REU Site: CAAR: Combinatorics and Algorithms Applied to Real Problems

这个REU网站项目将在马里兰大学帕克分校主持，强调理论与实践相结合。学生将受益于强大的师资队伍。在过去经验的基础上，该项目预计将为学生带来强大的本科研究成果，从而为学生未来的研究/行业职业生涯带来成功。与高中的外展活动将吸引高中生参与这项研究。该网站计划招收代表性不足的群体，以及来自非研究型大学和hbcu的学生。提出的项目既形成了前沿的理论研究，又与实践相联系，具有较高的应用影响力。考虑的项目包括大数据分析、自然语言处理中的信息提取、公平划分、社交网络定价、安全通信和公共卫生等应用领域。让学生对理论感兴趣的方法，从应用实现开始，还有一个额外的好处，那就是它可以培养学生敏锐的算法实现和实验技能，这被领先的计算机科学公司认为是高度重视的。

This REU site project to be hosted at University of Maryland College Park emphasizes combining theory with practice. The students will benefit from a strong faculty team. Building on the past experience, the project is expected to result in strong undergraduate research leading to successful research/industry careers for the students in the future. Outreach activities with high schools will attract high school students to this research. The site plans to recruit under-represented groups and also students from non-research universities and HBCUs. The projects proposed not only form cutting-edge theory research but are also relevant to practice and have high impact applications. The projects considered are in applied area of Big Data Analytics, Information Extraction in Natural Language Processing, Fair Division, Pricing over Social Networks, Secure Communication and Public Health. The approach of getting students interested in theory, starting from applied implementation has an added side benefit that it would train students in sharp algorithmic implementation and experimentation skills, which are deemed in high regard by leading Computer Science companies.