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Research

Student Research in Mathematics and Computer Science

One of the hallmarks of 桃瘾社区 is the opportunity for students to work on significant projects as undergraduates.

Many students are involved in research work at 桃瘾社区 beyond the scope of usual coursework, through summer research projects, research with faculty, independent studies, honors projects, and more, thanks in part to external faculty grants, as well as internal collaborative grants to faculty or students, such as the 桃瘾社区 Research Initiative, the Faculty Study and Research (FS&R) fund, the Research in Science Experience (RISE) program, and the R. Craig and Sheila Yoder Applied Research Fellowship

Students pursue research in computer science, data analytics, and theoretical and applied mathematics, investigating areas such as graph theory, game theory, sports analytics, combinatorics, distributed systems, virtual reality, machine learning, and bioinformatics.

Research, teaching, and internships beyond 桃瘾社区 are available on a list of summer opportunities in mathematics and computer science.

Numerous post-graduate fellowship and scholarship opportunities are also available to math and computer science students.

View All Past Student Projects

2019-20

Name Project Area Faculty Mentor
Daniel Lammens 鈥21

ALPhA: Reinforcement Learning for Automatic Beam Tuning

Michelle P. Kuchera and Raghu Ramanujan

Andrew Hoyle 鈥21,听Eleni Tsitinidi 鈥21, Rida Shahid 鈥22, Meg Houck 鈥20 Zach Nussbaum 鈥20, Ryan Strauss 鈥20, Michael Robertson 鈥20, Evan Pritchard 鈥22

ALPhA: Machine learning for nuclear theory

Michelle P. Kuchera and Raghu Ramanujan
Lexie Weghorn 鈥21 (UW Lacrosse), John Blue 鈥21, Jack Taylor 鈥18

ALPhA: Machine learning for experimental nuclear physics

Michelle P. Kuchera and Raghu Ramanujan

Approximately 90 students听

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Tim Chartier

DavidSYS: Using Skip Graphs for NUMA Locality in Concurrent Data Structures

Hammurabi Mendes听听听听

DavidSYS: Load Balancing in Lazy Stacked Data Structures

Hammurabi Mendes听听听听

DavidSYS: Gossip over Thread-Local Priority Queues

听Hammurabi Mendes

DavidSYS: A Distributed Monte-Carlo Tree Search Library

听Hammurabi Mendes

DavidSYS: Simulation of Drone Swarms

Hammurabi Mendes

Geoffrey Wang 鈥21, Max Zhao 鈥21

Detecting Shadow Players in Complex Networks

Alexander Wiedemann

Luna Jerjees 鈥23, My Doan 鈥18

DRIVE: Virtual Body Ownership Illusions for Bias Reduction and Fostering Inclusivity in STEM Classrooms

Tabitha C. Peck and Jessica J. Good (Psychology)

Kern Qi 鈥21, Jordan Reed 鈥22, Niall Williams 鈥19

DRIVE: Pre-service Educators Reimagining Core Experiences in Physics Teaching

Tabitha C. Peck

Sarah Hancock 鈥21, Kylee Taylor 鈥23, Genesis Bernadin 鈥23

DRIVE: Underrepresentation in Virtual Reality Research

Tabitha C. Peck and Laura Sockol (Psychology)

Ryan Strauss 鈥20, Wiley Baskin 鈥21, Andrew Becker 鈥18

DRIVE: Path Prediction in Virtual Environments using Reinforcement Learning

Tabitha C. Peck and Raghu Ramanujan

Altan Tutar 鈥20

DRIVE: Avatar Embodiment and Stroop Interference

Tabitha C. Peck

Jacob D鈥橝urizio 鈥20

Explorations in Lattice Path Enumeration: Counting Motzkin and Schr枚der Paths by Ascents and Peaks

Yan Zhuang

Crossan Cooper 鈥20 and Will Jones 鈥19

Explorations in Permutation Enumeration: Cyclic Valleys and Excedances in Conjugacy Classes of the Symmetric Group

Yan Zhuang

Lindy Bustabad 鈥21

Explorations in Permutation Enumeration: Signed Permutation Statistics

Yan Zhuang

Carmon Proctor 鈥22

Game Theory Lab: Data Structures for Computing Equilibria

Bryce Wiedenbeck

Madelyn Gatchel 鈥21

Game Theory Lab: Leveraging Neural Networks to Analyze Large Games

Bryce Wiedenbeck

Lexie Shreeve 鈥21, Lawrence Guo 鈥20

Game Theory Lab: Modeling Credit Ratings Inflation in the 2008 Financial Crisis听

Bryce Wiedenbeck

Owen Bezick 鈥21, Calvin Spencer 鈥23

Gradebook for Standards Based Grading听

Sakib Miazi and Heather Smith听

Graph Pebbling Research

Hammurabi Mendes, Jonad Pulaj, Bryce Wiedenbeck, Carl Yerger

Owen Bezick 鈥21, Wilbert Garcia 鈥21, Nathan Jordan 鈥22, Ethan Rodier 鈥23, Katherine Smith 鈥21

Project PRONTO++: C2i Dashboard

Laurie Heyer

Jake Carver 鈥21, Nathan Little 鈥21, and Brad Shook 鈥22

Project PRONTO++: C2i Web Crawler

Laurie Heyer

Nade Bai 鈥22, Abigail Santiago 鈥22

Project PRONTO++: Gig-Hub App Development

Laurie Heyer

Daniel Cowan 鈥22, Brad Shook 鈥22

Project PRONTO++: Faculty Expertise Search Tool

Laurie Heyer

Hope Anderson 鈥22, Mimi Ughetta 鈥22

Project PRONTO++: Interactive Bio-Math Models

Laurie Heyer

Structural Graph Theory Research

Carl Yerger

Nathan Siu 鈥21

A Tool to Quantify Localized Fluorescence in听Caenorhabditis elegans

Heather Smith and Debbie Thurtle-Schmidt

Recent Student Publications

*Undergraduate author

Brandt, A.,Tenpas, N.*, Yerger, C. Planar graphs with girth 20 are additively 3-choosable,听Discrete Applied Mathematics, (2020) 277, 14-21.

M. Crossan Cooper*, William S. Jones*, and Yan Zhuang. On the joint distribution of cyclic valleys and excedances over conjugacy classes of听饾暰n.听Advances in Applied Mathematics听115: Article听#101999, 15 pp., 2020.

Cranston, D., Postle, L., Xue, C.*, Yerger, C. Modified linear programming and Class 0 bounds for graph pebbling,听Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, (2017) 34, 114-132.

Kuchera, M. P., Ramanujan, R., Taylor*, J. Z., Strauss*, R. R., Bazin, D., Bradt, J., & Chen*, R. (2019). Machine learning methods for track classification in the AT-TPC.听Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment,听940, 156-167.

Peck, Tabitha C., and Altan Tutar*. "The Impact of a Self-Avatar, Hand Collocation, and Hand Proximity on Embodiment and Stroop Interference."听IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics听26.5 (2020): 1964-1971.

Peck, Tabitha C., Laura E. Sockol, and Sarah M. Hancock*. "Mind the Gap: The Underrepresentation of Female Participants and Authors in Virtual Reality Research."听IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics听26.5 (2020): 1945-1954. (Nominated for best paper award at IEEE VR 2020)

Qi*, K., Borland, D., Williams*, N. L., Jackson, E., Minogue, J., & Peck, T. C. (2020, March). Augmenting Physics Education with Haptic and Visual Feedback. In听2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)听(pp. 439-443). IEEE.

Qi*, K., Borland, D., Jackson, E., Williams*, N. L., Minogue, J., & Peck, T. C. (2020, March). The Impact of Haptic and Visual Feedback on Teaching. In听2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)听(pp. 613-614). IEEE.

Seitz*, K. R., Good, J. J., & Peck, T. C. (2020, March). Shooter Bias in Virtual Reality: The Effect of Avatar Race and Socioeconomic Status on Shooting Decisions. In听2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)听(pp. 607-608). IEEE.

Strauss*, R. R., Ramanujan, R., Becker*, A., and Peck, T.C. "A Steering Algorithm for Redirected Walking Using Reinforcement Learning."听IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics听26.5 (2020): 1955-1963.

Thomas*, Samuel , Roxana Hayne*, Jonad Pulaj, and Hammurabi Mendes. Using Skip Graphs for Increased NUMA Locality. 2020 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD). DOI 10.1109/SBAC-PAD49847.2020.00031

You, J., Wu*, H., Barrett, C., Ramanujan, R., Leskovec, J. (2019, December). G2SAT: Learning to Generate SAT Formulas.听Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019: 10553--10564.