CS Immersion

The Computer Science (CS) Immersion Showcase is a bi-annual event that takes place at the end of the semester. This event 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.

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Computer science students’ projects demonstrate innovative thinking at spring Immersion Showcase

Students in Vanderbilt’s Department of Computer Science will get a chance to show off their innovative thinking when they demonstrate more than 60 projects in the department’s spring Immersion Showcase on April 18. The event will take place in the Adams Atrium at Featheringill Hall from 5-7 p.m. The 62 projects will come from seven […]

Apr 17, 2024

Spring 2024

Spring 2024 CS Immersion Showcase

Projects

  • Artificial Intelligence

    Instructor: Daniel Moyer

    • Artificial Intelligence Brush
      Yuening Li · Amarnani Sparsh · Bhatt Sunny · Yushan Xie · Runxuan Yu
    • AutomatedBA
      Gabe Denton · Luke Gries · Ananth Josyula · Mayaank Pillai
    • Business Risk Detection
      Yuesheng Hao · Junwon Lee · Ronni Tong · Chunyi Wang
    • Jigsaw Puzzle Solver
      Eric Feng · Matthew Hong · Jackson Shelby
    • Medical Equipment Compliance Recognition 🥈
      Weixin Liu · Eddie Shangguan · Gloria Zhang · Yanfan Zhu
    • Optimizing Strategy in Heads-Up No Limit Texas Hold'em via Counterfactual Regret Minimization
      Ethan Jiang · Robert Sheng · Daniel Zhang · Harrison Zhang
    • Settlers of Catan: Deep Q-Learning Based Agents for Optimal Gameplay
      Shreeya Arora · Matt Bronikowski · Nicholas Burns · Kari Groszewska · Daniel Little · Alex Oh
    • Tumor Detection in Histopathology Images
      Maggie Alexander · Kurt Li · Karen Pu
    • Voice Enabled AI Assist
      Alishaan Ali · Meaghan Sheridan · David Waldherr

    🥈 – FortyAU Award Recipient (Second Place)

  • Autonomous Vehicles

    Instructor: Forrest Laine

    All teams are designing a software stack for an autonomous taxi system. Their implementation will be demonstrated at the showcase in a live event, in which they compete against each other in the same simulation environment.

    • Team "GoodGuys"
      Becka Baker · Abby Eisenklam · Parker May · Wesley Minton
    • Team "liveline"
      Sarah Besser · Todd He · Yue Zhao · Fanhao Zhou
    • Team "Star"
      Raj Chopra · Teyon Herring · Siddharth Shah · Aditya Shrey
    • Team "TheMess2024"
      Ethan Bers · Sebastian Lara · Srikanth Narayanan · Michelle Zhu
    • Team "Titans"
      Adam Cui · Ryan McCord · Ayush Pathak
  • Cloud Computing

    Instructor: Vikash Singh

    • Autoscaling News Aggregation
      Matthew Buchowiec · Salomon Dushimirimana · Olivia Liu · Michael Yu
    • ConsensusDB
      Hunter Bergstrom · Nathan King · Danielle Lesinski
    • Discord Assistant Bot
      Yigit Duzenlioglu · Alan Yang · Ben Yoo
    • InsightGreen: Empowering Ethical Investment Decisions
      Nicole Huh · Fabrice Jacques · Ryan Li · Cartoon Piyaket
    • Investment Portfolio Tracker App
      Xishan Deng · Xueyuan Li · Ronni Tong
    • Music Platform Playlist Consolidation
      Junwon Lee · James Rogers · Michael Wang
    • News Sentiment Analyzer
      Shihan Cheng · Mohammad Khan · Zinan Mu
    • Photo-Assist Web App: SnapScape
      Kana Hashimoto · Mia Lorenzo · Michelle Pak
    • Reddit Sentiment Analysis of U.S. 2024 Presidential Elections
      Aleksandra Cvetanovska · Bryan Michalek · Yahan Yang
    • Sportsbook Odds Analysis Platform
      Thomas Ditsworth · Andrew Myers · Zach Rosen
    • Vandy Laundry Tracker 🥇
      Carol He · Thao Hoang · Jiashu Huang · Yurui Xu

    🥇 – FortyAU Award Recipient (First Place)

  • Computational Sustainability

    Instructor: Doug Fisher

    • Arduino Hydroponic System with Integrated Frontend for Improved Monitoring of Garden Plots and Promotion of Computer Sustainability
      Tobiah Abravanel · Vincent Gilliam · Elias Levy · Seth Marx
    • CheaPath: Google Maps Extension For More Sustainable Travel
      Katherine Hu · Stephanie Hu · Binh Mai · Catherine Yang
    • Computer Vision Model for Predicting Urban Heat Island Intensity from Satellite Imagery
      Lily Bistro · James Foglio · Danielle Page · Johann West
    • Drop to Drain: 3D Agent-Based Model of Soil
      Adaline Leong · Shreya Reddy · Mert Sekmen · Astha Sinha · Chris Vanags
    • EcoBus: Design Tool for Bus Route Optimization
      Megana Atluri · Mary Awopildea · Yennie Jun · Zoe Luther
    • ecoVandy
      Caroline Dunn · Sophia Fayer · Kathleen Katchis · Sydney Leonardi
    • Investigating Various Factors on Wildlife Sustainability
      Allison Nevias · Jessica Tang · Evelyn Zhang · Jack Zhang
    • Nature Scanner
      Harrison Duval · Solomon Hearn · JP Higgins · Franco Lu
    • Sidewalk Scout
      Sam Libaire · Mi Nguyen · Kiera Thomas · Raphael Voorhis-Allen
    • Temporal Analysis of Climate Change Discourse
      Avery Hsieh · Esther Zhu
    • Traffic Throughput Optimization
      Sam Sliman · Giovanni Turco · Daniel Yakubu
    • Use of Machine Learning in Solar Energy Prediction
      Siyuan (Sissi) Chen · Zichong (Chris) Lu · Yuwei (Rose) Yang
    • Wild Fire Prediction: Saving Wildlife using Deep-Learning
      Yuesheng Hao · Trevor Kasuku · Xiaoxiang Tong
  • Machine Learning

    Instructor: Ipek Oguz

    • Continual Learning in News Summarization
      Liam Betts · Kyle Kwon · Jiliang Li · Kun Peng · Kangbai Yan
    • E-Seg: Multi-Model Clothes Customizer
      Muyang Li · Rui Wang · Ziyuan Xu · Lining Yu · Zhanqi Zhu
    • Feelify: Sentiment and Lyric Based Playlist Generation from Free Form Text Input
      Nathan Hunsberger · Berke Lunstad · Brandon Smith · Shivam Vohra · Benjamin Walton
    • Injury Risk and Causality in the NFL: Machine Learning Analyses
      Veronica Figueroa · Henry Jonokuchi · Parker Smith · Ashley White
    • MLB Moneyline Prediction
      Steven Doan · Cole Kainz · Nathan Redmond · Josh Scherer · Lucas Schnee
    • Personalized Steam Game Recommendation System
      Arjun Batra · Akash Munagala · Jeffrey Pan · Jackson Rusch
    • Universal Lesion Segmentation Challenge 2023: A Comparative Research of Different Algorithms
      Kobe Guo · Binh Ho · Yifei Li · Kaiwen Shi · Jovian Wang
  • Software Engineering

    Instructor: Jules White

    • ChatEDU
      Jason Hedman · Lincoln Murr · Benjamin Kurcz
    • CleanVU
      Jacob Lurie · Seth Marx
    • Dining Buddies
      Cora Chen · Rosa Liu · Yuting Liu
    • Professor Leaderboard
      Michelle Wang · David Xu · Alex Zhang
    • Rate My Dorm
      Rich Park · Rich Park · Nikhil Polepalli · Myles Shin
    • Reuse Vandy
      Maddi King · Gwen Lynch · Aviv Roskes
    • Student Match
      Mikaya Kim · Ellie Li · Justin Munoz · Matthew Pak · Jessica Zhang
    • Vandy Eats
      Catherine Choi · Elle Choi · Chris Jiang
    • Vandy Events
      Caleb Harrigan · Nicholas Skoufis · Nicholas Vitebsky
    • Vanderbilt University Student Meal Planner (VUSMP)
      Rohan Bhatia · Christian Reyes
  • Web-based Architecture

    Instructor: Graham Hemingway

    • BookShelf
      Kaicie Kidd · Sarene Mun · Rajay Preddie · Sarah Sun · Ivy Wang
    • Context
      Lorrie Axelrod · Kyle Burgess · Du Duong · Cole Ellis · Initser Parish
    • Sparkle Squad: Bubble
      Elena Chen · Elise Farley · Lexi Foster · Sarah Hoover · Katie Kunesh · Yuening Li
    • Submity: E-Contracts Made Simple
      Ruiqing Lan · Hunter Lee · Enzo Maceira · Mamatha Reddy · Sandhya Venkataramaiah · George Wang
    • VandyFit: Elevating the Vanderbilt Dining Experience
      Markus Hou · Jack Long · Violet Peng · Trista Yao
    • V-Ride
      Junhao Hui · Jiashun Li · Helen Sun · Siyao Zhu
    • A Web Application for Immersive Audio-reactive Visualizations of
      Music
      Zelai Cai · Yigit Duzenlioglu · Ted Fang · Yuze Gao · Manda Li · Sam Mulford

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.

  • Doug Fisher

    Doug Fisher

    Associate Professor of Computer Science

  • 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

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science

  • Vikash Singh

    Vikash Singh

    Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science

  • Jules White

    Jules White

    Professor of Computer Science

FortyAU Award Recipients

The top two projects received awards sponsored by FortyAU. The first placed project was "Vandy Laundry Tracker" by Carol He, Thao Huang, Jiashu Huang, and Yurui Xu. This project came from Prof. Vikash Singh's cloud computing course. The second placed project was "Medical Equipment Compliance Recognition" by Weixin Liu, Eddie Shangguan, Gloria Zhang, and Yanfan Zhu. This project came from Prof. Daniel Moyer's artificial intelligence course.

First Place – Vandy Laundry Tracker
First Place – Vandy Laundry Tracker
Second Place – Medical Equipment Compliance Recognition
Second Place – Medical Equipment Compliance Recognition

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