2007 CSE Poster Workshop exhibits student research

The 2007 CSE Poster Workshop took place on Friday, April 13. Thirty-eight groups of student researchers displayed their posters in the third floor hallways of the Engineering Building and explained their work as part of an annual tradition that promotes recognition of student research.

CSE recognized its Corporate Partners Liquid Web, Sircon, and TechSmith during the awards presentation and thanked them for their support and participation.

Poster awards were given in three categories:

Presentation

1st place: Karthik Nandakumar and Abhishek Nagar (Advisor: Anil Jain)
Secure Fingerprint Authentication Using Fuzzy Vault

2nd place: Shaolin Qu (Advisor: Joyce Chai)
An Exploration of Eye Gaze in Spoken Language Processing for Multimodal Conversational Interfaces

3rd place: Ming Wu (Advisor: Rong Jin)
Semi-supervised Text Categorization by Directed Graph

Research

1st place: Jared DeMott (Advisors: Richard Enbody and William Punch)
Revolutionizing the Field of Grey-box Attack Surface Testing with Evolutionary Fuzzing

2nd place: Yi Chen (Advisor: Anil Jain)
Touchless Finger Imaging: Image Quality, Enhancement and Matching

3rd place: Loretta M. Macklem (Advisor: William Punch)
Fitness Moderated Complexification (FMC) for Controlling GP Tree Growth

Overall

1st place: Yi Chen (Advisor: Anil Jain)
Touchless Finger Imaging: Image Quality, Enhancement and Matching

2nd place: Jared DeMott (Advisors: Richard Enbody and William Punch)
Revolutionizing the Field of Grey-box Attack Surface Testing with Evolutionary Fuzzing

3rd place: Pavan Kumar Mallapragada (Advisors: Rong Jin and Anil Jain)
SemiBoost: Boosting for Semi-supervised Learning

Awards were provided by Liquid Web, Sircon, TechSmith, Motorola, SAIC and Auto-Owners Insurance.

Industry poster judges included:

Kevin Ohl, Crowe Chizek & CSE Strategic Partner Council member
Kabe Vanderbaan, Senior Research Engineer for Motorola Labs & CSE Strategic Partner Council member
David Bursik, SAIC & CSE Strategic Partner Council member
Marty Strickler, Rose Packing Company & CSE Strategic Partner Council member
Brian DiShaw, TechSmith Corporation
Saul Rodriguez, Sircon Corporation
Patrick Masi, Sircon Corporation
Eugene Yu, President and CEO of Konnech

MSU Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) poster judges included:

Selin Aviyente
Subir Biswas
Shantanu Chakrahartty
Nihar R. Mahapatra
Robert McGough
Ramakrishna Mukkamala
Pradeep Ramuhalli
Xiaobo Tan
Ning Xi

CSE would like to thank Rong Jin for organizing this year’s Poster Workshop; the Strategic Partners Council; CSE corporate partners Liquid Web, Sircon, and TechSmith; faculty advisors; sponsors; staff members; ECE and industry poster judges, the faculty members and peers who support and inspire our students; and above all, our student researchers.

Posters and abstracts are available at: http://links.cse.msu.edu:8000/poster07/index.html

View event photos at: http://www.cse.msu.edu/gallery

(Date Posted: 2007-04-20)