REU Site: Computing for Disasters

灾难对关键的实时计算提出了全面的需求，其中必须实时收集、传输、转换和显示数据给利益相关者。在这个REU项目中，一个由10名计算机专业学生组成的队列将被引入一种全新的整体多学科研究风格，在这种风格中，他们将与响应者、行业和机构进行互动，并被嵌入教师和研究生团队中进行个人研究项目。每年夏天，该项目都会在德克萨斯州a&m灾难城(R)的年度应急信息中心暑期学院开始，在那里，学生们将被介绍如何将以人为本的设计应用于应急管理问题。学生们利用响应者和机构的反馈，与他们的教师和研究生导师一起制定创造性的灾难应对方法。学生个人项目包括设计新的自然用户界面，用于态势感知和传感器融合，将认知神经科学应用于图像处理，以选择视频数据的关键片段进行传输，而不是通过高度受限的无线网络发送大文件，分析“大数据”以了解决策的趋势和瓶颈，提高安全性和隐私性，并应用社交网络提取有关结构和社会脆弱性的信息。除了纯粹的研究活动外，每个队列还参加研讨会和棕色午餐讨论；去参观德克萨斯A&amp；M实验室和美国宇航局约翰逊航天中心；每周与其他REU学生、教师和研究生举行社交活动。这个项目更广泛的成果是科学和教育。智力上的优点是项目对关键事件（如灾难）实时计算的新兴领域的贡献。整合研究和教育的更广泛的教育成果是研究生院入学率的增加，因为：利用人道主义申请的吸引力来吸引代表性不足的群体，并鼓励社会网络和相互支持；利用应急响应这一主题，在同组学生之间建立共同点，提供丰富的活动，培养对研究方法、新的沟通技巧和道德实践的理解；让学生与教师、研究生和行业/机构导师互动；并让德州农工大学以外的教职员工接触到新兴的应急信息学研究社区。学生将获得口头、海报和书面报告形式展示个人项目成果的经验。书面报告将以会议出版物或期刊为目标。REU网站（http://www.cse.tamu.edu/reu/computingfordisasters）提供了更多信息。

Disasters pose a comprehensive need for critical real-time computing, where data must be collected, transmitted, transformed, and displayed to stakeholders in real-time. In this REU program, a cohort of 10 students in computing are introduced to a new style of holistic, multi-disciplinary research in which they interact with responders, industry, and agencies, and are embedded into faculty and graduate students teams to conduct individual research projects. Each summer, the program begins with the annual Center for Emergency Informatics' Summer Institute at Texas A&M's Disaster City(R) where the student cohort is introduced to applying human-centered design to problems in emergency management. The students use the feedback from responders and agencies in framing, with their faculty and graduate student mentors, creative approaches to disaster response. The individual student projects include designing new natural user interfaces for situation awareness and sensor fusion, applying cognitive neuroscience to image processing to select key snippets of video data to transmit rather than send large files over highly limited wireless networks, analyzing "big data" to understand trends and bottlenecks in decision making, improving security and privacy, and applying social networking to extract information about structural and social vulnerability. In addition to the purely research activities, each cohort attends seminars and brown bag lunch discussions; goes on tours of Texas A&M laboratories and NASA Johnson Space Center; and has weekly social functions with other REU students and with faculty and graduate students. The broader outcomes of this project are both scientific and educational. The intellectual merit is the contribution of the projects to the emerging field of real-time computing for critical events such as disasters. The broader educational outcomes of integrating research and education are increases in the enrollment in graduate schools due to: exploiting the attractiveness of humanitarian applications to attract under-represented groups and encourage social networking and mutual support; using the topic of emergency response to create a common ground between students in a cohort, providing a rich set of activities that develops an understanding of research methods, new communication skills, and ethical practices; engaging students with faculty, graduate students, and industry/agency mentors; and exposing faculty outside of Texas A&M to the emerging emergency informatics research community. Students will gain experience in presenting results from their individual projects orally, as posters, and as written reports. The written reports will be targeted for conference publications or inclusion in journals.The website for the REU site (http://www.cse.tamu.edu/reu/computingfordisasters) provides additional information.