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	Thesis 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	Thesis 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
Serena Wang		Autotype: Static Analysis for Access Policy Inference

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