3. Programs Archive

Cataracts, a hardness and opacifying of the lens, is the leading cause of curable blindness worldwide, with the majority of cases occurring in developing countries where trained ophthalmologists are scarce. Our project is to develop a device to be used for a simplified cataract surgery that will insert a cylindrical intraocular lens into the cataract. By simplifying the procedure, more healthcare providers can be trained to perform the procedure, increasing the accessibility of cataract treatment in developing countries.

We were given a patient reported symptoms dataset PRO-CTCAE and applied a variety of clustering methods. The clusters were then statistically tested for associations with a selection of outcomes such as hospitalization. We found significant associations with clusters and outcomes and compared it to linear regression results.

The aim of this project was to design a device capable of removing impacted food boluses in pediatric patients both more efficiently and more quickly compared to current industry standards.

Our project is concerned with utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum from the sun to generate and store electricity. Baseline application is capturing the temperature differential created by the sun between a roof and the inside of an attic. Further applications include using black body emissivity and radiative cooling to provide solar energy harvesting in places where traditional voltaic cells are not feasible.

This semester I built an e-commerce application to sell my artwork and donate the profits to charity. I built a Node.js server using the Express framework and middleware to implement authentication, session management, and security features. The client side code uses the Jade templating language to pass run-time variables into static files which are rendered into HTML and passed to the browser. I designed a relational database to store the relevant information and built it out using MySQL.

Hyperion is a 3D visualization platform for optical design. It provides a fully immersive, and interactive 3D user experience. It enables the visualization of models of folded freeform optical systems. The frontend user experience is supported by the computational ray-tracing engine of Eikonal+, an optical design research software. We have built a cross-platform light-weight version of Eikonal+ that can communicate with any user interface. We have also demonstrated a prototype of the 3D user experience using a Hololens AR display.

MOTLEY (Main Organizing Terminal for Low Energy Usage) focuses on the creation of a Smart Home using a Raspberry Pi as the central device. Similar to the google home, we are able to control our in-house made and thoughtfully designed custom peripherals through the use of this Pi, granting our user the ability to remotely control various devices in their homes from their current location.

ProcBlocks is an educational tool designed to introduce students to the basics of computer organization. Each component of the processor can function separately, allowing for different configurations of the "blocks" to be used. The final product would include some kind of instructional text, covering the basics of transistors, construction of digital logic, intermediate hardware constructs, and the use of computational components in a complete processor.

Industrial scanners are often prone to jams, which are costly both financially and time wise. Our projects uses audio recognition algorithms to automatically detect and stop jams in real time. For our project, we are using an scanner provided by IMBL.

Memcached is a widely used key-value (KV) store. It is structured as a multithreaded user-level server, accessed over socket connections by a potentially distributed collection of clients. Because socket communication is so much more expensive than a single operation on a KV store, much of the client library is devoted to batching of requests. Batching is not always feasible, however, and the cost of communication seems particularly unfortunate when—as is often the case— clients are co-located on a single machine with the server, and have access to the same physical memory. Fortunately, recent work on protected libraries has shown that it is possible, on current Intel processors, to amplify access rights quickly when calling into a specially configured user-level library. Library instances in separate processes can then share data safely, even in the face of independent process failures. We have used protected libraries to implement a new version of memcached in which client threads execute the code of the server themselves, without the need to send messages. Compared to the original, our new version is both significantly simpler, containing 24% less code, and dramatically faster, with a 11–56× reduction in latency and a roughly 2× increase in throughput. 

Tibial shaft fractures are a common injury and may require surgical intervention. During our team's observation of trauma surgeries at Strong Memorial Hospital, we found the procedure was inefficient. Tools used to align bone may move, and people holding alignment are prone to fatigue. Each time a tool moves, alignment is checked or redone using X-ray. Our device clamps to the surgical bed and locks the position of instruments reducing staff needed to hold alignment and increasing efficiency.

After a nuclear accident, radiation levels must be determined in order to ensure the safety of those involved in cleaning up radioactive material. The goal of this project is to produce a low-cost drone that can be used to survey the radiation levels present in a given area, and to produce a heat map of the measured radiation. All of this data must then be transmitted at a distance where the operators will be safe from radiation exposure.