2024 - 2025 Projects

One-Step Conformal Mapping

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, Linsong Guo

Unraveling California’s CS Transfer Pathways

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

Mentor: Prof. Christine Alvarado

A Faster Classical Algorithm to Simulate Quantum Experiments

Students: Jesus Azpitarte, Erika Lee, Anne Kelley

Mentor: Prof. Daniel Grier, Jack Morris

LAMP Primer Algorithm Design: Increasing Accessibility to Genetic Analysis

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

Mentor: Prof. Debashis Sahoo

Adaptation and Evaluation of Latin Based Culturally Relevant Computing Resources in the Context of Introductory Level CS Courses

Students: Roxanna Ferrer Rios, Miguel Castillo, Zaide Pasion

Mentor: Prof. Gerald Soosai Raj, Ismael Villegas Molina

Approximating NP-Hard using Transformers

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

Mentor: Prof. Jingbo Shang, Yufan Zhuang

Educating Users About Bias in Content Moderation Using a Social Media Filter

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

Mentor: Prof. Kristen Vaccaro

Agentic VLMs for 3D Scene Evaluation

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

Mentor: Prof. Manmohan Chandraker, Kunal Gupta

Managing Code Clones in JupyterLab with ASPEN

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

Mentor: Prof. Michael Coblenz, Ayla Kurdak

Optimizing Human-Activity Recognition Data Collection Using an Audio-based Approach

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

Mentor: Prof. Pat Pannuto, Wenshan Luo

Bayesian Active Learning for Plasma Control Under Turbulence in Fusion Science

Students: Darin Djapri, Yuwei Ren, Min Zin Hlaing

Mentor: Prof. Rose Yu, Dr. Yadi Cao

Simulating Soundscapes for Acoustic Species Detection

Students: Mia Chen, Justin Suh, Hieu Le

Mentor: Prof. Ryan Kastner, Sean Perry

Hyperspectral Clustering and Searching

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

Mentor: Prof. Tajana Rosing, Prof. Niema Moshiri, Zheyu Li

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