Master's Project

Students have worked on several projects with SnapLogic, an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) company that enables quick development of sophisticated data and application pipelines using a visual drag and drop interface. For one project, students developed a new feature within SnapLogic that allows pipelines to become interactive web user interfaces. On another project, students developed a prototype of a SnapLogic Persistent Event Streaming service that extends the existing architecture by providing a native streaming service.

Students built Gamma10, a web application that allows financial managers and advisors to easily create, execute, and visualize interest rate risk scenarios in a matter of minutes. This product helps serve as a bridge between finance and technology, making financial analysis more accessible for non-data scientists.

Students address reducing data center energy consumption by architecting an energy-aware data center based on the logic that not all jobs are equally important or need to be run instantly in parallel in a data center. Students built a controller to manage workloads within an energy budget by consolidating workloads on fewer machines, dropping non-essential jobs, dropping duplicates, and migrating workloads across data centers. Students also use Kubernetes, a technology that is lighter weight than a virtual machine while also providing greater bin packing even as it shrinks an application to ensure successful deployments.

Students created Sweeply, a Slackbot that helps organize very large channel lists within an organization’s Slack environment. Sweeply is designed to put the user’s channel list on "autopilot". By providing and implementing a set of rules and criteria for how users joins and leaves channels, Sweeply automates the process.

Students developed a personalized travel planning app that generates optimized multi-destination routes – walking and driving – based on user preferences for places they want to visit in a city, travel dates, time they want to spend at each place, and user place ratings. This capability is not available in any of the travel planning apps in the market and makes travel planning easier and more personalized. Students solved the route optimization problem, addressing complexities like time constraints, multiple modes of travel and user preferences.

Myrror is the future of IoT products – a smart mirror that's a beautiful piece of furniture. It provides a digital dashboard that can show you the time, your calendar, YouTube, and act as a central point for IoT products like Ring video camera, Alexa, Google Home, Nest Temperature, and more. What once existed as a niche DIY engineering product is now accessible to everyone. To personalize and interact with your mirror, students created an intuitive React-Native mobile app that allows the non-technical user to manage everything from the face of the mirror – positioning items, installing new modules, and pushing remote updates with new features.