RECENT THESIS & DISSERTATION TOPICS

December 2012
Chris Sexton
Master Thesis
Anytime Solving by Solution Refinement
Thesis Director:  Wheeler Ruml, Associate Professor

December 2012
Tim Carlin
Master Thesis
Implementation of an RDMA Verbs Driver for GRIDFTP
Thesis Director: Robert Russell, Associate Professor  

December 2012
Mikkel Hagen
Ph D Dissertation
Fairness in a Data Center
Thesis Director: Radim Bartos, Associate Professor

August 2012
James Jackson
Master's Thesis
Efiicient Parallel and Execution Sequence Similarity Via Dynamic Load Balancing
Thesis Director:  Phil Hatcher, Professor

May 2012
Brian Albere
Master's Thesis
Genotyping On Custom Arrays Using a Parallel Data Pipeline
Thesis Director:  R. Daniel Bergeron, Professor

May 2012
Michael Leighton
Master's Thesis
Faster Optimal and Suboptimal Hierarchical Search
Thesis Director:  Wheeler Ruml, Assistant Professor

December 2011
Kevin Rose
Master's Thesis
Real-Time Sampling Based Motion Planning with Dynamic Obstacles
Thesis Director:  Wheeler Ruml, Assistant Professor

August 2011

James Jackson
Master's Thesis
Efficient Parallel Execution of Sequesnce Similarity Analysis Via dynamic Load Balancing

Thesis Director:  Phil Hatcher, Professor

 
May 2011
Austin Dione
Master's Thesis
Mobile Undersea Routing Protocol
Thesis Director: Radim Bartos, Associate Professor of Computer Science

December 2010
Michael J. Karell
Master's Thesis
Heuristic Search Under a Deadline
Thesis Director:  Wheeler Ruml, Assistant Professor

December 2010
Daniel Pineo
PhD Dissertation
The Application of Computational Modeling to Data Visualization
Thesis Director:  Colin Ware, Professor of Computer Science

December 2010
Bradford Larsen
Master's Thesis
Compiling an Array Language to a Graphics Processor
Thesis Director: Philip Hatcher, Professor of Computer Science

September 2010
Samuel Vohr
Master's Thesis
Error-Driven Adaptive Resolutions for Large Scienctific Data Sets
Thesis Director: R. Daniel Bergeron, Professor of Computer Science

May 2010
James Jackson
Bachelor's Thesis
Load-Balancing Genome Similarity Analysis
Thesis Director: Philip Hatcher, Professor of Computer Science

September 2008
Hyojin Kim
Master's Thesis
Satellite-Based Auroral Tomography and Time-Varying Volume Reconstruction
Thesis Director: R. Daniel Bergeron, Professor of Computer Science

June 2008
Lina Faller
Bachelor of Science Honors Thesis
An Investigationi of Palindromic sequences in the Pseudomonas flourescens SBW25 Genome
Thesis Director:  Phil Hatcher, Professor of Computer Science

May 2008
Ethan Burns
Master's Thesis
Implementation and Comparison of ISCSI Over RDMA
Thesis Director: Robert Russell, Associate Professor of Computer Science

December 2007
Bradford Larsen
Bachelor Thesis
Object Replication in a Distributed Shared Memory System.
Thesis Director:  Phil Hatcher, Professor of Computer Science

December 2007
Peter W. Mitchell
Master's Thesis
The Perceptual Optimization of 2D Flow Visualizations Using Human-in-the-Loop Local Hill Climbing
Thesis Director: Colin Ware, Professor of Computer Science

Stephen Schaeffer
Master's Thesis
An Augmented Haptic Interface as Applied to Flow Visualization
Thesis Director: Colin Ware, Professor of Computer Science

September 2007
Morel Henley
Master's Thesis
Software Tools for Comparing Genomic Sequence
Thesis Directors: R. Daniel Bergeron, Professor of Computer Science, Director; Vaughn S. Cooper, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Co-Thesis Director

Anthony Lapadula
Ph.D. Dissertation
Glyspy: A Software Suite for Assigning Glycan Topologies From
Sequential Mass Spectral Data
Dissertation Director: Philip J. Hatcher, Professor of Computer Science

May 2007
Myung-Sun Kim
Master's Thesis
Simple Authentication And Security Layer Incorporating Extensible Authentication Protocol
Thesis Director: Radim Bartos, Associate Professor of Computer Science

December 2006
Sadaf Shams
Master's Thesis
Volume Visualization of Time-Varying Data using Parallel, Multiresolution and Adaptive-Resolution Techniques
Thesis Directors: R. Daniel Bergeron, Professsor of Computer Science; Ted M. Sparr, Professor of Computer Science

Stephen J. Todd
Master's Thesis
Comparing The Xam API with File System Programming
Thesis Director: Philip J. Hatcher, Professor of Computer Science

September 2006
Sachin Goel
Master's Thesis
Performance Evaluation of TCP Over IEEE 802.11 WLANs
Thesis Director: Radim Bartos, Associate Professor of Computer Science

May 2006
Christopher R. Sayles
Master's Thesis
Accelerated Mesh Building Using GPU-Based Depth Peeling
Thesis Director: Alejo Hausner, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

December 2005
Md. Ehteshamul Haque
Master's Thesis
Modified IPACT Scheme for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks
Thesis Director: Radim Bartos, Associate Professor of Computer Science