The Seventh National Workshop for REU Research in Networking and Systems (REUNS 2021)

Virtual Conference Workshop, October 7, 2021

Co-located with the 18th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems Conference (IEEE MASS)

Scope

• Undergraduate research plays an important role in attracting our best undergraduates to continue towards graduate education in the science and engineering fields. Publishing research in a professional venue is part of the training for future researchers. The National Science Foundation (NSF) provides support for undergraduate research within the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. This workshop provides a venue for students to publish their research done as part of the REU program.

• The workshop seeks original submissions in research areas that are currently funded by the NSF's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). The key requirement for this workshop is that the submission’s lead author must be an undergraduate student funded as part of the NSF REU program, either as an REU supplement or REU Site.

Submission

• Paper contributions: All submissions should be written in English and using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: single-spaced, double-column pages using 10pt size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, with side-margin at least 1 inch, including all figures, tables, and references. Regular submissions are restricted to 6 pages. Important: At least the lead author from each submission must be an undergraduate student funded as part of the NSF REU program, either as an REU supplement or REU Site.

• Poster contributions: 2-page extended abstract following the same format/instructions as paper contributions . Please use the [Poster] prefix in the title for poster abstract submission. Accepted extended abstract will be charged at the same rate as paper contributions.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: Monday July 12 / 2021 11:59PM AoE July 7 / 2021

• Notification of Acceptance: July 24 / 2021 July 15 / 2021,

• Camera-ready Version: July 31 / 2021

Keynote Speakers

• Dr. Rebecca Shearman - NSF CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program Director

• Dr. Jeffrey Forbes - NSF CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program Director

Workshop Organizers

Steering Committee

• • • • • • • • • Jie Wu, Temple University

Organizing Committee

• • • • • • • • • N. Sertac Artan, New York Institute of Technology

                • Alfredo J. Perez, Columbus State University

                • Shuhui Yang, Purdue University Northwest

Program Committee

• Mengjun Xie, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

• Prasad Calyam, University of Missouri

• David Kaeli, Northeastern University

• Ashwin Ashok, Georgia State University

• Tae-Hoon Kim, Purdue University Northwest

• Enyue Lu, Salisbury Univesity

• Lazaros Gallos, Rutgers University

• Mai Zheng, Iowa State University

• Xiao Chen, Texas State University

Workshop Program - Oct 7 / 2021 . Time of presentations is in EST.

14:30 Pyrenote: a Web-based, Manual Annotation Tool for Passive Acoustic Monitoring

Sean Perry (UC San Diego), Vaibhav Tiwari (UC San Diego), Nishant Balaji (UC San Diego), Erika Joun (UC San Diego), Jacob Ayers (UC San Diego), Mathias Tobler (San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance), Ian Ingram (San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance), Ryan Kastner (UC San Diego), and Curt Schurgers (UC San Diego)

14:55 Improvements to Worker Assignment in Bike Sharing Systems

Trent Johnson (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Jie Wu (Temple University)

15:20 WiFi-based Contactless Gesture Recognition Using Lightweight CNN

Keegan Kresge (Rochester Institute of Technology), Sophia Martino (Lehigh University), Tianming Zhao (Temple University), and Yan Wang (Temple University)

15:45 Safety Challenges and Solutions in Bike-Sharing Systems

Anne Kealy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), and Jie Wu (Temple University)

16:10 Once You Enter, You Can’t Go Back: The Impacts of Joining a Hateful Subreddit

Kaitlyn Ko (University of Chicago), Keith Burghardt (University of Southern California), and Goran Muric (University of Southern California)

16:35 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Shearman (CISE REU Program Director, US National Science Foundation) and Dr. Jeffrey Forbes (CISE REU Program Director, US National Science Foundation)

17:03 Woolery: Toward Semantic Annotation of Structured Documents with FrameNet

Chloe Eggleston (University of Massachusetts Amherst), and Jeremy Abramson (University of Southern California)

17:18 Toxic Comment Detection: Analyzing the Combination of Text and Emojis

Michael Aquino (NY Institute of Technology), Yasiris Ortiz (The City College of NY), Arif Rashid, Anne M. Tumlin (University of South Carolina), N. Sertac Artan (NY Institute of Technology), Ziqian Dong (NY Institute of Technology), and Huanying Gu (NY Institute of Technology)

17:33 Platform for Comparative Study of Focus and Retention in Virtual Reality and Online Learning

Michael Macesker (Southern Conneticut State University), Rachel Morrow (Wesleyan University), Guang Wei Too (NY Institute of Technology), N. Sertac Artan (NY Institute of Technology), Ziqian Dong (NY Institute of Technology), and Huanying Gu (NY Institute of Technology)

17:48 Analyzing Race and Citizenship Bias in Wikidata

Zaina Shaik (University of Southern California), Filip Ilievski (University of Southern California), and Fred Morstatter (University of Southern California)

18:03 Pictures as a Form of Protest: A Survey and Analysis of Images Posted During the Stop Asian Hate Movement on Twitter

Oliver Allen (Indiana University), Emily Chen (University of Southern California), and Emilio Ferrara (University of Southern California)

18:18 A Vehicular Visible Light Communication Testbed Platform for Research and Teaching

Jarred Cain (Georgia State University), Kehinde Adedara (Georgia State University), and Ashwin Ashok (Georgia State University)