REU Site: Multidisciplinary Graph Data Analytics at Georgia State University

Date: May 27, 2025 through July 18, 2025

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site on graph data analytics at Georgia State University (GSU) is an eight-week summer research program. The participants will engage in research projects on graph data analytics under faculty mentors' guidance. 

Each participant will receive

• A $5600 ($700 x 8) stipend for the eight-week duration

• Paid housing at the GSU campus (arranged by the program)

• Meals, materials costs, and a travel allowance.

Eligibility

• Being US citizens or permanent residents

• Undergraduate students in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or a related major

Program Requirements

• REU fellows must join in person every weekday during the program.

• REU fellows must attend weekly seminars and professional development events

• REU fellows must prepare and submit a written report of the work done

• REU fellows must give an oral presentation of work performed at the REU Site

• REU fellows will work at least 35 hours per week on projects and up to 5 hours per week on professional development, attending program-wide activities and other engagements

Benefits to participants

• Students will learn how to develop and use different graph machine learning (e.g., graph neural networks), graph mining (e.g., graph clustering), and statistical methods (e.g., regression), with applications to social network analysis, business networks, and bioinformatics. 

• Students will contribute to cutting-edge research and often publish and present in top venues. 

• The REU experience will expand the students' understanding of research by placing students in teams that include other undergraduate students and graduate students under the mentorship of the PIs and other faculty mentors. They will also learn about the ethical challenges inherent in machine learning and data analytics, from issues of privacy to problems emerging from machine learning applied to biased datasets. 

• With weekly meetings and seminars, they will also learn about other projects, and share their experience in their project with other students to form a cohort. 

• The participants will also be exposed to research activities in the industry through field trips and external speakers.

REU Suplemental Funding

Last Mile Education Fund offers supplemental support of up to $10,000 for undergraduate students who are women, nonbinary, and/or gender expansive participating in computing-related REUs.  You may consider to apply this funding as well. To learn more, click here.