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Master's Projects

CS Masters Project/Thesis Completed (´ó·¢)

Project Laura Bolanos
Single Nucleotide Plymorphisms Analysis of Emiliania Huzleyi Across Different Strains Advisor: Xiaoyu Zhang - Bioinformatics
Completed August 2009

Project Neha Pasrija
Tutor Writer Input File Generator
Advisor: Rika Yoshii – Educational software Completed December 2009

Thesis Bithika Joshi
Analysis of Protein Pocket Ligand Overlaps Using the Two Step Level Set Matching Algorithm Advisor: Xiaoyu Zhang - Bioinformatics
Completed February 2010

Thesis Curtis Jensen
A Machine Learning Approach for Identifying Subtypes of Autism Advisor: Rocio Guillen – Artificial Intelligence
Completed Spring10

Thesis Guy YoungCharacteristics of the SECIS Elements Advisor: Ahmad Hadaegh - Bioinformatics Completed Summer10

Thesis Mat Lehman
Developing 3D Virtual World to Enhance Teaching and Learning of Computer Concepts Advisor: Youwen Ouyang – Educational software
Completed Spring10

Project Jaime Gamarra
Genome : Wide Analysis of Micro RNAs in the E. Huxleyi Advisor: Xiaoyu Zhang - Bioinformatics
Completed Spring10

Thesis James Crowe
Capturing Location-Based Multimedia Data Via an Android App to Enhance Collaborative Discussions
Advisor: Youwen Ouyang – Educational software Completed Fall10

Project Li Liang
Map-based Determing System for Solar Panel Construction Advisor: Youwen Ouyang – Educational software Completed Fall10

Project Sheng Tan
Parallel Implementation of Bioinformatics Algorithms on GPU Using OpenCL and CUDA Advisor: Xiaoyu Zhang - Bioinformatics
Completed Fall10

Project Kuei-Te Peng
Finding new gene models and improve for tiling array data Advisor: Ahmad Hadaegh - Bioinformatics
Completed Fall10

Project Tze Tin Chen
Comparison study of Emiliania Huxleyi Gene Structure Using Tiling Microarray and Solexa Sequencing Advisor: Ahmad Hadaegh - Bioinformatics
Completed Fall10

Thesis Jiexin Li
Adaptive Visual Tutor for C++ Language Advisor: Rika Yoshii – Educational software Completed Spring11

Thesis Marcy Stewart
Comparative Gene Discovery in Emiliania Huxleyi Advisor: Xiaoyu Zhang - Bioinformatics Completed Spring11
Thesis Tim Horton
Developing a Prediction Model for the Emiliania Huxleyi Advisor: Xiaoyu Zhang - Bioinformatics
Completed Spring11

Thesis Charles Cowart
A Hybrid Approach to Biomedical Assertions Advisor: Rocio Guillen – Artificial Intelligence Completed Spring11

Project David Kunz
Design and implementation of an agent to classify e-commerce customers Advisor: Rocio Guillen – Artificial Intelligence
Completed Spring11

Thesis: Hieu Ho
Enhancing Cognitive Factors in Securing WWW with CAPTCHA Advisor: Wu - Security
Completed Fall 2011

Project Tawesak Jongsuksawas Extended TWIGy and Tutor Writer Advisor: Yoshii – Educational software Completed Spring 2012

Thesis Chad Edmonston
Idenfitication and Presdiction of siRNAs in the E.huxleyigenome
Advisor: Zhang - Bioinformatics Completed Spring 2012

Project Rebecca Hunt
Supporting Education Using a Mobile Device Interface to a Learning Management System Advisor: Ouyang – Educational software
Completed Spring 2012

Thesis Jason Webb
Use of Mobile Sensors to Enhance Collaborative Learning Applications Advisor: Ouyang – Educational software
Completed Spring 2012

Project Derek Chang
Location-Based Mobile Application to Support Interactive Learning of the Geosciences Advisor: Ouyang – Educational software
Completed Spring 2012

Project: Patrick Kinnear
The Deam Project Lesson Plan App Advisor: Ouyang – Educational software Completed Summer 2012

Project: Shanmukhi Kalapala
Location-Based Geoscience Tutor Application for Android-based Mobile Devices Advisor: Ouyang - Educational software
Completed Summer 2012

Project: Muhammad Awais
Study of Transcription Factor in Emiliania Huxleyi Advisor: Ahmad Hadaegh - Bioinformatics Completed Summer 2012

Project: Srilakshmi Karthik
Identifying and Categorizing Diseases in electronic medical records Advisor: Rocio Guillen – Artificial Intelligence
Completed Fall 2012

Project: Laith Alhajjaj
The DREAM Lesson Plan App for Android Platform Advisor: Shauninn Wu – Mobile App
Completed Fall 2012

Project: Elisha Neal
TimeLogic BLAST Algorithm Variants Performance Comparison Advisor: Ahmad Hadaegh - Bioinformatics
Completed: Fall 2012 Project: Sabareesh Subramani
GPS and Compass Aided Augmented Campus Guide Advisor: Youwen Ouyang – Mobile App
Completed: Spring 2013

Thesis: Sangbin Park
Towards An Understanding Of Biomineralization Using Comparative Transcriptomics In Three Sister Species Of Coccolithophorids
Advisor: Xiaoyu Zhang - Bioinformatics Completed: Spring 2013

Thesis: Eric Bruck
Intelligent Tutoring System for Learning English Articles Advisor: Rika Yoshii – Artificial Intelligence
Completed: Spring 2013

Thesis: Brodie Kurczynski
Extracting Data From Electronic Medical Records Using Information Retrieval and Co-reference Resolution Advisor: Rocio Guillen – Artificial Intelligence
Competed: Spring 2013

Project: Mathew Ralston
An Improvement to the DREAM Lesson Plan APP on the iPad Platform with Authentication and User Enhancements
Advisor: Shaun-inn Wu – Mobile App Completed: Spring 2013

Project: Sina Nejati
Physical Therapy with Kinect Advisor: Ahmad Hadaegh Completed: Spring 2013

Project: Nicholas Walton
Informing NARX Neural Networks by ARIMA Modeling Advisor: Shauninn Wu – Artificial Intelligence Completed: Spring 2013

Project Yunxi Lin
G.oceanica Assembly and Annotation Advisor: Ahmad Hadaegh - Bioinformatics Completed: Fall 2013

Thesis Jim Counts
Teaching Kids Computational Thinking with Game Design Activities Advisor: Youwen Ouyang – Educational software
Completed: Fall 2013

Project Kyle Schiller
De novo assembly and differential expression analysis of wild-type and PPO silenced walnut
Advisor: Xiaoyu Zhang - Bioinformatics Completed: Spring 2014

Thesis: Jacquelyn Hernandez
Intelligent Tutoring System for Learning English Articles by Diagrammatic Reasoning Advisor: Rika Yoshii – Artificial Intelligence
Completed: Spring 2014

Thesis: Hui Mato
Using Artificial Neural Networks Based on Algorithms for Data Analysis of Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Advisor: Shauin-inn Wu – Artificial Intelligence
Completed: Spring 2014

Project: Elizabeth Montes
Generating Interactive Protein Structure Tutorials Using WebGL and HTML5 Advisor: Xiayu Zhang – Educational softeware
Completed: Spring 2014

Project: Feng Xu
Genome-wild Analysis of Alternative Splicing Across Marine Algae Advisor: Ahmad Hadaegh - Bioinformatics
Completed: Spring 2014

Project: Yi Wang
Genome Assembly and Annotation of Isochrysis Galvana Advisor: Ahmad Hadaegh - Bioinformatics
Completed: Spring 2014
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Student name: Jeremy B. Villegas Advisor name: Youwen Ouyang Is this a thesis or a project: Thesis
Title: Using Video Games to Promote Computational and Algorithmic Thinking in Adolescents

Student name: Aarash Gharagozloo Advisor name: Youwen Ouyang
Is this a thesis or a project? Project
Title: Pokémon Battle Royale: An Interactive Game Design Environment for Pokémon Battles

Student name: Timothy Cronin Advisor name: Dr. Guillen
Is this a thesis or a project? Project
Title: Automation of Medical Record Risk Factor Tagging Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Methods

Student name: Andrea Tan
Advisor name: Dr. Ouyang
Is this a thesis or a project? Project
Title: Cyber Scavenger with Sencha Touch

Student name: Justin Power Advisor name: Dr. Youwen Ouyang
Is this a thesis or a project? Thesis.
Title: Analysis of a Centralized Routing Controller in an Enterprise Network Environment

Student name: Zhuo Wang Advisor name: Shaun-inn Wu
Is this a thesis or a project? Thesis
Title: Using Neural Networks in Intrusion Detection System for Cloud Computing
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Student name: Matinehalsadat Kashani Moghaddam Advisor name: Dr.Ahmad Hadaegh
Is this a thesis or a project? Thesis
Title: : Development and comparison of Linear and Non-linear (QSAR) Models to predict HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors using Hybrid Differential Evolution-Binary Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm

Student name: Christopher Karady Scripca Lucian Advisor name: Shaun-Inn Wu
Is this a thesis or a project? Thesis
Title:Optimizing and Evaluating Classifiers of a Visual Cortex based Hierarchical Model Using Differential Evolution Binary Particle Swarm Optimization

Student name: Richard Adrian Galvan Advisor name: Dr. Ahmad R. Hadaegh Is this a thesis or a project? Thesis
Title: Improving pharmacological research of HIV-1 Integrase Inhibition using Differential Evolution-Binary Particle Swarm Optimization and Non-Linear Adaptive Boosting Random Forest Regression

Student name: Akhila Pabbaraju Advisor name: Dr. Youwen Ouyang Is this a thesis or a project? Project
Title: ThaPal Android App - A medication alarm app to enhance medication adherence in adolescents with Thalassemia

Student name: Chad Davies Advisor name: Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang
Is this a thesis or a project? Project
Title: Prediction of Biomineralization Proteins Using Machine Learning Models
Student name: Arun Gopinath Advisor name: Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang Is this a thesis or a project? Thesis
Title: Comparative Gene Expression Analysis in Emiliania huxleyi, Isochrysis galbana, and Gephyrocapsa
====== Spring 2016 ===================
Student name: Simi Yusaff
Advisor name: Dr. Ahmad Hadaegh Is this a thesis or a project? Thesis
Title: Comparison of DNA Methylation Pattern in Two Strains of Emiliania Huxleyi

Student name: Monali Sinha Advisor name: Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang Is this a thesis or a project? Thesis
Title: Lipid Metabolism Profile of E.huxleyi versus other Phytoplankton Species: A Comparative Study

Student name: Lanier Scott Castillo III Advisor name: Dr. Rika Yoshii
Is this a thesis or a project? Project
Title: Interactive System for Visualization of Linked List Operations in C++
=========== Fall 2016 ===================
Student’s Name: Falguni Thakor
Title: Comparative Analysis of Haptophyte Proteins using Similarity Networks integrated with Gene Expression Profiles and Annotations
Thesis
Advisor: Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang – bioinformatics

Student’s Name: Farzaneh Orak
Title: Comparative and Phylogenetic Analysis of Lipid Gene Families in Four Haptophyte Species
Thesis
Advisor: Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang - bioinformatics

Student’s Name: Tiance Li
Title: Identify New Selenoproteins in Emiliania Huxleyi Genome Project
Advisor: Dr. Ahmad R. Hadaegh – bioinformatics

Student name: Andrew Brodsky
Title: Artificial neural networks in intrusion detection systems for cloud computing Thesis
Advisor: Dr. Shaun-inn Wu

Student name: Sujitha Govindharajan Project
Title: Study of Factors in Implementation of Virtual Reality for Developing Micro-enterprise Level Customizable Products Shopping Applications
Advisor name: Dr. Xin Ye

Student name: VENKAT SHIVA PANDIRI Advisor name: Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang Project
Title: Machine Learning Models to Predict House Prices based on Home Features

Student name: Bartosh Sudak Advisor name: Dr. Xin Ye Thesis
Title: Utilizing Deep Learning to Provide Question Answering

Student name: Mihir Kale
Title: Linked List Visualizer Tutor for C++ Project
Advisor: Dr. Rika Yoshii

Student name: Yu Tian Project
Title: Motif: A Social Reading Platform that Helps People to Filter, Memorize, and Organize Content Online Advisor name: Dr. Xin Ye

Student name: TANIYA ROHMETRA Advisor name: Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang Project
Title: Web-based Genome Portal for Haptophytes
Fall 2017

Student name: Jalanibhai Panchal Advisor name: Dr. Xin Ye
Project
Title: Virtual Reality Enhanced User Experience for Scientific Data Collection Using Mobile Device

Student name: Siddhartha Dembla Advisor: Dr. Youwen Ouyang Project
Title: Enhancing User Experience for Cyberscavenger through User Interface Improvement and the Addition of a General Discussion Forum

Student name: Marshia Hashemi Advisor: Dr. Ahmad Hadaegh Thesis
Title: Comparative Analysis of DNA Methylation Between Calcifying and Non-calcifying Sttrains of Emillania Huxleyi

Student name: Pratima Penneer Selvam Advisor: Dr. Ahmad Hadaegh
Project
Title: Nearest Hospital Tracking and Disease Prediction
Spring 2018

Student name: Aastha Maheshwari Advisor: Dr. Xin Ye
Project
Title: ENVISION (Visualization tool)

Student name: Abisek Pandian Advisor: Dr. Rika Yoshii
Project
Title: Enhanced LLV Tutor for C++

Student name: Fan Fang Advisor name: Xin Ye Project
Title: Application of Recurrent Neural Networks for More Accurate Bug Reports Classification
Summer 2018

Student name: Nitesh Sabankar Advisor name: Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang
Is this a thesis or a project? Project
Title: Analysis of Gene Co-expression Networks of Two Coccolithophore Species

Student name: Laxmi Subhamkar Annapragada Advisor name: Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang
Is this a thesis or a project? Project
Title: Detecting Promoter sequences using Deep Learning
Fall 2018

Student name: Emmanuel Ayuyao Castillo Advisor name: Dr. Ali Ahmadinia
Is this a thesis or a project? Thesis
Title: Edge Computing: An Orchestration of Devices
Spring 2019

Student name: Christopher Erdelyi
Advisor name: Dr. Xin Ye
Project Title: Using Computer Vision Techniques to Play an Existing Video Game

Student name: John Wu
Advisor name: Dr. Xin Ye
Thesis Title: Application of Artificial Neural Network on Speech Signal Features for Parkinson’s Disease Classification

Student name: Nitesh Singh Sanjay
Advisor name: Dr. Ali Ahmadinia
Project Title: Design and Implementation of a Deep Neural Network based Real-Time Object Detection for GoPiGo

Student name: Thilak Raj Soundararajan
Advisor Name: Dr. Xin Ye
Project Title: Prevention of Shoulder Surfing using Graphical Authentication System

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Fall 2020

Fall 2020