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

Andrew Burke - Fall 2009 - Implementation of a Cost Sharing Web Application called Splytit
Purushotham Ch - Fall 2009 - Servlet-based Web Application Architecture
Sairam Babu Gatti - Fall 2009 - Game Design Learning Labs
Charlie Han - Spring 2010 - Quantum Computing Algorithms
Sateesh Kolluru - Fall 2009 - Program Characterization using an Open Source Java Compiler
Shawn Melhorn - Spring 2010 - Modeling and Simulation Application using Unknown Data
Andrew Miller - Fall 2009 - Accessible Pointing Device Using IR and Bluetooth
Andres Narvaez - Summer 2009 - The Convergence of Desktop and Web Applications
Scott Weaver - Fall 2009 - Study and Implementation of Computer Game AI for Mario Kart Battle Mode

Undergraduate

none

Graduate

Fall 2009

move here from above as completed

Spring 2009

Scott Weaver - Spring 2009 - Guided Study: Game Design and Development
Naomi Chin - Spring 2009 - Guided Study: CSC 8510 Theory of Computability
Russell Giordano - Spring 2009 - Guided Study: CSC 8510 Theory of Computability

Fall 2008

Shanthan Chamala - Fall 2008 - Designing Cricket score cards for Villanova Cricket Club
Surya Kamal Kiran Kuchibhotla - Fall 2008 - Using Neural Networks to Forecast Stock Markets
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]

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: 11/04/09

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