2023 - 2024 Projects

Exploring The Process of Micro-Homology Mediated DNA Repair

Students: Trey Shneour, Kendall Underwood

Mentor: Prof. Vineet Bafna

Evaluating Kale: A Data-Integrity Focused Spreadsheet Architecture

Students: Aniket Gupta, Arushi Munjal, Jeffery Tung

Mentor: Prof. Michael Coblenz

Worm Propagation Through Indirect LLM Prompt Injection

Students: Henry Choi, Angie Nguyen, Nicole Shirley, Murou Wang

Mentor: Prof. Earlence Fernandes

Security Analysis of Master Smart Lock

Students: Danielle Dang, Sierra Lira, Cho Jung (Angela) Tsai

Mentor: Prof. Nadia Heninger, Miro Haller

Proofessor: Proof Tutor for Introductory Theorem Proving

Students: Anthony Chapov, Melanie Haro-Mendoza, Justin Yang, Sydney Zhang

Mentor: Prof. Sorin Lerner, Emily First, Yousef Alhessi, Saketh Kasibatla, Kyle Thompson

Evaluating Slang for View Synthesis

Students: David Choi, Hayden Kwok, Rick Rodness, Taiki Yoshino

Mentor: Prof. Tzu-Mao Li, Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi

Violin Performance Rendering using Deep Neural Networks

Students: Wanning Lu, Minh Hoang Phan, Diego Reyes

Mentor: Prof. Julian McAuley, Hao-Wen Dong

CrapGPT: Predicting Dietary Patterns from Gut Microbiome Profiles

Students: Ismail Faiz, Yoto Kim, Arjun Kohli

Mentor: Dr. Daniel McDonald, Kalen Cantrell, Prof. Rob Knight

Parental Concerns about Children Gaming on Roblox

Students: Emily Gorial, Chuong Nguyen, Andrew Smithwick, Natasha Tran

Mentor: Prof. Imani Munyaka

Database Usability Testing for New and Existing Data Models

Students: Ruiping Fang, Siya Kamboj, Peter Lee, Brandon Panuco

Mentor: Prof. Amy Ousterhout

Algorithm and Hardware Co-optimization for Long Read De Novo Genome Assembly

Students: Ishika Agrawal, Shirley Bian, Vivian Liu, Warren Trinh

Mentor: Prof. Tajana Rosing, Prof. Niema Moshiri,  Zhou Minxuan

Benchmarking Chatbots on Users Prompts Using Unsupervised Clustering

Students: Thiago Donato, Shreya Nagunuri, Kathleen Ngo

Mentor: Prof. Jingbo Shang, Zi Lin, Zihan Wang

Analyzing Student Testing Behavior in Intro CS Courses

Students: Gonzalo Allen-Perez, Luis Millan, Brandon Nghiem, Kevin Wu

Mentor: Prof. Gerald Soosai Raj

Country-in-the-Middle: Measuring Network Paths between People and their Governments

Students: Kristy Ly, Shambhavi Mittal, Manan Patel, Samvrit Srinath

Mentor: Alisha Ukani, Katherine Izhikevich, Prof. Alex Snoeren

Improving LAMP Primer Design and Debugging Techniques

Students: Shruti Bhamidipati, Uliyaah Dionisio, Sonia Fereidooni, Vinuthna Maradana

Mentor: Daniella Vo, Sara Safa, Prof. Debashis Sahoo