Undergraduate Research Awards

AISC 2021 Research Award Recipients

There were 7 undergraduate research presentations given at this year's conference. All 7 presentations were scored by a panel of judges, the scores were averaged, and the top 3 highest scoring presentations were recognized. Congratulations to all of the presenters on your hard work; please join us in celebrating the top 3 undergraduate research presentations below:


  1. Joia Zhang (University of Washington)

Nathaniel Mersy (St Olaf College)

Research Mentors: Dr. Sat Gupta- UNC Greensboro and Dr. Sadia Khalil- Lahore College for Women University

Mitigating Lack of Trust in Quantitative Randomized Response Techniques Models

  1. Maxwell Lovig – University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Research Mentor: Dr. Jon Williams- NC State University

Using Conformal Predictions and BERT to Better Automate Part-of-Speech Tagging and Redacted Word Prediction

  1. Grace Rhodes – Mount Holyoke College

Research Mentor: Dr. Jianping Sun- UNC Greensboro

Markov Chain Composite Likelihood and Its Application in Recombination Model