My main research area is vision-based robotic navigation — here's my thesis proposal. My advisor is Dr. Bruce Draper, whose mentorship and great classes got me excited about the topic. The idea came about in fall 2007 when I started working on a project that builds on SeeAsYou biomimetic vision system and adds navigation capabilities for mobile robots. Here's a paper about the first stage of this work.
More recently, circa spring 2008, I became very interested in machine learning, more specifically advanced neural network architectures and reinforcement learning, largely owing to an excellent class I took from Dr. Charles Anderson. I am currently working on a project that seeks to apply liquid state machines (a type of neural network developed by Dr. Wolfgang Maas) and reinforcement learning to problems in mobile robotics. Here are some preliminary results.
Another area of computer science I am interested in is network security. In fall 2007 I wrote a technical report on mobile phone network security with focus on 3G networks. Many recent publications corroborate its results, here is an example.