Undergraduate Student Projects

Here are some of the undergraduate student projects I supervised (either during the summer or during the academic year), related to research and curriculum development.

The research projects were funded by grants from either the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Schultz Foundation, General Electric or Smith College scholarships such as Praxis and CFCD Research Assistantships and Internships. The curriculum development projects were funded by Smith College special programs such as STRIDE and CFCD. Other projects were conducted as special studies and honors thesis and took place during the academic year.


Name Year Type Topic
Alexandra Booth 2006-07
Thesis
 Honors Thesis
Alex Apostol Summer 2006
NSF REU
 REU
Cristina Harko Fall 2005
Ind. Study
 Localization and Rigidity
Alexandra Booth Spring 2005
NSF REU
 Kinetic Graphs
Alex Apostol Fall 2005
Independent Study
 MUD programming in Python
Alexandra Booth Fall 2005
NSF REU
 Kinetic Particles
Alexandra Booth Summer 2005
NSF REU
 Particle simulation in Java
Leonid Lastovkin (UMass) Spring 2006
NSF REU
 Developing a Java programming environment for Computational Geometry
Marissa Warner-Wu 2004-05
STRIDE
 Developing a Java programming environment for Computational Geometry
Curtiss Taylor and Cristina Harko Summer 2004
NSF REU
 Developing a QT/OpenGL programming environment for Computational Geometry
Katina Tiggas Spring 2002
Ind. Study
 Programming experiments with the AIBO robot
Beenish Chaudry Spring 2002
NSF REU
 Experiments with Combinatorica in Mathematica. Algorithms for triangulating a polygon.
Elif Tosun 2001-2
Honors Thesis
 Algorithms for Scene Analysis: Recovery of Camera Positions from Visibility Information.
Veronica Morales and Caroline Moore Fall 2001
Ind. study
 Databases and mySQL
Eleanor Farrington 2001
Summer REU
 Mathematica experiments for kinematic simulation . Summary
Melody Donoso 2001
Summer REU
 Polymake Etc.
Melody Donoso 2000-1
STRIDE
 Web page and resources for the Robotics Seminar.
Victoria Manfredi 2000
CFCD RA
 Location Depth in Leda. Location Depth, paper presentation.
Naomi Fox 2000
Summer REU
 Computing oriented matroid information from planar point sets
Victoria Manfredi and Christine Rice 2000
Summer REU
 Duality Visualization Tool: I
Duality Visualization Tool: II
Katherine Sinclair 2000
Summer REU
 Experiments with the Pioneer robot
Elif Tosun 2000
Summer REU
 Maxwell's Theorem on planar self-stressed graphs
Beenish Chaudry 2000
Summer REU
 Pseudo-triangulations
Rosy Fynn 2000
Summer REU
 Programming Lego Robots in RSX, NQC and RoboLab: a comparative study
Allison Baird Haley Miller and Meredith 2000
Ind. Study
 Handyboard Robot for the Fire-fighting contest
Octavia Petrovici 1999
Winter REU
 Client-server programming in Java.
Shana Negin 1999
Summer SSSP
 Lego Robots using the RSX.
Beenish Chaudry , Geetika Tewari and Elif Tosun 1999-00
CFCD RA
 A Java software tool for oriented matroids, GUI.
Beenish Chaudry , Geetika Tewari and Elif Tosun 1999-00
Summer REU
 A Java software tool for oriented matroids, kernel.
Roxana Cocan 1997-8
CFCD RA
 Knots. Applet for knot experimentation in Java.
Ling Lin 1997-8
CFCD RA
 Rectangle Visibility Graphs: implemntation in Java
Andee Browne 1997
STRIDE
 Graphics Tools on the SGI
Lilla Zollei (MtHolyoke) 1997
Summer REU
 Cluster of Stars Algorithm implementation in Java
Jorjeta Jetcheva (MtHolyoke) 1996
Winter REU
 Cluster of Stars Algorithm implementation in Leda
Erika Knepp 1996
STRIDE
 The Java Programming Language
Rene Landrum 1996
Summer REU
 System setup and geometry software installation on gargoyle
Heather Alef 1995
Summer REU
 X-Windows visibility graph exploring tool

Misc Projects
Ileana Streinu