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
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
- McAfee, L. and Heath, Z. and Anderson, W. and Hozi, M. and Orr, J. W. and Kang, Y. A. (2024) The Development of an Automated Microscope Image Tracking and Analysis System. Biotechnology Progress. 40(6): e3490, 1–14.
- 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), 495–501.
- 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.