Students and faculty at the Department of Information Systems (IS) conduct exciting and frontier research in many areas. This event provides a platform to explain how to conduct research and highlight research opportunities to our own students. The event mainly targets undergraduates at the IS department. Undergraduates at other departments and graduate students who want to start research with IS faculty are also welcome to attend.
lunch provided for those that register
Goals of the event
- Engage with students who have limited or no research experience
- Explain what research is about
- Highlight research opportunities at IS department, UMBC and beyond
- Connect students with our faculty to discuss possible research opportunities
- Encourage students to conduct research and submit their work relevant events
Attendee Registration Form: Please fill out the form (before 4/16 if possible) for food accommodation and future communications. The short link for registration is https://forms.gle/QMKuVDuaphtJfV2PA.
Agenda
- 10:00-10:10 Welcome message, Dr. Zhiyuan Chen, IS Chair
- 10:10-10:30 Invited talk from UMBC Undergraduate Research & Prestigious Scholarships, Session Chair: Dr. Foad Hamidi
- 10:30-11:00 Faculty panel on why and how to do (interdisciplinary) research, Session Chair: Dr. Lujie Karen Chen
- 11:00-11:30 Undergraduate panel on research experiment sharing, Session Chair: Dr. Karuna P. Joshi
- 11:30-12:00 Undergraduate research opportunities at IS, UMBC & beyond (Data Science Scholars, CWIT, NSF REU, and Individual Faculty), Session Chair: Dr. Sanjay Purushotham
- 12:00-1:00 Lunch and discussion
Questions: Jianwu Wang, jianwu@umbc.edu, Professor and IS Liaison for Research Innovation
