Indiana University - SROC
I accepted the oppurtunitty to participate in an undergraduate research program at Indiana University in 2015. IU-SROC (Summer Research Opportunities in Computing) is a ten-week summer research program in the School of Informatics and Computing designed to attract high potential minority and majority students into graduate school in the fields of computer science, bioinformatics, human centered computing, computer vision, health informatics, security, cloud computing, Interactive Intelligent Systems, text mining and high performance computing.
Professional Development
I investigated and programmed classical feed forward artificial neural networks in Python with guidance of Dr. David Crandall and one of his PhD students, Stephen Lee. I implemented my program on two well-known data sets. Finally, I created a research poster and presented at the program’s research symposium.
Weekly meeting where professionals came to give lectures or seminars. We also worked on elevator speeches, writing and presentation techniques, and got poster critiques.
Social Activities
Social activities ranged from a program wide trip to social dinners with mentors and progam staff to indivdually planned outtings by groups within the SROC cohort.
GRE Prep
This two day per week class for lasted the duration of the SROC program. The class was broken up into two halves - the first for quantitative analysis and second verbal resoning and writing - taught by separate teachers and required each student report scores of the 3 scheduled practice tests taken outside of class.