CS Projects @ UIUC

All project titles link to more information about the project, such as a project report, presentation, or website. These projects were all completed during my time at UIUC.

Data & Information Systems

• Impact Assessment of a Single Study – Website
  • An evaluation of the metrics used to quantify the impact of a single scientific paper. Funded by the DREAM Program.
  • Analysis was conducted using PostgreSQL and Python.
  • This work was extended by students in the CS STARS program at UIUC, Fall 2022 cohort.
• Spawning Connections: The Early Days of Paul (1963) – Website, Code Available
  • A spin-off project from my Impact Assessment project. I use the JavaScript D3 library to model the citation network of an influential paper in Coronary Heart Disease over its first three years of publication.
• Adaptive Recipe Book for Food Allergies – Report, Code Available in Private Repo
  • A Django project which allows the user to search, delete, create, and edit recipes while keeping track of allergens within said recipes. A cool feature of this project is that newly added allergy information is retroactively applied to existing dataset entries, creating a richer dataset over time.
  • Data storage for this project was provided by Google Cloud for Education who allocated credits to utilize their Google Cloud Platform for one semester.

Artificial Intelligence

• Design Recommendations for Human-AI Interaction in Image Generation – Report
  • This experimental project evaluates prompt design choices leading to successful AI image generation. The results suggest UI/UX changes to both communicate the limitations of AI to end users while guiding them towards crafting more successful prompts.
• Can ChatGPT Engineer Software? – Presentation, Code Available in Private Repo
  • This project evaluates ChatGPT performance on code generation, unit testing, bug detection, and more in both Python and Java.

Security

• Evaluation of Security Practices in Interdomain Routing – Report
  • This report evaluates security concerns for common protocols used in Internet routing, what solutions are currently available, and cutting edge technologies which might replace current practices.
• Student Security Perceptions at UIUC – Presentation
  • Presentation on UIUC student body survey findings related to cybersecurity perceptions and attitudes. Do students find cybersecurity important? Do they believe other students find it important? Where are students looking to obtain more security knowledge?