Student Publications and Theses
Computer science students are involved in active research, both through senior thesis and through other undergraduate research opportunities. In both cases students often publish this work in prestigious academic venues. Below is a list of recent thesis and published work.
Past theses are available in the Reed library stacks, and some are . Seniors: visit the Resources page for typesetting help, including the thesis template.
Recent Student Publications
Bolded authors are Reed students.- Eitan Frachtenberg and Rhody Kaner. PLOS ONE 2022.
- Josh Yamamoto and Eitan Frachtenberg. Publications 2022.
- Eitan Frachtenberg and Rhody Kaner. The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC) 2021.
- Hrishee Shastri and Eitan Frachtenberg. PeerJ Computer Science 7:e561 2021.
- Hrishee Shastri and Eitan Frachtenberg. In IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI) 2021.
- Eitan Frachtenberg and Noah Koster. PeerJ Computer Science 6:e299 2020.
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Simon Couch, Zeki Kazan, Kaiyan Shi, and Andrew Bray, and Adam Groce. Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2019.
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, Benjamin Morrison and Adam Groce. Information Processing Letters 2019.
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, Marika Swanberg, Ira Globus-Harris, Iris Griffith, Anna Ritz, Adam Groce and Andrew Bray. Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2019.
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Nicholas Franzese, Adam Groce, T. M. Murali, and Anna Ritz. Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO) 2019.
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, Zachary Campbell, Andrew Bray, Anna Ritz, and Adam Groce. International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security (ICDIS) 2018.
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Poster: CancerLinker: Integrating Gene Expression For Pathway Analysis, Sol Taylor-Brill, Kathy Thompson, and Anna Ritz. Murdock College Science Research Conference 2018
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Poster: Controllability of Functional Classes in the Genetic Regulatory Network of E. Coli, Ananthan Nambiar. SIAM Annual Meeting 2018.
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, Joshua Gancher, Adam Groce, and Alex Ledger. Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2017.
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Poster: Modeling Cell Signaling Networks with Prize-Collecting Subhypernetworks, Barney Potter, Jim Fix, and Anna Ritz. ACM Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2016.
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, Adam Groce, Alex Ledger, Alex J. Malozemoff and Arkady Yerukhimovich. Preprint 2016.
Recent Theses
This list includes math majors advised by computer science professors, especially in years when the computer science major did not yet exist.
2023-24
Sebastian Andrada Ottonello (Computer Science)
Hands-On Experience: A Pedagogical RISC-V Simulator
Kush Arya (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Verifying Arithmetic Incompleteness
Taylor Blair (Computer Science)
Topological Data Analysis for Cache Prediction
Niels Christoffersen (Computer Science)
Using Machine Learning to Predict Reading Comprehension Based on Demographic Factors
Madison Garofolo (Computer Science)
Testing for Fairness: A Different Condition for Consensus Algorithms
Aliya Ghassaei (Computer Science)
Leveraging Comparative Graph Theory to Model Gene Co-expression Data
Alan Jessup (Computer Science)
A Continued Inquiry into Granularity-Change Cache Simulation
April Kopec (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Scaling Explainable Artificial Intelligence Filtering and Approximations for Influence Functions for Large Language Models
Yancheng Liu (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Suboptimal Multi-Heuristic Approaches for Solving the Rubik’s Cube Incorporating Deep Learning and Group Theory
Carter Luck (Computer Science)
Mixed Signals: A Game-Based Analysis of the Signal Protocol in the Presence of Active Adversaries
Ethan McDonald (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Exploring Memory Tiering Policies for Composable Memory Systems
Genevieve Moore (Computer Science)
Machine Learning Models to Measure Comprehension Using Readability Metrics
Serafima Nerush (Computer Science)
Parameter-Pack Iteration in Swift
Gifford Quinn (Computer Science)
Analyzing the Impact of Userspace Bypass on the Performance of the Spectre Attack
Riley Shahar (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Categories for Cryptographic Composability
Joshua Spieth (Computer Science)
Prevention of Metadata Leakage in Augmented Secret Sharing
Thomas Ulmer (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Symbolic Analysis on C Binaries
Yuheng Wen (Computer Science-Mathematics)
An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Satellites Collision Detection Method: Applying Private Set Intersection Using Garbled Circuit
Elijah Wheelock (Computer Science)
A Survey of Superoptimizers
Louise Xu (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Privacy Paradox: Regularized Neural Networks and Distributional Differential Privacy
Austin Zeng (Computer Science)
Testing Language Models for Code Vulnerability and Exploring Unlearning Algorithms as a Countermeasure
2022-23
Aadit Bagdi (Computer Science)
Ctional Programming, Or How the “Fun” got taken out of Functional Programming: An examination of Haskell as a tool for interactive web applications
Zach Barbanell (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Optimizing Gadgets for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Perry Chan (Computer Science)
Session Typing and Checking Using State Minimization
Caden Corontzos (Computer Science)
Optimizing Lempel-Ziv-Welch for DNA Compression
Connor Deiparine (Computer Science)
Playlist For A Traveling Salesman
Ilana Frey-Kim (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Simplicial Homology Computation Using Discrete Morse Theory
Roscoe Haynie (Computer Science-Mathematics)
A Zero-Knowledge Proof for Norinori
Finn Hill (Computer Science)
An expansion of Miss Ratio Curves
Jacob Hoopes (Computer Science)
The L-Systems Explorer: An Introduction to Generative Art
Will Howes (Computer Science)
Nintendo Entertainment System Emulation in Rust
Josephine Kessler (Computer Science)
Harmonies Bound in Markov Chains
Aria Killebrew Bruehl (Computer Science)
A Parameterized Approach for Hedcut Rendering
Becca Luff (Computer Science)
Human Understanding of Fairness Definitions
Bryant Morrell (Computer Science)
Towards Analysis of Parallel Caching with Variable Size Items
Keith Ng (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Building To The Third Story: An AI To Play Santorini
Harrison Nicholls (Computer Science)
Formal Verification of Key Exchange Protocol Security with Tamarin Prover
Emily Osborne (Computer Science)
Orals scheduling
John Poole (Computer Science)
E-cology: simulating cancer with evolutionary and ecological dynamics
Ryan Quisenberry (Computer Science
Multithreaded Prefix-Free Parsing for Multi-Genome Index Construction
Iwan Richards (Computer Science)
Fluid Modeling in Computer Graphics with the Moving Least Squares-Material Point Model
Eliot Tarlov (Computer Science)
The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and its Application to Clustering
Rohan Walia (Computer Science)
Javascript Score Following
Alex White (Computer Science)
Making a Simple GPU
Larry Zeng (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Exploring Noninterference in Programming Languages: A Study of Simple Dependency Core Calculus and Logical Relations
Daniel Zou (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Differentially Private Weighted Linear Regression
2021-22
Emmanuel Arthur (Computer Science-Mathematics)
The stable roommates problem with globally-ranked pairs
Cruz Barnum (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Indistinguishability obfuscation from the ground up
Peter Cherepanov (Computer Science)
An Expanded and Updated Review of Halftoning Techniques
Maxx Curtis (Computer Science)
Simulating the Granularity-Change Caching Problem
Caroline Fanelli (Computer Science-Art)
Ago : empathy, simulation and princesses
Ariel Flaster (Computer Science)
Scheduling MapReduce on a Heterogeneous Architecture
Rylie Foster (Computer Science-Mathematics)
An introduction to data-driven modal analysis
Prasun Ghosh (Computer Science)
Investigating Writeback Aware Landlord
Benjamin Hunter (Computer Science)
Parallel Delaunay triangulations under the divide-and-conquer model
Safiyy Kanjiyani (Computer Science)
Recognition and Translation of Timbre in Monophonic Audio
Josh Klein Valente (Computer Science-Mathematics)
An Introduction to Elliptic Curves and Applications in Cryptography
Tunç Başar Köse (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Approximate Message Passing for Principal Component Analysis : Theory and Practice
Jay Kruer (Computer Science-Mathematics)
The Way of Glue: An Invitation to the Categorical Semantics of Lambda Calculi
Arthur Lawson (Computer Science)
Ain't Nothin But a G-trie
Henry Lindeman (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Normal Attention: A Novel Self-Attention Linearization Strategy For Abstractive Summarization of Long Documents
Luka Morgan (Computer Science)
Tetris x Scrabble : Combining Two Classic Games and Getting a Computer To Play It
Alex Richter (Computer Science)
Instacloak : A Friendly Guide About Adding Noise to Preserve Some Anonymity Online
Daksh Shami (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Exploration of the Hidden Subgroup Problem
Jakob Shimer (Computer Science-Mathematics)
CNF Reduction in Weighted Model Counting
Stella Trout (Computer Science)
A Guessing Game: Text Compression With Natural Language Models
Charlotte Walker-Kahn (Computer Science)
Investigating Fairness Definitions For Risk Classification Algorithms
2020-21
Reilly Cannon (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Differential Privacy: the Gap Statistic and the Mapper Algorithm
Zhengyao Gu (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Selective Prediction: Training and Evaluation Methods
Casey Harris (Computer Science)
Don’t Look Down: Interpreting Visual Information Using Celeste
Hannah Hellerstein (Computer Science)
Where’s My Proton Pack?: Defending Against Spectre Variant 1
David Herrero Quevedo (Computer Science)
Implementation of Local Differentially Private Protocols for Linear Queries
Albert Ji (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Universal Approximation and Interpolation in Neural Networks
Jonah Kohn (Computer Science-Neuroscience)
The Recursive Application of Biological and Artificial Neural Networks: Towards an Understanding of Both
Jiarong Li (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Complex Network Comparison using Graphlets
Yilin Li (Computer Science-Mathematics)
What If English Had No Spaces? Investigating the Challenges of NLP for Character-Based Languages
Robert McCaull (Computer Science)
Session Types for a Concurrent Language sNow
Kai Pinckard (Computer Science)
Causal Relation Extraction: a Three Step Process
Eli Poppele (Computer Science)
Do Algorithms Dream in Electric Sleep? Using Genetic Algorithms to Train Neural Networks to Play Atari Video Games on RAM-Based Input
Weihang Qin (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Raymarching Hyperbolic Geometry
Danny Riso (Computer Science)
Building a Taxonomy from the Wikipedia Category Graph
Hrishee Shastri (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Cutting the Chord: Interleaved and Demand Aware Skip Graphs
Jakob Shimer (Computer Science-Mathematics)
CNF reduction in Bayesian network inference by weighted model counting
Aryeh Stahl (Computer Science-Mathematics)
A Generalized Approach to Graph De-anonymization
Jon Takagi (Computer Science)
Evaluating Multiparty Computation Techniques for Fuzzy Matching of Voter Registration Records
Ian Wahbe (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Improvements to the Heuristic Rural Postman Problem
Lucas Yong (Computer Science-Mathematics)
An Exploration of Topological Quantum Computation
Laura Yoshida (Computer Science)
Insights from Applying Readability Formulas to Computer Systems Papers
2019-20
Mercy Bhakta (Computer Science)
Colors in flux :rendering iridescence arising from single-layer thin films
Henry Blanchette (Computer Science)
Purity and effect
Eric Boettner (Computer Science)
Keystroke encryption over USB HID pathways
Vinay Gopalan (Computer Science)
Sentiment analysis on code-mixed tweets
Ian Jackson (Computer Science-Psychology)
A Novel BCI System for 3D Shape Imagery Classification
Jillian James (Computer Science)
Lengthy language generation :using neural networks to write a Reed thesis
Mason Koch (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Reinforcement learning for Pokemon AI
Noah Koster (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Neuronal Dynamics of the Action Potential: Spiking Behavior in the FitzHugh-Nagumo Model and others
Alice McKean (Computer Science)
A replication of the AKS primality decision algorithm
Monica Moniot (Computer Science)
Differentially private bootstrap
Ryan Neumann (Computer Science)
An exploration of reinforcement learning through video games
Hien Nguyen (Computer Science)
Investigating the effectiveness of byte pair encoding for low-resource machine translation
Lilian Qi (Computer Science)
On Generating Stylized Line Drawerings from Polygonal Models
Josh Reiss (Computer Science)
Procedural terrain generation for virtual reality environments
Maxwell Rosenberg (Computer Science)
Odd One Out: Learning Taxonomic Embeddings from WordNet
Sierra Schlott (Computer Science)
Increasing mySQL throughput via smartNIC offloading
Kaiyan Shi (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Investigation on 1D area law and XXZ model
Sarah Strand (Computer Science)
SimuLating leader-free byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocols in a partially synchronous distributed system
David Tamas-Parris (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Elliptic Curves Aren't Secure? SIKE!
Sam Zofkie (Computer Science)
Parallel collaborative filtering for gray sheep
2018-19
Matthew Atteberry (Computer Science)
Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
Miles Baker (Computer Science)
Don't Point Yourself Into a Corner: Using Static Analysis to Prevent Memory Leaks in C
Tanmay Dubey (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Latent Dirichlet Allocation: an Application to Computer Systems Conference Papers
Ira Globus-Harris (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Differentially Private One-Way Analysis of Variance
Dylan Huff (Computer Science)
PowerPoint Natively on the Web, a Java PPTX Extension
Emmett Kahn (Computer Science)
DNA Compression Using Machine Learning
Michael Kalange (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Embed With the Entropy: Applying Word2Vec to Lossless Text Compression
Rhody Kaner (Computer Science)
Gender Representation in Computer Science
Abenezer Mamo (Computer Science)
Scalable learning for the odd-man-out task with applications to word vector induction
Hannah Mead (Computer Science)
Untangling tech and timbre :assumptions make algorithms
Ananthan Nambiar (Computer Science)
Computing the Language of Life
Richard Pham (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Graph reconfiguration in the context of permutation routing
Marika Swanberg (Computer Science-Mathematics)
Noisy Quantum Oracles: A Study of Algorithmic Robustness
Ziyuan Zhong (Mathematics with a concentration in Computer Science)
Combined Program, Columbia University
Jalan Ziyad (Computer Science-Physics)
Quantum Search in the Face of Decoherence: Insights From Histories Approach
2017-18
2017
2015-16
Nathan Duncan (Mathematics)
Heart of Zero-Knowledge
Joshua Gancher (Mathematics)
Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Gregory Alex Ledger (Mathematics with a concentration in Computer Science)
Implementing Component-Based Garbled Circuits
Emma Miller (Mathematics)
A Quantum Walk on the Heisenberg Group
Alexandra Salem (Mathematics)
Explanation and Simulation of the HHL Algorithm
Barney Potter (Mathematics-Biology)
Modeling Cell Signaling Networks with Prize-Collecting Subhypernetworks
Jeremy Cosel (Mathematics with a concentration in Computer Science)
Clean Up After Yourself: Implementing Garbage Collection
Joshua Hepworth (Mathematics with a concentration in Computer Science)
The States of Splendor: Searching Game Trees with Partial Information
Isabella Jorissen (Mathematics with a concentration in Computer Science)
Tiling the Heavens In special cases where 'the Heavens' is ℝ2