Student Project Proposals, Sept. 22
- First Period
- Caroline Bauer Research area: Information gathering/organizing on the Internet, Datamining; RSS, PostgreSQL
- Susan Ditmore Research area: Building a cluster, parallel computing, MOSIX
- Michael Druker Research area: Hexagonal grid cellular automata, analysis of patterns
- Matthew Fifer Research area: Agents and computational modeling, "artificial life/environment", Ant-wars.com
- Jason Ji Research area: Natural language processing, German translator
- Anthony Kim Research area: Algorithms, approximation algorithms for NP problems, ex. DNA string pattern matching, set covering problem
- John Livingston Research area: Operating systems, systems patches for the Linux kernel, ex. user space debugging API
- Jack McKay Research area: Sport statistics and analysis, "sabermetrics" validation
- Peden Nichols Research area: Computational Biology, DNA sequence pattern matching using BLAST algorithm (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)
- Robert Staubs Research area: Computational Linguistics, ex. machine translation (one language to another),
part-of-speech (POS) tagging, processing
sample text and tagging each word/semantic unit
- Alex Volkivitski: benchmarking of cryptography algorithms in high performance computing,
comparison of CRAY with modern workstations
- 2nd period
- Casey Barrett Research area: data collection and statistics, data mining for information
- Andy DeSoto Research area: computational modeling of systems, ex. evacuation of a city
- Keith Diggs Research area: genetic algorithms, machine problem solving, cipher
- John Fitzsimmons Research area: computer graphics, realism, 3D models for games
- Christopher Goss Research area: AI techniques in games, agents, minimax tree algorithms
- Stephen Hilber Research area: computational modeling, ex. "Sugarscape" world
- Alvin Li Research area: data encryption algorithms in file transfers
- Rachel Miller Research area: AI in strategy games, machine learning algorithms
- Kyle Moffett Research area: Operating systems, systems patches for the Linux kernel
- Jason Pan Research area: AI and machine learning techniques for games, 2 player games
- Madeleine Pitsch Research area: computer modeling, traffic pattern simulation, GMU's MASON project, "swarms" (traffic)
- Timothy Wismer Research area: Operating systems, API development for the Linux kernel
- Daniel Wright: computational modeling, comparative historical linguistics
3rd period
- Robert Brady Research area: machine learning, AI techniques for Bridge
- Blake Bredehoft Research area: computer graphics and 3D computational modeling of complex
- Michael Feinberg Research area: game simulation
- Scott Hyndman Research area: computational modeling, traffic flow/congestion
- Aaron Liu Research area:
- Greg Maslov Research area: physics simulation of AI-controlled walking robot, computer graphics simulation
- Eugene Mesh Research area:
- Thomas Mildorf Research area: computational modeling, assessment of sorting parts by variable slot width
- Carey Russell: computational modeling of a system, Netlogo modeling package
- Matthew Thompson: computer generated art/music, ex. CCRMA computer music package at Stanford U.
- Justin Winkler Research area: AI agents, machine learning, chess agent