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.

Unsuccessful Opportunities

Publications

> The only way to never get a rejected paper, is to never submit.

• FACCT 2026 ❌
• CHASE 2026 ❌❌
• FSE 2026 ❌
• CHI 2026 ❌❌
• ICSE NIER 2026 ❌
• ICSE Demos 2026 ❌
• ICSE SEIP 2026
• SIGCSE 2026 "The APC suggests a clear accept..." -> ❌
• SecDev 2025 ❌
• ICSE 2025 ❌
• ICER 2025
• VL/HCC 2025 ❌❌
• UIST 2025 ❌
• ICER 2025 ❌
• FSE Industry ❌
• FSE SEET ❌❌
• TOSEM ❌
• TOCHI 2025 ❌
• MSR Tool Demo 2025 ❌
• FSE 2025 ❌❌
• CHASE 2025 ❌
• Web4Good 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
• NSF CAREER ❌
• ICTAS/IAC Seed Grant ❌
• Amazon Research Award ❌
• Ebay Responsible AI ❌
• NCSU LAS ❌
• Department of Navy: STEM Education and Workforce Program ❌
• Cisco Research ❌
• ACL DRRP ❌
• CCI Cybersecurity Research 2026 ❌
• NSF NRT (VT) ❌
• NSF CyberTraining ❌
• Google Research Scholar ❌
• Ethereum Foundation ❌❌
• NSF CSR Medium ❌
• Comcast Innovation Fund ❌
• ICAT Major SEAD Grant ❌
• Amazon-VT Initiative ❌
• NSF DASS ❌
• NSF Safe-OSE ❌❌
• Cooperative AI Foundation ❌
• NSF Workplace Equity for Persons with Disabilities in STEM and STEM Education ❌
• 2024
• NSF CAREER ❌
• SCHEV Fund for Excellence and Innovation (VT) ❌
• Russell Sage Future of Work ❌
• NSF 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 ❌

Other

• Hallucinated Paper References
• AI was used in the writing of this paper, which hallucinated several references---including this one as pointed out by Oliver Karras.