John David N. Dionisio, PhD

GRNsight

GRNsight is a web application and service for modeling and visualizing gene regulatory networks, designed and developed in collaboration with Dr. Kam Dahlquist.

• GRNsight on GitHub

Identity Mapping Project

The Identity Mapping Project (IMP) is a survey application for assessing online media users’ expressions of identity, designed and developed in collaboration with Dr. Richard Gilbert.

• IMP on GitHub

XMLPipeDB

XMLPipeDB is an open source tool chain for importing XML data into relational databases, designed and developed in collaboration with Dr. Kam Dahlquist. It includes GenMAPP Builder, an application for creating GenMAPP database files from UniProt and Gene Ontology (GO) data sets.

• XMLPipeDB on SourceForge

LMU Diabolical

LMU Diabolical is a database back-end with a web service for a hypothetical role-playing game. This project was supported by a Google App Engine research grant. It is currently used by Interaction Design students as a “ready-to-go” web service on which web front ends can be built.

• LMU Diabolical on GitHub

Headmaster

Headmaster is a student information system with a RESTful, service-oriented architecture. It is intended to include built-in support for standards-based grading.

Quo

Quo is a programmable social network status “demultiplexer”. It is meant to receive social network status posts and dispatch it automatically to different networks, with each destination network having a programmable pipeline that transforms the post according to that network’s rules and constraints.

Recourse

Recourse is set of teaching methods that integrates elements of open source development (and good software engineering in general) into the undergraduate computer science curriculum. The teaching methods are accompanied by a hardware/software infrastructure that provides electronic and automation support for Recourse.

Partial support for this work is provided by the National Science Foundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program, Award No. 0511732.

• A report on Recourse was delivered at LMU’s Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) on April 24, 2008.
• Recourse was part of the NSF CCLI Showcase for the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, a.k.a. SIGCSE 2008, held from March 12-15, 2008 in Portland, Oregon.
• A poster on Recourse was presented during the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Showcase Week at Loyola Marymount University on September 25, 2007.
• Work on Recourse has been published in the June 2007 issue of ACM SIGCSE Bulletin.
• A similar talk, with minor updates, was also given at Loyola Marymount Univeristy’s President’s Day 2006 (Session B6) on March 18, 2006
• Early talk on Recourse, presented to the Los Angeles Chapter of the ACM on October 12, 2005

OpenJSGL

OpenJSGL reimplements key parts of OpenGL in JavaScript to allow 3D graphics in a Web browser without plug-ins. OpenJSGL uses the <canvas> tag as its viewport, and works in browsers that support <canvas>, such as Firefox, Safari/WebKit, and Opera.

• Andrés Buriticá, who started OpenJSGL as his undergraduate computer science senior project and hopes to continue the work for his masters degree, gave a talk on OpenJSGL at the 2007 Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) at Cal State LA on November 17, 2007. You can download a PDF version of his presentation from this link (2 megabytes). A couple of photos from the conference are shown below:

   

  

   

Fall 2009

• Richard D. Rolston, Enhancing Internet Search Using Social Networking Sites

Spring 2008

• Kimiko Odachi Schmidt, Texture-Map-Based Sound Synthesis in Rigid-Body Simulations
  • A poster of this work was presented at SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los Angeles, California
  • The poster was recognized as one of 25 semifinalists at the conference’s Student Research Competition (note the yellow badge in the photos below)

     

    

     

Fall 2007

• Ryan Nakamoto, An Analysis of Median Filtering Algorithms for Space and Airborne Sensor Imagery

Fall 2006

• Joe Boyle, Applying Agile Software Development Practices to a Scripting Language Environment
  • t-unit is available on Google Code
• David Hoffman, Polygons On A Plane: Modified Rubine Approach To Gesture Recognition For Real-Time Sketching Applications
  • POAP is available on SourceForge
• Jeffrey Nicholas, GMB 2.0: A System for the Creation of GenMAPP Gene Database Files
  • GenMAPP Builder (GMB) is part of the XMLPipeDB project, available on SourceForge

Spring 2006

• Harshitha Elango, Evaluation of XML Query Languages Using W3C Use Cases
• Scott Spicer, Information Visualization of Online Football Data