Five computer science majors are among the 51 winners who received a Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) this year.
Provost Joseph Cooper (1991–1995) established the PURA program in 1993 with a generous endowment by the Hodson Trust to support and encourage Hopkins undergraduate students to engage in independent research and scholarly and creative projects. Each awardee receives a $3,000 grant that will allow them to work on a project over the academic year with the assistance of a JHU mentor.
The CS undergraduate recipients and their faculty mentors include:
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Autumn Hughes Hometown: Richard, VA Majors: Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science Research: Developing an Interface to Investigate the Transferability of Inanimate Training on da Vinci Surgical Systems to Operating Room Performance CS Advisor: Ryan Huang Research area: Surgical Robotics Expected Graduation Date: May 2022 |
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Simon Liu Hometown: Hometown: Rockville, MD Majors: Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science Research: Implementing Electronic Beam Steering in an Implantable Ultrasound Device CS Advisor: Raman Arora Research areas: Biomedical Data Science, Computational Biology, Medical Device Technology Expected Graduation Date: May 2021 |
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Shreya Wadhwa Hometown: New Delhi, India Majors: Computer Science and Cognitive Science Research: Little boxes on a hillside: Investigating the flexibility of high-level categorization to changes in natural visual statistics CS Advisor: Benjamin Langmead Research areas: Vision, Scene Perception Expected Graduation Date: May 2023 |
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Rebecca Yu Majors: Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science Research: Neural Network for Bi-Atrial Segmentation of Clinical Cardiac Images of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation CS Advisor: Abhishek Jain Expected Graduation Date: May 2022 |
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