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Current PhD Thesis Projects (See also publications)

• Ahmad Taherkhani - Algorithm Recognition by Machine Learning Methods
• Jan Lönnberg
• Juha Helminen - Data Mining on the Coding Strategies of Novice Programmers
• Juha Sorva - Visual Program Simulation in Introductory Programming Education
• Lasse Hakulinen - Serious Games in Computer Science Education
• Petri Ihantola
• Tapio Auvinen - Automatic Monitoring and Tutoring of Students

Current Master's Thesis Projects (See also available thesis topics)

• Mutation testing in automatic assessment of programming exercises

Completed PhD Thesis Projects

• Ville Karavirta (2009) Facilitating Algorithm Visualization Creation and Adoption in Education. The research question of this thesis is: How can we develop algorithm animations (AA) and AA systems further to better facilitate the creation and adoption of AA in education?
• Ari Korhonen (2003) Visual Algorithm Simulation.

Completed Master's Thesis Projects (The list is not exhaustive, see also publications)

• Lasse Hakulinen (2010) Using Computer Supported Cooperative Work systems in Computer Science education - Case: PeerWise at TKK.
• Sakari Lampinen (2010) Detecting Roles of Variables in an Intermediate Language.
• Tapio Auvinen (2009) Rubyric - A Rubrics-Based Online Assessment Tool for Effortless Authoring of Personalized Feedback.
• Juha Helminen (2009) Jype – An Education-Oriented Integrated Program Visualization, Visual Debugging, and Programming Exercise Tool for Python. This Master's Thesis describes the rationale, design, and implementation of a programming environment for education that integrates program visualizations and automatic assessment of programming exercises in Python.
• Ahmad Taherkhani (2008) Static Program Analysis for Recognizing Sorting Algorithms.
• Petri Ihantola (2006) Automatic Test Data Generation for Programming Exercises with Symbolic Execution and Java PathFinder.
• Juha Sorva (2005) Ox - A Tool For Testing Java Exercises (in Finnish).
• Ville Karavirta (2005) XAAL - Extensible Algorithm Animation Language. This Master's Thesis describes XAAL or eXtensible Algorithm Animation Language, an XML language defined to be used as a common language for describing algorithm animations. The target of the project is to allow data exhange between various algorithm animation systems.
• Jussi Nikander (2005) Managing Automatically Assessed Exercises in TRAKLA2.
• Juha Litola (2005) Visualization of Internet Search Engine Results (in Finnish). This Master's Thesis describes VisElabor, a prototype visualization framework for search engine results. Growth of the Internet has turned Internet search engines into basic part of the net infrastructure. Popularity has brought a lot of competition and search engines have evolved immensely. User interface has however stayed almost untouched for a decade. In this study, information visualization methods have been scanned in order to find out how they apply to visualization of Internet search engine results. In addition, the possibility of implementing platform to handle the basic functions of information retrieval systems are studied.
• Leena Salmela (2005) Automatic compiler building exercises (in Finnish). This Master's Thesis describes ACE, a tool for automatically assessing assignments related to compilers. Besides automatic assessment, ACE offers a graphical interface for students to do the assignments. Currently ACE supports assignments dealing with three kinds of automata: finite state automata, LL parsers, and LR parsers.
• Markku Rontu (2004) Visual queries for a student information system. This Master's Thesis describes SEEQ or System for Enhanced Exploration and Querying, a visual database query system. It visualizes the database model, the queries and the results using direct manipulation in an interactive, uniform, zoomable user interface.
• Jan Lönnberg (2003) Visual testing of software. This Master's Thesis describes MVT, a prototype visual testing tool based on Matrix. MVT visualizes the state of a running Java program. Most of this state consists of the data structures of the program. This places MVT firmly in the domain of program visualization even though Matrix is primarily designed for algorithm visualization.
• Otto Seppälä (2003) Visual Java Debugger for Computer Science Education.
• Panu Silvasti (2003) Collecting statistical data of the usage of algorithmic exercise applets (in Finnish).