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+Niti's Research Prof: frank.dellaert@cc.gatech.edu
+
+Do Undergrad Research if:
+- Want more depth in a specific area not covered in class
+- Want to look at research for PhD
+
+Don't Undergrad Research if:
+- You want certain results
+- Want individual attention from faculty
+- Want recommendations for jobs (faculty recs don't go very far in
+  industry anyway)
+
+That fits me!
+
+Course Reg Numbers: [2/4]69[8/9]
+2: fresh/soph
+4: jun/sen
+8: paid
+9: unpaid
+|Sometimes not required but highly recommended
+
+Meets the junior design requirement
+- LMC 4701/2
+- 9 credits of undergrad research (2 sem unpaid iirc)
+
+BS/MS apply after 60 credits; can do research as project/course option
+
+Undergrad research can be "academic" or "implementation-oriented."
+- Much less grant- and paper-oriented than Masters/grad research.
+
+# Hyesoon Kim
+## Computer Architecture
+Working on GPU processor design
+- CUDA Everywhere
+- Open Source Design
+- CuPBoP??
+
+Looking for C/C++ skill set
+GPU (CUDA/OpenCL) programmer
+LLVM experience hopefully
+Interested in compiler, runtime system
+
+# Frank Li
+## Data-Driven Methods for Improving Internet Security
+
+BEES Lab.
+Applies "empirical approaches" to Internet security concerns.
+Probably a solutions-y thinktank?
+- Large-scale Internet/Web Measurements
+    - Ex: massscan IPv4 range (monitor server mgmt behaviors)
+    - Develop new techniques for IPv6 internet
+- Also data mines auth mechanisms & password leaks
+- Analyze open-source Git repos to understand secure software
+  development
+- Characterize passive DNS data to understand user network traffic
+  patterns
+
+Doesn't feel like it's for me. Too much of a social-science study
+
+- Qualitative User Studies
+    - Understand how sysadmins manage software updates
+    - Understand webadmins password authentication policies
+    - How users react to security notices/warnings
+
+Expects background in web security I think?
+
+# Rogues Gallery VIP Team
+## What?
+Transistor scaling/hitting the end of Moore's law.
+Investigates new tech for continuing to improve performance
+
+"Rogues Gallery Testbed" (FPGA & FPAA)
+- Unique, "rogue" hardware that needs to be programmed into useful
+  applications---unlike commodity memory/processors
+
+Worked on:
+neuromorphic something
+emu chick neo-memory
+quantum computing
+maybe reconfigurable computing
+
+Needs skills:
+- Min: knowledge of linux, ssh, programming (C/C++/Pyth), lin algebra
+- Preferred: ECE 3400 (FPAA), CX 4220, and another class I haven't taken
+
+# Karen Feigh
+## UROC Opportunities with Helicopters
+
+- Cognitive Engineering
+    - What if we designed training and technology with how people
+      actually do their work?
+- procedures and displays for air and space
+- basic research for mil command & control decisionmaking
+- adaptive intelligence for industrial robots & autonomous vehicles
+- Examine human-machine interaction using field work, math, etc.
+
+Hiring into projects (multiple year projects getting started):
+- Humans & AI Piloted Helicopter (special forces/medevac)
+- Helicopter Multi-modal Symbology
+Working on better AI/better human interfacing
+
+Requesting:
+- Experience w/ unreal engine
+
+# Wei Xu
+## NLP Research Lab
+
+NLP side
+- Text generation
+- Human-centered eval
+- Multilingual NLP
+- Stylistics
+
+Machine Learning
+- Sequence-to-sequence models
+- Controllability of neural network
+- Cross-lingual transfer learning
+- Zero-shot/few-shot learning
+- Robust domain adaptation
+
+Want possible multilingual, interested in linguistics.
+Didn't mention ML proficiency already.
+
+seq2seq: simplify english
+Social Media Data: like hashtag word analysis
+
+# Anirudh Rama (or the actual prof?)
+## Community wireless networks/organic mesh networks
+
+- Affordable internet connection
+- Networks hosting local services
+- Disaster scenarios
+
+Studying:
+- Service performance/putting servers on mesh
+- Handling unpredictable network topology like wireless links,
+  obstructions, unreliable nodes, difficult issue diagnosis
+
+Setting up a mesh testbed on GT campus (wireless router/antenna on
+buildings; monitor perf; video conference server)
+
+Preferred: CS 2200, Linux SSH, Basic Networking
+
+# Vivek Sarkar
+## Habanero Extreme Scale Software Research Lab
+
+- Extreme parallelism/heterogeneity at the end of Moore's Law
+- Distributed parallelism, new software foundation of compilers,
+  runtimes, debuggers, programming languages, etc.
+- Parallelism cliffs are very hard for something like Python code.
+
+!! See orthogonal persistence techniques & ideas in Houyhhnum Computing
+
+- Programming models (like better/safer primitives in C++, Pyth, Rust)
+- Compilers
+- Runtime Systems
+- Handling Debugging Better
+
+Working on async bulk-synchronous actor-model parallelism
+
+1 Interested in graph algo, distributed machine learning
+    - Rust/C++ actor-based programming model
+2 Pyth kernels using Intrepydd optimizing compiler
+    - Sparse matrix/tensor computation, pandas
+3 Statistic & Dynamic Program Analysis Techniques
+
+# Florian Schaefer
+## Inference and Computation|Competitive Optimization
+- Inf & Comp
+Conditional (normal?) distributions have a very deep connection to
+factorizing matrices with Cholesky.
+Creates fast algorithms for stats & physical simulations
+
+- Competitive Optimization
+Sort of game theory, adversarial learning, and other.
+Gradient Descent? Competitive Gradient Descent
+    - Machine Learning for PDEs
+
+Very cool! Very mathy!!!
+
+Interested in:
+- Strong math affinity
+- Programming experience with lots of new frameworks
+- Likely 1-on-1 meetings
+- Expects substantial effort on weekly basis
+- Wants you to become published in a good venue (~1-1.5yrs)
+
+# Spencer Bryngelson
+## Fluid dynamics for humans
+
+Algorithms for flows (mechanics/fluid dynamics)
+- Computational Methods
+
+He works in the computational physics/supercomputing research group.
+Industrial-scale simulations!!! (Like exascale/perfect scaling on a big
+computer)
+
+Wants:
+- Intermediate expertise in C/C++ or Fortran
+- Strong handle on numerical linear algebra
+- Knowledge of numerics for PDEs
+Interested in:
+- Computing at huuuge scale
+- Using latest HPC hardware
+- Solving pressing problems in health/defense
+
+# Thad Starner
+## Contextual Computing Group
+
+Works on Google Glass woah.
+Product originator, still works on new stuff.
+Head Worn Display.
+
+- One research in sign language recognition stuff
+    - Significant problem for language abilities of deaf children
+    - Using MediaPipe for widescale sign-language recognition on a
+      smartphone
+- Cetacean Hearing & Telemetry
+- Research Group also studies: brain-neural interfacing
+
+Wants:
+- Sophomores & Freshmen for long-term study
+- Send email with UROC + Name + Project Interest to thad@gatech
+
+Not really my thing.
+
+Running List
+------------
+- Hyesoon Kim (GPU/EE stuff)
+- Rogues Gallery (but only the research side pls)
+- Wei Xu (NLP)
+- Anirudh Rama (community mesh network topology)
+- Vivek Sarkar (Habanero) - somewhat cool but outside my wheelhouse
+- Florian Schaefer (mathy guy) - yes yes yes
+- Spencer Bryngelson (fluid dynamics & hpc)
+
+Possibly
+- Niti's professor
+- any other HPC researchers?