Welcome to IDeA Labs!
Welcome to BYU's Information and Decision Algorithms Laboratories (IDeA Labs). IDeA Labs is a network of laboratories operated by a single, interdisciplinary research group. This group uses systems, control theory, and related tools to analyze and design a variety of complex systems and information processing techniques.
Alyssa Crezee graduates Magna Cum Laude
Congratulations to Alyssa Crezee for graduating Magna Cum Laude with a GPA of 3.96 with her BA in Linguistics and secondary BS in Communication Disorders! Alyssa has done great work with the Storylab and Beesearch teams, as well as producing various copy text for lab-sponsored website and media content. Alyssa will be attending BYU’s Linguistics MA program to study neurolinguistics this fall.
Griffin Holt and Parker Murray's paper gets accepted to CCTA
Congratulations to lab members Griffin Holt and Parker Murray on having their paper accepted to the 2022 Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)! They will be presenting their and Doctors David Grimsman and Sean Warnick’s work behind their paper “Developing Ecological Sensors for Real-Time Interpretation of Honeybee Communication” at the conference in Trieste, Italy, at the end of August 2022.
Griffin Holt Graduates Summa Cum Laude
Congratulations to Griffin Holt for graduating Summa Cum Laude with a GPA of 4.0 with his BS in Computer Science! Griffin has done great work as the champion for the beekeeping and automated honeybee waggle dance translation project in our lab. He will be attending Stanford’s Electrical Engineering MS program to study machine learning, signal processing, and optimization next fall.
New Undergraduate Lab Alumni
Congratulations to our undergraduate lab members who graduated this week!
Alyssa Crezee graduated Magna Cum Laude with her BA in Linguistics and secondary BS in Communication Disorders, and will attend BYU’s Linguistics MA program next fall.
Griffin Holt graduated Summa Cum Laude with his BS in Computer Science, and will attend Stanford’s Electrical Engineering MS program to study machine learning, signal processing, and optimization next fall.
Parker Murray graduated with his BS in Coputer Science, and will attend University of California, Santa Barbara’s mechanical engineering PhD program to study deep learning next fall.
Brian Brown Receives Award at Student Research Conference
Congratulations to Brian Brown for being awarded his conference session’s best presentation award at this year’s BYU CPMS Student Research Conference! Brian presented on some of his work in hydrology, titled The Music of Rivers: How Climate, Land use, and Disturbance Tune the Frequencies and Volumes of Rivers Worldwide at the CPMS Student Research Conference.
New Grad Students Join the Lab
Welcome to the graduate students who have joined our lab this semester! Brian Brown is a PhD student in Computer Science, Tyler Burrows is a PhD student in Computer Science, and Neal Munson is an MS student in Computer Science.
Former Alumni Takes the Lead of IDeA Labs
Today, Prof. David Grimsman, an Alumni of IDeA Labs (MS 2016), took the reigns as he returned from UC Santa Barbara, where he earned his Ph.D. studying how information impacts decisions in cooperative and non-cooperative multiagent systems. In his own words, “Large-scale autonomous systems are those with many components that act based on individual preferences. No component can access all information within the system, due to time or computation constraints, therefore, each component must make decisions based on constrained, local information.
Michael DeBuse Defends MS Thesis
Michael DeBuse became an MS graduate when he successfuly defended his MS Thesis, entitled “Plot Extraction and the Visualization of Narrative Flow” on April 21, 2021. He passed, and his thesis served as his PhD qualifier. Michael is now pursuing a PhD in CS. The title and abstract for his thesis is provided below:
“This work discusses the development of an automated plot extraction system for narrative texts. Acknowledging the distinction between plot, as an object of study with its own rich history and literature, and features of a text that may be automatically extractable, we begin by characterizing a text’s Scatter-plot of Entities.
Vasu Chetty Defends Ph.D. Dissertation
Vasu Chetty became IDeA Labs’ first Ph.D. graduate on Thusday when he successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Theory and Applications of Network Structure of Complex Dynamical Systems.” Vasu’s accomplishments included generalizing the definition of the Dynamical Structure Function to arbitrary causal linear time-invariant systems, identifying necessary and suffecient conditions for network reconstruction–highlighting the fact that target specificity is not necessary (as previously thought), and developing a new technique for determining the meaning, or semantics, of partial structure representations of network systems.
About Us
Welcome to BYU's Information and Decision Algorithms Laboratories (IDeA Labs). IDeA Labs is a network of laboratories operated by a single, interdisciplinary research group. This group uses systems, control theory, and related tools to analyze and design a variety of complex systems and information processing techniques.
Each laboratory in the network houses projects that are related by a common application area. This focus allows students to investigate concrete problems, work with industrial partners, and collaborate with academic application experts.
By unifying these laboratories with a common group, we concentrate our research on fundamental issues of processing information in complex, uncertain environments. Students working on a project in one lab often discover that the nature of their problem is very similar to an entirely different problem in a completely different area. This focus on the theoretical foundation unifying different application domains helps students to think more deeply about their research.
