On March 28-29, 2023, the Office of Graduate Studies, the Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, as well as the Office of Research and Economic Development held the 2023 Student Research Days Poster Sessions and Creative Exhibitions.
More than 130 graduate students and 200 undergraduate students participated in these sessions in addition to a week-long celebration of student research and creative activity. Graduate students who were awarded competitive prizes for their scholarship and presentation skills received $400.00 toward travel grants to present their research regionally or nationally as well as support other research costs. Undergraduates were awarded prizes valued at $250.00 sponsored by their academic colleges. Additionally, five undergraduate students were recognized by the University Honors Program for their research.
Nearly 100 faculty, postdoc and graduate student volunteer judges met with students during morning and afternoon sessions and evaluated their presentations.
The following School of Computing students received awards:
• Jessica Chen (Lincoln, studying computer science and economics in the Honors Program), “Social Capital andInnovation,” adviser: Mitch Herian
• Divsirat Singh (India, studying computer science), “Misinformation of Health Related Data Using R,” adviser: Bryan Wang
• Best Communication — This award recognizes an honors student researcher who displayed the best communication skills in sharing their research: Lauren Kasparek (Waverly, Nebraska, studying computer science), “Natural Language Processing and Structural Similarity,” adviser: Qiuming Yao
• Most Original — This award recognizes an honors student researcher whose research question or approach to answering the research question displayed the most originality: Nathan Roberts (Bellevue, Nebraska, studying computer engineering and electrical engineering), “How Paul Cezanne Can Improve Learning Generalizable Representations in Deep Vision Models,” adviser: Mohammad Hasan
View the full list of winners in Nebraska Today.
More details at: https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/undergraduate-and-graduate-research-days-winners-announced/