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Representing Lean Proofs: Tactics, Trajectories, Search, Elisaveta Samoylov

Computer Science Senior Theses

In neural theorem proving for interactive proof assistants such as Lean, tactic prediction models score proof steps by surface likelihood, missing whether a move actually advances the proof. This thesis proposes representing each step by the symbolic edit it induces on the proof state rather than by its token-level surface form, and shows that this effect-grounded view yields better tactic embeddings, reveals structured geometry in complete proofs, and enables a practical proof search prior.

We introduce Delta Tokens — token-level state edits augmented with structural indicators — and show they outperform surface-only representations on tactic retrieval and operator-analogy benchmarks. Embedding …

Usa V. James France

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Optimizing The Sensitivity Of Detection Of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections In Longitudinal Studies Using The Combination Of Weekly Sample Testing And Biannual Serology., Shannon C. Conrey, Daniel C. Payne, Maria Deza Leon, Monica Epperson, Melissa M. Coughlin, Allison R. Burrell, Claire P. Mattison, Rachel M. Burke, Julia M. Baker, Natalie J. Thornburg, Meredith L. Mcmorrow, Mary Allen Staat, Ardythe L. Morrow

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Cohort studies are often challenged by incomplete adherence to sampling regimens, limiting the full capture of disease burden. We describe the detection of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections achieved in a birth cohort using a combination of weekly nasal sample testing and serology. The Pediatric Respiratory and Enteric Viral Acquisition and Immunogenesis Longitudinal Cohort followed 245 maternal-child dyads from birth to age 18 to 24 months. Weekly mid-turbinate nasal swabs were tested for RSV using real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR). Serum was tested for RSV pre-fusion F IgG and IgA antibody at age 6 weeks and biannually from 6 to …

Bullying, Early Sexual Debut, And Sexual Health Behaviors Among Adolescents In New York City, Valentina I. Ramirez

Dissertations and Theses

Adolescent sexual and reproductive health remains a critical public health priority in the United States, particularly given the persistent burden of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among young people. Adolescents and young adults account for a disproportionate share of STI cases, reflecting ongoing gaps in prevention, early detection, treatment, and equitable access to sexual health care and services. These patterns are shaped not only by individual behaviors but also by broader social, structural, and developmental contexts that influence adolescents’ opportunities to engage in preventive sexual health care.

This dissertation examined associations between early sexual debut, experiences of bullying, and …

Values Driven Priming: Engaging Ai With Reflective, Purposeful Interaction, Carrie Fry, V. Dozier, Amanda Makula

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

This librarian-led immersive session seeks to set the human at the center of Generative AI use, beginning by exploring the themes and connections between the foundations of Catholic higher education and the integration of emerging technologies, and then moving to a practical exploration of how the tools can be primed to give outputs that reflect those values.

Librarians are uniquely positioned in AI discussions because of our background in information literacy, and our training in the evaluation of data including provenance of data, reducing misinformation, and bias awareness. Librarians are also interdisciplinary mediators with cross-curricular reach, and connections with student …

A Global Internal Tide Modeling Framework For Improving Satellite Observations Of Fine-Scale Ocean Circulation, Badarvada Yadidya, Brian K. Arbic, Edward D. Zaron, Jay F. Shriver, Maarten C. Buijsman, Eric P. Chassignet, Loren Carrère, Michel Tchilibou

Faculty Publications

Small-scale oceanic eddies and filaments mediate the vertical exchange of heat and carbon within the global ocean. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission resolves these features through wide-swath interferometry, but internal tides often mask these observations. Non–phase-locked internal tides present special difficulty because they vary with the evolving ocean background. We show that this chaotic variability can be predicted. We use a data-assimilative ocean forecast model to resolve the mesoscale environment and separate tidal signals from the broader circulation. The model captures the organized structure of these incoherent waves in the independent SWOT measurements. Correcting for the total …

From Story To Stage: A Journey In Pursuit Of Virtuous Leadership And Artistic Intentionality Through Student Directing A Full Play Production At University Level Theatre, Josephine L. Partridge

Honors Projects

A passionate storyteller and artist, earning her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Honors Liberal Arts and Theatre-Performance, explores her personal potential as the play Director of Little Women, a stage play adaptation based on the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott, adapted from the 1912 play by Marian de Forest and Jessie Bonstelle written by Josephine Partridge. Throughout the course of four months, Partridge adapted the script and works as Director and Marketing Director for this production with SPU Theatre Company club. She uses this experience to deepen her understanding and practice of intentionality with artistic vision and virtuous leadership. …

Iajes Website Redesign, Justin Fan, Nicolas Gibson, Isabelle Hu, Anisha Malani

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

The International Association of Jesuit Engineering and Science Schools (IAJES) connects more than sixty Jesuit institutions worldwide to promote collaboration and shared learning in STEM research. Santa Clara University is one of more than sixty member universities whose faculty and staff participate in conferences and task forces to address priority issues identified by the Society of Jesus. IAJES’ existing website, built on a static no-code platform, limited the organization’s ability to manage content, support member interaction, and scale with its growing global network. Users faced unclear navigation options, a basic design, and no effective tools for managing roles, resources, or …

Jesus-Centered Preaching: A Christocentric Approach Based On The Hermeneutical Implications Of The Gospels As Βίοι., Mark Palmer

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to discover the implied hermeneutic of the Gospels as βίοι and to propose a congruent homiletic. The study addressed the following research questions: What is the genre of the Gospels and the resulting hermeneutic? Does current Christ-centered preaching account for his hermeneutic? Does Christological research account for intrinsic characteristics? What is the intrinsic Christology of Mark’s Gospel? What homiletical process is needed to align with the genre-based hermeneutic of the Gospels? The methodology of this study followed a four-step process: Genre research confirming the Gospels as βίοι, Christological research including the development of an …

Wheelless Snake-Like Robot For Unknown Environment Exploration, Anastasiia Statcenko, Gwyn Anawalt, Eden Steinbeck

Interdisciplinary Design Senior Theses

This project focuses on creating a locomotive device that is capable of movement without relying on active wheels. This kind of system is essential to exploration in rough terrains where wheel-based motion proves to be ineffective. Drawing inspiration from the natural movement of snakes- the animal most successful in traversing difficult and diverse environments- we will develop a modular snake-like robotic prototype. Our modular design will allow for simplified maintenance, easy component replacement, and opportunity for further development and research.

Our approach will integrate electronic circuits, obstacle awareness via live camera feed, and locomotion control programmed via serial protocols on …

Smart Walker, Viet Ha, Harry Ying, Ayden Dauenhauer

Interdisciplinary Design Senior Theses

Traditional walkers provide essential physical support for people recovering from injury, surgery, or reduced mobility, but do not collect objective information about how a person walks. This thesis presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a SmartWalker system that transforms a standard mobility walker into a portable gait data collection platform. The system integrates Intel RealSense cameras mounted on a walker, NVIDIA Jetson embedded computing units, local storage, and a graphical user interface to record lower-body movement, process video locally, and present clinician-reviewable gait metrics.

The thesis describes the motivation for the monitoring of gait based on walking, the user …

Ai, Translation, And Telling The Truth, David I. Smith

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

I am working on a large translation project this year. I have been surprised to find several conversation partners voicing the assumption that I am getting AI to do the translating for me. I’ve been wondering how to respond.

A short, but in the end inadequate answer is that, impressive as the current variations on machine translation are, they still get things wrong. Neural machine translation services such as Google Translate and DeepL still produce oddities fairly regularly. I have been working lately with seventeenth-century Czech texts, an area in which I would expect machine translation to struggle a little …

B.P.J. V. West Virginia State Board Of Education: Leveling The Playing Field For All Students, Asa J. Zaretsky

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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Llzk-Symex: Building A Circuit Verification Framework For The Llzk Zero-Knowledge Intermediate Language, Nicolás Iair Schaievitch

Computer Science Senior Theses

The rising adoption of ZK (Zero-Knowledge) technology has led to a plethora of DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) for facilitating the development of ZK circuits. At the same time, there has also been an increase in the number of compilation targets for these languages, with different cryptographic foundations and performance optimizations. LLZK, by Veridise, aims to unify the ecosystem by providing a single IR (Intermediate Representation) for the different frontend DSLs, that would then also allow choosing between different backends. Given the high stakes (particularly financial) that a lot of ZK circuits are under, together with their high level of complexity, …

Capturing Large Language Model Similarity Through Spectral Analysis, Ishan Verma Prasad

Computer Science Senior Theses

With the rapid development of open-sourced models on Huggingface, there is a strong need for a way to systematically determine the similarity between models. More strongly, for intellectual property and organization, we need a way to determine the "lineage" of models. We borrow principles from Heavy-Tailed Self-Regularization and Random Matrix Theory to provide an inference-free method to accomplish this. We cluster a corpus of several model families by their spectral fingerprints and demonstrate that each model family occupies a distinct region in weight space. This confirms prior ideas of training setups leaving artifacts on model weights and allows us to …

Reliability-Aware Mixture-Of-Agents For Robust Ai-Generated Image Detection, Jake Jump, Yu-Wing Tai

Computer Science Senior Theses

Detecting AI-generated images requires reasoning across multiple levels of evidence, ranging from low-level statistical artifacts to high-level semantic inconsistencies. Existing approaches typically rely on a single class of signals or emphasize complex multi-agent coordination, which limits robustness under distribution shifts and common image degradations. We propose a reliability-aware Mixture-of-Agents (MoA) framework that treats Vision-Language Model (VLM) agents and computational features as complementary experts and aggregates their predictions based on empirically calibrated reliability. Rather than relying on intricate inter-agent reasoning, our approach centers on structured aggregation: high-precision “anchor” agents drive predictions, while weaker but complementary signals are adaptively incorporated to resolve …

Dancing For The People: A Culturally Grounded Learning-To-Rank Framework For Powwow Dance Evaluation, Avery C. Sutherland

Computer Science Senior Theses

Powwow dance is a form of Indigenous expression that combines movement, storytelling, regalia, and community values. Within competition powwows, dancers are evaluated through a highly subjective judging process that often lacks standardized criteria, creating challenges for consistency, transparency, and fairness. This work investigates whether a learning-to-rank framework can model subjective powwow dance preferences while remaining grounded in the cultural context of the practice. To support this research, a new dataset was constructed consisting of 19 Women's Fancy Shawl dancer profiles and 236 pairwise preference labels collected from experienced members of the powwow community. Each dancer profile combines textual descriptions, images, …

Rscore - A Tool For Learning And Quantifying Software Infrastructure Resiliency, Selena Yujia Zhou

Computer Science Senior Theses

As LLMs take over writing code, infrastructure resilience has become the central challenge of software development, especially for gaming applications, where latency, availability, and scale demands are extreme. However, holistic software infrastructure is difficult to understand for casual developers because of the multiple layers of abstraction that make up an application, and the lack of structured information from proprietary companies. This thesis explores the creation of rscore, a tool that quantifies software infrastructure resiliency and subsequently educates developers about the architecture of any existing gaming application. The tool generates two graphical models of a game’s early versus current infrastructure and …

Blendmo: A Blender Mocap Toolkit, Kelly Lee, Angela Zhou, Dana Steinke

Interdisciplinary Design Senior Theses

Motion capture technology is vital for achieving realistic movement in 3D animation, but industry-standard tracking suits and studios remain expensive and inaccessible for students, independent artists, and amateur filmmakers. Consequently, many creators rely on accessible, marker-less motion capture methods, which frequently yield noisy data, scale mismatches between the actor and the rigged model, and unnatural behaviors like foot sliding. To address these technical barriers, this project introduces a free and accessible extension for Blender designed to streamline the cleanup and integration of marker-less motion capture data. It consists of various solutions for methods of combats to motion-captured complications: the keyframe …

Formation Control Of A Multi-Agent System, Benjamin Banh, Paul Lancaster, Daniel Sims

Interdisciplinary Design Senior Theses

The primary objective of this project is to design and implement a ROS2-based multi-agent robotic prototype capable of demonstrating aggregation and formation-control behavior in a controlled indoor environment. The project explores how multiple mobile robots can coordinate through decentralized interaction rules, peer state information, and namespaced ROS2 communication rather than relying on a single centralized controller.

The project began with theoretical study and MATLAB/Simulink simulation of artificial potential fields, singleintegrator dynamics, aggregation, desired-distance formation control, and obstacle-repulsion concepts. These simulations provided an idealized environment for evaluating the general behavior of the control strategy before physical hardware limitations were introduced.

The …

Secretary United States Department Of Labor V. Comprehensive Healthcare Management Services Llc

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Tariq Wyatt V. Christina Hauser

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Neal Miller V. Joseph Wolk

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Briarwood Affordable, Llc V. Flowers

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In this nonpayment proceeding, the court dismissed the petition for failure to plead landlord's receipt of a Division of Alternative Management Programs (DAMP) and Article XI of the Private Housing Finance Law tax incentive administered by HPD, as required by RPAPL §741(4). The omission was prejudicial to tenant because the undisclosed regulatory agreement restricted the monthly rent landlord could legally charge and hampered tenant's ability to determine whether the legal regulated rent was correct. Amendment was not permitted upon a finding of prejudice.

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Wearable Hazard Detection System For The Visually Impaired, Nolan Daly, Sergio Diaz, Brandon Ng

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

This project presents a wearable assistive system designed to help blind or visually impaired people navigate their surroundings more safely. The system uses a Raspberry Pi 5 connected to Camera Module 3 (NoIR Wide) sensors to capture a wide field of view. Real-time object detection is performed using a lightweight YOLOv8 model, and a redundancy-based merging algorithm combines detections across cameras to improve reliability. By requiring agreement between multiple cameras, the system reduces false positives and increases confidence in identifying obstacles.

The device is designed to operate in real time and provide reliable feedback about nearby hazards, helping users make …

From Performance To Practice: Knowledge-Distilled Segmentator For On-Premises Clinical Workflows, Qizhen Lan, Aaron Choi, Jun Ma, Bo Wang, Zhongming Zhao, Xiaoqian Jiang, Yu-Chun Hsu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Deploying medical image segmentation models in routine clinical workflows is often constrained by on-premises infrastructure, where computational resources are fixed and cloud-based inference may be restricted by governance and security policies. While high-capacity models achieve strong segmentation accuracy, their computational demands hinder practical deployment and long-term maintainability in hospital environments. We present a deployment-oriented framework that leverages knowledge distillation to translate a high-performing segmentation model into a scalable family of compact student models without modifying the inference pipeline. The framework is primarily evaluated on nnU-Net, with additional validation across transformer and heterogeneous teacher–student architectures. The proposed approach preserves architectural compatibility …

Life Sustaining Well-Being Practices And Physiological Health Among Black Men, Dakota W. Cintron, Monique N. Golden, Jennifer M. Boylan, Julia K. Boehm, Tomiko Yoneda, Hebi Wang, Erik M. Hines, James L. Moore Iii

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

Objective

To identify culturally grounded well-being practices among Black men in midlife and examine their associations with physiological health.

Methods

Analyzing data from the 2004–2005 Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study, we examined, 116 open-ended responses to the question, “What do you do to make your life go well?” Network topic modeling identified six topics: (1) interpersonal kindness and positive mindset; (2) caring for children; (3) practicing spirituality and faith; (4) maintaining social connections and well-being; (5) avoiding stress; and (6) meaningful work and daily activities. Topic scores, reflecting participants’ tendency to discuss these themes, predicted allostatic load and …

Stomp (The Student Organization Management Portal), Lindsey Leong, Madeline Follosco, Noelle Evanich, Irene Chang

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

At Santa Clara University, the Center for Student Involvement (CSI) leads to support hundreds of student-led organizations with different audiences and ambitions, but all aim to bring students together nonetheless. However, such development regarding student organization management proves to be much harder when administrative processes are decentralized and cumbersome, often involving numerous layers of manual work and departmental bottlenecks. Restructuring and optimizing administrative workflows would entail more energy towards the growth of student life at Santa Clara University.

The Student Organization Management Portal, or StOMP, is a web application that aims to centralize and optimize student organization-related processes, as well …

Holy Hunger: A Study Of How Spiritually Formative Practices Shape A Faith Community At The Cedar Lane Church Of Christ, David W. Mitchell

DMin Project Theses

I have served in leadership as an elder/shepherd at the Cedar Lane Church of Christ in Tullahoma, Tennessee, since 2011. Before serving in this leadership position, I was in full-time ministry with churches of Christ from 1982 to 2005 (as a youth minister, education minister, and preaching minister). Since 2007, I have been a public educator, first as a High School Civics teacher and now as a Middle School Social Studies teacher. My primary work as an elder includes education, spiritual formation, and community engagement. Another role I have is to assess the spiritual health of the believers I am …