A selection of scholarship from Department of Computer Science faculty members of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at University of the Pacific.

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Submissions from 2023

Searching in Virtual Reality with Teleportation as a Travel Technique, Daniel C. Cliburn

Narrative Methods in Discipline-Based Education Research, Sebastian Dziallas

Fall Determinants in Older Adults, Jinzhu Gao

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Analysis of RNA processing directly from spatial transcriptomics data reveals previously unknown regulation, Julia Olivieri and Joshua Salzman

Submissions from 2022

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How the First Year of a Work-based Degree in Software Engineering Prepares Students for Industry, Matthew Barr, Derek Somerville, and Sebastian Dziallas

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Teaching Virtual Reality in Virtual Reality, Keely Canniff and Daniel C. Cliburn

Adopting a New Practice: Open Source Experiences in the Classroom, Sebastian Dziallas

Experience Report: Running and Participating in a Multi-Institutional Research in Practice Project Activity (RIPPA), Sebastian Dziallas

Exploring the Landscape of Degree-Level Apprenticeships, Sebastian Dziallas

How the First Year of a Work-based Degree in Software Engineering Prepares Students for Industry, Sebastian Dziallas

A Computer Vision Toolkit for Adapting a COVID-19 Lifestyle, Jinzhu Gao

Investigating Practices in Long Term Student Development, Osvaldo Jiménez

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Comparing Teleportation Methods for Travel in Everyday Virtual Reality, Dominic Lesaca, Henry Cheung, Tapaswini Jena, and Daniel C. Cliburn

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Publisher Correction: The SpliZ generalizes ‘percent spliced in’ to reveal regulated splicing at single-cell resolution (Nature Methods, (2022), 19, 3, (307-310), 10.1038/s41592-022-01400-x), Julia E. Olivieri, Roozbeh Dehghannasiri, and Julia Salzman

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The SpliZ generalizes ‘percent spliced in’ to reveal regulated splicing at single-cell resolution, Julia E. Olivieri, Roozbeh Dehghannasiri, and Julia Salzman

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Experience Report: Running and Participating in a Multi-Institutional Research in Practice Project Activity (RIPPA), Jack Parkinson, Sebastian Dziallas, Gary Lewandowski, Fiona McNeill, Jim Williams, and Quintin Cutts

ASCE's Response to the Pandemic: Execution of a Remote ExCEEd Teaching Workshop, Camilla M. Saviz

Identifying Obstacles to Master's Level ABET EAC Accreditation, Camilla M. Saviz

Teaching Techniques and How Faculty Engage the Engineering Classroom, Camilla M. Saviz

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I think we should break up - class, that is, Jeffrey Shafer, Matthew Swenty, Benjamin Dymond, David A. Saftner, Camilla M. Saviz, Dalessandro K. Caple, Tanya Kunberger, and Christopher R. Shearer

Submissions from 2021

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Specific splice junction detection in single cells with SICILIAN, Roozbeh Dehghannasiri, Julia E. Olivieri, Ana Damljanovic, and Julia Salzman

Learning in Context: A First Look at a Graduate Apprenticeship, Sebastian Dziallas

A Study of Online Teaching Practices of Art and Design Courses During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jinzhu Gao

Predicting Falls in Older Adults Aged 65 and Up Based on Fall Risk Dataset, Jinzhu Gao

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A Simulation-Assisted Teaching Practice: Teaching AC Variable Speed Systems Using Simulation Models Library, Jinzhu Gao and Qian Yang

Algogame: A Customizable Educational Game For Recursive Algorithms, Osvaldo Jiménez

Comparing Software Methodologies in Educational Game Development, Osvaldo Jiménez

Philosophies of CS1, Osvaldo Jiménez

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Comparing design-based and agile methodologies in educational game development, Osvaldo Jiménez and Dennis Ramirez

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RNA splicing programs define tissue compartments and cell types at single-cell resolution, Julia E. Olivieri, Roozbeh Dehghannasiri, Peter Wang, Sori Jang, Antoine De Morree, Serena Y. Tan, Jingsi Ming, Angela R. Wu, Stephen R. Quake, Mark A. Krasnow, and Julia Salzman

Virtually speaking - Perspectives on ABET Virtual Reviews, Camilla M. Saviz

Submissions from 2020

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A Qualitative Evaluation of Student Experience with a Virtual Heritage Application, Claryse Adams, Daniel C. Cliburn, Joshua Salyers, and Rukhsar Shiraz

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Maybe-tainted data: Theory and a case study, Sepehr Amir-Mohammadian, Christian Skalka, and Samuel Clark

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Exploring an active learning focus in a liberal arts engineering curriculum, David Robert Bruce and Sebastian Dziallas

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Teaching Students about Usability Testing in Distance Learning Environments, Daniel Cliburn and Osvaldo Jimenez

Effectiveness of Remote Leaning the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spring 2020; A Survey of Engineering and Computer Science Students, Michael E. Doherty, Camilla M. Saviz, Richard Hutley, and Michael Doherty

Building a New University at the Intersection of Liberal Arts and Engineering, Sebastian Dziallas

Building the Airplane While Flying It: Co-Designing a Curriculum With Students at a New Institution, Sebastian Dziallas

Exploring an Active-learning Focus in a Liberal Arts Engineering Curriculum, Sebastian Dziallas

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Correct Audit Logging in Concurrent Systems, Chadi El Kari and Sepehr Amir-Mohammadian

Innovative Computer Science Education During Pandemic, Jinzhu Gao

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A Study on the Relationship between the Rank of Input Data and the Performance of Random Weight Neural Network, Jinzhu Gao, Weipeng Cao, Lei Hu, Xizhao Wang, and Zhong Ming

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Why analog games now?, Matthew Gaydos and Osvaldo Jiménez

Toward Continuous Improvement of EAC/ABET Criteria 3 and 5, Camilla M. Saviz

Submissions from 2019

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A Cross-Disciplinary Course on Virtual Reality, Daniel C. Cliburn

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Promoting an Accessible Learning Environment for Students with Disabilities via Faculty Development (Practice Brief), Michael E. Doherty, Daniel Nuss, Terri Johnson, Sheryl Burgstahler, and Feilin Hsiao

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Accountable disciplinary knowledge in computing education: A case-comparative approach, Sebastian Dziallas and Sally Fincher

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Space, place and practice in computing education, Sally Fincher, Sebastian Dziallas, and Daniel Knox

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Uncertain Knowledge Reasoning Based on the Fuzzy Multi-Entity Bayesian Network, Jinzhu Gao, Dun Li, Hong Wu, Zhuoyun Liu, Lun Li, and Zhiyun Zheng

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Applicability of Drug Response Metrics for Cancer Studies Using Biomaterials, Maria Gencoglu

Development of Hydrogel-based Cell Stretching Devices as in vitro Model of Atherosclerotic Vessel Walls, Maria Gencoglu

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An Omentum-Inspired 3D PEG Hydrogel for Identifying ECM-drivers of Drug Resistant Ovarian Cancer, Maria Gencoglu, Elizabeth Brooks, Daniel Corbett, Kelly Stevens, and Shelly Peyton

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Fantasy Football as Sport and Game, Osvaldo Jimenez

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Osvaldo Jimenez

Spent, Osvaldo Jimenez

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Global Biobank Engine: Enabling genotype-phenotype browsing for biobank summary statistics, Gregory McInnes, Yosuke Tanigawa, Chris Deboever, Adam Lavertu, Julia E. Olivieri, Matthew Aguirre, and Manuel A. Rivas

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Evaluation of information widgets for a virtual reality serious game, Joshua Salyers, Daniel C. Cliburn, Keely Canniff, and Stephany Barajas

Civil Engineering Department Head Perspectives on the Civil Engineering Program Criteria and the Body of Knowledge, 3rd edition, Camilla M. Saviz

Civil Engineering Program Criteria: A snapshot of how programs meet the criteria, Camilla M. Saviz

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Non-Traditional Novices' Perceptions of Learning to Program: A Framework of Developing Mental Models, Thomas Hvid Spangsberg, Sally Fincher, and Sebastian Dziallas

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PoloTrac: A water polo tracking and advanced statistics application, Nathan Verlin, Joey Gullikson, John Mayberry, and Daniel C. Cliburn

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Evolution of Portulacineae Marked by Gene Tree Conflict and Gene Family Expansion Associated with Adaptation to Harsh Environments, Ning Wang, Ya Yang, Michael J. Moore, Samuel F. Brockington, Joseph F. Walker, Joseph W. Brown, Bin Liang, Tao Feng, Caroline Edwards, Jessica Mikenas, Julia E. Olivieri, Vera Hutchison, Alfonso Timoneda, Tommy Stoughton, Raúl Puente, Lucas C. Majure, Urs Eggli, and Stephen A. Smith

Submissions from 2018

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Fuzziness based Online Sequential Extreme Learning Machine for Classification Problems, Weipeng Cao, Jinzhu Gao, Zhong Ming, Shubin Cai, and Zhiguang Shan

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A review on neural networks with random weights, Weipeng Cao, Xizhao Wang, Zhong Ming, and Jinzhu Gao

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"i told you this last time, right?": Re-visiting narratives of STEM education, Sebastian Dziallas and Sally Fincher

Adaptive UPF Based Interacting Multiple Model Algorithm for Integrated Navigation, Jinzhu Gao

Integration of Compressed Sensing Coding and Fractal Image Coding for Image Restoration, Jinzhu Gao

PyTracker: A Low-Cost Mobile Platform for Telerehabilitation, Jinzhu Gao

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Fuzziness-based online sequential extreme learning machine for classification problems, Jinzhu Gao, Zhong Ming, Weipeng Cao, Zhiguang Shan, and Shubin Cai

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Comparative Study of Multicellular Tumor Spheroid Formation Methods and Implications for Drug Screening, Maria Gencoglu, Lauren Barney, Christopher L. Hall, Elizabeth A. Brooks, Alyssa D. Schwartz, Daniel C. Corbett, Kelly R. Stevens, and Shelly R. Peyton

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Complementary, Semi-automated Methods for Creating Multi-dimensional, PEG-based Biomaterials, Maria Gencoglu, Lauren Jansen, Annali Yurkevicz, Elizabeth A. Brooks, and Shelly Peyton

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Molecular mechanism of GPCR-mediated arrestin activation, Naomi R. Latorraca, Jason K. Wang, Brian Bauer, Raphael J.L. Townshend, Scott A. Hollingsworth, Julia E. Olivieri, H. Eric Xu, Martha A. Sommer, and Ron O. Dror

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The Realm of Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) Computing, Vivek K. Pallipuram and Jinzhu Gao

Celebrating 20 Years of the ExCEEd Teaching Workshop, Camilla M. Saviz

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Recreating little Manila through a virtual reality serious game, Sophia Vu, Daniel C. Cliburn, Jennifer Helgren, Joshua Salyers, Keely Canniff, Andrew Johnson, Mary Milliken, Tyler Reardon, Kyle Sabbatino, and Alicia Stephan

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From cacti to carnivores: Improved phylotranscriptomic sampling and hierarchical homology inference provide further insight into the evolution of Caryophyllales, Joseph F. Walker, Ya Yang, Tao Feng, Alfonso Timoneda, Jessica Mikenas, Vera Hutchison, Caroline Edwards, Ning Wang, Sonia Ahluwalia, Julia E. Olivieri, Nathanael Walker-Hale, Lucas A. Majure, Raúl Puente, Gudrun Kadereit, Maximilian Lauterbach, Urs Eggli, Hilda Flores-Olvera, Helga Ochoterena, Samuel F. Brockington, Michael J. Moore, and Stephen A. Smith

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Improved transcriptome sampling pinpoints 26 ancient and more recent polyploidy events in Caryophyllales, including two allopolyploidy events, Ya Yang, Michael J. Moore, Samuel F. Brockington, Jessica Mikenas, Julia E. Olivieri, Josepf F. Walker, and Stephen A. Smith

Submissions from 2017

Some tricks in parameter selection for extreme learning machine, Weipeng Cao, Jinzhu Gao, Zhong Ming, and Shubin Cai

Fuzziness based Random Vector Functional-link Network for Semi-supervised Learning, Weipeng Cao, Jinzhu Gao, Zhong Ming, Shubin Cai, and Zhiguang Shan

Impact of Probability Distribution Selection on RVFL Performance, Weipeng Cao, Jinzhu Gao, Zhong Ming, Shubin Cai, and Hua Zheng

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An Interdisciplinary Course on Human-Computer Interaction, Daniel Cliburn

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A first look at the year in computing, Sebastian Dziallas, Sally Fincher, Colin G. Johnson, and Ian Utting

Children's conceptions of stories in educational games, Osvaldo Jiménez

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Little manila: A digital recreation, Joshua Salyers, Daniel C. Cliburn, Edith Sparks, Jamie Lynn Culilap, Sarah Kuo, Kyle Sabbatino, Ronnie Sanchez, Danielle Thomasson, and Hannah Tvergyak

Submissions from 2016

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Examining graduateness through narratives, Sebastian Dziallas

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Aspects of graduateness in computing students' narratives, Sebastian Dziallas and Sally Fincher

Negotiating academic communities: Narratives of life-long learners, Sally Fincher, Sebastian Dziallas, Ofra Brandes, Yifat Ben David Kolikant, and R. Benjamin Shapiro

Collaborative Big Data Analytics, Jinzhu Gao

Intelligent Data Visual Analytics, Jinzhu Gao

A 3D Biomaterial Model for Patient-Derived Ovarian Cancer Drug Screening, Maria Gencoglu

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A Study on the Cytotoxicity of Carbon-based Materials, Maria Gencoglu, Saha Dipendu, Caryn L. Heldt, Vijayaragavan K. Saagar, Jihua Chen, and Saksule Ashish

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Reciprocal research and design: The wicked problem of changing math in the family, Shelley Goldman and Osvaldo Jiménez

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Scrum in the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum, Osvaldo Jimenez and Daniel Cliburn

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Pipelining Image Compositing in Heterogeneous Networking Environments, Ning Liu, Dengming Zhu, Zhaoqi Wang, Hong Qin, Jianfeng Zhan, and Jinzhu Gao

Submissions from 2015

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Characterizing graduateness in computing education, Sebastian Dziallas

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ACM curriculum reports: A pedagogic perspective, Sebastian Dziallas and Sally Fincher

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Learning to learn: The co-evolution of an institution and its students, Sebastian Dziallas and Sally Fincher

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Then and now: Past experience echoed in university computing teachers' current practice, Sally Fincher and Sebastian Dziallas

Big Data Management, Analysis and Visualization, Jinzhu Gao

Big Data Management, Analysis and Visualization, Jinzhu Gao