DAVID C. BROGAN

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

These are the courses I have taught.  Follow the links to see the details of the material we covered.                           
 

These are the student projects I have supervised.

Advisees: Ph.D. in progress

• Yannick Loitiere, MCS granted in 2001, Ph.D. expected December 2006

Advisees: Master’s in progress

• Shahrukh Tarapore, MCS expected December 2006
• Yuting Ye, MCS expected December 2006

Advisees graduated: Master’s

• Sarah Waziruddin, 2004
• Pascal Vicaire, 2003
• Fayun Luo, 2003
• Julian Dymacek, 2003
• Siddarth Dalal, 2002
• Yannick Loitiere, 2001
• Brian Jones, 2001

Ph.D. Committees

• Robert Bartholet (CS), 2006
• Xiangyu Jin (CS), 2006
• Nuria Pelechano (U. Penn, CS), 2006
• Swadhin K. Taneja (Physics), 2006
• Jeffrey Schamberg (Systems and Information Engineering), 2004
• Louise Gunderson (Systems and Information Engineering), 2002

Undergraduate Theses Supervised

• 2004-2005
  • Richard Fecher, “Tennis Match Analysis and Probabilistic Prediction Using Machine Learning”
  • Ori Ratner, “The Inverted Pendulum Model in Multiagent Simulations”
  • Chris White, “State-Space Complexity Management in Reinforcement Learning”
  • Peter Wubbels, “Cognitive Science Distinguished Majors Thesis, Constructing Brain-Computer Interfaces for the Locked In”  (with Denny Proffitt)
  • J. Brennan Thompson, “Spam Filtering with Context-Sensitive Bayesian Filters”
  • David Urban, “Using Reinforcement Learning to Improve Robotic Soccer”
  • Kaijie Hu, “Humanistic and Competitive Synthetic Embodied Animats In a Virtual Game World”
  • Charlie Johnson, “Reinforcement Learning for Basketball”
• 2003-2004
  • Eric Ormes, “Movement Behavior for Soldier Agents on a Virtual Battlefield”
  • Brian Light, SEAS URDS Finalist, “A Design for a Better Handwriting Recognizer: Using Link Grammar to Improve Accuracy”
  • Joseph Mutschelknaus, “Design of a Stock Market Simulation Incorporating Heterogeneous Risk Preferences Among Agents”
  • Thiago Ize, “Automatic Hierarchical Breakdown of Large Simulations for use in Training NeuroAnimator”
• 2002 - 2003
  • Tiffany Lane, SEAS URDS Finalist, “A Procedure For Modeling The Growth of Coral Reefs”
  • Jared Edgar, SEAS URDS Finalist, “Simulation of Crowds Using Reinforcement Learning"
  • Will Ewing, “Hypergami: Automatic Generation of Origami Instructions for Three-dimensional Surfaces”
• Jason Lee, “The Effect of 1/f Noise on Simplified Rigid Body Simulations”
• Leonard Woody, “Visualizing Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions”
• Andrew Goodman, “Developing a System by which Simulated Humans with Realistic Movement Capabilities Learn to Play Capture the Flag”
• 2001 - 2002
  • Joonsoo Kim, “L-system Tree Generation and Dynamics Simulation”
  • Kyle Benedict, “Developing 3D Software Applications for Military Simulations”
  • Nicholas Johnson, Cognitive Psychology Distinguished Major Program “Modeling Walking Behaviors at the Path Level”
  • Danny Loffredo, “Computer Animation: Physical Simulation on the GPU”
  • Alan Mefford, “Stylistic Dynamic Camera Control”
  • John Rhoads, “Spacetime Constraints for Musical Composition”
• 2000 – 2001
  • Stephen Lavedas, “Simulating Impulse and Continuous Disturbances on Fluid Flow in Graphical Environments”
  • David Dobbs, “Modeling Energy Functions and Aerodynamic Effects on a Physically Simulated Human Bicyclist”
  • Joseph Kraenzle, “Coordination of a Multi-agent Heterogeneous Team in the Robocup Simulator League”
  • Charles Nurmi, “Effects of Cooperation in Multi-agent Robotic Delivery Systems”
  • Damian Slonneger, “Using Subdivision Surfaces to Model Subdermal Effects in Alias|Wavefront’s Maya”
  • David Ventura, “Digital Storytelling with DINAH: Dynamic Interactive Narrative Authoring Heuristic”

Other undergraduate research

• Henry Cook, 2005 – present.  Agent-based control of highway traffic.

•  Mike Fox, 2003 – 2005.  Aproximability of component selection.  Paper accepted to Winter Simulation Conference, 2004.

•  Keen Browne, 2001 – 2002.  RoboCup Competition.

•  Adam Trost, 2001 – 2002.  RoboCup Competition.

•  Jon McCune, 2001 – 2002.  RoboCup Competition.