Master's Projects from 2024
Comparing Balancing Techniques for Malware Classification, Ranjit John
INTRODUCTION: CULTURES OF SPORT HAZING AND ANTI-HAZING INITIATIVES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: STEPPING ACROSS THE MILLENNIUM, Jay Johnson and Jessica W. Chin
IN CONVERSATION: REFLECTIONS ON SPORT HAZING CULTURES AND ALTERNATIVE INITIATIVES INTO THE 21ST CENTURY, Jay Johnson, Jessica W. Chin, and Margery Holman
Comparison of transport models in dense plasmas, Zachary A. Johnson, Luciano G. Silvestri, George M. Petrov, Liam G. Stanton, and Michael S. Murillo
Participation in collaborative fisheries research improves the perceptions of recreational anglers towards marine protected areas, Erin M. Johnston, Grant T. Waltz, Rosamaria Kosaka, Ellie M. Brauer, Shelby L. Ziegler, Erica T. Jarvis Mason, Hunter S. Glanz, Lauren Zaragoza, Allison N. Kellum, Rachel O. Brooks, Brice X. Semmens, Christopher J. Honeyman, Jennifer E. Caselle, Lyall F. Bellquist, Sadie L. Small, Steven G. Morgan, Timothy J. Mulligan, Connor L. Coscino, and Jay M. Staton
“Lovely is the Hillside” An Ecocritical Analysis of the Narrative Function of Setting Elements in Njal’s Saga, Michelle Fae Jones
The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence in Gaming, Aditi Jorapur
Extending A Graphical User Interface for Evidential Reasoning, Vaidehi Sanjay Joshi
A Madhyamaka Critique of Jaegwon Kim's Supervenience Argument, Tyler J. JUNGBAUER
Classification and online clustering of zero-day malware, Olha Jurečková, Martin Jureček, Mark Stamp, Fabio Di Troia, and Róbert Lórencz
Identifying Human Factors Research for Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Advanced Air Mobility, William N. Kaliardos, Jon Holbrook, and Alan Hobbs
Oscillatory edge modes in two dimensional spin-torque oscillator arrays, Shivam Kamboj, Rembert A. Duine, Benedetta Flebus, and Hilary M. Hurst
Microbial Evolution: Opportunities and Challenges, Katy Kao
Scientific Frontiers in Game Studies, Prthvi Kapilavai
Leveraging Large Language Models for Transforming Student Information into Actionable Data, Sree Hari Karri
Boxes and Tangled Tetrahedra, Hidefumi Katsuura
Characterization of Arcs by Products and Diagonals, Hidefumi Katsuura
Characterization of Arcs by Products and Diagonals, Hidefumi Katsuura
In and Ex Spheres of a Tetrahedron, Hidefumi Katsuura
Introduction to Analysis, Theorems and Examples, Hidefumi Katsuura
Mosaic Atlas: Interview with Seini Kaufusi, Seini Kaufusi and Milina Jovanovic
An Exploration of Learning Hybrid Dynamical Models from Observations, Ezgi Kaya
Student engagement and accountability in flipped and traditional classrooms: A comparison of concept map and question and answer homework strategies, Melisa P. Kaye and Sydney M. Hanzalik
EMPLOYING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION FOR ENHANCED PREDICTIVE FLEXIBILITY IN CANCER MORTALITY PREDICTION, Mridang Kejriwal
Enhanced strength, toughness and reliability in crab exoskeleton–inspired 3D-printed porous thermoplastics, Özgür Keleş, Eric H. Anderson, Timothy L. Tan, Cheng Lun Wu, and Alp Karakoç
Mechanical behavior of graphene quantum dot epoxy nanocomposites: A molecular dynamics study, Özgür Keleş and Prathamesh P. Deshpande
Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society (10th ed), Resa Kelly
Machine Learning Based Sensor Selection for Modal Testing, Todd Kelmar and Maria Chierichetti
Optimization of Sensor Placement for Modal Testing Using Machine Learning, Todd Kelmar, Maria Chierichetti, and Fatemeh Davoudi Kakhki
Reluctance to Make a “Blind Faith Jump”: LGBTQ+ College Students’ Perspectives on Allies’ Barriers to Preventing Sexual Assault, Heather Hensman Kettrey and Robert A. Marx
Kettrey et al.’s Meta-Analysis Is Not About Empowerment Self-Defense Programs: A Response to Hollander et al., Heather Hensman Kettrey, Martie P. Thompson, Robert A. Marx, and Alyssa J. Davis
Who Is Considered a Potential Victim, Perpetrator, or Bystander? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Research Evaluating Gender-Specific Campus Sexual Assault Prevention Programs Implemented in the United States, Heather Hensman Kettrey, Martie P. Thompson, Robert A. Marx, and Alyssa J. Davis
Multiclass lung disease classification in chest X-ray images: A fine-tuned hybrid CNN-GNN approach using transfer learning and feature extraction, Vinay Vilas Khade
Malware Detection Using QR and Aztec Code Representations, Atharva Khadilkar
ZooKeeper Through the Ages: A Comparative Performance Analysis of Evolutionary Versions, Ashish Khanchandani
Online Trolling, Harassment, Misinformation: The Psychological Predictors of Dark Participation, Randy Kim
The Japanese American incarceration and the origins of penology in California: A microhistory, Paul Knepper
Bacterial Emission Factors: A Foundation for the Terrestrial-Atmospheric Modeling of Bacteria Aerosolized by Wildland Fires, Leda N. Kobziar, Phinehas Lampman, Ali Tohidi, Adam K. Kochanski, Antonio Cervantes, Andrew T. Hudak, Ryan McCarley, Brian Gullett, Johanna Aurell, Rachel Moore, David C. Vuono, Brent C. Christner, Adam C. Watts, James Cronan, and Roger Ottmar
KritiSamhita: A machine learning dataset of South Indian classical music audio clips with tonic classification, Samhita Konduri, Kriti V. Pendyala, and Vishnu S. Pendyala
The Use of Microbiome Sequencing to Identify Individuals in Forensic Science, Sophia Konieczny
Reinforcement Learning Based Planning and Control for Robotic Source Seeking Inspired by Fruit Flies, Gauravkumar Koradiya
A Web-Based Negotiation Tool for Conflict Resolution in Upper Class E Traffic Management, Michael J. Korens, Shayna N. Gaulden, Wenbin Wei, Paul U. Lee, Min Xue, and Joseph Silva
An Assessment of the Viva CalleSJ Event in San Jose, Richard Kos and Adam Cohen
Evaluation of Electron Blur for Different Electron Energies, Oleg Kostko, Maximillian Mueller, and Patrick Naulleau
BIRDSONG CLASSIFICATION USING DEEP LEARNING AND MIXIT, Sasanka Kosuru
Deposit flows and the January effect in deposit rates, Vladimir Kotomin and Artem Meshcheryakov
Effects of Low-Cycle Fatigue Fracture of Longitudinal Reinforcing Steel Bars on the Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Piers, Yu-Fu Ko and Jessica Gonzalez
Creating valid adversarial examples of malware, Matouš Kozák, Martin Jureček, Mark Stamp, and Fabio Di Troia
Writing Black Women and Native Americans Back into the Slavery Narrative, Corinne Kreeger
Adversarial Attacks and Defenses in Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting for Smart and Connected Infrastructures, Pooja Krishan, Rohan Mohapatra, Sanchari Das, and Saptarshi Sengupta
Key Factors Influencing Inclusive Placement Decisions of Students With Extensive Support Needs, Sudha Krishnan
Reframing Teacher Candidates’ Views on Disability Through the Writings of Disabled Authors, Sudha Krishnan
Smart Robot Design and Implementation to Assist Pedestrian Road Crossing, Hovannes Kulhandjian
Learning to Play the Trading Game: Exploring Reinforcement Learning-Based Stock Trading Bots, Neeraj Kulkarni, Petros Potikas, and Katerina Potika
Using Virtual Learning Labs to (Re)Mediate Exclusionary Discipline Practices for Young Children of Color with Disabilities, Saili Kulkarni, Sunyoung Kim, and Nicola Holdman
The Role of Intersectionality in Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers, Saili S. Kulkarni, Tanja Burkhard, and David J. Johns
Understanding early childhood stakeholders’ beliefs and experiences with discipline using virtual learning labs, Saili S. Kulkarni, Sunyoung Kim, Namhee Kim, Stephanie Fernandez, Jing Wang, and Enimai Villavan Kothai
Advanced DDoS Attack Classification using Ensemble Model with Meta-Learner, Ankith Indra Kumar and Genya Ishigaki
EXPLORING GENDER BIAS IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS: CROSS-LINGUISTIC COMPARISONS AND EVALUATION LETTERS ANALYSIS, Athira Kumar
Assessing Human Visual Attention in Retail Human-Robot Interaction: A YOLOv8-Nano and Eye-Tracking Approach, Kamlesh Kumar, Yuhao Chen, Boyi Hu, and Yue Luo
Time frequency distribution and deep neural network for automated identification of insomnia using single channel EEG-signals, Kamlesh Kumar, Prince Kumar, Ruchit Kumar Patel, Manish Sharma, Varun Bajaj, and U. Rajendra Acharya
Mitigating Learning Bias in Healthcare Datasets, Samyak Jagdish Kumbhalwar
Satellite Handover Optimization Using Predicted Satellite-to-Base-Station Proximity, Pranathi Kunadi
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Roadside Transportation-Related Air Quality (StarTraq 2022): Data-Driven Exposure Analysis by Transportation Modes, Jaymin Kwon, Yushin Ahn, and Steve Chung
Analysis of H.R. 7458 - 118th Congress Made in the U.S.A. Act., Jung-Hee Kwon and Jinjin Yang
Global status and research priorities for rhino rays, Peter M. Kyne, Paula Carlson, Rachel M. Aitchison, Shamsa Al Hameli, Brooke M. D’Alberto, Adriana Gonzalez-Pestana, Mia J. Groeneveld, Jolene Hanna, Divya Karnad, and David A. Ebert
Privatized Immigration Detention in California and the Opportunity for Reform, Natalie Lager
A Censorship Resistant News Website Using the Ethereum Blockchain, Hoang Lai
Advancing Sexual Consent and Agential Practices in Higher Education: Toward a New Community of Practice, Jason Laker
Humanities, science, scimat: From two cultures to bettering humanity, Lui Lam
Employing School Librarians: What Decision-Makers Tell Us, Keith Curry Lance, Debra Kachel, and Caitlin Gerrity
Use or Not: A Qualitative Study on the User Adoption and Abandonment of Voice Shopping with Smart Speakers, Jiahe Lan, Yu Chen, and Zheng Yan
Observations of a rotating pyroconvective plume, Neil P. Lareau, Craig B. Clements, Adam Kochanski, Taylor Aydell, Andrew T. Hudak, T. Ryan McCarley, and Roger Ottmar
On Local Antimagic Chromatic Number of Graphs with Cut-vertices, Gee Choon Lau, Wai Chee Shiu, and Ho Kuen Ng
On k-super graceful graphs with extremal maximum vertex degree, Gee Choon Lau, Wai Chee Shiu, Ho Kuen Ng, Zhen Bin Gao, and Karl Schaffer
A First Look with JWST Aperture Masking Interferometry: Resolving Circumstellar Dust around the Wolf-Rayet Binary WR 137 beyond the Rayleigh Limit, Ryan M. Lau, Matthew J. Hankins, Joel Sanchez-Bermudez, Deepashri Thatte, Anthony Soulain, Rachel A. Cooper, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Michael F. Corcoran, Alexandra Z. Greenbaum, Theodore R. Gull, Yinuo Han, Olivia C. Jones, Thomas Madura, Anthony F.J. Moffat, Mark R. Morris, Takashi Onaka, Christopher M.P. Russell, Noel D. Richardson, and Nathan Smith
Observation of Nagaoka polarons in a Fermi–Hubbard quantum simulator, Martin Lebrat, Muqing Xu, Lev Haldar Kendrick, Anant Kale, Youqi Gang, Pranav Seetharaman, Ivan Morera, Ehsan Khatami, Eugene Demler, and Markus Greiner
Identification and Development of Coordination Procedures between Upper Class E Traffic Management (ETM) and Surrounding Air Traffic Operations, Paul U. Lee, Deborah L. Bakowski, Connie L. Brasil, and Mark Evans
Battery Compression Test Apparatus and Mechanical Conditioning Methods, Sang-Joon (John) Lee
Using problem-based exploratory training to improve pilot understanding of autopilot functions, Jordy K.van Leeuwen, Annemarie Landman, Eric L. Groen, Randall J. Mumaw, Olaf Stroosma, Marinus M.van Paassen, and Max Mulder
Mosaic Atlas: Interview with Erik Leiva, Erik Leiva and Sukanya Chakrabarti
J-CAG: JAVA COMMENT ANALYSIS & GENERATION - A SUBLIME TEXT PLUGIN POWERED BY GPT, Linh Le
Methodology Development for Producing Robust Nuclear Targets Using Physical Vapor Deposition, Luca Le
Mosaic Atlas: Interview with Jenny Leung, Jenny Leung and Jan English-Lueck
The Problem-Ladenness of Theory, Daniel Levenstein, Aniello De Santo, Saskia Heijnen, Manjari Narayan, Freek J.W. Oude Maatman, Jonathan Rawski, and Cory Wright
The Physiology of Sponge Behavior, Sally P. Leys, Emma J.K. Esposito, and Amanda S. Kahn
Divergent responses of highly migratory species to climate change in the California Current, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Stephanie Brodie, Heather Welch, Michael G. Jacox, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Jerome Fiechter, Megan Cimino, Barbara Muhling, Heidi Dewar, Elizabeth A. Becker, Karin A. Forney, Daniel Costa, Scott R. Benson, Nima Farchadi, Camrin Braun, Rebecca Lewison, Steven Bograd, and Elliott L. Hazen
A Novel Reinforcement Learning Method for Efficient Cross-Training Between Real and Simulated Robots, Zhonglin Liang
Synthetic Data Generation for Accurate, Fair, and Private Recommender Systems, Derek B. Lilienthal
Multi-Resolution Diffusion for Privacy-Sensitive Recommender Systems, Derek Lilienthal, Paul Mello, Magdalini Eirinaki, and Stas Tiomkin
Who or what is to blame? The role of attribution of responsibility in layoffs, Juliana Lilly, Kamphol Wipawayangkool, Meghna Virick, and Ronald Roman
A Chain-Based Cable-Driven Upper-Limb Exoskeleton: Design, Mechanical Analysis and Development, Yu Xian Lim and Mojtaba Sharifi
Roundtable on Warhol v. Goldsmith: An Introduction to Warhol v. Goldsmith. Grey Room 2024; (94): 20–49., Liz Linden
Opinion Graphs Construction for Reviews using Transfer Learning and Large Language Models, Yichen Lin
Transactional stress-coping configurations in nature-based tourism destinations, Peizhe Li, Xiao Xiao, Evan Jordan, Honglei Zhang, and Jie Gao
Practice matters: how practicum experiences change student beliefs, Christine N. Lippard, Claire D. Vallotton, Maria Fusaro, Rachel Chazan-Cohen, Carla A. Peterson, Loria Kim, and Gina A. Cook
Fast, Memory-Efficient Spectral Clustering with Cosine Similarity, Ran Li and Guangliang Chen
Facial Expression Mood Classification Using Machine Learning, Tiantong Li