Theses

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2025

Kedari Chowtoori. A High Speed Imaging Framework Using Sparse Sampling and Generative Priors.

Jinjin He. Multi-Level Differentiable Particles with Partition of Unity. Committee: Lorie Loeb, Adithya Pediredla, and Bo Zhu.

Xinyue Liang. TerrainCraft: Automated Land-Cover–Driven Terrain Generation for Marine Robot Simulations. Committee: Alberto Quattrini Li, Soroush Vosoughi, and James Mahoney.

Yuchuan Ma. AIMR-BRAINSTORM: AI-Enhanced Interactive Mixed Reality For Collaborative Ideation. Committee: Lorie Loeb, James Mahoney, and Nikhil Singh.

Egemen Şahin. HeartDJ - Music Recommendation and Generation through Biofeedback from Heart Rate Variability. Committee: Michael Casey, Lorie Loeb, and Tam Vu.

Kaihao Tian. Customizable VR Driving Experiences: Balancing User Comfort and Interactivity. Committee: James Mahoney, Lorie Loeb, and John Bell.

Xiaoyu Wei. Memenify: Leveraging Machine Learning and Large Language Models for Contextual Meme Creation. Committee: Soroush Vosoughi, Lorie Loeb, and Elizabeth Murnane.

Ruomai Yang. A Wave-Optics BSDF for Correlated Scatterers. Committee: Wojciech Jarosz, Adithya Pediredla, and Geoffrey Luke.

Diyang Zhang. Eulerian Smoke Simulation with Multiple Fields. Committee: Lorie Loeb, Soroush Vosoughi, and Bo Zhu.

Zihong Zhou. An Efficient Fourier Caching Algorithm for Walk on Spheres. Committee: Wojciech Jarosz, Adithya Pediredla, and Rohan Sawney.

2024

Abdul Hadi Debs. A Study of Social Anxiety in Extended Reality Environments. Committee: Lorie Loeb, James Mahoney, and John Bell.

Emilie Nicole Hopkinson. Echo: The 2.5D Bridge Between the 2D and 3D Virtual Reality Space. Committee: Tim Tregubov, Lorie Loeb, and James Mahoney.

Kewen Huang. Enhancing Terrain Creation in Unity With a Hybrid Modular Tool: Integrating Procedural Generation and Manual Input for Optimized Design Flexibility and Efficiency. Committee: Lorie Loeb, James Mahoney, and John Bell.

Yenkai Huang. Latent Auto-recursive Composition Engine. Committee: Michael Casey, Lorie Loeb, and Elizabeth Murnane.

Wylie Z. Kasai. Poster, Performed: Understanding Public Opinions of Authorship in Generative Artificial Intelligence Models via Analogy. Committee: Lorie Loeb, Tricia Treacy, and Tim Tregubov.

Sookyoung Park. Impact of Similarities in Gender and Physical Appearance Between User and Embodied Conversational Agents on Trustworthiness, Empathy, and Service Evaluation. Committee: Lorie Loeb, SouYoung Jin, and Elizabeth Murnane.

Ziyuan Qu. Capturing and Processing Dynamic Holistic Scene for Enhanced Vision. Committee: Adithya Pediredla, Suren Jayasuriya, and Alberto Quattrini Li.

Yunzi Shi. Embodied Visions: Interactive Installations That Reimagine Bodily Presence in Digital Imaging Apparatuses as Shadows. Committee: Adithya Pediredla, John Bell, and Lorie Loeb.

Macy A. Toppan. (Meta-)Physical Artworks: Digital augmentation in art observation. Committee: Lorie Loeb, James Mahoney, and John Bell.

Japser Moore Tucker. Thematic Synthesis: Rethinking Generative Music with Compositional Understanding in Game and Software Development. Committee: Michael Casey, Lorie Loeb, and William Cheng.

Zihan Wu. Automated Cinematographer for VR Viewing Experiences. Committee: Soroush Vosoughi, James Mahoney, and Michael Cohen.

Yaming Xu. Deep Screens: A Pipeline for Transforming Pose Estimation in Film into 3D Character Animations. Committee: Lorie Loeb, SouYoung Jin, and John Bell.

2023

Michelle Chen. AnatoView: Using interactive 3D visualizations with augmented reality support for laypersons’ medical education in informed consent processes. Committee: Lorie Loeb, James Mahoney, and Elizabeth Murnane.

Carson G. Levine. Expressive mARks: Art in the Age of Augmented REality. Committee: Lorie Loeb, James Mahoney, and Gerald Auten.

Pape Sow Traoré. Sprout: Using a Garden Metaphor to Visualize and Support Customizable and Collaborative Health Tracking. Committee: Lorie Loeb, Elizabeth Murnane, and Tim Tregubov.

Hanlin Wang. An Interactive System for Generating Music from Moving Images. Committee: Michael Casey, Lorie Loeb, and James Mahoney.

Zhiyan Zhong. Beyond News Values on Twitter: Predicting Factors That Drive User Engagement in News. Committee: Soroush Vosoughi, Lorie Loeb, and Rolando Coto Solano.

Xuedan Zou. Triple Helix: AI-Artist-Audience collaboration in a performative art experience. Committee: Lorie Loeb, Elizabeth Murnane, and Temiloluwa Prioleau.

2022

Eammon Littler. Automated Filament Inking for Multi-color FFF 3D Printing. Committee: Wojciech Jarosz, Bo Zhu, and James Mahoney.

Yang Liu. Temporally Sliced Photon Primitives for Volumetric Time-of-flight Rendering. Committee: Wojciech Jarosz.

Zhiyu Xiao. Intelligent Voice Guidance in VR: Understanding the Value of NLP in Virtual Environments. Committee: Lorie Loeb.