Summer Undergraduate Research Projects

The projects listed on this page have been funded by different sources: Bucknell University's Program for Undergraduate Research, the Engineering Fund, the Accenture Undergraduate Research Fund, and the National Science Foundation. The Dept. of Computer Science is grateful to all these sources, which enable our students to work on real world problems in close collaboration with faculty. The development of these research projects enriches our students' educations and, many times, results in published work for the students. Summer research funding provides students with stipends for a minimum of 8 weeks of work and on campus housing.

Summer of 2010

Deniz Gorgun (class of 2011) [PDF Proposal]
Title: Designing, Implementing, and Testing of a Intelligent Crawler to Support Vertical Search
Adviser: Prof. Xiannong Meng, Dept. of Computer Science 

Tali Sason (class of 2013) [PDF proposal]
Title: A Mechanism for Transient Detection in Metrics Estimated with the ns-3 Network Simulator
Adviser: Prof. L. Felipe Perrone, Dept. of Computer Science 

Bryan Ward (class of 2011) [PDF proposal]
Title: An Execution Manager for Parallel Simulation Experiments with ns-3
Adviser: Prof. L. Felipe Perrone, Dept. of Computer Science 

Summer of 2009

Andrew Hallagan (class of 2011) [PDF proposal]
Title: Developing an XML Language for Credible Wireless Network Simulation
Adviser: Prof. L. Felipe Perrone, Dept. of Computer Science  

Si Thu Latt (class of 2011) [PDF Proposal]
Title: Towards the Interactive Simulation of Ice Halos in the Open Sky
Adviser: Prof. Joshua Steinhurst, Dept. of Computer Science

Daniel Medani (class of 2010) [PDF Proposal]
Title: A Graphical User Interface for a Neural Network Simulation Software Suite
Adviser: Prof. Joseph Tranquillo, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering 

Summer of 2008

Elijah Bowen (class of 2009) [PDF proposal]
Title: A Novel Query Reordering Algorithm to Reduce Photon Mapping Bandwidth
Adviser: Prof. Joshua Steinhurst, Dept. of Computer Science

Ryan Smith (class of 2010) [PDF proposal]
Title: Building a Neural Network to Differentiate Document Types
Adviser: Prof. Xiannong Meng, Dept. of Computer Science

Juliana Su (class of 2009) [PDF proposal]
Title: Remote Reconfiguration of Xilinx FPGA over a Network
Adviser: Prof. Michael Thompson, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Bryan Ward (class of 2011) [PDF proposal]
Title: Automated Optimization Study of Attack Models for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Adviser: Prof. L. Felipe Perrone, Dept. of Computer Science

Summer of 2007

Christopher Burroughs (class of 2008) [PDF proposal]
Title: Sparse Matrix Factors for a Class of Sparse Symmetric Matrices
Adviser: Prof. Steve Guattery, Dept. of Computer Science

Michael Dippery (class of 2008) [PDF proposal]
Title: An Investigation of Policies for Caching Radio Propagation Calculations in the Simulation of Wireless  
Networks
Adviser: Prof. L. Felipe Perrone, Dept. of Computer Science

Timothy Destan (class of 2008) (Presidential Fellow)
Title: Yagi-Uda Arrays with Null-Steering Capability
Adviser: Prof. David Kelley, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Summer of 2006

Derrin Pierret (class of 2007) [PDF proposal]
Title: Generating a Statically-Checkable Device Driver I/O Interface
Adviser: Prof. Lea Wittie, Dept. of Computer Science

Summer of 2005

Giang Hoang (class of 2006) [PDF proposal]
Title: A Scalable Simulator for TinyOS
Advisers: Prof. Lea Wittie and Prof. L. Felipe Perrone, Dept. of Computer Science

Jahman N’Daw (class of 2007) [PDF proposal]
Title: Designing a Crawler as an Intelligent Agent
Adviser: Prof. Xiannong Meng, Dept. of Computer Science

Summer of 2004

Eric Graham (class of 2005) [PDF proposal]
Title: A Study of Radio Propagation Models in the Simulation of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Adviser: Prof. L. Felipe Perrone, Dept. of Computer Science

Samuel Nelson (class of 2006) [PDF proposal]
Title: A Simulation Study of Denial of Service Attacks in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Adviser: Prof. L. Felipe Perrone, Dept. of Computer Science