SCS Undergraduate Thesis Topics

* Denotes winner of that year's Allen Newell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
+ Denotes winner of that year's Alumni Award for Undergraduate Excellence

Information about Research for Undergraduates for current students:
https://www.csd.cs.cmu.edu/content/cs-undergraduate-research-options

2019-2020
Student Name Academic Advisor Thesis Title
Rishabh Chatterjee Amy Ogan, Michael Madalo Design and Evaluation of Automated Interventions to Increase Usage of a Phone-Based Literacy Technology in Rural Africa
Wenxin (Freda) Ding Nihar Bhadresh Shah On the Privacy-Utility Tradeoff in Peer-Review Data Analysis
Minji Kim Henny Admoni Detecting the End of Speaking Turns to Enhance Social Robots' Participation in Group Conversation
Jennifer Lee Tom Mitchell Reasoning By Instruction Using COMmonsEnse Transformers
Simin Li Tai-Sing Lee Chunking in Neural Networks
Jake Olkin , David Held Developing Simulation Environments and Applying Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for the SoftGym Project
Vaidehi Srinivas Anupam Gupta Simpler Approximations for the Network Steiner-Tree Problem
Zachary Sussman Pravesh Kothari Outlier-Robust Linear and ReLU Regression
Yue (Holmes) Wu Eric Xing Posterior Regulation GAN
Peter Wu Louis-Philippe Morency Multimodal Representation Learning
Joshua Zhanson Ruslan Salakhutdinov Investigating and Robustifying Proximal Policy Optimization
2018-2019
Student Name Academic Advisor Thesis Title
Zheng (George) Cai Barnabas Poczos Understanding the Lipschitz Constraint of the Generative Adversarial Networks
Christopher Grossack Klaus Sutner Extensions of Abelian Automata Groups
Anne Kohlbrenner Justine Sherry Martins Auditable Network Services
Nghia (Max) Le Matthew Gormley Exploring the Frontier of Fast and Accurate Semantic Role Labelling Via Neural Architecture Search
Mark Lee Zico Kolter Adversarial Patch for Object Detection
Lingjie (Jonathan) Li Tuomas Sandholm Deep Reinforcement Learning for Steering Immune System Adaptation
Patrick Lin Venkatesan Guruswami Parameterized Inapproximability of Exact Cover and Nearest Codeword
George Lu Vipul Goyal Private Computation on the Blockchain
Zhichu (Brian) Lu Tom Mitchell One-shot Semantic Parsing
Vijay Ramamurthy Umut Acar Zeus: Algorithmic Program Equivalence
Eliot Robson Phillip Gibbons Batch-Parallel Low-Diameter Decomposition
Jiaxian (Chris) Sheng Artur Dubrawski Using Comparison Queries to Reduce Burden of Data Annotation Required to Train Reliable Models for Bedside Monitoring
George Stoica Barnabas Poczos Contextual Parameter Generation for Knowledge Graph Link Prediction
Xinyi (Joyce) Wang Kathleen Carley Curating the Public Sphere: An Online Ethnographic Study of How Op-eds Initiate Discourse on Twitter

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