The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has awarded stipends to 202 Husker undergraduates — including 10 School of Computing students — to participate in research with a faculty mentor this fall.
Nebraska’s Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program supports undergraduates to work with faculty mentors in research or creative activities. Students receive stipends of $2,400 to engage in intensive research or creative activity for 20 hours per week. The students’ projects span academic disciplines including engineering, chemistry, modern languages and literatures, psychology, art and art history, architecture, special education, and fisheries and wildlife.
Students with academic-year UCARE awards will present posters on their research and creative activities at Student Research Days, to be held during the spring semester. For more information on undergraduate research at Nebraska, click here.
Following is a list of the School of Computing students who received fall UCARE awards, with their year in school, academic major(s) and project title:
• Nathan Roberts, senior, computer engineering, “Understanding the Algorithmic and Dataset Biases in Deep Learning.”
• Caleb Koranda, senior, computer science, “Mixed-Initiative Solvers For Managing UNL’s Math Day Event.”
• Clara Perez, senior, computer science, “What it Means to be a Proficient Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Pilot.”
• Lauren Kasparek, junior, computer science, “Exploring Intelligent Methods to Vectorize Sequences toward Trees in Biological Contents.”
• Kalim Dumas, senior, computer engineering, “Mixed-Initiative Solvers For Managing UNL’s Math Day Event.”
• Chase Resio, senior, computer science, “Mixed-Initiative Solvers For Managing UNL’s Math Day Event.”
• Divsirat Singh, junior, computer science, “Social Media Data Mining of Health (Mis)Information.”
• Simreen Kaur, senior, computer science, “Assessment and Improvement of Next-Generation Transcriptome Assembly.”
• Gabriel Clark, senior, software engineering, “Investigation of Possible Impacts of Drone-Facilitated Hyperspectral Imaging.”
• Connor Weyers, junior, software engineering, “Machine Learning-Based Platform to Predict and Evaluate Unknown Protein Families from Microbial Community.”
View the full list of recipients in Nebraska Today.
More details at: https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/202-husker-undergrads-receive-stipends-for-fall-research-projects/