Research
Student Research in Mathematics and Computer Science
One of the hallmarks of 蜜桃社区 College is the opportunity for students to work on significant projects as undergraduates.
Many students are involved in research work at 蜜桃社区 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 蜜桃社区 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 蜜桃社区 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.
Student Research Projects
View All Past Student Projects
2019-20
| Name | Project Area | Faculty Mentor |
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| Daniel Lammens 鈥21 |
ALPhA: Reinforcement Learning for Automatic Beam Tuning |
Michelle P. Kuchera and Raghu Ramanujan |
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Andrew Hoyle 鈥21,听听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 |
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Approximately 90 students听 |
Cats Stats |
Tim Chartier |
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DavidSYS: Using Skip Graphs for NUMA Locality in Concurrent Data Structures |
Hammurabi Mendes听听听听 |
| 听 |
DavidSYS: Load Balancing in Lazy Stacked Data Structures |
Hammurabi Mendes听听听听 |
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DavidSYS: Gossip over Thread-Local Priority Queues |
听Hammurabi Mendes |
| 听 |
DavidSYS: A Distributed Monte-Carlo Tree Search Library |
听Hammurabi Mendes |
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DavidSYS: Simulation of Drone Swarms |
Hammurabi Mendes |
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Geoffrey Wang 鈥21, Max Zhao 鈥21 |
Detecting Shadow Players in Complex Networks |
Alexander Wiedemann |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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Altan Tutar 鈥20 |
DRIVE: Avatar Embodiment and Stroop Interference |
Tabitha C. Peck |
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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 |
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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 |
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Lindy Bustabad 鈥21 |
Explorations in Permutation Enumeration: Signed Permutation Statistics |
Yan Zhuang |
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Carmon Proctor 鈥22 |
Game Theory Lab: Data Structures for Computing Equilibria |
Bryce Wiedenbeck |
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Madelyn Gatchel 鈥21 |
Game Theory Lab: Leveraging Neural Networks to Analyze Large Games |
Bryce Wiedenbeck |
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Lexie Shreeve 鈥21, Lawrence Guo 鈥20 |
Game Theory Lab: Modeling Credit Ratings Inflation in the 2008 Financial Crisis听 |
Bryce Wiedenbeck |
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Owen Bezick 鈥21, Calvin Spencer 鈥23 |
Gradebook for Standards Based Grading听 |
Sakib Miazi and Heather Smith听 |
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Graph Pebbling Research |
Hammurabi Mendes, Jonad Pulaj, Bryce Wiedenbeck, Carl Yerger |
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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 |
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Jake Carver 鈥21, Nathan Little 鈥21, and Brad Shook 鈥22 |
Project PRONTO++: C2i Web Crawler |
Laurie Heyer |
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Nade Bai 鈥22, Abigail Santiago 鈥22 |
Project PRONTO++: Gig-Hub App Development |
Laurie Heyer |
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Daniel Cowan 鈥22, Brad Shook 鈥22 |
Project PRONTO++: Faculty Expertise Search Tool |
Laurie Heyer |
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Hope Anderson 鈥22, Mimi Ughetta 鈥22 |
Project PRONTO++: Interactive Bio-Math Models |
Laurie Heyer |
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Structural Graph Theory Research |
Carl Yerger |
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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.
Fellowship Opportunities
Fellowships are competitive awards and programs that provide funding and other resources for meaningful immersive work, like research, teaching, or service. Like scholarships, fellowships can also support academic study.
These featured fellowships support a variety of experiences in and outside of the U.S. Interested candidates should contact 蜜桃社区鈥檚 Office of Fellowships to learn more about these fellowships and other programs.