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REU 2022

  • Human factors in security
  • Privacy-preserving emotion recognition with federated learning
  • Impact of machine translation on toxicity of comments
  • User authentication using swipe gestures
  • Intelligent reflective surfaces for security applications
  • Efficient mm-wave scanning for threat detection
  • Using ensemble learning for malware detection on smartphones

  • Amherst College
  • Hofstra University
  • Indiana University
  • Lewis and Clark College
  • New York Institute of Technology
  • University of Cambridge
  • Southern Connecticut State University
  • Stony Brook University

Project: 鈥淚nvestigating the Effect of Machine-Translation on Automated Classification of Toxic Comments鈥�
REU Fellows: James Roy (University of Cambridge), Siddhi Suresh (Southern Connecticut State University), Mohamed Elsayed (New York Institute of Technology)
Intern: Ronie Rocca (New York Institute of Technology)
Faculty Mentors: Professor Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., Professor Huanying (Helen) Gu, Ph.D., and Associate Professor N. Sertac Artan

Project: 鈥淓nsembleDroid: A Malware Detection Approach for Android System based on Ensemble Learning鈥�
REU Fellow: Sharon Guan (Stony Brook University)
Faculty Mentor: Associate Professor Wenjia Li, Ph.D.

Project: 鈥淪martphone User Authentication using Swipe Gestures on a Keyboard鈥�
REU Fellows: Alvin E. Kuruvilla (Hofstra University), Usman Sheikh (Stony Brook University)
Faculty Mentors: Associate Professor Kiran Balagani, Ph.D., Associate Professor Paolo Gasti,Ph.D., and Assistant Professor Anand Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D.

Project: 鈥淧rivacy Preservation in Emotion Recognition Under Federated Learning Settings鈥�
REU Fellow: Jason Nu帽ez (Amherst College)
Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Houwei Cao, Ph.D.

Project: 鈥淢achine-Translation from Monolingual Corpora using a BERT-based model鈥�
REU Fellow: James Roy (University of Cambridge)
Faculty Mentors: Professor Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., Professor Huanying (Helen) Gu, Ph.D., and Associate Professor N. Sertac Artan, Ph.D.

Project: 鈥淔easibility and Quality of a MATLAB Implementation for an Intelligent Reflective Surface鈥�
REU Fellow: Garrett Fairbanks (Indiana University)
Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Reza Amineh, Ph.D.

Project: 鈥淔ast and Secure Non-Intrusive MM-Wave Scanning鈥�
REU Fellow: Kim Metoua (New York Institute of Technology)
Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Anand Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D.

Project: 鈥淗uman Factors in Security: A Neuroimaging Cybersecurity Experiment鈥�
REU Fellow: Emily Tanabe (Lewis and Clark College)
Faculty Mentor: Associate Professor N. Sertac Artan, Ph.D.

REU 2021

  • Spread of misinformation on Twitter
  • Toxicity detection in rich comments with emojis
  • Modeling trust for reliable and maximum network flow
  • Continuous authentication in mobile devices
  • Malware detection in Android smartphones using deep learning
  • mmWave radar for security applications
  • Emotion recognition for subjects wearing masks
  • Focus and retention in Virtual Reality (VR) and online learning

  • Adelphi University
  • Bucknell University
  • California Institute of Technology
  • City College of New York
  • Florida State University
  • Indiana University
  • Meredith College
  • New York Institute of Technology
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Southern Connecticut State University
  • University of Southern California
  • Wesleyan University

Project: Adversarial Droid: A Deep Learning based Malware Detection Approach for Android System Against Adversarial Example Attacks
REU Fellow: Giuseppe Dambrosio (Adelphi University)
Faculty Mentor: Associate Professor Wenjia Li, Ph.D.

Project: Continuous Authentication in Mobile Devices
REU Fellow: Leila Sor (Bucknell University)
Volunteer: Alexis Wang (California Institute of Technology)
Faculty Mentor: Associate Professor Kiran Balagani, Ph.D.

Project: Platform for Comparative Study of Focus and Retention in Virtual Reality and Online Learning
REU Fellows: Michael Macesker (Southern Connecticut State), Rachel Morrow (Wesleyan University), Guang Too (New York Institute of Technology), and Luna Ferraro (New York Institute of Technology)
Faculty Mentors: Associate Professor N. Sertac Artan, Ph.D., Professor Ziqian (Cecilia Dong), Ph.D., and Professor Huanying Gu, Ph.D.

Project: Simulating Imaging Systems Based on FMCW mmWave Radar
REU Fellow: Oreva Omodior (Indiana University)
Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Reza Amineh, Ph.D.

Project: Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) with Different Masks
REU Fellow: Katherine Nayan (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Houwei Cao, Ph.D.

Project: Subtlety of Language in the Spread of Misinformation on Twitter
REU Fellow: Marcos Sivira (Florida State University)
Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Anand Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D.

Project: Toxic Comment Detection: Analyzing the Combination of Text and Emojis
REU Fellows: Michael Aquino (New York Institute of Technology), Yasiris Ortiz (City College of New York), Arif Rashid (New York Institute of Technology), and Anne Tumlin (University of Southern California)
Faculty Mentors: Associate Professor N. Sertac Artan, Ph.D., Associate Professor Ziqian (Cecilia Dong), Ph.D., and Professor Huanying Gu, Ph.D.

Project: Trust Model for Maximal Flow of Reliable Information in a Network
REU Fellow: Kelly Mae Allen (Meredith College)
Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Anand Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D.REU 2020

REU 2020

蘑菇传媒 is doing its part in helping to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In an abundance of caution, we have canceled the summer 2020 REU program. For those who submitted applications, the application materials, with the exception of transcripts, will be honored for applications for the summer 2021 REU program. The applicant must inform reu@nyit.edu that they wish to reapply before the 2021 application deadline (February 12, 2021), and they must still be eligible to participate.

REU 2019

蘑菇传媒 commenced its seventh REU program on May 28, 2019, welcoming 10 fellows from ten universities. The program received more than 100 applications. NSF-funded REU fellows learned from presentations by 蘑菇传媒 faculty members on topics ranging from research approaches, the security of smartphones, wireless and social networks, to public speaking and technical writing; attended lectures by industry experts; went on field trips; prepared for professional publications at professional conferences; and participated in cultural and social activities.

  • Analysis of multimodal smartphone behavioral biometric data
  • Eddy current Imaging
  • Cognitive distraction to improve cybersickness in virtual reality environments
  • Malware detection in Android smartphones
  • Impact of net neutrality repeal in the presence of malicious users in HetNets
  • Analysis of eye fixations during emotion recognition in faces
  • Low-power data acquisition for wearable and implantable devices

  • Duke University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Kean University
  • New York City College of Technology
  • New York Institute of Technology
  • Oberlin College
  • Rowan University
  • Rutgers University
  • The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences
  • Wesleyan University

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    REU Fellows: Ariana J. LaCue (Kean University) and Matthew A. Lombardo (Johns Hopkins University)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentors: Associate Professor Paolo Gasti, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Kiran Balagani, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellow: Anwar Hussein (Rowan University)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Reza Amineh, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Luisa Bryan (Wesleyan University), Celina Zhou (Duke University), and Evan Wang (Rutgers University)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentors: Associate Professor Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., and Assistant Professor N. Sertac Artan, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellow: Neha Bala (New York Institute of Technology)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Wenjia Li, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellow: Alon S. Levin (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Anand Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellow: Forest P. Elliott (Oberlin College)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Houwei Cao, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellow: Ralph Castro Ramirez (New York City College of Technology)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor N. Sertac Artan, Ph.D.

REU 2018

蘑菇传媒 commenced its sixth REU program on May 30, 2018, welcoming 12 fellows from eleven universities to conduct research with faculty mentors. The program received more than 168 applications. NSF-funded REU fellows learned from presentations by 蘑菇传媒 faculty members on topics ranging from research approaches, the security of smartphones, wireless and social networks to public speaking, technical writing; attend lectures by industry experts; go on field trips; prepare for professional publications at professional conferences; and participate in cultural and social activities.

  • Adversarial text generation for Google Perspective鈥檚 toxic comment detection
  • Minimizing cybersickness through increased-intensity habituation in a virtual reality environment
  • Continuous biometric authentication in haptic cues
  • Game-based authentication and its effectiveness on mimicry attacks
  • Android malware detection framework
  • Energy analysis of lightweight encryption algorithms on smartphone applications
  • Modeling of the effect of net neutrality on the user-Internet service provider relationship

  • Cooper Union
  • Georgia State University
  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  • Jackson State University
  • New York Institute of Technology
  • The Pennsylvania State University
  • Tuft University
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Connecticut
  • University of Dallas
  • University of Michigan

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    REU Fellows: Stephan Brown (蘑菇传媒), Edwin Jain (Tuft University), Jeffrey Chen (University of California Berkeley), Mohammad Baidas* (蘑菇传媒), and Erin Neaton (University of Michigan)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentors: Assistant Professor N. Sertac Artan, Ph.D., Associate Professor Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D. and Associate Professor Huanying (Helen) Gu, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Erin Neaton (University of Michigan), Mohammad Baidas* (蘑菇传媒), Jeffrey Chen (University of California, Berkeley), Edwin Jain (Tufts University), and Stephan Brown (蘑菇传媒)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentors: Assistant Professor N. Sertac Artan, Ph.D., Associate Professor Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Huanying (Helen) Gu, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Dennis Agnew Jr. (Jackson State University), Stephen Sam鈾� (University of Connecticut), Angela Chan鈥� (The Pennsylvania State University), and Brittney Hill (Georgia State University)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentors: Assistant Professor Paolo Gasti, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Kiran Balagani, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellow: Camera Finn (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Jonathan Voris, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Evelyn Bailey (University of Pennsylvania)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Wenjia Li, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Michael Bolot (University of Dallas)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Professor Tao Zhang, Ph.D. and Associate Professor Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Guy Bar-Yossef (Cooper Union)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Professor Anand Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D.

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For more information, please contact Dr. Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong at ziqian.dong@nyit.edu or 646.273.6129.

REU 2017

蘑菇传媒 commenced its fifth REU program on May 31, 2017, welcoming 12 fellows from ten universities to conduct research with faculty mentors. The program received more than 130 applications. NSF-funded REU fellows learned from presentations by 蘑菇传媒 faculty members on topics ranging from research approaches and the security of smartphone and wireless networks to public speaking, technical writing; attend lectures by industry experts; go on field trips; prepare for professional publications at professional conferences; and participate in cultural and social activities.

  • Visible light communication and localization
  • PIN inferences at ATMs by side channel attacks
  • Authentication of vehicular drivers through posture
  • Energy analysis of lightweight encryption algorithms on smartphone applications
  • PrivateMD

  1. Bryn Mawr College
  2. Case Western Reserve University
  3. Fordham University
  4. Lewis & Clark College
  5. New York University
  6. New York Institute of Technology
  7. Rochester Institute of Technology
  8. Transylvania University
  9. University at Buffalo
  10. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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    REU Fellows: Charles Carver (Fordham University), Adriana Rogers (Lewis & Clark College), Matthew Stafford (University at Buffalo), and Shela Wu (NYU)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentors: Assistant Professor N. Sertac Artan and Associate Professor Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Matthew Stafford (University at Buffalo), Adriana Rogers (Lewis & Clark College), Charles Carver (Fordham University), and Shela Wu (NYU)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentors: Assistant Professor N. Sertac Artan and Associate Professor Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Tristan Gurtler鈾� (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Charissa Miller鈾� (Rochester Institute of Technology), Kendall Molas (蘑菇传媒), and Lynn Wu (Bryn Mawr College)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentors: Assistant Professor Paolo Gasti, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Kiran Balagani, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellow: Chris Hadiono (Case Western Reserve University)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Jonathan Voris, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Daler Norkulov (蘑菇传媒) and Randy St. Fleur (蘑菇传媒)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Associate Professor Huanying (Helen) Gu, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Kelsey Clater (Transylvania University) and Yuncong Ma鈭� (蘑菇传媒)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Professor Tao Zhang, Ph.D.

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REU 2016

蘑菇传媒 commenced its fourth REU program on May 31, 2016, welcoming 10 fellows from eight universities to conduct research with faculty mentors. The program received more than 150 applications. NSF-funded REU fellows learned from presentations by 蘑菇传媒 faculty members on topics ranging from research approaches and the security of smartphone and wireless networks to public speaking, technical writing; attend lectures by industry experts; go on field trips; prepare for professional publications at professional conferences; and participate in cultural and social activities.

  • Continuous smartphone user authentication
  • Indoor smartphone localization
  • Smartphone malware detection
  • Electromyogram as a new biometric modality
  • Authentication of vehicular drivers
  • Geolocation of computers through network measurement
  • Behavior study of patients with Parkinson’s disease using smartphones

  • Fordham University
  • Hofstra University
  • Macalester College
  • New York Institute of Technology
  • Stony Brook University
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Georgia
  • Vanderbilt University

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    REU Fellows: Tiffany Montoya (蘑菇传媒) and Matthias Wilder (University of Georgia)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentors: Associate Professor Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Tao Zhang, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Colin Monteil-Anatra (Stony Brook University) and Tayeb Zaidi (Macalester College)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentors: Assistant Professors Paolo Gasti, Ph.D., and Kiran Balagani, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellow: Angela Burton (Vanderbilt University)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Jonathan Voris, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Ernesto Jorge (蘑菇传媒)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor N. Sertac Artan, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellow: Maid Husic (蘑菇传媒)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Associate Professor Huanying (Helen) Gu, Ph.D.
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    蘑菇传媒 REU Fellows:  (Hofstra University) and  (University of California, Berkeley)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Wenjia Li, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellow: Nadine Moukdad (Fordham University)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Anand Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D.

REU 2015

蘑菇传媒鈥檚 competitive REU program had an acceptance rate of less than 10 percent in 2015. Participants were mentored by 蘑菇传媒 faculty members on topics ranging from research approaches to public speaking, lectures by industry experts, field trips to AT&T Security Research Center and Rutgers WinLab, attending and volunteering at ACM WiSec and RFIDSec conferences, and cultural and social activities.

蘑菇传媒 concluded the 2015 NSF-funded program on July 29, 2015, with聽fellows making presentations聽on mobile/smartphone security to an audience of faculty members, graduate students, and family. REU fellows gave poster presentations at the聽蘑菇传媒 6th Cybersecurity Conference聽on Sept. 24, 2015.

  • Smartphone authentication, indoor localization using power consumption, and malware detection
  • Secure protocols design for implantable devices
  • Behavior study of patients with Parkinson’s disease using smartphones
  • Human robot interaction using Baxter

  • Center College
  • Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
  • Cornell University
  • Florida Atlantic University
  • Gonzaga University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • New York Institute of Technology
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • University of Rochester
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • University of West Florida

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    REU Fellows: Rajan Khullar (蘑菇传媒) and Akshay Navada (Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentors: Assistant Professor Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Tao Zhang, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Janina Grayson (蘑菇传媒) and Adam Scrivener (University of Rochester)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentors: Assistant Professors Paolo Gasti, Ph.D., and Kiran Balagani, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellow: Kirsten Giesbrecht (Center College)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Jonathan Voris, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Jason Wang (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Kevon Mohebzad (University of Texas at Austin) and Luke Johnson (Gonzaga University)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor N. Sertac Artan, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellow: Bruno Correa (University of West Florida) and Yang Peng (Cornell University)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Associate Professor Huanying (Helen) Gu, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellows: Nadeen Saleh (Florida Atlantic University)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Wenjia Li, Ph.D.
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    REU Fellow: Eghosa Eke (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    蘑菇传媒 Faculty Mentor: Assistant Professor Chung Hyuk Park, Ph.D.

REU 2014

The conclusion of 蘑菇传媒鈥檚 second successful summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) was capped by presentations on July 29 from the fellows to an audience of faculty and graduate students.

The highly competitive 10-week program, which accepted only 10 students from 110 applicants, included presentations by 蘑菇传媒 faculty on topics ranging from research approaches to public speaking; lectures by industry experts; field trips to AT&T and Motorola; and cultural/social activities including a July 4 barbecue.

  • Indoor Localization Using Wifi and Sensor Fusion鈥攔eal-world applications from advertising to emergency to cybersecurity
  • Continuous Authentication of Mobile Devices
  • Robotic Telepresence for Fall Detection and Prevention
  • Android Application for Medical Diagnosis
  • Energy Consumption in Mobile Phones During Data Transmission and Encryption for WBAN

  1. New York Institute of Technology
  2. York University (City College)
  3. Gordon College
  4. Missou
  5. University of Redlands
  6. Lewis & Clark College, Mills College
  7. University of Central Florida

REU 2013

蘑菇传媒鈥檚 first successful summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) concluded with presentations from the 10 fellows to an audience of faculty and graduate students. Student teams presented on research topics under the 蘑菇传媒 REU鈥檚 main theme of mobile/smartphone security, including smartphone authentication, indoor localization using wifi, and the development of an Android app.

The highly competitive 10-week program, which accepted only 10 students from more than applicants, included presentations by 蘑菇传媒 faculty; lectures by industry experts; field trips; and cultural/social activities.

Led by Dr. Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, 蘑菇传媒鈥檚 REU program is funded by prestigious three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for the three-year period of April 1, 2013 through March 31, 2016. Two of the five research papers co-authored with 2013 REU fellows were published or accepted to peer-reviewed international conferences, while another two poster presentations were featured at the 2013 蘑菇传媒 Cybersecurity Conference.