Undergraduate Honors Theses
2022
- Espiritu, Zachary
- Time- and Space-Efficient Aggregate Range Queries over Encrypted Databases
2021
- Berg, Matthew
- Natural Language to Long-Range Robot Navigation in Outdoor Environments
- Blinn, Bryce
- Functional Chair Programs in ShapeAssembly
- Gonzalez, Lucia Regina Reyes
- What You See Is Not Always What You Get: An Analysis of Informative Graphs in Formal Methods Languages
- Milefchik, Isa
- Interactive Image Synthesis Using a Latent 3D Gaussian Model
- O'Halloran, Amelia
- The Technical, Legal, and Ethical Landscape of Deepfake Pornography
- Pal, Koyena
- The Effect of Multi-Document Summarizations on User SERP Experience
- Sam, Dylan
- Learning from Dependent Weak Supervision Sources
- Walke, Homer
- Learning Finite Linear Temporal Logic Formulas
2020
- Baruah, Prakrit
- Predicting Hospital Readmission using Unstructure Clinical Note Data
- Bayazit, Deniz
- Generalizing Natural Language Instruction Following to Aerial Robots and Arbitrary Environments
- Christ, Miranda
- New Lower Bounds on the Complexity of Provably Anonymous Onion Routing
- Galgana, Rigel
- Optimal Reserve Price Estimation in the Generalized First and Second Price Auctions with Best Response Dynamics
- Guo, Erica
- Information Retrieval for Genetic Mutations and Diseases
- Huang, Amy
- Mystery Functions
- Huang, Shawna
- Downstream Effects of the Brown Computer Science Introductory Sequences
- Jha, Rohan
- Data augmentation and the role of hardness for feature learning in NLP
- Levin, Joshua
- ViperProbe: Using eBPF Metrics to Improve Microservice Observability
- Ouyang, Kevin
- Self-E: Procedurally Guided Self-Experiments for Novice Health Hackers
- Renshaw, Lena
- Determining which Sentiment Analysis Predictive Model to use for a given Social Media Election Dataset
- Simons, Shoshana
- What Communication Complexity Can Tell Us About Circuit Complexity
- Stone, Henry
- Transparent Voxelized Geometry Representations for Machine Learning
- Tu, Karen
- Explaining Black Box Models for Document Retrieval
- Wagner, Andrew
- Where to Begin? Synthesizing Initial Configurations for Cellular Automata
2019
- Ball, Michael
- RIPPED: Recursive Intent Propagation using Pretrained Embedding Distances
- Brennan, Nathaniel
- Remote Object Fetching with Descriptive Question Asking
- Chaudhry, Abraar
- Uncertainty Quantification for Robust Classification
- Diwan, Renuka
- The Effect of Rural Road Development on Hospital Births: Evidence from India
- Farley, Edwin
- Missing Data Methods when Values are Missing Together: A Simulation-Based Examination of Joint Modeling and Fully Conditional Specification Imputation Schemes
- Fong, Grant
- Direct Message Extraction for Automatic Emotional Inference and Drug Detection
- Gleyzer, Leonard
- Weakly-Supervised Classifier Learning via Temporal Logic
- Guerrant, Elisa
- Hardening the Linux Kernal Key Retention Service against Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
- Jiang, Elaine
- Practicing in Virtual Reality Improves Mental Rotation Ability: Lower Scorers Benefit More
- Kasser, Lucas
- Lightfield Superpixel Segmentation and Segmentation-Based Editing
- Li, Michael
- Natural Language Understanding within the context of Question Matching
- Murphy, Daniel
- Markerless 3D Pose Estimation from RGB Data
- Nadimpalli, Shivam
- Discrete Isoperimetry and Protein Folding
- Ramos, Jerome
- Explainability in Transparent Information Retrieval Systems
- Romano, Joseph
- WebMesh: A Browser-Based Computational Framework for Serverless Applications
- Roy, Josh
- Learning Feature Extraction for Transfer from Simulation to Reality
- Servan-Schreiber, Sacha
- Cryptographically Certified Hypothesis Testing
- Shteinfeld, Benjamin
- LibFilter: Debloating Dynamically-Linked Libraries through Binary Recompilation
- Turcu, Adrian
- Protein Folding Prediction and Visualization Techniques Based on Hydrophobic Side Chain Interactions
- Weir, Nathaniel
- Bootstrapping Generalization in Neural Text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing Models
- Zhang, Aaron
- Proofs of sequential work with unique proofs
2018
- Gadre, Samir
- Teaching Robots Using Mixed Reality
- Guo, Yue (Sophie)
- Finding Optimal Strategies over Families of Tasks in Reinforcement Learning
- Hou, Andrew
- Light Field Super Resolution with Convolutional Neural Networks
- Karamcheti, Siddharth
- Grounding Natural Language to Goals for Abstraction, Generalization, and Interpretability
- Kim Jr., Isaac
- Advancing Precision Medicine - Investigating The Relationship Between Race, Comorbidities, and Cancer Through Network Analysis
- Kubala, Vincent
- Inferring the Intentions of Learning Agents
- Lightsey, Connor
- Restricted Transactional Memory and SkipLists
- Picard, Noah
- Smooth Segmentation in Videos: Blind Consistency Over Semantic Segmentations Produced by Fully Convolutional Networks
- Porncharoenwase, Sorawee
- An Inside-Out Resugaring System
- Pratt, Sarah
- A Machine Learning Approach to Improve Automated Kinematics Tracking of Non-Human Primates
- Sanford, Clayton
- Applying Rademacher-Like Bounds to Combinatorial Samples and Function Selection
- Shi, Di Yang (Steven)
- An Exposition of Adversarial Examples in Neural Networks
- Whang, Sungseob
- Exploiting Timing Violations under Voltage Scaling with Hardware Transactional Memory
2017
- Chen, Frances
- Exploring the Conversion of Videos into 3D Models
- Chitra, Uthsav
- Random Walks on Hypergraphs with Applications to Disease-Gene Prioritization
- Cunningham, Nick
- Two-Party Generation of Shared RSA Keys through Encryption Switching Protocols
- Jayaram, Rajesh
- Learning Stochastically Evolving Networks via Local Probing
- Liu, David
- Nonparametric Clustering with Variational Inference for Tumor Heterogeneity
- Perera, Sudheesha
- A Haplotype-Based Predictive Model for Genotype/Expression Datasets
- Vemuri, Keshav
- Growth Rate of the Cube Recurrence
2016
- Hoff, Timothy Adam
- Extending Open vSwitch to Facilitate Creation of Stateful SDN Applications
- Kim, YounHun
- Algebraic Connectivity of Graphs, with Applications
- Nado, Zachary
- Deep Recurrent and Convolutional Neural Networks for Automated Behavior Classification
- Sachs, Sarah
- Similar-Part Approximation Using Invariant Feature Descriptors
- Thompson, Joseph
- Recent Applications in Mechanism Design
- Wallace, Henry
- Clustering of Musical Genres
2015
- Acheson-Field, Hannah
- Reconstructing Clonal Trees From Multi-Sample Sequencing Data
- Correa Orozco, David
- TeachWithGlass: Improving the Teaching Experience through Google Glass
- Eldon, Miles
- Incrementally Interpreting Multimodal Referring Expressions in Real Time
- Hershkowitz, D. Ellis
- Leveraging and Learning Propositional Functions for Large State Spaces in Planning and Reinforcement Learning
- Light, Alex
- Reenix: Implementing a Unix-Like Operating System in Rust
- Lu, Jeffrey
- Avoiding Parameter Overfitting in a Monte Carlo Approach to Real-Time Strategy Games
- Metaxa-Kakavouli, Danae
- SleepCoacher: Combining Computational and Clinician-Generated Sleep Recommendations
- Phene, Sonia
- Parallelization of Variational Inference for Bayesian Nonparametric Topic Models
- Schvimer, Judah
- Take the First Right and Go Straight Forever: Novel Planning Algorithms in Stochastic Infinite Domains
- Siranosian, Benjamin
- A Multi-scale Ensemble Model of Chromatin Conformation
- Steen, Frances
- Teleportation as a Strategy for Improving Concurrent Skiplist Performance
- Stephenson, Will
- Variational Inference for Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Based Nonparametric Models
- Wu, Chenggang
- Nested Transaction: An Efficient Facility to Enforce the Nesting and the Partial Ordering Requirements in S-Store
- Yauney, Gregory
- Artificially and (Hopefully) Intelligently Modeling Program Synthesis: Planning in a Large, Strange State Space
2014
- Aebi, Bryce
- Peernote Status Report
- Boreiko, John
- Implementation Analysis of Haze Protocol
- Frantz, Jacob
- Dynamic Resolution Fluid Simulation by Spectral Methods
- Herlihy, Anna
- Compilation Techniques for Distributed Analytics
- Hou, Ning
- Two Problems Related to cis-Regulatory Architecture of Transcription Factor Encoding Genes: Homologous Translation and Evolutionary Conservation-Based cis-Module Inference
- Hsiao, Vivian
- Network Constrained Regression
- Jain, Vishesh
- Network-Based Analyses of Pathological Gene Pathways in Neuropsychiatric Disorders
- Janthong, Abhabongse
- Streaming Algorithm for Determining A Topological Ordering of a Digraph
- Leavitt, Jonathan
- End-to-End Tracing Models: Analysis and Unification
- Wald, Elias
- A More Performant List Under Concurrent Environments Using Hardware Support for Transactional Memory
2013
- Clay, Patrick
- Discovery of Mutated Collections of Genes Associated with Survival in Cancer Using Local Search
- Kang, Jung Uk
- Computational Modeling of Scene-selective Visual Neurons in area LIP (Lateral Intraparietal)
- Karumbunathan, Aswin
- Using Predictive Models for Compression in Database Systems
- Lauria, Kshitij
- Combinatorial Algorithms for Bipole Self-Assembly on Lattices with Applications to the Lipid Bilayer
- Malkin, Nathan
- Waiting Makes the Heart Grow Fonder and the Password Grow Stronger
- McErlean, Doug
- One Constraint to Rule Them All: How to simplify optimizations under constant variable sum, with applications for maximum likelihood
- Storch, David
- Towards an Intelligent Bidding Agent in QuiBids Penny Auctions
- Tremel, Edward
- Real-World Performance of Cryptographic Accumulators
- Zweig, Jonathan
- Procedural Architectural Facade Modeling
2012
- Boger, Sam
- Defense Against the Dark Arts: An Approach to Introductory Computer Security Education
- Bressler, Garrett
- Software Transactional Memory in the Linux Kernel
- Changpinyo, Soravit
- Learning Image Attributes using the Indian Buffet Process
- Franco, Jacob
- Cryptic Population Substructure and Fuzzy Clustering
- Gillani, Nabeel
- Joint Assessment and Restoration of Power Systems
- Herman, Jeffrey
- A Markov random field model for inferring population structure
- Ryza, Sandy
- Solving Hard Problems with Lots of Computers
- Stix, Eric
- An Empirical Study of Online Penny Auctions
- Stix, Jeffrey
- Designing a Bidding Algorithm for Online Penny Auctions
- Weis, James
- Computational Genomics and Bioenergy: Modeling and Clustering of RNA-SEQ Data
2011
- Donahue, Evan
- Searching for the Blackbox: Unsupervised Recovery of Relational Schema from Unstructured Airplane Crash Reports
2010
- Mustacchi, Robert
- StashFS: Generalized Disconnected Operation
- Saftoiu, Claudiu
- JSTrace: Run-time Type Discovery for JavaScript
- Stewart, Allan
- Face-center cubic (FCC) lattice models for protein folding: energy function inference and biplane packing
2009
- Cheever, Elizabeth
- One Dimensional Simulations of Cerebral Blood Flow
- Fischer, Travis
- Milton
- Franks, Alexander
- An Efficient Image Search Algorithm For Object Feature Identification in Biological Vision
- Lapping-Carr, Micah
- RGame: A Video Game for Interactive Robot Learning
2008
- Baskin, Jacob
- Comparing Apples and Oranges: Using Consensus Rankings for Decision Support
- Cunningham, Sam
- Predicting when seam carved images become unrecognizable
- Diamond, Brandon
- [incr Insight] An easy to use, easy to extend module system for Insight/GDB
- Garton, Lian
- An Investigation of Population Subdivision Methods in Disease Associations with a Focus on Markov Chain Monte Carlo
- Gordon, Colin Stebbins
- Type-safe Stack Traversal for Garbage Collector Implementation
- Panda, Aurojit
- An Empirical Study of Structural Symmetry Breaking
- Quirk, Lincoln
- Ownership of a queue for practical lock-free scheduling
- Winograd-Cort, Daniel
- Deducing Relevant Bridge Bidding Information from Double Dummy Data
2007
- Austerweil, Joe
- A Unified, Global and Local, Hierarchical Generative Document Ordering Model
- Greenberg, Michael
- Declarative, composable views
- Lee, Seong Jae
- Comparison of Bidding Algorithms for Simultaneous Auctions
- Meyerovich, Leo
- Flapjax: Functional Reactive Web Programming
2006
- Ballard, Lucia
- Conflict Avoidance: Data Structures in Transactional Memory
- Chang, Edwin
- Sketching Articulation and Pose for Facial Meshes
- Tse, Ronald Henry
- TCP Fairness in Multipath Transport Protocols
2005
- Arnaudov, Vesselin
- Unified Management of Heterogeneous Sensor Networks In the Atlantis Framework
- Bookstaber, Daniel
- Using Markov Decision Processes to Solve a Portfolio Allocation Problem
- Bromberg-Martin, Ethan
- Partial-Order Alignment of RNA Structures
- Kern, Edward
- The Crunch Mobile Robot
- Lee, Stephanie
- Quantitative Metrics for White Matter Integrity Based on Diffusion Tensor MRI Data
- Sakai, Haruyoshi
- Internet Poker: Data Collection and Analysis
- Taubman, Gabriel
- MusicHand: A Handwritten Music Recognition System
- Tom, Nancy
- GuShi: An Innovative Multimedia Program Implementing Traditional Textbook Methods for Teaching Intermediate Second Language Learners
- Tschantz, Michael
- The Clarity of Languages for Access-Control Policies
- Ye, Jason
- Atlantis: Location Based Services with Bluetooth
2004
- Benisch, Michael
- Optimization Under Uncertainty in Online Trading Agents
- Licata, Daniel
- Verifying Interactive Web Programs
2003
- Blundell, Colin
- A Constraint-Based Approach to Open Feature Verification
- Egan, Kevin
- Techniques for Real-Time Rigid Body Simulation
- Eigen, David
- Java Demonstration Software for Differential Geometry and Polyhedral Theories
- Finkel, Benjamin
- Curvilinear Graph Drawing Using The Force-Directed Method
- Ho, Kate
- Data Replication under Latency Constraints
- Huang, Albert
- Ad-hoc Collaborative Document Annotation on a Tablet PC
- Kern, Josh
- Aurora Performance Monitoring Tool Programmer's Guide
- Lederman, Roger
- Optimization of Stochastic Inventory Control with Correlated Demands
- McClain, Andrew W.
- CaveSculpture: Creating sculpture from CavePaintings
- Pytlik, Brock
- Automatic Debugging Using Potential Invariants
- Schrock, Eric
- Dynamic Lock Dependency Analysis of Concurrent Systems
- Sigelman, Ben
- Video-Based Tracking of 3D Human Motion Using Multiple Cameras
- Straub, Christian D.
- Authentication of Embedded Data in HTML Documents through the Use of Prooflets
