Research Grant ❌
- Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) grant ❌
- Comcast Innovation Fund ❌
- NSF Workplace Equity for Persons with Disabilities in STEM and STEM Education ❌
- Google Research Scholar ❌
- Sloan Foundation Fellowship ❌
- Better Scientific Software Fellowship ❌
- 2023
- Amazon-VT Initiative Research Award ❌
- Cisco Research Proposal
- IEEE Grant for Emerging Technologies ❌
- Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund ❌
- Google Award for Inclusion Research ❌
- Sloan Foundation: Scholarly Communication ❌ ✅
- Sloan Foundation: Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology ❌
- NSF BPC ❌
- 2022
- VT Undergraduate Research Faculty Grant ❌
- NSF HCC Small ❌