Honors Theses

Each year the Computer Science Department graduates a number of students with a degree of Bachelor of Science with Honors. To achieve this, students must among other achievements successfully complete an honors thesis under the direction of a faculty member.

This list celebrates a quarter-century tradition of excellence in computer science research.

Spring 2020

  • Andres Barragan, Advances In Eye Blink Detection: Evaluating Convolutional Neural Network Based Blink Detection on Real World Data (pdf), under Jacobus Barnard
  • Faiz Rafique, Advances In Natural Language Processing:Capsule Networks for Part of Speech Tagging (pdf), under Mihai Surdeanu
  • Matthew Robert Romero, I Improving the Performance of a Parflow Proxy Application Through Cuda Parallelism (pdf), under Michelle Strout
  • Dilen S Govin, Simulation of Clocked Digital Logic in Hardware (HWC) (pdf), under Russell Lewis

Spring 2019

  • Bailey Brian Nottingham, An Algorithm And Implementation To Detect Covert Channels And Data Leakage In Mobile Applications (pdf), under Saumya Debray
  • Scott Michael Perry Jr, Graph Drawing In Spherical Geometry (pdf), under Stephen Kobourov
  • Dyana Crystal Yue Muller, A Review Of Video-Based And Machine Learning Approaches To Human Eye Blink Detection In Video (pdf), under Jacobus Barnard
  • Michael Rei Beiley, Mental Health And Wellness Chatbot (pdf), under Allison Obourne
  • Robert Jackson K Lindsays, Hardware C (HWC) (pdf), under Russell Lewis

Fall 2018

  • Hang Chen, Same Stats, Different Graphs (Graph Statistics and Why We Need Graph Drawing) (pdf), under Stephen Kobourov
  • Namratha Shamitha Suvarna, Evaluation and Improvement of Pre-Processing Techniques for Multiple-Gaze Geometry Research (pdf), under Jacobus Barnard

Spring 2018

  • Eric Michael Evans, Provenance Analysis Within A.N.T.A.R.E.S. (pdf), under Richard Snodgrass
  • Eric Evan Michael Newberry, A Caching Evaluation of the Hadoop Distributed File System (pdf), under Beichuan Zhang
  • Addison Armstrong Kaufmann, Designing a Privacy-Preserving Geovisualization of Citizen-Collected Environmental Data (pdf), under Katherine Isaacs
  • Cassidy Taylor Martin, Visualizing American Political Speech in the 21st Century  (pdf), under Katherine Isaacs

Spring 2017

  • Siru Liu, Machine Learning Approachs for Prediction of Laryngeal Cancer (pdf), under Lingling An
  • Kunpeng Zhang, Proxy-Based Solutions to Facilitate Mobile Applications (pdf), under Beichuan Zhang

Spring 2016

  • Jeremy Mowery, XOS: A Service for Deploying VPNs in the Cloud (pdf), under John Hartman
  • Jon Stephens, Environmental Monitoring Detector (pdf), under Saumya Debray
  • Karyn Bao An Vo, Exploring the University of Arizona Student Population Through Data Visualization (pdf), under Carlos Scheidegger
  • David Jonathan Porfirio, Single-Sequence Protein Secondary Structure Prediction by Nearest-Neighbor Classification of Protein Words (pdf), under John Kececioglu

Summer 2015

  • Jeffrey A. Phelan, Increasing Usability in Simulated Labs Through the Use of User Interface Design Principles (pdf), under Richard Snodgrass

Spring 2014

  • Ryan Marcus, HAWK: A Tool for Testing AMELIE (pdf), under Richard Snodgrass

Spring 2012

  • Matthew Adam Justice, Optimizing MongoDB-Hadoop Performance with Record Grouping (pdf), under John Hartman
  • Jaime Elizabeth Sauls, Changing Perceptions of Computer Science (pdf), under Richard Snodgrass

Fall 2011

  • Gavin Joel Simons, Teaching and Visualizing Fitts’ Law (pdf), under Richard Snodgrass
  • Drew Mose Mahrt, An Interactive High School Lab for Exploring Cognitive Load Theory (pdf), under Richard Snodgrass

Spring 2010

  • Alex Jay Henniges, Refining the Infrastructure of τXSchema (pdf), under Richard Snodgrass
  • Jude Christopher Nelson, An Improved Multiprotocol Application Data Transfer Service (pdf), under John Hartman
  • Adam Robertson, Restructuring AZDBLab: The Science of Databases (pdf), under Richard Snodgrass
  • Joseph Thomas, An Adaptive Data Structure for Nearest Neighbors Search in a General Metric Space (pdf), under John Kececioglu

Spring 2009

  • Justin Samuel, Improving Cross-Site Request Privacy and Security: Client-Side Cross-Site Request Whitelists (pdf), under Beichuan Zhang
  • Paul Stevens, Computer Chess: Exploring Speed and Intelligence (pdf), under Sandiway Fong

Fall 2008

  • Tasneem Kaochar, Applications of Pointer Alias Analyses (pdf), under Saumya Debray

Spring 2008

  • Andrew Davidson, SPADE: Semantically Preserving Abstract Decompiler Experiment (pdf), under Saumya Debray
  • Duy Nguyen, OFFKEY STUDIO: Software for Music Education (pdf), under Suzanne Westbrook

Spring 2007

  • Melinda Joy Malmgren, An Infrastructure For Database Tamper Detection and Forensic Analysis (pdf), under Richard Snodgrass
  • Qiyam Tung, Personal Medical Database: Improvement of Usability (pdf), under Richard Snodgrass

Spring 2006

  • Hutcheson Conrad, JMusic: A Real-time Java Auralization System
  • Adam Hancock, A Computational Platform For Comparative Genetic Reseach in Yeast
  • Anand Iyer, Visualization of Self-Modifying Code, under Saumya Debray
  • Ekaterina Hristova Spriggs, Modeling Intonation and Physiology in Emotional Conversations, under Kobus Barnard
  • John Trimble, Combining High Level Alias Analysis With Low Level Code Compaction Of The Linux Kernel (pdf), under Saumya Debray

Spring 2005

  • Eric Paul Roeder, Ï„XSchema: Supporting Temporal XML Documents (pdf), under Richard Snodgrass

Fall 2004

  • Nathaniel Bill, Combining Turing, Mendel, and Darwin: Genetic Programming of Artificial Life

Spring 2004

  • Armand Navabi Generating and Using Opaque Predicates
  • Shawn Pauling, ChemWorks for the Newton MessagePad, under Richard Snodgrass
  • Abin Widad Shahab, Comparing Image-Segmentation Algorithms with Human-Segmented Images to Find an Upper Bound in Performance, under Kobus Barnard

Fall 2003

  • Srinivasan Chandrasekharan, Evaluation of the Efficacy of Control Flow Obfuscation Against Profiling and Intelligent Static Attacks (pdf), under Saumya Debray
  • Matthew A. Johnson, Word Sense Disambiguation With Pictures, under Kobus Barnard

Spring 2003

  • Zachary V. Heidepriem, Detecting Differences in Java Bytecode
  • Keith Noah Snavely, Optimization and Reverse Engineering Itanium Executables (pdf), under Saumya Debray and Greg Andrews

Fall 2002

  • John Plata, Simulation and Theory of Texas Hold'em Poker

Spring 2002

  • Benjamin William Schwarz, Post Link-Time Optimization On The Intel IA-32 Architecture (pdf), under Saumya Debray and Greg Andrews
  • Tal Shaked, Value Specialization Using PLTO (pdf), under Greg Andrews and Saumya Debray

Fall 2001

  • Kelly T. Heffner, Plurally Parsable Tunstall Encoding and Multiply Fixed Length Huffman Encoding
  • Jennifer Bedke Sartor, The Intricacies of Code Obfuscation

Spring 2001

  • Joseph Dunn, Effects of Window Size and Recurrence on Stream-Analyzing Neural Networks
  • Brian Shucker, Ground-Based Prototype of CMOS Navigational Star Camera for Small Satellite Applications
  • Roman Yusufov, Guide: Graph Utility with Interactive Display and Interface

Spring 1999

  • Evan Deaubl, Taming Unix: A Study in Graphical User Interfaces

Fall 1998

  • Christopher Cooper, Implementing Netshell in the Universal Search Environment
  • Gordon Lyons, The Art of Port Scanning

Spring 1998

  • Antonia Kolokolova, Algorithms for Algebraic Proof Systems Modeling Evolution on Rugged Fitness Landscapes
  • Sofiya Vasina, Neural Networks and the Adaptive Multiplayer Game Environment

Fall 1995

  • Michael Shipman, Visualizing Trees

Spring 1995

  • Jaren McCain, Func++: A Functional Programming System for the C++ Language
  • Jesse Macnish, H-Hulls: A Molecular Boundary Estimation

Fall 1994

  • Eron Jokipii, Fine-Grain Parallelism on a Multicomputer, under Greg Andrews

Summer 1994

  • Patricia Leonard

Spring 1991

  • David Kays, Object-oriented Network Protocols in Lipto and the X-Kernel, under Larry Peterson
  • Latif Nathani, Implementation of the SR Threads Program in a Multi Tasking Environment, under Greg Andrews