Graduate Students

Current M.S. Graduate Students

Samual ArkleZachary BelecanechJames CanterburyTyler Collins
Sophie ColumbiaAlexander CozziePhillip DavisThom Dickson
Tayler FernaldJordan GreeneSamual GriepOlivia Hess
Alcinder LewisShane McCannMarty McClearenWilliam O'Brien
Eli OriansVidhi PatelLogan RichardsonHunter Ringley
Jonathan RinkJeremy RobertsTyler TrippTim Tron
Daniel Vega-Palafox   
    

Accelerated Bachelor's to Master's Students

Spring 2024Summer 2024Fall 2024
 Henry JonesZachary CarterJoel Ayers
 Lani Isley Anthony Correale
 Alexander Somer Aaron Frye
  Elisha Greene
  Jason Moore
  William Riddick
  Noah Salam
  Aedan Simons-Rudolph

MS Degrees Awarded

2022-232021-222020-212019-202018-19
 12 13 6 1010

 

 

M.S. Graduates

Name

Thesis/Project Information

Andrew ReevesPredicting Formula 1 Race Winner using Softmax Regression
August, 2023
Project Advisor: Dr. Mitch Parry
Curt BridgersTowards Accurate Bee Arrival and Departure Counts Using Mixture o Gaussian Based Background Subtraction
August, 2023
Project Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
Alex ClarkeHiveMind: Designing a Secure ARM-Basead Embedded System
August, 2023
Project Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
Luke PattersonEnhancing Accessibility in Video Games Through Brain-Computer Interfaces: A Study in Motor Imagery Input
August, 2023
Project Advisor: Prof. Chad Waters
Jacob VillemagneUsing Machine Learning to Characterize Russia-Ukraine War Themed Websites
August, 2023
Project Advisor: Dr. Mir Pritom
Brady AdcockSonification of EMG Signals
May, 2023
Project Advisor: Prof. Chad Waters
Joshua BaldwinGameboxd: An Exploration of Cloud Computing Technology and Full-Stack Web Development
May, 2023
Project Advisor: Dr. Mark Hills
Kyle JoyceUCoach Mobile
May, 2023
Project Advisor: Dr. James Wilkes
Andrew PobricaInvestigating the Performance of Hiding Messages in Images
May, 2023
Project Advisor: Dr. Cindy Norris
Ray ThompsonVueCanvass
May, 2023
Project Advisor: Dr. James Wilkes
Derek WilsonAppalLOCATE: A Lost and Found Solution
May, 2023
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick
Sam Barr 
Kaitlyn Humphreys 
Quinn CorcoranImplementation of Maximum Independent Set Competitive Programming Problems on Intersection Graphs
December, 2022
Project Advisor:
Abdel IssaCompetitive Programming Style Homework Management Tool
December, 2022
Project Advisor:
Anthony BirdKLE Feedback Tool
December, 2022
Project Advisor:
Val Lapensee-Rankine 
Danielle Lapensee-RankineA Firefox Extension for Enhancing Browsing Experience in Streaming Services
May, 2022
Project Advisor: Dr. Raghuveer Mohan
Nischinth Murari 
Ben UnderwoodBeeLive: An IOT-Based Monitoring and Alerting System of Beehives
May, 2022
Project Advisor: Dr. Baset Hamza
Matt Glancy 
Matt Sterckx 
Austin MotsingerDecmeron 670, A Chess Puzzle Game
May, 2022
Project Advisor: Dr. Alice McRae
Willow Sapphire 
Joe Graber 
Daniel Jeffries 
Maclean Frazier Using Convolutional Neural Networks in Building & Construction Floor Plan SegmentationMay, 2022Project Advisor: Dr. Mitch Parry
Spencer ImbleauUnderstanding Hardware-Accelerated 2D Vector Graphics
May, 2022
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Mitch Parry
Danny Avila 
Justyn Crook 
 Nathan HernandezM.S. May 2021
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Cindy Norris
BLOCKCHAIN ELECTIONS: SMART CONTRACT ELECTORAL SYSTEM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
Yuanbo (Zack) Zhou M.S. May 2021
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick
Pocket Turchin: A Mobile App for the Turchin Center
 Zhenyu (Lucas) LuoM.S. May 2021
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick
iCaughtYou: A Social Networking Mobile App for Reporting Abuses of Common Spaces

Taylor Edwards

M.S. December 2020

Courtney Dixon

M.S. August 2020

Aidan O'Brien

M.S. August 2020

Alisha Sprinkle

M.S. May 2020

Eli McGalliard

M.S. May 2020

Brooke Tibbett

M.S. December 2019 

Project Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick

 Somehow I Manage: Task and ToDo Calendaring Web App

 

Kara Beason

M.S. December 2019 

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick 

Evaluation of Efforts to Expose Middle School Students to Computational Thkning: A Report on the COSMIC Program 

Aaron Parker

M.S. August 2019 

Project Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 

Determining the Diversity of Honey Bee Appearance in a Hive 

Erik Cole

M.S. August 2019

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori

Adaptive Segmentation of Cardiovascular Vessels

Luke Craig 

M.S. August 2019 

Project Advisor: Dr. R. Mitch Parry

Patrick Beekman 

M.S. August 2019 

Project Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 

Broderick DeSantis 

M.S. August 2019

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Raghuveer Mohan

Christopher Campell

M.S. August 2019 

Thesis Advisor: Dr. R. Mitch Parry  

Naibin Zheng

M.S. May 2019 

Project Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick 

Zachary Andrews

M.S. May 2019 

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 

Comparing Predictive Models for English Premier League Games

Dillon Carns

M.S. May 2019

Project Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick 

Gurney Buchanan

M.S. May 2019

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 

Developing an Extendable Web-Based Architecture for Honey Bee Data Visualization

Michelle Melton

M.S. May 2019 

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick 

ALEXA SKILL VOICE INTERFACE FOR THE MOODLE LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Joseph O'Neill

M.S. December 2018

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick

SPAE: A Scratch Program Analysis tool for Educators

Clint Hall

M.S. August 2018

Project Advisor: R. Mitchell Parry

Erik Lares Aguilar

M.S. May 2018

Project Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick

Matthew Stone

M.S. May 2018 

Project Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick 

Christopher Waldon

M.S. May 2018 

Project Advisor: Professor Frank Barry  

Nick Phillips 

M.S. May 2017 

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Alice McRae

Cydney Caldwell

M.S. May 2017 

Project Advisor: Dr. Mohammad Mohebbi 

Michael Zanga 

M.S. May 2017

Project Advisor: Professor Barry

Stephen Dacchille

M.S. May 2017 

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Dee Parks  

Nathan Davis 

M.S. August 2017 

Project Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 

Christopher Smith 

M.S. December 2017

Thesis Advisor: Dr. R. Mitch Parry

Chad Dalton

M.S. December 2017 

Project Advisor: Professor Frank Barry 

Devin Sink

 August 2017

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 

A Real-time Database System for Managing Aquarium Data 

Michael Crawford

M.S. August 2017 

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 

Automated Collection of Honey Bee Hive Data Using the Raspberry Pi  

Michael Yang

M.S. August 2017

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 

One-to-One Scale Modeling for 3D Printing 

Scott Shuffler

M.S. August 2017 

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 

A Control and Analysis System for Honey Bee Hives

 

Stephen Bunn

 

M.S. August 2017 

Thesis Advisor: Dr. R. Mitch Parry  

Applying Package Management to MOD Installation

Matthew Joyce

M.S. May 2017 

Project Advisor: 

 

 

William Fenner

M.S., 2016
TBA
Thesis Advisor:

Haihoua Yang

M.S., 2016
FEAT: A Facebook Extraction and Analysis Toolkit
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Cindy Norris

Julia Dana

M.S., 2016
Automating Code Magnet Generation
Project Advisor: Dr. Barry Kurtz 

Bahar AkhtarM.S., 2015
An Automated Grading and Feedback System for a Computer Literacy Course
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick 
David KaleM.S., 2015
Automated Beehive Surveillance Using Computer Vision
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 
Sina TashakkoriM.S., 2015
An Imputation-based Grade Prediction System Using PCA and SVD
Project Advisor: Dr. Mitch Parry 
Timothy JassmannM.S., 2015
Mobile Leaf Classification Application Utilizing a Convolutional Neural Network
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 
Ryan BeltM.S., 2014
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Alice McRae 
Michael KeppleM.S., 2014
Text Mining With Hadoop
Project Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 
Jeremy BookerM.S., 2013
Minimal Restrained Domination Algorithms on Trees Using Dynamic Programming
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Alice McRae 
Andrew BrownfieldM.S., 2013
Improving Student Comprehension Through Interactive Microarchitecture Simulation and Visualization
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Cindy Norris 
Luke RiceM.S., 2013
Wireless Data Acquisition for Apiology Applications
Thesis Advisor: Professor Frank Barry 
Matthew SegallM.S., 2013
Mobile Leaf Recognition
Project Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 
Ahmad GhadiriM.S., 2013
Implementation of an Automated Image Processing System for Observing the Activities of Honey Bees
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 
Phillip MeznarM.S., 2013
Web-based Automated Grading System
Thesis Adivsor: Dr. Barry Kurtz 
Jack JordanM.S., 2012
Project Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 
Shawn WindleM.S., 2012
Common Language Infrastructure for Research (CLIR): Editing and Optimizing .NET Assemblies
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick 
Snigdha MallikM.S., 2012
Project Advisor: Dr. Cindy Norris 
Joe HelfertM.S., 2012
Project Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick 
Caleb BrownM.S., 2012
Project Advisor: Dr. James Wilkes 
Dale HenriesM.S., 2011
Segmentation and Extraction of Individual Leaves from Plant Images for Species Classification
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori 
Jeremy ShopeM.S., 2011
Project Advisor: Dr. Cindy Norris 
Michael SageM.S., 2011
Using Logical Microlabs in Computer Science Education
Project Advisor: Dr. Barry Kurtz 
Mark LingelbachM.S., 2011
Project Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick 
Andrew HuffmanM.S., 2011
Project Advisor: Professor Kenneth Jacker 
Matthew LingelbachM.S., 2011
Project Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick 
Jeremy WalkerM.S., 2011
Project Advisor: Dr. Dee Parks 
Jason WyattM.S., 2011
Project Advisor: Dr. Dee Parks
Andrew Lachance

M.S., 2011
Audio on the GPU: Real-Time Time Domain Convolution on Graphics Cards
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Tashakkori 

John Helfert

M.S., 2010
An Automated Grading System for Microlabs
Project Advisor: Dr. Barry Kurtz

Joshua J. RountreeM.S., 2010
ClockIt: Monitoring and Visualizing Student Software Development Profiles
Thesis Advisor: Prof. E. Frank Barry
Seena MenonM.S., 2010
Evaluating and Improving the Readability of Scientific Web Pages Using Intelligent Analysis Tools
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
Biva ShresthaM.S., 2010
Classification of Plants Using Images of their Leaves
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
Jason GrubbM.S., 2010
A Low Cost Automated Livestock Tracking System
Thesis Advisor: Dr. James B. Fenwick Jr.
Pawel PelkaM.S., 2010
Project
Nirmal PrajapatiM.S., 2009
An Evaluation of LL and LR Parsers and Parser Generators
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick
Grant MullinaxM.S., 2009
Wii3: A 3-Dimensional Input System Using Parallax and Blob Tracking 
Thesis Advisor: Dr. James Wilkes 
Jason MooreM.S., 2009
Project Advisor: Dr. Cindy Norris 
Amisha Pancholi

M.S., 2009
Modifying the Violet UML Tool to Support Parallel and Distributed Applications

Project Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick

Jeffrey Edelman

M.S., 2009
Spelling Bee Flash Application

Project Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick

Stephen EllisonM.S., 2009
Tomasulo Simulator GUI
Chris SholarM.S., 2008
Message Encoding in Images Using Lifting Techniques
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
Jere MilesM.S., 2008
Believability of Computer Games
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
Rabin AryalM.S., 2007
Virtual Farmers' Market
Chris EllsworthM.S., 2007
Simulation based evolution of Neural controllers for embodied autonomous agents
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Barry Kurtz
Kendal L. BrooksM.S., 2007
Using the Knowledge Discovery Process to Find Meaningful Information in Sports Related Data
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
Darren W. Greene M.S., 2007
Cluster and Grid-based Image Processing
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
Scott HollandM.S., 2007
VitAssist: Viticulture Assistance Application, Design and Implementation
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Ray Russell
Jon McVeyM.S., 2007
Hamiltonian Path and Other Spanning Trees
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Alice McRae
Augustus A. MiragliaM.S., 2007
Golay Codes: Codeword Construction and Error Correction Using Maplets
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Richard Klima and Dr. James T. Wilkes
Kathryn ReidM.S., 2007
Clockit: Implementation and Evaluation
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Cindy Norris
Justin Fincher M.S., 2006
Automated Composition of Musical Scores Based on the Style of Previous Works
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Kenneth Jacker
Gary Kreahling M.S., 2006
Task Analysis of Weather Forecasting and Implications for Design of Computer Forecasting Tools
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Ray Russell
Adam ReaganM.S., 2006
A Nonlinear Statistical Approach to Knowledge Discovery in Medical Image Sets
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
Scott BarloweM.S., 2005
A Lifting-Based Knowledge Discovery in Microarray Data
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
Jonathan R. ChapmanM.S., 2005
Experiences Using the Extension Mechanism of the BlueJ Educational IDE
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick
James Scott MecimoreM.S., 2005
Java Metrics Interface Reporting System (JMIRS)
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick
Andy DaltonM.S., 2004
Distributed Java Compiler: Implementation and Evaluation
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Cindy Norris
Elizabeth DueaM.S., 2004
Modeling the Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Dee Parks
Jackie HollandM.S., 2003
CppAT Framework for Acceptance Testing of C++ Applications
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick 
Mickey HolseyM.S., 2003
Intersections of Longest Paths in Graphs
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Alice McRae
Chetan KrishnaM.S., 2003
Software Engineering Collaboration Tool
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Barry Kurtz
Shibu VacheryM.S., 2003
Real-Time Networking: An Investigation Using Audio Conferencing
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Kenneth Jacker
Monica VermaM.S., 2003
Extraction of Anatonomical Structures, Primarily Inter-Vertebral Discs, from Images of the Human Spine
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
Courtney BowersM.S., 2002
Similarity Analysis of Voice Signals in the Wavelet Domain Using Dynamic Time Warping Methods
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
Wade H. McInnis, IIIM.S., 2002
Internet Security Education
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Ed Pekarek
Zhengnan Shi M.S., 2002
Domination in 1 or 2-terminal Cycle-Composed Graphs
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Alice McRae
Ashutosh R. ChickerurM.S., 2001
Enhancing the Linda Tuplespace Coordination Language with MPI Functionality
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick
Kame V. GarigipatiM.S., 2001
An Experimental Investigation of the Use of Profiling by a Region-based Register Allocator
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Cindy Norris
Joshua T. McKinneyM.S., 2001
A General Purpose Data Acquisition, Reduction, and Visualization System using RTLinux and COMEDI
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Kenneth Jacker
Glenn AltemoseM.S., 2000
Register Pressure Responsive Software Pipelining
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Cindy Norris
Jonathan BoyteM.S., 2000
Improving Processor Utilization in MPI on Heterogeneous Systems
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jay Fenwick
Geoff ShufordM.S., 2000
Study of Dynamic Crossover Selection versus Static Selection in a Generic Genetic Algorithm
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Alice McRae 
Bill KreahlingM.S., 1999
Improving Register Allocation Using Profiling
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Cindy Norris
David ShrewsburyM.S., 1999
Reducing the Impact of Software Prefetching Upon Register Pressure
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Cindy Norris
Jue WangM.S., 1999
Thematic Laboratories in Java
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Mark Harris
R. Paul Young, IIM.S., 1999
Using Freely-Distributed System Software for Real-Time Data Aquisition and Reduction
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Kenneth Jacker

Students formerly in the Program

  • Chad Sallee
  • Scott Cheek
  • Russ Mack
  • Thomas McClellan
  • Brent Woodruff
  • Daniel Newell
  • Eri Ohashi
  • Rodney Pannell
  • Tim Racz
  • Cole Spicer
  • Zachary Griggs
  • Kai Arrowood
  • Wesley Miller
  • Nicole Loew
  • Huy Tu
  • Jacob Pollard
  • Daniel Ingram
  • Robert Comptom
  • Hunter Oliver
  • Praveen Mariappan
  • Cameron Lum
  • Kyle Fleskes
  • Brennan Stride
  • Martin Hernandez-gamez