Posts By Derrick McQuern
Stefanie Mutter
I am a rising junior currently attending Muhlenberg College where I am a computer science major and statistics minor. My research this summer with Dr. Greg Welch and Dr. Gerd Bruder involves comparing different conditions of a virtual “assistant” that can perform actions similar to Amazon’s Alexa. We will investigate participants’ perception of of the virtual assistant, i.e. the sense of social presence, confidence, etc. You can contact me at stefaniemutter@muhlenberg.edu.
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Joseph Tobon
I am a Senior undergraduate student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey. I have an associate’s degree in Computer Science and am currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology with a specialization in Game Development. This summer, I am working under Dr. Mingjie Lin on the Energy-Efficient Computing Devices in IoT project. Specifically, we are implementing various IoT related projects using an FPGA, Verilog, and Vivado.
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Christopher Feltner
I am a rising junior at the University of Central Florida Burnett Honors College, where I study Computer Science with minors in Intelligent Robotic Systems and International Engineering. This summer, I am working under Dr. Turgut and Dr. Bölöni on a joint project with the UCF College of Medicine. We are investigating how a four-legged walker might be made safer and more effective using Internet of Things. Specifically, we are employing computer vision techniques using images from a Kinect camera to recognize obstacles which a blind walker user might encounter and warning them of these obstacles using haptic feedback.
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Mary Broyhill
I am Mary Broyhill, a rising senior electrical engineering student at University of North Carolina at Charlotte located in Charlotte, North Carolina. I am working under Dr. Cho and my goal is to gain research experience in the design and fabrication of sensors. The goal of this research project is to design a user friendly, low-cost, low-power sensor that is able to detect the concentration of lead in a solution in the ppm range.
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Shababa Kamreen
During the summer of 2018, I am working under Dr. Metcalf and Dr. Truman in the Mixed Emerging Technology Integration Lab. I am gathering data of loT wearables and software for the Winter Park Health Foundation Wikipedia, which is geared toward the elderly population. Furthermore, I will conduct research on the vulnerabilities of loT elderly wearables.
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Amon Harris
Hi! My name is Amon Harris. I am originally from Greensboro, NC and I am a rising junior majoring in Computer Science at North Carolina Central University. This summer I am working with Mr. Orlando Arias, Dr. Yier Jin and Dr. Shaojie Zhang to conduct research in discovering vulnerabilities within surrounding networks and prepare experimental configurations to display (in a user-friendly format) where exactly the vulnerability exists within layer 2 of the OSI model. Through the experimentation, I will assist the mentoring PhD student in investigating network security, especially WiFi security for public networks.
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Kaley Brindisi
My name is Kaley Brindisi and I am a rising junior at Siena College in Albany, New York. I am pursuing a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science. This summer, I am working on the Carebit mobile app project under the mentorship of Dr. Pamela Wisniewski. The purpose of Carebit is to provide a more affordable and less privacy invasive approach to caregiving. The app reports specific health information to a caregiver in order to help monitor their loved one. I will be working to complete both the Android and iOS versions of the application to test and evaluate them in a user study.
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Jonathan Guilbe
Jonathan is a rising senior studying Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. He is working with Dr. Turgut and Dr. Boloni on a Smart Walker for rehabilitation patients and the elderly. The Smart Walker will not only collect useful data for the doctor, but will provide feedback to the patient to help encourage correct usage of the Walker. His current plan is to help extend the functionality of the Walker through the use of Computer Vision and haptic feedback.
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Jason Ling
I’m a senior double majoring in computer science and statistics Penn State. This summer, I am working with both Dr. Damla Turgut and Dr. Lotzi Bölöni on research for a smart home. I will be simulating and collecting data from a smart home using sensors and a raspberry pi. After I have collected the data, I will be using deep learning algorithms to model them.
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Domonique Cox
I am a junior at Prairie View A&M University in Texas, pursuing a B.Sc in Computer Science Engineering. This summer I will be working with Dr. Fei Liu and Kaiqiang Song on a research project that generates privacy and security threat summary for Internet of things. In particular, I will be using secondary news data, natural language processing, machine learning and other data analytics tools to process the collected data and automatically generate text summary for the privacy and security threats. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at dcox15@student.pvamu.edu .
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The support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation REU program under Award No. 1852002.
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