Calit2 Summer Undergrad Research Scholarships
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3.27.03 - Calit² UCSD Division had 90 students, including graduating seniors, apply for our undergraduate research scholarship program this coming summer. After several weeks of deliberation, the layer leaders and division director Ramesh Rao delightedly announce the winners (see list below, in alphabetical order; the relevant layer is shown in parentheses).
Each student will receive $4K for 10 weeks of full-time research work in the indicated lab. They will be asked to participate in a half-dozen lunch time meetings to learn about the institute, develop leadership and communication skills, and participate in a formal scholarly poster session. At the end of the summer, they will also be asked to provide a one-page written report on their research results and provide suggestions for improving the program.
Summer Undergraduate Research Scholarships
And the winners are…
Christopher Arnold (Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine)
Major: Biology
Working with Steven Wasserman, Biology
Project: Studying the deleterious effects of an over-stimulated immune response in Drosophila to elucidate underlying factors of toxic shock in mammalian systems
Jennifer Bartlett (Policy, Management, and Socioeconomic Evolution)
Major: Economics
Working with David Meyer, Math
Project: Investigating the limits to the validity of Metcalfe's Law (the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of nodes/user) and its applications for general policy
Jason Dorvee (Materials and Devices)
Major: Chemistry
Working with Michael Sailor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project: Sensor construction, development, improvement, and integration
Randy Dumas (Materials and Devices)
Major: Physics
Working with Ivan Schuller, Physics
Project: Magnetoresistance of cobalt nanocontacts with semiconducting nanogaps (as related to spin injection and spintronics)
Edmund Lo (Materials and Devices, Networked Infrastructure)
Major: Electrical Engineering
Working with Truong Nguyen, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Low-power and efficient video codec
Ben Maggos (New Media Arts)
Major: Interdisciplinary Computing & the Arts
Working with Sheldon Brown, Visual Arts
Project: Using computers to create new forms of interactive film
Hector Mobine (Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine)
Major: Bioengineering
Working with David Gough, Bioengineering
Project: Digitally identifying and quantifying the amount of vasculature around implanted sensors through 2-D images
Andy Nguyen (Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine)
Major: Bioengineering
Working with Jeff Hasty, Bioengineering
Project: Developing yeast models to further understand cancer
Alex Revchuk (Environment and Civil Infrastructure)
Major: Environmental Systems
Working with Dan Cayan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Project: Developing and building a sensor network array at the Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve to track, in real time, how small changes in atmospheric conditions accumulate into large, megascale weather systems over typical southern California terrain
Edward Shyu (Intelligent Transportation and Telematics)
Major: Computer Engineering
Working with Mohan Trivedi, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Using cameras to monitor the eyes of an automobile driver (to check for signs of fatigue or distraction)
Aleksandr Simma (Interfaces and Software Systems)
Major: Computer Engineering
Working with Charles Elkan, Computer Science and Engineering
Project: Machine learning and data mining
Tana Sprague (New Media Arts)
Major: Interdisciplinary Computing & the Arts
Working with Peter Otto, Music
Project: Exploring interactive, and real-time multimedia transcoding enabled by the Max/Msp/Jitter programming environment; examining human interpretation of sensory data versus the interpretation generated through data transcoding
Daniel Tracy (Interfaces and Software Systems)
Major: Computer Science
Working with Alex Orailoglu, Computer Science and Engineering
Project: Quantitative analysis of theoretical approaches to low-power processors using processor simulation in the C language
Edward Wu (Materials and Devices)
Major: Physics
Working with Frances Hellman, Physics
Project: Basic research in semiconductor physics (characterization of energy barriers of iron/iron silicide films on silicon) and its potential commercial applications
Qun Xu (Policy, Management, and Socioeconomic Evolution)
Major: Economics
Working with Ted Groves, Economics
Project: Taxation on Internet transactions
Ryan Yoon (Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine)
Major: Biology
Working with James Nieh, Neuroethology
Project: Sensornets for environmental monitoring -- gathering data for an Internet-based monitoring system of stingless bee behavior to monitor tropical habitat destruction
Jessica Yuen (Networked Infrastructure)
Major: Electrical Engineering
Working with Shaya Fainman, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Detection of ultrafast phenomena in time and space, concentrating on high-speed data transmission through multi-mode fiber