LDOS Undergraduates

LDOS Undergraduate Reading Program

Type: Skill-Building

About: This weekly, one-hour meeting covers essential readings for LDOS research with the goal of preparing undergraduate students for LDOS research. Participants will be expected to present and lead discussions on an assigned paper. Participants will be mentored by LDOS graduate students.

Prerequisites: None

Level: Beginner

Facilitators: Donghyun Kim and Rohit Dwivedula, LDOS PhD Students

Meeting Date and Time: Mondays, 7-8 pm, see website for more details

DiRP: Software Engineering Skills for LDOS

Listed as Research Skills on the UTCS DiRP website

Type: Skill-Building

About: This is the weekly meeting for the Research Skills DiRP group, in partnership with the LDOS Expedition, to help students build engineering skills for research. In this group, students will build familiarity with Python scripting, Linux tools, data analysis, conducting experiments, version control, and effective use of AI tools. Graduate students and researchers from LDOS will assist the students during the 1-hour tutorial.

Prerequisites: Willingness to learn, some Python would be useful (recommended)

Level: Beginner

Facilitator: Aryan Khatri, LDOS Undergraduate Researcher

Meeting Date and Time: Fridays, 4-5pm in Fall 2025

Service Committee Membership Opportunities

Type: Volunteer

About: Undergraduate students are invited to contribute to the LDOS Expedition by serving on project service committees. These committees support different aspects of the research enterprise - from education and outreach to communications, operations, and events. Participation offers students the chance to build professional skills, gain insight into the inner workings of a large-scale research project, and make meaningful contributions. Committee membership is recognized as academic service and can be included on a CV.

Current committees include: 

• Symposium Volunteers Group: Supports planning and on-site logistics for the annual LDOS Symposium on November 3-4, 2025

• K–8 Outreach Working Group: Designs and delivers engaging activities for elementary and middle school students

• High School and Undergraduate Academies Working Group: Helps build research academies and learning experiences for secondary and undergraduate students

• Communications Team: Assists with newsletters, website content, and social media outreach

• Impact Tracking Team: Collects and organizes data to measure the reach and effectiveness of LDOS research and programs

Prerequisites: None

Level: Beginner

Facilitator: Varies, depending on committee

Meeting Date and Time: Varies, depending on committee

Clean-Slate Engineering Support Team

Type: Volunteer

About: We are looking for volunteer undergraduates interested in helping to write an operating system in Rust for an ML-driven OS. We need a small team to handle engineering tasks supporting the project. This includes infrastructure tasks, such as build systems and CI, as well as actual operating system development. You will have the opportunity to learn about the internals of a new OS and how such a system is developed practically. Also, you will gain experience working on a project with high coding and documentation standards. Finally, you will be working on a project with significant connections to industry through the sponsors and researchers involved.

Prerequisites: We are interested in people with experience in at least one of the following:

• Build systems (Cargo and make) and CI

• Operating system development and concurrent programming

• Virtual machines (QEMU, KVM, etc.)

• Rust development, including reading and documenting code

Level: We don't expect you will have deep experience or even knowledge in every area, simply that you are interested and motivated to learn what's needed to complete the work.

Team Lead: Arthur Peters, LDOS Research Systems Engineer

Applications: Applications are currently closed. Please return at the beginning of the semester.

LDOS Metrics & Impact Team

Type: Volunteer

About: A group of student volunteers dedicated to tracking and communicating the reach of the Learning Directed Operating System Expedition’s research and outreach. The team monitors citation metrics, education participation, website and social media engagement, and IRB-related assessment for outreach activities. They create interactive dashboards to share these insights, providing a clear, data-driven view of the Expedition’s impact.

Prerequisites: Experience handling data and creating data visualizations and dashboards

Team Lead: Hollie Gardner, LDOS Assistant Director of Operations

Meeting Date and Time: Wednesday, 1:30pm in Fall 2025

Website: https://sites.google.com/utexas.edu/ldosmetrics/home