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

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