Project Mentors
Below is a non-exhaustive list of possible project mentors. Almost anyone can be your project mentor as long as the project is suitably compelling. So go contact your research advisor if you (or they) have a good idea. Or if you don’t know where to start, you can contact someone below.
Natural Language Processing
Professor Susan McRoy – UWM – (mcroy at uwm dot edu) oversees projects involve better explanations of the predictions of a text classification model.
Skills required: Python, annotation
Programming Languages
Professor Tian Zhao – UWM – (tzhao at uwm dot edu) will work with students on an event or agent based simulation system that runs on GPUs. The simulation system may be used to simulate the dynamics in a traffic network with connected vehicles, roadside units, and communication of safety messages
Data Science
Professor Kamil Samara – UW-Parkside – (samara at uwp dot edu) will mentor students who will work on real world projects chosen from kaggle.com and other sources.
Skills required: Python, statistics
Cybersecurity
Professor Justin Wang – Marquette/Northeastern – (hs.wang at northeastern dot edu) will mentors students on various cybersecurity projects.
Skills required: Python, SQL
Time Domain Astronomy
Professor David Kaplan – UWM – (kaplan at uwm dot edu) – will mentor students on mentor students on projects in transient astronomy.
Skills required: Python, statistics
Computational Astrophysics
Professor Philip Chang – UWM – (chang65 at uwm dot edu): will mentor students on various projects related to computational astrophysics including initial conditions generators and machine learning.
Skills required: Python, parallel programming
Optional skills: C++
Cancer Research
Professor Mahsa Dabagh – UWM – (dabaghme at uwm dot edu) :will mentor projects that involve either the simulation, visualization, or analysis of cancer cells.
Skills required: Python, C++, parallel programming
Robot Motion Planning and Control:
Professor Habib Rahman – UWM – (rahmanmh at uwm dot edu) will oversee a projects based on vision based robot manipulation and data classification and visualization of data from robotic manufacturing.
Skills required: Python, C++
Mobile Health
Professor Jacob Rammer – UWM – (jrrammer at uwm dot edu): will oversee machine learning projects related to rehabilitation progress in patients
Skills required: Python, data science
Mathematical Biology and Computational Biochemistry
Professor Dexuan Xie (URL: https://sites.uwm.edu/dxie/) – UWM – (dxie at uwm dot edu): will mentor students on various projects related to protein modeling and simulation. Students will learn numerical algorithms and related software tools for solving differential equations with applications to the calculation of electrostatic solvation and binding free energies for a protein with a three-dimensional molecular structure.
Skills required: Differential equations, linear algebra, Python programming
Optional skills: C++