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Third Award
While computers play an increasingly important role in every aspect of our lives, their inability to understand what tasks users are physically performing makes a wide range of applications,…
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Fourth Award
Many corporations lack the software and knowledge for advanced inventory optimization and management, so suffer stockouts, bloated inventory, and inefficient ordering policy. Material Requir…
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Genetic algorithms (GAs) are an optimization technique inspired by natural selection. GAs have yielded good results in certain practical problems, yet there is still more to be understood ab…
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USB mass storage devices security has been a leading issue in cybersecurity for decades. Attacks like Stuxnet and Flame and USB exploitation methods like BadUSB and Cottonmouth-I demonstrate…
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Third Award
Quantum computing is an emerging technology that, with its exponential computational speedup, will allow us to solve a new level of hard problems. From rapid vaccine development, efficient d…
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With the advent of quantum computation methods such as Shor’s algorithm to factor large primes, classical encryption protocols are rendered ineffective, necessitating new quantum cryptograph…
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Third Award
The process of registering intra-procedural prostate magnetic resonance images (MRI) with corresponding pre-procedural images improves the accuracy of certain surgeries, such as a prostate b…
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Second Award
The necessity of developing and deploying interactive web applications quickly has become more prevalent over the last decade, resulting in developers creating libraries and frameworks to si…
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Peking opera, named after the capital of China, Beijing, is the most influential form of musical theatre in China. Peking Opera is an important part of UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage…
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Fourth Award
Scientific literature is evolving at an accelerated pace. Translating scientific research to medical practice is a challenging task when presented with an overload of publications. Moreover,…
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According to the World Health Organization, cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the world. Cancer refers to any one of a large number of diseases characterized by the development…
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Due to the pandemic, this year has seen high levels of unemployment and job loss. This project seeks to use natural language processing techniques to analyze first person tweets disclosing j…
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The purpose of this project was to create a more ergonomic keyboard layout using genetic algorithms. This could help to prevent repetitive strain injuries and improve typing speed in users.…
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In 2018, there were 33 trillion Gigabytes of data in the world. Compression algorithms are used to store this data more efficiently. We developed and tested a new lossless compression algori…
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Quantum computing promises to provide algorithmic speedups for a number of tasks; however, similar to classical computing, effective error-correcting codes are needed. Current quantum comput…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on people across the world. In the United States, the initial shortage of pandemic response supplies such as PPE, COVID-19 test kits, and ventila…
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Since the COVID-19 spread, countries worldwide are providing remote learning instead of in-person class learning. Many students are struggling with managing distance online learning like acc…
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An ever-changing hazardous natural phenomenon – called a rip current – causes numerous fatal accidents all over the world. To address this problem, I use an image processing algorithm to det…
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According to the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, from March 15 to May 6, 2020, 919 incidents of gender violence were reported, most of them against women. Taking advantage of technology, we can p…
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The summer of 2020 was a different one: sea waters remain salty, the rivers ones persist crystal and clear; nonetheless, in the air, the threat hovers... The Covid-19 pandemic posed unforese…
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Existing static code analyzers are aimed at finding errors (syntax and semantic) for which there are explicit formal criteria, for example division by zero. They are capable of detecting onl…
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The project presents a software package and some necessary algorithms developed for the processing and analysis of spectra obtained with a low-field NMR spectrometer. Unlike the widely used…
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Stock market forecasting refers to the prediction of the price of any given stock within a desired time frame and has been a highly researched topic in recent years due to the difficulty of…
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From the perspective of disability science and engineering, there are a variety of software sources that help disabled people such as transcription apps and audio guides. On the other hand,…
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According to the Global Cancer Observatory, there were 65.858 breast cancer new cases in Indonesia (2020) with an estimated 22.430 deaths, mostly due to late treatment and false negative. We…
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Fourth Award
Training deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) requires immense time and energy, which often has a significant carbon footprint. Pruning CNNs increases their efficiency while maintaining…
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Malware developers actively seek vulnerabilities in computer systems and malware detectors to exploit for personal gain. Most modern malware detectors are learning-based (converting malware…
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Third Award
Is it possible to measure the sentiments and emotions linked to words by analyzing their usage in different contexts? This experiment compares how feminine and masculine words are used in te…
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Between 110 million and 190 million people suffer from physical disability according to WHO. Eye tracking systems for helping handicapped have limited self-reliance features, long delay in c…
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Our research consists of utilizing the A* search algorithm and applying it to real world scenarios of finding shortest paths that mitigate virus transmission risk and help find efficient esc…