NSF REU Site in Sensing and Smart Systems
Florida Atlantic University's Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering
(I-SENSE)
hosts an intensive summer research program in sensing and smart systems for talented undergraduate students across the country.
Closely related to the Internet of Things, smart systems represent an emerging class of distributed systems that provide real-time awareness of conditions, trends, and patterns to support improved decision-making, and often, automation. The on-campus research will focus on I-SENSE's three main program areas: Infrastructure Systems, Marine and Environment and Health and Behavior.
YOUR FLORIDA EXPERIENCE
- This paid, nine-week program focuses on training, mentoring, research and an overall experience for students that prepares them for graduate studies or careers in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) disciplines.
- Participants will typically work from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, with one hour for lunch.
- Undergraduate researchers are paid a stipend of $600/week along with a $130 meal allowance, also per week.
- Participants will be housed in apartment-style dormitories on Florida Atlantic's Boca Raton campus, just three miles from the beach.
Summer 2024 – Final Research Presentations
- Infrastructure Systems: Smart, Resilient, and Green Energy Systems Led by Yufei Tang, Ph.D.
- Infrastructure Systems: Human-in-the-loop Digital Twins for Smart Cities Led by Jinwoo Jang, Ph.D.
- Infrastructure Systems: Machine Learning Techniques for Energy Forecasting and Optimization Led by Zhen Ni, Ph.D.
- Marine and Environment: The Internet of Floating Things Led by Georgios Sklivanitis, Ph.D.
- Marine and Environment: Development and Testing of a Wave Powered Offshore Sensing System Led by James VanZwieten, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Next-Gen Health Monitoring Empowered by Python Programming and Deep Learning Applications Led by Behnaz Ghoraani, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Soft Sensors and Actuators for Wearables to Assist People with Disabilities Led by Erik Engeberg, Ph.D.
- Modern Cybersecurity in IoT Devices Led by Reza Azarderakhsh, Ph.D.
2023 PROJECTS
- Infrastructure Systems: Artificial Intelligence for Smart Cities Led by Jinwoo Jang, Ph.D.
- Infrastructure Systems: Smart and Resilient Energy Systems Led by Yufei Tang, Ph.D.
- Infrastructure Systems: Modern Cybersecurity in IoT Devices Led by Reza Azarderakhsh, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Deep Learning for Biomedical Health Data Led by Behnaz Ghoraani, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Deep Learning for Unstructured Data Analytics and Mining Led by Xingquan Zhu, Ph.D.
- Marine and Environment: Cognitive Wireless Radios for Maritime Robotics Led by Georgios Sklivanitis, Ph.D.
2022 PROJECTS
There are 5 research projects planned for this summer. See which projects you're interested in.
- Infrastructure Systems: Mobility Sensing and Analytics for Smart Cities Led by Jason O. Hallstrom, Ph.D. and Jiannan Zhai, Ph.D.
- Infrastructure Systems: Smart and Resilient Energy Systems Led by Yufei Tang, Ph.D.
- Marine and Environment: Cognitive Wireless Radios for Maritime Robotics Led by Georgios Sklivanitis, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Soft Sensors and Actuators for Wearables to Assist People with Disabilities Led by Erik Engeberg, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Deep Learning for Biomedical Health Data Led by Behnaz Ghoraani, Ph.D.
2021 PROJECTS
There are 5 research projects planned for this summer. See which projects you're interested in.
- Infrastructure Systems: Mobility Sensing and Analytics for Smart Cities Led by Jason O. Hallstrom, Ph.D. and Dr. Zhai
- Infrastructure Systems: Smart and Resilient Energy Systems Led by Yufei Tang, Ph.D.
- Marine and Environment: Cognitive Wireless Radios for Maritime Robotics Led by Georgios Sklivanitis, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Soft Sensors and Actuators for Wearables to Assist People with Disabilities Led by Erik Engeberg, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Wearable Sensors and Data Analytics for Therapeutic Management Led by Behnaz Ghoraani, Ph.D.
2020 PROJECTS
There are 6 research projects planned for this summer. See which projects you're interested in.
- Infrastructure Systems: Mobility Sensing and Analytics for Smart Cities Led by Jason O. Hallstrom, Ph.D. and Dr. Zhai
- 2 Infrastructure Systems: Smart and Resilient Energy Systems Led by Yufei Tang, Ph.D.
- Marine and Environment: Cognitive Wireless Radios for Maritime Robotics Led by Georgios Sklivanitis, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Soft Sensors and Actuators for Wearables to Assist People with Disabilities Led by Erik Engeberg, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Wearable Sensors and Data Analytics for Therapeutic Management Led by Behnaz Ghoraani, Ph.D.
2019 PROJECTS
There are 12 research projects planned for this summer. See which projects you're interested in.
- Infrastructure Systems: Battery-Free Leak Monitoring Led by Jason O. Hallstrom, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Detecting Emotion in Multi-Party Conversations Led by Jason O. Hallstrom, Ph.D.
- Infrastructure Systems: Adaptive Traffic Control Led by Aleksandar Stevanovic, Ph.D.
- Infrastructure Systems: Smart and Connected Cities Led by Jinwoo Jang, Ph.D.
- Network the Oceans: Cognitive Reconfigurable Radio Architectures for Connected Autonomous Maritime Vehicles Led by George Sklivanitis, Ph.D.
- Cross Cutting: Evolving Adaptive Neural Systems Led by Yufei Tang, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Identifying Stages of Lung Cancer through Image Classification using Deep Learning Techniques Led by Borivoje (Borko) Furht, Ph.D.
- Marine and Environment: Robust Co-Prime Sensing with Underwater Inflatable Passive Sonar Arrays Led by Bing Ouyang, Ph.D.
- Marine and Environment: Developing Inexpensive Sediment Oxygen Utilization Measurement Chambers Led by Jordon Beckler, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Prosthetic Hand Design and Control Led by Erik Engeberg, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Monitoring Interactions in Therapeutic Relationships Led by Paul Peluso, Ph.D.
- Health and Behavior: Characterizing Human Motor-Cognitive Performance Through Data Analysis and Machine Learning Led by Behnaz Ghoraani, Ph.D.
2018 PROJECTS
There were nine research projects completed in 2018.
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Cross-Cutting: IoT Security
REU Mentor: Reza Azarderakhsh, Ph.D.
REU Scholar: Nikolas Bussey -
Health and Behavior: Detecting Emotion in Multi-Party Conversations
REU Mentors: Jason Hallstrom, Ph.D. and Paul Peluso, Ph.D.
REU Scholars: Jacob Belga, Hannah Gibilisco and Serena Walker Jean -
Health and Behavior: Robotic Prosthetics
REU Mentor: Erik Engeberg, Ph.D.
REU Scholar: Wen-Yu (Marty) Cheng -
Infrastructure Systems: Adaptive Traffic Control
REU Mentor: Aleks Stevanovic, Ph.D.
REU Scholar: Forest Elliott -
Infrastructure Systems: Data Analytics for Vehicle-based Mobile Sensing Data
REU Mentor: Jinwoo Jang, Ph.D.
REU Scholar: Jordan Miller -
Infrastructure Systems: Data Embedding in Digital Media
REU Mentor: Dimitris Pados, Ph.D.
REU Scholar: Connor Weeks -
Infrastructure Systems: Smart Energy Systems
REU Mentor: Yufei Tang, Ph.D.
REU Scholar: Sean Passmore -
Marine and Environment: Robust Co-Prime Sensing with Underwater Inflatable Passive Sonar Arrays
REU Mentor: Bing Ouyang, Ph.D.
REU Scholar: Jordan Thomas -
Marine and Environment: Geochemical Sensing
REU Mentor: Jordon Beckler, Ph.D.
REU Scholar: Zachary Wilhelm
2017 PROJECTS
There were 11 research projects completed in 2017.
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Cross-Cutting: IoT Security
Mentor: Reza Azarderakhsh, Ph.D.
Student: Braxton McLean -
Health and Behavior: Monitoring Interactions in Therapeutic Relationships
Mentor: Paul Peluso, Ph.D.
Student: Kirielle Singarajah -
Health and Behavior: Analysis of Cardiac Signals Related to Atrial Arrhythmia
Mentor: Behnaz Ghoraani, Ph.D.
Student: Kelly Nguyen -
Health and Behavior: Identifying Human Emotion through Computer Analysis
Mentor: Jason O. Hallstrom, Ph.D.
Students: Jacob Belga and Emmanuel Damour -
Health and Behavior: Robotic Prosthetics
Mentor: Erik Engeberg, Ph.D.
Student: Michael Bornstein -
Infrastructure Systems: Adaptive Traffic Control
Mentor: Aleksandar Stevanovic, Ph.D.
Student: Oghenekaro Durojaiye -
Infrastructure Systems: Smart Grid Control and Optimization
Mentor: Yufei Tang, Ph.D.
Student: Michael Aiudi -
Infrastructure Systems: Violence Detection in Surveillance Scenes
Mentor: Borivoje (Borko) Furht, Ph.D.
Student: Whitney Angelica Andrews -
Marine and Environment: Comprehensive Sensing
Mentor: Bing Ouyang, Ph.D.
Student: Benjamin Maltbie -
Marine and Environment: Effective Communication and Inductive Charging for Ocean Swarm Robotic
Mentor: Jason Hallstrom, Ph.D.
Student: Paul Scarpinato -
Marine and Environment: Ocean Current Analysis
Mentor: Laurent Cherubin, Ph.D.
Student: Richard Peterson
HOW TO APPLY
Check back soon for 2025 REU dates to be announced.
IMPORTANT DATES
Dates to be announced.
ELIGIBILITY
- Undergraduate students majoring in science or engineering.
- U.S. Citizen or permanent resident.
- Minorities and women are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Selections will be based on a combination of research interests, academic qualifications, and faculty recommendations.
FUNDING
Florida Atlantic’s REU in Sensing and Smart Systems is supported through National Science Foundation award #CNS-1950400.
CONTACT
For additional information please contact Yufei Tang at (561)297-4981 or Yami Triana at (561)297-2886 or email isense.reu@gmail.com.
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