Steven Skiena
This is a list of (primarily) master's student projects which I interested in having students work on. Some are available as undergraduate research projects for strong students. Please feel free to talk to me if you are interested.
I very strongly recommend that M.S. students wait until the beginning of their second semester at Stony Brook before selecting their masters project. It is much better to spend a semester taking classes and getting to know what area you are really interested in than to grab the first project that will take you on. Rest assured that projects will be available when you are ready to start working seriously on them. Typically my M.S. students arrive at Stony Brook in August, select their project in January, work on them some in the spring, a lot in the summer, and some the next fall.
I encourage M.S. students potentially interested in working with me to take my Computational Biology course (CSE 549), which is typically offered in the fall. Most of the projects below involve techniques for string/text processing and algorithmic data analysis which are discussed in the course, even if the projects themselves are not biologically-oriented.