Undergraduate projects

2015-16:

Esther Rolf ‘16, Thesis, “Capturing multiparty communication: extending notions of information theory to topology-dependent multiparty problems”
Michael Yitayew ‘16, Thesis, “Short-circuit error resilience in Boolean formulas”
Zhongxia (Ricky) Zhao ‘16, Thesis, “Non-clearing and combinatorial Walrasian equilibria”
Clement Lee ‘17, F15, “Fast polynomial factorization”
Blair Wang ‘17, F15, “Discovery of spurious statistical relationships”

David Durst ‘15, Thesis, “Beyond3D: Visualizing high-dimensional data sets”
James Pinkerton ‘15, Thesis, “Energy function arguments in finding Tower of Majority lower bounds”

Andra Constantinescu ‘14, Thesis, “Behavioral mechanism design - accounting for the mental cost of choosing”
Mihai Roman ‘14, Thesis, “Computational complexity of pricing derivatives”
Leonardo Stedile ‘14, Thesis, “Primal-dual based weights and other kidney exchange mechanisms”
Valentina Barboy ‘15, F13, “An exploration of the accuracy and efficiency of peer grading”
Stefani Karp ‘15, S14, “Information-theoretic approaches to the Unexpected Hanging Paradox”
Christoph Schlom ‘15, S14, “Calibration testing”

Kevin Mantel ‘13, Thesis, “Election manipulation through misrepresentation of pre-election polls”
Gal Oshri ‘13, Thesis, “Contracting experts with unknown cost structures”
Kanika Pasricha, Thesis, “The computational hardness of pricing compound securities”
Ashish Gupta ‘13, F12, “An investigation of the usefulness of data preprocessing techniques versus algorithmic sophistication on diabetes prediction”
Leonardo Stedile ‘14, F12, “Analysis of risk in chess”
Xiao Tian (Elaine) Liew ‘14, F12, “Effect of network structure on PageRank of spam”
Xin Yang Yak ‘14, S13, “Do YouTube users upvote Better Comments? An analysis of the influence of spelling on comment ratings”