Fall 2018 School of Computing Symposium

Friday, November 30, 2018 from 3 PM to 6:30 PM

Grand Banquet Hall

UNF Adam W. Herbert University Center

About the Event

The School of Computing Symposium features course projects, thesis projects, and other types of faculty research projects carried out by undergraduate and graduate students. Students and faculty will share their work via poster presentations. This event will provide you an opportunity to have one-on-one interaction with our faculty and other computing students.

The event is open to the public. Light refreshments is served. The Fall 2018 symposium has ended.

Thanks to all for taking time to attend the symposium and providing comments to our student presentations. Please provide your suggestions to improve the next symposium.

Fall 2018 Symposium Feedback

Our Sponsors

Special thanks to corporate sponsors for supporting our students in this event. This symposium is supported by annual contributions by members of the School of Computing Advisory Board and local companies. You can find list of advisory board members at CAB.

Program Schedule

• 2:15 PM to 2:45 PM - Students setting up their poster
• 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM - Check-in and registration
• 3:00 PM - Event kickoff
• 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM - Attendees view posters and provide feedback
• 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM - Event closing and announcement of symposium winners

During the event, each attendee will be allowed to vote on poster of their interests. Attendees can cast their vote via smartphone using QR reader apps. QR Code Reader App should be available for free in the App store relevant to your phone. We will also have few computers at the event location for casting votes. Posters that receive the highest number of votes would be announced as the symposium prize winners.

Event Materials

Event Location and Parking

UNF Adam W. Herbert University Center

12000 Alumni Drive

Jacksonville, FL 32224 - 2678

The University Center offers complimentary parking to all event attendees. You can find driving instructions at the below link:

http://www.unf.edu/universitycenter/Map_and_Directions.aspx

Symposium Winners

During the event, attendees were provided with 10 votes with instructions to score posters that are award worthy in the range of 1 to 10. Winners of the symposium were decided based on the number of votes and scores received. Winners were recognized with cash prizes and certification awards. Dr. Sherif Elfayoumy, School of Computing Director presented cash prizes and award certificates to winners of the symposium.

Honorable Mention Winners

Ten posters were recognized with honorable mention award for best-in-class poster presentation. Honorable mention winners received $50 cash prize and award certificate. See below for list of honorable mention award winners:

• Poster Title: Navigating a Fat Robot in a Known Environment
  • *Presenters: Jose Gomez
  • *Course: CIS 4930/5930 - Geometric Algorithms and Data Structures
   
• Poster Title: Jax Construction
  • *Presenters: Evan J. Gordon, Jasmine N. Jones, Mario Mulellari, Taylor F. Pierson, and Edward Sheridan
  • *Course: CGS 4307 - Information Processing: An Organizational Perspective
   
• Poster Title: Zoo Management Database
  • *Presenters: Amiel G. Bueser, Alec J. Rance, Kristen M. Wankowski, and Yanling Zhang
  • *Course: COP 4720 - Database Systems
   
• Poster Title: Medical Passport
  • *Presenters: Jeremy Beever, Jonathan Depaul, and Blake Henderson
  • *Course: COP 3855 - Web Systems Development
   
• Poster Title: Day of Difference Event Registration System
  • *Presenters: Andrew Hill, David Munera, Jose Oropeza, and Michael Rice
  • *Course: CIS 4327 - IS Senior Project I
   
• Poster Title: Electronic Voting
  • *Presenters: Joshua Bryant, and Javen Watson
  • *Course: CIS 3253 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing
   
• Poster Title: Quantum Information Theory and Grover's Algorithm Presenting
  • *Presenters: Abigail Foreman
  • *Course: Research Projects
   
• Poster Title: Firebase Food Ordering Application
  • *Presenters: David Lance Akins II, Tyrone Arthurs, Jin Kim, and Elizabeth Ruby
  • *Course: CEN4535C - Development of Gaming and Mobile Applications
   
• Poster Title: GIAA: The Online Tabletop RPG
  • *Presenters: Amitabh Bhattacharya, Emily Czarnecki, Yuanlong (Allan) Liao, Nissarg Mehta, and Aaron Wilson
  • *Course: CEN 6016 - Engineering of Software I
   
• Poster Title: HearthClone
  • *Presenters: Brandon Mack, Bobby Mathis, and Geoff McQueen
  • *Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering
   

* Symposium presenters received a participation certificate.

Apart from above winners, three other posters received special recognition for the most innovative, the best real world application, and the best student selected projects. The most innovative project was selected by representatives from Harris Computers, real world project were selected by representatives from feature[23] (http://feature23.com/), and best student selected poster was chosen by Danish Sayed.

Most Innovative Project

• Poster Title: Computational Geometry in Robotics: Digital Terrain Modeling
  • *Presenters: Brian Hicks
  • *Course: CIS 4930/5930 - Geometric Algorithms and Data Structures
   

Best Real World Application

• Poster Title: Multi-robot Information Collection in Unknown Environments With Dynamic Workload Balancing
  • *Presenters: Amitabh Bhattacharya
  • *Course: Research Projects
   

Best Student Selected

• Poster Title: Taxonomic Identification using Deep Learning
  • *Presenters: Stephen Baker, Alex Besuden, and Lucas Welch
  • *Course: Research Projects
   

Votes count for top 10 posters:

Participating Courses

Students and Faculty from following courses and research projects will be presenting their work at the symposium.

Past Symposiums

• Spring 2018 SoC Symposium
• Fall 2017 SoC Symposium
• Spring 2017 SoC Symposium
• Fall 2016 SoC Symposium
• Spring 2016 SoC Symposium
• Fall 2015 SoC Symposium
• Spring 2015 SoC Symposium
• Fall 2014 SoC Symposium
• Spring 2014 SoC Symposium
• Fall 2013 SoC Symposium
• Spring 2013 SoC Symposium
• Fall 2012 SoC Student Symposium
• Spring 2012 SoC Student Symposium
• Fall 2011 SoC Student Symposium