Program Schedule

  • 3:30 - 4:00 PM - Student check-in
  • 4:00 - 4:30 PM - Check-in judges, industry partners, networking.
  • 4:30 - 5:00 PM - Welcome by Bruce Gibson, VP, Global IT Strategy and Technology Business Management at I.H.G., followed by Flash Session
  • 5:00 - 6:20 PM - Judging of student projects & browsing
  • 6:20 - 6:40 PM - Pizza & Networking.
  • 6:40 - 6:50 PM - Recognition of Judges  - Alla Kemelmakher, Director of Partnerships and Events
  • 6:50 - 6:53 PM - Introduction of keynote speaker (Colonel Jake A. Elsass) by Dr. Sumanth Yenduri, Dean of CCSE
  • 6:53 - 7:10 PM - Keynote by Colonel Jake E. Elsass
  • 7:10 - 7:30 PM - Presentation of Awards  by Dr. Sumanth Yenduri , Dean of CCSE and our esteemed partners: Colonel Jake A. Elsass and Bruce Gibson
    • Outstanding Student Awards
    • Best Undergraduate Project
    • Best Graduate Project
    • Best Undergraduate Research
    • Best Master's Research
    • Best PhD Research
    • Audience favorite presenters

Judges and Sponsors

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Judges and Guests

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Rubrics

  • Undergraduate and graduate projects: scale 0- 10 with 0 representing "Poor" and 10 representing "Exceeds Expectations"

    • Successfully completed stated project goals and reported deliverables (0-10)
    • Methodology/Approach: All required elements are clearly visible, organized, and articulated (0-10)
    • Effective verbal presentation (0-10)
    • Evidence of Rigor (0-10)
    • Merit and Broader impact (0-10)

    Games: scale 0 - 10 with 0 representing "Poor" and 10 representing "Awesome"

    • TECHNICAL: Technically sound with appropriate visual & audio fidelity(0-10)
    • GAMEPLAY: Engaging & Fun, with an intuitive UI. Rules of play are clear. Includes a win/lose state(0-10)
    • ORIGINALITY: Sound, Art, Design, or Code(0-10)
    • Evidence of Rigor (0-10)
    • Merit and Broader impact (0-10)

Project Listing

  • Academic courses undergraduate (e.g. capstones, games, innovative special topics projects, other course projects) 

    • UC-129 Angel Among Us Pet Rescue - Website Enhancement with Chatbot (Undergraduate Project) by Victorica, Koen; Huffstutler, John; Dooley, Chaz; Kovaltchouk, Elizabeth A
    • UC-131 Karah Khronicles (Undergraduate Project) by Green, Dion; Stipetich, Jake; Bowe, Grace; Israel, Jesse; Malatker, Vedasri
    • UC-133 Biomedical Deep Learning - A staged approach using trustworthy deep learning for multi-omics data classification (Undergraduate Project) by An, Yongbo; Liu, Tianze
    • UC-134 Volunteer Management System for Angels Among Us (Undergraduate Project) by Duepa, Prince; Stoyanova, Teodora; Stoyanov, Radoslav; Jones, Madison W; Caballero, Rodrigo X
    • UC-140 Streamlining School Bus Monitoring: GCPS's Transition to Real-Time Kafka Event Processing (Undergraduate Project) by Fashinasi, Sarah; Hood, Tyler J; Sanderson, Jeffrey; McHie, Amali B; Baker, Alexandra
    • UC-141 IT Capstone Project 17 - KSU eSports Tournament Bot (Undergraduate Project) by Helfrick , Patricia  G; Jayakumar , Niranjanaa ; Schroeder, Daniel J; Miller, Trinity F; Stogsdill, Jackson M
    • UC-144 Attack Surface Management and Analysis (Undergraduate Project) by McLemore, Danard S; Tanner, Nick A; Berry, Keshaun; Thairu, Nelson; Ciin, Niang
    • UC-145 Eerie (Undergraduate Project) by Kabar, Diana; Whorton, Joshua; Gann, Alex J; Freeman, Skyler A
    • UC-150 Azure Migration Assistant (Undergraduate Project) by Shenoi, Kunal; Allen, Graham E; Hernandez, Angel L; Ngah, Yvan
    • UC-156 SWAP - A Solo Developed FPS Game (Undergraduate Project) by Schultz, Noah G
    • UC-166 The Eternal Guest - A 2D Hack-and-Slash Game (Undergraduate Project) by Gamage, Luke H; Johnson, Zion; Hedges, Benjamin J; Walker, Bryanna N; Ewing, Avis A.
    • UC-173 Leveraging Large Language Models to Empower Caretakers of People with Dementia (Undergraduate Project) by Olaniran, Mercy; Centeno, Emily A
    • UC-176 Cybriant: Attack Surface Management (Undergraduate Project) by Rai, Diwakar; Agyen-Frempong, Nicholas; Laurent, David; Gutierrez, Daniel; Mendoza, Jose R
    • UC-180 Intelligent Object Retrieval using Mobile Manipulator (Undergraduate Project) by Zheng, Zhiwen; Ireland, Ellie
    • UC-181 Prison Minecraft Game Mode Plug-In (Undergraduate Project) by Venable, Ryan S; Hunter, Carson R; Do, David
    • UC-182 Designing a User-Centered Mobile Application for Anderson Power Services (Undergraduate Project) by Guzman, Ryan; Goswick, Cooper; Phan, Anthony; Fotso, Marie; Francois, Larnel
    • UC-184 OnAccount A Web-Based Accounting Software (Undergraduate Project) by Jackson, Manuel A; Steele, Russell E; Loj, Grzegorz; Powell, Zachary B
    • UC-186 KSU Esport: Competitive Speedrun Plugin for Minecraft Java Edition (Undergraduate Project) by Amponsah , Rachel; Greene, Adam Y; Kirkwood, Christopher; Benjamin, Weeldy; Kelsey, Steven A
    • UC-189 ChessAI (Undergraduate Project) by Peeples, Joshua M; Miller, Ashton D; Corvacchioli, Matthew D; Luong, Dylan; Smith, Allen L
    • UC-197 IT Capstone 4983: HoneyBaked Ham Intranet SharePoint Site Transformation Presentation (Undergraduate Project) by Andrews II, Martez D; Pyram, Kayla; Abdolkarimi, Amir; Flowers, Precious; Ceasar, Ardarius
    • UC-201 Halo: A Volunteer Management Application (Undergraduate Project) by Shattuck, Carson G; Carder, Willie D; Steele, Russell E; Wisdom, Jeremiah; Khan, Zeshan
    • UC-202 INDY-5 Building Map Application (Undergraduate Project) by Varnadoe, Harrison; Payan, Eduardo A; Wilson, Zach W; Haas, Lucas A
    • UC-205 KSU eSports Minecraft Gamemode - Team 2 (Undergraduate Project) by Merkle, Will; Jang, Justin; Ardebili, Sara; Young, Sophie; Campbell , Kaitlyn
    • UC-207 Anderson Power Services Mobile Application (Undergraduate Project) by Diallo, Ibrahima; Roche, Joel J; Portier, Brandon D; Boerman, Ezra; Loj, Grzegorz
    • UC-221 Accounting Treasury Industries Web Application (Undergraduate Project) by Diallo, Ibrahima; Baker, Alexandra; Hood, Tyler J
    • UC-223 Cybersecurity Website Hardening Project (Undergraduate Project) by Tandongfor, Robin N; Pursley, Jack W; Vandorn, Elijah; Wilson, Kylah; Wairimu, Valentine P
    • UC-225 Golf Course Pace Management Simulation (Undergraduate Project) by Miller, Ashton D
    • UC-226 Real-Time Bus Monitoring Using Kafka (Undergraduate Project) by Bostian, Samuel A; Rizig, Michael; McLarty, Charlie; Pruitt, Brian A; Roman, Allen
    • UC-231 Symptom-Based Disease Prediction (Undergraduate Project) by Barber, Jarred M; Clark, Kody; Mwangi, Ryan ; Zheng, Zhiwen
    • UC-235 GLOBIO model (Undergraduate Project) by Lott, Miles T
    • UC-240 Capgemini- GenAI-Based Predictive Maintenance Team 3 of 3 (Undergraduate Project) by Ezquivel Castillo, Edson E; Acosta, Brayan; Thomas, Josh B; Yancey, Mayson; Miller, Daniel
    • UC-242 AC-10 AI & Music Processing (Undergraduate Project) by Zboinski, Michael J; Kelil, Selam B; Wilson, Sterling  J; Egwuatu, Michael
    • UC-247 Using Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (DDA) to improve health and wellness apps and programs (Undergraduate Project) by Orfila, Fernando
    • UC-248 Campus AI Companion Mobile App (Undergraduate Project) by Taponzing Donfack, Dorian; Takou , Aurelien ; Sokoudjou Gatsing, Leopold ; Djoumessi, Yann; Koodjo, Manuella
    • UC-3139 Spotify Chrome Plugin (Undergraduate Project) by Hardy, Jonathan T; Headley, Eli J; Longino, Asa M
    • UC-3153 Music Recommendation System (Undergraduate Project) by Hardy, Jonathan T; Juarez, Jacqueline; Johnson, Jonathan A; Cochran, Garrett
  • Academic courses graduate (e.g. capstones, games, innovative special topics projects, other course projects)

    • GMC-127 Sentiment Analysis on Social Media Postings for Stock Trading (Graduate Project) by Luong, Chi; Imarah, Edesiri
    • GMC-130 School Bus Monitoring Simulation w/ Apache Kafka (Graduate Project) by Blake, John; Topping, Hudson; Kim, Eun Sik; Bui, Tiep; Lois, Julio
    • GMC-137 IoT Security Vulnerabilities and How to Improve Them (Graduate Project) by Klein, Austin D; Naderi, Ryeon N; Hood, Tyler J; Bassourou, Keren
    • GMC-146 Legal-Insight - Legal text summarizer (Graduate Project) by Rogannagari, Ravi K; Gunturu, Sasi Pavan Khadyoth; Sripathi, Lakshmi Narasimha Naidu
    • GMC-157 Text-to-Digital Person Video Generator: DigitalAvatarGen (Graduate Project) by Kesharwani, Akansha; Bagdwal, Nisha; Hossain, MD E; Patel, Drashti; Adigoppula, Nikhil
    • GMC-158 Evaluating TCP Protocol Performance in Cloud Environments (Graduate Project) by Ming, Nong
    • GMC-163 Market Basket Analysis: Discover Purchase Patterns in Retail Data Bade, Badhri Nadh; Pandi, Vamsi Krishna; Battula, Akash; Zhao, Chen
    • GMC-164 AI-Driven Dynamic Stock Portfolio Management (Graduate Project) by Battina, Chengal Reddy; Kathi, Bal Reddy ; Avula, Laya; Zhao, Chen
    • GMC-168 Hybrid Approach of Data Mining and Deep Learning for Network Intrusion Classification in Big Data (Graduate Project) by Alam, Md Shamsul; Patel, Yash; Gurram, Yaswanth Srinivas
    • GMC-169 Snake Game Simulation using Linked Lists (Graduate Project) by Patrick, Drew; Varma, Prachet; Tao, Liang
    • GMC-170 Predictive Analytics for E-commerce Returns Management (Graduate Project) by Kalakota, Faninder Reddy; Nagabhairu, Rachana; Kottala, Harini; Zhao, Chen
    • GMC-171 Predictive Analysis Of Customer Churn In Telecommunications Using Data Warehousing And Mining Techniques (Graduate Project) by Zhao, Chen; Chereddy, Sai Vignesh; Dhulipalla, Srimanth ; Sarabudla, Harshitha
    • GMC-178 Context-Free Grammar Automata for Document Summarization (Graduate Project) by Dudam, Vinoothna; Salimi, Yassine; Pullakandam, Sai Kumar; Adivi, Sai Raghu Ram; Tukkugudam, Dheeraj Sai
    • GMC-183 PetPal App Development (Graduate Project) by Katari , Venkatesh Babu; Dasari, Lakshmi Gayathri; Appani, Niranjan R; Paladugu, Snehitha; Cherkuri, Easwaar
    • GMC-191 Complexity Analysis of K-means Clustering and its Applications (Graduate Project) by Mota Jr, Carlos  R; Neelam, Bindu; Bonigala, Dedeepya
    • GMC-206 Advanced E-Commerce Product Categorization Through BERT Fine-Tuning and Semantic Analysis (Pullakandam, Sai Kumar; Kolli, Naga Pravallika; Bassourou, Keren)
    • GMC-2162 Prompt Engineering And Its Effects On AI and Human Relationships: A Contemporary Approach (Graduate Project) by Madu, Francis; Kadiyala, Naga Janaki Madhav; Thallapally, Nivesh
    • GMC-218 Pet Rescue AI-Based Support Application (Graduate Project) by Akintayo, Mariah; Ajmal, Sibgha; Ishtiaque, Kazi Nafis; Patel, Krut; Alexander, Chelsi
    • GMC-219 Athlete-Agent Connect Mobile App (Graduate Project) by Ijagbemi, Ayokunle; Uzoka, Esther N; Omoniyi, Foluke
    • GMC-224 Dynamic Vehicle Routing with Real-Time Traffic Data (Graduate Project) by Chilakala, Megha Rajini; Sadineni, Jagadeeswar
    • GMC-232 SDN-Based Dynamic Traffic Management System (Graduate Project) by Chandel , Hrithik Singh; Matta, Dinesh  Mani; Pulipati, Srinivas Bhargav; Lee, Ahyoung
    • GMC-241 GTA Request/Hiring Management (Graduate Project) by Madasu, Vineetha; Mandapaneni, Pavan Kalyan; Derangula, Tharun; Thotakura , Thushara ; Nambuvaripalli Reddappa, Raghurama Reddy
    • GMC-246 Enhancing Workforce Management through Advanced HR Analytics (Graduate Project) by Rekapalli, Pradeep; Gurram, Ruthvik Reddy
    • GMC-4190 CellNucleiRAG - Smart Search Tool for Cell Nuclei Research (Graduate Project) by Koganti, Sai Chandana
    • GMC-5214 Load Balancing Algorithms for SDN-based Content Delivery Networks (Graduate Project) by Patel, Mihirkumar; Cabral, Mari; Gurram, Yaswanth Srinivas; Lee, Ahyoung
  • Research projects completed by undergraduate students.

    • UR-147 An 8-bit Digital Computer Design & Implementation (Team COA-WM1) (Undergraduate Research) by Sherard, Adrian L; Flores, Jesus; Lamsal, Biswash; Hammontree, Blake; Tadesse, Nahum T; Pitts, William
    • UR-172 A Comparative Study of LLM Effectiveness in Mental Health Assistance (Undergraduate Research) by Prasad, Kris
    • UR-213 Generative AI & Cybersecurity (Undergraduate Research) by Canada, Seth G; Katare, Shreya
    • UR-239 Human-AI Annotator Tool (Undergraduate Research) by Duong, Anh; Muse, Habeebah; Castro, Chase
  • Research projects completed by master's students.

    • GMR-124 Emotion-Based Synthetic Feature Binary Classification of Human vs LLM Generated Text/Essay (Master's Research) by Xu, Tong; Lisasi, Rene P; Wu, Patrick
    • GMR-159 LLM enabled Synthetic dataset generation for Human-AI teaming Algorithm (Master's Research) by Potluri, Sai Sanjay
    • GMR-165 An Empirical Study of Prompt-based Non-functional Requirements Classification (Master's Research) by Kim, Allen; Li, Xia
    • GMR-167 Text Summarization with Large Language Models (Master's Research) by Dhanani, Jainakshi Kishorbhai; Devara, Ashrith Kumar
    • GMR-196 Integrated Sentiment and Behavioral Analysis of Online Product Reviews (Master's Research) by Yepuri, Kiran; Mahankali , Naveen
    • GMR-208 Automatic Categorization of Behavioral Health Issues in Police reports (Master's Research) by Pederson, Mason V; Azmee, Abm Adnan; Nweke, Francis E; Khan, Md Abdullah Al Hafiz
    • GMR-215 Efficient Sentiment Analysis using Encoder-only Transformer (Master's Research) by Jonnalagadda, Rohan; Kandimalla, Srinidhi; Yellu, Siri
    • GMR-216 AI/ML-Based Water Quality Monitoring Mobile App for Predicting E.coli in Surface Waters (Master's Research) by Karumanchi, Keerthi Priya
    • GMR-229 Semantic Search using Sentence Transformers (Master's Research) by Satish, Roshni; Challa, Arpana
    • GMR-4234 Evaluating Instance Segmentation Models on Histopathology Datasets (Master's Research) by Koganti, Sai Chandana
    • GMR-5200 Machine Learning-Based Fraud Detection in Financial Transactions (Master's Research) by Patel, Mihirkumar; Chilakala, Megha Rajini; Karanam, Mohammed Khizar; Zhao, Chen
    • GMR-7175 Enhancing Alzheimer’s Diagnosis through Spontaneous Speech Recognition: A Deep Learning Approach with Data Augmentation (Master's Research) by Mutala, Venkata Sai Bhargav
    • GMR-7179 Improving Alzheimer’s Detection via Synthetic Data Generation Using GPT-4 and Multi-Level Embeddings (Master's Research) by Mutala, Venkata Sai Bhargav; Shahid, Imaan
    • GMR-8193 Harnessing ML-Powered HPCC Systems for Advanced Cybersecurity Analytics (Master's Research) by Kamal, Zularbine
    • GMR-8195 Machine Learning-Enhanced HPCC Systems for Alzheimer's Disease Detection: A Scalable Solution for Early Diagnosis (Master's Research) by Kamal, Zularbine
  • Research projects completed by PhD students.

    • GPR-1194 Computer Vision-Enhanced Spectroscopy for Glucose Prediction: An In Vitro Validation Study (PhD Research) by Belfarsi, El Arbi; Valero, Maria A
    • GPR-1209 Longitudinal Sentiment Analysis of Autobiographical Text Using NLP Techniques (PhD Research) by Belfarsi, El Arbi; Khan, Md Abdullah Al Hafiz
    • GPR-1227 Applied Machine Learning to Optimize Blood Transfusions and Predict Shortages in Resource-Constrained Areas (PhD Research) by Belfarsi, El Arbi; Cetinkaya, Coskun
    • GPR-132 Hyperparameter Optimization in Neural Network Using Binary Search Algorithm (PhD Research) by Chowdhoury, Faysal; Zhang, Yinning; Suer, Sait
    • GPR-142 Optimization of Fixed Time in Round Robin Scheduling using Clustering Algorithms (PhD Research) by Suer, Sait
    • GPR-148 A study of different real-time robotic applications (PhD Research) by Wu, Yongshuai
    • GPR-151 Compassionate Digital Assistant: Anchor (PhD Research) by Regan, Christopher M* Verma, Navneet
    • GPR-155 Integration of Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) with Neo4j LLM Knowledge Graphs for Enhanced NLP Tasks (PhD Research) by Bharti, Suman
    • GPR-161 Meta-Reinforcement Learning with Discrete World Models for Adaptive Load Balancing (PhD Research) by Redovian, Cameron J
    • GPR-185 A Multimodal Approach to Quiz Generation: Leveraging RAG Models for Educational Assessments (PhD Research) by Kunuku, Mourya Teja
    • GPR-187 Deep Learning Models for Protein-Protein Binding Affinity Prediction (PhD Research) by Chen, Lingtao; Xie, Yixin
    • GPR-210 Cogni-Resource: AI-Driven Reflective Feedback Analysis for Enhanced Learning Insights and Resource Discovery (PhD Research) by Devara, Ashrith Kumar; Kunuku, Mourya Teja
    • GPR-2212 Explainable Multi-Label Classification Framework for Behavioral Health Based on Domain Concepts (PhD Research) by Nweke, Francis E; Azmee, Abm Adnan
    • GPR-2238 Tech Guru: A Domain Specific LLM for Tech. Industry (PhD Research) by Nweke, Francis *; Vu, Long; Jha, Nitin; Ordonez, Pablo F
    • GPR-233 Human-Assisted AI for Detecting Mental Health Indicators in Social Media (PhD Research) by Azmee, Abm Adnan; Nweke, Francis E; Pederson, Mason V
    • GPR-243 Nutrilizer - Leveraging Multimodal LLMs for Enhanced Food Recognition and Dietary Analysis in Type 2 Diabetes Management (PhD Research) by Crystal, Afnan; Belfarsi, El Arbi; Valero, Maria A
    • GPR-6126 Utilizing ML techniques for a Quantum Augmented HTTP Protocol (PhD Research) by Jha, Nitin
    • GPR-6128 Joint Encryption and Error Correction for Quantum Communication (PhD Research) by Jha, Nitin