Current Students

Following student mentees are currently conducting/shadowing research projects under my supervision:

• Colin Guenther (junior)
• Arya Sekkappan (junior)
• Amir Awawdeh (senior, capstone)
• Cesar Palma (senior, capstone)

Alumni

I have adivsed senior capstone research projects of following TCNJ alums:

1. Trevor Van Orden

   • Class: August 2026
   • Project Title: Comparative Study on Machine Learning Models for Predicting Magnetic Shadows on Plasma Facing Components
   • Project Duration: Spring 2026
   • First Position After Project: TCNJ MUSE Summer 2026, working with Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

2. Conner Perriello

   • Class: May 2026
   • Project Title: The Role of Acoustic Semantic Information on Video Ad Memorability Prediction
   • Project Duration: Spring 2026

3. Olufela Fieulleteau

   • Class: May 2026
   • Project Title: The Impace of Acoustic and Linguistic Sentiments for Predicting Video Memorability
   • Project Duration: Spring 2026

4. Varun Pawar

   • Class: May 2026
   • Project Title: Chess Vision: Improving Board State Recognition for Chess Playing Robots
   • Project Duration: Summer 2025 ~ Spring 2026

5. Eric Rivera

   • Class: December 2025
   • Project Title: Autonomous Navigation & Mapping Using SLAM Toolbox
   • Project Duration: Fall 2025
   • First Position After Project: Morehouse Engineering

6. Stenneth Swaby

   • Class: December 2025
   • Project Title: A Comparative Study of SLAM Algorithms for Robot Operating System
   • Project Duration: Fall 2025
   • First Position After Project: Continue study in graduate program at University of Pennsylvania

7. Milian Ingco

   • Class: December 2025
   • Project Title: SightBySound: Transforming Stereo Vision into Audio using Hilbert Curve
   • Project Duration: Spring 2025

8. Lucas Franco

   • Class: May 2025
   • Project Title: Vision-based Robot Control for Human Robot Interaction
   • Project Duration: Spring 2025
   • First Position After Project: Advanced Sciences and Technologies

9. Mila Manzano

   • Class: May 2025
   • Project Title: A Comparative Study of Speech to Text Models for Human Robot Interaction
   • Project Duration: Fall 2024
   • First Position After Project: Atlassian

10. Kristen O’Donnell

    • Class: May 2025
    • Project Title: Implmenting Heuristic Robot Steering Algorithms using LiDAR Scanner
    • Project Duration: Fall 2024

11. Nate Sorvino

    • Class: December 2024
    • Project Title: CarapicsAI: An AI-Powered Management System for Biological Annotation Database
    • Project Duration: Fall 2024
    • First Position After Project: PURE Insurance

12. Braedon Laffan

    • Class: December 2023
    • Project Title: Human Pose Estimation and Golf Swing Pose Analysis
    • Project Duration: Fall 2023
    • First Position After Project: Application Consulting Group

13. Alexander Van Orden

    • Class: December 2022
    • Project Title: Redesigning Visualizations of Global Engagement
    • Project Duration: Fall 2022

14. Jessica Jo

    • Class: May 2022
    • Project Title: Human Pose Annotation Tool for Pose Estimation in Sports
    • Project Duration: Spring 2022

15. Gregory Yezhov

    • Class: May 2022
    • Project Title: Predicting Cryptocurrency Price using Q-Trading
    • Project Duration: Spring 2022
    • First Position After Project: Revature

16. Daniel Ortega

    • Class: May 2022
    • Project Title: Cryptocurrency Price Prediction Using Machine Learning
    • Project Duration: Spring 2022
    • First Position After Project: MedFuse

17. Jordan Aquino-Solomon

    • Class: May 2022
    • Project Title: Searchable Interface with Geo Visualization for Global Engagement Database
    • Project Duration: Spring 2022

18. Alexander Viola

    • Class: May 2022
    • Project Title: Constructivism Approaches for Computational Emotions: A Systematic Survey
    • Project Duration: Fall 2020 ~ Spring 2021
    • First Position After Project: Research Assistant at TCNJ in Summer 2021

19. Thomas Westra

    • Class: December 2021
    • Project Title: Golf Coaching App Using Computer Vision
    • Project Duration: Spring 2021
    • First Position After Project: Intern at Amazon in Summer 2021, full-time SDE upon graduation. Now at Google

20. Kenneth Zepeda

    • Class: May 2021
    • Project Title: Machine Learning up to Bat
    • Project Duration: Fall 2020 ~ Spring 2021
    • First Position After Project: Tabula Rasa HealthCare

21. Adam Casto

    • Class: May 2021
    • Project Title: Visualizing and Predicting Hurricane Trajectory Using Long Short Term Memory
    • Project Duration: Fall 2020 ~ Spring 2021
    • First Position After Project: Best Buy

22. Ryan Bogutz

    • Class: May 2021
    • Project Title: End-to-End Image Generation with Subjective Attributes: A Comparative Study
    • Project Duration: Fall 2020 ~ Spring 2021
    • First Position After Project: Trimble MAPS

23. Brandon Hong

    • Class: May 2020
    • Project Title: Hurricane Trajectory Estimation Using Regression
    • Project Duration: Spring 2020
    • First Position After Project: fiserv

24. Derek Kneisel

    • Class: May 2020
    • Project Title: Vision-based Object Search with Navigation for TurtleBot3
    • Project Duration: Fall 2019 ~ Spring 2020
    • First Position After Project: AT&T

25. Jonathan Bernstein

    • Class: May 2020
    • Project Title: Collision Avoidance and Path Finding for TurtleBot3
    • Project Duration: Fall 2019 ~ Spring 2020
    • First Position After Project: IAS

26. Justin Fernandez

    • Class: May 2020
    • Project Title: Feature Selection Method for Sports Game Outcome Prediction
    • Project Duration: Fall 2019 ~ Spring 2020
    • First Position After Project: ADP

27. Anthony Kim

    • Class: December 2019
    • Project Title: Image Generation using Scene Graph with Subjective Attributes
    • Project Duration: Fall 2019
    • First Position After Project: InfoSys

28. Benjamin Sang

    • Class: August 2019
    • Project Title: Solving Predictability with Deep Neural Networks
    • Project Duration: Summer 2018 ~ Fall 2018
    • First Position After Project: Niksun

29. Juliet Job

    • Class: May 2019
    • Project Title: An Exploratory Study on Coupled Dense SIFT and Pixel Intensity Quantization for Mammographic Masses Retrieval
    • Project Duration: Spring 2019
    • First Position After Project: TDI Technologies

30. Aaron Weiss

    • Class: December 2018
    • Project Title: Distributed Machine Learning Algorithm and Its Application to Visual Sensor Networks
    • Project Duration: Spring 2018
    • First Position After Project: iCims

31. Angelina Tornetto

    • Class: May 2018
    • Project Title: Visualization Front-End for Open-Source Crowd Simulator
    • Project Duration: Spring 2018
    • First Position After Project: U.S. Marine Corps

32. James Graci

    • Class: May 2018
    • Project Title: Refactoring Open-Source Crowd Simulator for Learning-based Steering Algorithm
    • Project Duration: Spring 2018
    • First Position After Project: Cloud9 Technologies

33. Dominique Lao

    • Class: May 2018
    • Project Title: Predicting Video Interestingness with Video Emotions
    • Project Duration: Spring 2018
    • First Position After Project: Bloomberg

34. Brad Bonin

    • Class: May 2017
    • Project Title: A Safer Future Through Temporal Model-based Predictive Crime Analysis
    • Project Duration: Spring 2017
    • First Position After Project: Fusion (Woodbridge, NJ)