REU Alumni

Project Archive for Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Alumni

2023 Cohort

Juan Contreras
Mathematics, General — Los Angeles Trade Technical College | Robotics: Enhancing Exploration and Exploitation in Reinforcement Learning for Finer Decision-Making

Zhanequa Davis
Computer Science — College of the Canyons | Looking Back to Move Forward: Understanding the Spanish Flu and COVID-19 to Strengthen the Future

Sabrina Diaz-Erazo
Computer Science, Minor: Computer and Systems Engineering — San Francisco State University | Conveying the Relative Energy Consumption of Computations

Wai Kei Rachel Foong
Computer Science — Richland College | Analysis of Homelessness in USA vs Canada

Dmitri Germakovski
Computer and Systems Engineering, Minor: Mathematics, General — Le Moyne College | Development Tool for Urban Air Mobility Planning

Nimo Mohamud
Data Science — Wellesley College | Understanding ICU Admission Risk through Models

Emanuel Murphy
Computer Science, Minor: Geoscience — Fort Valley State University | Simulating Earthquakes using High Performance Computing

Kole Nagai
Data Science, Minor: Economics — Chaminade University of Honolulu | 3D Exploration of Aquifer Contamination Monitoring

Andrew Nishitomi
Criminology, Minor: Forensic Science — Chaminade University of Honolulu | Analytic Tools for Processing Water Pollution and Water Level Data

Ricardo Perez Jr
Computer Science — California State University Monterey Bay | Displaying Astronomical Scale through Virtual Reality

Lap Pham
Computer Science — City College of San Francisco | Can Sound Be Used to Detect Fetal Movements?

Connor Vessely
Computer Science, Minor: Mathematics, General — Ball State University | Fairness in Machine Learning: Mortgage Approval Predictions

2022 Cohort

Brandon Bayquen
Computer Science — City College of San Francisco | Using Kinematic Analysis to Enhance Treatment of Brain Disorders

Ani Savk
Chemical Engineering — University of Texas at Austin | Predicting B. pertussis sRNA Pathways using Sequence and Structure Homology Searching

Frieda Farias
Computer Science, Minor: English — Columbia University | Improving the Digital Rocks Portal Data Reuse

Alan Garcia
Computer Science — Austin Community College | Predicting Admission to NICU: Identifying the Causes

Evan Wilcox
General Mathematics — Berea College | Understanding Encryption & SSH Cipher Benchmarking

Vy Diep
Computer Science, Minor: Biology — Middlebury College | Development of an IOS Waste Management Application Using Machine Learning

Christa Tsao
Computer Science — College of Marin | Visualizing San Francisco Underwater in 100 years with VR

Enehi Ameh
Global Management and Psychology (double major) — Earlham College | Youth Homelessness: Researching VR as a Tool for Empathy

Jordan Childs
Economics, Minor: History — The University of Texas at Austin | Time-series Pollution Data in VR

Christine Jones
Management Information Systems, Minor: American Sign Language and Deaf Cultural Studies (immersion) — Rochester Institute of Technology | Predicting Baby Health Results

2021 Cohort

Abigail Santiago
Computer Science — Davidson College | Investigating Bias in Resource Allocation for Homelessness/Houselessness Prevention and Intervention

Courtney Smith
Security and Risk Analysis Communications — Pennsylvania State University | COVID-19's Impact on the Increase of Anti-Asian Hate Rhetoric on Twitter in the United States

Roshuna Harris
Chemistry — University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff | Infant & Maternal Mortality and Morbidity: African American/Black and Indigenous Women

Melissa Ignacio
Computer Science — University of California San Diego | An Interactive Exploration of Conductivity in Water Quality using Virtual Reality

Jane Kavounas
Engineering and Mathematics — Swarthmore College | AR: Know where you are, know where you're safe

Melia Okimoto
Environmental Science — Chaminade University of Honolulu | Investigating the Environmental Effects of Tourism in Hawaiʻi

Cailey Filipo
Biochemistry — Chaminade University of Honolulu | The Impact of Flint, Michigan's Lead Water Crisis on Fetal & Child Development

Raul Vides Sarmiento
Electrical and Computer Engineering — University of North Texas | Health Conditions Among Different Incomes Throughout the United States

Marcus Bedeau
Computer Science — Florida International University | Using a Graphic Database for COVID-19 Data Analysis

Antonio Ramos
Computer Science — Pomona College | Using SEIR Model to Analyse Mask Mandate Lift in Austin

Jordan Williams
Computer Science — Grambling State University | U.S. Rental Moratorium: The Likelihood of Having to Leave this House in the Next Two Months Due to Eviction

Ibrohim Nosirov
Computer Science — Colorado School of Mines | Machine Learning-based Framework for Behavior Tracking

Alii Napoleon
Data Science — Chaminade University of Honolulu | The Consumption of Predatory Pelagic Fish and the Incidence of Diabetes in Modern Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians)

Nary Seth
Data Science — Chaminade University of Honolulu | The Effects of COVID-19 in NY & Florida

2020 Cohort

Erin Searcy
Mathematics — Fort Valley State University | Visualizing Police Violence: Illustrating Police Brutality in the United States 1999-2020

Regina-Mae Dominguez
Mathematics & Computer Science — University of Guam | Storytelling with Data: COVID-19's Impact on the Island of Guam

Mariana Duarte
Computer Science — California State University, Monterey Bay | COVID-19: Essential Workers' Exposure

Teague Foster
Computer Science — Central Texas College | Demonstrating the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status, Mobility, Population Density, and COVID-19 Impact

Jakerra Lance
Computing and Information Studies — History, Washington & Jefferson College | Using Virtual Reality As A Tool To Experience History

Zachuary Steed
Computer Science — Minor: Business, Hendrix College | The Viral Bot: A Twitter Takeover

Tyshawn Ferrell
Biology — Albany State University | The Cleavage Potential of Cross-Species TMPRSS2 Variants toward SARS-CoV-2

Carolyn Gonzalez
Computer Programming and Information Systems — Farmingdale State College | Exploring Police Policy and Use of Force

Richard Brown
Computer Information Technology — Broward College | COVID-19 Spread and Areas of High Risk in the United States

Syema Ailia
Computer Science — Minor: Interaction Design, Northeastern Illinois University | Investigation Human Behaviour During COVID-19 by Examining Twitter Data

2019 Cohort

Mohammad Ali
Computer Science — The University of Texas at Dallas

Zachuary Baptiste
Forensic Science — Chaminade University of Honolulu | A Sense of Place: a Virtual Exploration of Mans Influence on the Natural World

Viviana Castillo
Biochemistry — The University of Texas at Austin | Impact of Risk Factors on Women‘s Health During Pregnancy

Amy Felix
Computer Science — Colorado State University | Human Context Recognition within Application Development

Javier Gonzalez Martinez
Computer Science — Minor: Web Development, University of Puerto Rico - Arecibo Campus | Exploratory Data Analysis of Protein Occupancy near sRNA genes in Escherichia coli

Javier Guillen
Biology — Minor: Health Physics, Fort Valley State University | Adaptive Sensing: Micro-Controller Meshed Network Implementations

Fidelia Hernandez
Cybersecurity and Forensics — Highline College | Virtual Exploration in a Socially Aware Context: An Exploration of Waller Creek

Samuel Ofori
Mathematics — Fort Valley State University | Permeability of Multiphase FlowThrough a Fractured Porous Medium

AnaPatricia Olvera Medina
Computer Science — Lehman Collge | The Data to Dashboard Framework for Microcontrollers Using the Cloud-Hosted Realtime Data Service

Christopher Rodriguez
Computer Science — California State University, Los Angeles | Modeling Hurricane Storm Surge through ADCIRC

Jennie Youn
Computer Science — Emory University | Virtual Exploration in a Socially Aware Context: The Challenges of Using Geographical Information in Virtual Reality

2016 Cohort

Zeerak Abbas
Petroleum Engineering — The University of Texas at Austin | Computational Fluid Simulation On Synthetic Fractures

Fatima Al-Quaiti
Chemistry and Mathematics — St. Mary's University | Analysis of Random Alloy Nanoparticles as Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reactions

Tiffany Connors
Computer Science / Mathematics — Texas State University | A Scalable Approach for Topic Modeling with R

Marvis Cruz Fuentes
Philosophy and Psychology — University of Florida | Immersive Tools: Visualizing the Postictal Neural Phase

Joshua E. Matos Gonzalez
Physics/Mathematics — University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez | Automated Estimation of Intra-node Degree of Parallelism on HPC Systems

Linda Moise
Computer Information Systems — Virginia Union University | Data Curation/ Visualization

Joseph Molina
Computer Science — California State University, Monterey Bay | Large-Scale Document Analysis through a Mobile Phone

James Pippin
Mathematics — Fort Valley State University | A Comparative Study of Point Cloud Data Collection and Processing

Grace Rodriguez
Computer Science — University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras Campus | Immersive Tools: Visualizing the Postictal Neural Phase

Keith Waggoner
Computer Science — University of Alabama | Integrating Jupyter into the Scientific Process

2015 Cohort

Margaret Arnold
Computer Science / Mathematics — University at Buffalo | Finding Regulatory RNAs: Developing Applications for Transcriptome Analysis

Mercy Grace Browder
Mathematics — Fort Valley State University | 3DDY: A Geospatial Data Pipeline for Interactive Web and 3D Printing Applications

Benjamin Gonzalez
Electrical Engineering — California State University, Fullerton | Smooth-Skin Surface Extraction of the AustinMan and AustinWoman Anatomical Model

Luis Prado-Regla
Computer Science — The University of Texas Pan-American | CUDA Parallelization and Embedded Text Analysis

Christopher Ray
Mathematics — Fort Valley State University | 3DDY: A Geospatial Data Pipeline for Interactive Web and 3D Printing Applications

Hayley Silverman
Biochemistry — The University of Texas at Austin | Kinetic Database Applied to Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations

Mark Smith
Computational and Applied Mathematics — Carnegie Mellon University | Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment

Rida Syeda
Computer Science — College of Staten Island | Scalable Approach For Content Based Image Comparison

William Yang
Computer Programming — University of Arkansas (UALR and ASMSA) | Building a Streamlined Framework for DNA Methylation Analysis

Gloria Zavala
Applied and Computational Mathematics — DePaul University | Fly-through Visualizations of Porous Materials

2014 Cohort

Brian (Zach) Abel
Physics/Computer Science — The University of Texas at Austin | http://zachinfovis.weebly.com/

Dominic Brooks
Chemistry — Fort Valley State University | Visualizing & Modeling Multi-Attributed Data to Highlight Scientific Uncertainty in Common Pool Resource Problems Using Groundwater Case Study Data

Benjamin Corona
Biochemistry — The University of Texas at Austin | High-Throughput Computational Screening of Nanoparticles for Chemical Catalysis

Brittney Crockett
Mathematics — Fort Valley State University | Fly-Through Visualization through Porous Media Microstructure

Arnold Eatmon
Mathematics — Fort Valley State University | Visualizing & Modeling Multi-Attributed Data to Highlight Scientific Uncertainty in Common Pool Resource Problems Using Groundwater Case Study Data

John Fitzpatrick
Computer Engineering/Physics — St. Mary's University | http://fitzpatrickj.weebly.com/

Janette Garcia
Computer Science — The University of Texas Pan American | Interactive Rights: The Development of Next-Generation Educational Museum Exhibits

Jamila Martin
Applied Mathematics/Engineering — University of the Virgin Islands | Quantitative Biomarker Analysis of MRI Images of Stroke Patients

Alejandro Rangel
Electrical Engineering — The University of Texas Pan American | Interactive Rights: The Development of Next-Generation Educational Museum Exhibits

Emily Schmitz
Chemical Engineering — The University of Texas at Austin | Overexpression of Small RNAs in Zymomonas Mobilis Affects Ethanol Tolerance

Damilola Shonaike
Math/Computational Science — The University of Texas at Austin | Visualization on the Developmental Learning through a Multimedia Enhanced Problem-Based Learning Environment for Middle School Space Science

David Sterling Whittemore
Computational Biochemistry (Chemistry) and Honors Human Relations (Communication) — The University of Texas at Austin | A Computational Model of FAT-Paxillin Binding and Its Effects on FAT's Structural Conformation