Student Research Outreach Event

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

Novelty or innovation is the core of research work. Novelty/innovation can be shown in many aspects such as a new approach for an existing problem, a novel application of an existing technique to a new domain, and new findings from your research. Research done by IS faculty and students can be found at https://informationsystems.umbc.edu/home/research/.

The Department of Information Systems now has a central form for both undergraduate and graduate students to apply for research opportunities with IS faculty. College and university level undergraduate research opportunities can be found at https://coeit.umbc.edu/undergraduate-research/ and https://ur.umbc.edu/ respectively.

Different faculty offer different ways to work with them. Possible ways include volunteer, research focused courses (e.g., IS 400, IS 469 and IS 700), undergraduate/MS thesis (e.g., IS 799), hourly paid position, and RA position. Paid hourly or RA positions are often combined with thesis or research course enrollment.

2023 Event Recap