Computer Science

Graduate Theses and Final Projects

A requirement of Central Washington University's Computational Science Masters program is that each student complete a rigorous, independent project or a thesis.

Student Theses and Final Projects:

Jason Torrence, Graduated Spring 2023
Crosshair Optimizer
Committee Chair: Dr. Donald Davendra

Bradley Reeves, Graduated Spring 2022
Final Project: Protego - A Python Package for SQL Injection Detection
Committee Chair: Dr. Razvan Andonie

Charles Recaido, Graduated Spring 2022
Interpretable Machine Learning for Self-service High-risk Decision Making
Committee Chair: Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk

Justin (Hoang) Phan, Graduated Fall 2021
Full Interpretable Machine Learning Method with In-line Coordinates
Committee Chair: Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk

Divya Chandrika Kalla, Graduated Spring 2021
Visualization for Solving Non-image Problems and Saliency Mapping
Committee Chair: Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk

SiChong Qin, Graduated Spring 2021
Bias and Fairness of Evasion Attacks in Image Perturbation
Committee Chair: Dr. Razvan Andonie

Cheng Su, Graduated Spring 2021
Coocoo a WebAssembly Compiler for Image and 3D Material Generation
Committee Chair: Dr. Szilárd Vajda

Sridevi Wagle, Graduated Spring 2021
Interactive Visual Self-service Data Classification Approach to Democratize Machine Learning
Committee Chair: Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk

Chao Huang Lin, Graduated Winter 2021
Water Surfaces Detection from Sentinel-1 SAR Images using Deep Learning
Committee Chair: Dr. Razvan Andonie

Lubna Alzamil, Graduated Spring 2020
Image Forgery Detection with Machine Learning
Committee Chair: Dr. Razvan Andonie

Brian Hooper, Graduated Spring 2020
Image Features for Tuberculosis Classification in Digital Chest Radiographs
Committee Chair: Dr. Szilárd Vajda

Heather McKinnon, Graduated Spring 2020
Using CUDA to Enhance Data Processing of Variant Call Format Files for Statistical Genetic Analysis
Committee Chair: Dr. Donald Davendra

Hermann Yepdjio Nkouanga, Graduated Spring 2020
Automatic Chest X-rays Analysis using Statistical Machine Learning Strategies
Committee Chair: Dr. Szilárd Vajda

Shivika Dewan, Graduated Winter 2020
Optimizing Pollution Routing Problem
Committee Chair: Dr. Donald Davendra

Nathan Neuhaus, Graduated Winter 2020
Toward Efficient Automation of Interpretable Machine Learning Boosting
Committee Chair: Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk

Michael Brice, Graduated Spring 2019
Classification of Stars from Redshifted Stellar Spectra utilizing Machine Learning
Committee Chair: Dr. Razvan Andonie

Sami Abdul-Wahid, Graduated Spring 2018
Spike-based Classification of UCI Datasets with Multi-Layer Resume-like Tempotron
Committee Chair: Dr. Razvan Andonie

Abdulrahman Gharawi, Graduated Spring 2018
Decreasing Occlusion and Increasing Explanation in Interactive Visual Knowledge Discovery
Committee Chair: Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk

Dmytro Dovhalet, Graduated Winter 2018
Data Visualization and Classification of Artificially Created Images
Committee Chair: Razvan Andonie

Sadia Afroze, Graduated Winter 2018
Final Project: Job Matching Software for Recruitment System
Committee Chair: Dr. Razvan Andonie

Jacob Brown, Graduated Fall 2017
Visualizing Multidimensional Data with General Line Coordinates and Pareto Optimization
Committee Chair: Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk

Dipayan Banik, Graduated Fall 2017
User Authentication using Doodle Recognition for Smartphone Application
Committee Chair: Dr. Szilárd Vajda

Yishui Liu, Graduated Fall 2017
Traffic Sign Recognition
Committee Chair: Dr. Szilárd Vajda

Syeda Sadiya, Graduated Fall 2017
Visual Data Mining
Committee Chair: Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk

Andrew Smigaj, Graduated Fall 2017
Visualizing Incongruity: Visual Data Mining Strategies for Modeling Humor in Text
Committee Chair: Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk

Gabriel Ratener, Graduated Winter 2017
Bizubee - The World's Most Intense Programming Language
Committee Chair: Dr. Razvan Andonie

Sanjita Timilsina, Graduated Winter 2017
Time Series Analysis
Committee Chair: Dr. Razvan Andonie

Abdul Anwar, Graduated Fall 2016
Lossless Multidimensional Data Visualization
Committee Chair: Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk

Joseph Lemley, Graduated Spring 2016
Applications of Computational Geometry and Computer Vision
Committee Chair: Dr. Razvan Andonie

James Tunnell, Graduated Spring 2015
Modeling Software Projects as Discrete Dynamical Systems, to Develop A Model for Software Defect Production
Committee Chair: Dr. John Anvik

James Smigaj, Graduated Summer 2014
Improving The Capacity and Accuracy of A PDF Modeling Software Application
Committee Chairs: Dr. John Anvik and Dr. Yvonne Chueh

Kurt Boberg, Graduated Spring 2014
Directed Graph Cryptosystems
Committee Chair: Dr. Dominic Klyve

Emaad Shah, Graduated Spring 2014
Detecting Fraudulent Advertisements Using Neural Networks
Committee Chair: Dr. John Anvik

Garret Bolton, Graduated Winter 2014
Computing Mountain Passes Using Mathematica
Committee Chair: Dr. Filip Jagodzinski

Kathy Moore, Graduated Summer 2013
Messier Marathon Scheduler
Committee Chair: Dr. Filip Jagodzinski