2024 - 2025 Projects

Monte Carlo Complex Analysis 

Students: Arnav Dev, Syrine Mekni, Amanda Assaf, Daniel Lov

Mentor: Prof. Albert Chern

 Evaluating Preemptive Synchronization

Students: Bowen Bothello, Suldana Abdulkadir Afrah, Hussein Halawi, Miguel Santos

Mentor: Prof. Amy Ousterhout

Unraveling California’s CS Transfer Pathways

Students: Anthony Rodriguez, Yasmin Kabir, JP Davalos, Brenda Ramirez

Mentor: Prof. Christine Alvarado

 Classically Simulating Noisy Quantum Computers

Students: Jesus Azpitarte, Erika Lee, Anne Kelley, Duy Nguyen

Mentor: Prof. Daniel Grier

Web-Based Primer Design Tool for Isothermal Amplification

Students: Fnu Anu, Angel Cortez-Gutierrez, Girma Terfa

Mentor: Prof. Debashis Sahoo

Generation and Evaluation of Culturally Relevant Computing Resources for Latines in Introductory Programming 

Students: Roxanna Ferrer Rios, Miguel Castillo, Zaide Pasion

Mentor: Prof. Gerald Soosai Raj

Solving NP-Complete Problem with the Help of Large Language Models (LLMs) 

Students: Yunshan Li, Myat Thiha, Kumiko Komori, Nick Nguyen

Mentor: Prof. Jingbo Shang

Identifying bias in real-time content moderation 

Students: Nishitha Selvakumar, Mallika Dasgupta, Alec Drumm, Angelica Cabusi

Mentor: Prof. Kristen Vaccaro

LLMs for 3D Scene Synthesis 

Students: Yen-Ru (Rebecca) Chen, Chencheng Li, Fong-Yu Lin

Mentor: Prof. Manmohan Chandraker

Reuse in Scientific Software 

Students: Sabine Loaiza Chable, Angelo Jensen, Natalin Duangpanya, Cadie Sparks

Mentor: Prof. Michael Coblenz

Building Better Human Activity Recognition Systems with a Novel, Automated, Audio-Based Methods 

Students: Yuan-Kai Yang, Jonathan Ty, Momina Habibi

Mentor: Prof. Pat Pannuto

Physics-Guided AI for Fusion Science

Students: Darin Djapri, Yuwei Ren, Min Zin Hlaing

Mentor: Prof. Rose Yu

 Engineers for Exploration Acoustic Species Detection 

Students: Mia Chen, Justin Suh, Hieu Le

Mentor: Prof. Ryan Kastner

Next-Generation Architectures and Algorithms for Bioinformatics Applications 

Students: Jose Barcelo Garcia, Min Aung Paing, Galvin Fickes

Mentor: Prof. Tajana Rosing, Prof. Niema Moshiri

Investigating and Comparing 3D Representations for Inverse Rendering 

Students: Nikitha Maderamitla, Yuheon Joh, Jolene Pang, Lulu Shao

Mentor:  Prof. Tzu-Mao Li, Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi,