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“UROP Has Long Represented the Opportunity to Discover, Innovate and Create New Knowledge. the EECS Superurop Promises MIT Un “UROP has long represented the opportunity to discover, innovate and create new knowledge. The EECS SuperUROP promises MIT undergraduates an even more intensive and sustained intellectual SuperUROP experience working with our faculty. We expect EECS majors will welcome this new opportunity with enthusiasm.” — Julie B. Norman Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Director, Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming 2012– 2013 I am thrilled to celebrate the launch of the new Advanced Undergraduate Research Program in EECS, now officially known as SuperUROP. This collaboration between EECS and the MIT UROP office evolved out of the 2012 EECS strategic plan, which included strong participation from faculty, students, and staff. The program responded to my vision for creating a high caliber undergraduate research program that would produce publication- worthy results. The Undergraduate Student Advisory Group in EECS (USAGE) strongly influenced the overall structure of the program. The SuperUROP program will provide a jump-start on graduate school, act as a startup accelerator, and be an industry-training bootcamp—all rolled “Our engineering students want a into one. The response from students has been extremely positive. We have 86 students participating this inaugural year, and expect that number will deeper understanding of the topics increase in the future. they care about, and they want to apply SuperUROP students engage in a year-long research experience and participate in a course titled “Preparation for Undergraduate Research,” which covers a range of subjects, from selecting projects and research this knowledge in a way that will lead topics in EECS to entrepreneurship and ethics in engineering. At the end of the academic year, students receive a certificate in advanced undergraduate to practical impacts. The SuperUROP research with a designated focus area. This unique program provides our undergraduates with similar resources as graduate students (such as program is an excellent opportunity access to advanced nano-fabrication facilities). for them to work closely with faculty The program is supported by the Research and Innovation Scholars Program (RISP), a named scholars program that funds the student doing the SuperUROP and provides some associated discretionary funding for the and industry sponsors to make all of host research group. The scholars program would not have been possible without the generous support we received from corporate and individual this happen.” sponsors, all of whom are committed to growing the SuperUROP program and enhancing the student experience at MIT. I would like to extend my — Ian A. Waitz sincere thanks to: Analog Devices, Basis Technology, DENSO, Draper Dean of Engineering Laboratory, eBay Inc., Facebook, Foxconn, Google, Intel, MediaTek Inc., Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Qualcomm, Quanta Computer, Texas Instruments and VMware, as well as MacVicar Faculty Fellow Colin and Erika Angle, Dinarte Morais and Paul Rosenblum, and several anonymous donors. I look forward to exciting collaborations among students, faculty and sponsor mentors as the research projects move forward. I am grateful to all involved in putting together this exciting new MIT initiative, and look forward to many years of success. Sincerely, Anantha P. Chandrakasan Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering Department Head, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT EECS - Analog Devices Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholars Chen Dan Dong Lisa Liu Max Joseph Ockner Lyne Tchapmi Petse 2012–2013 Xianzhen Zhu MIT EECS - Angle Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar Annie Holladay MIT EECS - Basis Technology Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholars Mika Braginsky Keshav Dhandhania Research and MIT EECS - DENSO Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar Jelimo Maswan MIT EECS - Draper Laboratory Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholars Jonathan Chien Gustavo Goretkin Matthew Overlin Innovation Thiago Vieira Luis Voloch MIT EECS - eBay Inc. Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholars Steven Allen Kamran Khan Scholars Marco Antonio Pedroso MIT EECS - Facebook Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar Kiranmayi V. Bhattaram “SuperUROP is a program for students MIT EECS - Foxconn Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholars Timur Balbekov Steph Greene designed by students! Through USAGE, Xunjie Li Szu-Po Wang the Undergraduate Student Advisory Edwin Zhang MIT EECS - Google Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholars Group in EECS, we got together, thought Eyas B. Alsharaiha Joey Rafidi Rahul Rajagopalan about what we would like to see in our Arun Saigal MIT EECS - Intel Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholars department, polled our fellow students, Saher Ahwal Wiktor Jakubiuk and came back with a program designed Rachel Luo MIT EECS - MediaTek USA Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholars for our 6ers. SuperUROP enhances a Yu Cheng Somak Das Colleen Josephson student’s industry relationships and Weihua Li Theresa Yeh research skills. What could be better?!” MIT EECS - Morais and Rosenblum Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholars Yu-chi Kuo —Carine Abi Akar Dan Weber USAGE student 2011-12 2012–2013 SCHOLARS — 3 MIT EECS - Qualcomm Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholars Saher Ahwal Eyas B. Alsharaiha Kameron Oser MIT EECS - Intel Undergraduate MIT EECS - Google Undergraduate Aakanksha Sarda Research and Innovation Scholar Research and Innovation Scholar Benjamin Shaya Project: “Generating Para- Project: “A Social Annotation Tool Arvind Thiagarajan meterized Programs for Testing for Textbooks of the Future” Jennifer Wang Microarchitectures” Advisor: David Karger MIT EECS - Quanta Computer Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholars Advisor: Arvind Stephan Boyer Abstract: NB is a social annotation Jeff Chan Abstract: One can implement a tool aiming to create a new format Stephen Freiberg specific processor architecture for online education. Current work Paul Hemberger with different microarchitecture indicates success in improving the Alexandra Hsu techniques. However, in order to education experience, but much Phu Nguyen test and evaluate the microarchi- is left to be done. My work aims to Panupong Pasupat tecture features introduced, one has to run programs that exercise address some unanswered questions: Does the educational benefit Michele Pratusevich various of these features. This requires deep understanding of the come from added clarifying information, or the experience of partic- Denzil Sikka microarchitecture and some degree of automation for generating ipating? Should notes become incorporated in the text as they gain Christianne Swartz test programs. For this project, we will explore how to generate credibility and approval, or is there an inherit distinction between programs that exercise a variety of microarchitecture features like the two? Should we attempt to merge and summarize information, MIT EECS - Texas Instruments Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholars scoreboards, TLBs, cache organizations, branch predictors, and or simply filter comments by popularity? Research in this area William Gaviria branch resolution schemes. Almost all microprocessor vendors primarily involves HCI, UI design, and machine learning. Rui Jin have such test suites but guard them very zealously. We will provide James Noraky an infrastructure to synthesize a variety of microprocessors with “I worked at Microsoft in Redmond, WA on the Office OneNote Web different microarchitectures to run the test programs. App adding access to encrypted content. I worked at Google in New Kawin Surakitbovorn York on internal tools to improve the design of inter- and intra-ap- Patricia Suriana “I have built a Dental Software Application in Arabic. This appli- plication communication inside the company. In 2004, I traveled to MIT EECS - VMware Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholars cation, with its’ simple and intuitive user interface, is used to save Jakarta, Indonesia to participate in the First International Junior Ulziibayar Otgonbaatar patients’ information, keep track of visits, maintain the account and Science Olympiad.” balance, and keep track of medication history.” Dmitrij Petters Tal Tchwella Patrick Vatterott Tana Wattanawaroon Steven Allen Tim Balbekov MIT EECS - eBay Inc. Undergraduate MIT EECS - Foxconn Undergraduate MIT EECS Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholars Research and Innovation Scholar Research and Innovation Scholar Michael Behr Joshua Blum Project: “Distributed Access Project: “Electronic Stethoscope” Control for Social Media” Jacob Cole Advisor: Steven Leeb Christopher Graves Advisor: David Karger Jesika Haria Abstract: The electronic stethoscope Maosen Hu Abstract: Currently, the only way project aims to create scalable Bonny Jain to share group-private content on sensing devices that can be rapidly Jennifer Jang the web is to have every member of integrated into existing facilities. Aditya S. Kalluri the group create an account with a Presently it is both economically Yi-An Lai service and then manually add them and logistically unfeasible to retrofit Sebastian Leon to a group. This is both a burden on existing infrastructure with large Xola Ntumy the service as it must have a complete permissions infrastructure amounts of sensors: the wiring and control overhead scales astro- Keith Michael Phox and on its users. With a distributed ACL protocol,
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