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