Tom Dean
Professor Dean says that he does not have any funding for undergrads, but has a few projects that students might be interested in for Honors Theses or ISPs. The following link is a prototype that he wrote during the summer and would love to have someone develop further.
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tld/talk/segments/memex/home.html
He says that it is perfect training for working at places like Google and the Internet Lab is a great lab for developement.
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Eli Upfal
Professor Upfal's research area is design and analysis of algorithms, focusing in particular on randomized algorithms and probabilistic analysis of algorithms. Undergraduate projects with him range from pure theory work - rigorous mathematical analysis of algorithms, to a more experimental work of implementing and simulating algorithms. The type of work depends on the student's interest and background. This year he is also looking for students who are interested in computational biology - algorithms related to analysis of data from biology related experiments.
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Ugur Cetintemel
Ugur is interested in working with students on projects related to the processing and dissemination of sensor data. His group has been
actively designing and building software infrastructures to support
sensor-based applications at different scales of computing: from
small-scale microsensor networks to Internet-scale peer-to-peer networks.
A typical project entails designing and implementing (or extending) a
sensor-based system or application. For information about specific projects,
the interested students should contact him directly at ugur@cs.brown.edu.
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Anne Spalter
There is an opportunity this fall for an undergraduate to work with Anne
Spalter and Andy van Dam on the preperation of a new course on Visual
Computing (to be taught in spring 05).
They are looking for candidates with cs graphics experience (e.g., cs123)
to work on a Java-based graphics teaching tool that will be used in the
course (check out
http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/graphics/research/gtt).
They are also looking for candidates to research source materials, both
textual and visual, and help to develop both lecture and assignment
materials. This is a great opportinuty for a student with or without
much CS background who is interested in the effects of visual computing
on modern thinking and communication.
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Shriram Krishnamurthi
Shriram disclaims his research with the fact that he doesn't generally take on semester-time students whom he doesn't already know well. With that said, Shriram is extremely interested in students, and has conducted original research with them every year.
Most of his projects involve some amount of implementation, but you will only program essentials. Many projects have a mathematical and algorithmic component that will appeal to theory aficionados.
Shriram encourages interested students to contact him in person. He tries to fit projects to the interests and aptitudes of students, so for the right student he might devise a project that he hadn't previously considered.
Prerequites: Mathematical maturity is necessary. The ideal applicant will have done well in cs173. Of those who haven't taken the course, Shriram strongly prefers students who performed well in cs17/18. He will, however, consider all applicants who demonstrate a strong academic record and a passion for discovery.
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David Laidlaw
David is always looking for folks to do work in his group. Some folks in the past have worked on self-directed research. Those tend to be folks that have done an independent study already, but not exclusively. In the http://vis.cs.brown.edu FAQ page his instructions on how to choose a research project are good directions for going this route. David also has projects involving updating his group's web site, managing scientific datasets, maintaining and extending our software engineering environment and tools for building tools across platforms, etc.
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