Spring 2008 Guided Research
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Guided Research in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2008)
What is Guided Research?
Guided research is part of the undergraduate programs in EECS, CS and ECE. The guided research courses are jointly offered by all the respective professors: CS by the Computer Science faculty, ECE by the Electrical Engineering faculty, EECS conjointly. The professors propose a number of research projects, which can be handled within 6 weeks full time (or equivalent distributed time). The list of projects will be posted on the website. Students interested in particular projects should get in touch with the professor in charge of that project. As part of the project the students should prepare a research proposal (5 pages; howto), a final report (20 pages) and present the project in a seminar during the last 2 weeks of the semester.
Warning: There is no graduation without guided research!
Registration
Students taking guided research must choose a topic and have it approved by the respective supervisor until 15.Dec.2007. Furthermore, students must register for the guided research course on campus.net.
- Guided Research Electrical Engineering (300342)
- Guided Research Computer Science (320342)
There will be groups corresponding to the respective supervisors, which must be chosen.
Schedule
2007-12-15 Deadline for selecting the topic and the supervisor (faculty member) 2008-03-08 Research proposal due (5 pages; howto) 2008-05-09 Final report due (20 pages) 2008-05-15/16 Oral Presentations (15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)
Grading
The final grade will be composed of three partial percentage grades:
- research proposal 15% (grading scheme),
- final report 70% (grading scheme), and
- oral presentation 15% ( grading scheme).
Each of the contributions will be graded to a percentage according to the respective grading scheme, the percentages will be combined in a weighted sum as indicated, and then transformed to a Jacobs University grade.
Submissions
The research proposal and the final report should be submitted to the supervisor. The student is responsible to make sure that the submission reaches the supervisor in time for the deadline. The research proposal and final report can be submitted electronically by e-mail. For electronic submission, the date of the e-mail counts as the basis for determining timeliness.
Late submissions of the research proposal and the final report will be penalized by a grade reduction of 10 percentage points per day for the contribution. So, if you submit a thesis three days late, that would have netted you 60%, then the thesis will contribute a partial grade of 30%. Thus, even if your proposal and presentation are perfect (100%) your final grade will be at 70%*30%+100%*15%+100%*15%=51%, you will be very close to failing your guided research!
CS Presentations
Presentations of guided research projects will be on Thu/Fri, May 15/16. Slots are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis. To apply for a slot, contact email to Jürgen Schönwälder and send him your preferred list of time slots and the title of your talk.
Date Time Room Student Supervisor Title 2008-05-15 10:00 - 10:20 West Hall 2 ... ... 2008-05-15 10:20 - 10:40 West Hall 2 Daniel Garcia Rodriguez Baumann Visualization and Explanation of Query Plans and Storage Layouts for an Array DBMS 2008-05-15 10:40 - 11:00 West Hall 2 Sorin Stancu-Mara Baumann Using Graphic Cards for Accelerating Raster Database Query Processing 2008-05-15 11:00 - 11:20 West Hall 2 Semir Elezovic Schönwälder Multi Touch User Interfaces 2008-05-15 11:20 - 11:40 West Hall 2 Vassil Stefanov Schönwälder Mesh Routing for IPv6 over 802.15.4 on TinyOS 2008-05-15 11:40 - 12:00 West Hall 2 Dimitar Nedev Schönwälder FS20 Hardware Interface for MICAZ Motes 2008-05-15 12:00 - 12:20 West Hall 2 Ivan Stefanov Schönwälder FS20 / SNMP Gateway on TinyOS 2008-05-15 12:20 - 12:40 West Hall 2 Elchin Asgarov Schönwälder Implementation and Evaluation of SSH Session Resumption 2008-05-15 12:40 - 13:00 West Hall 2 Reserve ?? ?? Date Time Room Student Supervisor Title 2008-05-16 13:00 - 13:20 East Hall 6 Andrei Giurgiu Jaeger OOMs for nonstationary time series 2008-05-16 13:20 - 13:40 East Hall 6 Bogdan Stroe Jaeger Self-stabilizing Echo State Networks 2008-05-16 13:40 - 14:00 East Hall 6 Consuela Voevudschi Jaeger Failure prediction with Echo State Networks 2008-05-16 14:00 - 14:20 East Hall 6 Dante Stroe Jaeger Text generation with hierarchical Echo State Networks 2008-05-16 14:20 - 14:40 East Hall 6 Andrei Ionita Kohlhase Extracting an RDF knowledge representation from OMDoc 2008-05-16 14:40 - 15:00 East Hall 6 Nikolay Kazmin Linsen Modeling Large Cities - Software Engineering 2008-05-16 15:00 - 15:20 East Hall 6 Petar Dobrev Linsen Modeling Large Cities - Visualization 2008-05-16 15:20 - 15:40 East Hall 6 Elena Agapie Kohlhase An Extension of MMT with Functor Representation 2008-05-16 -- BREAK -- 2008-05-16 16:00 - 16:20 East Hall 6 Andrei Aiordachioaie Kohlhase Extending Panta Rhei 2008-05-16 16:20 - 16:40 East Hall 6 Evans Bekoe Kohlhase A Bidirectional Translation Between OpenMath Encodings 2008-05-16 16:40 - 17:00 East Hall 6 Zdravko Beykov Kohlhase Aggregating Documents in SWiM 2008-05-16 17:00 - 17:20 East Hall 6 Elena Digor Kohlhase An OMDoc representation of Mizar library 2008-05-16 17:20 - 17:40 East Hall 6 Reserve ?? ?? 2008-05-16 17:40 - 18:00 East Hall 6 Reserve ?? ??
EE Presentations
Presentations of guided research projects will be on Thu/Fri May 15/16. Slots are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis. To apply for a slot, contact Mathias Bode (m.bode@jacobs-university.de) and send him your preferred list of time slots and the title of your talk. Before submitting the list, make sure that it works with your supervisor.
Date Time Room Student Supervisor Title 2008-05-15 13:00 - 13:20 West Hall 4 Baiasu Bode Independent Component Analysis 2008-05-15 13:20 - 13:40 West Hall 4 Kronmueller Henkel Relaxed Block Interleavers for Unequal Error Protection Turbo Codes 2008-05-15 13:40 - 14:00 West Hall 4 Todorov Bode Associative Neural Networks 2008-05-15 14:00 - 14:20 West Hall 4 Abdulhafdh Wallace Analysis of Phase Noise in MIMO Measurements 2008-05-15 14:20 - 14:40 West Hall 4 Gebre Wallace Experimental Validation of Phase Noise in MIMO Measurements 2008-05-15 14:40 - 15:00 West Hall 4 Vasilev Wallace Beacon Design and Multiuser Shadowing 2008-05-15 15:00 - 15:20 West Hall 4 Koken Wallace Accuracy of Directional MIMO Channel Models 2008-05-15 15:20 - 15:40 West Hall 4 Pandey Wallace Experimental Performance of Collaborative Spectral Sensing 2008-05-15 BREAK 2008-05-15 16:00 - 16:20 West Hall 4 Vaibhav Bode Audio Fingerprinting 2008-05-15 16:20 - 16:40 West Hall 4 Melnikov Haas DSP-Implementation of Physical Layer Software Modules 2008-05-15 16:40 - 17:00 West Hall 4 Kodrasi Bode Independent Component Analysis 2008-05-15 17:00 - 17:20 West Hall 4 Reserve ?? ?? 2008-05-15 17:20 - 17:40 West Hall 4 Reserve ?? ?? 2008-05-15 17:40 - 18:00 West Hall 4 Reserve ?? ?? Date Time Room Student Supervisor Title 2008-05-16 14:00 - 14:20 East Hall 3 Makombe Bergholz Hot Pixels in CCD Cameras 2008-05-16 14:20 - 14:40 East Hall 3 Javanoska Bergholz Fast Mapping of Photovoltaic Cell Parameters 2008-05-16 14:40 - 15:00 East Hall 3 Sherif Bergholz Fast Mapping of Photovoltaic Cell Parameters 2008-05-16 15:00 - 15:20 East Hall 3 Ojha Bergholz Statistical Process Control – Deutsche Bahn 2008-05-16 15:20 - 15:40 East Hall 3 Stanev Bergholz Statistical Process Control – Airlines 2008-05-15 BREAK 2008-05-16 16:00 - 16:20 East Hall 3 Ondara Bergholz QM - Standardization in the Nanotechnology Industry 2008-05-16 16:20 - 16:40 East Hall 3 Stroescu Dabu Bergholz Effectiveness of Supplier Process Audits (Volkswagen) 2008-05-16 16:40 - 17:00 East Hall 3 Jehanzeb Bergholz Effectiveness of Supplier Process Audits (Infineon) 2008-05-16 17:00 - 17:20 East Hall 3 Costea Bergholz Testing Standards for PV Modules - Si Crystalline Cells 2008-05-16 17:20 - 17:40 East Hall 3 Costache Bergholz Testing Standards for PV Modules - Thin Film Solar Cells 2008-05-16 17:40 - 18:00 East Hall 3 Tsonev Bode Associative Neural Networks 2008-05-16 18:00 - 18:20 East Hall 3 Dimitrov Haas Optical Wireless Propagation Modelling
Topics
Students taking guided research in 2008 have to choose their guided research topic by the end of 2007 to get started early. It is generally recommended to get engaged in research as early as possible since that gives an additional perspective on your major. The table below lists some topics. It is also possible to propose a topic. But in this case, you have to approach a faculty member and convince him.
In case you like to know more about a topic listed below, please go and see the respective faculty member.
| Status | Faculty | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Semir Elezovic | Schönwälder | Touchscreen User Interfaces for Smart Offices |
| Dimitar Nedev | Schönwälder | Nanoloc Integration into Embedded Linux Systems |
| Ivan Stefanov | Schönwälder | Sensors for Smart Offices on Embedded Linux Systems |
| Vassil Stefanov | Schönwälder | Mesh routing for IPv6 over 802.15.4 on TinyOS |
| Elchin Asgarov | Schönwälder | Implementation and Evaluation of SSH Session Resumption |
| Mihai Cretu | Schönwälder | Session Resumption for the Secure Shell Protocol |
| Irina Baiasu, Ina Kodrasi | Bode | Blind (Audio) Source Separation |
| Vladimir Todorov, Dobroslav Tsonev | Bode | Associative Neural Networks (let them think...) |
| Prashant Vaibhav | Bode | Audio fingerprinting |
| Open | Baumann | Using Httpd As Geo Image Cache (2009) |
| Open | Baumann | Integrating a Database Data Definition and Query Language (2009) |
| Open | Baumann |
Foreseeing (2009) |
| Open | Baumann | |
| Open | Baumann | |
| Open | Baumann |
What can Scale-Space Theory Contribute to Array Database Optimization? (2009) |
| Open | Baumann | |
| Open | Jaeger |
Numerous topics from the area of neural networks and machine learning. Topic will be tailored to background and ambitions of student. The type of task ranges from mathematical analysis, to the optimization of machine learning algorithms; to empirical case studies where benchmark datasets are learnt by machines (using existing toolboxes); to programming tasks. Illustrative example topics could be, e.g., (i) improving the accuracy of an financial forecasting algorithm (see how Jacobs students won an international forecasting competition), (ii) contribute to the ongoing development of a handwriting recognizer (in collaboration with the company that delivers the parcel sorting software to Federal Express), (iii) re-implementing a Matlab toolbox in C++ (again, in collaboration with a high-tech company), or (iv) modelling biological brain structures with artificial neural networks (in collaboration with the Bernstein Center for Brain Research in Freiburg). |
| Bogdan Stroe | Jaeger |
Modelling dynamical associations with Echo State Networks (working title) |
| Dante Stroe | Jaeger |
Hierarchical Echo State Networks (working title) |
| Consuela Voevudschi | Jaeger |
Machine failure prediction with ESNs (collaboration with algorithmica technolgies) |
| Oliver Mitevski | Jaeger |
Retinal ESNs for video data modelling |
| Andrej Giurgiu | Jaeger |
Observable operator models for nonstationary time series |
| Open | Knipp |
Electrical Characterization of Thin Film Transistors |
| Open | Knipp |
Influence of the back reflector design on the efficiency of thin film solar cells |
| Open | Knipp |
Printing of solar cell front contacts |
| Open | Knipp/Wallace |
Printing antennas and antenna arrays for wireless applications |
| Open | Knipp |
Electronics for Biomedical Applications (together with Prof. Benecke, University Bremen) |
| Open | Linsen | Dual Contouring on Unstructured Grids |
| Open | Linsen | Photon Mapping for Point-based Rendering |
| Nikolay Kazmin | Linsen | Modeling of Large Cities - Data Management |
| Petar Dobrev | Linsen | Modeling of Large Cities - Visualization |
| Open | Linsen | Geometric Flow Visualization on Scattered Data |
| Open | Linsen | Parallelizing Visualization Pipelines |
| Open | Linsen | Closed Form for B-spline Integration |
| Open | Linsen | Treemap Visualization of Pseudo-hierarchies |
| Open | Wallace |
Designing beacons for cognitive radio studies |
| Open | Wallace |
Modeling spectrum use for cognitive radio |
| Open | Wallace |
Ad-hoc networking with double-directional mapping |
| Open | Wallace |
Solar cell modeling with radiative transfer |
| Open | Henkel |
Extension of an impulse-noise model |
| Open | Henkel |
Multi-channel impulse-noise measurement and modeling |
| Open | Henkel |
Iterative decoding of analog codes and linear programming |
| Open | Henkel |
UEP in multicarrier modulation and MIMO |
| Open | Henkel |
Properties of code graphs related to their matrix description |
| Open | Henkel |
Realization and study of a pseudo-random convolutional interleaver in a pipelined Turbo decoder |
| Open | Henkel |
Implementation of a BCJR/Log-MAP/Max-Log-MAP decoder |
| Open | Henkel |
Multicarrier simulation with impulse-noise detection/correction |
| Open | Henkel |
Erasure (packet-loss) probabilities in data networks dependent on individual links |
| Open | Henkel |
Electro-magnetic coupling unit to generate acoustical waves in pipes |
| Andrei Aiordachioaie | Kohlhase |
Adding community features and editing features to panta rhei. |
| Zdravko Beykov | Kohlhase | |
| Andrei Ioniţă | Kohlhase | |
| Elena Agapie | Kohlhase | |
| Elena Digor | Kohlhase | |
| Evans Bekoe | Kohlhase | |
| Open | Bergholz | Noise measurements on capacitor diodes as a tool to crack the "Random Telegraph Signal Conondrum" |
| Peter Macombe | Bergholz | Hot Pixel in CCD cameras, a phenomenon that the Chip industry does not like to talk about: A Study using X-rays to elucidate the phenomenon |
| Open | Bergholz | Quality Management System in a doctors surgery - A way to increase the Quality of Treatment and bring down cost at the same time (Excellent command of the german language required) |
| Open | Bergholz | Fast mapping of Photovoltaic Cell parameters as an "Electrical Fingerprint" method to identify efficiency detractors in mass production |
| Nirdesh Oija | Bergholz | Application of Statistical Process Control Methods in optimizing Transport Systems |
| Open | Bergholz | Nanotechology: Application of QM methods to enhance this emerging technology, Project 1: Literature Study, Project 2: Transmission Electron Microscope Study |
| Maria Stroescu Dabu | Bergholz | Assessement of the Assessment Method: A study of the effectiveness of Supplier Process Audits to improve the Quality of Suppliers in the Automotive and High Tech Industries (Project with Volkswagen) |
| Mohammed Jehandzeb | Bergholz | Assessement of the Assessment Method: A study of the effectiveness of Supplier Process Audits to improve the Quality of Suppliers in the Automotive and High Tech Industries (Project with Infineon Technologies) |
| Adrian Costache / Dan Costea | Bergholz | Assessment of Standards for the Performance and Reliability Tests for PV Cells with respect to illumination conditions |
| Adrian Costache / Dan Costea | Bergholz | Assessment of Standards for the Performance and Reliability Tests for PV Cells with respect to environmental conditions such as Temperature Cycling, Temperature, Humidity and other environmental factors |
| Yordan Stanev | Bergholz | Application of Statistical Process Control in the Logistics Industry – Airlines |
| Open | Stamerjohanns | Implement feedback system to correct formulas which have been converted to MathML |
| Open | Stamerjohanns | Simulate the Google File System |
