Undergraduate Student Spotlight

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March, 2024 Yvonne Wu, Emos Ker, Charles Wang, Benjamin Kang, and Dongjoo Lee.

Computer science majors Yvonne Wu, Emos Ker, Charles Wang, Benjamin Kang, and Dongjoo Lee, together with their advisors Professors Anasse Bari and David Nagel (George Washington), and other co-authors published a paper, "Towards Understanding Low Energy Nuclear Reactions: Structuring the Literature and Applying Data Analytics" at the IEEE Big Data Analytics Conference. Yvonne presented the paper at the conference meeting in Tokyo.

December, 2023 Pinze Yu

Pinze Yu and his advisor Michael Overton published a paper, "On the choice of signs defining Householder transformations" in the journal Numerical Analysis, Control, and Optimization.

December, 2023 Xi Liu

Xi Liu and his advisors Gizem Kayar and Ken Perlin, published a paper, "A GPU-based hydrodynamic simulator with boid interactions," in the journal Parallel Computing.

December, 2023 Kyle Whitt

Kyle Whitt and his advisor Anasse Bari published a paper, "New York City Mobility Analytics Index and the Relationship with Economic Activity" at the IEEE 2023 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence.

December, 2023 Edward Hou, Charles Wang, Caitlyn Cui, Emos Ker, Alex Manko, Nawaf Alabdullah, Ali Alshehhi, Kelly Lawlor, Sebastian Straesser, and Advait Abrol

Computer science students Edward Hou, Charles Wang, Caitlyn Cui, Emos Ker, Alex Manko, Nawaf Alabdullah, Ali Alshehhi, Kelly Lawlor, Sebastian Straesser, and Advait Abrol, with their advisor Anasse Bari published a paper "Morocco's Football Triumph in the 2022 FIFA World Cup: A Data-Driven Analysis of Sociocultural Impact Using Big Data Analytics" at the IEEE 2023 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence.

December, 2023 Sana Sajjad

Computer science student Sana Sajjad, with her advisor Anasse Bari, published a paper "Experimental Predictive Analytics Tools to Help Detect Fake News: A Survey" at the IEEE 2023 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence.

October, 2023 Sihong Liu and Zihong Zheng

The "NYU-Leaky" programming team, consisting of sophmores Sihong Liu and Zihong Zheng, together with MS student Shidong Zhang, won the silver medal at the 2023-24 ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) Greater New York Regional Contest.

July, 2023 Saatwik Panigrahi

A paper by CS major Saatwick Panigrahi, together with his advisor Anasse Bari and UCSD student Swadhin Rout, entitled "Determinants of Global Hunger Index" was published at the 2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing (CSCE)

July, 2023 Jyothish Pari

Jyotish Pari's paper "Teaching a Robot to FISH: Versatile Imitation from One Minute of Demonstrations", with co-authors Siddhant Haldar, Anant Rai, and Lerrel Pinto, won the Best Student Paper Award at the Robotic Science and Systems Conference.

May, 2023 Andy Polizzotto

Andy Polizzotto was part of the NYU-RTFP programming team which competed at the North American Championship of the International Collegiate Programming Contest. The team will be advancing to the World Finals in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt in November. The team is coached by Yang Tang.

May, 2023 Steve Ciervo

Steve Ciervo's research presentation, "Using Predictive Analytics to Understand How Genes Interact in Alzheimer’s Disease" won third prize at the CAS Freshman Presidential Honors Scholars Plenary Session.

May, 2023 Sana Sajjad

Sana Sajjad's research presentation, "Can AI Help Detect Fake News?" won 1st place at the CAS Sophomore Presidential Honors Scholars Plenary Session.

May, 2023 Jyothish Pari

Jyo Pari (CS, class of 2023) published a paper, "Train Offline, Test Online: A Real Robot Learning Benchmark", with other authors, at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

May, 2023 Jyothish Pari

Jyo Pari (CS, class of 2023) has had a paper "Teach a Robot to FISH: Versatile Imitation from One Minute of Demonstrations" with Siddhant Haldar, Anant Rai, and Lerrel Pinto, accepted for publication at the conference "Robotics: Science and Systems", 2023.

April, 2023 Junze Ma

Jeff (Junze) Ma (BA/MS program), together with Rosanna Flouty and Craig Kapp, presented a workshop, "Working in Real Life: Augmented AR in Historic House Museums" on using augmented reality to "promote engagement and support access" for disabled visitors in small historic houses.

February 26, 2023 Andy Polizzotto

Andy Polizzotto was part of the NYU-RTFP programming team which came in second at the Greater New York Regional Contest of the International Collegiate Programming Contest. The team is advised by Yang Tang.

December, 2022 Sean Norquist

Sean Norquist (class of 2022), together with Adam Meyers, presented a paper, "On Breadth Alone: Improving the Precision of Terminology Extraction Systems on Patent Corpora" at the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop, 2022.

October, 2022 Jyothish Pari

Jyo Pari (CS, class of 2023) published a paper "Playful Interactions for Representation Learning" with Sarah Young, Pieter Abbeel, and Lerrel Pinto at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022.

July, 2022 Alexa Tartaglini

Alexa Tartaglini, a CS and Math joint major, with advisor Brenden Lake and co-author Wai Keen Vong, published a paper "A Developmentally-Inspired Examination of Shape versus Texture Bias in Machines" in the Cognitive Science Conference, July 2022.

June, 2022 Jyothish Pari

Jyo Pari (CS, class of 2023) published a paper, "The Surprising Effectiveness of Representation Learning for Visual Imitation," with Nur Muhammad, Sridhar Pandian Arunachalam, Lerrel Pinto, at the conference "Robotics: Science and Systems", 2023.

July, 2021 Alexa Tartaglini

Alexa Tartaglini (Math and CS, class of 2023) published a paper "Modeling artificial category learning from pixels: Revisiting Shepard, Hovland, and Jenkins (1961) with deep neural networks", with Wai Keen Vong and Brenden Lake at the Cognitive Science conference.

March 8 2021 William Brower

William Brower (CS, class of 2020) received a "Best Presentation Award" at the IEEE Conference on Big Data and Analytics (ICBDA), for his paper "Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Legislative Votes in the U.S. Congress", with Christopher Davidson and Anasse Bari.

February 4, 2021 Aashish Khubchandani

CS major (class of 2022) Aashish Khubchandani's paper, "COVID-19 early-alert signals using human behavior alternative data" with Anasse Bari, Junzhang Wang, Matthias Heymann, and Megan Coffee, was published in the journal "Social Network Analysis and Mining."

April 30, 2020 Justin Chen

Computer Science major Jason Chen has teamed up with students at Carnegie Mellon to create an interactive map that shows the spread of COVID-19 at the US county level.

February 22, 2020 Andy Polizzotto

The NYU Team Aqua Terrarium, with freshman Andy Polizzotto and masters students Muge Chen and Zhen Li placed fifth (Bronze Medal) in the inaugural North America Championship of the International Collegiate Programming Contest. They will advance to the World Finals in Moscow in June.

November 4, 2019 Lawrence Wang

Lawrence Wang, a math major and computer science minor, is participating in the Microsoft TEALS program. Wang is a teacher assistant at Vanguard High School where teaches students Snap! and Python, plans the curriculum, and collaborates with other members of the program for teaching the school year.

October 27, 2019 Andy Polizzotto

NYU Programming Team 1, with freshman Andy Polizzotto and graduate students Muge Chen and Zhen Li, took third place in the Greater New York International Programming Contest and will advance to the North American Championship.

July 28, 2019 Yuling Gu

Yuling Gu will be presenting a paper "Acoustic Characterization of Singaporean Children's English: Comparisons to American and British Counterparts" with Nancy Chen of the Institute for Infocomm Research, at the workshop on Widening NLP at ACL-2019 (Association of Computational Linguistics).

May 3, 2019 Daniel Yoo

Daniel Yoo has been awarded the 2019 Max Goldstein prize, given to an undergraduate who has used applied computing to improve life at NYU, for his work at ITS on the Transfer Student portal, the College Cohort portal, and the Prehealth Committee Letter application.

March 20, 2018 Ananditha Raghunath

Ananditha Raghunath has been awarded a 2018 NYU Presidential Service Award "for her outstanding student leadership across the campus and for tirelessly working to bring women and underrepresented populations into the science and technology fields."

October 13, 2017 Louise Lai

Louise Lai has been awarded a 2017 CRA-W GHC Research Scholar Award.

October 13, 2017 Louise Lai

Louise Lai, a senior doing a double major in Computer Science and in Business and Political Economy, won third prize in the ACM Richard Tapia Poster Presentation Competition for her poster presentation "Airbnb: Predicting Customer Return Rates Using Recursive Partitioning". Congratulations!

November 2-4, 2017 Wanjing Ma

Wanjing Ma, Computer Science and Education dual major, will be presenting a paper at the School Science and Mathematics Association 2017 Convention, in Lexington, Kentucky. The paper, "A Computer Tool that Will Allow Secondary Science Teachers to Differentiate Reading Materials for Students with Varied Reading Abilities", is based on her final project in "Special Topics: Natural Language Processing", taught by Professor Adam Meyers. Congratulations to Wanjing Ma!

August 29, 2017 Ananditha Raghunath

Ananditha Raghunath, a computer science major, has been awarded a 2017 CRA-W GHC Research Scholar Award . She will be traveling to the Grace Hopper Conference to participate in their Research Scholar Events.

May 17, 2017 Ananditha Raghunath and Nadira Azi Dewji

Computer science majors Ananditha Raghunath and Nadira Azi Dewji have been invited to participate in Mozilla's Open Source Student Leader group . Congratulations!

May 16, 2017 Emma Dickson

Emma Dickson, a senior majoring in computer science, has been working with Deena Engel and conservators at the Guggenheim Museum to restore the Internet-based artwork "Brandon" by Shu Lea Cheang.

November 13, 2016 Lingsong Zeng, Ojas Deshpande, and Ziyi Tang

NYU placed third at the ACM Regional Collegiate Programming Competition for the Greater New York region. Congratulations to team members Lingsong Zeng, Ojas Deshpande, Ziyi Tang and to coaches Bowen Yu and Evan Korth!

February 27, 2016 Whitney Mulhern

Whitney Mulhern, a student in the joint Computer Science/Computer Engineering program at Courant and Tandon, is co-author of the paper "Scalable and private media consumption with Popcorn", which has been accepted for presentation at the 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. She will attend the conference in March; her advisor is Michael Walfish.

September 25, 2015 Mia Matthias, Jiwon Shin, and Caroline Slason

Mia Matthias (Web programming minor), Caroline Slason (Web programming minor) and Jiwon Shin (CS major, NYU Abu Dhabi) will present their work "Examination and Code Analysis of Siebren Versteeg's 'Untitled Film 2' (2006)" at the symposium "TechFocus III: Caring for Software-Based Art" at the Guggenheim Museum. Their project was supervised by Deena Engel.

April 24, 2015 Daniel Cohen

Daniel Cohen received best poster for CS/Mathematics at the 41st Undergraduate Research Conference of the College of Arts and Science, for his work on building a tool that automatically generates advice to make GPU CUDA code more efficient.

January 27, 2015 Youngduck Choi

Youngduck Choi received an Honorable Mention in the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards 2015.

December 11, 2014 Abhinay Ashutosh

Abhinay Ashutosh has been selected by the Washington Square News as one of the 10 Most Influential Students of NYU in 2014.

November 24, 2014 Blazej Gawlik

Six students competed in a TEDxNYU event titled “The Pitch: What's Your Angle?” for the chance to present their TED Talk at the club's annual spring conference. CAS senior Blazej Gawlik, who won the competition, discussed the future of artificial intelligence and its challenges.

October 22, 2014 hackNY Fall Hackathon for Students

The tenth bi-annual hackathon hosted by hackNY took place in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Fall 2014. Students from NYU, Columbia, Stony Brook, Rutgers and other local schools came together to spend 24 hours hacking on projects, attending talks and workshops and interacting with sponsor booths.

Tenth Annual hackNY Hackathon At NYU's Courant Institute
June, 2014 International Collegiate Programming Contest

At the 2014 ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest, held in Ekaterinburg, Russia, the NYU team placed 13th overall, and 1st among North American teams, beating out teams from such schools as MIT, Stanford, CMU, and Berkeley. Congratulations to the team Bowen Yu, Fabian Gundlach, and Danilo Neves Ribeiro and their coaches Brett Bernstein, Evan Korth and Sean McIntyre!

International Collegiate Programming Contest
March, 2014 North American Invitational Programming Contest

At the 2014 North American Invitational Programming Contest, the NYU team came in 7th. Congratulations to the team Bowen Yu, Fabian Gundlach, and Danilo Neves Ribeiro and their coaches Brett Bernstein, Evan Korth, and Sean McIntyre!

North American Invitational Programming Contest
March, 2014 NYU Bus Tracker

Mike Jaoudi, CAS junior and computer science major, is the creator of NYU Bus Tracker, a popular app that provides real-time locations and departure times for all NYU busses.

Washington Square News
March, 2014 Sakai may soon see replacement through Kipin Hall

Recently launched at New York University, Kipin Hall aims to tackle the numerous inadequacies of existing online classroom supplements. “We did an initial beta test with 2,000 students and 17 professors at NYU back in September,” said Abhinay Ashutosh, co-founder of Kipin Hall. Ashutosh, a sophomore at NYU majoring in computer science, said NYU used Blackboard in the past.

Daily Targum
February, 2014 Gold Medal to Yi Louisa Lu in ACM Competition

Yi Louisa Lu has won the first prize in the Undergraduate Student Competition at the 2014 ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization for her project "Unleashing the Power of General Purpose Graphic Processing Unit" under the supervision of Prof. Mohamed Zahran. Louisa is a senior doing a joint major in computer science and math. Congratulations!

2014 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
October 27, 2013 NYU Purple Team Bowen Yu, Fabian Gundlach, and Danilo Neves Ribeiro

The NYU Purple team of Bowen Yu, Fabian Gundlach, and Danilo Neves Ribeiro won the 2013 Greater New York ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, held October 27 at Yale University. The team answered all nine problems with no mistakes, and came in 1st of 50 teams, including teams from Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, SUNY Stony Brook, and Yale. They are invited to compete in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in Yekaterinburg, Russia next June.

Four other NYU teams competed as well, and did very well. NYU White (Kelly Martin, Danny Padawer, and Chris Williams) placed 11th. NYU Bobcat (Yury Skobov, David Ackerman, and Aviv Goldgeier) placed 14th. NYU Torch (Stephen Hu, Weilun Du, and Dun Wang) placed 17th. NYU Gold (Y.D. Choi, Emily Lin, and Ben Xie) placed 25th out of 50 teams.

May 2013 Mark Rich

Mark Rich has received an honorable mention in the CRA (Computing Research Association) Undergraduate Research Awards. Mark's project, carried out under the advisement of Prof. Lakshmi Subramanian, involved building a city-level traffic congestion detection and mitigation system that computes real-time traffic densities, based on data from noisy traffic cameras at different locations within a city. The system uses a belief network to intepret and integrate the data, and then leverages this information to accurately predict traffic congestion levels and potentially mitigate traffic jams. Mark is a senior with a double major in Economics and a joint major in Computer Science and Mathematics.

May 2013 Kim Pham

Kim Pham is one of eleven students selected to be part of the investment team of The Dorm Room Fund tasked with finding the next Mark Zuckerberg.

December 2012 Di Wu

Di Wu was part of a "Team NYU Hurricanes," along with masters' students Mariya Miteva, Savvas Savvides, and Alexander Theororidis, whose project "Icon Lab for Green Map System" won "Best Engineered Award" at the Google "24 Hours of Good" event.

May 1, 2012 Adam Krebs

Adam Krebs, a senior majoring in Computer Science, has been awarded the ITS George Sadowsky prize, given to a student who exhibits exemplary innovation in using the Internet for community service. Adam has been extremely instrumental in revamping the Office of Sustainability's website http://www.nyu.edu/sustainability/ improving the web presence of the Office of Sustainability and making information about sustainability more accessible and readily available to the University community at large.

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December 21, 2011 Evan Korth

Evan Korth is featured in a Wall Street Journal article on the increasing popularity of Computer Science for undergraduate students.

Students Shift to Computer Science.
October 28-30, 2011 Max Stoller, Tengchao Zhou, NYU-AD Hackathon

At the First International Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World, held at NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU-NY undergraduates Max Stoller and Tengchao Zhou, teaming with Monir Abu Hilal from PSUT (Jordan) won second prize for their application "OpenMena", a web-based resource designed to provide government data in an accessible format for computer programmers.

Interactive Computer Application for Physical Therapy Wins Top Prize at NYU Abu Dhabi Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World
November 2, 2011 ACM Collegiate Programming Contest

Four NYU teams, coached by Evan Korth and Sean McIntyre, competed in the Greater New York Regional ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

Competing against over 50 teams from 22 colleges and universities in the Greater New York Region (including teams from Yale, Stonybrook, Cornell, Columbia, Cooper Union, etc.), our teams' results were:

  • 8th place (7/9 solved): Nathaniel Weinman, Bowen Zhang, Stephen Hu ("NYU2")
  • 11th (6/9): Do Kook (DK) Choe, Yuriy Skobov, Andrew Lott ("NYU1")
  • 20th (4/9): Kelly Martin, Raphael Sofaer, Alexandra Qin ("NYU3")
  • 21st (3/9): Nabil Hassein, Michael Morreale, Andrew Flockhart ("NYU4")

Congratulations to the students and coaches on this fine performance!

October 4, 2011 Jon Chan

Gallatin senior creates app for face-to-face friendship.

Washington Square News
September 19, 2011 Jon Chan

Jon Chan, a senior at Gallatin, is building a business around an iPhone app he created for scheduling business meetings. The project began as a class project for the iPhone programming course taught by Nathan Hull.

New York Post story "Sticking with the program: Entrepreneurial NYU senior Jon Chan is already developing the future"
June 7, 2011 Gauri Manglik

SpotOn, an iPhone app for restaurant recommendation

Gauri Manglik is co-founder and CEO of the SpotOn company, which has created the SpotOn iPhone app to recommend restaurants. Gauri got her bachelor's degree in computer science at NYU in 2010. SpotOn began as a course project for a special-topics course in iPhone programming, taught by Nathan Hull.

Spoton launches in new york city. Is the iphone app a yelp killer?

May 2, 2011 Susana Delgadillo, Kelsey Lee, Elizabeth Pelka, Erin Schoenfelder and Albert Yau

Moma Project

Five students in the computer science department - Susana Delgadillo, Kelsey Lee, Elizabeth Pelka, Erin Schoenfelder and Albert Yau - worked on a research project preparing documentation for the computational art work "33 Questions Per Minute" by Raphael Lozano-Hemmer, in the collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The documentation facilitates conservation decisions about this work in particular and provides a model for this process for such works in general. Susana, Kelsey, Elizabeth, and Albert are computer science majors; Erin is a web programming minor. The project was supervised by Deena Engel of the Computer Science dept at NYU and by Glenn Wharton of MOMA and the NYU Department of Museum Studies.

Student project at MOMA

April 26, 2011 Jiao Li

Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund Grant

Jiao Li, a junior majoring in computer science and math, has received a Dean's Undergraduate Research Fellowship (DURF) award. Jiao's research studies algorithms for solving Boolean satisfiability problems on highly parallel architectures. He is working with Prof. Clark Barrett and Dr. Morgan Deters.

April 26, 2011 Angjoo Kim

Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship

Angjoo Kim, a senior majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics, has been awarded a Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship.

Mar 14, 2011 NYUMobile: Your new Favorite iPhone App

Students and alumni from our iPhone Programming course developed an iPhone app to give back to the NYU community bringing NYU's many resources into a united interface.

Mar 10, 2011 HackNY

Students interested in participating in the Spring 2011 Hackathon can register now.

Feb 25, 2011 Max Stoller

NYU junior Max Stoller built an app that texts you after you "check in" to a dirty restaurant, and the data he's seeing is alarming.

Web App Donteat.at Warns You Before You Dig In

Jan 28, 2011 Max Stoller

Max Stoller has written an app "Don't Eat At" which warns the user of health code violations at restaurants.

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Don't Eat At

Dec 1, 2010 Antony Kaplan

Antony Kaplan, a senior doing a joint major in Computer Science and Physics, has won "Honorable Mention" in the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards for 2011. Antony has won the award for two research projects he carried out. First, under the supervision of Prof. Douglas Schmidt of Vanderbilt University and Prof. Jinyang Li, he developed a set of tools for implementing applications of many different kinds in a cloud computing environment. Second, under the supervision of Prof. Margaret Wright, he did an in-depth study of the errors made by the Excel program in numerical computation.

Oct 10, 2010 HackNY

Fall Hackathon for Students

More than 200 students from 33 universities gathered Saturday afternoon to attend HackNY's fall Hackathon at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Fourteen companies, including Meetup, Aviary and Drop.io, demoed their APIs before students settled into couches and chairs to brainstorm ideas while noshing on catered burritos.

Hack NY's Student Hackathon

HackNY

Oct 4-8, 2010 NYU Startup Week

Oct 4th is the start of Tech@NYU's second NYU Startup Week, a series of widely diverse speakers and content focused on tech entrepreneurship.

NYU Startup Week
Sep 30, 2010 Daniel Grippi, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer

Four young friends who are out to create a very different sort of social network.

Defacebook
Aug 03, 2010 Quenton Cook

Quentin Cook made video about that details the applications he made for his final project in the iPhone class last semester. The app itself was very good indeed, and the video is quite amazing.

HVC Schedule-O-Matic
May 11, 2010 Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer, Ilya Zhitromirskiy

Creating a network like Facebook, only private. A few months back, four geeky college students, living on pizza in a computer lab downtown on Mercer Street, decided to build a social network that wouldn't force people to surrender their privacy to a big business. It would take three or four months to write the code, and they would need a few thousand dollars each to live on.

Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook

Diaspora

April 30, 2010 HackNY

A Hackathon for Students

HackNY held its inaugural hackathon on the NYU campus, giving students the opportunity to hone their skills in a 24-hour hackathon, along with networking with several tech startups from the NYC area. In a terrific event, students from over 30 different area schools atte nded (some as far as Pennsylvania), listened to startups pitch their technology, formed teams and ideas, hacked through the night and came out on the other side with working demos to show off.

NYC Hackathon
December 11, 2009 Jared Wyatt, Nina Chen

Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund

Jared Wyatt won a grant award to continue his project on sleep research Nina Chen won a grant award to continue her research project on song searching from user-generated input Melissa Ingram won a grant award to continue her research project "Exposure of 3-D DNA Crystals to Different Solutions"

November 30,2009 Nina Chen

Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers

Honorable Mention

Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers For 2010
June 8 - 12, 2009 Ricky Cheng
Mayank Maheshwari


Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Scholarship Winner
photograph: Professor Nathan Hull, Ricky Cheng, and Mayank Maheshwari

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) provides developers and IT professionals with in-depth technical information and hands-on learning about the powerful technologies in iPhone OS and Mac OS X from the Apple engineers who created them. The WWDC 2009 Student Scholarship Program offers student the opportunity to learn directly from Apple engineers, meet fellow Apple developers, and advance their career. Scholarship recipients select from a rich set of sessions on creating world-class iPhone applications and more! Present at this conference were Professor Nathan Hull, Ricky Cheng & Mayank Maheshwari.

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference

June 10, 2009 Alex Grau

DURF Winner
photograph: the UnMousePad

Alex used the Dean's Undergraduate Conference Grant to travel to SIGGRAPH '09, a computer science confrence held in New Orleans, to demo applications of a new multi-touch technology, the UnMousePad, created by Graduate Student Ilya Rosenberg and Professor Ken Perlin of NYU. He will be using this technlogy to research the limitations of human interaction with a multi-touch device that can detect pressure.

May 10, 2009 Jiexun Xu

DURF Winner

My research project is an extension of Prof David Bindel's previous work about algebra-based overlay network monitoring. The research goal is to find efficient algorithms that can pick out a number of end-to-end paths in a network. These paths will be constantly monitored to infer the performance of other end-to-end paths in the network. We have and evaluated proposed some very interesting algorithms, and we are now focusing on summarizing our work into a technical report and a paper.

Prof. David Bindel's Website

Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund Grants

May 6, 2009 Computer Science Spring Showcase

Undergraduate and Graduate Computer Science Students

This event showcases projects that have been completed in various computer science courses this semester at both the Undergraduate and Graduate level. The courses represented at the show have links provided. This year a representative from Apple awarded the Best iPhone App Prize at our show -- a free iPod Touch!

Spring 2009 Showcase , Computer Graphics & Vision , Computational Photography , Software Engineering , Information Science of Marketing , Computer Systems Organization , Flash Programming , iPhone Programming , Robotics , Info Technology Projects , Interactive Shape Modeling , Networks and Distributed Systems
Spring 2009 Professor Nathan Hull

iPhone Programming Course
iPhone

Since its introduction, the Apple iPhone SDK has been revealed to be a powerful platform upon which to build sophisticated applications. Without actually having to own an iPhone, students were able to build and test their applications on Intel Apple Macs using the freely available compiler and simulator. (Macs are available in the ITS labs). In addition to the development tools, students became proficient in the object-oriented language Objective-C, the Apple iPhone Frameworks, and the principles of Cocoa development.

Spring 2009 Students in Computing in the Humanities

Five of our Computer Science Department undergraduate students worked on an exciting new project with a conservator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MoMA). The students learned about conservation works of art that are "born digital" and researched works of digital art in order to document them for conservation and study purposes.

In addition, some students worked with primary source materials in the Bobst Library Archives to build on-line collections for further study and research.

2008 - 2009
Academic Year
Melanie Clements

Undergraduate Research
photograph: prototype garbage bin

Project Title: Using Object Category Recognition Techniques to Sort Garbage for Recycling.

In order to help alleviate NYC's growing trash program, Melanie (and her team) investigated methods to automate the separation of recyclable materials from mixed garbage. They created a prototype bin to collect a database of images of typical garbage and tested several Object Recognition techniques from Computer Vision and Machine learning. They found that several of these techniques could be used effectively for this purpose. The next step will be to design and build cost-effective sorting machines which integrate this software.

October 26, 2008 NYU ICPC Programming Team

The contest took place on Sunday, October 26, 2008 at St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY. Our team placed 7th out of 42 solving six of nine problems (the winning team was the only team to solve eight, no one solved all nine). The contest is five hours long and the team that is able to solve the most problems within that period wins. In case of a tie, the team that solved their problems the fastest takes precedence. Problems range in difficulty from simple arithmetic to complex geometry and number theory.

ACM Regional Collegiate Programming Contest ,
NYU's ACM Chapter
October 1 - 4, 2008 Y-Lan Boureau,
Wei Xu,
Melanie L. Clements,
Sarah W. McDevitt,
Eliza Chan,
Professor Sana Odeh
image: Grace Hopper Celebration

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government communities. Leading researchers present their current work, while special sessions focus on the role of women in today's technology fields, including computer science, information technology, research and engineering.

For further information on any of the topics metioned in the Undergraduate Student Spotlight, please contact the Program Administrator , in room 323 CIWW.