CS Immersion

The Computer Science (CS) Immersion Showcase is a bi-annual event that features student project presentations from various CS project courses, including artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, cloud computing, computational sustainability, cyber-physical systems, machine learning, software engineering, virtual reality, and web-based software architecture.


Spring 2025

CS Immersion Showcase (Spring 2025)

Projects

  • Artificial Intelligence

    Instructor: Daniel Moyer

    • AI Fire Detection
      Justin Cheon · Duncan Grimes · Ricky Osgood
    • Animation
      Gengshi Hu · Cheng Qiu · Zhewen Tao · Jiayi Xu
    • Blokus AI
      Lydia Liu · Maddie O'Connor · Ryan Suarez
    • D&D Character Creator
      Eileen Hsu · Christian Lee · Matthew Marcus · Sophia Piper
    • Euchre: Improving Gameplay with Heuristic-Based · Smart-Selection AI Agents
      Libby Oliver · Ivan Stoyanchev · Sebastian Stull · Hannah Timmer
    • InterviewAI: Skill-Aware · Feedback-Driven Mock Interview Platform Using LLMs 🥇
      Niraj Girase · Tanuj Kenchannavar · Sandhya Venkataramaiah
    • Optimal Transport for High-Energy Physics
      Patryk Dobranowski · Abi Kothapalli · Umar Qureshi
    • Super Auto Pets AI Player
      John Bettinger · Jackson Lanier · Augusto Lee · Justin Zhu
    • Ticket To Ride AI Agent
      Alex Eum · Vivaan Nanavati · GW Ruth · Richard Song
    • VU ChatBot
      Eloise Benissan · Jordan Katz · Jake Schorr

    🥇 – FortyAU Award Recipient (First Place)

  • Autonomous Vehicles

    Instructor: Forrest Laine

  • Cloud Computing

    Instructor: Vikash Singh

    • Automated Receipt Digitization and Data Extraction System
      Blake Layman · Jeremy Tallon · Holden Turner
    • CloudFX: A Scalable FX Monitoring and Analysis Tool
      Wesley Hong · Luhao Zeng
    • Crypto Yield Optimizer
      Hanlin Chen · Deanthony Dixon · Sreynit Khatt · Hannah Wang
    • Online Chess Misclick Detection
      Marcus Kamen · Sean Richardson · Jacob Swain
    • QueueView: A Cloud-based Solution for Estimating TSA Wait Times using Real-time Video Analytics
      Charlotte Barnes · Margaret Chudik · George Dzadzamia · Aman Thakur
    • Social Media Sentiment Analysis
      Sawan Ahmed · Kyu Kim · Angie Zheng
    • Stock Performance Analysis
      Peter Gayle · Alice Ge · Riley Koo · Stephanie Ting
    • Vanderbilt Sports Analytics
      Buket Alkan · Giorgio Antonacci · Rohit Sharma
  • Machine Learning

    Instructor: Ipek Oguz

    • Blackjack Reinforcement Learning Agent
      Jihoon (Jimmy) Baek · Emre Bilge · Franklin Hu · Sona Javadi · Haoran (Hunter) Qin · Daniel Zhang
    • MEDIC: Medical Endoscopy Data Intelligent Clipping 🥈
      Bradley French · Jr. · Kanyifeechukwu Oguine · Greyson Wintergerst
    • Music2Vec: VAE-based Music Recommendation Engine
      Siwoo Bae · Dj Chakraborti · Trisha Mazumdar · Daniel Park · Matt Zhou
    • Sentiment-Based Volatility Forecasting
      Anish Giri · Phone Aye
    • Tetris Assistant: Reinforcement Learning and Neural Network Approaches
      Rhonda Giadolor · James Scott · Zachary Silver
    • Unsupervised and Supervised Reinforcement Learning Chess Engines
      Zachary Gillette · Muhao Liu · Samuel Ruyle · Leddon Zwack

    🥈 – FortyAU Award Recipient (Second Place)

  • Software Engineering

    Instructor: Jules White

    • BiteBack
      Neel Gundavarapu · Utsav Talati
    • Decentralized Decisions
      James Huang · Jay Patel · Daniel Zhang
    • Focus Feed
      Brandon Chandler · Sean Onamade · Jane Sun · Aidan Wendorf
    • Monumental
      Elana Agarwal · Ethan Dihenia · Sean Richardson · Grace Suhocki
    • Mood to Meal
      Emily Chang · Muhammad Abdullah Dilawar · Bailey Felsheim · Eric Feng · Samuel Taylor
    • Nashville Volunteers
      Charlotte Conze · Cameron Katz · Vasco Singh · Ryan Sullivan
    • Reuse Vandy
      Mahlet Derege · Matthew · Jason Mok · Ezra Ngare · Josephine Yan
  • Web-based Architecture

    Instructor: Graham Hemingway

    • Bragging Rightz: A Social Betting App
      Penelope Anderson · Elizabeth Elson · Lolita Rozenbaum · Sean Stringfellow · Destiny Ukachukwu
    • CWMF: A Multiplayer Acronym Game
      Kurt Emrich · Eric Sang · Lena Wu
    • Dealbreakerz
      Tahsinul Haque Abir · Safa
    • Google Earth Kart 🥉
      Anna Chen · Jacqueline Frist · Nafees-ul Haque · Binh Mai · Tristan Van
    • Guessify: A Song Recognition Game
      Joanna Hsieh · Jocelyn Ni · Haley Park · Winnie Teng
    • Last Man Playing: A Multiplayer Mini-Game Platform
      Natalie Dimov · Dana Izadpanah · Jonathan Tilahun · Ramya Vadapalli · Naol Wordoffa
    • LearnBlox: An Interactive Approach to Learning Computer Science
      Giorgio Antonacci · Gabriel Barnard · Saman Kittani · Zinan Mu
    • LittleDressCode: Outfit Creation App
      Deanthony Dixon · Louise Fraser · Nnedi Okabuonye · Osa Onaghinor · Nia Yick

    🥉 – FortyAU Award Recipient (Third Place)

Project Faculty

We take great pride in recognizing these faculty members for their outstanding contributions and excellence as instructors, advisers, and mentors in our courses represented at the CS Immersion Showcase.

  • Graham Hemingway

    Graham Hemingway

    Professor of the Practice of Computer Science

  • Forrest Laine

    Forrest Laine

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science

  • Daniel Moyer

    Daniel Moyer

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science

  • Ipek Oguz

    Ipek Oguz

    Associate Professor of Computer Science

  • Vikash Singh

    Vikash Singh

    Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science

  • Jules White

    Jules White

    Professor of Computer Science


Past Project Archive

View previous CS Immersion Showcase projects in the past projects archive.

  • Robert Tairas

    Robert Tairas

    Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science

    Immersion Coordinator for Computer Science