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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Refining the Machine Learning Pipeline for US-based Public Transit Systems , Jennifer Adorno

Insect Classification and Explainability from Image Data via Deep Learning Techniques , Tanvir Hossain Bhuiyan

Brain-Inspired Spatio-Temporal Learning with Application to Robotics , Thiago André Ferreira Medeiros

Evaluating Methods for Improving DNN Robustness Against Adversarial Attacks , Laureano Griffin

Analyzing Multi-Robot Leader-Follower Formations in Obstacle-Laden Environments , Zachary J. Hinnen

Secure Lightweight Cryptographic Hardware Constructions for Deeply Embedded Systems , Jasmin Kaur

A Psychometric Analysis of Natural Language Inference Using Transformer Language Models , Antonio Laverghetta Jr.

Graph Analysis on Social Networks , Shen Lu

Deep Learning-based Automatic Stereology for High- and Low-magnification Images , Hunter Morera

Deciphering Trends and Tactics: Data-driven Techniques for Forecasting Information Spread and Detecting Coordinated Campaigns in Social Media , Kin Wai Ng Lugo

Automated Approaches to Enable Innovative Civic Applications from Citizen Generated Imagery , Hye Seon Yi

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Towards High Performing and Reliable Deep Convolutional Neural Network Models for Typically Limited Medical Imaging Datasets , Kaoutar Ben Ahmed

Task Progress Assessment and Monitoring Using Self-Supervised Learning , Sainath Reddy Bobbala

Towards More Task-Generalized and Explainable AI Through Psychometrics , Alec Braynen

A Multiple Input Multiple Output Framework for the Automatic Optical Fractionator-based Cell Counting in Z-Stacks Using Deep Learning , Palak Dave

On the Reliability of Wearable Sensors for Assessing Movement Disorder-Related Gait Quality and Imbalance: A Case Study of Multiple Sclerosis , Steven Díaz Hernández

Securing Critical Cyber Infrastructures and Functionalities via Machine Learning Empowered Strategies , Tao Hou

Social Media Time Series Forecasting and User-Level Activity Prediction with Gradient Boosting, Deep Learning, and Data Augmentation , Fred Mubang

A Study of Deep Learning Silhouette Extractors for Gait Recognition , Sneha Oladhri

Analyzing Decision-making in Robot Soccer for Attacking Behaviors , Justin Rodney

Generative Spatio-Temporal and Multimodal Analysis of Neonatal Pain , Md Sirajus Salekin

Secure Hardware Constructions for Fault Detection of Lattice-based Post-quantum Cryptosystems , Ausmita Sarker

Adaptive Multi-scale Place Cell Representations and Replay for Spatial Navigation and Learning in Autonomous Robots , Pablo Scleidorovich

Predicting the Number of Objects in a Robotic Grasp , Utkarsh Tamrakar

Humanoid Robot Motion Control for Ramps and Stairs , Tommy Truong

Preventing Variadic Function Attacks Through Argument Width Counting , Brennan Ward

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Knowledge Extraction and Inference Based on Visual Understanding of Cooking Contents , Ahmad Babaeian Babaeian Jelodar

Efficient Post-Quantum and Compact Cryptographic Constructions for the Internet of Things , Rouzbeh Behnia

Efficient Hardware Constructions for Error Detection of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Schemes , Alvaro Cintas Canto

Using Hyper-Dimensional Spanning Trees to Improve Structure Preservation During Dimensionality Reduction , Curtis Thomas Davis

Design, Deployment, and Validation of Computer Vision Techniques for Societal Scale Applications , Arup Kanti Dey

AffectiveTDA: Using Topological Data Analysis to Improve Analysis and Explainability in Affective Computing , Hamza Elhamdadi

Automatic Detection of Vehicles in Satellite Images for Economic Monitoring , Cole Hill

Analysis of Contextual Emotions Using Multimodal Data , Saurabh Hinduja

Data-driven Studies on Social Networks: Privacy and Simulation , Yasanka Sameera Horawalavithana

Automated Identification of Stages in Gonotrophic Cycle of Mosquitoes Using Computer Vision Techniques , Sherzod Kariev

Exploring the Use of Neural Transformers for Psycholinguistics , Antonio Laverghetta Jr.

Secure VLSI Hardware Design Against Intellectual Property (IP) Theft and Cryptographic Vulnerabilities , Matthew Dean Lewandowski

Turkic Interlingua: A Case Study of Machine Translation in Low-resource Languages , Jamshidbek Mirzakhalov

Automated Wound Segmentation and Dimension Measurement Using RGB-D Image , Chih-Yun Pai

Constructing Frameworks for Task-Optimized Visualizations , Ghulam Jilani Abdul Rahim Quadri

Trilateration-Based Localization in Known Environments with Object Detection , Valeria M. Salas Pacheco

Recognizing Patterns from Vital Signs Using Spectrograms , Sidharth Srivatsav Sribhashyam

Recognizing Emotion in the Wild Using Multimodal Data , Shivam Srivastava

A Modular Framework for Multi-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Military Operations , Dante Tezza

Human-centered Cybersecurity Research — Anthropological Findings from Two Longitudinal Studies , Anwesh Tuladhar

Learning State-Dependent Sensor Measurement Models To Improve Robot Localization Accuracy , Troi André Williams

Human-centric Cybersecurity Research: From Trapping the Bad Guys to Helping the Good Ones , Armin Ziaie Tabari

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Classifying Emotions with EEG and Peripheral Physiological Data Using 1D Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network , Rupal Agarwal

Keyless Anti-Jamming Communication via Randomized DSSS , Ahmad Alagil

Active Deep Learning Method to Automate Unbiased Stereology Cell Counting , Saeed Alahmari

Composition of Atomic-Obligation Security Policies , Yan Cao Albright

Action Recognition Using the Motion Taxonomy , Maxat Alibayev

Sentiment Analysis in Peer Review , Zachariah J. Beasley

Spatial Heterogeneity Utilization in CT Images for Lung Nodule Classication , Dmitrii Cherezov

Feature Selection Via Random Subsets Of Uncorrelated Features , Long Kim Dang

Unifying Security Policy Enforcement: Theory and Practice , Shamaria Engram

PsiDB: A Framework for Batched Query Processing and Optimization , Mehrad Eslami

Composition of Atomic-Obligation Security Policies , Danielle Ferguson

Algorithms To Profile Driver Behavior From Zero-permission Embedded Sensors , Bharti Goel

The Efficiency and Accuracy of YOLO for Neonate Face Detection in the Clinical Setting , Jacqueline Hausmann

Beyond the Hype: Challenges of Neural Networks as Applied to Social Networks , Anthony Hernandez

Privacy-Preserving and Functional Information Systems , Thang Hoang

Managing Off-Grid Power Use for Solar Fueled Residences with Smart Appliances, Prices-to-Devices and IoT , Donnelle L. January

Novel Bit-Sliced In-Memory Computing Based VLSI Architecture for Fast Sobel Edge Detection in IoT Edge Devices , Rajeev Joshi

Edge Computing for Deep Learning-Based Distributed Real-time Object Detection on IoT Constrained Platforms at Low Frame Rate , Lakshmikavya Kalyanam

Establishing Topological Data Analysis: A Comparison of Visualization Techniques , Tanmay J. Kotha

Machine Learning for the Internet of Things: Applications, Implementation, and Security , Vishalini Laguduva Ramnath

System Support of Concurrent Database Query Processing on a GPU , Hao Li

Deep Learning Predictive Modeling with Data Challenges (Small, Big, or Imbalanced) , Renhao Liu

Countermeasures Against Various Network Attacks Using Machine Learning Methods , Yi Li

Towards Safe Power Oversubscription and Energy Efficiency of Data Centers , Sulav Malla

Design of Support Measures for Counting Frequent Patterns in Graphs , Jinghan Meng

Automating the Classification of Mosquito Specimens Using Image Processing Techniques , Mona Minakshi

Models of Secure Software Enforcement and Development , Hernan M. Palombo

Functional Object-Oriented Network: A Knowledge Representation for Service Robotics , David Andrés Paulius Ramos

Lung Nodule Malignancy Prediction from Computed Tomography Images Using Deep Learning , Rahul Paul

Algorithms and Framework for Computing 2-body Statistics on Graphics Processing Units , Napath Pitaksirianan

Efficient Viewshed Computation Algorithms On GPUs and CPUs , Faisal F. Qarah

Relational Joins on GPUs for In-Memory Database Query Processing , Ran Rui

Micro-architectural Countermeasures for Control Flow and Misspeculation Based Software Attacks , Love Kumar Sah

Efficient Forward-Secure and Compact Signatures for the Internet of Things (IoT) , Efe Ulas Akay Seyitoglu

Detecting Symptoms of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Congestive Heart Failure via Cough and Wheezing Sounds Using Smart-Phones and Machine Learning , Anthony Windmon

Toward Culturally Relevant Emotion Detection Using Physiological Signals , Khadija Zanna

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Beyond Labels and Captions: Contextualizing Grounded Semantics for Explainable Visual Interpretation , Sathyanarayanan Narasimhan Aakur

Empirical Analysis of a Cybersecurity Scoring System , Jaleel Ahmed

Phenomena of Social Dynamics in Online Games , Essa Alhazmi

A Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Community Engagement on Social Media During Disasters , Adel Alshehri

Interactive Fitness Domains in Competitive Coevolutionary Algorithm , ATM Golam Bari

Measuring Influence Across Social Media Platforms: Empirical Analysis Using Symbolic Transfer Entropy , Abhishek Bhattacharjee

A Communication-Centric Framework for Post-Silicon System-on-chip Integration Debug , Yuting Cao

Authentication and SQL-Injection Prevention Techniques in Web Applications , Cagri Cetin

Multimodal Emotion Recognition Using 3D Facial Landmarks, Action Units, and Physiological Data , Diego Fabiano

Robotic Motion Generation by Using Spatial-Temporal Patterns from Human Demonstrations , Yongqiang Huang

A GPU-Based Framework for Parallel Spatial Indexing and Query Processing , Zhila Nouri Lewis

A Flexible, Natural Deduction, Automated Reasoner for Quick Deployment of Non-Classical Logic , Trisha Mukhopadhyay

An Efficient Run-time CFI Check for Embedded Processors to Detect and Prevent Control Flow Based Attacks , Srivarsha Polnati

Force Feedback and Intelligent Workspace Selection for Legged Locomotion Over Uneven Terrain , John Rippetoe

Detecting Digitally Forged Faces in Online Videos , Neilesh Sambhu

Malicious Manipulation in Service-Oriented Network, Software, and Mobile Systems: Threats and Defenses , Dakun Shen

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Send the professor an e-mail. When you write a professor, be clear that you want a meeting regarding a senior thesis or one-on-one IW project, and briefly describe the topic or idea that you want to work on. Check the faculty listing for email addresses.

Parastoo Abtahi, Room 419

Available for single-semester IW and senior thesis advising, 2024-2025

• Research Areas: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Augmented Reality (AR), and Spatial Computing
• Input techniques for on-the-go interaction (e.g., eye-gaze, microgestures, voice) with a focus on uncertainty, disambiguation, and privacy.
• Minimal and timely multisensory output (e.g., spatial audio, haptics) that enables users to attend to their physical environment and the people around them, instead of a 2D screen.
• Interaction with intelligent systems (e.g., IoT, robots) situated in physical spaces with a focus on updating users’ mental model despite the complexity and dynamicity of these systems.

Ryan Adams, Room 411

Research areas:

• Machine learning driven design
• Generative models for structured discrete objects
• Approximate inference in probabilistic models
• Accelerating solutions to partial differential equations
• Innovative uses of automatic differentiation
• Modeling and optimizing 3d printing and CNC machining

Andrew Appel, Room 209

Available for Fall 2024 IW advising, only

• Research Areas: Formal methods, programming languages, compilers, computer security.
• Software verification (for which taking COS 326 / COS 510 is helpful preparation)
• Game theory of poker or other games (for which COS 217 / 226 are helpful)
• Computer game-playing programs (for which COS 217 / 226)
•  Risk-limiting audits of elections (for which ORF 245 or other knowledge of probability is useful)

Sanjeev Arora, Room 407

• Theoretical machine learning, deep learning and its analysis, natural language processing. My advisees would typically have taken a course in algorithms (COS423 or COS 521 or equivalent) and a course in machine learning.
• Show that finding approximate solutions to NP-complete problems is also NP-complete (i.e., come up with NP-completeness reductions a la COS 487). 
• Experimental Algorithms: Implementing and Evaluating Algorithms using existing software packages. 
• Studying/designing provable algorithms for machine learning and implementions using packages like scipy and MATLAB, including applications in Natural language processing and deep learning.
• Any topic in theoretical computer science.

David August, Room 221

Not available for IW or thesis advising, 2024-2025

• Research Areas: Computer Architecture, Compilers, Parallelism
• Containment-based approaches to security:  We have designed and tested a simple hardware+software containment mechanism that stops incorrect communication resulting from faults, bugs, or exploits from leaving the system.   Let's explore ways to use containment to solve real problems.  Expect to work with corporate security and technology decision-makers.
• Parallelism: Studies show much more parallelism than is currently realized in compilers and architectures.  Let's find ways to realize this parallelism.
• Any other interesting topic in computer architecture or compilers. 

Mark Braverman, 194 Nassau St., Room 231

Available for Spring 2024 single-semester IW, only

• Research Areas: computational complexity, algorithms, applied probability, computability over the real numbers, game theory and mechanism design, information theory.
• Topics in computational and communication complexity.
• Applications of information theory in complexity theory.
• Algorithms for problems under real-life assumptions.
• Game theory, network effects
• Mechanism design (could be on a problem proposed by the student)

Sebastian Caldas, 221 Nassau Street, Room 105

Available for single-semester IW and senior thesis advising, 2023-2024

• Research Areas: collaborative learning, machine learning for healthcare. Typically, I will work with students that have taken COS324.
• Methods for collaborative and continual learning.
• Machine learning for healthcare applications.

Bernard Chazelle, 194 Nassau St., Room 301

• Research Areas: Natural Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Sublinear Algorithms. 
• Natural algorithms (flocking, swarming, social networks, etc).
• Sublinear algorithms
• Self-improving algorithms
• Markov data structures

Danqi Chen, Room 412

Not available for IW or thesis advising, 2023-2024

• My advisees would be expected to have taken a course in machine learning and ideally have taken COS484 or an NLP graduate seminar.
• Representation learning for text and knowledge bases
• Pre-training and transfer learning
• Question answering and reading comprehension
• Information extraction
• Text summarization
• Any other interesting topics related to natural language understanding/generation

Marcel Dall'Agnol, Corwin 034

Available for single-semester and senior thesis advising, 2023-2024

• Research Areas: Theoretical computer science. (Specifically, quantum computation, sublinear algorithms, complexity theory, interactive proofs and cryptography)

Jia Deng, Room 423

Available for Fall 2023 single-semester IW, only

•  Research Areas: Computer Vision, Machine Learning.
• Object recognition and action recognition
• Deep Learning, autoML, meta-learning
• Geometric reasoning, logical reasoning

Adji Bousso Dieng, Room 406

• Research areas: Vertaix is a research lab at Princeton University led by Professor Adji Bousso Dieng. We work at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the natural sciences. The models and algorithms we develop are motivated by problems in those domains and contribute to advancing methodological research in AI. We leverage tools in statistical machine learning and deep learning in developing methods for learning with the data, of various modalities, arising from the natural sciences.

Robert Dondero, Corwin Hall, Room 038

• Research Areas:  Software engineering; software engineering education.
• Develop or evaluate tools to facilitate student learning in undergraduate computer science courses at Princeton, and beyond.
• In particular, can code critiquing tools help students learn about software quality?

Zeev Dvir, 194 Nassau St., Room 250

Not available for IW or thesis advising, 2023-2024.

• Research Areas: computational complexity, pseudo-randomness, coding theory and discrete mathematics.
• Independent Research: I have various research problems related to Pseudorandomness, Coding theory, Complexity and Discrete mathematics - all of which require strong mathematical background. A project could also be based on writing a survey paper describing results from a few theory papers revolving around some particular subject.

Benjamin Eysenbach, Room 416

• Research areas: reinforcement learning, machine learning. My advisees would typically have taken COS324.
• Using RL algorithms to applications in science and engineering.
• Emergent behavior of RL algorithms on high-fidelity robotic simulators.
• Studying how architectures and representations can facilitate generalization.

Christiane Fellbaum, 1-S-14 Green

No longer available for single-term IW and senior thesis advising, 2023-2024

• Research Areas: theoretical and computational linguistics, word sense disambiguation, lexical resource construction, English and multilingual WordNet(s), ontology
• Anything having to do with natural language--come and see me with/for ideas suitable to your background and interests. Some topics students have worked on in the past:
• Developing parsers, part-of-speech taggers, morphological analyzers for underrepresented languages (you don't have to know the language to develop such tools!)
• Quantitative approaches to theoretical linguistics questions
• Extensions and interfaces for WordNet (English and WN in other languages),
• Applications of WordNet(s), including:
• Foreign language tutoring systems,
• Spelling correction software,
• Word-finding/suggestion software for ordinary users and people with memory problems,
• Machine Translation 
• Sentiment and Opinion detection
• Automatic reasoning and inferencing
• Collaboration with professors in the social sciences and humanities ("Digital Humanities")

Adam Finkelstein, Room 424 

• Research Areas: computer graphics, audio.

Robert S. Fish, Corwin Hall, Room 037

No longer available for single-semester IW and senior thesis advising, 2023-2024

• Networking and telecommunications
• Learning, perception, and intelligence, artificial and otherwise;
• Human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work
• Online education, especially in Computer Science Education
• Topics in research and development innovation methodologies including standards, open-source, and entrepreneurship
• Distributed autonomous organizations and related blockchain technologies

Michael Freedman, Room 308 

• Research Areas: Distributed systems, security, networking
• Projects related to streaming data analysis, datacenter systems and networks, untrusted cloud storage and applications. Please see my group website at http://sns.cs.princeton.edu/ for current research projects.

Ruth Fong, Room 032

• Research Areas: computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, interpretability, explainable AI, fairness and bias in AI
• Develop a technique for understanding AI models
• Design a AI model that is interpretable by design
• Build a paradigm for detecting and/or correcting failure points in an AI model
• Analyze an existing AI model and/or dataset to better understand its failure points
• Build a computer vision system for another domain (e.g., medical imaging, satellite data, etc.)
• Develop a software package for explainable AI
• Adapt explainable AI research to a consumer-facing problem

Note: I am happy to advise any project if there's a sufficient overlap in interest and/or expertise; please reach out via email to chat about project ideas.

Tom Griffiths, Room 405

Research areas: computational cognitive science, computational social science, machine learning and artificial intelligence

Note: I am open to projects that apply ideas from computer science to understanding aspects of human cognition in a wide range of areas, from decision-making to cultural evolution and everything in between. For example, we have current projects analyzing chess game data and magic tricks, both of which give us clues about how human minds work. Students who have expertise or access to data related to games, magic, strategic sports like fencing, or other quantifiable domains of human behavior feel free to get in touch.

Aarti Gupta, Room 220

• Research Areas: Formal methods, program analysis, logic decision procedures
• Finding bugs in open source software using automatic verification tools
• Software verification (program analysis, model checking, test generation)
• Decision procedures for logical reasoning (SAT solvers, SMT solvers)

Elad Hazan, Room 409  

• Research interests: machine learning methods and algorithms, efficient methods for mathematical optimization, regret minimization in games, reinforcement learning, control theory and practice
• Machine learning, efficient methods for mathematical optimization, statistical and computational learning theory, regret minimization in games.
• Implementation and algorithm engineering for control, reinforcement learning and robotics
• Implementation and algorithm engineering for time series prediction

Felix Heide, Room 410

• Research Areas: Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Machine Learning (focus on Optimization and Approximate Inference).
• Optical Neural Networks
• Hardware-in-the-loop Holography
• Zero-shot and Simulation-only Learning
• Object recognition in extreme conditions
• 3D Scene Representations for View Generation and Inverse Problems
• Long-range Imaging in Scattering Media
• Hardware-in-the-loop Illumination and Sensor Optimization
• Inverse Lidar Design
• Phase Retrieval Algorithms
• Proximal Algorithms for Learning and Inference
• Domain-Specific Language for Optics Design

Kyle Jamieson, Room 306

• Research areas: Wireless and mobile networking; indoor radar and indoor localization; Internet of Things
• See other topics on my independent work  ideas page  (campus IP and CS dept. login req'd)

Alan Kaplan, 221 Nassau Street, Room 105

Research Areas:

• Random apps of kindness - mobile application/technology frameworks used to help individuals or communities; topic areas include, but are not limited to: first response, accessibility, environment, sustainability, social activism, civic computing, tele-health, remote learning, crowdsourcing, etc.
• Tools automating programming language interoperability - Java/C++, React Native/Java, etc.
• Software visualization tools for education
• Connected consumer devices, applications and protocols

Brian Kernighan, Room 311

• Research Areas: application-specific languages, document preparation, user interfaces, software tools, programming methodology
• Application-oriented languages, scripting languages.
• Tools; user interfaces
• Digital humanities

Zachary Kincaid, Room 219

• Research areas: programming languages, program analysis, program verification, automated reasoning
• Independent Research Topics:
• Develop a practical algorithm for an intractable problem (e.g., by developing practical search heuristics, or by reducing to, or by identifying a tractable sub-problem, ...).
• Design a domain-specific programming language, or prototype a new feature for an existing language.
• Any interesting project related to programming languages or logic.

Gillat Kol, Room 316

Aleksandra korolova, 309 sherrerd hall.

Available for single-term IW and senior thesis advising, 2023-2024

• Research areas: Societal impacts of algorithms and AI; privacy; fair and privacy-preserving machine learning; algorithm auditing.

Advisees typically have taken one or more of COS 226, COS 324, COS 423, COS 424 or COS 445.

Amit Levy, Room 307

• Research Areas: Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Embedded Systems, Internet of Things
• Distributed hardware testing infrastructure
• Second factor security tokens
• Low-power wireless network protocol implementation
• USB device driver implementation

Kai Li, Room 321

• Research Areas: Distributed systems; storage systems; content-based search and data analysis of large datasets.
• Fast communication mechanisms for heterogeneous clusters.
• Approximate nearest-neighbor search for high dimensional data.
• Data analysis and prediction of in-patient medical data.
• Optimized implementation of classification algorithms on manycore processors.

Xiaoyan Li, 221 Nassau Street, Room 104

• Research areas: Information retrieval, novelty detection, question answering, AI, machine learning and data analysis.
• Explore new statistical retrieval models for document retrieval and question answering.
• Apply AI in various fields.
• Apply supervised or unsupervised learning in health, education, finance, and social networks, etc.
• Any interesting project related to AI, machine learning, and data analysis.

Wyatt Lloyd, Room 323

• Research areas: Distributed Systems
• Caching algorithms and implementations
• Storage systems
• Distributed transaction algorithms and implementations

Margaret Martonosi, Room 208

• Quantum Computing research, particularly related to architecture and compiler issues for QC.
• Computer architectures specialized for modern workloads (e.g., graph analytics, machine learning algorithms, mobile applications
• Investigating security and privacy vulnerabilities in computer systems, particularly IoT devices.
• Other topics in computer architecture or mobile / IoT systems also possible.

Jonathan Mayer, Sherrerd Hall, Room 307 

• Research areas: Technology law and policy, with emphasis on national security, criminal procedure, consumer privacy, network management, and online speech.
• Assessing the effects of government policies, both in the public and private sectors.
• Collecting new data that relates to government decision making, including surveying current business practices and studying user behavior.
• Developing new tools to improve government processes and offer policy alternatives.

Mae Milano, Room 307

Available for IW and senior thesis advising, 2024-2025

Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Room 405

• Research Areas: Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing, Public-Interest Technology, Augmented Reality, Urban Computing
• Research interests:developing public-interest socio-technical systems.  We are currently creating alternatives to gig work platforms that are more equitable for all stakeholders. For instance, we are investigating the socio-technical affordances necessary to support a co-op food delivery network owned and managed by workers and restaurants. We are exploring novel system designs that support self-governance, decentralized/federated models, community-centered data ownership, and portable reputation systems.  We have opportunities for students interested in human-centered computing, UI/UX design, full-stack software development, and qualitative/quantitative user research.
• Beyond our core projects, we are open to working on research projects that explore the use of emerging technologies, such as AR, wearables, NFTs, and DAOs, for creative and out-of-the-box applications.

Christopher Moretti, Corwin Hall, Room 036

• Research areas: Distributed systems, high-throughput computing, computer science/engineering education
• Expansion, improvement, and evaluation of open-source distributed computing software.
• Applications of distributed computing for "big science" (e.g. biometrics, data mining, bioinformatics)
• Software and best practices for computer science education and study, especially Princeton's 126/217/226 sequence or MOOCs development
• Sports analytics and/or crowd-sourced computing

Radhika Nagpal, F316 Engineering Quadrangle

• Research areas: control, robotics and dynamical systems

Karthik Narasimhan, Room 422

• Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning
• Autonomous agents for text-based games ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/textworld/ )
• Transfer learning/generalization in NLP
• Techniques for generating natural language
• Model-based reinforcement learning

Arvind Narayanan, 308 Sherrerd Hall 

Research Areas: fair machine learning (and AI ethics more broadly), the social impact of algorithmic systems, tech policy

Pedro Paredes, Corwin Hall, Room 041

My primary research work is in Theoretical Computer Science.

 * Research Interest: Spectral Graph theory, Pseudorandomness, Complexity theory, Coding Theory, Quantum Information Theory, Combinatorics.

The IW projects I am interested in advising can be divided into three categories:

 1. Theoretical research

I am open to advise work on research projects in any topic in one of my research areas of interest. A project could also be based on writing a survey given results from a few papers. Students should have a solid background in math (e.g., elementary combinatorics, graph theory, discrete probability, basic algebra/calculus) and theoretical computer science (226 and 240 material, like big-O/Omega/Theta, basic complexity theory, basic fundamental algorithms). Mathematical maturity is a must.

A (non exhaustive) list of topics of projects I'm interested in:   * Explicit constructions of better vertex expanders and/or unique neighbor expanders.   * Construction deterministic or random high dimensional expanders.   * Pseudorandom generators for different problems.   * Topics around the quantum PCP conjecture.   * Topics around quantum error correcting codes and locally testable codes, including constructions, encoding and decoding algorithms.

 2. Theory informed practical implementations of algorithms   Very often the great advances in theoretical research are either not tested in practice or not even feasible to be implemented in practice. Thus, I am interested in any project that consists in trying to make theoretical ideas applicable in practice. This includes coming up with new algorithms that trade some theoretical guarantees for feasible implementation yet trying to retain the soul of the original idea; implementing new algorithms in a suitable programming language; and empirically testing practical implementations and comparing them with benchmarks / theoretical expectations. A project in this area doesn't have to be in my main areas of research, any theoretical result could be suitable for such a project.

Some examples of areas of interest:   * Streaming algorithms.   * Numeric linear algebra.   * Property testing.   * Parallel / Distributed algorithms.   * Online algorithms.    3. Machine learning with a theoretical foundation

I am interested in projects in machine learning that have some mathematical/theoretical, even if most of the project is applied. This includes topics like mathematical optimization, statistical learning, fairness and privacy.

One particular area I have been recently interested in is in the area of rating systems (e.g., Chess elo) and applications of this to experts problems.

Final Note: I am also willing to advise any project with any mathematical/theoretical component, even if it's not the main one; please reach out via email to chat about project ideas.

Iasonas Petras, Corwin Hall, Room 033

• Research Areas: Information Based Complexity, Numerical Analysis, Quantum Computation.
• Prerequisites: Reasonable mathematical maturity. In case of a project related to Quantum Computation a certain familiarity with quantum mechanics is required (related courses: ELE 396/PHY 208).
• Possible research topics include:

1.   Quantum algorithms and circuits:

• i. Design or simulation quantum circuits implementing quantum algorithms.
• ii. Design of quantum algorithms solving/approximating continuous problems (such as Eigenvalue problems for Partial Differential Equations).

2.   Information Based Complexity:

• i. Necessary and sufficient conditions for tractability of Linear and Linear Tensor Product Problems in various settings (for example worst case or average case). 
• ii. Necessary and sufficient conditions for tractability of Linear and Linear Tensor Product Problems under new tractability and error criteria.
• iii. Necessary and sufficient conditions for tractability of Weighted problems.
• iv. Necessary and sufficient conditions for tractability of Weighted Problems under new tractability and error criteria.

3. Topics in Scientific Computation:

• i. Randomness, Pseudorandomness, MC and QMC methods and their applications (Finance, etc)

Yuri Pritykin, 245 Carl Icahn Lab

• Research interests: Computational biology; Cancer immunology; Regulation of gene expression; Functional genomics; Single-cell technologies.
• Potential research projects: Development, implementation, assessment and/or application of algorithms for analysis, integration, interpretation and visualization of multi-dimensional data in molecular biology, particularly single-cell and spatial genomics data.

Benjamin Raphael, Room 309  

• Research interests: Computational biology and bioinformatics; Cancer genomics; Algorithms and machine learning approaches for analysis of large-scale datasets
• Implementation and application of algorithms to infer evolutionary processes in cancer
• Identifying correlations between combinations of genomic mutations in human and cancer genomes
• Design and implementation of algorithms for genome sequencing from new DNA sequencing technologies
• Graph clustering and network anomaly detection, particularly using diffusion processes and methods from spectral graph theory

Vikram Ramaswamy, 035 Corwin Hall

• Research areas: Interpretability of AI systems, Fairness in AI systems, Computer vision.
• Constructing a new method to explain a model / create an interpretable by design model
• Analyzing a current model / dataset to understand bias within the model/dataset
• Proposing new fairness evaluations
• Proposing new methods to train to improve fairness
• Developing synthetic datasets for fairness / interpretability benchmarks
• Understanding robustness of models

Ran Raz, Room 240

• Research Area: Computational Complexity
• Independent Research Topics: Computational Complexity, Information Theory, Quantum Computation, Theoretical Computer Science

Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Room 406

• Research Areas: computer graphics; computer vision; 3D scanning; 3D printing; robotics; documentation and visualization of cultural heritage artifacts
• Research ways of incorporating rotation invariance into computer visiontasks such as feature matching and classification
• Investigate approaches to robust 3D scan matching
• Model and compensate for imperfections in 3D printing
• Given a collection of small mobile robots, apply control policies learned in simulation to the real robots.

Olga Russakovsky, Room 408

• Research Areas: computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, crowdsourcing, fairness&bias in AI
• Design a semantic segmentation deep learning model that can operate in a zero-shot setting (i.e., recognize and segment objects not seen during training)
• Develop a deep learning classifier that is impervious to protected attributes (such as gender or race) that may be erroneously correlated with target classes
• Build a computer vision system for the novel task of inferring what object (or part of an object) a human is referring to when pointing to a single pixel in the image. This includes both collecting an appropriate dataset using crowdsourcing on Amazon Mechanical Turk, creating a new deep learning formulation for this task, and running extensive analysis of both the data and the model

Sebastian Seung, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Room 153

• Research Areas: computational neuroscience, connectomics, "deep learning" neural networks, social computing, crowdsourcing, citizen science
• Gamification of neuroscience (EyeWire  2.0)
• Semantic segmentation and object detection in brain images from microscopy
• Computational analysis of brain structure and function
• Neural network theories of brain function

Jaswinder Pal Singh, Room 324

• Research Areas: Boundary of technology and business/applications; building and scaling technology companies with special focus at that boundary; parallel computing systems and applications: parallel and distributed applications and their implications for software and architectural design; system software and programming environments for multiprocessors.
• Develop a startup company idea, and build a plan/prototype for it.
• Explore tradeoffs at the boundary of technology/product and business/applications in a chosen area.
• Study and develop methods to infer insights from data in different application areas, from science to search to finance to others. 
• Design and implement a parallel application. Possible areas include graphics, compression, biology, among many others. Analyze performance bottlenecks using existing tools, and compare programming models/languages.
• Design and implement a scalable distributed algorithm.

Mona Singh, Room 420

• Research Areas: computational molecular biology, as well as its interface with machine learning and algorithms.
• Whole and cross-genome methods for predicting protein function and protein-protein interactions.
• Analysis and prediction of biological networks.
• Computational methods for inferring specific aspects of protein structure from protein sequence data.
• Any other interesting project in computational molecular biology.

Robert Tarjan, 194 Nassau St., Room 308

Available for single-semester IW and senior thesis advising, 2022-2023

• Research Areas: Data structures; graph algorithms; combinatorial optimization; computational complexity; computational geometry; parallel algorithms.
• Implement one or more data structures or combinatorial algorithms to provide insight into their empirical behavior.
• Design and/or analyze various data structures and combinatorial algorithms.

Olga Troyanskaya, Room 320

• Research Areas: Bioinformatics; analysis of large-scale biological data sets (genomics, gene expression, proteomics, biological networks); algorithms for integration of data from multiple data sources; visualization of biological data; machine learning methods in bioinformatics.
• Implement and evaluate one or more gene expression analysis algorithm.
• Develop algorithms for assessment of performance of genomic analysis methods.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate visualization tools for heterogeneous biological data.

David Walker, Room 211

• Research Areas: Programming languages, type systems, compilers, domain-specific languages, software-defined networking and security
• Independent Research Topics:  Any other interesting project that involves humanitarian hacking, functional programming, domain-specific programming languages, type systems, compilers, software-defined networking, fault tolerance, language-based security, theorem proving, logic or logical frameworks.

Shengyi Wang, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Room 216

• Independent Research topics: Explore Escher-style tilings using (introductory) group theory and automata theory to produce beautiful pictures.

Kevin Wayne, Corwin Hall, Room 040

• Research Areas: design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms; data structures; combinatorial optimization; graphs and networks.
• Design and implement computer visualizations of algorithms or data structures.
• Develop pedagogical tools or programming assignments for the computer science curriculum at Princeton and beyond.
• Develop assessment infrastructure and assessments for MOOCs.

Matt Weinberg, 194 Nassau St., Room 222

• Research Areas: algorithms, algorithmic game theory, mechanism design, game theoretical problems in {Bitcoin, networking, healthcare}.
• Theoretical questions related to COS 445 topics such as matching theory, voting theory, auction design, etc. 
• Theoretical questions related to incentives in applications like Bitcoin, the Internet, health care, etc. In a little bit more detail: protocols for these systems are often designed assuming that users will follow them. But often, users will actually be strictly happier to deviate from the intended protocol. How should we reason about user behavior in these protocols? How should we design protocols in these settings?

Huacheng Yu, Room 310

• data structures
• streaming algorithms
• design and analyze data structures / streaming algorithms
• prove impossibility results (lower bounds)
• implement and evaluate data structures / streaming algorithms

Ellen Zhong, Room 314

No longer available for single-term IW  and senior thesis advising, 2023-2024

Opportunities outside the department

We encourage students to look in to doing interdisciplinary computer science research and to work with professors in departments other than computer science.  However, every CS independent work project must have a strong computer science element (even if it has other scientific or artistic elements as well.)  To do a project with an adviser outside of computer science you must have permission of the department.  This can be accomplished by having a second co-adviser within the computer science department or by contacting the independent work supervisor about the project and having he or she sign the independent work proposal form.

Here is a list of professors outside the computer science department who are eager to work with computer science undergraduates.

Maria Apostolaki, Engineering Quadrangle, C330

• Research areas: Computing & Networking, Data & Information Science, Security & Privacy

Branko Glisic, Engineering Quadrangle, Room E330

• Documentation of historic structures
• Cyber physical systems for structural health monitoring
• Developing virtual and augmented reality applications for documenting structures
• Applying machine learning techniques to generate 3D models from 2D plans of buildings
•  Contact : Rebecca Napolitano, rkn2 (@princeton.edu)

Mihir Kshirsagar, Sherrerd Hall, Room 315

Center for Information Technology Policy.

• Consumer protection
• Content regulation
• Competition law
• Economic development
• Surveillance and discrimination

Sharad Malik, Engineering Quadrangle, Room B224

Select a Senior Thesis Adviser for the 2020-21 Academic Year.

• Design of reliable hardware systems
• Verifying complex software and hardware systems

Prateek Mittal, Engineering Quadrangle, Room B236

• Internet security and privacy 
• Social Networks
• Privacy technologies, anonymous communication
• Network Science
• Internet security and privacy: The insecurity of Internet protocols and services threatens the safety of our critical network infrastructure and billions of end users. How can we defend end users as well as our critical network infrastructure from attacks?
• Trustworthy social systems: Online social networks (OSNs) such as Facebook, Google+, and Twitter have revolutionized the way our society communicates. How can we leverage social connections between users to design the next generation of communication systems?
• Privacy Technologies: Privacy on the Internet is eroding rapidly, with businesses and governments mining sensitive user information. How can we protect the privacy of our online communications? The Tor project (https://www.torproject.org/) is a potential application of interest.

Ken Norman,  Psychology Dept, PNI 137

• Research Areas: Memory, the brain and computation 
• Lab:  Princeton Computational Memory Lab

Potential research topics

• Methods for decoding cognitive state information from neuroimaging data (fMRI and EEG) 
• Neural network simulations of learning and memory

Caroline Savage

Office of Sustainability, Phone:(609)258-7513, Email: cs35 (@princeton.edu)

The  Campus as Lab  program supports students using the Princeton campus as a living laboratory to solve sustainability challenges. The Office of Sustainability has created a list of campus as lab research questions, filterable by discipline and topic, on its  website .

An example from Computer Science could include using  TigerEnergy , a platform which provides real-time data on campus energy generation and consumption, to study one of the many energy systems or buildings on campus. Three CS students used TigerEnergy to create a  live energy heatmap of campus .

Other potential projects include:

• Apply game theory to sustainability challenges
• Develop a tool to help visualize interactions between complex campus systems, e.g. energy and water use, transportation and storm water runoff, purchasing and waste, etc.
• How can we learn (in aggregate) about individuals’ waste, energy, transportation, and other behaviors without impinging on privacy?

Janet Vertesi, Sociology Dept, Wallace Hall, Room 122

• Research areas: Sociology of technology; Human-computer interaction; Ubiquitous computing.
• Possible projects: At the intersection of computer science and social science, my students have built mixed reality games, produced artistic and interactive installations, and studied mixed human-robot teams, among other projects.

David Wentzlaff, Engineering Quadrangle, Room 228

Computing, Operating Systems, Sustainable Computing.

• Instrument Princeton's Green (HPCRC) data center
• Investigate power utilization on an processor core implemented in an FPGA
• Dismantle and document all of the components in modern electronics. Invent new ways to build computers that can be recycled easier.
• Other topics in parallel computer architecture or operating systems

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• An analysis of the factors that necessitate Java as one of the best programming languages
• What is the place of ethical hacking in today’s digital society?
• How to improve human-computer interaction
• What is the potential of computer systems in combating terrorism and crime?
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• How can organizations make use of data mining?
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• The effect of globalization and its impact on database administration
• A detailed investigation into the data availability and security
• The influence and impact of emerging computer technologies on the healthcare system
• Effect of training on knowledge performance in computer performance optimization
• The behavior of network architecture within a computing environment
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• Explain how to Blockchain benefits big businesses
• Discuss the conversation on using pet tracking chips
• Examine how genetic sequencing works using a computer
• How does IT help with security in financial institutions?
• Discuss what digitization means for privacy in the medical field
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• Discuss the limitations of communication and computation
• Would you say the average ATM is secure?
• Analyze an innovation that seems threatening but seems to be a favorite for the human race
• Why should any business utilize open-source software, and how does it help with security?
• Discuss the role of technology in the classroom
• Discuss the personal or home use of quantum computers
• Would you say embedded systems are changing how the world works?
• What would you say about social media and technology trends
• Will technology reduce recruitment in an industry (of your choosing)
• How does technology affect human interactions, and will AI remedy that?
• Examine the computer assistance that can help businesses perform efficient customer care
• Analyze the technologies involved in casino live gambling
• Would you say artificial intelligence is a threat or blessing to contemporary society
• Explain if machine learning impact neurons and the way the brain works negatively
• How does Big Data help corporations
• Examine the average human’s knowledge of virtual reality through quantitative research
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• Examine the future of programming languages and their efficiency
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• Discuss the role of wireless systems in vehicles
• Examine how biometric systems work in cars
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• Examine the relationship between technology and healthcare
• Can robots work without any human intervention?
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• What are the vulnerabilities in bioinformatics?
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Computer Science Theses and Dissertations

This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Computer Science, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

A Target-Based and A Targetless Extrinsic Calibration Methods for Thermal Camera and 3D LiDAR , Farhad Dalirani

Investigating Tree- and Graph-based Neural Networks for Natural Language Processing Applications , Sudipta Singha Roy

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Classification of DDoS Attack with Machine Learning Architectures and Exploratory Analysis , Amreen Anbar

Multi-view Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Brain-Computer Interfaces , Sepehr Asgarian

Improved Protein Sequence Alignments Using Deep Learning , Seyed Sepehr Ashrafzadeh

INVESTIGATING IMPROVEMENTS TO MESH INDEXING , Anurag Bhattacharjee

Algorithms and Software for Oligonucleotide Design , Qin Dong

Framework for Assessing Information System Security Posture Risks , Syed Waqas Hamdani

De novo sequencing of multiple tandem mass spectra of peptide containing SILAC labeling , Fang Han

Local Model Agnostic XAI Methodologies Applied to Breast Cancer Malignancy Predictions , Heather Hartley

A Quantitative Analysis Between Software Quality Posture and Bug-fixing Commit , Rongji He

A Novel Method for Assessment of Batch Effect on single cell RNA sequencing data , Behnam Jabbarizadeh

Dynamically Finding Optimal Kernel Launch Parameters for CUDA Programs , Taabish Jeshani

Citation Polarity Identification From Scientific Articles Using Deep Learning Methods , Souvik Kundu

Denoising-Based Domain Adaptation Network for EEG Source Imaging , Runze Li

Decoy-Target Database Strategy and False Discovery Rate Analysis for Glycan Identification , Xiaoou Li

DpNovo: A DEEP LEARNING MODEL COMBINED WITH DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING FOR DE NOVO PEPTIDE SEQUENCING , Yizhou Li

Developing A Smart Home Surveillance System Using Autonomous Drones , Chongju Mai

Look-Ahead Selective Plasticity for Continual Learning , Rouzbeh Meshkinnejad

The Two Visual Processing Streams Through The Lens Of Deep Neural Networks , Aidasadat Mirebrahimi Tafreshi

Source-free Domain Adaptation for Sleep Stage Classification , Yasmin Niknam

Data Heterogeneity and Its Implications for Fairness , Ghazaleh Noroozi

Enhancing Urban Life: A Policy-Based Autonomic Smart City Management System for Efficient, Sustainable, and Self-Adaptive Urban Environments , Elham Okhovat

Evaluating the Likelihood of Bug Inducing Commits Using Metrics Trend Analysis , Parul Parul

On Computing Optimal Repairs for Conditional Independence , Alireza Pirhadi

Open-Set Source-Free Domain Adaptation in Fundus Images Analysis , Masoud Pourreza

Migration in Edge Computing , Arshin Rezazadeh

A Modified Hopfield Network for the K-Median Problem , Cody Rossiter

Predicting Network Failures with AI Techniques , Chandrika Saha

Toward Building an Intelligent and Secure Network: An Internet Traffic Forecasting Perspective , Sajal Saha

An Exploration of Visual Analytic Techniques for XAI: Applications in Clinical Decision Support , Mozhgan Salimiparsa

Attention-based Multi-Source-Free Domain Adaptation for EEG Emotion Recognition , Amir Hesam Salimnia

Global Cyber Attack Forecast using AI Techniques , Nusrat Kabir Samia

IMPLEMENTATION OF A PRE-ASSESSMENT MODULE TO IMPROVE THE INITIAL PLAYER EXPERIENCE USING PREVIOUS GAMING INFORMATION , Rafael David Segistan Canizales

A Computational Framework For Identifying Relevant Cell Types And Specific Regulatory Mechanisms In Schizophrenia Using Data Integration Methods , Kayvan Shabani

Weakly-Supervised Anomaly Detection in Surveillance Videos Based on Two-Stream I3D Convolution Network , Sareh Soltani Nejad

Smartphone Loss Prevention System Using BLE and GPS Technology , Noshin Tasnim

A Hybrid Continual Machine Learning Model for Efficient Hierarchical Classification of Domain-Specific Text in The Presence of Class Overlap (Case Study: IT Support Tickets) , Yasmen M. Wahba

Reducing Negative Transfer of Random Data in Source-Free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation , Anthony Wong

Deep Neural Methods for True/Pseudo- Invasion Classification in Colorectal Polyp Whole-Slide Images , Zhiyuan Yang

Developing a Relay-based Autonomous Drone Delivery System , Muhammad Zakar

Learning Mortality Risk for COVID-19 Using Machine Learning and Statistical Methods , Shaoshi Zhang

Machine Learning Techniques for Improved Functional Brain Parcellation , Da Zhi

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

The Design and Implementation of a High-Performance Polynomial System Solver , Alexander Brandt

Defining Service Level Agreements in Serverless Computing , Mohamed Elsakhawy

Algorithms for Regular Chains of Dimension One , Juan P. Gonzalez Trochez

Towards a Novel and Intelligent e-commerce Framework for Smart-Shopping Applications , Susmitha Hanumanthu

Multi-Device Data Analysis for Fault Localization in Electrical Distribution Grids , Jacob D L Hunte

Towards Parking Lot Occupancy Assessment Using Aerial Imagery and Computer Vision , John Jewell

Potential of Vision Transformers for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems: An Evaluative Approach , Andrew Katoch

Psychological Understanding of Textual journals using Natural Language Processing approaches , Amirmohammad Kazemeinizadeh

Driver Behavior Analysis Based on Real On-Road Driving Data in the Design of Advanced Driving Assistance Systems , Nima Khairdoost

Solving Challenges in Deep Unsupervised Methods for Anomaly Detection , Vahid Reza Khazaie

Developing an Efficient Real-Time Terrestrial Infrastructure Inspection System Using Autonomous Drones and Deep Learning , Marlin Manka

Predictive Modelling For Topic Handling Of Natural Language Dialogue With Virtual Agents , Lareina Milambiling

Improving Deep Entity Resolution by Constraints , Soudeh Nilforoushan

Respiratory Pattern Analysis for COVID-19 Digital Screening Using AI Techniques , Annita Tahsin Priyoti

Extracting Microservice Dependencies Using Log Analysis , Andres O. Rodriguez Ishida

False Discovery Rate Analysis for Glycopeptide Identification , Shun Saito

Towards a Generalization of Fulton's Intersection Multiplicity Algorithm , Ryan Sandford

An Investigation Into Time Gazed At Traffic Objects By Drivers , Kolby R. Sarson

Exploring Artificial Intelligence (AI) Techniques for Forecasting Network Traffic: Network QoS and Security Perspectives , Ibrahim Mohammed Sayem

A Unified Representation and Deep Learning Architecture for Persuasive Essays in English , Muhammad Tawsif Sazid

Towards the development of a cost-effective Image-Sensing-Smart-Parking Systems (ISenSmaP) , Aakriti Sharma

Advances in the Automatic Detection of Optimization Opportunities in Computer Programs , Delaram Talaashrafi

Reputation-Based Trust Assessment of Transacting Service Components , Konstantinos Tsiounis

Fully Autonomous UAV Exploration in Confined and Connectionless Environments , Kirk P. Vander Ploeg

Three Contributions to the Theory and Practice of Optimizing Compilers , Linxiao Wang

Developing Intelligent Routing Algorithm over SDN: Reusable Reinforcement Learning Approach , Wumian Wang

Predicting and Modifying Memorability of Images , Mohammad Younesi

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Generating Effective Sentence Representations: Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Approaches , Mahtab Ahmed

A Physical Layer Framework for a Smart City Using Accumulative Bayesian Machine Learning , Razan E. AlFar

Load Balancing and Resource Allocation in Smart Cities using Reinforcement Learning , Aseel AlOrbani

Contrastive Learning of Auditory Representations , Haider Al-Tahan

Cache-Friendly, Modular and Parallel Schemes For Computing Subresultant Chains , Mohammadali Asadi

Protein Interaction Sites Prediction using Deep Learning , Sourajit Basak

Predicting Stock Market Sector Sentiment Through News Article Based Textual Analysis , William A. Beldman

Improving Reader Motivation with Machine Learning , Tanner A. Bohn

A Black-box Approach for Containerized Microservice Monitoring in Fog Computing , Shi Chang

Visualization and Interpretation of Protein Interactions , Dipanjan Chatterjee

A Framework for Characterising Performance in Multi-Class Classification Problems with Applications in Cancer Single Cell RNA Sequencing , Erik R. Christensen

Exploratory Search with Archetype-based Language Models , Brent D. Davis

Evolutionary Design of Search and Triage Interfaces for Large Document Sets , Jonathan A. Demelo

Building Effective Network Security Frameworks using Deep Transfer Learning Techniques , Harsh Dhillon

A Deep Topical N-gram Model and Topic Discovery on COVID-19 News and Research Manuscripts , Yuan Du

Automatic extraction of requirements-related information from regulatory documents cited in the project contract , Sara Fotouhi

Developing a Resource and Energy Efficient Real-time Delivery Scheduling Framework for a Network of Autonomous Drones , Gopi Gugan

A Visual Analytics System for Rapid Sensemaking of Scientific Documents , Amirreza Haghverdiloo Barzegar

Calibration Between Eye Tracker and Stereoscopic Vision System Employing a Linear Closed-Form Perspective-n-Point (PNP) Algorithm , Mohammad Karami

Fuzzy and Probabilistic Rule-Based Approaches to Identify Fault Prone Files , Piyush Kumar Korlepara

Parallel Arbitrary-precision Integer Arithmetic , Davood Mohajerani

A Technique for Evaluating the Health Status of a Software Module Using Process Metrics , . Ria

Visual Analytics for Performing Complex Tasks with Electronic Health Records , Neda Rostamzadeh

Predictive Model of Driver's Eye Fixation for Maneuver Prediction in the Design of Advanced Driving Assistance Systems , Mohsen Shirpour

A Generative-Discriminative Approach to Human Brain Mapping , Deepanshu Wadhwa

WesternAccelerator：Rapid Development of Microservices , Haoran Wei

A Lightweight and Explainable Citation Recommendation System , Juncheng Yin

Mitosis Detection from Pathology Images , Jinhang Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Visual Analytics of Electronic Health Records with a focus on Acute Kidney Injury , Sheikh S. Abdullah

Towards the Development of Network Service Cost Modeling-An ISP Perspective , Yasmeen Ali

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Computer Science and Engineering Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Theses/projects/dissertations from 2023 2023.

CLASSIFICATION OF LARGE SCALE FISH DATASET BY DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS , Priyanka Adapa

GEOSPATIAL WILDFIRE RISK PREDICTION USING DEEP LEARNING , Abner Alberto Benavides

HUMAN SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY DETECTION , Nilamben Bhuva

MAX FIT EVENT MANAGEMENT WITH SALESFORCE , AKSHAY DAGWAR

MELANOMA DETECTION BASED ON DEEP LEARNING NETWORKS , Sanjay Devaraneni

Heart Disease Prediction Using Binary Classification , Virendra Sunil Devare

CLASSIFICATION OF THORAX DISEASES FROM CHEST X-RAY IMAGES , Sharad Jayusukhbhai Dobariya

WEB BASED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR HOUSING SOCIETY , Likhitha Reddy Eddala

Sales and Stock Management System , Rashmika Gaddam Ms

CONTACTLESS FOOD ORDERING SYSTEM , Rishivar Kumar Goli

RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT WEBSITE , Akhil Sai Gollapudi

DISEASE OF LUNG INFECTION DETECTION USING CNN MODEL -BAYESIAN OPTIMIZATION , poojitha gutha

DATA POISONING ATTACKS ON PHASOR MEASUREMENT UNIT DATA , Rutuja Sanjeev Haridas

CRIME MAPPING ANALYSIS USING WEB APPLICATION. , Lavanya Krishnappa

A LONG-TERM FUNDS PREDICTOR BASED ON DEEP LEARNING , SHUIYI KUANG

LIVER SEGMENTATION AND LESION DETECTION IN MEDICAL IMAGES USING A DEEP LEARNING-BASED U-NET MODEL , Kaushik Mahida

PHASOR MEASUREMENT UNIT DATA VISUALIZATION , Nikhila Mandava

TWITTER POLICING , Hemanth Kumar Medisetty

TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT SYSYEM FOR A PUBLISHER , HASSAIN SHAREEF MOHAMMED JR

LOBANGU: AN OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION RECEIPT MANAGEMENT APP FOR HEALTH CENTER PHARMACIES IN THE D.R.CONGO AND SURROUNDING EASTERN AFRICAN COUNTRIES , Bénis Munganga

PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR CFPB CONSUMER COMPLAINTS , Vyshnavi Nalluri

REVIEW CLASSIFICATION USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND DEEP LEARNING , Brian Nazareth

Brain Tumor Detection Using MRI Images , Mayur Patel

QUIZ WEB APPLICATION , Dipti Rathod

HYPOTHYROID DISEASE ANALYSIS BY USING MACHINE LEARNING , SANJANA SEELAM

Pillow Based Sleep Tracking Device Using Raspberry Pi , Venkatachalam Seviappan

FINSERV ANDROID APPLICATION , Harsh Piyushkumar Shah

AUTOMATED MEDICAL NOTES LABELLING AND CLASSIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING , Akhil Prabhakar Thota

GENETIC PROGRAMMING TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS ON UNBALANCED DATA SET , Asitha Thumpati

GOVERNMENT AID PORTAL , Darshan Togadiya

GENERAL POPULATION PROJECTION MODEL WITH CENSUS POPULATION DATA , Takenori Tsuruga

LUNG LESION SEGMENTATION USING DEEP LEARNING APPROACHES , Sree Snigdha Tummala

DETECTION OF PHISHING WEBSITES USING MACHINE LEARNING , Saranya Valleri

Machine Learning for Kalman Filter Tuning Prediction in GPS/INS Trajectory Estimation , Peter Wright

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2022 2022

LEARN PROGRAMMING IN VIRTUAL REALITY? A PROJECT FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS , Benjamin Alexander

LUNG CANCER TYPE CLASSIFICATION , Mohit Ramajibhai Ankoliya

HIGH-RISK PREDICTION FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS USING MACHINE LEARNING , Raja Kajuluri

IMPROVING INDIA’S TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT USING INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS , Umesh Makhloga

DETECTION OF EPILEPSY USING MACHINE LEARNING , Balamurugan Murugesan

SOCIAL MOBILE APPLICATION: UDROP , Mahmoud Oraiqat

Improved Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition Via Hybrid Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks , Sonia Perez-Gamboa

College of Education FileMaker Extraction and End-User Database Development , Andrew Tran

DEEP LEARNING EDGE DETECTION IN IMAGE INPAINTING , Zheng Zheng

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2021 2021

A General Conversational Chatbot , Vipin Nambiar

Verification System , Paras Nigam

DESKTOP APPLICATION FOR THE PUZZLE BOARD GAME “RUSH HOUR” , Huanqing Nong

Ahmedabad City App , Rushabh Picha

COMPUTER SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM USING WI-FI FOR ANDROID , Shashank Reddy Saireddy

ANDROID PARKING SYSTEM , Vishesh Reddy Sripati

Sentiment Analysis: Stock Index Prediction with Multi-task Learning and Word Polarity Over Time , Yue Zhou

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2020 2020

BUBBLE-IN DIGITAL TESTING SYSTEM , Chaz Hampton

FEEDBACK REVIEW SYSTEM USING SENTIMENT ANALYSIS , Vineeth Kukkamalla

WEB APPLICATION FOR MOVIE PERFORMANCE PREDICTION , Devalkumar Patel

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2019 2019

REVIEWS TO RATING CONVERSION AND ANALYSIS USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES , Charitha Chanamolu

EASY EXAM , SARTHAK DABHI

EXTRACT TRANSFORM AND LOADING TOOL FOR EMAIL , Amit Rajiv Lawanghare

VEHICLE INFORMATION SYSTEM USING BLOCKCHAIN , Amey Zulkanthiwar

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2018 2018

USING AUTOENCODER TO REDUCE THE LENGTH OF THE AUTISM DIAGNOSTIC OBSERVATION SCHEDULE (ADOS) , Sara Hussain Daghustani

California State University, San Bernardino Chatbot , Krutarth Desai

ORGANIZE EVENTS MOBILE APPLICATION , Thakshak Mani Chandra Reddy Gudimetla

SOCIAL NETWORK FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS , Sanket Prabhakar Jadhav

VIRTUALIZED CLOUD PLATFORM MANAGEMENT USING A COMBINED NEURAL NETWORK AND WAVELET TRANSFORM STRATEGY , Chunyu Liu

INTER PROCESS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TWO SERVERS USING MPICH , Nagabhavana Narla

SENSOR-BASED HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION USING BIDIRECTIONAL LSTM FOR CLOSELY RELATED ACTIVITIES , Arumugam Thendramil Pavai

NEURAL NETWORK ON VIRTUALIZATION SYSTEM, AS A WAY TO MANAGE FAILURE EVENTS OCCURRENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING , Khoi Minh Pham

EPICCONFIGURATOR COMPUTER CONFIGURATOR AND CMS PLATFORM , IVO A. TANTAMANGO

STUDY ON THE PATTERN RECOGNITION ENHANCEMENT FOR MATRIX FACTORIZATIONS WITH AUTOMATIC RELEVANCE DETERMINATION , hau tao

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2017 2017

CHILDREN’S SOCIAL NETWORK: KIDS CLUB , Eiman Alrashoud

MULTI-WAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM , S. Chinnam

WEB APPLICATION FOR GRADUATE COURSE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM , Sayali Dhumal

MOBILE APPLICATION FOR ATTENDANCE SYSTEM COYOTE-ATTENDANCE , Sindhu Hari

WEB APPLICATION FOR GRADUATE COURSE ADVISING SYSTEM , Sanjay Karrolla

Custom T-Shirt Designs , Ranjan Khadka

STUDENT CLASS WAITING LIST ENROLLMENT , AISHWARYA LACHAGARI

ANDROID MOBILE APPLICATION FOR HOSPITAL EXECUTIVES , Vihitha Nalagatla

PIPPIN MACHINE , Kiran Reddy Pamulaparthy

SOUND MODE APPLICATION , Sindhuja Pogaku

I2MAPREDUCE: DATA MINING FOR BIG DATA , Vishnu Vardhan Reddy Sherikar

COMPARING AND IMPROVING FACIAL RECOGNITION METHOD , Brandon Luis Sierra

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING BASED GENERATOR OF TESTING INSTRUMENTS , Qianqian Wang

AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF WEB APPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM , Yu Zhou

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2016 2016

CLOTH - MODELING, DEFORMATION, AND SIMULATION , Thanh Ho

CoyoteLab - Linux Containers for Educational Use , Michael D. Korcha

PACKET FILTER APPROACH TO DETECT DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS , Essa Yahya M Muharish

DATA MINING: TRACKING SUSPICIOUS LOGGING ACTIVITY USING HADOOP , Bir Apaar Singh Sodhi

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2015 2015

APPLY DATA CLUSTERING TO GENE EXPRESSION DATA , Abdullah Jameel Abualhamayl Mr.

Density Based Data Clustering , Rayan Albarakati

Developing Java Programs on Android Mobile Phones Using Speech Recognition , Santhrushna Gande

THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ADAPTIVE CHESS GAME , Mehdi Peiravi

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN BERNARDINO WiN GPS , Francisco A. Ron

ESTIMATION ON GIBBS ENTROPY FOR AN ENSEMBLE , Lekhya Sai Sake

A WEB-BASED TEMPERATURE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS , Rigoberto Solorio

ANTICS: A CROSS-PLATFORM MOBILE GAME , Gerren D. Willis

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Introducing Non-Determinism to the Parallel C Compiler , Rowen Concepcion

THE I: A CLIENT-BASED POINT-AND-CLICK PUZZLE GAME , Aldo Lewis

Interactive Student Planner Application , NII TETTEH TACKIE YARBOI

ANDROID MOBILE APPLICATION FOR CREST COMMUNITY CHURCH IN RIVERSIDE , Ran Wei

Proton Computed Tomography: Matrix Data Generation Through General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit Reconstruction , micah witt

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Bx Thesis Program

Students in computer science may write a Bx (BA/BS) thesis to complete a major elective (CMSC 29900) and/or as part of their requirements for Computer Science Honors .

The Bx thesis, generally written in the fourth year, should be a substantial research paper. The project should be pursued largely independently, with faculty guidance and input. The thesis should demonstrate competence and scholarship in the chosen area, displaying the ability to understand and synthesize a wide range of readings (beyond material assigned in standard coursework).

Unlike an MA or PhD thesis, however, the Bx thesis need not be primarily an original research project, but rather can report on sufficiently advanced literature and present the student’s personal understanding and evaluation of this literature. The thesis should aim to present some original research, built on the readings, conducted by the student in consultation with a faculty member.

While students may choose to build software as part of their Bx thesis work, software is not a replacement for the required paper.

Bx  – Bachelor of Arts (BA) or Bachelor of Science (BS)

Bx Thesis Program Director – faculty member who oversees the Bx thesis program for the academic year (currently Blase Ur )

Bx Thesis Advisor – faculty member who oversees a student’s work on their Bx thesis

Bx Thesis Reader – faculty member other than the student’s Bx thesis advisor who commits to reading and recommending the thesis for acceptance or rejection

Graduation Quarter (a.k.a. Quarter 3) – the quarter in which a student intends to graduate

Quarter 1 – two quarters prior to the graduation quarter (i.e. Autumn for students who are graduating in Spring, Spring for students graduating in Winter, and Winter for students who are graduating in the Autumn)

Quarter 2 – one quarter prior to the graduation quarter (i.e. Winter for students who are graduating in Spring, Autumn for students graduating in the Winter, and Spring for students who are graduating in the Autumn)

Below are the expected milestones for completing a Bx thesis. Deadlines are at the end of the weeks indicated. Each deadline is the latest time for completing a milestone. To ensure successful completion of a thesis, students are encouraged to complete milestones earlier when possible.

Quarter 1: 1st week

– The student should identify a potential thesis advisor and thesis topic.

Quarter 1: 8th week

– The student must submit a short (2-3 page) thesis proposal, using this proposal form , to their thesis advisor. – The thesis advisor must approve the proposal.

Quarter 1: 9th week

– The student must submit their advisor-approved proposal to the Bx thesis program director.

Quarter 2: 1st week

– The program director will accept, reject, or suggest changes to the proposal.

Quarter 2: 9th week

– The student, in consultation with their thesis advisor, must identify a second faculty member to serve as their Bx thesis reader.

Quarter 3: 5th week

– The student must submit a completed Bx thesis to their advisor and to their reader.

Quarter 3: 7th week

– The thesis advisor and reader must approve the thesis, using this approval form (coming soon). – The advisor must also write a letter recommending the thesis for acceptance. – The reader may write their own letter or simply concur with the thesis advisor’s letter in writing. – The approval form, letters, and completed thesis must be submitted to the Bx thesis program director.

Other Policies

A student who is completing a Bx thesis in computer science may choose to enroll in CMSC 29900 in their graduation quarter, but they are not required to do so.

Students may not receive compensation for research they complete as part of their work for CMSC 29900.

A faculty member in another department may supervise the Bx thesis upon approval of the Bx Thesis Program Director. A student should ask permission from the director before contacting the outside faculty member.

The Computer Science department may accept a thesis used to meet the Bx requirement in another major if the Bx Thesis Program Director deems the thesis to have sufficient computer science content. Students should consult with the relevant parties in both departments by the earliest Bx proposal deadline (or by the end of their third year, if the other program does not state a deadline). A consent form, to be signed by both departmental advisors, is available from the College adviser; it must be completed and returned to the College adviser by the end of Autumn Quarter of the student’s year of graduation.

(Note: Some of the language for this policy is adapted from the Linguistics Department’s guide for BA papers.)

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At this page, we provide some information necessary while writing a thesis. Basically, the same rules can be applied for any other scientific paperwork. We must admit that this information collected here is neither complete nor represents it a general rule set. Nevertheless, we try to keep it up-to-date and comprehensive. If you have comments or suggestions, please drop me a short note.

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• Motivation (Why do we care?)
• Problem statement (What problem are we trying to solve?)
• Approach (How did we go about it)
• Results (What’s the answer?)
• Conclusion (What are the implications of the answer?)
• Context: make sure to link where your work fits in
• Problem: gap in knowledge, too expensive, too slow, a deficiency, superseded technology
• Strategy: the way you will address the problem
• comment on employed hardware and software
• describe methods and techniques that build the basis of your work
• review related work(!)
• start with a theoretical approach
• describe the developed system/algorithm/method from a high-level point of view
• go ahead in presenting your developments in more detail
• whatever you have done, you must comment it, compare it to other systems, evaluate it
• usually, adequate graphs help to show the benefits of your approach
• caution: each result/graph must be discussed! what’s the reason for this peak or why have you ovserved this effect
• summarize again what your paper did, but now emphasize more the results, and comparisons
• write conclusions that can be drawn from the results found and the discussion presented in the paper
• future work (be very brief, explain what, but not much how)
• all papers and articles used in the thesis must be cited (and each reference must be used in the thesis!)
• a rough number is 20 references for a bachelor thesis and 30-40 for a master’s thesis
• avoid to cite web sites
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• Avoid passive voice, active voice is easier to read. There is nothing wrong saying I (or we) did it
• Avoid negative sentences: write in a positive (affirmative) voice, they are easier to understand.
• Always use vector graphics for figures (PDF, EPS, …)
• Did I spell out the main points of the interpretation of results?
• Are all equations, figures, tables numbered?
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• Are all axes and scale carefully chosen to show the relevant effects?
• Are all axes labelled? Do the labals include the measurement units?
• Are citations in the caption (if a graph is borrowed)?

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Department of Computer Science

Bachelor's and master's theses.

Below is a list of the research groups of the department with hyperlinks to their available theses.

Institute for Computing Platforms

• Prof. G. Alonso, Information and Communication Systems Research Group
• Prof. A. Klimovic,  Efficient Architectures and Systems Lab
• Prof. T. Roscoe, Network and Operating Systems
• Prof. Ce Zhang, Data Sciences, Data Systems and Data Services

Institute for High Performance Computing Systems

• Prof. T. Hoefler, Scalable Parallel Computing Lab

Institute of Information Security

• Prof. D. Basin, Information Security Group
• Prof. S. Capkun, System Security Group
• Prof. K. Paterson, Applied Cryptography Group
• Prof. A. Perrig, Network Security Group
• Prof. S. Shinde,  Secure & Trustworthy Systems Group
• Prof. F. Tramèr,  Computer Security and Privacy Group

Institute for Intelligent Interactive Systems

• Prof. S. Coros, Computational Robotics Lab
• Prof. O. Hilliges, Advanced Interactive Technologies Lab
• Prof. C. Holz, external page Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab call_made
• Prof. A. Wang,  external page Programming, Education, and Computer-Human Interaction Lab call_made

Institute for Machine Learning

• Prof. V. Boeva, Computational Genetics and Epigenetics of Cancer
• Prof. J. Buhmann, Information Science & Engineering
• Prof. N. He,  Optimization and Decision Intelligence Group
• Prof. T. Hofmann, Data Analytics Lab
• Prof. A. Krause, Learning & Adaptive Systems Group
• Prof. F. Perez-Cruz, external page Swiss Data Science Center call_made
• Prof. G. Rätsch, Biomedical Informatics Group
• Prof. M. Sachan, external page Mrinmaya's Lab call_made
• Prof. J. Vogt, Medical Data Science
• Prof. F. Yang,  Statistical Machine Learning Group

Institute for Programming Languages and Systems

• Prof. R. Jung,  Programming Language Foundations Lab
• Prof. P. Müller, Programming Methodology Group
• Prof. M. Püschel, Advanced Computing Lab
• Prof. Z. Su, Advanced Software Technologies Lab
• Prof. M. Vechev, Secure, Reliable and Intelligent Systems Lab

Institute of Theoretical Computer Science

• Prof. B. Gärtner, Theory of Combinatorial Algorithms
• Prof. D. Hofheinz, Foundations of Cryptography
• Prof. D. Komm,  Algorithms and Didactics Group
• Prof. R. Kyng,  Algorithms and Optimization Group
• Prof. U. Maurer, Information Security and Cryptography
• Prof. A. Steger, Combinatorial Structures and Algorithms
• Prof. D. Steurer, external page Computational Complexity, Optimisation and Estimation call_made
• Prof E. Welzl, Theory of Combinatorial Algorithms

Institute of Visual Computing

• Prof. M. Gross, Computer Graphics Laboratory
• Prof. M. Pollefeys, Computer Vision and Geometry Group
• Prof. O. Sorkine-Hornung, Interactive Geometry Lab
• Prof. R. Sumner, Game Technology Center
• Prof. S. Tang, Computer Vision and Learning Group

Chair of Information Technology and Education

• Prof. J. Hromkovic, Information Technology and Education

Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory

• Prof. R. Wattenhofer,  Distributed Computing Group

Research Centers

• Dr. Fabio Zünd, Game Technology Center
• Dr. Fabio Zünd, Media Technology Center

Rahmenrichtlinien für Bachelorarbeiten

A bachelor's thesis involves working on a topic with written preparation together with an oral presentation of the results. The student should show that he/she is able to work on a Computer Science topic based on scientific methods within a given period of time. The task of a bachelor thesis can include, for example, the development of software, hardware and proof or a literature search. The bachelor thesis is included in the curriculum along with other courses in the 6th semester.

2.1 Assignment of topics Every professor, but also every PhD researcher of the Institute of Computer Science who has already taught independently (not only exercises), can assign a topic as a supervisor. Topic suggestions of the student can be taken into account. The student first searches for a supervisor (e.g. in the office hours of lecturers or before or after lectures) and then registers at the examination office before starting the work (without specifying a topic, but with the assignment of a supervisor). This countersigned registration identifies the student as someone who can begin a Bachelor thesis.

After an informal agreement on a topic, the student draws up a work plan in consultation with the supervisor. For this phase about 1 month of part-time work (3 ECTS points) is allocated. For the work plan, the topic should therefore have been already researched in adequate depth. Also, the subsequent work should have been carefully planned. The result ("proposal") should adequately represent this activity by the depth of content and completeness of the considered aspects. It should contain the following elements: Description of the task to be worked on, motivation of the work, explicit formulation of the objective, description of the work to be carried out in order to achieve the desired goals. Additionally, an appropriate timeframe plan, as well as an outline of a preliminary structure of the written work must be included. If the candidate and the supervisor agree on the work plan, the formal application can be made.

2.2 Supervision The level of the bachelor thesis is aligned with the study contents up to the 5th semester. The required knowledge and its research methods should be clarified before the thesis is green lit.

The supervisor will ensure that the Bachelor thesis can be completed in the intended time. He or she will be available for consultation during the entire period of work and will check the progress of the thesis at regular intervals. If problems arise, he/she will intervene and act as a guide if it turns out that the topic cannot be completed in the intended form or if there is a risk that the completion time specified in the examination regulations will be exceeded.

The supervisor will provide assistance with the written work well in advance of the submission date. Any deficiencies related to the work will be pointed out.

The student is also entitled to support for the presentation. The supervisor advises on the selection of suitable presentation materials and will point out any frequently made mistakes. He/she should offer the possibility of a shortened practise presentation. It could be the case that this may turn out to be a suitably comprehensive presentation and therefore be the graded presentation (the evaluation of the presentation will be included in the evaluation of the Bachelor thesis).

2.3 Duration The prepared work plan is a formal requirement for registration at the Examinations Office. It must be countersigned by the supervisor and submitted to the Examinations Office for approval together with the application for a Bachelor thesis supplemented by the chosen topic title and the start date of the timeframe. An estimated project time of five months is allocated and runs from the date entered on the application. When agreeing on the planned duration, the one-month working time on the work planning must be taken into account accordingly. The Bachelor thesis is scheduled with a workload of 9 weeks of full-time work, which corresponds approximately to 50% part-time work over 5 months. This is about half of the time required for a Master thesis. The date of submission and the determination of the start of the official working time are documented by the supervisor on the registration form and forwarded to the examination secretariat. After a short time, the candidate will receive written notification from the Examinations Office of the resulting responsibilities.

The topic can be changed once only and within the first month after the start date.

2.4 Written work The written paper is the main representation of the work done. It documents the results of the work and the handling of problems that may have arisen. The Bachelor thesis is to be written in the style of a scientific paper. This includes in particular a summary, a structure and a list of the literature used in the thesis. If implemented in the framework of the thesis, the structure, working method and interfaces should be described precisely. Integration of software documents in the paper is not necessary. However, the software system including source code should be made available to the supervisor for review. In addition to the submission in paper form, the written paper should be made available to the supervisor in electronic form in a common format (PDF).

2.5 Oral presentation In the oral presentation, the student should present the main content of the work in a session of about 20 to 30 minutes. The student should demonstrate the ability to work on technical topics and to present such topics in an understandable way.  After the presentation, the student will be informed about his or her strengths and weaknesses and will be given suggestions for improvement.

2.6 Archiving The candidate commits to keeping a copy of the paper accessible at all times for at least 5 years after submission of the paper. The Computer Science Department or the University does not archive a submitted and accepted Bachelor thesis.

The performance in a Bachelor thesis is evaluated internally. Individual sections are assessed separately to determine the overall grade. Essentially, the following parts can be classified. The list is sorted by descending weighting:

Written Report

The written composition should make up the largest part of the overall mark. Here it should be assessed how well the student has succeeded in presenting the topic in an understandable way, i.e. how well he or she has been able to separate the essential from the unimportant. External appearance, illustrations, language and style are also included in the assessment.

Results of the work

Results of the work can be of various kinds: small software projects, hardware products, empirically obtained statements, a demonstration of evidence, a literature review or a mixture of these. The quality of the result to be assessed includes the methodological approach.

Working methods

Working methods are analysed to assess how purposefully and independently the topic was dealt with.

Presentation

The following as taken into account when presentations are evaluated; the preparation of content, presentation with the help of visual aids (e.g. slides), rhetorical qualities as well as the ability to cope with critical questions.

Since this presentation may be the first in the course of study, the focus here is on the purpose of the exercise. For this reason, this evaluation should only have a minor influence on the sub-grade.

The Bachelor examination regulations provide for a second assessment by a second examiner. This second examiner is selected at random by the examination board; however, suggestions from the student are permitted.

In Computer Science, due to the nature of the subject, it is not uncommon for bachelor's theses to be written in cooperation with other institutes or external to university departments (industry). Ii is common for students to write their thesis with a topic in conjunction with a corresponding institute related to their minor subject. In both cases, the topic must be carefully examined and competent "on-site supervision" must be ensured. Even if the bachelor thesis is written in the minor subject and an examiner of the minor subject takes over the supervision, a university teacher of Computer Science in Paderborn must have checked the topic and supervise the work from the beginning. It is not enough that the Computer Science supervisor only appears as a second assessor when the thesis is submitted.

If the bachelor thesis is to be carried out outside the university, e.g. at a company, care should be taken that the candidate is not subject to internal company constraints (deadlines, financial dependency, keeping company secrets). To this end, "academic freedom" must be upheld. The companies must be informed that the work (i.e. the written work) is generally accessible to the public. In special cases (e.g. the application for patents) a reasonable period of time until publication (blocking notice) can be accepted. All results from work must be made available to the supervisor or assessor.

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The final thesis (Bachelor or Master) should show that the student is able to work independently on a complex task related to the study program and present it in a scientifically correct manner. It does not necessarily have to be the last module in the degree program, but there are guidelines as to when it can be started at the earliest (see Planning the Thesis).

In our study programs, there is no requirement that the thesis must be registered no later than X months after the last module exam. Nevertheless, please note that the thesis must be completed AND graded by the end of the maximum study period at the latest.

How does everything work around the thesis?

Requirements for the search for a topic.

• A thesis can only be started if at least 120 ECTS have been acquired in the Bachelor, and at least 60 ECTS in the Master. These ECTS must be entered on the transcript of records!
• The examiner of a thesis MUST be a professor of the Department of Computer Science. The examiner issues the topic and gives the final grade for the thesis.
• A second examiner (required for the master thesis) may come from another department / faculty of the University of Stuttgart.
• Often you will be assigned a supervisor who will give you advice and support and whom you can ask anything about your thesis. The supervisor is generally a member of the examiner's staff.
• It is possible to write a thesis in cooperation with a company. However, this is only possible if the examiner agrees. The company can at most take over the supervision, never the assignment of grades. However, since the orientation of the topics that come from companies often differs significantly from what is required as a thesis at the university, such constructs are very rare.

Finding a topic ...

To find a topic, it is best to contact the professors or their staff directly. Please make sure that you have taken courses from the department you are applying to. Otherwise, it may be difficult to work on a specific research topic of the department because you lack the prerequisites in this specific area. It may be a good start to take your own performance review and see what you particularly liked and where you also performed well on exams. These departments are then worth addressing first.

We try to post offers for theses as well as contact persons for the departments in ILIAS in the computer science marketplace.

If, after two to three months of intensive searching , you still have not found a topic, you can apply to the examination board for assignment of a thesis topic along with evidence of your unsuccessful search to date.

Registration of the thesis

It is important to note that you have to register your thesis with the Examinations Office no later than 1 month after starting the thesis (issue of the topic to you).

If a topic has been agreed upon, the secretary of the examiner prepares the computer science-specific contract including the license agreement (and, if applicable, confidentiality and/or language agreement) and hands out these documents to the student for proofreading. If possible, the time for proofreading and, if necessary, follow-up questions should not exceed one week. The contract documents are then signed by the student and returned to the secretary's office. If no publication is desired, the license agreement is crossed out. However, the document must remain with the contract.

At the same time, download the thesis application form from C@mpus. You can find it under the heading "My applications". If you are studying in the Master of Education, in the B.A. in Computer Science or in the B.A. minor in Computer Science, you will not receive this form from C@mpus, but directly from your exam officer. Please enter the following information in the form:

• the topic of the thesis in the original language and in English,
• the name of the examiner,
• the start date,
• sign the document and hand it in to the examiner's office.

The secretariat will have the document countersigned by the examiner and will then hand it back to you or send you a scan of it. You will then forward the document to the examination office as soon as possible. This can be done via the contact form and you can attach the scan or you can bring it personally to the examination office. There, the registration of the work will be entered into the system and confirmed on the form. Afterwards, please inform the examiner's office that the registration has been entered and that the work can now start. If the registration of the work is visible in the system (for the secretary's office), you will receive a copy of the contract.

By the way ...

• Theses can be registered at any time (even outside the exam registration period).
• In connection with the registration of the final thesis, the application for the issuance of the final documents must also be submitted. If you have any questions, please contact the examination office.

If you have any further questions, please contact the program manager or the examination board.

Submission of the thesis

The thesis must be printed and bound in the required number of copies (see contract). The following must be observed:

• For all printed copies, a rigid transparent film should be used as the front cover and, if possible, a black, solid cover at the back.
• The work must not be bound with a ring binding . Any type of adhesive or glue binding is permitted - preferably with a black linen booklet spine.
• The form requirements are summarized here once again.

To ensure that everything is printed, bound and handed in on time, you should collect the required number of covers from the examiner's office approximately 14 days BEFORE handing in your thesis.

In addition to the print copies the followings things have to be submitted:

• one separately printed title page of the thesis and
• the electronic version (pdf) of the thesis and an electronic version of the abstract in txt format. If you are studying in a German-language program and the thesis was written in English, both an English and a German abstract must be submitted. The electronic files can be sent to the examiner and the secretary's office by e-mail, on a stick or on a CD. The code generated by the work, if any, will be handed over separately to the examiner.

All printed copies and the electronic version must be handed in to the examiner's office by the deadline . After the examination by the secretary's office, you will receive the separate title page signed and date-stamped as proof of submission.

Form specifications, templates & links

Here are once again summarized all the notes (in German only)

• Instructions for examiners for the execution of theses
• Instructions for students
• Form specifications
• Template title page
• Template personal statetemt
• Graduation ceremony of the department

What if problems occur?

You forgot the register the thesis.

Subsequent registration of the thesis is possible for a maximum of one month (from the date of topic assignment). After that, this is only possible upon application to the examination board and only if there are valid reasons for which you are not responsible. Otherwise, the thesis will not be evaluated and you will have to look for a new topic.

Aborting the thesis and second attempt

The topic of the thesis can be returned once within the first 2 months of the processing time (Bachelor thesis) or within the first 3 months of the processing time (Master thesis) without a 5.0 being recorded. After that, this is no longer possible and an abandonment leads to a "Not Passed".

The thesis can be repeated once. If you have returned the topic at the first attempt and received a new one, this is no longer possible at the second attempt.

There is no time limit within which the second attempt must be registered. However, the thesis must be passed within the maximum period of study.

In general ...

If problems arise during the processing period that prevent you from devoting yourself to your thesis in a targeted manner, please contact your examiner and the examination board as soon as possible.

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Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Department of Computer Science, College of Sciences, Old Dominion University, since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.

In late Fall 2023 or Spring 2024, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Dissertation: Inverse Mappers for QCD Global Analysis , Manal Almaeen

Thesis: Assessing the Prevalence and Archival Rate of URIs to Git Hosting Platforms in Scholarly Publications , Emily Escamilla

Thesis: Supporting Account-based Queries for Archived Instagram Posts , Himarsha R. Jayanetti

Dissertation: Detecting Malware With Securedeep Accelerator via Processor Side-Channel Fingerprinting for Internet of Things , Zhuoran Li

Dissertation: Tracing and Segmentation of Molecular Patterns in 3-Dimensional Cryo-ET/EM Density Maps Through Algorithmic Image Processing and Deep Learning-Based Techniques , Salim Sazzed

Dissertation: Towards Intelligent Runtime Framework for Distributed Heterogeneous Systems , Polykarpos Thomadakis

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Dissertation: Machine Learning-Based Event Generator , Yasir Alanazi

Thesis: Using Ensemble Learning Techniques to Solve the Blind Drift Calibration Problem , Devin Scott Drake

Dissertation: A Relevance Model for Threat-Centric Ranking of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities , Corren G. McCoy

Dissertation: Evaluation of Generative Models for Predicting Microstructure Geometries in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing , Andy Ramlatchan

Thesis: TransParsCit: A Transformer-Based Citation Parser Trained on Large-Scale Synthesized Data , MD Sami Uddin

Dissertation: Towards Privacy and Security Concerns of Adversarial Examples in Deep Hashing Image Retrieval , Yanru Xiao

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Dissertation: MOVE: Mobile Observers Variants and Extensions , Ryan Florin

Dissertation: Improving Collection Understanding for Web Archives with Storytelling: Shining Light Into Dark and Stormy Archives , Shawn M. Jones

Dissertation: A Unified Framework for Parallel Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation , Christos Tsolakis

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Dissertation: MementoMap: A Web Archive Profiling Framework for Efficient Memento Routing , Sawood Alam

Dissertation: A Framework for Verifying the Fixity of Archived Web Resources , Mohamed Aturban

Thesis: Parallelization of the Advancing Front Local Reconnection Mesh Generation Software Using a Pseudo-Constrained Parallel Data Refinement Method , Kevin Mark Garner Jr.

Dissertation: Towards Dynamic Vehicular Clouds , Aida Ghazizadeh

Dissertation: Bootstrapping Web Archive Collections From Micro-Collections in Social Media , Alexander C. Nwala

Dissertation: Automatic Linear and Curvilinear Mesh Generation Driven by Validity Fidelity and Topological Guarantees , Jing Xu

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Dissertation: Expanding the Usage of Web Archives by Recommending Archived Webpages Using Only the URI , Lulwah M. Alkwai

Dissertation: Highly Accurate Fragment Library for Protein Fold Recognition , Wessam Elhefnawy

Dissertation: Scalable Parallel Delaunay Image-to-Mesh Conversion for Shared and Distributed Memory Architectures , Daming Feng

Dissertation: Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives Using the Mementity Framework , Matthew R. Kelly

Thesis: Enhancing Portability in High Performance Computing: Designing Fast Scientific Code with Longevity , Jason Orender

Thesis: Novel Use of Neural Networks to Identify and Detect Electrical Infrastructure Performance , Evan Pierre Savaria

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Dissertation: New Methods to Improve Protein Structure Modeling , Maha Abdelrasoul

Dissertation: Applying Machine Learning to Advance Cyber Security: Network Based Intrusion Detection Systems , Hassan Hadi Latheeth AL-Maksousy

Thesis: To Relive the Web: A Framework for the Transformation and Archival Replay of Web Pages , John Andrew Berlin

Thesis: Supporting Big Data at the Vehicular Edge , Lloyd Decker

Thesis: Deep Learning for Segmentation Of 3D Cryo-EM Images , Devin Reid Haslam

Dissertation: FlexStream: SDN-Based Framework for Programmable and Flexible Adaptive Video Streaming , Ibrahim Ben Mustafa

Thesis: Novel Technique for Gait Analysis Using Two Waist Mounted Gyroscopes , Ahmed Nasr

Dissertation: Leveraging Resources on Anonymous Mobile Edge Nodes , Ahmed Salem

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Dissertation: SenSys: A Smartphone-Based Framework for ITS applications , Abdulla Ahmed Alasaadi

Dissertation: ItsBlue: A Distributed Bluetooth-Based Framework for Intelligent Transportation Systems , Ahmed Awad Alghamdi

Dissertation: Finite Element Modeling Driven by Health Care and Aerospace Applications , Fotios Drakopoulos

Dissertation: Efficient Machine Learning Approach for Optimizing Scientific Computing Applications on Emerging HPC Architectures , Kamesh Arumugam Karunanithi

Thesis: Multi-GPU Accelerated High-Fidelity Simulations of Beam-Beam Effects in Particle Colliders , Naga Sai Ravi Teja Majeti

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Dissertation: Using Web Archives to Enrich the Live Web Experience Through Storytelling , Yasmin AlNoamany

Thesis: Magnopark, Smart Parking Detection Based on Cellphone Magnetic Sensor , Maryam Arab

Dissertation: Scripts in a Frame: A Framework for Archiving Deferred Representations , Justin F. Brunelle

Dissertation: Machine Learning Methods for Brain Image Analysis , Ahmed Fakhry

Dissertation: Novel Monte Carlo Methods for Large-Scale Linear Algebra Operations , Hao Ji

Dissertation: Machine Learning Methods for Medical and Biological Image Computing , Rongjian Li

Dissertation: Toward Open and Programmable Wireless Network Edge , Mostafa Uddin

Thesis: An Optimized Multiple Right-Hand Side Dslash Kernel for Intel Xeon Phi , Aaron Walden

Dissertation: Towards Aggregating Time-Discounted Information in Sensor Networks , Xianping Wang

Dissertation: A Computational Framework for Learning from Complex Data: Formulations, Algorithms, and Applications , Wenlu Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Dissertation: Efficient Algorithms for Prokaryotic Whole Genome Assembly and Finishing , Abhishek Biswas

Dissertation: De Novo Protein Structure Modeling and Energy Function Design , Lin Chen

Dissertation: High Performance Large Graph Analytics by Enhancing Locality , Naga Shailaja Dasari

Thesis: Avoiding Spoilers on Mediawiki Fan Sites Using Memento , Shawn M. Jones

Dissertation: Energy Harvesting-Aware Design for Wireless Nanonetworks , Shahram Mohrehkesh

Thesis: Parallel Two-Dimensional Unstructured Anisotropic Delaunay Mesh Generation for Aerospace Applications , Juliette Kelly Pardue

Dissertation: Detecting, Modeling, and Predicting User Temporal Intention , Hany M. SalahEldeen

Dissertation: Wireless Networking for Vehicle to Infrastructure Communication and Automatic Incident Detection , Sarwar Aziz Sha-Mohammad

Dissertation: Computational Development for Secondary Structure Detection From Three-Dimensional Images of Cryo-Electron Microscopy , Dong Si

Thesis: Mobile Cloud Computing Based Non Rigid Registration for Image Guided Surgery , Arun Brahmavar Vishwanatha

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Dissertation: Web Archive Services Framework for Tighter Integration Between the Past and Present Web , Ahmed AlSum

Dissertation: Modeling Stem Cell Population Dynamics , Samiur Arif

Dissertation: A Framework for Web Object Self-Preservation , Charles L. Cartledge

Dissertation: Document Classification in Support of Automated Metadata Extraction Form Heterogeneous Collections , Paul K. Flynn

Dissertation: Resource Allocation in Vehicular Cloud Computing , Puya Ghazizadeh

Thesis: Generating Combinatorial Objects- A New Perspective , Alexander Chizoma Nwala

Dissertation: Enhancing Understanding of Discrete Event Simulation Models Through Analysis , Kara Ann Olson

Dissertation: Scalable Reasoning for Knowledge Bases Subject to Changes , Hui Shi

Dissertation: Improving Structural Features Prediction in Protein Structure Modeling , Ashraf Yaseen

Thesis: Computational Analysis of Gene Expression and Connectivity Patterns in the Convoluted Structures of Mouse Cerebellum , Tao Zeng

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Thesis: HTTP Mailbox - Asynchronous Restful Communication , Sawood Alam

Dissertation: TDMA Slot Reservation in Cluster-Based VANETs , Mohammad Salem Almalag

Thesis: Protein Loop Length Estimation From Medium Resolution Cryoem Images , Andrew R. McKnight

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Dissertation: De Novo Protein Structure Modeling from Cryoem Data Through a Dynamic Programming Algorithm in the Secondary Structure Topology Graph , Kamal H. Al Nasr

Dissertation: FRIEND: A Cyber-Physical System for Traffic Flow Related Information Aggregation and Dissemination , Samy S. El-Tawab

Thesis: An Extensible Framework for Creating Personal Archives of Web Resources Requiring Authentication , Matthew Ryan Kelly

Thesis: Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It , Kalpesh Padia

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Dissertation: A Framework for Incident Detection and notification in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks , Mahmoud Abuelela

Dissertation: A Framework for Dynamic Traffic Monitoring Using Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks , Mohammad Hadi Arbabi

Thesis: A Probabilistic Analysis of Misparking in Reservation Based Parking Garages , Vikas G. Ashok

Thesis: A Penalty-Based Approach to Handling Cluster Sizing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks , Ryan Florin

Dissertation: Data Aggregation and Dissemination in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks , Khaled Ibrahim

Dissertation: Using the Web Infrastructure for Real Time Recovery of Missing Web Pages , Martin Klein

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Dissertation: A Virtual Infrastructure for Mitigating Typical Challenges in Sensor Networks , Hady S. Abdel Salam

Thesis: Merging Schemas in a Collaborative Faceted Classification System , Jianxiang Li

Thesis: XPath-Based Template Language for Describing the Placement of Metadata within a Document , Vijay Kumar Musham

Dissertation: Providing Location Security in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks , Gongjun Yan

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Dissertation: Algorithms for Vertex-Weighted Matching in Graphs , Mahantesh Halappanavar

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Thesis: Using Timed-Release Cryptography to Mitigate Preservation Risk of Embargo Periods , Rabia Haq

Dissertation: Biology-Inspired Approach for Communal Behavior in Massively Deployed Sensor Networks , Kennie H. Jones

Dissertation: Biological Networks: Modeling and Structural Analysis , Emad Y. Ramadan

Dissertation: Integrating Preservation Functions Into the Web Server , Joan A. Smith

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Dissertation: FreeLib: A Self-Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Digital Library Framework for Evolving Communities , Ashraf A. Amrou

Thesis: Channel Management in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks , Mohammad Hadi Arbabi

Dissertation: Diagnosing Reading strategies: Paraphrase Recognition , Chutima Boonthum

Thesis: Investigating Real-Time Sonar Performance Predictions Using Beowulf Clustering , Charles Lane Cartledge

Dissertation: Lazy Preservation: Reconstructing Websites from the Web Infrastructure , Frank McCown

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

Dissertation: Group Key Management in Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks , Mohammed A. Moharrum

Dissertation: Template-Based Metadata Extraction for Heterogeneous Collection , Jianfeng Tang

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

Dissertation: Collaborative Caching for efficient and Robust Certificate Authority Services in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks , Laith Abdulaziz Al-Sulaiman

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Come to Alabama State University to pursue a computer science bachelor degree and be part of this bright future.

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Our computer science graduates work at Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, and as ambassadors for education around the world. Your experience at Alabama State University will prepare you for wherever you go to work:

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Computer Science Thesis Proposal

April 1, 2024 9:00am — 10:30am.

Location: 4405 - Reddy Conference Room, Gates Hillman 4405

Speaker: YIGE HONG , Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yigeh/

Understanding and Optimizing Complex Stochastic Systems Through Simple System

Complex stochastic systems that consist of a large number of interacting components naturally arise in various research domains, such as resource allocation in computing systems, congestion control in networks, wireless communication, machine maintenance, clinical trials, etc. 

The scale of these systems, coupled with the interactions among the components, makes the dynamics within them highly complex. Consequently, decision-making problems for such stochastic systems are often highly challenging. 

To understand and optimize these complex systems, we consider first solving a simple problem, and then converting the policy or performance bound obtained from the simple problem back to the complex problems. If the simple problem is properly constructed and the conversion is properly done, we can design a policy and prove its near-optimality. 

In this thesis proposal, we will present several pieces of work that investigate some example problems through the related simple systems. These problems include restless bandits, stochastic bin-packing, optimal scheduling of the G/G/k/setup queueing model, and multiserver-job scheduling. We will also present three problems that we plan to study. Two of these problems are related to restless bandits; the third problem is about the G/G/n queueing model. 

Thesis Committee:  

Weina Wang (Chair) Mor Harchol-Balter Alan Scheller-Wolf Jim Dai (Cornell University) Qiaomin Xie (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Yudong Chen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  

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Computer Science Thesis Oral

April 5, 2024 2:00pm — 4:00pm.

Location: In Person and Virtual - ET - Reddy Conference Room, Gates Hillman 4405 and Zoom

Speaker: MATT BUTROVICH , Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University https://mattbutrovi.ch/

On Embedding Database Management System Logic in Operating Systems via Restricted Programming Environments

The rise in computer storage and network performance means that disk I/O and network communication are often no longer bottlenecks in database management systems (DBMSs). Instead, the overheads associated with operating system (OS) services (e.g., system calls, thread scheduling, and data movement from kernel-space) limit query processing responsiveness. User-space applications can elide these overheads with a kernel-bypass design. However, extracting benefits from kernel-bypass frameworks is challenging, and the libraries are incompatible with standard deployment and debugging tools. 

This thesis presents an alternative in user-bypass: a design that extends OS behavior for DBMS-specific features, including observability, networking, and query execution. Historically, DBMS developers avoid kernel extensions for safety and security reasons, but recent improvements in OS extensibility present new opportunities. With user-bypass, developers write safe, event-driven programs to push DBMS logic into the kernel and avoid user-space overheads. There are two ways to to invoke user-bypass logic: (1) when a DBMS in user-space invokes these programs, user-bypass provides behavior similar to a new OS system call, albeit without kernel modifications. In contrast, (2) when an OS thread or interrupt triggers these programs in kernel-space, user-bypass inserts DBMS logic into the kernel stack.

First, we present a framework that employs user-bypass to collect training data for self-driving DBMSs efficiently. User-bypass programs reduce the number of round trips to kernel-space to retrieve performance counters and other system metrics. Next, we present a database proxy that applies user-bypass to support features like connection pooling and workload replication while reducing data copying and user-space thread scheduling. User-bypass programs embed DBMS network protocol logic in multiple layers of the OS network stack, applying DBMS proxy logic in a kernel-space fast path. Lastly, we present an embedded DBMS for future user-bypass applications. We discuss the design decisions, environment challenges, and performance characteristics of a DBMS that offers ACID transactions over multi-versioned data in kernel-space. We also explore applications of this user-bypass DBMS and compare them to modern user-space systems.

The techniques proposed in this thesis show user-bypass benefits across multiple DBMS design disciplines and provide a template for future DBMS and OS co-design.

Thesis Committee:

Andrew Pavlo (Chair) Jignesh M. Patel Justine Sherry Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  

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