REU

Twenty Year Celebration

• REU Picture Book
• Agenda
• List of Attendees

REU Picture Book

Agenda

August 3, 2007

Where: Fairwinds Alumni Center, UCF

Time	Description
8:00 to 9:00	Breakfast
9:00 to 9:15	Kickoff: President Hitt, Provost Hickey, MJ Soileau, SEECS Director Batarseh, NSF Director DeMenthon, Jamal Nayfeh (Welcome, guest introduction)
9:15 to 10:00	The First Decade of REU: Mubarak Shah, Kevin Bowyer, Ganapathy Krishnan
10:00 to 10:30	Reception
10:30 to 11:15	Panel session: Next Steps in Mentoring Undergraduates in Research (moderated by Louise Stark, Daniel DeMenthon, Alvin Wang, Adam Hoover)
11:15 to 11:45	From REU summer project to MIT Ph.D and to Ohio State Professorship: Professor James Davis, Ohio State (technical talk on Computer Vision)
11:45 to 12:30	How to start a startup?: Panel discussion by Former REU students moderated by Ganapathy Krishnan (Maha Salam, Warren Macchi, Bonnie Kaiser)
12:30 to 14:00	Luncheon (Student Union)
14:00 to 15:00	Poster Session 1010 Harris Center: 2007-08 REU Students Research Projects
3:15 to 3:45	The Second Decade of REU: Niels da Vitoria Lobo, Louise Stark, Takis Kasparis, Art Weeks, Marshall Tappen
3:45 to 4:15	Panel Session: Challenges for New Assistant Professors: moderated by R. Kasturi, former REU students: Bill Allen, Melanie Sutton, Min Shin
4:15 to 4:45	How REU helped me to become a manager at Harris Corporation: Jay Hackett
4:45 to 5:30	Panel session: Graduate School after REU moderated by Joan Peckham (Former REU students: Ankur Datta, Christopher Ingrassia . Vladimir Reilly)
7:00 to 9:00	Banquet (Student Union), Keynote Talk Ruzena Bajcsy, UC Berkeley

List of Attendees Celebrating 20 Years of REU at UCF

PI

Dr. Mubarak Shah

UCF CO-PIs

Dr. Niels da Vitoria Lobo
Dr. Takis Kasparis
Dr. Art Weeks

Non-UCF Co-PIs

Professor Kevin W. Bowyer
Schubmehl-Prein Department Chair
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Professor Louise Stark
Associate Dean, School of Engineering and Computer Science
Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Computer Engineering
University of Pacific

Dr. Ganapathy Krishnan

UCF Personnel

President John Hitt
Provost Terry Hickey
Vice President of Research MJ Soileau
Executive Associate Dean, CECS, Debra Reinhart
Associate Dean, CECS Academic Affairs, Jamal Nayfeh
Director of EECS Issa Batarseh
Dean, Office of Undergraduate Studies, Alison Morrison-Shetlar
Dean, The Burnett Honors College, Alvin Wang

Keynote Talk

Professor Ruzena Bajcsy
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

Distinguished Guests

Dr. Daniel DeMenthon
Program Director
National Science Foundation

Dr. Donna Williams
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Stetson University

Dr. Joan Peckham
Department of Computer Science and Statistics
University of Rhode Island

Dr. Rangachar Kasturi
Douglas W. Hood Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Florida

Former REU Students

Name	Affiliation	REU Program Year
William Allen	Assistant Professor - FIT	1991
Alison Austin	University of Rochester	2000
Jigna Bhatt	Software Engineer	2001
Kyong (Jin) Chang	Philips Medical Systems	1996
Ankur Datta	Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ.	2002
Jim Davis	Associate Professor - Ohio State	1993
David Diel	Scientific Systems Co. Inc	2001
Todd Gillette	Krasnow Institute - George Mason University	2002
Jay Hackett	Government Communications Systems Division Engineer - Harris Corporation	1987
Connie Harper
Adam Hoover	Associate Professor - Clemson University	1991
Christopher Ingrassia	Columbia University	1997
Madhvi Kansagara	Software Engineer - Northrop Grumman Corp.	2002
Bonnie Kaiser	Medicomp, Inc (www.Medicompinc.com)	1990
Alfred Levy	Harris Corp.	2001
Warren Macchi	Abamis IT Solutions	1993
Glenn Martin	Institute for Simulation & Training, University of Central Florida	1990
Merill McKee	UCF	1999
Rusty Phillips	Data Transfer Solutions	1999
Jan Prokaj	UCF	2005
Vladimir Reilly	UCF	2005
Maha Sallam	Vice President, Director of iCAD
Christopher Schwarz	UCF	2004
Min Shin	Assistant Professor - UNC Charlotte	1996
Paul Smith	Northrop Grumman	1999
Michael Sollami	Analyst, Warisan Capital	2005
Melanie Sutton	Associate Professor - University of West Florida	1990