I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computing at Grand Valley State University. For more information about my teaching or research, use the appropriate links above. For more information on me, or to contact me, check the 'About' page.
Completed MS Projects in Fall 2023 through Fall 2024
Posted on 12-22-2024
Congratulations to the following graduate students:
- Alex Billedeaux for his MS Project "Hyperparameter Optimization: Comparing Random Search and Genetic Algorithms"
- George Ebeling for his MS Project "Automated Chess Board"
- Scott Hanson for his MS Project "Using the Nvidia CUDA for GPU-Accelerated Rendering in xLights"
- Nicholas A. Reitz for his MS Project "Seed-To-Harvest Web Application"
- Daniel Dietsche for his MS Project "Parallelization of Divide-and-Conquer Algorithms for Solving Voronoi Diagrams"
- Nicholas English for his MS Project "3D Game: Enhancing Game AI with Machine Learning"
- Evan Parks for his MS Project "Notigather: Development of a Notification Gathering Web Application"
Completed MS Projects in Winter 2023
Posted on 05-16-2023
Congratulations to the following graduate students:
- Divya Venkatesan passed her MS project on Software Verification for a Breast Cancer Recurrence Prediction Application, and
- Thomas Woltjer passed his MS project on A C# Static Code Analyzer to Detect and Prevent Unhandled Exceptions and Integer Overflows.
2022 Publications
Posted on 05-15-2023
Links to the papers published in 2022 are:
- Using Metamorphic Relationships and Genetic Algorithms to Test Open-Source Software (Alex Billedeaux, Byron DeVries) in the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (eIT)
- Optimizing Trade-offs Between Distance and Coverage for Facility Location (Jhoseph Ruiz Fachin, Christian Trefftz, Xiang Cao, Byron DeVries) in the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (eIT)
- Towards self-adaptive game logic (Erik M Fredericks, Byron DeVries, Jared M Moore) in the Proceedings of the 6th International ICSE Workshop on Games and Software Engineering: Engineering Fun, Inspiration, and Motivation