Guidelines for external projects

• Classroom: Crawford 112 (auditorium)
• If you have questions on a project, send email to the presenter.
• If you want to sign up for a project,
  • send email to pkc@fit.edu by Thu, Aug 20, 5pm
  • sign up as a group or as an individual
  • specify your preference order, at least your top 3 choices, I suggest your top 5 choices
  • generally "first come, first served" based on your last submission (if you change your mind and submit more than once)
  • generally groups have a higher priority than individuals
  • sometimes the project presenters choose from those who signed up
• ***** Seating Chart
• --- front ---
• Row 1a 1b 1c 1d
• Row 2a 2b
• Row 3a 3b
• --- Aug 17, 2026, Mon ---
• 4:10 -- ***** Row 1a [2-4 students: Karla Daley, Zach Lavoie] Basic CPS Attack & Defense Testbed, Dr. Sudhakaran, ssudhakaran@fit.edu
• 4:20 -- ***** Row 1b [2-4 students: Nathan Rouse, Calvin Rutherford, John Gawlinski] Dots and Boxes, Dr. Mohan, rmohan@fit.edu
• 4:40 -- [2-4 students: Ahmed Alzahrani, Mohammed Zakry] Crowdsourcing w/wo ChatGPT, Dr. Silaghi, msilaghi@fit.edu
  
• --- Aug 19, 2026, Wed ---
• 4:10 -- ***** Row 1d [2-4 students: Roman Giroux, Edward Di Bella, Michael Nicol] Assured Labeling for Autonomous Perception, Dr. Bhattacharyya, sbhattacharyya@fit.edu
• [1 student] VAYU: a multimodal asthma monitoring platform, Gurpreet Bhaita, gbhatia2023@my.fit.edu (BME)
• ##### completed groups ######
  1. ---- faculty-approved projects before the first day of classes ----
  2. [Bryson Noble] System for High Integrity Elimination of Low-Altitude Drones (SHIELD), Dr. Irmak (AEE)
  3. [Ethan Van Brunt, Conor Shanley, Santiago Raigoza, Jacob Carton] System for recording lung sounds maps, Dr. Silaghi
  5. ---- student-proposed projects ----
  6. [Luis Abraham, Braiden Ames, Dominick Morales, Dylin Irons] KVM-Based eBPF Linux Rootkit Detection
  7. [Adrianna Sauro, Bhavik Patel, Nicholas Blaisdell, Michael Wahoski] CRESCENT Social Guardian: Contextual Risk Evaluation System for Child Exploitation in Networked Text
  8. [Jadon Duff, Jacob Ewasko, Ioannis Limniatis, Jacob Lebkuecher] AI Task Agent Using More Flexible Generic Tools via Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  9. [Mateusz Doda and Carter Tabin (no more than 2 students)] Speedrun Video Splits Extractor (SplitsFromVideo)
  10. [Nicholas Dunzelman and Caleb Brooks (no more than 2 students)] Folio: Student Academic Planning with Task-Completion Encouragement
  12. ---- presented projects ----
  13. ***** Row 2a [Adebare Kofo-Abayomi, Avy Wade, Faysal Zaki, Joshua Fernandez] Robot sumo simulation: build AI agents that battle, adapt, and work as a team, Dr. Hanks, thanks@fit.edu
  14. ***** Row 2b [Zachary Reese, Dylan Ostolaza, Brianna Marshall, Avery Mackey] Autonomous Cognitive Agent Flying Aircraft in Xplane, Dr. Bhattacharyya, sbhattacharyya@fit.edu
  15. ***** Row 3a [Brennan Ramsey, Bryan Bermudez, Joshua Revels, Nick Bleeker] Home Network Solutions, Dr. Mohan, rmohan@fit.edu
  16. ***** Row 3b [Logan Stiller, Jackson Fishbein, Zachary Horsfall, Brody Williams] Recursion Explainator, Dr. Luginbuhl, dluginbuhl@fit.edu
  17. [Drew Quashie, Amanda Ogbonna, Loleyi Oluwatomisin, Richard Alonso] COVID-19 Detection, Dr. Nematzadeh, znematzadeh@fit.edu
  18. [Neva Ildem, Sophia Zubieta, Elif Dila Bayrak, Samuel Borges] Skin Cancer Detection, Dr. Nematzadeh, znematzadeh@fit.edu
  19. [Arya Patel, Angelina Martis, Prottasha Deb, and Aiden Stensrud] Java O-O Program Visualizer/Animator, Dr. Luginbuhl, dluginbuhl@fit.edu

• Submit your proposal by July 1st--usually you will need multiple rounds of revisions from my feedback (during July and early August)
• Proposals can be submitted the latest on Monday of the first week of classes (which I don't recommend because of multiple revisions, so submit by the end of July)
• Need my approval by Monday of the first week of classes (I don't usually approve in a few days because of multiple revisions)
• What are the three main ideas/features/reasons that your project is interesting (e.g., novel, useful, effective, faster, cheaper, or ...) to potentially a large group of people (not just you)? More specifically:
  • What are the opportunities/pains?
  • Do other users feel similar "pains" and why? Ask/read 3 users/articles.
  • What are the main ideas/features for improvement to create value?
  • Ask 3 users if the ideas create value; if not, brainstorm with them for ideas (what about X, does X make it better?).
• Use Proposal Template to provide a proposal in slides (provide the requested content, slide design/format can be changed)

3. Competitions and Challenges

• Student-proposed projects with themes/directions specified by the competitions/challenges
• Imagine Cup [by Microsoft]
  • Winners
  • Possible directions for the world citizenship competition:
    • Millennium Development Goals at UN Development Programme
    • Stories of innovation at UNICEF
• Challenges from challenge.gov
• Grand Challenges from National Academy of Engineering
• SourceAmerica Design Challenge (for people with disabilities) [$6-8K, Due ~April]
• Competitions at Kaggle
• Innocentive Challenges
• The Opportunity Project (census.gov)
• competitions at drivendata.org
• competitions at Data Hack
• Data Science Challenge
• Student Research Competition [by ACM & Microsoft Research]
• Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition