REU Site: Undergraduate Research Experience in Multimedia Data Analytics

休斯顿大学计算机科学系的REU网站向本科生介绍计算数据分析，这是一个日益重要的国家领域。学生的研究项目包括生物信息学、人脸识别、计算机视觉、计算生理学、计算细胞术和金融数据的信息提取。该项目为期三年，每年选出10名学生。招生计划积极鼓励来自历史悠久的黑人大学等研究机会有限的大学的学生。重点是吸引女学生和代表性不足的少数民族。休斯顿大学是一所综合性研究型大学，是一所西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），也是美国种族最多样化的大学之一。REU网站计划致力于吸引非传统学生进行研究，增强他们对计算机科学的兴趣，将这些学生留在他们的学术课程中，并为他们进入研究生院做好准备。在REU网站项目中进行的研究结果将通过与学科相关的出版物传播。REU网站计划有四个主要目标：(1)学生将发展科学研究，演讲和写作技能的能力。(2)参与者将在暑期项目中产生有意义的研究成果。这些结果将以可接受的格式在适当的会议或期刊上发表。(3)通过持续的接触和研究参与，以及发表研究报告，参与者将在他们的校园夏季之后保持并增加他们对研究事业的兴趣。(4)参与者将学习展示和传播他们的研究成果。旨在实现主要目标的活动与学生群体活动相结合，包括实地参观尖端研究实验室、职业发展研讨会、计算机科学伦理、文献检索方法以及有关研究生院问题的实际建议。目标是在学生在REU网站度过的10周之后产生持久的影响。该计划的成功将通过学生和教师的问卷调查以及教育教授进行持续评估，这些反馈将用于改进该计划的运作。该项目有一个网站（http://www.cs.uh.edu/reu/），支持申请和评估过程，并向未来、现在和过去的参与者通报截止日期、决策、事件和参与人员的成就。

The REU site in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston (UH) introduces undergraduate students to Computational Data Analytics, an area of increasing national importance. Student research projects include Bioinformatics, Face Recognition, Computer Vision, Computational Physiology, Computational Cytometry, and Information Extraction for Financial Data. Ten students are selected in each of the three years of the program. The student recruitment plan actively encourages students from colleges and universities that offer limited research opportunities, such as historically black colleges and universities. Emphasis is on attracting female students and underrepresented minorities. The University of Houston is a comprehensive research university, a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), and one of the most ethnically diverse in the nation. The REU Site program strives to attract non-traditional students into research, reinforce their interest in computer science, retain these students in their academic programs, and prepare them for graduate school. Results of the research conducted at the REU Site program will be disseminated through discipline-appropriate publications. The REU Site program has four main objectives:(1) Students will develop competency in scientific research, presentation, and writing skills.(2) Participants will produce meaningful research results during their summer program. These results will be written up in a format that is acceptable for publication in an appropriate conference or journal.(3) Participants will sustain and increase their interest in research careers after their on-campus summer through continuing contacts and research participation, and delivery of a presentation on their research.(4) Participants will learn to present and disseminate their research results.The activities aimed at achieving the main objectives are integrated with student cohort activities, including site visits to cutting-edge research laboratories, seminars on career development, ethics in computer science, methods of literature search, and practical advice on questions related to graduate school. The goal is to make a lasting impact beyond the 10 weeks the students spend at the REU Site. The success of the program will be continuously evaluated through student and faculty questionnaires, and by an education professor, and this feedback will be used to improve the program in operation. The program maintains a website(http://www.cs.uh.edu/reu/) that supports the application and evaluation process and informs future, current, and past participants about deadlines and decisions, events, and achievements of the people involved in it.