summerprogram2021
CS/EE Summer Research Experience for High School Students
June 16 – August 12, 2021
Students:
- Amy Wei
- Andrew Li
- Anthony Song
- Brian Hu
- Daniel Zhou
- Grace Liu
- Hudson Shi
- Kanishk Tihaiya
Faculty advising committee:
- Zhijie Shi
- Wei Wei
- Xiaomei Cong
- Jinbo Bi (co-organizer)
- Shengli Zhou (co-organizer)
Projects:
- A natural language question answering system on mathematics: Student: Amy, Advisor: Dr. Wei Wei
- Electronics: Thermal sensors and operational amplifiers: Student: Kanishk, Advisor: Shengli Zhou in cooperation with UConn’s Young Scholars Senior Summit (Graduate student Mentor: Hasan Talukder, Facutly advisor: Dr. Helena Silva)
- Object detection from images: Students: Anthony and Andrew, Advisor: Dr. Bi
- Drunk people detection from face images. Student: Brian, Advisor: Dr. Bi
- Emotion classifier. Student: Daniel, Advisor: Dr. Shi
- On the improvement of COVID-19 pneumonia classification on chest radiographs through transfer learning, Student: Grace, Advisor: Dr. Bi
- Assembly of a computer from discrete components. Student: Hudson, Advisor: Dr. Shi
Weekly Meetings
- Mondays 3:30 – 4:30 pm
- A zoom-meeting picture taken at July 26, 2021.

Final Presentation Day: August 12, 3:30-5:00 pm
- A natural language question answering system on mathematics. Amy Wei, slides, abstract
- Electronics: Thermal sensors and operational amplifiers. Kanishk Tihaiya, slides, abstract
- Object detection from images. Anthony Song and Andrew Li, slides, abstract
- Drunk people detection from face images. Brian Hu, slides, abstract
- Emotion classifier. Daniel Zhou, slides, abstract
- On the improvement of COVID-19 pneumonia classification on chest radiographs through transfer learning, Grace Liu, slides, abstract
- Assembly of a computer from discrete components. Hudson, slides