Stock Trading with Reinforcement Learning: Average Reward Agent and Alpha Preservation
Advisor: Shangtong Zhang (Second reader: Chen-Yu Wei)

Integrating LoRaWAN and TockOS for Secure, Low-power Geolocation Solutions
Advisor: Brad Campbell (Second reader: Kun Qian)

TuneScope: Synthesizing Music and Computational Thinking
Advisor: N. Rich Nguyen (Second reader: Glen Bull)

Published as N. Rich Nguyen, Harsh Padhye, Eric Stein, and Glen Bull. TuneScope: Engaging Novices to Computational Thinking through Music. In 53^rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Demonstration), March 2022.

Marcus: A Chatbot for Depression Screening Based on the PHQ-9 Assessment
Advisor: Panagiotis Apostolellis (Second reader: Nicole Ruzek)

Published as Patrick Toulme, Jude Nanaw, and Panagiotis Apostolellis. Marcus: A Chatbot for Depression Screening Based on the PHQ-9 Assessment. In Sixteenth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, April 2023.

What Have We Learned About Black-box Attacks Against Classifiers?
Advisor: David Evans (Second reader: Yuan Tian)

Published in Fnu Suya, Anshuman Suri, Tingwei Zhang, Jingtao Hong, Yuan Tian, and David Evans. SoK: Pitfalls in Evaluating Black-Box Attacks. In 2nd IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML). Toronto, April 2024.

Expanding the Language Scope: Chinese Adversarial Attacks
Advisor: Yanjun Qi (Second reader: Nada Basit)

An Analysis of Gaussian Boson Sampling for Graph Isomorphism & Graph Classification using Supervised Machine Learning
Advisor: Olivier Pfister (Second reader: Israel Klich)

Published as Sampling efficient graph classification using binary Gaussian boson sampling in Physical Review A, 11 December 2023. Also available as arxiv/2031.01232.

A Random Forest Model for ATP Site Prediction on Kinases
Advisor: Ku-Lung Hsu (Second reader: Philip Bourne)

Expanding the Language Scope of TextAttack: Chinese Adversarial Attacks
Advisor: Yanjun Qi (Second reader: Yangfeng Ji)

Global Local Warming: Creating a Multisensory Representation of Climate Data
Advisor: Michele Claibourn (Second reader: Seongkook Heo)

SenRev: Measurement of Personal Information Disclosure in Online Health Communities
Advisor: Yuan Tian (Second reader: Gang Wang, University of Illinois)

Stochastic Synthesis of Pointing Gestures for Virtual Agents
Advisor: Tariq Iqbal (Second reader: William Bernstein, Air Force Research Laboratory)

Using Machine Learning to Improve the Performance of the Mu2e (muon-to-electron) Cosmic Ray Veto
Advisor: Craig Dukes (Second reader: David Evans)

Minimalism and Money: Actually Good Together or Just a Gambit?
Advisor: Panagiotis Apostolellis (Second reader: Seongkook Heo)

Fringer: A Finger-Worn Passive Device Enabling Robust Computer Vision Based Force Sensing Using Moiré Fringes Advisor: Seongkook Heo (Second reader: Gregory Gerling)

Integrating Motion Capture Technology into Theatrical Performance
Advisor: Mona Kasra (Second reader: Panagiotis Apostolellis) Cavalier Daily, U.Va. alumna Karen Zipor makes a splash in the entertainment industry, 17 November 2023.

Graph Embedding with Hierarchical Attentive Membership
      Published in Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining)
Advisor: Hongning Wang (Second reader: Jundong Li)

Techniques for Blocking the Propagation of Two Simultaneous Contagions over Networks Using the Graph Dynamical Systems Framework
      Published as Blocking the Propagation of Two Simultaneous Contagions over Networks
            in International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications
Advisor: Madhav Marathe (Second reader: S. S. Ravi)
UVA Today Article: Engineering Grad Receives Rader Prize for Network Science Research

Item Under-Recommendation in Sequential Recommendation System
Advisor: Hongning Wang (Second reader: Yangfeng Ji)

Towards Using RPKI to Secure Tor Against BGP Routing Attacks
Advisor: Yixin Sun (Second reader: David Evans)

A Closer Look at Advantage-Filtered Behavioral Cloning in High-Noise Datasets
Advisor: Yanjun Qi (Second reader: Yangfeng Ji)

Improved Estimation of Concentration under L_p-norm Distance Metrics using Half Spaces
       Published in Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021)
Advisor: David Evans (Second reader: Mohammad Mahmoody)

Microphone Array-based User Identity Verification Scheme
Advisor: Yuan Tian (Second reader: Brad Campbell)

Reflections
Advisor: R. Lee Kennedy (Drama) (Second reader: Panagiotis Apostolellis)
UVA Today Article: Critically Creative: Recent Grad Develops Online Performance Modification

Regulatory Sequence Prediction using Graph Convolutional Network for Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)-linked Genetic Variants
Advisor: Yanjun Qi (Second reader: Clint Miller)

Design of Intelligent Retrieval System for Biomedical Text and its Application to COVID-19 Literature
Advisor: Yanjun Qi (Second reader: Yangfeng Ji)

MelodyPianter: Draw the Melody in Virtual Reality [Video]
Advisor: Mark Sherriff (Second reader: Mark Floyran) Graduate School: University of Washington

Attrition Prediction Algorithm
Advisor: Hongning Wang (Second reader: Bethany Teachman)

Sanity Checker: Evaluations for Deep Neural Network Interpretability Tools
Advisor: Yanjun Qi (Second reader: Nada Basit)

Effectiveness of Dynamic Online Systems for Student Mastery
Advisor: Mark Floryan

Thermatrack: Room Level Tracking of Occupants Using Thermal Cameras
Advisor: Kamin Whitehouse (Second reader: Vicente Ordonez)

Intent-aware Query Obfuscation for Privacy-Preserving Personalized Web Search
Advisor: Hongning Wang (Second reader: David Evans)

AsyncTalent: A talent recruiting app that automates candidate screening and phone interviewing
Advisor: Alf Weaver (Second reader: David Touve)

Finding and Fixing Bugs in Liquid Haskell
Advisor: Westley Weimer

A Proxy for Mitigating Threats from Embedded Third-party Scripts
Advisor: David Evans (Second reader: Mary Lou Soffa)

The Complexity of Computing the Density of States
Readers: Gabriel Robins (Computer Science) and Oliver Pfister (Physics)
Graduate School: University of California, Berkeley
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2011

Designing Better Fitness Functions for Automated Program Repair
       Published in 12th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Advisor: Westley Weimer (Computer Science) (Second reader: David Evans, Computer Science)
Graduate School: Stanford University

A Transitive Signature Scheme for Directed Trees
Advisor: abhi shelat (Computer Science) (Second reader: Bascom Deaver, Physics)
Graduate School: University of Texas at Austin

Using Lego Mindstorms NXT And Lejos in An Advanced Software Engineering Course
       Published in 23rd IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, March 2010
Readers: Tom Horton (Computer Science) and Mark Sherriff (Computer Science)
Graduate School: George Mason Law School

Efficient Time-Aware Prioritization with Knapsack Solvers
Advisor: Mary Lou Soffa (Computer Science) (Second Readers: Kai-Uwe Bux, Mathematics)
Graduate School: University of California Berkeley
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Goldreich’s One-Way Function Candidate and Drunken Backtracking Algorithms
Advisor: abhi shelat (Computer Science) (Second reader: Christian Gromoll, Mathematics)
Graduate School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship