Vanderbei's Recent Undergraduate Thesis Students

• 2022
  • Addie Jung -- COVID Misinformation Spread on Korean YouTube
  • Connor Larson -- Establishing the Case for Electric Regional Aircraft: Market Considerations and Optimal Routing
• 2021
  • Josh Melnyk -- Outperforming the S&P 500: A Computational Approach to Dynamic Portfolio Optimization
  • Eileen Wang -- Diagnosing Racial Bias in Machine Learning: An Examination of Fairness in Medical Appointment Scheduling Optimization Models
  • Anika Yardi -- Using Monte Carlo Markov Chain Methods to Understand the Mathematics and Visualization of Gerrymandering in Politically Competitive Districts
  • Daniel Yassky -- Terror and Intelligence: Modeling The Operation of an Intelligence Agency Through Statistically-Informed Monte Carlo Terror Queues
• 2019
  • Michelle Campeau -- Eating Clean: Using Nutrition, Environmental Sustainability, and Personal Preference to Create an Ideal Diet Plan
  • Tazim Kabir -- Lightning Bugs or Fireflies? A Machine-Learning Approach to U.S. Dialects and Presidential Elections
  • Adam Kelly -- Kernel-Based Outlier Detection For IoT Networks
  • Rik Nag - Scheduling Exoplanet Observations Across A Network Of Telescopes
  • Joshua Weissmann -- Contrast Dyes and Cancer Maps: Approaches to Image Registration with Appearance Changes in Breast CT Scans
• 2018
  • August Kiles -- Deep Coaching: A Deep Learning Approach for Human Action Recognition in Photos and Videos of Athletic Motions
  • Alex Manoloff -- Effective & Effectively Trading Information: Exploring the Extent to Which Continuing Disclosures Affect the Secondary Market for Municipal Securities
  • Molly Plissner -- A Study of Earthquake Seasonality in Japan Through Network Analysis
  • Ben Schafer -- Small Fish in a Big Pond: Using Data to predict the success of Swimmers in College
  • Daniel Wilson -- Deep Learning Applications in Multidimensional Cash Flow Forecasting
• 2017
  • Max Bressler -- Just What the Financier Ordered? A Methodology for the Securitization of Medical Device Receivables
  • Serena Somin Jeon -- Walking on Wall Street in Heels: A Quantitative and Sociological Approach to Gender and Recruitment in Finance
  • Trevor Osborne -- Catching an Optimal Draft Pick like 1-3: Formulating a Valuation Policy for Wide Receivers in the NHL
  • Tyler Roth -- Valuing Asymmetric Information Under Differing Market Conditions
  • Alexander Singleton -- A Search for Exo-Moons in the Kepler Data via the Orbital Sampling Effect
• 2016
  • Veenu King -- RIMA, ARIMAX, or Univariate Linear Model? Modeling Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies' Affect on California's Crop Production
  • John Su -- Giving Color to the Financial Markets: Macroeconomic Information Engineering Through Machine Learning and Portfolio Optimization
  • Jean Wang -- A Supervised Topic Model Based Approach for Change Point Detection in Review Data
  • Jeffrey Yan -- Option Valuation For Interest Rate Caplets: Rate Vol Correlation and Fair Skew
  • Poon Bee Xuto -- Optimizing a Portfolio of Impact Investments: A Focus on Practicality and Financial Performance
• 2015
  • Joshua Samuels -- Exploring New Worlds: Simulating Coronagraph Data for Exoplanet Detection
  • Varun Sharma -- Dark Ages for the Golden Arches a predictive analysis of McDonald's Corporation's global growth through newly accessed markets
  • Regina Cai -- Uncertainty Quantification for the Gaussian Information Bottleneck
• 2014
  • Lisa Fierstein -- Measuring Portfolio Risk: Using the Markowitz Model, Conditional Value at Risk, and Risk Parity for Asset Allocation in Medium-Duration Investments
  • Hanfu Chai -- Image Processing and Computer Vision in Basketball Detection and Tracking
• 2013
  • Christina Kaelin -- The Linear Simplex Method: Investigations of Cycling and Application to Markov Decision Processes
  • Iris Chang -- Face Detection, Tracking Methods, and Image Processing: A MATLAB Approach
  • Sarah Germain -- Analyzing and Presenting Modern Temperature Trends
• 2012
  • Ming Lu -- Fitting Regression Models to Global Temperature Trends
• 2011
  • Chetan Narain -- Predicting Politics: A Mathematical Approach to Parsing and Evaluating Presidential Campaign Speeches
  • Henry Chu -- Non-Redundant Aperture Masking and its Application in the Analysis of Stars with Planetary Systems
  • James Connolly -- A Regression Analysis of Madden NFL Team and Player Ratings
  • Kexing Ren -- An Analysis of Wireless Telecommunication Churn Rates Using data Mining Methods
  • Sookyung Kim -- Sovereign Wealth Funds: Their Performance in Global Financial Markets and its Implications for Regulatory Controls
  • Caroline Anastasi -- An Analysis of a Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Soft Drinks Through an Examination of the Differential Response to Price
• 2009
  • Gordon Scharf -- Grade Rank: A Mathematical Approach to Contextualizing Grades
  • Kelsey Stallings -- Modeling the Impacts of Policy on Forecasted Energy Demand in Highway Transportation
  • Siyu Yang -- A Star Pattern Recognition Algorithm for Astronomical Images Using Triangles
• 2008
  • Yegya Raman -- Real Options Analysis as Applied to Research and Development Project Valuation in the Pharmaceutical Industry
• 2007
  • William D. England -- "Super-Indexing the GSCT": Portfolio Optimization in Commodity Futures Markets
  • Max M. Jacobson -- A Tour Through the Traveling Salesman Problem: An Implementation with Experiments
  • Alexander P. Mirabello -- Algorithms for Solving and Generating Sudoku Puzzles
  • Sharla M. Cloutier -- Probability Distribution Models for the Hurricane Damage Process
• 2006
  • Michael R. Eber -- An Optimization Analysis of Eating at Popular Restaurant Chains
  • Robert J. Moore -- A Dynamic Programming Approach to Decision Making in Texas Hold'em Poker
  • Andrew Wilson -- Multivariate Analysis of NCAA Division I-A Football For The Purpose Of Predicting Games
  • Brittany Wood -- Portfolio Optimization Involving Short Sales
• 2005
  • Fernando Lulli -- Effects of Nonstationary Emergency Call Arrival Rates on an Ambulance Response System
  • Marquis Cory Martin-Easton -- How Much are they Really Worth? Optimization of the NBA Free Agent Market
  • Fan Jin -- Measuring the Relative Accessibility of the Princeton Campus for People with Disabilities
  • Scott Saunders Bynum-Convertible Bond and Stock Option Markets: An Analysis of the Implied Equity Volatility Spread
• 2004
  • William Peter Osnato -- Proposed Changes to Princeton Dining Services Under a Four Year Residential College System
  • John Paul Ference -- Stochastic Efficiency in Portfolio Optimization: Properties and Computation
• 2003
  • Jason White -- Detecting Terrestrial Planets in the Cosmos: Optimization Algorithms for the Correction of Phase Aberrations in the Shaped Pupil Coronagraph
  • Kenneth Buonocore -- Optimal Baseball Betting Strategies: An Analysis of the Money Line
  • Sabyasachi Guharay -- A Mathematical Study of the Price Stability of Various Sectors in the US Financial Market
  • Elizabeth Danaher -- Treating Cancer with Computers: Optimization Methods for Radiotherapy Treatment Design
  • Edward Chou -- Braess Paradox and Traffic Equilibrium