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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
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- 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?
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