Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Poster Session

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has designated the Center for Research in Computer Vision at UCF as a site for Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

https://www.crcv.ucf.edu/nsf-projects/reu/

This summer, which marks the 38th year of the program, ten students from eight institutions are participating.

Our REU model is described in this CACM (Communication of ACM) article.

Students have gone through an extensive research experience.

You are invited to a Poster Session related to their research projects on Wednesday, July 30, 2025 from 12:00pm-2:15pm in Physical Sciences Building, Room 161/160.

AGENDA:

12:00pm – 12:30pm       Lunch (Pizza will be served on a first-come, first-served basis)

12:30pm – 1:00pm         Student Spotlights

1:00pm – 1:15pm          Presentation of Certificates: Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres Ph.D.Dean, Burnett Honors College and Interim, VP for Information Technology and CIO

1:15pm – 2:15pm           Presentation of Posters (Research I Atrium)

REU Participants : (https://www.crcv.ucf.edu/nsf-projects/reu/reu-2025/)

1. Hannah Carey – University of Massachusetts Amherst
   • Mentor: Ms. Kunyang Li
   • Project Title: “DistillScope: Analyzing the Scope and Limits of Diffusion-Based Dataset Distillation”
2. David Gardner – Boston University
   • Mentor: Mr. Rajat Modi
   • Project Title: “Slow-Fast Weights for Long-Term Video Understanding “
3. Matthew Lewis – University of Central Florida
   • Mentor: Dr. Laura Brattain
   • Project Title: “Applications of Foundation Models and Efficient Diffusion Models to Dental Radiography”
4. Mingen (Eric) Li – University of California Berkeley
   • Mentor: Dr. Yu Tian
   • Project Title: “Multi-modal Large Language Models for Video Anomaly Detection”
5. Felipe Monsalvo – Kean University
   • Mentor: Dr. Harry Newton, Leidos
   • Project Title: “Detection of Coastal Features from Satellite Imagery using Computer Vision”
6. Nguyen (Syn) Nguyen – California State University Long Beach
   • Mentor: Dr. Yu Tian
   • Project Title: “ColonSAM”
7. Munish Persaud – University of Central Florida
   • Mentor: Dr. Amrit Singh Bedi
   • Project Title: “Jailbreaking a Bio-Foundational Model”
8. David Rivard – Lake Superior State University
   • Mentors: Mr. Rohit Gupta and Mr. Parth Kulkarni
   • Project Title: “GeoHiPO: Hierachical Preference Optimization for Geolocalization”
9. Erick Rodriguez – University of Central Florida
   • Mentor: Dr. HanQin Cai
   • Project Title: “Deep Accelerated Signal Processing”
10. Neel Shah – Rutgers University
    • Mentors: Mr. Kevin Zhai and Mr. Soumik Ghosh
    • Project Title: “Audio-Image Conditioned Dance Video Generation using CTRL-Adapter”
11. Ejiro Ubini – University of Maryland Baltimore County
    • Mentor: Dr. Yogesh Rawat
    • Project Title: “Real-Time Detection of School Bullying Using CCTV”

Thank you for your continued support, and we look forward to seeing you at the Poster Session.