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 Spring 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

Symposium Flyer

Program Schedule

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: 

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

Best Real World Application Poster Title: Multi-robot Information Collection in Unknown Environments With Dynamic Workload Balancing

Best Student Selected Poster Title: Taxonomic Identification using Deep Learning

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 2012 SoC Student Symposium

Spring 2012 SoC Student Symposium  

Fall 2011 SoC Student Symposium