EXAMPLE PROJECT AREAS 2007-2008
# 3rd Period
1. Jordan Albright, Proposal: Agent Based Modeling (Computer simulation and modeling).
2. Tianhui (Tiffany) Cai Proposal: Excursions into Neural Networks .tex) (Neural Networks/Machine
Learning).
3. Michael Chen Proposal: Excursions into Parallel Programming and MPI (Parallel Computing).
4. Aaron Dufour Proposal: Genetic Algorithms (Algorithms for Artificial Intelligence).
5. Martin Elthon Proposal: Redesign of TJHSST Website (Software Engineering).
6. Asa Kusuma Proposal: Computer Vision and Analysis of Biomechanics (Computer Vision).
7. Kenneth Lee Proposal: Particle Swarm Optimization (Particle Swarm Optimization PSO).
8. Karl Leswing Proposal: Genetic Algorithms and the Traveling Salesman Problem (Modeling,
Algorithms).
9. Jinyu Liu Proposal: AI and Machine Learning Algorithms (Machine Learnning Algorithms).
10. Kelly Ran Proposal: Chaos Theory (Algorithms).
11. Thomas Smilack Proposal: 3D Modeling of Molecules (3D Modeling, Computational Chemistry).
12. Andrew Stebbins Proposal: Simulation and Modeling, Interactive Battlefied Tactics, Weather
(Computer Modeling and Simulation, Agent Based Modeling).
13. Luis Valentin Proposal: Parallel Programing (Algorithms, Computer Modeling).
# 5th Period
1. Keith Ainsworth, Proposal: Crowd Dynamics with Swarm Intelligence and Particle Swarm
Optimization (Swarm Intelligence).
2. Gregory Gates Proposal: Investigations into the Teaching of Computer Programming and Problem
Solving in Elementary School - How Young can we go with computer programming? (Computer
Science in Education).
3. Phillip Graves Proposal: Computational Linguistics or Agent Based Modeling (Computational
Linguistics, Agent Based Modeling).
4. Nathan Harmata Proposal: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) (Machine Vision algorithms).
5. Ryan Honig Proposal: Excursions into Genetic Algorithms - Traveling Salesman Problem (Genetic
Algorithms).
6. Richard Hooper Proposal: Excursions into Computer Graphics with OpenGL (3D Computer
Graphics).
7. Matt Lee Proposal: Agent Based Modeling - Applications of Prisoner's Dilemma (Agent Based
Modeling).
8. Haito Mao Proposal: Pathfinding Algorithms in Mutating Graphs (Algorithms).
9. Andrew Menke Proposal: A New Sugarscape Model (Agent Based Modeling).
10. Liban Mohamed Proposal: Studies in Cellular Automata (Cellular Automata Theory).
11. Justin Warfield Proposal: Procedural Generation in a 3D Computer Graphics Game (Computer
Graphics).
12. Jacob Welsh Proposal: Interactive 3D Geometry in OpenGL (Computer Graphics).
13. Felix Zhang Proposal: Statistical Machine Translation (Computational Linguistics, Machine
Learning).
# 6th Period
1. Nicholas Brown, Proposal: Simulation of an Evolutionary Scenario (Agent Modeling).
2. Joshua Choi Proposal: Civilization Modeling (Evolutionary Environment/Civilization Modeling).
3. Patrick Coleman Proposal: Programming a New Sugarscape (Agent Modeling).
4. Sam Eberspacher Proposal: Investigation of Artificial Neural Networks (Neural Networks).
5. Patrick Elliot Proposal: Expanding an Image and Retaining Image Quality (Image Processing).
6. Byron Hood Proposal: Sign Language Recognition (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition).
7. Nicholas Loffredo Proposal: Monopoly Simulator and Strategies Analyzer, path recognition
(Computer Simulations).
8. James McAtamney Proposal: C to Java Language Translation (Machine Learing for Robotics).
9. Madhav Nandipati Proposal: Analysis of Spectro-temporal Neural Networks (Computer Modeling,
Computational Biology).
10. Ben Parr Proposal: Chemical Modeling (Modeling, Computational Chemistry).
11. Jacob Steinhardt Proposal: Invariants of Functions on Permutations of Sets, Applications of
Geometrical Bijections (Mathematical Algorithms)
12. Evan Warner Proposal: Schwartz-Christoffel Mappings for Potential Theory, Jakouwski Transform
to Model Airflow (Computer Modeling).
# 7th Period
1. Josiah Boning, Proposal: Machine Learning for Musical Analysis and Creation
2. Jack Breese, Proposal: Application of Face Recognition to Content Aware Seam Based Image
Resizing (Image Processing)
3. Peter Chapman, Proposal: Image Sharpening - Unblurring/Deblurring (Image Processing)
4. Joshua Cranmer Proposal: Java Decompiler (Compiler/Decompiler Design).
5. Kelley Hecker Proposal: Evolving Artificial Life in 3D (Simulation and Modeling). 1st quarter:
paper 1st quarter, poster 1st quarter, presentation 1st quarter, code/API 1st quarter.
6. Brett Jones Proposal: First Person Pac Man 3D Graphics (3D Graphics).
7. Alex McGuigan Proposal: Teaching Military Strategy through Computer Simulation (Computer
Simulation).
8. Matt Wade Proposal: Agent Modeling with MASON Toolkit (Agent Modeling).
9. Natasha Wallage Proposal: Excursions into 3D Graphics (3D Computer Graphics).
10. Michael Yura Proposal: AI Applications in Connect Four and Connection Games: Computer
Strategies
# Mentorship
1. Edward Rice Proposal: Hybrid Genome Maps, Parsing Genome Data at National Center for
Biotechnology Information (NCBI) (Computational Bioinformatics).
2. Eric Shi Proposal: Flight Simulator Programming (Computer graphics and simulation, legacy
software).