Nicole Qian
HRI- Spring 2026: Robots, Mind, & Ethics
- Fall 2026: AI, Trust, & Consciousness
Students
Opportunities for undergraduate students to engage in research
From the start of my career until today, I have been committed to creating opportunities for undergraduate students to collaborate with me on research projects. I have worked with undergraduates first at Dartmouth and later at Bucknell, where I have also had the privilege of hosting visiting students from Brazil. These collaborations have taken place in independent study courses, summer research projects, and honors theses. Several of these students co-authored publications with me.
At a glance
- Students in research
- 32
- Student co-authors
- 10
- Honors theses advised
- 11
Honors theses include ten at Bucknell and one at Dartmouth.
Join in
Bucknell students interested in an independent study or honors thesis in simulation, HRI, or computers and society are welcome to stop by Dana 321B or write to me.
Current
Bucknell alumni
Sean O’Connor
Honors thesisCo-authorHRI- HRIStudio: a framework to support experimental processes in human-robot interaction, developed over several semesters of independent study
- Design of an accessory for the NAO6 robot, with video and audio feeds; ROS and TurtleBot 3 experiments
- Co-author, RO-MAN 2025 and RO-MAN 2024 (see Research)
- Honors thesis: A Web-Based Wizard-of-Oz Platform for Collaborative and Reproducible Human-Robot Interaction Research (2026)
M.S. in Computer Engineering, Boston University
Parker Ashnault
HRI- Robot Operating System (ROS) with a TurtleBot 3 (Burger); remote communication from web browsers to a ROS robot
Jaros, Baum and Bolles
Ryan Mosenkis and Cole Hausman
HRI- NAO6 robot programming: a C++ application, scripted movement, sensor input
Ryan Mosenkis: Fast Enterprises; Cole Hausman: ServiceNow
Jules Ward
HRI- NAO6 robot programming in Choregraphe; streaming video and audio from the robot’s cameras and microphones
Master of Science in Computer Science
Ian Charles
HRI- NAO6 robot programming
Intel
Matthew S. Brown
Honors thesis- Honors thesis: Ethics, Privacy, and Data Collection: A Complex Intersection (April 2020)
Akamai Technologies
Andrew Verrili
- Robots and Japanese society
Replit
Tiago Covolan Bozzetti
Summer research- A Web-Based Interface for SAFE. Funded by the Brazilian Scientific Mobility Program
Amazon Web Services
Greg L. Schrock
Summer researchCo-author- A Data Visualization Module for SAFE. Funded by the Bucknell Program for Undergraduate Research
- Contributions to the ns-3 data collection framework
- Co-author, “Data Visualization for Network Simulations,” WSC 2014
Juniper Networks
Li Li
Summer research- Redesigning the ns-3 Data Collection Framework. Funded by NSF award CI-ADDO-EN Frameworks for ns-3
Nicholas Marshall
Summer researchCo-author- Performance Improvements to the SAFE Backend: concurrency, visualization, and output data analysis. Funded by NSF award CI-ADDO-EN Frameworks for ns-3 and the Dept. of Computer Science
- Co-author, FlyLoop, EICS 2015
WebstaurantStore
Joseph Kale
- Frameworks for ns-3: data collection framework
Amazon
William S. Stratton
Summer researchCo-author- A Command-line Interface for SAFE; web-based user interface, experiment description language, experiment execution and visualization. Funded by NSF award CI-ADDO-EN Frameworks for ns-3
- Co-author, FlyLoop, EICS 2015
- Honors thesis proposal: On Designing User Interfaces for the Description of Network Simulation Experiments
Shelby C. Kilmer
- Frameworks for ns-3: steady-state detection and output data analysis
Vinícius Daly Felizardo
Summer researchCo-author- Refactoring the SAFE Backend: experiment execution, command-line interface, data collection, steady-state detectors. Funded by the Brazilian Scientific Mobility Program
- Co-author, “The Design of an Output Data Collection Framework for ns-3,” WSC 2013
Christopher S. Main
Honors thesisCo-author- Integrating Experiment Description and Control into SAFE; deployment on workstation networks and multi-core platforms. Funded by NSF award CI-ADDO-EN Frameworks for ns-3
- Poster at WNS3 and the ns-3 Developers’ Meeting, Desenzano del Garda, Italy, March 2012
- Co-author, SAFE papers at WSC 2012 and WNS3 2012, and “Data Visualization for Network Simulations,” WSC 2014
- Honors thesis: Visualization Techniques for the Analysis of Network Simulation Results (May 2013)
MaiaEdge
Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues
Summer research- A Data Collection Framework for ns-3. Funded by the Ciência sem Fronteiras program (CAPES, Brazil)
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tohoku University
Aurimas Liutikas
Summer research- An Investigation of User Interfaces for SAFE. Funded by NSF award CI-ADDO-EN Frameworks for ns-3
Bryan C. Ward
Honors thesisCo-authorGoldwater- Frameworks for ns-3 and SWAN Tools; co-author of SIMUTools 2009, STWiMob 2008, and SIMUTools 2010 papers
- Northrop Grumman Scholarship, Barry Goldwater Scholarship, Outstanding Winner of MCM 2010
- Summer 2008: Automated Optimization Study of Attack Models for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (Bucknell Program for Undergraduate Research). Summer 2010: An Execution Manager for Parallel Simulation Experiments with ns-3 (NSF award CI-ADDO-EN Frameworks for ns-3)
- Honors thesis: A Framework for the Automation of Discrete-Event Simulation Experiments (May 2011)
Ph.D. program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Assistant Professor of Computer Science (primary) and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University
Andrew Hallagan
Honors thesisCo-author- Summer 2009: Developing an XML Language for Credible Wireless Network Simulation (Accenture Discovery Undergraduate Research Fund)
- Co-author, SIMUTools 2010 poster
- Honors thesis: The Design of XML-based Model and Experiment Description Languages for Network Simulation (May 2011)
Amazon
Tali Sason
Summer research- A Mechanism for Transient Detection in Metrics Estimated with the ns-3 Network Simulator (Bucknell Program for Undergraduate Research)
Robert Bathmann
Honors thesis- Honors thesis: A Comparison of Wireless Network Protocols from a Simulation Perspective (May 2009)
MS in Computer Science, Towson University
Christopher J. Kenna
Honors thesisCo-author- SWAN Tools; co-author, STWiMob 2008
- Honors thesis: An Experiment Design Framework for the Simulator of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (May 2007)
M.Sc., College of William & Mary; Ph.D. program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael P. Dippery
Summer research- An Investigation of Policies for Caching Radio Propagation Calculations in the Simulation of Wireless Networks (Accenture Discovery Undergraduate Research Fund)
- Implemented XML propagation maps and a k-d tree for neighborhood search in SWAN
Ph.D. program, College of William & Mary
Phil Marquis
- Mobility models for wireless ad hoc network simulation in SWAN
Ph.D. program, North Carolina State University
Samuel C. Nelson
Honors thesisCo-author- Summer 2004: A Simulation Study of Denial of Service Attacks on Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks (Accenture Discovery Undergraduate Research Fund)
- Co-author, OpComm 2006
- Honors thesis: A Simulation Study of Connectivity Metrics for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (May 2006)
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Daniel J. Cross
Honors thesis- Honors thesis: An Investigation into the Human/Computer Interface from a Security Perspective (May 2005)
M.Sc. in Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Eric Reed and Aaron Schwager
- Investigations in Applied Cryptography (with Sam Nelson)
Eric Reed: GE
Eric Graham
Summer research- A Study of Radio Propagation Models in the Simulation of Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks (Bucknell Program for Undergraduate Research)
Akamai Technologies
Brad Spengler
- Increasing Performance and Granularity in Role-Based Access Control Systems
Joshua H. Shaffer
Honors thesis- Honors thesis: A Performance Evaluation of Operating System Emulators (May 2004)
Apple
Dartmouth
Evan W. Richardson
Honors thesis- SWAN models for terrain and the Irregular Terrain Model (ITM) of radio propagation; signal-strength survey tools for 802.11b
- Honors thesis: An Evaluation of the Impact of Models for Radio Propagation on the Simulation of 802.11b Wireless Networks (Dartmouth TR2003-450, June 2003)
Noah H. Miller
- SWAN model for Dynamic Source Routing (DSR); integration of the SOS experiment scripts; verification of radio propagation and 802.11b MAC models
Daniel Philp
- SWAN battery consumption model for IEEE 802.11b; early development of the TinyOS Scalable Simulation Framework (TOSSF)