Student Mentoring

NASA Rock On 2026

Attened the NASA Rock On program with Lucas Balwin and Ryan Schulz
Built a payload consisting of a variety of sensors which was launched on a sounding rocket for data collection.

Student Software Projects

Student Research Projects

• Sean Shockley. Analysis of Null-Bounded Linear Finite Cellular Automata Reversibility Using Generalized Toeplitz Systems. 2026 Summer Support funded by the Office of Grants and Sponsored Research.
• Sean Shockley. Boundary Conditions and the Invertibility of Linear Finite Systems . Funded by the 2025 Guerrieri Undergraduate Research Summer Program. Presented at the 2025 Research Showcase, SUSRC 2026, and accepted for Posters on the Bay 2026
• Sophie Reister. Human and Artificial Intelligence Communication: Strengths and Weaknesses of Conversing with AI for Coding Mathematical Models . Presented at the Posters on the Bay and NCUR 2025 in Pittsburg, PA.
• Kyle Tranfaglia, Dustin O'Brien, and Timothy McKirgan. Celite: A Collection of Cellular Automaton Simulators. Presented at the SUSRC 2025.
• Abigail Pierson. Periodic Behavior in Finite Linear Cellular Automata. Funded by the 2024 Guerrieri Undergraduate Research Summer Program. Presented at the 2024 Research Showcase and SUSRC 2025.
• Nikolai Vukov, Dylan Williams, Brian Keenan, Abigail Pierson, Lilly Ngo Zero Locations and Growth Rate Dimensions for Non-Zero Elements in Cellular Automata. Presented at SUSRC 2024.
• Lilly Ngo. Investigations of Fractal Dimensions in Group-Generated Cellular Automata. Funded by the 2024 Guerrieri Undergraduate Research Summer Program. Presented at the Research Showcase.
• Hannah Hall. Investigating Areas of Overlap in 2-Dimensional Cellular Automata. Presented at SUSRC 2021.
• Lela Boes. On the Calculation of Dimensions for Non-Deterministic L-Systems. Honsors Theses leading to Departmenal Honors, 2020.
• Chris Arausa. Worked on an add-on package for the his 425/426 L-System software to compute the box-counting fractal dimension of the 3-D systems, 2020.
• Amy Vennos. Cycle Structures for Finite Cellular Automata Generated over Groups, Rings, and Fields . Funded by the Guerrieri Undergraduate Research 2017 Summer Program Fund. Presented at SUSRC and was her Honors Thesis for Departmental Honors. Amy also won first place in the student poster session at the MAA spring meeting 2019. .