COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Student Research Projects 2007-2008, Listed by Categories
Detailed listings and materials of these projects by quarters
- Agent Based Modeling, Evolutionary Modeling, computer simulation, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) (packages include Netlogo, MASON (Java), Swarm (Objective C), self-written)
- Kelley Hecker:
Evolving Motor Techniques for Artificial Life,
project description,
poster (better),
poster,
presentation,
youtube examples,
SwarmEvolve example.
- Jordan Albright:
Exploring Wealth Distribution through Sugarscape,
project description,
poster,
presentation.
- Kenneth Lee:
Particle Swarm Optimization and Social Interaction Between Agents,
poster,
presentation.
- Patrick Coleman:
Programming a New Sugarscape,
two column vers.,
poster,
presentation.
- Natasha Wallage:
Simulating Evolution,
two column vers.,
poster,
presentation,
- Jinyu Liu:
JLSim:Visual Traffic Simulation with Extensive User Interface,
poster,
presentation.
- Keith Ainsworth:
AI with Particle Swarm Optimization,
poster,
presentation.
- Phillip Graves:
Analysis of Underlying Causes and Mechanics of Civil Disorder,
poster,
presentation,
- Matt Lee:
Prisoner's Dilemma with N Participants and Optional Cooperation,
project description,
poster,
presentation.
- Andrew Menke:
A New Sugarscape Model,
poster,
presentation,
- Liban Mohamed:
Logic Based Computation using Conway's Game of Life,
project description,
poster,
presentation,
- Nicholas Loffredo:
Agent Based Simulation, Negotiation, and Strategy Optimization of Monopoly,
poster,
presentation.
- Nicholas Brown:
Study on the Outputs and Design of an Abstract Evolution Simulator,
poster,
presentation.
- Joshua Choi:
A Dynamic Model of Human Populations,
poster,
presentation.
- Sam Eberspacher:
Airport and Air Traffic Modeling and Simulation,
poster,
presentation,
- Alex McGuigan:
Examining Leadership Using Agent Based Modeling,
poster,
presentation.
- Matt Wade:
Simulation of the Spread of a Virus Using Agent Based Modeling
poster,
presentation,
- Algorithms
- Kelly Ran:
Calculating Fractal Dimension from Vector Images (Science Fair Winner),
project description,
poster (science fair),
poster,
presentation.
- Haitao Mao:
Pathfinding Algorithms in Mutating Graphs,
poster,
presentation,
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, Computational Sciences (Java, C/C++)
- Ryan Honig:
Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimize the Traveling Salesman Problem,
poster,
presentation.
- Felix Zhang:
Development of a German-English Translator
(Computational Linguistics),
project description,
poster,
presentation.
- Josiah Boning:
Machine Learning for Musical Analysis and Creation,
tech web page,
poster,
presentation.
- Jack Breese:
Implementation of a Library for Artificial Neural Networks in C,
poster,
presentation,
- Tianhui (Tiffany) Cai:
Using Neural Networks for Breaking a Visual CAPTHCA,
project description,
poster,
presentation.
- Aaron Dufour:
Exploration of Genetic Algorithms Through the Iterative Prisoner's Dilemma,
project description,
poster,
presentation.
- Karl Leswing: Genetic Algorithms to find Near Optimal Solutions to the Traveling Salesman Problem,
poster,
presentation.
- Michael Yura:
Reinforcement Learning in Connect 4,
poster,
presentation.
- Computer Graphics, graphical simulation packages (OpenGL, Java)
- Ben Parr:
Accurate 3D Modeling of User Inputted Molecules Using a Hill-Climbing Algorithm,
poster,
presentation.
- Brett Jones:
First Person Pac Man 3D Graphics,
poster,
presentation,
- Thomas Smilack:
An Interactive, User-driven Physics Simulator,
project description,
poster,
presentation.
- Jacob Welsh:
Interactive 3D Geometry in OpenGL,
poster,
presentation,
- Justin Warfield:
Use of Various Techniques Implementing Procedural Generation in Video Game Design,
poster,
presentation.
- Richard Hooper:
Three Dimensional Collision Detection for N Solids Using OpenGL,
poster,
presentation.
- Computer Science Education
- Gregory Gates:
Elementary Education in a Technology Age,
project description,
poster,
presentation,
and
"Kitty Plays Football" script,
sample screenshot.
Greg's Scratch website.
- High Performance Computing, Parallel Computing (MPI, XMT-C - U MD)
- Michael Chen:
Optimizing Parallel Programming with MPI,
poster,
presentation,
- Luis Valentin:
XMT-C and the Ear Decomposition Algorithm,
poster,
presentation,
- Software design and engineering, application oriented (PHP, MySQL, Java)
- Martin Elthon:
TJHSST Website Redesign,
poster,
presentation.
- Computer Vision, Image Processing (Java, C/C++)
- Byron Hood:
Sign Language Recognition,
poster,
presentation.
- Nathan Harmata:
Development of a Generic Font Optical Character Recognition (OCR),
project description,
poster
(vers. 2),
presentation.
- Peter Chapman:
Image Sharpening - Unblurring/Deblurring,
two column vers.,
poster,
poster vers. with less color (for printing),
presentation.
- Andrew Stebbins:
Advanced Automobile Recognition Through the Use of Image Processing Techniques,
poster,
presentation,
- Asa Kusuma:
Analysis of Runner Biomechanics through Image Processing,
project description,
poster,
presentation.
- Patrick Elliot Proposal:
Dynamic Image Resizing,
poster,
presentation.
- Computer Language Translation, Compilation
- Joshua Cranmer:
Java Decompiler,
poster,
presentation,
- James McAtamney:
C to Java Language Translation,
poster,
presentation,
- Science Applications
- Madhav Nandipati:
Analysis of Spectro-temporal Receptive Fields in an Auditory Neural Network , (Science Fair winner)
two column vers.,
poster1,
poster2,
presentation.
- Mathematics
- Jacob Steinhardt:
Cayley graphs formed by conjugate generating sets of S_n (Science fair winner) and
Applications of Fourier transforms and other algebraic techniques to graph products (2nd semester)
(Mathematical Algorithms).
4th quarter:
paper,
paper,
paper,
presentation,
- Evan Warner:
Conformal Mapping Using the Schwarz-Christoffel Transform (Science fair winner),
project description.
paper,
poster (from science fair),
poster,
presentation,
- Mentorship
- Edward Rice Proposal:
SyntenyChecker: quality control from syntenic regions at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
(Computational Bioinformatics).
1st quarter:
paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.
- Eric Shi Proposal:
Code Refactoring with Legacy Code in Flight Model Software
(Computer graphics and simulation).
1st quarter:
paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.