The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) has received funding from the National Science Foundation for establishing a REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) for Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. The notification for the funding came at the end of April 2009.
We are looking for eight undergraduates to participate in a selection of projects under the supervision of Dr. Jugal Kalita and Dr. Terreance Boult. 6 students will work with Dr. Kalita and 2 students will work with Dr. Boult.
The objective of the REU site is to expose bright and motivated undergraduates who want to pursue advanced careers in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and related fields to work on hands-on research projects in AI, NLP, Computer Vision, Information Retrieval and related areas. Although the research activities will be mostly performed at UCCS, we will work in close collaboration with our industry partner, The MITRE Corporation. Our contact at MITRE is Dr. Suzette Stoutenburg, a Principal Scientist.
UCCS is a predominantly undergraduate institution with strong emphasis on undergraduate participation in research. As of Fall 2009, UCCS enrolls 8000 students of which 6200 are undergraduates. UCCS has been ranked as a top Western university every year since 2002 by US News and World Report. US News and World Report also has nationally ranked the College of Engineering at UCCS as one of the best Masters level engineering colleges.
Projects for REU students: Projects are from the areas of ontology alignment, wikipedia mining, named entity recognition, Indic language computational linguistics, facial database building (Dr. Boult) and automated identification of Web-based content (Dr. Boult). More details...