What is UROC?

Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing is a program designed to help undergraduate students get involved in the research culture at Georgia Tech's College of Computing. Browse research opportunities (for pay and for credit) on the research projects wiki , find answers to your questions on the FAQ, or read about the undergraduate research option.

NEWS

2008 UROC Research Symposium

Congratulations to the winners of the 2008 Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) Research Symposium!

JUDGES AWARDS:

First Place ($750):
James Robinson
"MANET Routing: Using Manifolds and the WDL"
Advisor: Santosh Vempala

Second Place ($300):
Megan Elmore
"Interdomain Path Splicing with BGP"
Advisors: Nick Feamster & Santosh Vempala

Third Place ($100):
Kathryn Long
"Restructuring Knowledge Among Different Robots"
Advisors: Zsolt Kira and Ron Arkin

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS

First Place:
Brittany Duncan and Seta Vajjhala
"Can a Robot Learn a Model of a Human's Actions?"
Advisors: Alan Wagner and Ron Arkin

Second Place:
Andrew Bardagjy, Roman Shtylman, Stefan Posey, Jason Kulpe, and Ben Johnson "Development of a Small Size Robocup Team"
Advisor: Chris Paredis

Third Place (tie):
Scott Gilliand
"Curveball: Using Grip and Motion to Interact with Modal UIs"
Advisor: Thad Starner

Christina Lacey
"Second Mind: A Wiki Environment for Authoring Virtual Characters"
Advisors: Manish Mehta and Ashwin Ram

Congratulations to all our winners!
In addition to the cash awards, all winners received prizes provided by Yahoo!

Special thanks to:

Judges:
Rosa Arriaga
Richard Fujimoto
Haesun Park
Spencer Rugaber
Andrea Thomaz

TSO, Especially Doug Connelly

Student Services: Giselle Martin & Alicia Richhart
Student Assistants: Ajai Karthikeyan, Noah Goodwin, & Candis Pham

Photographers: Steph Yang and Uzo Okafor

Extra special thanks to our sponsor:
Ken Schmidt & Yahoo!

Attendees ate over 800 Krispy Kreme donuts.
Over 150 people voted in the People's Choice Awards.
Thanks everyone for showing off some really outstanding research!

-- Amy Bruckman & Alex Orso, UROC Co-Chairs

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2007 UROC Research Symposium!

JUDGES' AWARDS:

First Place:
Matt Wood
Advisor: Alex Orso
" Automated Debugging through Statistically Driven Machine Learning"

Second Place:
David Rutter & David Mann
Advisors: Rosa Arriaga and Santosh Vempala
" Minimal Mathematical Models for Learning"

Third Place:
Aaron St. Clair and Matthew Fong
Advisors: Nick Diakopoulos and Irfan Essa
" Revisualization: Comparing News Articles Over Time"

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS:

First Place:
Jiasheng He
Contributions by Gaurav Gupta and Jung Soo Kim
Advisor: Thad Starner
" The Gesture Watch -- An Alternative Mobile Device Input System"

Second Place (TIE):
Catie Donnelly and Jon Keyser
Advisor: Keith Edwards
" Ambient Router Project"

Sarah Tursell and Jeremy Duvall
Advisor: Keith Edwards
" A 'Smart' Router for the Home Network"

Attendees ate nearly 800 donuts. Projects were really top notch--congrats to everyone who entered! This is the first time students who have completed Research Option have entered UROC, and the winner of the faculty judged awards is a thesis-writing Research Option student. Congrats Matt!

Special thanks to:
* Karen Harwell, Director of Undergraduate Research
* Chief Judge: Spencer Rugaber
* Judge Organization: Alex Orso
* Judges: Rosa Arriaga, Ada Gavrilovska, Colin Potts, and Jose Zagal
* TSO, especially Mike Luttrell
* Student Services, especially Giselle Martin
* Extra special thanks to our Event Coordinator: Alicia Richhart

Congrats to everyone!
-- Amy Bruckman and Alex Orso, UROC Co-Chairs