RECENT THESIS & DISSERTATION TOPICS

May 2011
Austin Dionee
Master's Thesis
Heuristic Search Under a Deadline
Thesis Director:  Wheeler Ruml, Assistant Professor 

December 2010
Michael J. Karell
Master's Thesis
Mobile Undersea Routing Protocol
Thesis Director: Radim Bartos, Associate 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

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