REU 2020

Program Overview:

The 2020 REU program is funded by the NSF and designed to bring together undergraduate students from different universities to work together on research projects. At the end of the ten week program, each project group prepares a poster, a research paper, and a final presentation.

Program duration: 5/26/2020 (Tuesday) - 7/31/2020 (Friday)

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Faculty mentors:

Dr. Prasad Calyam is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He also serves as the Director of MU’s Cyber Education, Research and Infrastructure Center. He is an expert in computer networking, cloud computing, cyber security, multimedia applications, and network measurement. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed publications in reputed conferences and journals, and has led development of several open-source software packages. He has graduated 4 PhD students, supervised 5 Postdocs, and he is currently supervising 4 PhD students. He has recruited, funded and mentored over 50 graduate students and 40 undergraduate researchers. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. His research sponsors include: NSF, DOE, ARL, VMware, Cisco, Dell, Verizon, IBM, Huawei, Internet2, and others.

Dr. Yi Shang is a Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He has extensive research experience on wireless sensor networks, mobile computing, and artificial intelligence, and has published over 190 journal and conference papers and received 6 patents. He has graduated 9 Ph.D. students and over 60 M.S. students and supervised over 50 undergraduate researchers. He is currently supervising 9 Ph.D., 5 M.S., and 3 undergraduate students. His research has been supported by NSF, NIH, US Army, DARPA, Microsoft Research, Raytheon and Missouri Dept. of Conservation. He helped coordinate previous REU programs as a faculty mentor and Program Director.

Dr. Marjorie Skubic is a Professor and the Director of the MU Center for Eldercare and Rehabilitation Technology (CERT), with projects funded by the NSF, NIH, NLM, AHRQ, and U.S. Administration on Aging. Several CERT projects have focused on monitoring older adults through a network of sensors placed in the home including PIR motion sensors, a bed sensor that captures pulse, respiration, and sleep restlessness, and gait analysis systems using Kinect depth cameras, webcams, and radar. She has published over 250 papers, currently supervises 10 graduate students, and graduated 12 Ph.D. students, 28 M.S. students, and worked with over 150 undergraduate researchers. Many have continued on with graduate studies.

Evaluator, Dr. Jane Howland is a Teaching Professor and the Learning Technologies Program Director for the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies. She is currently working with 6 Ph.D. students and advises all Master's and Educational Specialist students in the Learning Technologies’ Online Education emphasis area. In her role as Learning Technologies Program Director, she is responsible for data collection, analysis, and program evaluation.

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Graduate Student Coordinator:

Vaibhav Akashe received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology from Savitribai Phule Pune University, India in 2016. He is currently pursuing his MS degree in Computer Science at University of Missouri-Columbia. His current research interests include Cloud Computing, Cloud Security for AR/VR, Virtual Reality, Cyber Security and Machine Learning. He can be reached at.
Email: vva8yb@mail.missouri.edu

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Work schedule

1. MTuThF: 8 hours, 9am-12pm and 1-6pm virtually.
2. You are required to sign up a time sheet posted virtually every day.

Weekly program meeting: every Tuesday, 10-12pm or 2-4pm, via Zoom. All mentors are welcome to attend.

Weekly research journal of each team due: 5pm every Friday - report daily research activities.

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Schedule

NOTE: We encourage students to consider submitting their final project reports as papers (full papers, or short papers) to venues such as: the annual National Workshops for REU Research in Networking and Systems (REUNS), IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICNC, IEEE NCA and others with July/August 2018 deadlines.

Computer networks basics

• Watch Computer Networks Lectures

Research advice

• Watch Advice to young scientists
• Why and How to do research?
• How OKRs work in Google
• How to read a research paper?
• How to write a research paper?
• How to present a scientific talk?
• How to build a research system?
• Why to write the paper first?
• How to give a talk
• The Slide-Structure of a Technical 20-min Presentation

Software-Defined Networking related materials

• Watch Software Defined Networking
• GENI https://www.geni.net
• Open Networking Foundation https://www.opennetworking.org
• http://faculty.missouri.edu/calyamp/publications/openFlow-vdc-lb-im13.pdf
• http://faculty.missouri.edu/calyamp/publications/vdc-analyst-comnet14.pdf
• http://faculty.missouri.edu/calyamp/publications/sciencedmz-bigdatabookchapter-crc15.pdf
• http://faculty.missouri.edu/calyamp/publications/dolus-intelligent-defense-pretense-fgcs19.pdf

Computer Science Ethics

• Code of Ethics, ACM
• Computer and Information Ethics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

IRB training (http://research.missouri.edu/irb/CITI_Instructions) to receive IRB certification

• Responsible Conduct of Research courses
• Human Subject Research courses

Latex resources

• Use IEEE publication Latex or Overleaf to typeset your report.
• MikTex as the LaTeX compiler, http://miktex.org/
• Texmaker as the Editor Environment, http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/
• Tutorial: https://www.latex-tutorial.com/tutorials

Prior REU project examples as best practices to follow:

• Weekly/daily research journals
• OKR and literature Survey Talks
• Midterm Presentations
• Final Presentations
• Research Forum Posters
• Conference Publications

• Attack-Defense and Performance Adaptations for Social Virtual Reality Learning Environments Poster
  Advisor: Dr. Prasad Calyam / Dr. Khaza Hoque
  Gradutate Student Mentors: Samaikya Valluripally, Vaibhav Akashe
  Research Students:
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• Development of Multi-Drone Coordinated Path Planning Methods for Aerial Image Collections for Wetland MonitoringPoster
  Advisor: Dr. Yi Shang
  Graduate Student Mentors: Robert Tang, Yang Zhang
  External Mentors: Joel Sartwell, Andy Raedeke
  Research Students:
  Abstract:


• Truth, Trust and Transparency in Synthetic Media Poster
  Advisor: Dr. Prasad Calyam, Dr. Kannappan Palaniappan
  Graduate Student Mentor: Imad Eddine Toubal
  Sponsors: Vishal Sandesara, Zigfried Hampel, Arias, Michael Lomnitz
  Research Students:
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• Personalizing Health Messages in an Automated Health Alert System Using Deep Learning and Natural Language ProcessingPoster
  Advisors: Dr. Marjorie Skubic
  Graduate Student Mentors: Anup Mishra
  Research Students:
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• Enhancing Network-edge Connectivity and Security in Drone Video Analytics Poster
  Advisor: Dr. Prasad Calyam, Dr. Kannappan Palaniappan
  Graduate Student Mentor: Alicia Esquivel, Chengyi Qu, Deniz Kavzak Ufuktepe
  Research Students:
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