A range of projects took top slots in the 2024 annual Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research in Computer Science competition. The projects were judged by faculty and alumni.

Capstone project category

1st place (tie)

  • "HokiePark": Eugene Min, Adalia Truong, Ken Lin, Allison Deaton, An Truong
  • "NanoBrick: Lightweight Segmentation and Classification of LEGO Bricks for a Mobile Kit Management Platform": Jay Katyan, Samuel Garver, Ali Hassan, Ramez Ahment, Adel Eltaher

2nd place

  • "Whack-A-Math": Daniel Tolessa, Devika Mittal, Hana Shalaby, Magdeldin Ahmed, Gabriele Boni

3rd place

  • "AutoNotes": Harry Leverone, Mark Carroll, Ryan Teer, Stephen Ippolito, Nayeli Zurita Herbas

Research category

1st place

  • "Predicting VR Gaze Data from System Performance": Ken Lin, Paul Maynard, Bo Ji, Brendan David-John

2nd place

  • "Modernizing the Academic Journey: A User-Centric Plan of Study Tool for MS and PhD Students in CS": Yasemin C. Tanyu, Peiqing Guo

3rd place

  • "Red is Sus: Predicting the Accuracy of Broadband Submissions": Zhouwei Wen, Brooke Ritter
students presenting research poster
Teams presented their work via poster boards and answered judges questions. Photo by Sally Hamouda for Virginia Tech.

Industry category

1st place

  • "HokiePark": Eugene Min, Adalia Truong, Ken Lin, Allison Deaton, An Truong

2nd place

  • "NanoBrick: Lightweight Segmentation and Classification of LEGO Bricks for a Mobile Kit Management Platform": Jay Katyan, Samuel Garver, Ali Hassan, Ramez Ahment, Adel Eltaher

3rd place

  • "DevOps and Software Evolution of the CSGenome Project": Justin Turkiewicz, Katelyn Crumpacker, Caleb Appiagyei, Ayesha Kabduwal, Johanna Johnsen, Xandra McCoy, Michael Atkins, Martha-Patience Taah, Christina Casey

People's choice category

Three-way tie

  • "CodeKids: Interactive Books for Teaching K-8 Kids How to Code": Janna Helvey, Ethan Triggiano, Noah Provenzano, Gabriel Holder, Phy Nguyen, Michael Shi, Alex Ryu
  • "Building Tools to Support Diary Studies": Jordan Horrall, Pallavi Chavan, Yaw Owusu, Phillip Jordan, John Zhao, Will Gaudian, Aditya Rana
  • "GuardAR: Enhancing Privacy Protection Against Intrusive Augmented Reality Applications on HoloLens2": Van Ha Tran Nguyen, Bharathi Ganesan, Mary Zeno