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 to allow them to work on a project over the academic year with the assistance of a JHU mentor.
This year’s CS undergraduate recipients and their faculty mentors include:
Autumn Hughes
Hometown: Richard, Virginia
Majors: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science
Research Title: Developing an Interface to Investigate the Transferability of Inanimate Training on da Vinci Surgical Systems to Operating Room Performance
CS Advisor: Peng “Ryan” Huang
Research Area: Surgical robotics
Expected Graduation Date: May 2022
Simon Liu
Hometown: Rockville, Maryland
Majors: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science
Research Title: 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
Shreya Wadhwa
Hometown: New Delhi, India
Majors: Computer Science, Cognitive Science
Research Title: Little boxes on a hillside: Investigating the flexibility of high-level categorization to changes in natural visual statistics
CS Advisor: Ben Langmead
Research Areas: Vision, scene perception
Expected Graduation Date: May 2023
Richard Xu
Majors: Computer Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Research Title: Integration of Genome and Epigenome to Elucidate Gene-Environment Interactions
Research Areas: Big data, multi-omics, gene-environment interactions
CS Advisor: Michael Schatz
Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
Rebecca Yu
Majors: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science
Research Title: Neural Network for Bi-Atrial Segmentation of Clinical Cardiac Images of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
CS Advisor: Abhishek Jain
Expected Graduation Date: May 2022