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.


Fall 2024

Fall 2024 CS Immersion Showcase

Projects

  • Cloud Computing

    Instructor: Aniruddha Gokhale

    • AI-Powered Image Accessibility Tool
      Siddharth Shah · Aditya Shrey · Haoli Yin
    • Assessing the Effectiveness of Unit and Fuzz Testing in Evaluating MongoDB Reliability in Chameleon Cloud
      Lisa Liu · Youngjae Moon · Robert Sheng
    • Blockchain for Decentralized Storage
      Geng Gao · Niraj Girse · Tanuj Kenchannavar
    • Campus Dining Hall Tracker
      Doga Nazli · Riya Patel · Ryan Sullivan
    • Data Driven Monitoring for Distributed Docker Systems
      Maddox Barron · Abhay Khanna · Emma Kyber
    • DiningDB
      Kurt Emrich · Kevin Liao · Owen Rice
    • DineWise: Your Guide to Dining Done Right
      Micah Bronfman · Dana Izadpanah · Jonathan Tilahun
    • Distiller
      Daniel Bolivar · Clint Lang · Will Owens
    • Docubot: AI-Powered Code Documentation
      Alexander Lin · Rohan Rashingkar · Allan Zhang
    • Dynamic Music Analytics: A Real-Time Listening and Audio Feature Integration
      Xiatong Ma
    • EasyOH: Cloud-based Office Hour Management
      Yuanhe Li · Hang Xu · Ziyuan Xu
    • ML-Driven Urban Traffic Optimization System
      Athish Balakrishnan · Aryan Reddy · Alex Tai
    • Queue-namics: Auto Scaling Through Queuing Theory
      Sparsh Amarnani · Arpit Ojha
    • Real-Time Public Transport Assistant with Adaptive Polling and Text-to-Speech Notifications
      Vaibhav Gupta · Vaibhav Gupta · Teyon Herring
    • Stock Trading Bots in the Cloud Environment
      Luka Mushkudiani · Serhi Mytsyk · Hajin Suh
    • Transit and Rideshare App: TransitLink
      Kendrick Dow · Emmanuel Honore · Samuel Shefnie
    • Visualizing Implementations of MapReduce
      Kareem Elgohry · Ekena Ifiora · Carlos Ortiz
    • WebGME-Driven Automation for Ansible-Based Resource Provisioning
      Sanjana Das · Rachel Lan · Caroline Rinks
  • Cyber-Physical Systems

    Instructor: Gabor Karsai

    • Autonomous Navigation and Landing of Quadcopter Drone
      Farouk Haroun · Frank Li · Tally Szakel
    • Smart Attendance Tracking System
      Olina Wu · Zhiting Zhou · Michelle Zhu
    • Sun Tracking Solar Panel
      Jack Garritano · Noah Taylor
  • Data Centric AI and Mining

    Instructor: Tyler Derr

    • Advancing Amazon Recommendation System with Large Language Model-Based Imputation on Textual Edges
      Haoran Ma · Xutao Mao · Leyao Wang
    • Autonomous RC Car Driving: AI-Powered Navigation & Data Augmentation
      Arnav Chahal · Aryan Garg · Christin Sanchez
    • Data-Centric Financial Sentiment Analysis 🥇
      Silvie Isingizwe · Yifan Wei · Ziyao Zhang · Charlotte Zhao
    • Developing Wiki-Style Biographical Pages from Video Transcripts
      Lee Cameron · Jingwen Du · Jackie Himel · Minseok Son
    • Exploring Neural Signatures of Human Actions
      Reed Andreas · Zachary Karas · Leo Malchin · Jesse Zhong
    • Fault Detection in Business Process Logic Systems Using LLMs 🥉
      Sunny Bhatt · Josue Garcia Flores · Srikanth Narayanan · Mamatha Reddy Tamilisetti
    • Improving Genetic Perturbation Response Prediction via Data-Centric Curriculum Learning
      Yang Li · Yiming Xu · Fanhao Zhang · Haonan Zhang
    • Literature Date Prediction
      Stewart Giesz · Marcus Kamen · Meraj Khan · Marius Schueller
    • Relationship Between Climate Change Attitudes and Age: The Role of Rational Self Interest vs. Political Communication
      Matthew Joye · Ilayda Koca · Aparna Kuppa · Sandhya Venkataramaiah
    • Synthetic Medical Data for Augmented Training
      Chi Huynh · Dung (Judy) Nguyen · Ngoc Tran

    🥇 – FortyAU Award Recipient (First Place)
    🥉 – FortyAU Award Recipient (Third Place)

  • Virtual Reality

    Instructor: Bobby Bodenheimer

    • Butterfingers: an Immersive Cooking Game
      Ryan Allegretti · Aarna Bhuptani · Dov Chen · Darwin Mendoza
    • FallBrawl: A Multiplayer Survival Game
      Auvin Cole · Kai Dubauskus · Kelsey Miu · Sriram Nagasuri · Marius Schuller
    • The Flood: A Disaster Survival Game
      Sui Bai · Wesley Hong · Amy Yang · Sihan Ye · Luhao Zeng
    • Lightweight: A Paper Airplane Fight Game
      Kyle Dittman · Samantha McCloughlin · Chloe Nixon · Jake Raffa · Rendong Zhang
    • Sketch Relay: A Drawing Relay in Virtual Reality
      Veronica Ahn · Dana Angrisano · Robert Tylman · Joanna Yi · Jeff Zheng
    • SmashHigh: A VR Rhythm Game
      Joanna Hsieh · Qianyi Huang · Mingyuan Li · Celine Mang · Eileen Zheng
    • Speedbirding: A Birdwatching Competition in Minutes
      Caitlin Nitschke · Aidan Reed · Andrew Seo · Yashvitha Thatigotla · Joseph Zou
    • Spellbound: An Immersive Spellcasting Experience 🥈
      Hunter Hudson · Sara Jones · Reed Miller · Deniz Orbay · George Padron
    • Subway Surfers: Surfing the Rails in VR
      Jerry Chen · Kevin Chen · Mary Flahive · Adam Hollander · Kyler Kang
    • Untitled Horror Game: A Terrifying Escape Room
      Paulette DeJarnette · Solomon Durand · Marly Fass · Noah Ong · Connie Sun · Jessie Yang
    • Valor: A Dynamic Tower Defense Game in VR
      Isaac Baokye · Cheng Ding · Gabriel Rashko · Jaylen Sims · Maxwell van Hoeij

    🥈 – FortyAU Award Recipient (Second 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.

  • Bobby Bodenheimer

    Bobby Bodenheimer

    Professor of Computer Science

  • Tyler Derr

    Tyler Derr

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science

  • Aniruddha Gokhale

    Aniruddha Gokhale

    Professor of Computer Science

  • Gabor Karsai

    Gabor Karsai

    Professor of Computer Science


FortyAU Award Recipients

The top three projects received awards sponsored by FortyAU. The first placed project was "Data-Centric Financial Sentiment Analysis" by Silvie Isingizwe, Yifan Wei, Ziyao Zhang, and Charlotte Zhao. The second placed project was "Spellbound: An Immersive Spellcasting Experience" by Hunter Hudson, Sara Jones, Reed Miller, Deniz Orbay, and George Padron, and third placed project was "Fault Detection in Business Process Logic Systems Using LLMs" by Sunny Bhatt, Josue Garcia Flores, Srikanth Narayanan, and Mamatha Reddy Tamilisetti. The first and third place teams came from Prof. Tyler Derr's data-centric AI and mining course and the second-place team came from Prof. Bobby Bodenheimer's virtual reality course.

First place
First place – Data-Centric Financial Sentiment Analysis
Second place
Second place – Spellbound: An Immersive Spellcasting Experience
Third place
Third place – Fault Detection in Business Process Logic Systems Using LLMs

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