Graduate Work

CS 231, Computer Graphics & Animation - Spring 2005
• With Dr. Victor Zordan
• Unification of Direct and Abstract Control Systems for the Human Spine
• Modeling the Human Spine, accurately, is a challenging task. Our work on "Unification of Direct and Abstract Control Systems for the Human Spine" draws on the direction of the work of Michael Neff at DGP, Cs, Toronto. Until now, modeling of the human spine has been based upon largely unsupported estimation and large numbers of constraint values to elicit arbitrarily realistic "Human" motion. Our approach to human spine articulation builds upon expressed anatomy to discover how the human spine moves correctly articulate each spinal region in relation to other regions of the spine.
• Updated: June 10, 2005
Presentation (ppt) | Interim Progress Presentation (ppt) | Research Paper
Application Screen Shot | Spine Animation Two (mpg) | Spine Animation Four (mpg)

CS 302, Education in Apprentice Teaching - Spring 2005
• With Dr. Michalis Faloutsos
• Effects of Student Collaboration and Group Size on Learning Retention
• This group research project was focused on identifying opportunities for improvement in the undergraduate computer science curriculum in the Department of Computer Science at the Universidty of California, Riverside. We identify these areas through comparison with core proficiency areas at best-of-field institutions. We also identify other opportunities for recommended inclusion in an iterative improvement process as building blocks to an even better UCR.
• Updated: May 27, 2005
Research Paper

CS 231, Computer Graphics & Animation - Spring 2005
• With Dr. Victor Zordan
• Methods For Exploring Expressive Stance
• This presentation of previous work reflects my research for the course project in computer animation. Realism and human anatomy and physiology is driving the latest developments in human animation. Collaborators on this work include Michael Neff and Dr. Eugene Fiume at the University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, DGP (Dynamic Graphics Project). The paper "Methods For Exploring Expressive Stance" was presented in SIGGRAPH 2004. - This paper is not my original work!
• Updated: May 3, 2005
Presentation (ppt) | Neff Paper | Neff Website Link

CS 245, Evolution of Software Engineering - Winter 2005
• With Dr. Doug Tolbert
• Build Software of Build Airliners?
• Building Software, Like Building Airliners, is a Feat of Engineering. Should We Build Software Like We Build Airliners? In the field of software engineering, one often encounters the contention that software would be more reliable if it were built in a process like that used to build airliners. In this short paper, we evaluate the truth of the notion in a variety of useful contexts.
ds For Exploring Expressive Stance
• Updated: March 3, 2005
Presentation (ppt) | Position Paper

CS 245, Evolution of Software Engineering - Winter 2005
• With Dr. Doug Tolbert
• Computer Science is a Craft - Not a Science...
• This is a position paper that I wrote for an assignment in a course on Software Engineering practices at the University of California, Riverside, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. I argue that Computer Science is a craft, not a science, supporting my position with the short history of the field, a few definitions, and commentary by the late Frank Harary.
• Updated: January 20, 2005
Position Paper

CS 260, Systems Research - Winter 2005
• With Dr. Doug Tolbert
• The Xen virtual machine monitor
• Xen was originally part of "building an Open Infrastructure for Global Distributed Computing," under the name XenoServers, a project devoted to building a "public infrastructure for wide-area distributed computing." This overview gives a summary of the features of the Xen product, the status of the Xen project, and condensed performance statistics.
• Updated: January 12, 2005
Xen Project Summary

Undergraduate Work

CS 193, Large Database Implementation - Spring 2004
• With Mr. Titus Winters and Dr. Thomas Payne
• This large database implementation project documented and specified a schema for the UCR Department of Computer Science student archive and information database. Drawing on previous research from the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI), the design and automation, implemented in Python, provides direction to the current UCR Archive effort.
• Updated: June 10, 2004

CS 260, Seminar in Datamining - Spring 2004
• With Dr. Eamonn Keogh
• Two-Pass (LSA) Latent Semantic Analysis (ppt)
• A Two-Pass Contextual Latent Semantic Analysis for Finding Entity Aliases in Generated Multi-Parallel Corpora - LSA is not my original work!
• Updated: May 20, 2004
Presentation (ppt)

CS 183, Systems research - Winter 2004
• With Mr. Victor Hill and Dr. Thomas Payne
• UCRidge: Rapid Installation Deployment and Grid Engine.
• The UCRidge project started in the late summer of 2003 with the goal of providing enhanced Linux Terminal Services not available in the OpenSource community. Ridge aims to provide massively scalable terminal services in a new network paradigm.
• Updated: April 16, 2004
Project Website

CS 179G, Large-scale Design Project - Winter 2004
• With Dr. Eamonn Keogh
• ColorKast: from Problem to Solution
• Use the ColorKast Application: Login to ColorKast (contact me for access).
• ColorKast is not a real company. It is a fictional element of an exercise in large-scale software design. ColorKast is an entity we created to facilitate a CS179G course project in databases taught at the University of California, Riverside. The ColorKast concept was created by Conley Read and Benjamin Arai, with guidance from Dr. Eamonn Keogh.
• Updated: March 18, 2004
Project Website | Online Application

This is just an outline of my largest research projects, I add them as I go. If you are interested in more information about a project, email me.