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I am Jaired Collins, a student at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, MO, currently majoring in computational mathematics. Outside of academia, I enjoy cycling, weights, table tennis, tennis, and cooking.

Week 1 (29 May - 1 Jun)

Tuesday

  • Initial meeting to get introduced into the program.
  • Lunch meeting with mentors.
  • Obtained MU and MSCS account logins and ID card
  • Paperwork

Wednesday

  • Met with Dr. Corliss to get acquainted with the GasDay lab and receive a key.
  • Met with Dr. Povinelli and another student to set up initial parameters of the project.
  • Literature review.

Thursday

  • More literature review
  • Seminar with GasDay
  • Meeting with Dr. Povinelli and student to establish a weekly plan and talk about the project.

Friday

  • Literature review
  • Planned for a presentation at a GasDay Seminar on the 21st of June
  • Data cleaning


Week 2 (4 Jun - 8 Jun)

Monday

  • Meeting with Dr. Corliss
  • Meeting with Dr. Povinelli and Colin
  • Literature search
  • Cleaned up more data

Tuesday

  • Meeting with Dr. Corliss
  • Data cleaning
  • Played around with data and SVMs in MatLab
  • Meeting with research consultant
  • Literature review

Wednesday

  • Cross validation with k-Fold
  • GasDay Camp
  • Literature search

Thursday

  • More built-in SVM work in MatLab
  • GasDay camp
  • REU working lunch meeting

Friday

  • Meeting with Dr. Corliss
  • Creation of ShareLaTeX project
  • Converted temporal pressure data into nonuniform time series data
  • Tried resampling time series data into uniform data


Week 3 (11 Jun - 15 Jun)

Monday

  • Meeting with Dr. Corliss
  • Meeting with Dr. Povinelli
  • Resampled nonuniform data
  • Forecasting with ARIMA
  • Left computer running to finish ARIMA models

Tuesday

  • Examined and saved ARIMA models
  • Dissimilarity-based approach to prediction, where correlation coefficients between sensors are used as features
  • SVM and k-fold cross validation at k = 5, 10, and 20

Wednesday

  • Meeting with Dr. Corliss to elucidate LS-SVM for regression
  • Coding LS-SVM
  • RCR lunch meeting

Thursday

  • Meeting with Dr. Corliss, further explained LS-SVM
  • GasDay seminar
  • Coding of LS-SVM for regression
  • Meeting with Dr. Povinelli


Week 4 (18 Jun - 22 Jun)

Run first set of expirements

Week 5 (25 Jun - 29 Jun)

First pass of research paper

Week 6 (2 Jul - 6 Jul)

Generate new ideas for algorithm

Week 7 (9 Jul - 13 Jul)

Code and test algorithm

Week 8 (16 Jul - 20 Jul)

More experiments with algorithm

Week 9 (23 Jul - 27 Jul)

Work on final draft of research paper
Work on poster

Week 10 (30 Jul - 3 Aug)

Prepare final presentation