Students recognized for accomplishments at first CSE SURE mini-symposium

August 1, 2024

Students in the SURE program presented and discussed their research, and gained insight and advice from CSE leadership.

Seventeen undergraduate students presented their research projects which were performed under the direction of CSE faculty this summer at the first CSE SURE Mini-Symposium, which was held Monday, July 22nd, on U-M’s North Campus.

The Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) offers research internships to outstanding undergraduate students who have completed their sophomore or junior year by the time of their internship. Participants have the opportunity to conduct 10-12 weeks of full-time summer research with a CSE faculty member on a research project defined by the faculty. In 2024, CSE SURE participants include students from the University of Michigan, the University of Monterrey, Mexico, and Morehouse College.

For most of the students who participated in the program, this was their first taste of conducting independent research. And that’s the point of the program, said faculty member Dr. Sindhu Kutty, Chair of CSE Undergraduate Research Initiatives and organizer of the mini-symposium. “SURE is an opportunity to engage undergraduates in the cutting-edge research done at CSE, and for them to become inspired to pursue their own research goals. It’s extremely important to us that CSE undergraduates have this opportunity.”

A primary goal of the mini-symposium, according to Dr. Kutty, was to build on the SURE experience by providing an opportunity for students to present their work to their peers and to faculty members.

“Attending conferences or symposia, communicating about research, and being recognized for your contributions is an important aspect of being a researcher,” said Dr. Mithun Chakraborty, a research scientist at CSE who co-mentored one of the research projects.

The event began with a welcome address by CSE chair Prof. Atul Prakash and introductory remarks by Dr. Kutty. The students then presented five-minute timed lightning talks on their projects and had an opportunity to discuss their work with the rest of the cohort. The symposium closed with words of encouragement from CSE senior associate chair Prof. Emily Mower Provost.

Below is a list of the students who participated in the order in which they presented, along with links to their project presentations and the names of their CSE faculty advisors.

Jingjia Peng
Automated Programing Lifting of Cloud Infrastructure-as-code
Advisors: Ang Chen, Xinyu Wang

Robert Moore
Database System Foundation Models
Advisor: Lin Ma

Jiaye Tan
ML for Feedback Generation for Argumentative Essays
Advisor: Lu Wang

Beijie Liu/Rodrigo Eguiluz Ortiz Duran
AI model for Speech Disfluencies Detection
Advisor: Emily Mower Provost

Andrew Mahler
RustViz 2.0: Visualizing Rust’s ownership and borrowing principles
Advisor: Cyrus Omar

Zachary Bauer
Laser Cut PCBs
Advisor: Alanson Sample

Donna Pham
Robust and Explainable ML in Databases and Systems
Advisor: Lin Ma

Ziming Zhou
PxTrace: Low-Overhead Python Object Tracking for ML Pipelines
Advisor: Ryan Huang

Tomas Garcia Lavanchy
Investigation of AI in Michigan Dispatch Services
Advisors: Christin Salley, Lu Wang

Danny Ding
SQL Query Synthesizing using Abstract Finite Tree Automata
Advisor: Xinyu Wang

Sundara Vishnu Satish
Grove: A Bidirectionally Typed Collaborative Structure Editor Calculus
Advisor: Cyrus Omar

Hanlong Liu
Research on high-performance earphone system based on 3D printed acoustic structure, innovative driver unit and adaptive noise reduction algorithm
Advisor: Dhruv Jain