IRL Glasses – Take a Break
Abstract On average, Americans spend 11 hours a day looking at a screen and touch their phones over 2,000 times a day. The goal for the IRL Glasses for this…

Predicting 850 Job Title Codes Using Hierarchical Classification
Our hierarchical approach uses Major Code, lessening the total codes from 850 to 23. In Major Classification, we used input layer and embedding as well as 2 hidden layers. For Job Title Classification by Major, we used Random Forest to output based on Majority Voting.

Human-Centric Event Representations at the Document Level and Beyond
How can we improve knowledge distillation from large unstructured data?

Fingerprinting VPN Traffic: An Evaluation of Website Fingerprinting Attacks on Modern Virtual Private Network Applications
VPNs are increasingly promoted as a privacy-enhancing technology and a solution to protecting users’ privacy from surveillance and cyber attacks.1 While most VPN protocols encrypt users’ browsing traffic, the research community has repeatedly demonstrated that encryption algorithms need not be broken for malicious agents with knowledge of users’ encrypted traffic to fingerprint the websites they visit. We investigate whether advancements in VPN technologies in the last two decades make VPNs harder to fingerprint.

An Empirical Analysis on Large Language Models in Debate Evaluation
In this study, we investigate the capabilities and inherent biases of advanced large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in the context of debate evaluation.

Measuring Data Access Latency in Large CPU Caches
This practitioner paper describes a new, multi-locality benchmark program for testing memory access latency and using it to study recent AMD machines equipped with 3D vertical cache(V-Cache) that can be over 1 GiB in total size on a single node.

Causal Dataset Discovery with Large Language Models
In this paper, we introduce the causal data lake discovery problem and propose a large language model(LLM)-based framework to discover potential pairwise causal links between columns from different tables.

Exploring Hyperparameter Tuning: A Survey and Experimental Framework Utilizing Multi-Objective Multi-Armed Bandits
This thesis delves into MO-MAB algorithms, examining their broad applications and potential to enhance HPO.
Pairs Trading Algorithm Development for FLXAI
1. Introduction Investment, based on the definition of Robinhood (one famous online brokerage platform), is the attempt to buy assets (stocks, real estate, etc.) with own resources (money or credit)…
Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data Regarding Dental Issues associated with Opioid Consumption
DSCC383 Group I Team Youssef Ouenniche, Ian Kaplan, Michael Kingsley, Goutham Swaminathan, Shiva Rahul Edara Advisor: Professor Ajay Anand | Sponsor: Dr. Zidian Xie Analysis & Modeling Background: Opioid Use…

Characterization of Vapor Phase Concentrations for iCVD
This project aims to build and design a continuous concentration measurement system for a low-volatile monomer in the vapor phase.

Photodynamic Therapy Calibration Device for The Treatment of Abscesses
Team Members Advisor Michael Giacomelli Problem Statement This project is aimed at designing a device that allows for accurate and repeatable calibration of an optical probe that will be used…

Surgical Loupe Improvement
A device that allows surgeons to adjust the declination angle of their loupes to improve posture during long operations.

Tickler impellers to mitigate solids heeled in drained slurry tanks
Ticklers prevent heel formation from occurring and allow for most, if not all, material to drain through the tank. The goal of this project is to design a system to test different tickler impeller configurations to optimize slurry draining performance.

Continuous Reactor Resign to Prepare Arylamines from Nitro Arenes
The purpose of this project was to identify and optimize factors for a continuous reactor that can be used to prepare aryl amines from nitro arenes using an acid/proton donor system and a heterogeneous palladium catalyst.

Gold Etchant Characterization
This project explores the effects of an iodine based etchant on the etch rates of both electroplated and sputtered gold coated silicon wafers.

Developing a Method to Inhibit Refermentation in Sweetened Beer
Team Stonefish researched novel treatments for inhibiting post-canning refermentation in sweetened beer, which can cause profit loss and recalls.

Adsorption of PFAS in Landfill Leachate Using Biochar
Investigating the use of biochar made from woody yard waste stored in the Waste Management landfill in Fairport, NY as a PFAS removal treatment for the landfill leachate

Ethanol Reuse for Cannabinoid Extraction
In order to decrease costs of NoWave’s cannabis extraction process, methods were investigated to increase yield and allow for more reuse of the ethanol

Treatment of PFAS via Foam Fractination in Landfill Leachate
This project explores the most effective foam fractionation system for PFAS removal from landfill leachate.

Characterizing Single Photon Emitters in Silicon Nitride
Nicholas Achuthan Mentors Professors Pablo Postigo and Jaime Cardenas Abstract Single photon emitters (SPEs) are a key building block for integrated quantum photonic circuits, but current implementations rely on heterogeneous…

Pupil mask mask system for a MEMS DM segmented mirror model
Antony Georgiadis Mentors Professor James Fienup and Joseph Tang Abstract Wavefront sensing via phase retrieval algorithms are critical to enabling the use of large aperture systems on the ground and…

Nonlinear Propagation of Volumetrically Full Poincaré Beams
Tatsunosuke Hanano Mentor Professor Robert Boyd Abstract Light with structured polarization is called polarization structured beams, and they have gotten attention because of their ability to process more information per…

Using Raman Analysis to Identify Microplastics in Environmental Samples
Kaleigh Rook Mentors Dr. Andrew Berger and Dr. Samantha Romanick “Everything you make returns to the Earth as either food or poison.” Abstract Microplastics have permeated every corner of our…

ASML Computational Imaging to Compensate Optical Aberrations
The purpose of this project is to create a computational algorithm capable of taking an aberrated image and correct it to a sharp high contrast image. We used optical design…

CubeSat
Team Customer Dr. Daniel Brooks – Optimax Systems Inc. Mentor Dr. Aaron Bauer – Institute of Optics Abstract The goal of this design project was to demonstrate the capabilities of…

IRL
Team Mentor Prof. Jennifer Kruschwitz Background IRL Glasses is a product with the goal of minimizing the amount of technology people have to interact with on a daily basis. The first…

META360 – Hybrid Refractive-Metalens Design
The META360 project seeks to enhance the current Circle Optics 360º field-of-view stitch-free camera system using novel meta-optics technology. Using Synopsys’ new MetaOptic Designer software, we explore the use of meta-optics in a hybrid lens design.

RMSC
Team Mentor Professor Greg Schmidt Abstract Our Group’s Senior Design Team was tasked with designing a museum exhibit for RMSC that offered a fun experience for participants of all ages…
