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, ’22
Hometown: Richard, Virginia
Majors: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science
Project: 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 Interests: Surgical robotics
Simon Liu, ’21
Hometown: Rockville, Maryland
Majors: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science
Project: Implementing Electronic Beam Steering in an Implantable Ultrasound Device
CS Advisor: Raman Arora
Research Interests: Biomedical data science, computational biology, medical device technology
Shreya Wadhwa, ’23
Hometown: New Delhi, India
Majors: Computer Science, Cognitive Science
Project: Little boxes on a hillside: Investigating the flexibility of high-level categorization to changes in natural visual statistics
CS Advisor: Ben Langmead
Research Interests: Vision, scene perception
Richard Xu, ’21
Majors: Computer Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Project: Integration of Genome and Epigenome to Elucidate Gene-Environment Interactions
CS Advisor: Michael Schatz
Research Interests: Big data, multi-omics, gene-environment interactions
Rebecca Yu, ’22
Majors: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science
Project: Neural Network for Bi-Atrial Segmentation of Clinical Cardiac Images of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
CS Advisor: Abhishek Jain