Computational & Applied Mathematics & Statistics (CAMS)

The Computational and Applied Mathematics and Statistics (CAMS) has two tracks within the program: Mathematical Biology and Applied Statistics. In its Honors Program, CAMS awards one level of Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

• Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
  Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2024-2025

• Emma Caroline Holley, "Hijackers: Identifying Putative Satellite Phage in Metagenomic Data" (Honors) 
  Margaret Saha + Mark Forsyth, Jim Deverick
• Matthew Pedro Luchs, "Transcriptomic Analysis of Xenopus laevis embryo response to Anterior-Posterior Axis Rotation" (Honors) 
  Margaret Saha + Greg Conradi-Smith, Mainak Patel
• Caden Matthew Sanko, "Cutting Translation out of the Equation: Exploring the P4 CI RNA as the Basis for a Novel Family of Translation-Independent Genetic Parts" (Honors) 
  Margaret Saha + Helen Murphy, Greg Conradi-Smith

2023-2024

• Lydia Doughty, "Mercury Most Fowl: A Meta-Analysis on the Effect of Mercury on Avian Reproduction" (Honors) 
  M. Drew LaMar + Daniel Cristol, Leah Shaw, Richard Marcus
• Junyan Liu, "Parameter Estimation for Patient Enrollment in Clinical Trials" (Honors) 
  Anh T. Ninh + Gexin Yu, Lawrence M. Leemis, Daniel Vasiliu

2022-2023

No Honors students this year

2021-2022

• Christian Longo, "Bayesian Spatial Model Development of Soil Core Organic Matter as a proxy for Blue Carbon Stocks within the Chesapeake Bay" (Honors)
  Grace Chiu + Lisa Anderson, Heather Sasinowska
• Wei Wang, "Within-host Model of Poliovirus Control by Defective Interfering Particles and Interferon" (Honors)
  Leah Shaw + Margaret Saha, Junping Shi

2020-2021

• Caleb Baker, "A Diagnosis of the Computational Implementation of Bayesian Melding for the Integrated Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation Applied to Australian Subcatchments" (Honors)
  Grace Chiu + Heather Sasinowska, Bob Williams
• Xiangyi Fang, "Designing and Constructing a Library of Well-characterized Mycobacterium smegmatis Promoters" (Honors)
  Margaret Saha + Mainak Patel, Junping Shi, Dana Willner

2019-2020

• LeAnn Lu, "A RNA-Seq Transcriptome Analysis of Plasticity in the Developing Anterior-Posterior Neural Axis in Xenopus Laevis" (Honors)
  Margaret Saha + Dana Willner, Tyler Davis, Greg Conradi Smith