Project News

• Conference presentation: Behavior Classification and Characterization of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Naturalistic Settings using Classical Machine Learning at 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023). With Elliot Huang, Lemuel Mojica Vazquez and et al.

REU Program

Monday, 22 May

Boot camp begins in the Ungar Building Computer Science Laboratory.

Thursday, June 1

First day of the mentored experience, at the mentor's laboratory.

Friday, July 28

Virtual Poster Presentation and Project Conclusion.

Project Summary

Computing for Structure is an NSF Funded Research Experience for Undergraduates, created and directed by the University of Miami Department of Computer Science and Center for Computational Science.

The P.I. for the REU is Prof. Rosenberg of the Computer Science Department, but the real work went to the many mentors, listed as co-authors of the student presentations. These mentors were drawn from across the university, and volunteered to mentor the participants.

• Program housing opens on Saturday, May 20 and closes Sunday, July 30, 2023.
• Program begins Monday May 22 and closes Friday, July 28, 2023.
• You should receive an email from housing about housing-onboarding. (I hope!)
• You will be at the Lakeside Village complex.
• The housing will be a 4/2 with a kitchen.
• The program begins in the third floor of Ungar. You will need a canecard for access.
• The Welcome Page gives information about places to go and restaurants; as well as the todo list for program onboard.
• The recruitment page is archived.

Our 2023 REU student researchers,

• Delaney Dvorsky, University of Miami, with Prof. Acevedo
• Cole Foster, University of Miami, with Prof. Aguiar-Pulido
• Elliot Huang, Georgia Institute of Technology, with Prof. Messinger and Dr. Vitale
• Kavya Jain, University of Miami, with Aguiar-Pulido
• Mariangeline Merced Perez, University Ana G. Mendez, with Prof. Aguiar-Pulido
• Lemuel Mojica Vázquez, University Ana G. Mendez, with Prof. Messinger, Dr. Vitale and Prof. Aguiar-Pulido
• Masa Murry, Pennsylvania State University, with Prof. Acevedo
• Yash Patel, University of Miami, with Prof. Dilip Sarkar
• Aaron Philip, Michigan State University, with Prof. Odelia Schwartz
• Sophia Salamanca, Harvard University, with Prof. Odelia Schwartz
• Rachel Tomasetti, University of Miami, with Prof. Aguiar-Pulido

Poster Day

The REU experience concluded with a poster presentation and closing ceremonies, on Friday, July 28, 2023 at the lobby of the Cox Science Center.

• Determining Whether Single or an Ensemble of Feature Extracting Networks are More Effective in Medically-Driven Few-Shot Image Classification Tasks, Cole M. Foster, Rachel M Tomasetti, Shengxin Luo, Sophia Zorek, Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido.
• Probing Vision Transformer Attention: Image Statistics and Path Similarity, Aaron Philip, Xu Pan, Odelia Schwartz.
• Brain-Inspired Deep Learning Classifier for Breast Tumor Identification, Sophia Salamanca, Mariangeline Merced Perez, Nicolás Echevarrieta Catalan, Alicia Bilbao Martinez, Xu Pan, Odelia Schwartz, Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido.
• Machine Learning Classification and Characterization of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Pre-School Aged Children, Elliot Huang, Lemuel Mojica Vazquez, Nicolas Echevarrieta Catalan, Laura Vitale, Daniel S. Messinger, Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido.
• Automated Alignment of Audio Data for Developmental Psychology Research using Audio Flags and Forensics, Lemuel Mojica Vazquez, Elliot Huang, Kavya Jain, Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido, Laura Vitale, Daniel S. Messinger.
• Brain-Inspired Gaussian Weighted Normalization Mariangeline Merced Perez, Sophia Salamanca, Nicolas Echevarrieta Catalan, Alicia Bilbao Martinez, Xu Pan, Odelia Schwartz, Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido.
• Designing Better Classifier Heads for an Ensemble of Feature Extractors in the Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy, Rachel M. Tomasetti, Cole M. Foster, Shengxin Luo, Sophia Zorek, Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido.
• Transitioning the Genetic Algorithm Machine Learning (GAML) Software from Gaussian to Psi4, Masa Murry, Delaney Dvorsky, Orlando Acevedo.
• Leveraging Image Based Machine Learning Techniques to Determine the Predominant Spoken Language, Kavya Jain, Nicolas Echevarrieta Catalan, Alicia Bilbao Martinez, Laura Vitale, Daniel S. Messinger, Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido.
• Analysis on Inter/Intra Class Prototypes in the Latent Space, Yash Patel, Dilip Sarkar, Nathaniel Dean.

There was a judged competition for the top presentations:

• Aaron Philip, First Place.
• Elliot Huang and Lemuel Vazquez, Second Place.
• Rachel Tomasetti, Honorable Mention.

A special mention and gift was given to mentor Prof. Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido for her exceptional dedication and effort to this year's REU.

Boot Camp:

The Boot Camp Sessions are 9:30am– 4:00pm "Miami Time"", in Ungar 305.

The workshop Jupyter notebook are on github.com/burt/reu-cfs-2023.

Workshop:

• Monday:
  • Anaconda, conda, and Jupyter. morning
  • Git, and github. afternoon
• Tuesday:
  • Python, the language. morning
  • Programming Exercises
  • SSH and Unix. afternoon
• Wednesday:
  • Individual study day (I've been called away for faculty business)
• Thursday:
  • Numpy and Matplotlib. morning
  • Linear Regression
  • Assigned programs. afternoon
• Friday:
  • Panda's with Prof Liang. morning (gitub)
  • afternoon free
• Monday:
  • Memorial Day: get together at Prof Rosenberg's house.
• Tuesday:
  • GPU basics and simple algorithms. morning
  • Advanced topics and sorting networks. afternoon
  • The github.
• Wednesay:
  • Programming help time. (Grab bag solutions). morning
  • Meet the Mentors^TM. afternoon

Special Continuations:

As we plan this years Boot Camp, Special Continuations, and Professional Development Workshops, please visit the last year's page for and idea of what we will plan for this year.

Texas Advanced Computing Center

• Training to use the TACC resources
• Monday, June 5th – Thursday, June 8th

Software Carpentry Workshop:

• Thursday 29 — Friday 30th, June: Programming in R. 9:00 am - 4:30 pm. (github)

Mentorships

Computational Chemistry

Prof. Orlando Acevado

Neural Networks

Prof. Odelia Schwartz

Xu Pan

Psychology

Prof. Daniel Messinger

Laura Vitale, Research Staff

Data Sciences

Prof. Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido

Nicolas Echevarrieta Catalan, Researcher

Alicia Bilbao Martinez

Shengxin Luo

Sophia Zorek

Data Sciences

Prof. Dilip Sarkar

Nathaniel Dean

With help from:

Poster Judges

Victor Milenkovic, Department of Computer Science, UM

Department of Computer Science

Prof. Milenkovic, Chair Computer Science

Ms. Ebony Gallagher, Department Manager

University of Miami Institute for Data Science and Computing

Dr. Tsinoremas, Director iDSC

Pedro Davila

Software Carpentry: Scientific Computer @ UM.

Timothy Norris

Cameron Riopelle

Thilani Samarakoon

Gabriel Odom

Julian Dallmeier

Office of Research

Tracy Ehrlich

Housing and Travel

Diego Rodriguez, Travel

Wendy Villeta, Conference Services

Photoshoot

We take you behind the scenes at the photoshoot of the banner picture. Watch as Laura bravely corrals REU students into a group photo!

Left to right towards top: Mariangeline, Yash, Rachel, Sophia, Cole, Masa
Bottom ad left of screen: Delaney, Aaron, Elliot, Kavya, Lemuel (and Laura setting up)

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

The NSF has set up the REU program in order to involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs so as to attract talented students into careers in science and engineering.

Support for the program REU Site: Scientific Computing for Structure in Big or Complex Datasets is by the NSF grant CNS-1949972, program solicitation NSF 13-582, Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU).