Leilani Gilpin

I am interested in Computational Geometric Mechanics and Geometric Modeling with their application to robotic networks and paralell processing.

I was at an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) with the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) Program at Rutgers University in New Jersey. I am working on Network Modeling and Algorithms. Feel free to check up on my progress. I am continuing this research as part of my honors thesis in the computer science department under the supervision of Professor Pasquale.

During the school year, I am a research assistant with the Computational Geometric Mechanics Group at UC San Diego. I am working on math department honors thesis in geometric mechanics under the supervision of Professor Leok.

Involvements

I am the President of the Math Club @ UCSD and Vice President of External Activities for the Triton Engineering Student Council (TESC). I'm also the Project Lead for the Special Interest Group in Algorithms and Computer Theory (SIGACT) for the Computer Science and Engineering Society (CSES). I am also a lab tutor a variety of computer science classes including advanced data structures, assembly language, beginning java, and basic object-oriented design.

Outside of the classroom, I perform Tahitian Dance in various shows around campus as part of the UCSD Hawaii Club. As a music minor, I enjoy playing flute, piano, and occasionally singing. I also swim daily with the UCSD Master's Swimming Team, and I compete in various open water swims in the San Diego area during the summer. I just started rowing again with the ZLAC Master's rowing team.

Here is some of the artwork I made as part of Math 155A, Computer Graphics.

I made a "smart-frige" as a final project for CSE 118: Ubiquitous Computing. It can be found here.

I worked on Web Dev 101, a web-development outreach project through the CSES Outreach Group.

In summer 2009 I was an REU student for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). I worked data visualization of earthquake simulations and created a map applet of the earthquake sites to monitor progress. Here is the paper and link to the applet.

In fall and winter 2009, I worked part-time as a programmer for a research project run by Professor McCubbins and Daniel Enemark of the Political Science Department at UCSD. They examined how graph structure affects people's ability to solve distributed graph coloring problems.

During 2008 and 2009 I worked as a webmaster REU for CAIDA.