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Computer Science

In the 2009-10 academic year the Computer Science  Honors Program  began awarding Honors only to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

• Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
  Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2023-2024

• Andrew Chen, "Evaluating Large Language Model Performance on Haskell" (Honors) 
  Denys Poshyvanyk + Pradeep Kumar, GuanNan Wang
• Matthew J. Chen, "ShoulDetector: Shoulder Motion Detection with Conductive Fabric Sensors" (Honors) 
  Gang Zhou + Haipeng Chen, Ashley Gao, Huajie Shao
• Lydia Marguerite Jane de Chantal Danas, "Security and Interpretability in Large Language Models" (Honors) 
  Denys Poshyvanyk + Adwait Nadkarni, Cristiano Fanelli, Martin White
• Cole Jackson Granger, "Code Syntax Understanding in Large Language Models" (Honors) 
  Denys Poshyvanyk + Andreas Stathopolous, Ron Smith 
• Yihe Jiang, "Comparison of Vulnerabilities from Smart Home Devices in Chinese and Global Market" (Honors) 
  Adwait Nadkarni + Timothy A. Davis, Gamze Bulut 
• Kevin Yipu Wu, "Improving the Scalability of Neural Network Surface Code Decoders" (Honors) 
  Qun Li + Chi-Kwong Li, Weizhen Mao 
• Yile Xu, "Enhancing Federated Learning with Deep Generative Model" (Honors) 
  Huajie Shao + Haipeng Chen, Ashley Gao 

2022-2023

• Kailai Cui, "Power Profiling Smart Home Devices" (Honors) 
  Gang Zhou + Eric Swartz, Huajie Shao, Adwait Nadkarni
• Joseph San Lee, "kFactorVAE: Self-Supervised Regularization for Better A.I. Disentanglement" (Honors) 
  Huajie Shao + Qun Li, Dan Runfola
• Sayyed Hadi Razmjo, "Analyzing Cryptographic API Misuse in IoT Libraries" (Honors) 
  Adwait Nadkarni + Denys Poshyvanyk, Elyas Bakhtiari
• Philip Nicolas Christensen Schowitz, "Examining the Robustness of an Advanced Self-Driving System through Simulation and Fault Injection" (Honors) 
  Evgenia Smirni + Chris Shenefiel, Eric Swartz

2021-2022

• Anneliese Brei, "Quantum Federated Learning: Training Hybrid Neural Networks Collaboratively" (Honors)
  Qun Li + Bin Ren, Steven Trefethen
• Charles Wang, "Accelerating Gesture Detection DNNs on Mobile Devices with Model Pruning and Whole Application Optimization Co-Design" (Honors)
  Bin Ren + Qun Li, Chi-Kwong Li
• Kunyang Li, "Static and Dynamic Analysis in Cryptographic-API Misuse Detection of Mobile Application" (Honors)
  Adwait Nadkarni + Bin Ren, Tyler Frazier
• Madeleine Havranek, "Translating Video Recordings of Mobile App UI Gestures into Replayable Scenarios for Native and Hybrid Apps" (Honors)
  Denys Poshyvanyk + Oscar Chaparro, Peter Kemper

2020-2021

• Jacob Adams, "Performance Implications of Memory Affinity on Filesystem Caches in a Non-Uniform Memory Access Environment" (Honors)
  James Deverick + Dan Parker, Pradeep Kumar, JiaJIa Li
• Andrew Lyubovsky, "A Pain Free Nociceptor: Predicting Football Injuries with Machine Learning" (Honors)
  Gang Zhou + Zhenming Liu, Anh Ninh
• Daniel Quiroga, "On Designing a Digital Marketplace for Bartering Course Registration" (Honors)
  Peter Kemper + Peter Kemper, Robert Michael Lewis, Daniel Runfola

2019-2020

• No honors students this year 

2018-19

• Eyosyas Dagnachew, "Twitter Sentiment Analysis on Leicester City's Phenomenal 2015/16 EPL Title Winning Season"
  James Deverick + Robert Michael Lewis, Daniel J. Parker
• Xida Ren, "Using Gleaned Computing Power to Forecast Emerging-market Equity Returns with Machine Learning" (Honors)
  Zhenming Liu + Robert Michael Lewis, Tyler Frazier, Bin Ren
• Dmytro Shmagin, "Utilizing Machine Learning Classifiers to Identify SSH Brute Force Attacks"
  James Deverick + Robert Michael Lewis, Eric Walter
• Ruhao Tang, "Leveraging NLP to Enable Analysis of User Driven Routines" (Honors)
  Xu Liu + Dmitry Evtyushkin, Gexin Yu

2017-18

• Michael Curcio
  Denys Poshyvanyk + Robert Lewis, Peter Kemper, Ross Iaci
  
• Yangyang He, "Procedural Generation and Rendering of Ink Bamboo Painting" (Honors) 
  Timothy Davis + James Deverick, Chun-yu Lu
• Colin Lightfoot, "Analyzing Political Bias through a User-Friendly Interface" (Honors) 
  James Deverick + Timothy Davis, Robert Lewis, Mainak Patel
• Benjamin Powell, "Turning Detection in Sandbar Sharks Through Accelerometer Data" (Honors) 
  Gang Zhou + Denys Poshyvanyk, Timothy Davis, Kevin Weng, Laurie Sanderson

2016-17

• Colin Weinshenker, "Characterization of Neural Network Backpropagation on Chiplet-based GPU Architectures" (Honors) 
  Adwait Jog + Zhenming Liu, Dan Cristol

2015-16

• No Honors students this year
  

2014-15

• James Bieron, "Two-stage Fitting of BRDF Models" (Honors) 
  Pieter Peers + Michael Lewis, Weizhen Mao and Anke van Zuylen

2013-14

• Alessandro Roux, "SEED: Searching Encrypted Email Dependably: A Design Specification for Secured Webmail" (Honors)
  Qun Li + Pieter Peers, Rex Kincaid

2012-13

• Brett Cooley, "Metis: Mocking Data for Usability & Privacy" (Honors) 
  Haining Wang + Gang Zhou, Ryan Vinroot 

2011-12

• No Honors students this year

2010-11

• Harry Tian Gao, "Protocol Design for Sensor Networks" (Honors)
  Qun Li + Michael Lewis, Weizhen Mao, Virginia Torczon

2009-10

• No Honors students this year

2008-09

• Charles Liarakos, "Software Engineering of a Direct Search Package for Nonlinear Optimization" (Highest Honors)
  Virginia Torczon + Andreas Stathopoulos, Michael Lewis
  
• Robert Staubs, "Specialization Methods and Cataphoricity in Coreference Resolution" (High Honors)
  Xipeng Shen + Haining Wang, Ann Reed
  
• Benjamin Strahs, "Secure Passwords Through Enhanced Hashing" (Highest Honors)
  Haining Wang + Phil Kearns, Paul Davies
  

2005-06

• William Cline, "A Prototype for In Situ Packet Filtering" (High Honors)
  Phil Kearns + Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Rex Kincaid
• James Dzierwa, "A Power Model for Power-Aware Dynamic Thread Control in High-Performance Multiprocessor Systems" (Highest Honors)
  Dimitrios Nikolopoulos + Phil Kearns, Paul Heideman

2004-05

• Wyatt Chaffee, "A Shared Channel Technique for Optimal Performance in Optical Burst Shared Networks" (High Honors)
  Haining Wang + Bruce Lowekamp, Qun Li, Rex Kincaid
• Anne Huang, "Strategic Filtering and Analysis of TCP ApplicationTraffic for Improved Network Monitoring" (Honors)
  Bruce Lowekamp + Phil Kearns, Don Campbell
• Keywan Tabatabai, "Identifying Web Server's IP Fingerprint" (High Honors)
  Haining Wang + Xiaodong Zhang, Phil Kearns, Vladimir Bolotnikov
• George Zagaris, "Orthogonal Unstructured Mesh Generation for Highly Deformable Bodies" (Honors)
  Nikos Chrisochoides + Bob Noonan, Bruce Lowekamp, Michael Lewis

2003-04

• Benjamin Cox, "ConcernEditor: a Prototype Editor for Software Plans" (Highest Honors)
  D. Coppit
• Evan McCreedy, "A Fault-Tolerant and Adaptive Implementation of mpiBLAST for Large-Scale or Distributed Heterogeneous Clusters" (High Honors)
  D. Nikolopoulos
• Samuel Small, "Perceived Bandwidth and Topology-based Clique Selectino for Network Monitoring" (High Honors)
  B. Lowekamp

2002-03

• Xiomara Maya, "Multiple Sequence Alighment with MP-Score" (Honors)
  W. Mao
• Eric Rozier, " Non-Parametric Estimatiom of the Cumulatine Intensity Function for a Non-Homogeneous Service Process" (Honors)
  L. Leemis
• Ryan Shipley, "On Efficient Skyline Computation" (High Honors)
  P. Godfrey

2000-01

• Mark Fashing, "Adventures in Non-photorealism: Creating a Painterly Renderer" (Highest Honors)
  R. Prosl
• Eric Koskinen, "IP Substitution as a Building Block for Fault Tolerance in Stateless Distributed Network Services" (Highest Honors)
  P. Kearns

1999-00

• Adam Gurson, "Simplex Search Behavior in Nonlinear Optimization" (Highest Honors)
  V. Torczon

• Christopher Siefert, "Model-Assisted Pattern Search" (Highest Honors)
  V. Torczon

1998-99

• Elizabeth Dolan,"Pattern Search Behavior in Nonlinear Optimization" (Highest Honors)
  V. Torczon
• Brandon Mitchell, "Casually Ordered Message Passing in MPI" (High Honors)
  P. Kearns

1997-98

• Brad Arkin, "Algebraic Structures in Feistel Ciphers and an Analysis of GOST" (Highest Honors)
  W. Bynum
• Jesse Chappell, "Unifying the Workstation Cluster: A Kernel-Level Facility for Remote Process Execution and Signaling" (Highest Honors)
  P. Kearns
• Paul Pruitt, "An Asynchronous Checkpoint and Rollback Facility for Distributed Computations" (Highest Honors)
  P. Kearns

1996-97

• Matthew Schimid, "A Multi-Tasking Mobile Robot Operating System Supporting the Subsumption Architecture" (Honors)
  W. Bynum

1995-96

• Neal Cardwell, "Causally-Structured Output Streams for Distributed Computations" (Highest Honors)
  P. Kearns
• Nathan Carr, "Marching Pyramids: Reconstructing Isosurfaces with Body Centered Cubic Lattice Data" (High Honors)
  R. Prosl
  
• Brian Dewey, "Kernel-Level Implementation of an Encrypting FIle System" (Highest Honors)
  P. Kearns
• James Eanes, "2D Visualization Algorithms on Random Grids" (Honors)
  Richard Prosi

1994-95

• Craig Chaney, "The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Subsumption Architecture in Robotics Programming" (Honors)
  W. Bynum
• Heji Kim, "Markov Chain Compaction" (Highest Honors)
  G. Ciardo
• Tin Siladin, "A Scan Conversion Algorighm for Line Segments in 3D Discrete Voxel Space(High Honors)
  R. Noonan

1992-93

• Gregory Miller, "An Object-Oriented Framework for Compiler Construction" (High Honors)
  R. Noonan

1990-91

• Bruce Childers, "Program Source File Compaction" (Honors)
  P. Kearns
• Daniel O'Brien, (Honors)

1989-90

• Steven Bondi, "Priority Queue Algorithms and the Multi-Server Queue Model" (Honors)
  S. Park
• Stephen Harvey, "A Simulation Analysis of Mobile-Servers on a Congested Network" (High Honors)
  S. Park

1988-89

• Emily West, "A Blast Protocol for File Transfer in the Ethernet Environment" (High Honors)
  P. Kearns

1987-88

• Donna Wood, "Production Systems in Grammar Form" (Honors)
  R. Collins
• Michael Ryan, "The Synthesis of Autonomous Navigation Systems for Mobile Robots" (High Honors)
  W. Bynum
• Evan Zweifel, "Extend: and Extensible Compiler System Based on Automatically-Generated Grammars" (High Honors)
  R. Collins

1986-87

• Christopher Payne, "Tangle: and Experimental Environment for Expert Systems Research" (High Honors)
  L. Morell
• Robert Rhoad, "A Semantically Driven Database Management System" (Honors)
  W. Bynum
• Curt Richter, "micPas: an Experiment in High Level Microprogramming" (High Honors)
  W. Bynum

1985-86

• Stephen Lucas, "Transformational Modeling in Diagnosing Novice Programmer Misconceptions"
  L. Morell
• Andrew Jewell, "PargenPlus: an Introspective, Knowledge-Based LR Parser Generator Supporting Direct State Access and Bi-Level Ambiguity" (High Honors)
  R. Collins
• Frederick Stevens, "Object Oriented, Graphics Based, Abstraction Language (OOGBAL)"
  L. Morell

1984-85

• Sandra Whitworth, "New Results on the Change-Making Problem" (High Honors)
  P. Stockmeyer