Thesis and Dissertation Topics

RECENT THESIS & DISSERTATION TOPICS December 2012 Chris Sexton Master Thesis Anytime Solving by Solution Refinement Thesis Director: Wheeler Ruml, Associate Professor December 2012 Tim Carlin Master Thesis Implementation of an RDMA Verbs Driver for GRIDFTP Thesis Director: Robert Russell, Associate Professor December 2012 Mikkel Hagen Ph D Dissertation Fairness in a Data Center Thesis Director: Radim Bartos, Associate Professor August 2012 James Jackson Master's Thesis

Efiicient Parallel and Execution Sequence Similarity Via Dynamic Load Balancing
Thesis Director: Phil Hatcher, Professor

May 2012 Brian Albere Master's Thesis Genotyping On Custom Arrays Using a Parallel Data Pipeline Thesis Director: R. Daniel Bergeron, Professor May 2012 Michael Leighton Master's Thesis Faster Optimal and Suboptimal Hierarchical Search Thesis Director: Wheeler Ruml, Assistant Professor

December 2011 Kevin Rose Master's Thesis Real-Time Sampling Based Motion Planning with Dynamic Obstacles Thesis Director: Wheeler Ruml, Assistant Professor August 2011 James Jackson Master's Thesis Efficient Parallel Execution of Sequesnce Similarity Analysis Via dynamic Load Balancing Thesis Director: Phil Hatcher, Professor

May 2011 Austin Dione Master's Thesis Mobile Undersea Routing Protocol Thesis Director: Radim Bartos, Associate Professor of Computer Science December 2010 Michael J. Karell Master's Thesis Heuristic Search Under a Deadline Thesis Director: Wheeler Ruml, Assistant Professor December 2010 Daniel Pineo PhD Dissertation The Application of Computational Modeling to Data Visualization Thesis Director: Colin Ware, 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 Thesis Director: Phil Hatcher, Professor of Computer Science 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