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Senior projects, independent studies, and research projects I've advised. These are all Pomona students unless otherwise indicated.

Projects marked with a [*] resulted in a publication.

  • Summer 2008
  • Steven Ehrlich
  • Fred Johnson
  • Kevin Oelze
  • Jordan, Christina, Karla, Malcolm, and Luis (SSEP students, all rising seniors at local high schools), On fill-reducing orderings for large, sparse matrices

  • 2007-2008
  • Edward Burns, Music similarity across time and space
  • Patrick McNally, MARVEL: automated lip-syncing

  • Summer 2007
  • [*] Erik Kuefler, A reinforcement learning based approach to the selection of sparse linear solvers
  • Ragib Morshed, Graph theoretic approaches to studying nonsymmetric perfect elimination matrices

  • 2006-2007
  • Timothy Brown, The Future of Game AI: an Evaluation of the Effectiveness of In-Game Learning in First-Person Shooters
  • Timothy Brown, Futuristic Gladiator
  • Alex Haro, Futuristic Gladiator
  • [*] America Holloway (Swarthmore '05), Using Machine Learning Techniques to Choose Preconditioners
  • Siobhan Shier (Scripps College), Misconceptions and Perceptions that Keep Women from Computer Science and Proactive Strategies to Combat Them

  • Summer 2006
  • Fan Zhang (Claremont High School '07), On the Accuracy of Fill Predictions

  • 2005-2006
  • [*] Michael Lazzareschi (co-advised with (primarily advised by) Christine Alvarado), Properties of Real World Digital Logic Diagrams

  • Summer 2005
  • [*] Michael Lazzareschi, Using Optimization Tools to Evaluate Preconditioners

  • 2004-2005
  • [*] Shiri Azenkot, Computing the Approximate String Edit Distance with Moves (first place at SIGCSE ACM undergraduate student research competition)
  • Erik Fagerstrom, Gut Wars (finalist in the 2005 Hidden Agenda contest to write an educational game for 7th graders)
  • Justin Guerber, Building an Efficient Networking Framework for Multiplayer Computer Games
  • Jeff Jablonski, Gut Wars (finalist in the 2005 Hidden Agenda contest to write an educational game for 7th graders)
  • James Kirschner (Claremont McKenna), Developing a Predictive Model for Music Preference
  • Ben Swanson, Algebrarcade (finalist in the 2005 Hidden Agenda contest to write an educational game for 7th graders)

  • Summer 2004
  • Ryan Riegel (Harvey Mudd), Fast Algorithms for Recognizing Nonsymmetric Perfect Elimination Matrices

  • 2003-2004
  • Shiri Azenkot, Perfect Elimination Orderings for Symmetric Matrices
  • [*] Melissa Egan (Pomona '03), On the Perfect Elimination Ordering of Nonsymmetric Matrices
  • John Plewe, chemPOP (second place in the 2004 Hidden Agenda contest to write an educational game for 7th graders)
  • Nathan Quan, Analysis of Darwinian Evolution with Cellular Automata
  • Jonathan Samples, Who Wins, Who Loses, Who Can Tell: Back Propagating Neural Networks for the Prediction of Professional Football

  • Summer 2003
  • Cole Rottweiler, Experimental Analysis of ILU Heuristics

  • 2002-2003
  • Melissa Egan, A Comparison of Techniques for the Automatic Romanization of Arabic Script
  • Daniel Myers (co-advised with Nick Schisler), Decision Trees for Identification of functional RNAs in Genomic Sequences
  • Jonathan Shriver-Blake, Ladon: a Distributed Computing System

  • 1998-1999
  • Wei-Hua Shen (UC Berkeley), Balancing Sparse Matrices