Research

Computer science faculty actively pursue research on a wide variety of topics. Students have many opportunities to participate in research through the following programs:

• Richter Scholars Program
• Grand Challenges Scholars Program
• College of Engineering Senior Design projects

Computer science faculty advise students each year in the above programs. Most of our research involves the application of state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to a wide variety of problem domains. Many students pursue research opportunities before moving on to grad school or research-oriented careers.

Recent Projects

In recent years, students have worked on research projects in the following areas:

• Prosthesis control
• Computer vision for the visually impaired
• Harvest yield prediction from vineyard imagery
• Autonomous rover navigation
• Plagiarism detection
• Prediction of student academic and mental health outcomes

Recent Student Publications

• Orr, J. W. and Russell, N. (2021). Automatic Assessment of the Design Quality of Python Programs with Personalized Feedback. In the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2021).
• Noel, T. C. and Snider, B. R. (2019). Utilizing Deep Neural Networks for Brain–Computer Interface-Based Prosthesis Control. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. 35(1), 93–101
• Rohwedder, D. and Snider, B. R. (2018). Plagiarism Detection Avoidance Methods and Countermeasures. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. 34(1), 255–261.