Here is a list of senior theses and senior research projects I advised:
- (2022/23) Markus Luethje. Trust-based Task Allocation in
Human-Robot Systems with two Actors
- (2022/23) Elliya Sorenson. Perception and Control of Decentralized
Swarm Agents for Search and Rescue Site Mapping.
- (2021/22) Neelie Shah. Trust in Human-Robot Collaboration.
- (2021/22) Nils Engleder. Faster and Accessible Human Robot
Collaboration Research using XR Technology.
- (2021/22) Andrea Wynn, Duncan McKee, Bohdan Vakhitov. DDoS
Detection Using Machine Learning
- (2021/22) Zeming (Eric) Chen and Qiyue (Bert) Gao. CURRICULUM:
Diagnosing Neural Language Models through Broad-Coverage Linguistic
Phenomena.
Eric and Bert won the departmental Michael Atkins Outstanding Senior Thesis
award.
Additionally, Eric won the departmental Frank Young Outstanding Scholarship award.
- (2020/21) Lilin Chen, Xiangnan Chen, Yifan Cui and Xusheng
Liu. Engineering Context from the Ground Up
- (2020/21) Vanshika Reddy: An Emotionally Aware
Dialogue system with Memory.
- (2020/21) Brionna Slaughter: Handwritten Authorship Attribution
Using Both Image Recognition and Natural Language Processing
Techniques.
Brionna's thesis won the departmental Michael Atkins Outstanding Senior Thesis
award.
- (2019/20) Oscar Youngquist: Paralinguistic Emotional Analysis With
Deep Learning.
Oscar's thesis won the departmental Michael Atkins Outstanding Senior Thesis award.
- (2019/20) Kevin Liu: Paraphrase Detection With Neural Networks.
- (2018/19) Trevor Morton: Multi-agent systems for Deep Q-Learning
Trevor's thesis was one of receipients of the departmental Michael Atkins Oustanding Senior Thesis award.
- (2018/19) Ben Brubaker: Clustering of Music Beyond Genre
- (2017/18) Lucas Metzger: End-to-End Module Networks for Multimodal
Question Answering
- (2017/18) Zhou Zhou: Sentence Summarization Using a Worker-Supervisor
Approach
- (2015/16) Isaac Sanders: Clustering Algorithms Evaluated on Big Data
- (2014/15) Benjamin Coble: Emotional Classification of Text with
Shortest Path Metadata Features
- (2014/15) Mark Hein: Evolving Softbots using Competition
- (2013/14) Julia Chapple: Personalized Website Prediction with Enhanced
Markov Chains for Navigation
Aid.
Thesis contributed to her winning the departmental Frank Young
Outstanding Scholarship Award.
- (2012/13) Mary Roth: Knowledge Extraction for Classroom Use
- (2011/12) Stephen Mayhew: Experiments in Improved Methods for
Unsupervised Resolution of Relations
and Objects.
Thesis contributed to him winning the departmental Frank
Young Outstanding Scholarship Award.
- (2011/12) Eric Reed: Multi-Agent AI Music Composition.
Thesis contributed to him winning the departmental Frank Young
Outstanding Scholarship Award.
- (2010/11) Mark Jenne: Modeling Cultured Neurobiological Networks
- (2010/11) David McGinnis: A Generalized System for Time Signature
Detection.
- (2009/10) Ben Campbell: Hands Free Cursor Control using the Emotic
EPOC.
- (2009/10) JP Verkamp: Augmenting n-gram Based Authorship Attribution
With Neural Networks.
Thesis
won the departmental Michael Atkins Outstanding Senior Thesis
award.
He also won the departmental
Frank Young Outstanding Scholarship Award.
- (2007/8) Adam Outcalt: Cryptanalysis with Artificial
Intelligence.
Thesis contributed to him winning the
departmental Frank Young Outstanding Scholarship Award.
- (2005/6) Eric Holk: Swarm Intelligent Peer-to-Peer Web Search.
- (2005/6) Aaron Knox: Negotiation Simulation in an Adaptive Multiagent
System.
- (2004/5) Perry Evans: RNA Secondary Structure Prediction - A Swarm
Intelligence Approach.
Thesis won
the departmental Michael Atkins Outstanding Senior Thesis award.
- (2003/4) Alex Kutsenok: Swarm AI: A Solution to Soccer.
Thesis
contributed to him winning the departmental Frank Young Outstanding Scholarship
Award.
- (2002/3) Robert Signorelli: Towards a General Purpose XML Search
Engine. Thesis earned the departmental Doc Criss Outstanding Senior
Project award, which that year was given to the best thesis instead
of the best project.