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Undergraduates can participate in projects for credits by registering in CS 4974 or 4994. Consult the Faculty Advisor or Research Supervisor before you register for this course.
Participation on a VTURCS project could also lead to an honors thesis for CS majors interested in graduating with honors.
Can't find anything that piques your curiousity? Don't be afraid to check out the Computer Science faculty list for someone who has a research interest you'd like to know more about. They might just have something for you.
Research in Mathematical Software
Faculty Advisor- Layne T. Watson
Research Supervisor- Layne T. Watson
Description of Work- My work is at the interface of computer science, mathematics, and engineering. The overall goal is to provide sophisticated mathematical software, justified by rigorous mathematical analysis, to attack significant practical engineering and scientific problems. Visit my research projects page for details on a number of my active projects.
Application Instructions- Send me an email.
Project URL- http://www.cs.vt.edu/~ltw/res_projs.html
Area(s) of Research- Theory, Problem Solving Environments, Parallel Computation
Compensation- Work for Credit
Contact- ltw@cs.vt.edu
Supercomputing on Video Gaming Consoles
- Faculty Advisor
- W. Feng
- Research Supervisor
- Ashwin Aji
- Description of Work
- Given the extreme needs of today's sophisticated video games, game consoles and video graphics cards in their own right have become supercomputers. The goal of this project is to program *and* optimize a bioinformatics application (or perhaps something else, if reasonable) on the Sony PlayStation 3 and/or the NVIDIA Tesla video graphics card using the CUDA programming environment. (For those interested in human-computer interaction, a nice interface to the above bioinformatics application would serve as a nice project as well, or an interface to our existing codes.)
- Application Instructions
- E-mail a resume to feng@cs.vt.edu. Optional, but preferred, materials include unofficial undergraduate transcript and a brief one-paragraph statement of what interests you about this project.
- Project URL
- http://
- Area(s) of Research
- Bioinformatics, Human-Computer Interaction, Parallel Computation, Problem Solving Environments, Software Engineering, Systems, Theory, Databases, Data Mining, Knowledge
- Compensation
- Negotiable
- Contact
- feng@cs.vt.edu