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  The UC LEADS Program has become a significant part of my college education. I would not have known about the importance of a Ph.D. degree without UC LEADS. I would not have published my research paper in a national conference without UC LEADS. I would not have done research projects with various professors without UC LEADS. The most important point is getting into graduate school with the help of UC LEADS. With the support of the UC LEADS Program, I have distinguised myself from others, and found my research potential.

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I am currently a Computer Science graduate student at UC Davis working with Dr. Bertram Ludascher in the Database lab. My research focus is on function and data shipment scheduling in Data Intensive Scientific Workflows. I am also a part-time programmer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as well as having served as the IT support and webmaster for the UC LEADS and McNair scholars program. I plan to work for a research lab or an industry after I finish my Master of Science degree and then pursue my Ph.D in the future.


Is Extreme Programming (XP) a Useful Tool for Computer Science Education?
Mentor: Brian Alexander, MyUCDavis Web-Portal

"MyUCDavis," the largest UC campus web portal, was created by the "MyUCDavis" development team utilizing Cold Fusion technology. Extreme Programming is a Software Engineering methodology, which improves the software development process primarily by reducing the program defect rate. Using "MyUCDavis" as model, this research analyzed the benefits of applying Extreme Programming methodologies in the educational process of web programming. However, its value in Computer Science pedagogy is still unknown. Data for this project were collected using surveys completed by the Extreme Programmers from the "MyUCDavis" development team. More than 95 percent of the workers agree that Extreme Programming benefits both the instructors and the students in the learning process. Furthermore, more than 90 percent of workers agree that Extreme Programming makes the coding process more effective and enjoyable. To explore the possibilities of Extreme Programming application in Computer Science Education, an Extreme Programming application prototype was designed and reviewed by UC Davis students. Based on these initial data, Extreme Programming appears to be a useful tool in Computer Science education.

Published in National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2003.
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Enhancing Human and Web Interaction through Mobile Technology .NET vs. J2EE
Mentor: Dr. Ganz Chockalingam, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

The rapid growth of web-based technology has empowered the web more than ever. However, this growth has also increased the size and the complexity of the website, and as a result, introduced new usability problems to Internet users. To cope with these problems, web developers used mobile technology such as Short Message Service (SMS), and Voice Extensible Markup Language (VXML) to enhance interactions between Internet users and web servers. This paper uses the San Diego Wireless Traffic Report, and the SMS Friends web portal to demonstrate how we can use the Microsoft .NET, and the Sun Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology to construct human-and-web interaction systems through mobile technology. And then we will compare the functionality and the efficiency of these two technologies based on our models. This analysis will guide web developers to choosing the best technology for their portal development.

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Analysis of the Oracle 9i XML DB and XDK
Mentor: Dr. Michael Gertz. UC Davis Department of Computer Science

This presentation gives an overview of the Oracle 9i XML DB architecture, and an analysis of the Oracle 9i XDK Functionalities.

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I have developed various web-based applications including MyUCDavis Glossary Term System, MyUCDavis Undergraduate Research Opportunity Channel, UC Davis UC LEADS Website, UC Davis McNair Website, UC Office of the President UC LEADS Website, San Diego Wireless Traffic Report, San Diego SMS Student Web-Portal, and the UC Davis Graduate Applicaiton Management System. Moreover, I am developing the Underdog Evaluation Tool, and the Pain Assessment Guide Windows Application for the Animal Science Department.

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