NORTON – A Wheaton College undergraduate recently won second place in a national competition for research in computer science.
Eric Drewniak was recognized at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education, held in Milwaukee, Wis., for an algorithm he developed. The algorithm is designed to detect patterns in large sets of data, and has applicability in a number of fields.
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“The diversity of data that can be examined makes the project particularly valuable to many fields,” Drewniak, a junior, said in a college news release. “The data can be from any source: the closing prices of stock over the course of a year, average temperature for a region over a decade, a buoy measuring water levels or temperatures in the ocean or a patient’s heart rate.”
Drewniak conducted his research last summer with funding from Wheaton’s Mars Student-Faculty Research Partnership. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Tom Armstrong mentored the Ludlow, Mass., native.
Drewniak said he hopes to continue his research this summer with the goal of improving the algorithm’s speed and expanding its capabilities so that it can evaluate data sets with multiple variables.
