Undergraduate Research – Research Symposium
Each Spring, the College of Computing sponsors the UROC (Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing) Research Symposium. Winners are selected both by a panel of faculty judges, and by popular vote. Entries are due in March, and the symposium is in April. All entrants receive prizes, and the winner of the judges' award gets $500. This is a great way to show off your research!
2012 UROC Research Symposium
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) Research Symposium!
JUDGES AWARDS
First Place ($500) (tie):
David Esposito
"Improved RNA Secondary Structure Prediction Using Stochastic Context Free Grammars"
Advisors: Christine Heitsch, Shel Swenson, and Svetlana Poznanovik
Bethany Sumner
"Helping Households Understand and Control Their Home Network"
Advisors: Marshini Chetty, and Keith Edwards
Second Place ($250):
Farzon Lofti & Baris Arin
"Efficient Molecular Dynamics: Profiling and Optimizing LAMMPS Particle Simulations Using GPGPU"
Advisors: Hyesoon Kim and Seung Soon Jang
Third Place ($100)
Christopher Russell
"Occluded Motion Capture of Human Tongues"
Advisor: Karen Liu
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS ($50)
First Place:
Donovan Hatch, Jinhyun Kim, & Yoomi Pyo
"WalkSafe: A Transient Social Networking Application for Campus Safety"
Advisor: Kishore Ramachandran
Second Place (tie):
Daniel Castro
"Calibration Free Rolling Shutter Removal"
Advisor: Irfan Essa
Daniel Doozan
"Web Users Beware: Online Personalization Can Be Manipulated."
Advisors: Nick Feamster and Wenke Lee
Third Place:
Farzon Lofti & Baris Arin
"Efficient Molecular Dynamics: Profiling and Optimizing LAMMPS Particle Simulations Using GPGPU"
Advisors: Hyesoon Kim and Seung Soon Jang
Congratulations to all our winners!
Special thanks to:
- Monica Ross
- Julie D'huyvetter
Judges:
- Chaitrali Amrutkar
- Shauvik Roy Choudhary
- Frank Dellaert
- Hyesoon Kim
- Jake Cobb
- Catherine Grevet
- Sudarsun Kannan,
- Nagesh Lakshminarayana
- Mayur Naik
- Karthik Raveendran
TSO, Especially David Mercer
Extra special thanks to our sponsor:
Ken Schmidt and Yahoo!
Thanks everyone for showing off some really outstanding research!
-- Amy Bruckman & Alex Orso, UROC Co-Chairs
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