Adam participated in the BYU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Research Conference

There were 465 BYU students making presentations in the Conference Saturday.
They were a mixture of both undergraduates and students working on Master's
 Degrees, we found out Saturday.

Adam was first in the room he was in with "Crowdsourcing Genome
Wide Association Studies.  The second one was VCF synthetic Modeling
Human Genetic Variation, and the third Utilizing the Power of
Graphical Processing for DNA Mapping.  All of these were in
Bioinformatics and had the same professor as the faculty advisor.

The next one was the winner and had a team of three graduate
students, two in computer engineering and one physics Bachelors
Degree working on a masters in Computer Science.  The title of
theirs was Modularizing Embedded Devices for Rapid
Prototyping.

Adam's second one was next titled Wrangler an Operating System for Reactive
Programming.

The last two were both about Parallel Programs, one using Computation
graphs and the other used parallel programming to increase web traffic.

Chemistry and Biochemistry,  Computer Science, Geological Sciences,
Physics and Astronomy, Statistics, and Mathematics were the
departments participating.  Computer Science had MORE abstracts
submitted than any other department.  There were over 100 Computer
Science abstracts.

The Judges in Adam's Session were:

Kent Seamons

Bio

Dr. Kent Seamons is the Director of the Internet Security Research Lab in the Computer Science Department at BYU. His research interests are in usable security, privacy, authentication, identity management, and trust management. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers that have been cited over 4,300 times. Dr. Seamons has been awarded nearly $5 million in funding from DARPA, NSF, and industry. He is also a co-inventor on four patents in the areas of automated trust negotiation, single sign-on, and security overlays.

Dr. Seppi received his B.S. in Computer Science from Brigham Young University in 1982 and his M.S. from Santa Clara University in 1987. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990 on a resident study fellowship from IBM. He returned to IBM following his Ph.D. work, and worked with IBM until 1995 when he joined BMC Software. Dr. Seppi joined the BYU Computer Science faculty in the fall of 2002.

Journal Publications 

Jesse Mecham, Mark Clement, Todd Freestone, Quinn Snell, Kevin Seppi, Keith Crandall, “Jump- starting Phylogenetic Analysis”, In International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Appli- cations, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2006, pp. 19–35.Journal Publications

Professor Seppi wiki.cs.byu.edu