CSE 331 Mini project choices
Fall 2018
Please check the table below before submitting your mini project team composition to make sure your case study is not being used by another group. Case studies are assigned on a first come first serve basis.
| Group | Chosen Algorithm | Case Study | Links |
| Oluwatoyosi Adebanke Oladepo, Thomas Dabek, Vladyslav Iakusevych (The feral ghouls) | Superformula | Video games (specifically procedurally generated video games) | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Chinmayee Bandal, Sarah Peters, Tracy Zheng () | Dijkstra's Algorithm | Google Maps | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Jonathan Wong, Jacky Eng, Jack Bett (Segmentation Fault ) | Linkedin Feed Algorithm | Linkedin Feed Relevance System | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Waiwai Kim, John Demetros, Frank Tsai (Autonomous Vehicle) | Deep Deterministic Policy Gradients | Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Vehicle | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Mohammed Shmsuddin, Vencent Feng, Krapi Vani (Group 1) | Data Compression Algorithms | Sound data compression | Link 1 |
| Nicholas Weiser, Matthew Lichtenthal, Vincent Bilotta (TryNotToFail) | Timber Match-Filtering Algorithm | Ancestry | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Seamus Tynan, john bolanos, Michael Neira (Error 331: Project Not Found) | Echo Nest | Spotify Discover Weekly | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Wilson Wong, Sean Chiu, Jose Romano () | A*(read as "A star") search algorithm | Real Road Networks and Pathfinding | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Joseph Bochnik, Corey Ropell, Justin Cappiello () | heuristic A* | Heuistic Analysis to find Viruses | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Eddy chen, Helen Huang, Michael Deng (purple) | LBPH | Face recognition | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Ryan Lee, Aarron Lin, Harrison Ngo (Please Pass Us) | EdgeRank | Facebook's News Feed | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Alexander Lazar, Likhith Doddi, Lucas Beitzel (Unemployed) | Onion Routing | Tor | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Eithne Amos, Roman Encarnacion, Supratik Neupane (Supes and Salads ) | Linear Regression | Cancer Prediction | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Sanchit Batra, Giselle Ashby, Jonathan Dong (Will code for food :-)) | Ray tracing | Simulation/Computer Graphics | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Matthew Pan, Kelvin Hong Wen Wong, Bohang Hua (CryptoCoin) | Minutia Matching | Fingerprint Matching | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Andy Mai, Brian Cheung, Sally Leung () | Gale Shapley | School Choice | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Sean Mackay, Ben Conomos, Brian Prais (Team Rocket, we da best team in the da league) | Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm | Compress files (Zip) | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Manmeet Singh, Michael Klein, Timothy Chase (Charlie Quit On Us) | Music Shuffling | Spotify Shuffle Play | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Jordan Fluker, Hana Palliyalil, Dan Donato (Mannschaft Gewonnen) | Fast Inverse Square Root | 3D Programming | Link 1 |
| Timothy Harianja, Pang Yen Wu, Dan Dan Zhao (Friday Fellowship (Ignite)) | Genetic Algorithm | Friend's recommendation in Social Network | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Arthur De Araujo, Declan Hopkins, Jerry Kappil (Husband Boys) | Cellular Automaton | Conway's Game of Life | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Jasjeev Anand, Jaskeerat Brar, Chaitanya Rishi () | Bicubic interpolation | Adobe Photoshop | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Alan Lam, Anthony Connolly, Jialang Huang (Those guys) | Object Recognition Algorithm | Waymo | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| James Morrow, Adam Kantor, Edwin Hung (JAE) | Gale Shapely | Kidney Transplants | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Cameron Stevenson, Elijah Einstein, Vicky Kumar Patel (Topological sort) | Topological sort | Effects of Topological Sort on the world | Link 1 |
| Zhenduo Lin, Bingbing Zheng, Miaowen Zeng () | Collaborative Filtering | Facebook Recommendation | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Montana Queen, Oscar Mejia, Owen Torres () | Collaborative-Filtering | Netflix Movie Recommendation | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Baily Troyer, Colin Ackerman, Kartikeya Kumar Das () | Support Vector Machines | Handwriting Detection (OCR) | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Pat Iwaszko, Julian Malina, Daniel Connolly () | Trustrank | Search Engines Filtering Spam Results | Link 1, Link 2, Link 4 |
| Caractacus Parker, Justin Mekjean, Veronica Vitale (What the hecky is a Proof?) | Secure Hash Algorithms | Dropbox | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Andrew Woloszyn, Mark Ng, Brett Kolodny (Shake and Bake) | SHA-256 | Bitcoin | Link 1 |
| Zachary Doss, Thomas Sherwood, Brian Fenster (The Spell More Gooders) | NLP (Natural Language Processing) | Autocorrect | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Michael Long, Lawzeem Latif, Ricky Weng () | Map Reduce | Big Data Infrastructure | Link 1 |
| Xiang Li, Sai Cao, Hanzhang Bai () | scale invariant feature transform | image matching(opencv) | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Alexander Shapiro, Animesh Soni, Ishaan Roychowdhury () | Markov chain Monte Carlo | Computational Gerrymandering | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Derrick Knighton , Will Pritchard, Mohan Mo (The Hack Squad) | BCrypt | Linux/openbsd | Link 1 |
| Manthan Vasavada, Mert Atkin, Muhanned Ibrahim (Manthan Vasavada, Mert Atkin, Muhanned Ibrahim) | Monte Carlo Algorithm | Gambling | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Kevin Topper, Nick Kobis, Pururva Lakkad (Atri's Autobots) | Flood Fill | Paint Bucket tool in GIMP | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Jonathan Higgins, Fatin Nazat, Kyotaro Hattori (Atri's Fan Club) | Natural Language Processing | Speech synthesis | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Priyanka Dhakite, Timothy Peyton, Scott Mrzygut () | Instagram Feed Relevance Algorithm | Instagram Feed Algorithm | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Michael Brown, Chris Saless, Dylan Sabuda (Black Box Algos) | COMPAS (Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions) | Recidivism models and criminal justice | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Leslie Sequeira, Nilesh Singh, Akshit Gupta (The Noobs) | ESC algorithm | Diagnosis of Heart Failure | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Leon Wu, Steven Yang, Taha Alam (fastfood run) | perlin noise algorithm | Evolving Game Terrains Through Living Organisms | Link 1 |
| Edward Kim, Robert Sirota, Ren Lin (Team Name: Undecided) | Alpha-beta pruning | Simultaneous Moves in Games | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Alexander Stone, Dennis Fedorishin, Jacob Siegel (import solution) | Triplet Networks | Computing Image Similarity | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Anthony Introne, Jared Miller, Anna Spring (What is an algorithm?) | Bellman-Ford Algorithm | Network Routing | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Sayef Iqbal, Calvin Kyi, Liam George () | Link Analysis | Web Mining | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Brandon Hosken, Asher Lieber, Douglas Achkar (B.A.D.) | DEFLATE | PKZIP | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Carmen Huang, Danny Chen, Kevin Mok (BigSharks) | Fingerprint Recognition Algorithm | Touch ID | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Zhihao Lin, Xianxin Lin, Joseph Glickman (Little Old Brothers) | Viterbi algorithm | Wireless cellular telephone system | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Jason Pettrone, Kory Kaiser, Jeff Hejna (SadOverflow) | Genetic Algorithm | Travelling Salesman Problem | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Tiantian Xia, Yaoyang Lin, Junlong Ye (Unity) | MiniMax algorithm | AlphaGo | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Jiayi Zheng, Matt Hansen, Yuanqing Li () | DCNN | Human Activity Recognition | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Edwin Chiu, Zechariah Zientek, Mohammed Sefath Chowdhury () | TrueSkill Ranking Algorithm | Microsoft Xbox Live Ranking | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Drew Williams, Max Wojtczak, Jared Tylec (E Corp) | PID Controller | Industrial Robots | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Amit Blonder, Emery Kohorst, Asif Hasan (RAID) | Reed-Solomon Erasure Coding | QR Codes | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Fred Ho, Ethan Armburst, Shaunak Sharma () | Collaborative Filtering | Spotify | Link 1, Link 2 |
| William Dyer, Edwin Chiu, Dushane Smith (Goose) | Targeted Advertising Algorithm | AdSense | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Garrett Silver, Matt Kirshy, Igor Kuzmich (!(D.A.R.E.)) | Tinder Search Algorithm | ELO Score | Link 1 |
| Yen Ren Khor, Choong Liang Tan, James Kang (OG) | DQN (Reinforce Learning) | Pacman | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Daniel Bielli, Josh Labonte, Donald Brant () | Markov Decision Process (MDP) | Robotic Path Planning/Decision Making | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Joseph Soares, Yusen Jiang, Mauricio Solano (MDFivers) | MD5 | MD5's Impact on Assurance of Documents/Software | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Derrick Delacruz, Alex Rosa, Junghwan Yim () | Symmetric and Asymmetric algorithms | Sec-Cloud Computing | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Arya Hajikandi, Kyle Skompinski, Ethan Sachse (!(D.A.R.E.) stole our idea...sad!) | DIMSUM | Twitter follow suggestions/ad matching | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Gustavo Zanella, Luke McDaniel, Zachary Simpson (Rijndael) | Advanced Encryption Standard | Encryption | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Michael Mincone, Zachary Tenenbaum, Namshang Limbu (Al Gore's Rythm) | Daugman's algorithm | Iris Recognition | Link 1 |
| Brian Brown, Goktug Geneci, Will Farrell (Channel 4 News) | SHA-256 | SSH password hashing | Link 1 |
| Chima Ezeilo, Ayesha Ishmail, Louis Kerner (I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too small to contain) | Convolutional Neural networks | Image recognition in security systems | Link 1 |
| Donald Beasley, Lloyd Murphy, Nathan Hall (Numa Numa) | Demonetization Algorithm | YouTube Censorship/Demonetization | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| shageenth sandrakumar, Anthony Rubin, zack perini (Grill Masters) | Rapidly exploring random trees | Motion Planning | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Fred Pilkington, Cole Leboffe, Zach Davis () | PackMerger | 3D Printing | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Michael Oldman, Joshua Waney, Christian Dalfonso (0xFFFF) | Shading Algorithm | Rendering | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Kai Bustos, Brian Balayon, Hans Bas () | Deep Neural Networks | Youtube Recommendations | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Abdulrahman Alsammarraie, Jared Boswell, Peter Klotzbach (Abdu, Jared, Peter ) | PageRank Algorithm | Google Page Rank | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Justin Cole, Aunik Ahmed, Andrew Oslica (Team 7) | On-Road Integrated Optimization and Navigation (ORION) | UPS | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 |
| Daniel Li, Benson Wu, Jianyu Tan (CSaltE) | A9 Algorithm | Amazon Search Engine | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Junjie Chen, Yinghui Zou, Xingyu Liu (NullReferenceException) | Breadth-first search | Web Crawling | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Geetanjali Nandi, Eric Busch, Sriniketh Varma Dasarraju (The A-Team) | RSA Algorithm | Importance of strong random number generation | Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
| Luis Lopez Cardona, Jonathan Hercules, Arun Mavumkal (java.exe.c) | Huffman Coding Algorithms | Data compression for faster transfer | Link 1 |
| Stephen Fung, Isaac Lu, Jay Lliguichushca (JIS us) | Luhn Algorithm | Credit card validity | Link 1, Link 2 |
| Alvin Lin, Tyler Gelinas, Rena Rodriguez (Stop Stealing our Algorithm) | Item-to-Item Collaborative Filtering | Amazon Recommendations | Link 1, Link 2 |