Student Project Proposals, Sept. 22

  1. First Period
    1. Caroline Bauer Research area: Information gathering/organizing on the Internet, Datamining; RSS, PostgreSQL
    2. Susan Ditmore Research area: Building a cluster, parallel computing, MOSIX
    3. Michael Druker Research area: Hexagonal grid cellular automata, analysis of patterns
    4. Matthew Fifer Research area: Agents and computational modeling, "artificial life/environment", Ant-wars.com
    5. Jason Ji Research area: Natural language processing, German translator
    6. Anthony Kim Research area: Algorithms, approximation algorithms for NP problems, ex. DNA string pattern matching, set covering problem
    7. John Livingston Research area: Operating systems, systems patches for the Linux kernel, ex. user space debugging API
    8. Jack McKay Research area: Sport statistics and analysis, "sabermetrics" validation
    9. Peden Nichols Research area: Computational Biology, DNA sequence pattern matching using BLAST algorithm (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)
    10. 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
    11. Alex Volkivitski: benchmarking of cryptography algorithms in high performance computing,
      comparison of CRAY with modern workstations

  2. 2nd period
    1. Casey Barrett Research area: data collection and statistics, data mining for information
    2. Andy DeSoto Research area: computational modeling of systems, ex. evacuation of a city
    3. Keith Diggs Research area: genetic algorithms, machine problem solving, cipher
    4. John Fitzsimmons Research area: computer graphics, realism, 3D models for games
    5. Christopher Goss Research area: AI techniques in games, agents, minimax tree algorithms
    6. Stephen Hilber Research area: computational modeling, ex. "Sugarscape" world
    7. Alvin Li Research area: data encryption algorithms in file transfers
    8. Rachel Miller Research area: AI in strategy games, machine learning algorithms
    9. Kyle Moffett Research area: Operating systems, systems patches for the Linux kernel
    10. Jason Pan Research area: AI and machine learning techniques for games, 2 player games
    11. Madeleine Pitsch Research area: computer modeling, traffic pattern simulation, GMU's MASON project, "swarms" (traffic)
    12. Timothy Wismer Research area: Operating systems, API development for the Linux kernel
    13. Daniel Wright: computational modeling, comparative historical linguistics

    3rd period

    1. Robert Brady Research area: machine learning, AI techniques for Bridge
    2. Blake Bredehoft Research area: computer graphics and 3D computational modeling of complex
    3. Michael Feinberg Research area: game simulation
    4. Scott Hyndman Research area: computational modeling, traffic flow/congestion
    5. Aaron Liu Research area:
    6. Greg Maslov Research area: physics simulation of AI-controlled walking robot, computer graphics simulation
    7. Eugene Mesh Research area:
    8. Thomas Mildorf Research area: computational modeling, assessment of sorting parts by variable slot width
    9. Carey Russell: computational modeling of a system, Netlogo modeling package
    10. Matthew Thompson: computer generated art/music, ex. CCRMA computer music package at Stanford U.
    11. Justin Winkler Research area: AI agents, machine learning, chess agent