Research is an integral part of Wellesley's education. Computer science faculty members work on research projects that span a large collection of areas including algorithmic analysis, computer security, computer vision, Web search and information retrieval, Combinatorics and Graph Theory, Bioinformatics, programming languages, parallel computing, artificial intelligence and human-computing interaction. Research is conducted both during the summer and the academic year. Students can explore research topics by talking to faculty members and other students who present their work at conferences including the Ruhlman Conference and the Science Summer Presentations.

Some of the recent projects that our students have produced for their Honors Theses are:

• Learning Primitive Predicates for Probabilistic Planning
  Vasumathi Raman '07 (Advisor: E. Hildreth)
  
• Cooperative and Democratic System Management
  Rebecca Shapiro '07 (Advisor: M. Sheldon)
  (2nd prize in the 2007 CCSCNE student competition)
• Reputation in the Evolutionary Prisoner’s Dilemma
  Hitomi Yoneya '07 (Advisor: S. Anderson)
  (1st prize in the 2007 CCSCNE student competition)
  
• Organization of Web Spam Data Using a Database
  Karin To '06 (Advisor: P. Metaxas)
• The Discover of Similar Web Sites Using Link Structure
  Meredith Beaton '05 (Advisor: P. Metaxas)
  
• The Efficient Generation of Random Programs and Their Applications
  Jue Wang '04 (Advisor: F. Turbak)
  
• Adapting Bayesian Statistical Spam Filters to the Server Side
  Sara Sinclair '04 (Advisor: S. Anderson)
  
• A Tool for Detecting Web Spam by Exploring Communities on the Web
  Mirena Chausheva '04 (Advisor: P. Metaxas)
• TimeSave
  Yeunjoo Cho '03 (Advisor: P. Metaxas)
• Privacy Implications of Biometric Surveillance:The Destruction of Anonymity
  Elizabeth Masiello '03 (Advisor: F. Turbak)
• Digraphs of Ferrers Dimension 2
  Audrey Lee '02 (Advisor: R. Shull)

We invite you to explore the current projects, by visiting the Faculty Research, Summer Research, Independent Research, and Honors Thesis links.