Student Projects

Undergraduate Software Engineering Projects
  • TeamBuilder - a clustering approach to building teams from various backgrounds
  • UserStoryEstimator - a user-story estimation tool using LSTM network
  • User Story Management System - a Jira-style system designed to help students learn user stories and estimation
  • Social Work Resource System - a resource database created for the ETSU Department of Social Work - swrd.etsu.edu
  • Form Management System - a dynamic online form creation tool
  • Leave Request System - A system that allowed users to request paid-time off, with appropriate approvals
  • Document Management System - A system for tagging and categorizing uploaded PDF documents

Graduate Student Capstone Projects

  • Master's Capstone Committee Member: College of Public Health System (2018-2019).
  • Master's Capstone Committee Member: Signal Phase and Timing (SPAT) (2018-2019).
  • Master's Capstone advisor: National Storytelling Festival Application (2017-2018) [Presented April 30, 2018]. [Android] [Apple]
  • Master's Capstone Committee Member: Intelligent Taxi Hailing System (2017-2018) [Presented May 3, 2018].
  • Master's Capstone Committee Member: Faculty Teaching Credentials System (2016-2017) [Presented May 4, 2017].

Graduate Student Research
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member: Jones, Jason.  (2017-present). Penumbra: A cognitive-semantic approach to modeling narrative.
  • Doctor of Public Health Independent Study Leader: Ozodiegwu, Ifeoma D. (2018). Using Text-Mining to Conduct Systematic Reviews
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member: Ahmed, Md Salman (2017). An Investigation in to the Performance Evaluation of Connected Vehicle Applications: From Real-World Experiment to Parallel Simulation Paradigm. Master's Thesis. East Tennessee State University. [Defended March 21, 2017]. [Link]
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member: Quesinberry, M. (2016). An Analysis of Faculty and Staff's Identification of Malware Threats. Master's Thesis. East Tennessee State University. [Defended June 6, 2016]. [Link]

Undergraduate Student Research

  • Undergraduate Research Advisor: Onek, Tristan (2018). Ambitious Automata: Using the LAMP Model to Develop Web-Based Open Source Algorithmic Trading Artificial Intelligence. Paper won 2nd Place in the IEEE SoutheastCon 2018 Student Paper Competition.
  • Undergraduate Thesis (Reader): Carter, Noah (2018). Building Data Visualization Applications to Facilitate Vehicular Networking Research. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. East Tennessee State University. [Link]
  • Undergraduate Thesis (Reader/Advisor): Hiester, Luke (2018). File Fragment Classification using Neural Networks with Lossless Representations. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. East Tennessee State University. [Link]
  • Undergraduate Thesis (Faculty Advisor): Jackson, Kevin (2017-2018). Locating SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in Java Byte Code using Natural Language Techniques
  • Undergraduate Thesis (Faculty Advisor): Nalbone, Adam (2017-2019). Investigating the Potential of Chatbots in Communication