Sep 20, 2024
By UCARE
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has awarded stipends to 200 Husker undergraduates — including 16 School of Computing students — to participate in research with a faculty mentor this fall.
Nebraska’s Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences Program supports undergraduates to work with faculty mentors in research or creative activities. Students receive stipends of $3,600 to engage in intensive research or creative activity for 10 hours per week. The students’ projects span academic disciplines including engineering, chemistry, modern languages and literatures, psychology, art and art history, architecture, special education, and fisheries and wildlife.
UCARE participants will present posters on their research and creative activities during Student Research Days, April 15-16, at the Nebraska Union. For more information on undergraduate research at Nebraska, click here.
Following is a list of School of Computing students by who received fall UCARE awards, with their year in school, academic major(s) and project title:
• Yasir Almotawa, junior, computer science, “Development of Web Application for Transcriptome Assembly Analysis and Improvement of Next-Generation Assembly Methods.”
• Jacob Ashman, junior, computer engineering, “Identifying Risk and Disease Markers for Delirium”; Griffin Bellamy, senior, psychology, “Predicting Rape Empathy for Both Victims and Perpetrators in Men.”
• Michael Dejournett, junior, software engineering, “Assessing the Accuracy of Research-Grade and Webcam-Based Eye Trackers for Different Tasks.”
• Aden Hester, senior, computer science, “Testing and Implementing the CVM Algorithm Against Other Industry Standard Algorithms of Size Estimation.”
• Alaa Ismail, junior, computer science, “Equitable Access to Civil Justice: Interdisciplinary Research Project.”
• Bharath Kumar Manchikanti, senior, computer science, “Differences in Microaggressions, Sense of Belonging and Self-Efficacy in Undergraduate Female Students Across Software Engineering and Social Sciences.”
• Drew Medina, sophomore, computer science, “Testing and Implementing the CVM Algorithm Against Other Industry Standard Algorithms of Size Estimation.”
• Kenny Morales, sophomore, software engineering, “LifelineLinks: Nurturing Connections, Breaking Loneliness — An AI-Powered Journey into Senior Social Well-Being.”
• Avery Penn, senior, computer science, “Visualization for Explanations in Decision Support.”
• Evin Rasho, senior, data science, “Evaluating Academic Disparities: Analyzing Student Performance Across Schools, Districts and Subgroups Through Rubric Measurements.”
• Cameron Scheet, sophomore, software engineering, “Visualization for Explanations in Decision Support.”
• Mayank Sharma, sophomore, computer science, “Engineering a Graph-Based Genome Visualizer for Viral Species.”
• Ethan Stowell, junior, computer science, “Geophysical Mapping and Tectonic Evolution of the Kolbeinsey Ridge.”
• Linh Khanh Truong, senior, computer science, “Explore the Interpretability for Graph-Based Deep Learning Models in Gene Regulation.
• Carston Wiebe, sophomore, computer engineering, “Visualization for Explanations in Decision Support.”
• Haoze Zheng, junior, computer science, “Sequence Motif Generator by Machine Learning on Phosphorylated Proteins.”
View the full list of UCARE award recipients in Nebraska Today.