Dr. Way's Student Info Page

Resources

• Advice for Computer Science Students - a good JoelOnSoftware article
• My advising notes for Villanova undergrads
• My outreach notes for potential and incoming CS majors

Independent Study & Research Students

• Read Dr. Way's Guide to Independent Study
• Read the University's Thesis Guidelines if you are writing a Master's Thesis
• Date in red indicates extension from previous semester

Current

Graduate

• Purushotham Ch - Fall 2008 - Design of Electromechanical Logic Gate for Nanocomputers
• Shanthan Chamala - Fall 2008 - Designing Cricket score cards for Villanova Cricket Club
• Surya Kamal Kiran Kuchibhotla - Fall 2008 - Topic tbd
• Tarun Babu Kothuri - Fall 2008 - Topic tbd
• Annie Juvvanapudi - Fall 2008 - Guided Study: Advanced Topics in Nanocomputing [Task 1]
• Priya Venkata Murali Mikkilineni - Fall 2008 - Guided Study: Advanced Topics in Nanocomputing - [Task 1]
• Sandeep Vodapalli - Fall 2008 - Topic tbd

Undergraduate

• none

Previous

Graduate

Summer 2008

• Mike DeBlase - Summer 2008 - Study and Implementation of Game AI Concepts

Spring 2008

• Lou Bevilacqua - Spring 2008 - Speech Recognition
• Adrian Diaz - Spring 2008 - Talking Picture Frame
• Tim Mizas - Spring 2008 - Virtual Reality Head Tracking in 3D Space
• Mujtaba Talebi - Spring 2008 - THESIS: Green Computing – Review and Initial Experiments
• Mujtaba Talebi - Spring 2008 - Guided study to support CSC 8310 topics within green computing research
• Rushikesh Katikar - Spring 2008 - THESIS: Automatic Generation of Dynamic Parallel Architectures
• Shashank Kaushik - Spring 2008 - Automatic password projection of Excel documents

Fall 2007

• Chris Continanza - Fall 2007 - Guided Study: Operating Systems Design (CSC 8410 equivalent)
• Rushikesh Katikar - Fall 2007 - IS: Parallelizing Compilers and Architecture Simulation
• Sandhya Chandrasekhar - Fall 2007 - Agile Development: A Case Study
• Mujtaba Talebi - Fall 2007 - IS: Green Computing – Review and Initial Experiments

Spring 2007

• Abdo Achkar - Spring 2007 - OOBooster code development analysis tool for object-oriented programming
• Joe Gmitter - Spring 2007 - Embedded System Design and Software Development
• Jeremy Henderson - Spring 2007 - Developing Interactive Electronics Using the Arduino Microcontroller
• Richard Kheir - Spring 2007 - Improving Speech Recognition to Assist Real-time Classroom Note Taking
• Arun Murthy - Spring 2007 - Applying Agile Processes to Research Projects
• Mukul Naik - Spring 2007 - Comparison of manual and automated testing for CLECs
• Kallie Nordengren - Spring 2007 - A Comprehensive Collection of Inventive Computer Science Teaching Techniques

Fall 2006

• (Elizabeth) Judy Francis - Fall 2006 - Patient Information System using ASP.net and Oracle

Summer 2006

• Swapna Chiuvri - Summer 2006 - Implementation of SOA on Heterogeneous Platforms

Spring 2006

• Vishali Suresh - Spring 2006 - possible topic: Computer Architecture Simulators

Fall 2005

• Bryan Wagner - Fall 2005 - Computable Nanotechnology
• Danielle Manning - Fall 2005 - Designing a Nanocomputer
• Nick DiPasquale MS Thesis (w/ Dr. Gehlot) - Fall 2005 - Techniques for Automatic Parallelization in Compilers
• Paul Fridman - Fall 2005 - possible topic: Reconfigurable Computers
• Ramesh Tirumalasetti - Fall 2005 - possible topic: applications of J2EE to web-based research
• Tim Peek - Fall 2005 - High Performance Computer Architectures for Nanotechnology

Spring 2005

• Anil Yitta - Spring 2005 - JSP shopping cart prototype
• Anuradha Mocherla - Spring 2005 - Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
• Arathi Bhandari - Spring 2005 - Study of XML and XML Parsing
• Geetha Chittareddy - Spring 2005 - Software Approaches for Data Warehousing
• Harisha (Tejo) Brundavana - Spring 2005 - Wireless networking and firewalls
• Howard Snyder (w/ Dr. Gehlot) - Spring 2005 - Speech-based RSS news browser
• Jim Price - Spring 2005 - Quantum Computing
• Meena Gangula - Spring 2005 - Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
• Nick DiPasquale (w/ Dr. Gehlot) - Spring 2005 - Techniques for Automatic Parallelization in Compilers
• Nikhil Bhandare - Spring 2005 - Optimizing SAP R/3
• Ramya Balakumar - Spring 2005 - Security Issues of Mobile Computing
• Revanth Thourtireddy - Spring 2005 - Computing issues of ERP
• Tom Bahnck - Spring 2005 - MP3 Data: Separating the Essential from the Excessive

Fall 2004

• Anthony Modzelewski - Fall 2004 - MPI implementation & experiments
• Karunakar Thallapureddy - Fall 2004 - Virtual Shopping Mall implementation
• Pratheba Murugesan - Fall 2004 - Stereoscopic Viewer
• Srihari Bethini - Fall 2004 - Library management system

Spring 2004

• Weigen Shang - Spring 2004 - CONLINK: Checkpointing on the Linux Kernel

Fall 2003

• Balakumar Balasubramanian - Fall 2003 - HMI/HCI implementation for industrial needs

Summer 2003

• Dean Gaida - Summer 2003 - J2EE Research and Prototype Implementation

Spring 2003

• David Craig (w/ Dr. Gehlot) - Spring 2003 - Object-Oriented Compiler Optimization Framework

Undergraduate

• Melissa Corning - Spring 2008 - 3D Animation
• Kevin Miscia - Spring 2005 - Backspin - Java golf scorecard application for Palm computers (Senior Project)
• Jon Ulrich - Spring 2003 - File Sharing (Senior Project)

last updated: 10/09/08