Spring 2018 School of Computing Symposium

Friday, April 20, 2018 from 3 AM 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.

Spring 2018 Symposium Feedback Survey

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 invest 100 UNF e-Dollars on poster of their interests. Attendees can cast an investment 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 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:

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

Symposium Winners

During the event, attendees were provided with 200 UNF e-Dollars with instructions to invest in a range of 10 to 20 dollars on posters that are award worthy. Winners of the symposium were decided based on the investment amounts received. Winners were recognized with cash prizes and certification awards. School of Computing Advisory Board members along with Dr. Sherif Elfayoumy, School of Computing Director presented cash prizes and award certificates to winners of the symposium.

First Place Winner (Prize - $200) Poster Title: Yoga 4 Change Tracking Management System Presenters: Katie Grubbs, Hinal Pandya, Cindy Pham, and Matthew Ramsay Course: CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II
Second Place Winner (Prize - $150) Poster Title: UNF Symposium WebApp Presenters: Salim Zubair, Sotiri Kolvani, Adrian Santos, Camron Conway, and Michael Vasquez Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering
Third Place Winner (Prize - $100) Poster Title: City Year JAX Impact Dashboard Presenters: Dorothy Charpentier, Chloe Cruz, Eric Mwaura, and Wafaa Safar Course: CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II

Honorable Mention Winners

Eleven 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: Hubbard House Data Analysis Dashboard
  • Presenters: Dustin Go, Dorian Johnson, James Smith, and Elizabeth Thompson
  • Course: CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II
   
• Poster Title: 39 Canine
  • Presenters: John Amiel Bueser, Jacob Grubbs, Kristen Wankowski, and Yanling Zhang
  • Course: COP 3855 - Web Systems Development
   
• Poster Title: Wearable Technology
  • Presenters: Troy Bogle, Daniel Cassel, Jenny Herard, Clay Jackson, and Seth Johnson
  • Course: CIS 3253 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing
   
• Poster Title: Enter the World of CMS
  • Presenters: Mohammed Salman Khan, Samuel Matloob, and Jayalakshmi Raman
  • Course: CEN 6036 - Web Engineering
   
• Poster Title: Microservices and Containerization
  • Presenters: Jeremy Futral
  • Course: CIS 6302 - Distributed and Internet Systems
   
• Poster Title: IoT - Fog - Cloud Architecture for A Real-World App
  • Presenters: Nathan Wheeler
  • Course: Research Project supervised by Dr. Sanjay Ahuja
   
• Poster Title: Mobile Hotspots in Transportation and Travel
  • Presenters: Patrick Franza, Nicholas Ierna, Nickolas Miyares, and Ian Parlor
  • Course: CNT 4514C - Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing
   
• Poster Title: Splicing and Biomolecular Automata
  • Presenters: Gabrielle Coker, Abigail Foreman, Alex Geer, and Ben Thiemann
  • Course: COT 4461 / MAD 4505 - Computational Biology / Discrete Biomathematics
   
• Poster Title: Crypto-Currency: Blockchains, Mining and Security
  • Presenters: Edward Alvey, Andrew Armour, Davensly Dugar, and Carlos Siguenza
  • Course: CIS / EEL 4930 - Cybersecurity Systems
   
• Poster Title: Irma Source Code Visualization
  • Presenters: Samuel Matloob, and Charlotte Morrison
  • Course: CEN 6017 - Engineering of Software II
   
• Poster Title: Open Pantry
  • Presenters: Danah Alkadi, Michael Dormann, Ana Garcia Velez, Kaihua Liu, Megan Molumby, and Samuel Reilly-Rogers
  • 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 student panel selection awards. The most innovative project was selected by representatives from Prudential Financial (https://www.prudential.com), real world project were selected by representatives from feature[23] (http://feature23.com/), and student panel award was selected Danish Sayed.

Most Innovative Project

• Poster Title: NASA SUITS Design Challenge
• Presenters: Richard Lentz
• Course: Research Project supervised by Dr. Ching-Hua Chuan

Best Real World Application

• Poster Title: k-Colorability and Computing with DNA Nano-Objects
• Presenters: Nicole Cataland and Joshua Inman
• Course: COT 4461 / MAD 4505 - Computational Biology / Discrete Biomathematics

Best Student Panel Selection

• Poster Title: ElderSource Volunteer Management System
• Presenters: Stephen Waldron
• Course: CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II

Participating Courses

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

Past Symposiums

• 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