Undergraduate Research

Throughout my undergraduate career, I have been blessed with many research opportunities. It was my goal to continue my education in graduate school. In order to better prepare myself I knew I needed to pursue research, what I did not know was that my PHY 2049 - Physics I for Scientists and Engineers professor would approach with an opportunity to do so.

I have immersed myself in a research area that I would have never imagined through the Physics Department of University of Central Florida and the Research and Mentoring Program (RAMP). You can read about my previous projects involving Nanoparticle Preparation and Molecular Dynamic Simulations through the mentorship of Dr. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya and Dr. Patrick Schelling respectively.

During the summer of 2006, through my participation in the Summer Undergraduate Research Program – Berkeley (SUPERB) I began an ongoing analysis of the sensitivity of an intrusion detection system using a combination of binary sensors and particle filtering to track an intruder’s path. The goal was to gain a better grasp of the tradeoffs in performance amongst other parameters.

My final research as an undergraduate pursued the use of outlier detection techniques in categorical data. Some example applications of this are fault detection in civil engineering structures, criminal activity detection by comparing stolen and pawned items databases, and network intruder detection. For more information, look at my full description.