Celebration of Undergraduate Research

The Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Department hosted its first Celebration of Undergraduate Research on Friday, May 30th, 2014. Fifteen students/teams participated by presenting their research via a poster and/or demo, and prizes were awarded to the top three teams, as voted by event attendees: First Place: Social Math, presented by Jianchi Chen, Ying Yu Ho, Timothy Holland, and Kexin Rong; Second Place: The Tweet Rises, presented by Aleksander Bello, Alexandru Cioc, Victor Duan, Archan Luhar, and Louis O'Bryan; Third Place: Team Ouroboroy, presented by Moya Chen and James Macdonald.

In addition the following students were recognized for their outstanding academic excellence and/or services to CMS: Erika DeBenedictis, Kevin Chen, David Ding, Angela Gong, Max Hirschhorn, Josie Kishi, Jesse Salomon, Ben Yuan, and Mike Yurko.

Many members of the CMS community attended to learn more about the research projects, and a large numbers of undergrads came to support and celebrate their classmates' hard work. On the heels of this event's success, it has been decided that the Celebration of Undergraduate Research will henceforth be an annual occurrence in CMS."