REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB): Collecting and Using Big Data for the Public Good

显而易见的是，大量实时数据的广泛和不断增长的可用性为我们提供了一个巨大的机会来提高我们对世界的理解并做出更好的自动化决策，同时也为有效可靠地收集、交流和处理这些数据带来了巨大的技术挑战。电气工程和计算机科学的主要研究人员将指导本科生提出的REU项目。潜在的影响包括更有效的传感器网络，改进对它们产生的数据的无线访问，更好的人机交互，更好地分析来自显微镜的医疗数据，甚至有助于防止核战争。该项目旨在通过收集和使用大数据来解决大量的社会问题，同时激励学生投身于这项工作。该项目致力于展示一个多元化的本科研究人员群体，这将扩大该项目和工程研究管道的影响。在课程结束时，参与者将熟练使用大数据来解决对他们社区有直接影响的社会问题。电气工程与计算机科学系暑期本科生工程研究项目的目标是培养和激励一批具有竞争力的研究生候选人。REU网站的重点是电气工程和计算机科学，以支持为公共利益收集和使用大数据。学生们在暑期花九周的时间从事高水平的研究项目，解决在收集、交流和处理大量高效可靠的数据时出现的技术挑战。该项目涵盖了所有挑战和机遇，从更好的传感器网络到更有效地收集数据；改进无线资源管理，移动数据；用于处理图像的机器学习技术，包括来自显微镜的图像，这些图像构成了大部分新数据；设计出能够根据收集到的数据更好地与人类互动的机器人；通过分析用于探测地下核试验的地震数据，更好地执行《全面禁止核试验条约》。该项目将在通信和网络、人机交互、机器学习、机器人、科学计算和可视化等领域做出研究贡献。

It is evident to all of us that the widespread and growing availability of vast amounts of real-time data presents both a tremendous opportunity to improve our understanding of the world and make better automated decisions, as well as a great technical challenge to collect, communicate and process this data efficiently and reliably. Leading researchers in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science will mentor undergraduate students on their proposed REU projects. Potential impacts range from more efficient sensor networks, to improved wireless access to the data they produce, to better human robot interaction, to better analysis of medical data from microscopes, and even helping prevent nuclear war. The project seeks to address a multitude of societal problems that can be examined by collecting and using big data while inspiring students to dedicate themselves to this work. The project is committed to exposing a diverse group of undergraduate researchers that will expand the impact of this project and the engineering research pipeline. At the conclusion of the program, participants will be proficient in using big data to solve societal problems that have direct impacts on their communities. The goal of the Summer Undergraduate Engineering Research project in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department is to prepare and motivate a group of diverse competitive candidates for graduate student. The focus of the REU site is electrical engineering and computer science to support collecting and using big date for the public good. Students spend nine weeks during the summer working on high caliber research projects addressing technical challenges arising in collecting, communicating and processing the vast amounts of data becoming available both efficiently and reliably. This project covers the entire range of challenges and opportunities, from better sensor networks to collect this data more efficiently; to improved wireless resource management to move the data; to machine learning techniques for processing the images, including from microscopes, that make up much of the new data; to designing robots that can learn to interact better with humans based on the data they collect; to better enforcement of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty by analyzing seismic data used to detect underground nuclear tests. The project will have research contributions in areas such as communications and networking, human computer interaction, machine learning, robotics, scientific computing and visualization.