Zhiru Zhang, professor, and his team received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2025) for their work on “SmoothE: Differentiable E-Graph Extraction.” The work is done by Cornell graduate students Yaohui Cai, Kaixin Yang, and Chenhui Deng, in collaboration with Prof. Cunxi Yu at the University of Maryland.