COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Student Research 1st Quarter 2007-2008

  1. 3rd Period
    1. Jordan Albright, Proposal: Investigations in Agent Based Modeling: Groups, Social Influences and Inequality (.tex) (Computer simulation and modeling). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    2. Tianhui (Tiffany) Cai Proposal: Excursions into Neural Networks (.tex) (Neural Networks/Machine Learning). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    3. Michael Chen Proposal: Explorations into Parallel Programming and MPI (.tex) (Parallel Computing). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    4. Aaron Dufour Proposal: Applications of Genetic Algorithms: the Prisoner's Dilemma (.tex) (Algorithms for Artificial Intelligence). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    5. Martin Elthon Proposal: Ruby on Rails TJHSST WebsiteRedesign of TJHSST Website (.tex) (Software Engineering). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    6. Asa Kusuma Proposal: Analysis of Running Biomechanics through Edge Detection (.tex) (Computer Vision). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    7. Kenneth Lee Proposal: Particle Swarm Optimization and Social Interaction (.tex) (Particle Swarm Optimization PSO). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    8. Karl Leswing Proposal: Genetic Algorithms to find Near Optimal Solutions to the Traveling Salesman Problem (.tex) (Modeling, Algorithms). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    9. Jinyu Liu Proposal: Traffic Simulation Using OpenGL (.tex) (Machine Learnning Algorithms). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    10. Kelly Ran Proposal: Chaos Theory (.tex) (Algorithms). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    11. Thomas Smilack Proposal: 3D Modeling of Molecules (.tex) (3D Modeling, Computational Chemistry). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    12. Andrew Stebbins Proposal: Simulation and Modeling, Interactive Battlefied Tactics, Weather (.tex) (Computer Modeling and Simulation, Agent Based Modeling). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    13. Luis Valentin Proposal: An Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem in Parallel (.tex) (Algorithms, Computer Modeling). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

  2. 5th Period
    1. Keith Ainsworth, Proposal: Crowd Dynamics with Swarm Intelligence and Particle Swarm Optimization (.tex) (Swarm Intelligence). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    2. Gregory Gates Proposal: Investigations into the Teaching of Computer Programming and Problem Solving in Elementary School - How Young can we go with computer programming? (.tex) (Physics Modeling). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    3. Phillip Graves Proposal: Computational Linguistics or Agent Based Modeling (.tex) (Computational Linguistics, Agent Based Modeling). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    4. Nathan Harmata Proposal: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) (.tex) (Machine Vision algorithms). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    5. Ryan Honig Proposal: Excursions into Genetic Algorithms - Traveling Salesman Problem (.tex) (Genetic Algorithms). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    6. Richard Hooper Proposal: Excursions into Computer Graphics with OpenGL (.tex) (3D Computer Graphics). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    7. Matt Lee Proposal: Agent Based Modeling - Applications of Prisoner's Dilemma (.tex) (Agent Based Modeling). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    8. Haito Mao Proposal: Pathfinding Algorithms in Mutating Graphs (.tex) (Algorithms). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    9. Andrew Menke Proposal: A New Sugarscape Model (.tex) (Agent Based Modeling). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    10. Liban Mohamed Proposal: Studies in Cellular Automata (.tex) (Cellular Automata Theory). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    11. Justin Warfield Proposal: Procedural Generation in a 3D Computer Graphics Game (.tex) (Computer Graphics). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    12. Jacob Welsh Proposal: Interactive 3D Geometry in OpenGL (.tex) (Computer Graphics). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    13. Felix Zhang Proposal: Statistical Machine Translation (.tex) (Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

  3. 6th Period
    1. Nicholas Brown, Proposal: Simulation of an Evolutionary Scenario (.tex) (Agent Modeling). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    2. Joshua Choi Proposal: Civilization Modeling (.tex) (Evolutionary Environment/Civilization Modeling). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    3. Patrick Coleman Proposal: Programming a New Sugarscape (.tex) (Agent Modeling). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    4. Sam Eberspacher Proposal: Investigation of Neural Networks (.tex) (Neural Networks). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    5. Patrick Elliot Proposal: Expanding an Image and Retaining Image Quality (.tex) (Image Processing). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    6. Byron Hood Proposal: Sign Language Recognition (.tex) (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    7. Nicholas Loffredo Proposal: Monopoly Simulator and Strategies Analyzer, path recognition (.tex) (Computer Simulations). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    8. James McAtamney Proposal: C to Java Language Translation (.tex) (Machine Learing for Robotics). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    9. Madhav Nandipati Proposal: Analysis of Spectro-temporal (.tex) (Computer Modeling, Computational Biology). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    10. Ben Parr Proposal: Chemical Modeling (.tex) (Modeling, Computational Chemistry). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    11. Jacob Steinhardt Proposal: Invariants of Functions on Permutations of Sets, Applications of Geometrical Bijections (.tex) (Mathematical Algorithms, Computational ?). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    12. Evan Warner Proposal: Schwartz-Christoffel Mappings for Potential Theory, Jakouwski Transform to Model Airflow (.tex) (Computer Modeling). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

  4. 7th Period
    1. Josiah Boning, Proposal: Machine Learning for Musical Analysis and Creation (.tex) (Machine Learning, Computer music). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    2. Jack Breese, Proposal: Application of Face Recognition to Content Aware Seam Based Image Resizing (.tex) (Image Processing, Machine Vision). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    3. Peter Chapman, Proposal: Image Sharpening - Unblurring/Deblurring (.tex) (Image Processing). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    4. Joshua Cranmer Proposal: Java Decompiler (.tex) (Compiler/Decompiler Design). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    5. Kelley Hecker Proposal: Evolving Artificial Life in 3D (.tex) (Simulation and Modeling). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    6. Brett Jones Proposal: First Person Pac Man 3D Graphics (.tex) (3D Graphics). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    7. Alex McGuigan Proposal: Teaching Military Strategy through Computer Simulation (.tex) (Computer Simulation). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    8. Matt Wade Proposal: Agent Modeling with MASON Toolkit (.tex) (Agent Modeling). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    9. Natasha Wallage Proposal: Excursions into 3D Graphics (.tex) (3D Computer Graphics). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    10. Michael Yura Proposal: Connect Four and Connection Games: Computer Strategies (.tex) (Compression Algorithms, Traffic Modeling). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

  5. Mentorship

    1. Edward Rice Proposal: Hybrid Genome Maps, Parsing Genome Data (.tex) at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) (Computational Bioinformatics). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.

    2. Eric Shi Proposal: Flight Simulator Programming (.tex) (Computer graphics and simulation). 1st quarter: paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.