Caleb Johnson is a third-year student at San Diego State University pursuing a degree in computer science. He is currently involved with research at SDSU with Professor Shangping Ren’s lab, as well as here at UC Irvine with IoT-Sity. He plans to enter the workforce after He graduates and comes back to pursue a master’s degree in computer science
Major: Computer Science
Home Institution:San Diego State University
Faculty Mentor: Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Shangping Ren, Ph.D.
Project Title: Integrating IoT within Wastewater Treatment Processes
Project Description: Wastewater Treatment facilities currently do not have a safe or easy way to share data amongst themselves or with other water domains. The SWADE project aims to solve this issue and create a framework for the three water domains (wastewater, stormwater, and drinking water) to share data. The goal of this project is to integrate IoT within wastewater treatment facilities in order to improve operation and data collection within their respective treatment processes, with the aim of using this work with SWADE in the future.
Brianna Hernandez is a third year Electrical Engineering student, with a communications specialty, at the University of California, Irvine.
This summer she is working with Professor Sharad Mehrotra and Dr. Nalini Venkatasubramanian at the University of California, Irvine on a
research project that compresses data selection from sensors.
Major: Computer Science and Engineering
Home Institution: University of California Irvine
Faculty Mentor: Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Ph.D.
Project Title: Compressed Data Collection from Sensors for ZotBins
Project Description: ZotBins is a student lead research project at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) that creates SmartBins with sensors that collect data, like pictures of the trash, fullness, and weight, to help make waste management more efficient and promote zero
waste. The purpose of this study is to find a more efficient form of communication between the SmartBins and the server to allow them to be
able to collect data on a long term basis.
Isabel Rowe is a junior at Marquette University pursuing a degree in Data Science. This summer she worked with Dr. Kuo-lin Hsu and Dr. Phu Nguyen at the University of California Irvine.
Major: Data Science
Home Institution: Marquette University
Faculty Mentor: Phu Nguyen, Ph.D.
Project Title: Does an Increase in Hurricane Elsa’s Precipitation Correlate with an Increase in Milwaukee’s Precipitation?
Major: Computer Science
Home Institution: University of Notre Dame
Faculty Mentor: Nikil Dutt, Ph.D.
Project Title: Context-aware Emotion Detection Framework for Improving Mental Health
Project Description: Mental health affects a person’s cognitive, behavioral, and emotional well-being. Due to the importance of mental health we are building an app to monitor the emotional wellbeing of users using environmental and phone sensors to improve the individual’s mental health. This presentation focuses on addressing and improving accuracy concerns within our data collection. The goal of this project is to increase our accuracy in detecting an emotion.
Justin Yue is a current sophomore studying computer science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Advised by Professor Sharad Mehrotra, Justin currently researches smart algorithms for databases in the hopes of applying the results to the Zotbins project at UCI.
Major: Computer Science
Home Institution: University of California, Irvine
Faculty Mentor: Sharad Mehrotra, Ph.D.
Project Title: Privacy-Preserving, Region Aware Search Mechanism for Zotbins
Project Description: Zotbins is a smart space initiative at UCI aimed at encouraging zero waste management on campus. This project focuses on the map screen feature of our mobile app, where users can search for the nearest appropriate bin to dispose of their trash. To that end, this project focuses on developing said search mechanism.
Keirelys De Jesús Aponte is a third-year student at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. She is currently involved with research at UC Irvine with IoT-SITY, mentored by Professor Marco Levorato and Ph.D student Anas Alsoliman on Vision-Based Two-Factor Authentication & Localization Scheme for Autonomous Vehicles Project. She plans on getting a master’s degree in Software Engineering after she graduates from Computer Engineering.
Major: Computer Engineering
Home Institution: Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
Faculty Mentor: Marco Levorato, Ph.D.
Project Title: Optical Camera Communication Testbed Using a Single Optical Channel
Project Description: In this project we are implementing Visible Light Communication, Optical Camera Communication and Computer-Vision tools to potentially send and extract data. With this we expect to create a new data send-receive system that could work as a security enhancement in the future. This is phase one, and the most important one, of a larger project.