NBA coaches and general managers are tasked with building lineups and rosters that maximize their chances of winning. Further, basketball is a team sport where interactions between the players in a lineup can be integral ...

Political polarization is a common topic in the news and media, but not much has been done to understand the distribution of the preferences of the U.S. voting population. Political scientists have drawn different conclusions ...

The goal of Ingenium is to prompt beginning Latin students to think consciously and critically on Latin grammar prior to translating a sentence, while engaging them with the grammar in an intuitive and hands-on way. Learners ...

Points-to analysis is a static analysis that approximates which memory locations each program expression may refer to. Many client analyses use points-to information to optimize compilers or reason about program security. ...

As more and more data migrate to the cloud, and the same files become accessible from multiple different machines, finding effective ways to ensure data consistency is becoming increasingly important. In this thesis, we ...

The de-identification of publicly released datasets that contain personal information is necessary to preserve personal privacy. One such de-identification algorithm, k-anonymization, reduces the risk of the re-identification ...

Stochastic processes are used to study the dynamics of evolution in finite, structured populations. Simulations of such processes provide a useful tool for their study, but are currently limited by computational speed and ...

The central goal of this thesis is to better understand, and explicitly construct, expanding towers G_1,G_2,..., which are expander families with the additional constraint that G_{n+1} is a lift of G_n. A lift G of H is a ...

Differential privacy is one recent framework for analyzing and quantifying the amount of privacy lost when data is released. Meanwhile, multiple imputation is an existing Bayesian-inference based technique from statistics ...

Web applications are exposed to myriad security vulnerabilities related to malicious user string input. In order to detect such vulnerabilities in Java web applications, this project employs string constraint analysis, ...