June 2, 2026

We had our last meeting of the academic year featuring awards, lab photo (sadly missing some people), a game of Wavelength. 

Our award winners for 2026

MVP - Milena Guidotti

MIP (Most Improved Player) - Judi Huang

RotY (Rookie of the Year) -Siya Madan 

Lifetime Achievement Award - Matt Dimandaal (our first ever 4 year BEDLabber, but class conflict this quarter so not pictured)

We also received advice from some of our graduating lab members. Best of luck on your future endeavors to Milena Guidotti, Arini Derrick, Melina Shafie, Oscar Guo, Celine Korfali, Alberto Campos, Matthew Dimandaal, Jasmine Hanna, Ruby Romero, Isaac Solnick, Jack Stone, Kathiroli Vasu, and Krishna Vijayendra. You're always welcome back in BEDLab meetings whenever you're in town, and even better, you can always present on how you've used been using your BEDLab skills in "real life."

June 1, 2026

Milena's research presentation was selected as the best poster from the School of Business at the 20th annual UCR Undergrad Research Symposium! Milena even received a cash award for this accomplishment (which was news to us... good work is its own reward). There was a celebratory lunch today where students got to share their experiences and obstacles in their research journeys.

April 24, 2026

Milena's research presentation was selected as the best poster from the School of Business at the 20th annual UCR Undergrad Research Symposium! Milena will receive a small award for this accomplishment.

October 2, 2025

BEDLab kicked off the 2025-26 academic year with a massive influx of new members. Whether through the Undergrad Research Portal, BEDLab website, or word of mouth, 32 people applied for the lab this year. Although some have since dropped out (I encourage students to stay only if they find the lab meetings enjoyable) and some people have schedule conflicts each quarter, here's to making the year a great one! 

(This picture was actually taken in April. Milena was practicing her poster.)

June 12, 2025

We celebrated our last meeting of the academic year with a mini party featuring awards, lab photo (sadly missing many people), some light board games, snacks, and delicious pizza from UPC.

MVP (Overall, cross-project impact on research quality and lab culture) - Iva Mihajlovic

Research Star - Marah Salloum

MIP (Most Improved Player) - Win Thant Tin Han

RotY (Rookie of the Year) - Milena Guidotti

Lifetime Achievement Award - Haoyang (Sam) Fan

AotY (Analyst of the Year) - Julian Lu

Insight Amplifier Award (best contributions to discussions) - Raghav Rapaka

We also bid a fond farewell to graduating lab members: Soumya Agarwal, Keerthi Chidella, Jhanvi Dyavarshetty, Haoyang (Sam) Fan, Win Thant Tin Han, Julian Lu, Chandrahaas Mariserla, Iva Mihajlovic, Victor Nguyen, Marah Salloum, Arshleen Toor, Sean Veve. You're always welcome back in BEDLab meetings whenever you're in town, and even better, you can always present on how you've used been using your BEDLab skills in "real life."

P.S. Thanks to Iva and Marah, BEDLab now has a mascot, Bo the BEDLab bear!

June 6, 2025

After three rounds of reviews, Marah's paper based on her Honors Capstone made it into this year's UCR Undergraduate Research Journal. The official journal unveiling was today and there was a little party for it. Here's a link to the paper: Anxiety Effects on Decision Making with College Students

June 5, 2025

Professor Li had the honor of "cording" Marah and Win at today's Honors Convocation. It was like a mini-graduation for the Honors Program students to commemorate the end of two years of hard work on their capstones. There was even a weirdly long magic show from a UCR alum...

May 28, 2025

Professor Li received the UCR Academy of Distinguished Teaching's Innovative Teaching Award for 2025. XCITE made a video about this here.

May 13, 2025

Win's research presentation was selected as the best in the Bourns College of Engineering! In recognition of this honor, Win and Prof Li were invited to join the Vice Provost and Dean, Louie Rodriguez, and the Center for Undergraduate Research & Engaged Learning (CUREL) team for a celebration luncheon.

May 1, 2025

At this year's Western Psychological Association in Las Vegas, Iva and Marah presented posters. They did a great job representing BEDLab at WPA!

• Marah presented poster on Anxiety Effects on College Student Decision Making

• Iva presented poster on From Candy to Carrots: Can Health-Promoting Tags Lead to Choosing What's "Better For You?" (same poster as before)

April 22-25, 2025

At this year's Undergrad Research Symposium, we had three presenters and Prof Li also served as a poster judge. All three presenters did great and they got lots of questions from attendees.

• Marah presented talk on Anxiety Effects on College Student Decision Making

• Win presented talked on Decision-Making Traits and the Utilization of Generative AI in Higher Education (failed to get a photo of this)

• Iva presented poster on From Candy to Carrots: Can Health-Promoting Tags Lead to Choosing What's "Better For You?"