REU Activities

• Mark Fullton, Computer Science, College of the Canyons
• Kousha Salimkhan, Computer Science, California State University, Northridge
• Olena Molla, Computer Science, California State Polytechnic University Pomona
• Shanlin Qian, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, University of California, San Diego
• Martin Ha, Computer Science, California State University, Northridge
• Elijah Sagaran, Computer Science, California State University, Northridge
• Sam Mikhak, Computer Science, Santa Monica College (transferred to Columbia University)
• Forrest Felsch, Computer Science and Mathematics, Oregon State University
• Jianwei (Solomon) Xu, Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles
• Sullivan Gleason, Computer Science, Southeast Missouri State University

1. Library Tour (June 2, 2025)

2. CSUN CS Lab Tour (June 2, 2025)

3. CSUN GES Lab Tour (June 12, 2025)

4. Resume Workshop (June 13, 2025)

Presenter: Chongye Wang (M.S. in CS, CSUN)

5. CSUN Data Center Tour (June 16, 2025)

6. ARCS Research Center Tour and Research Seminar (June 20, 2025)

Research Presentations:

(1) Boracle: The Oracle for Your Body (Presenter: Toan Pham (CS from NCSU), Brandon Ismalej (CS), Abhinav Neelam(CS))

(2) Real-time Traffic Monitoring (Presenter: Shonan Hendre (ECS), Jordan Aviles (CS), Kousha Salimkhan (CS), Jimwell Castillo (CS))

7. Graduate School Application Workshop and Panel Discussion (July 11, 2025)

8. Research Seminar (July 18, 2025)

(1) Indoctrinating students is harder than you think: highly constraining RNNs is no guarantee of their quality as surrogates for the brain

Presenter: Pengcen Jiang, Ph.D student in Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego

(2) Climate-Aware Robust Spatiotemporal Workload Scheduling for Data Centers to Enhance Grid Resilience

Presenter: Chengyi Cai, Master student in Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

9. Final Research Presentation (July 25, 2025)

10. SoCal REU Symposium (July 31, 2025)

 11. CSUN REU Site 2025 Workshop: Data Science and Energy-efficient Computing 

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• Beth Ann Sweezer, Department of Computer Science, California State University, Northridge
• Harold Wang, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
• Eric Alexander Schmitt, Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Marine Science, University of Miami (accepted by the Earth System Science PhD program at University of California, Irvine)
• Evan Joseph Zaremba, Environmental Science and Data Science, Willamette University
• Alexis Ava Fernandez, Engineering Mathematics and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
• Laila Kaddoura, Computer Science and Mathematics, West Los Angeles College (transferred to California State University, Northridge)
• Rowena Charlotte Quinn, Computer and Systems Engineering, Illinois Central College
• Jake Thomas Ekoniak, Mathematics of Computation, University of California, Los Angeles

1. 2024 SoCal REU Symposium at Harvey Mudd College (July 24, 2024)

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2. CSUN REU Site 2024 Workshop: Data Science and Energy-efficient Computing on Nov 8, 2024 at USU, CSU Northridge

 3. REU students participating in international conferences to present their research papers

 In the IEEE BigData 2024 Conference on December 15-18, 2024 at Washington DC, USA.

 Eric Schmitt, Evan Zaremba, Neha Ananthavaram (master mentor)                 Nathan Dong, Adel Tazhibi, and Kavyalata Kothari (master mentor)

Harold Wang presenting in the IEEE ICMLA 2024 Conference on Dec 18-20, 2024 at Miami, FL, USA.

Laila Miles Kaddoura, Jake Ekoniak, Rowena Quinn presented their research papers in the IEEE CCWC 2025 conference on Jan 6-8, 2025 at Las Vegas, NV, USA.

• Matthew Smith, Department of Computer Science, California State University, Northridge
• Rachel Finley, Department of Computer Science, Santa Monica College
• Luke Zhao, Department of Computer Science, Brown University
• Connor Wang, Mathematics of Computation, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
• David Casttrejon, Department of Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento (currently M.S in Computer Science at The Johns Hopkins University, and Software Engineer at Bloomberg)
• Denys Osmak, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (transferred to The University of Texas, Austin)
• Nathan Dong, Department of Computer Science, University of Connecticut (transferred to Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Adel Tazhibi, Department of Computer Science, Moorpark College (transferred to University of California, Los Angeles)

1. ARCS Research Seminar 

2. SoCal REU Symposium 2023 (July 26, 2023, at University of Southern California)

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3. REU Site Workshop Applying Data Science on Energy-efficient Computing and Applications in East Conference Center at California State University, Northridge on Nov 17, 2023

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4. Two research papers from our REU Site were accepted for publication by the IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) 2023 conference.

Five REU participants and a graduate student mentor presented their research papers in the IEEE ICMLA 2023 Conference on Dec 15-17, 2023 at Jacksonville, Florida.