1. Generative Adversarial Networks and Data Starvation Open Access Author: Jugan, Brendan Title: Generative Adversarial Networks and Data Starvation Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: generative adversarial networksdata starvationdeep learninggenerative modeling File: Download Jugan_Brendan_GANs_and_Data_Starvation.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
2. Collecting Data for Human Confusion When Following Simulated Robot’s Instructions Open Access Author: Anderson, Caroline Title: Collecting Data for Human Confusion When Following Simulated Robot’s Instructions Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: computer visionhuman robot interactionconvolutional neural networkscomputer scienceunitysimulationhuman computer interaction File: Download CarolineAndersonFinalThesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Alan Richard Wagner, Thesis SupervisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor
3. Storage Latency Tradeoffs in Geographically-Distributed Storage Settings Open Access Author: Balcik, Ethan Title: Storage Latency Tradeoffs in Geographically-Distributed Storage Settings Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: erasure codinggraph theorycoding theoryinformation theorychromatic numberlatencyalgorithmcomputer sciencemathematicsstoragetopologynetworkcomputer networkingdataobjectlinear codinglinear algebralinear combinationaverage latencyworst-case latencyworst case latencyoptimalperformancestorage capacitynodeedgechannelcapacitystorage File: Download balcik-ethan-storage-latency-tradeoffs-in-geographically-distributed-storage-settings-4.4.2022.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Thesis SupervisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors AdvisorBhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Honors Advisor
4. Adversarial Dialogue State Tracking with Universal Adversarial Triggers Open Access Author: Cunningham, Jacob Title: Adversarial Dialogue State Tracking with Universal Adversarial Triggers Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Natural Language ProcessingDialogue State Tracking File: Download Cunningham_UAT_DST_FINAL.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Rui Zhang, Thesis SupervisorTing He, Thesis Honors Advisor
5. L2-UniFrac Open Access Author: Millward, Andrew Title: L2-UniFrac Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: UniFracBioinformaticsComparative MetagenomicsRepresentative MicrobiomeDistance MetricDifferential Abundance File: Download L2_Unifrac-Andrew_Millward-Schreyer.pdf Thesis Supervisors: David Koslicki, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors AdvisorPaul Medvedev, Faculty Reader
6. Effective Network Configuration Strategies for the Mitigation of Denial-of-Service Attacks Open Access Author: Post, Matthew Title: Effective Network Configuration Strategies for the Mitigation of Denial-of-Service Attacks Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: regret minimizationnetwork securityColonel BlottoNash Equilibriumnetwork configurationsDoS attacksdenial of serviceattack mitigation File: Download Formatted_Thesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Jeremy Joseph Blum, Thesis SupervisorLinda Marie Null, Thesis Honors Advisor
7. Leveraging Transformer Models To Enhance Temporal Grounding Open Access Author: Wang, Jason Title: Leveraging Transformer Models To Enhance Temporal Grounding Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Natural Language ProcessingComputer VisionTransformersVision and Language File: Download Schreyer_Thesis_Final_Draft_-_JW.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Rui Zhang, Thesis SupervisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor
8. Shortcutting The Linux Network Stack: Exploring Latency And Throughput Benefits Of eBPF Open Access Author: Sickler, Matthew Title: Shortcutting The Linux Network Stack: Exploring Latency And Throughput Benefits Of eBPF Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: eBPFBPFBerkeley Packet FilterExtended Berkeley Packet FilterNetworkingLatencyThroughput File: Download SicklerThesis2022Final.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Anand Sivasubramaniam, Thesis SupervisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor
9. OpenXR and the Monado Runtime: A Standardized (and Step-by-Step) Solution to AR/VR Fragmentation Open Access Author: Seremula, Anastasia Title: OpenXR and the Monado Runtime: A Standardized (and Step-by-Step) Solution to AR/VR Fragmentation Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: OpenXRMonadoARVRXRMRvirtual realitymixed realityaugmented realityprogrammingAR/VR fragmentationextended realitystandardizationAR/VR File: Download Seremula_HonorsThesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Anand Sivasubramaniam, Thesis SupervisorRebecca Jane Passonneau, Thesis Honors Advisor
10. improving evidence retrieval for open domain question answering on tables and text Open Access Author: Chen, Qiyu Title: improving evidence retrieval for open domain question answering on tables and text Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Open Domain Question AnsweringOTT-QA File: Download Improving_Evidence_Retrieval_for_Open_Domain_Question_Answering_on_Tables_and_Text.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Rui Zhang, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
11. Learning to Map English User Queries to Graph-Based Query Languages via Semantic Parsing Open Access Author: Gearhart, Noah Title: Learning to Map English User Queries to Graph-Based Query Languages via Semantic Parsing Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: GraphQLNatural Language ProcessingSemantic ParsingT5Transformer Neural NetworksSQL File: Download NOAH_UNDERGRAD_THESIS_final_v2.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Rui Zhang, Thesis SupervisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor
12. Leveraging Unlabeled Data for Video Understanding using Pretrained Vision-Language Models Open Access Author: Chan, Michael Title: Leveraging Unlabeled Data for Video Understanding using Pretrained Vision-Language Models Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Video UnderstandingPre-trained Vision-Language ModelsVideoBERTUnlabeled DataBERTLSTMVideo Representations File: Download Chan_Thesis_Final2.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Rui Zhang, Thesis SupervisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor
13. Maximal Independent Sets of a K-mer Space Open Access Author: Ma, Leran Title: Maximal Independent Sets of a K-mer Space Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: k-mer spacemaximal independent setMISk-mer clusteringk-mer hashing File: Download thesis_final_draft.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Mingfu Shao, Thesis SupervisorJesse Louis Barlow, Thesis Honors Advisor
14. Leveraging LLVM Bounds Checking for C Syntax Highlighting Open Access Author: Stewart, Gabriel Title: Leveraging LLVM Bounds Checking for C Syntax Highlighting Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: IDEsyntax highlightingLLVMstack protection File: Download Gabriel_Stewart_Thesis_Spring_2022_FINAL.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis SupervisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor
15. Robust Image Classification based on Pixel Importance Open Access Author: Chun, Chaewan Title: Robust Image Classification based on Pixel Importance Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: adversarial attackimage analysismachine learningCNNheatmap-based blurringrobustness File: Download Schreyer_Honors_Thesis_Chun.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Jia Li, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
16. Performance Study of General-Purpose GPU Computations Using Kernel Fusion Open Access Author: Paluda, Michael Title: Performance Study of General-Purpose GPU Computations Using Kernel Fusion Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: GPUCUDAKERNELDYNAMIC PARALLELISM File: Download thesis_final_draft.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Anand Sivasubramaniam, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
17. A Unit Curriculum for Introductory Computer Programming Open Access Author: Doresky, Nicholas Title: A Unit Curriculum for Introductory Computer Programming Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Computer SciencePythonTeachingProgramming File: Download thesis_final_revision.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Griselda Conejo Lopez, Thesis SupervisorJesse Louis Barlow, Thesis Honors Advisor
18. Implementing a Web-Based Application to Support Researchers in Improving the Diversity of their Citations Open Access Author: Bandaru, Venkata Sai Title: Implementing a Web-Based Application to Support Researchers in Improving the Diversity of their Citations Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Diversity in the referencesWeb-applicationCitationsAlgorithms File: Download Spring_HonorsThesis_RenuBandaru.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Chris Mc Comb, Thesis SupervisorJesse Louis Barlow, Thesis Honors Advisor
19. Edge-Based Internet-of-Things Sensors over LoRaWAN Open Access Author: Zhou, Boyang Title: Edge-Based Internet-of-Things Sensors over LoRaWAN Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Internet of ThingsLoRaLoraWANwirelesssmart city File: Download Edge_IoT_Sensors_-_Boyang_Zhou_Honors_Thesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Sven G Bilén, Thesis SupervisorJesse Louis Barlow, Thesis Honors Advisor
20. Efficient Scheduling and Compilation of Quantum Programs Open Access Author: Montaner, Javier Title: Efficient Scheduling and Compilation of Quantum Programs Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Quantum ComputingQuantum Compilation File: Download Honors_Thesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Swaroop Ghosh, Thesis SupervisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor
21. Accelerating Sparse LU Factorization Open Access Author: Lakshmidevi, Harieasswar Title: Accelerating Sparse LU Factorization Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: LU FactorizationGPU AccelerationSparse linear algebraSymbolic factorizationSparse linear solvers File: Download hlakshmidevi_schreyer_thesis_final.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Kamesh Madduri, Thesis SupervisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor
22. Cross-Species Prediction of Transcription Factor Binding Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Agarwala, Vandana Title: Cross-Species Prediction of Transcription Factor Binding Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Gene RegulationDeep LearningTransfer LearningDomain AdaptationComputational BiologyBioinformaticsMachine Learning File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Shaun Mahony, Thesis SupervisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor
23. The Impact of Adversarial Examples on Machine Learning Models Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Martutartus, Sheryll Title: The Impact of Adversarial Examples on Machine Learning Models Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Machine LearningComputer ScienceAdversarial Machine LearningSpam Detection File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis SupervisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor
24. Understanding Women and Asian American Disparities in Computer Science Professions Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Muhunthan, Aranya Title: Understanding Women and Asian American Disparities in Computer Science Professions Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: aapigender gapSTEMcomputer science File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Sarah A Damaske, Thesis SupervisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor
25. Compiler Support for Offloading off-the-shelf Applications to PIM Cores Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Patel, Aditya Title: Compiler Support for Offloading off-the-shelf Applications to PIM Cores Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: LLVMPIMCompilerProcessing in memory File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Anand Sivasubramaniam, Thesis SupervisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors AdvisorVijaykrishnan Narayanan, Faculty Reader
26. Symmetry Detection from Dance Textures Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Li, Weisheng Title: Symmetry Detection from Dance Textures Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: motion capture dataSymmetryMachine Learning File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Yanxi Liu, Thesis SupervisorRebecca Jane Passonneau, Thesis Honors Advisor
27. Applying Geneva Censorship Evasion Tool Against Private-Access WiFi Networks Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Haffner, Jill Title: Applying Geneva Censorship Evasion Tool Against Private-Access WiFi Networks Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: censorship evasionTCP/IP protocolsnetwork securityWiFi securitygenetic algorithms File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Syed Rafiul Hussain, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor