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3d-printed Computational Microscopy using Fourier Ptychography
The goal of this project is to develop a computational microscope using the UC2 system, a 3-D printed, reconfigurable optics platform that can be used to build compact and flexible optical systems.
2 sp.
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13 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Biomedical Sciences
(+2)
Biomedical Sciences
Optics
Signal Processing
A genetic screen in the African trypanosome
Are you interested in the project below? Awesome! PLEASE DO NOT APPLY THROUGH THE URO SITE. Instead, send in your application using this google form by Feb 20. PIs will then contact you if you have
2 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Biology
Air Pollution Modeling via Mobile Sensor Networks
Air pollution modeling is a complex problem involving high dimensional data and sparsity of high quality sensor data. Due to its high cost, high quality sensors are deployed primarily by the
1 sp.
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7 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Robotics
(+3)
Engineering
Algorithms
Optimization
Robotics
AMISTAD Lab: Proving the Limits of ML, AI, and Search Systems!
Lab Page: https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~montanez/amistad.html Lab Projects: https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~montanez/projects/projects.html LAB Publications: https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~montanez/publications.html
5 sp.
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29 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Machine Learning
(+4)
Computer Science
Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence
Data Science
Machine Learning
Atmospheric chemistry research in a French forest
Students working in this project will be part of a larger campaign called "ACROSS" - Atmospheric Chemistry of the Suburban Forest - taking place outside of Paris, France this summer. ACROSS is a
2 sp.
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23 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Chemistry
(+4)
Chemistry
Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Earth Science
Environmental Science
Audio localization using ad-hoc microphone arrays for education
The goal of this summer research project is to develop algorithms that can analyze audio recordings to be able to locate people (a teacher) in a noisy environment (classroom). Imagine a high school
1 sp.
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16 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Mathematics
Bacterial gene regulation in response to stress
Project Overview: Bacteria respond to stressful changes in their environment by changing their patterns of gene expression. The RpoS protein coordinates E. coli’s general stress response, allowing the
4 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Biomedical Sciences
(+1)
Biology
Biomedical Sciences
Biodiversity and biogeography of Indo-Pacific octocorals
Are you interested in the project below? Awesome! PLEASE DO NOT APPLY THROUGH THE URO SITE. Instead, follow this link [https://forms.gle/hrbnmY5Dz9ZoW1bj8] to send in your application by Feb. 20th
3 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Biology
Building an eDNA reference library as a tool for deepwater exploration
Are you interested in the project below? Awesome! PLEASE DO NOT APPLY THROUGH THE URO SITE. Instead, follow this link [https://forms.gle/hrbnmY5Dz9ZoW1bj8] to send in your application by Feb. 20th
1 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Biology
Construction and testing of third generation photovoltaics
We do fundamental materials chemistry research on photovoltaics, materials that convert sunlight to electricity, aiming to improve the efficiency of cells constructed from low-cost materials that can
2 sp.
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22 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Materials Science
(+1)
Chemistry
Materials Science
Creating More Fluid, Intuitive Human-Robot Teams
In this work, we will explore what influences human’s perceptions of “team” to design better robotic teammates. In particular, we are interested in looking at how the scheduling of a robot teammate
3 sp.
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20 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Human-centered Design
(+4)
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Human-centered Design
Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics
CS Staff
This project will create new interfaces to support CS-class and CS-department experiences. Students joining our CS Staff team will build their webdev skills by designing and deploying small, custom
4 sp.
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42 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
Design + Programming Languages + Shakespeare
The goal of this project is to create a tool that allows people to explore Shakespeare’s texts. Potential users of this tool include theatre professionals (such as actors, directors, and stage
1 sp.
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20 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Visual and Performing Arts
(+4)
Computer Science
Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Human-centered Design
Human-Computer Interaction
Visual and Performing Arts
Eco-friendly molecule making
Do you want to do chemistry that is good and beautiful, green and clever? Do you dream of making molecules no one has ever made before? Join us! We are developing eco-friendly reactions to rapidly
4 sp.
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18 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Molecular Design
(+3)
Chemistry
Molecular Design
Pharmaceuticals
Sustainability
Electronic Properties of Quantum Materials
Our lab investigates how electrons behave in solids — such as crystals, glasses, metals, superconductors, van-der-Waals (2D) materials, spin-liquid magnets, charge-ordered oxides and amorphous
2 sp.
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19 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
(+1)
Summer - Full Time
Summer - Part Time
Project categories
Materials Science
(+2)
Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Materials Science
Engineering a tethering system in African trypanosome
Are you interested in the project below? Awesome! PLEASE DO NOT APPLY THROUGH THE URO SITE. Instead, send in your application using this google form by Feb 20. PIs will then contact you if you have
2 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Biology
Honey bee communication and collective decision-making
Are you interested in the project below? Awesome! PLEASE DO NOT APPLY THROUGH THE URO SITE. Instead, follow this link [https://forms.gle/hrbnmY5Dz9ZoW1bj8] to send in your application by Feb. 20th
1 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Biology
(+1)
Biology
Environmental Science
Image Compression Algorithm Profiling for Image Complexity Estimation
In this project we will experimentally compare several methods of profiling image compression and decompression. This work is inspired by "Image Characterization and Classification by Physical
2 sp.
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16 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Signal Processing
(+3)
Computer Science
Mathematics
Algorithms
Signal Processing
Interactive Simulations and Applets for Theoretical Mechanics
Develop new interactive applets and tools for junior-level Theoretical Mechanics class. Ideal for a rising sophomore or junior excited to learn the theory/applications of advanced mechanics
2 sp.
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22 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
(+1)
Summer - Full Time
Summer - Part Time
Project categories
Human-centered Design
(+5)
Computer Science
Physics
Astronomy
Engineering Education
Human-centered Design
Teaching & Learning
IOTTA Trace Repository
Enhance and extend a Web site of scientific data, working with the Ruby on Rails Web framework. Locate new data, acquire permission to post it, reformat it, and add it to the site.
2 sp.
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20 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
Iterative Methods for Large-scale Systems of Linear Equations
Large-scale systems of linear equations arise in many areas of data science, including in machine learning and as subroutines of several optimization methods. When the systems are very large and
2 sp.
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17 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Mathematics
(+4)
Mathematics
Algorithms
Data Science
Numerical Modeling
Optimization
Mathematical models of opinion dynamics on networks
Online social media networks have become extremely influential sources of news and information. Given the large audience and the ease of sharing content online, the content that spreads on online
4 sp.
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28 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Mathematics
(+2)
Mathematics
Mathematical Biology
Numerical Modeling
Measuring quantum dot size via pulsed field gradient NMR
Quantum dots (QDs) are zero-dimensional semiconductors used in photovoltaics, displays, and medical treatment and imaging. Pulsed field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance (PFG-NMR) is a powerful
1 sp.
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5 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Materials Science
(+1)
Chemistry
Materials Science
Measuring Quantum Entanglement
Experimentally demonstrate "entanglement witnesses," measurements to verify quantum entanglement in pairs of photons partially entangled in polarization. Optics, quantum information, experiment.
2 sp.
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24 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Optics
(+1)
Physics
Optics
Mimicking and characterizing elastic biological materials
Synthesize and test biologically inspired elastic materials
2 sp.
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20 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Engineering
(+2)
Engineering
Physics
Materials Science
Mitochondrial Protein Degradation in Health and Longevity
Are you interested in the project below? Awesome! PLEASE DO NOT APPLY THROUGH THE URO SITE. Instead, follow this link [https://forms.gle/hrbnmY5Dz9ZoW1bj8] to send in your application by Feb. 20th. We
2 sp.
|
0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Biology
Monitoring the Rizosphere with Optics
Light is a key factor for the growth of plant life. Most are familiar with the need for plants to be exposed to light for photosynthesis, but recent findings have found that light is not only
2 sp.
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6 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
Project categories
Optics
Natural Language Proof Checking
I'm interested in systems to verify proofs written for humans, the kind found in textbooks and research papers. The goal is to go beyond spell-checking and grammar-checking to logic-checking.
1 sp.
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20 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
(+2)
Computer Science
Mathematics
Natural Language Processing
New Techniques for Facilitating Improvisational Human-Robot Teams
When robots team up with humans, we want to give human teammates as many possibilities as we can for completing their activities. However, robustly reacting to and controlling for all the different
2 sp.
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11 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Robotics
(+4)
Computer Science
Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Operations Research
Robotics
Numerical Linear Algebraic Analyses of Opinion Dynamics on Networks
Online social media networks have become extremely influential sources of news and information. Given the large audience and the ease of sharing content online, the content that spreads on online
2 sp.
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17 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Numerical Modeling
(+3)
Mathematics
Algorithms
Numerical Modeling
Optimization
Operations Research Models for Public Policy
I have two possible projects for which I am seeking student research assistants for summer 2022: 1. Network Analysis of Fake News Propagation on Social Media: We are embedding our previously developed
2 sp.
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13 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Operations Research
Physics of Dark Matter & Hidden Particles
We are using simulations and data from particle physics experiments to look for dark matter, and studying theories with new particles and forces to understand their impact on cosmology
3 sp.
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30 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Physics
(+1)
Physics
Data Science
Programming Language Design and Analysis Projects
I have four potential subprojects in the area of program analysis and one in proof analysis (though programs and proofs are extremely similar and are amenable to similar analysis techniques). Not all
5 sp.
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31 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Human-Computer Interaction
(+3)
Computer Science
Mathematics
Human-centered Design
Human-Computer Interaction
Quantifying Space and Time Dependencies in Deep Networks
In this work we will explore how deep convolutional networks focus on and represent information in both spatial and temporal domains. Deep convolutional networks are widely used in the field of
2 sp.
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12 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
(+2)
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Scripting for All
Scripting is rightly appreciated as an automation engine. This project explores scripting's value as an exploration engine: Can it help in developing ideas that don't overlap with CS at all?
6 sp.
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35 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
Storage Measurement, Performance, and Validation
In collaboration with Stony Brook University, we are working on ways to speed up storage, measure its performance, and validate its reliability.
4 sp.
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10 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
Summer StartUp
Guiding a startup from idea to prototype is memorable, intense, and fun. Summer startup supports self-directed, team-based entrepreneurial projects.
8 sp.
|
44 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
Teaching Material Development in the Freshman Chemistry Core
The goal of this research project will be to propose and develop new teaching materials (e.g. laboratory experiment, in-class activity, etc.) for the freshman chemistry course at Harvey Mudd College
2 sp.
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8 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
(+1)
Summer - Full Time
Summer - Part Time
Project categories
Chemistry
(+1)
Chemistry
Teaching & Learning
Tensor Models and Methods for Medical Imaging
Large-scale data, such as that from common medical imaging applications, is often naturally multi-modal and represented well by a tensor (a higher-order generalization of a matrix). The mathematics of
2 sp.
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19 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Numerical Modeling
(+5)
Mathematics
Algorithms
Data Science
Machine Learning
Numerical Modeling
Optimization
Understanding Perceptions of Robots in Interactions
Design, run, and analyze an experiment with human subjects to probe perceptions of robots as social agents (with the opportunity for some robot ethics research on the side)!
2 sp.
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13 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Robotics
(+2)
Computer Science
Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics
Understanding the Earth’s atmosphere via machine learning
Understanding the composition of Earth’s atmosphere through machine learning: can machine learning give us insight into the mechanisms controlling air quality and climate? Through concentrated field
2 sp.
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14 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
(+5)
Chemistry
Computer Science
Earth Science
Environmental Science
Machine Learning
Numerical Modeling
Using computer vision to eavesdrop on honey bee communications
Are you interested in the project below? Awesome! PLEASE DO NOT APPLY THROUGH THE URO SITE. Instead, follow this link [https://forms.gle/hrbnmY5Dz9ZoW1bj8] to send in your application by Feb. 20th
1 sp.
|
0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Biology
(+2)
Biology
Computer Science
Computer Vision
Using Imperfect Predictions to Make Good Decisions
Imagine learning to play a new video game. A natural approach would be to learn to make predictions about how the video game will respond to your actions (model learning) and to use those predictions
3 sp.
|
15 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
(+1)
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
