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. The goal of this workshop is to provide a venue for students to published 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 at least one author for each submission must be an undergraduate student funded as part of the NSF REU program, either as an REU supplement or REU Site.

News

• Please find guideline for paper presentation at the workshop here.

Travel Grant

REUNS would like to encourage REU students and undergraduate students to participate in REUNS workshop by funding the travel costs of individuals who would otherwise be unable to attend the conference. We expect to fund approximately 12 to 15 travel grants, averaging 800USD to 1000USD each for domestic travel, based on availability of funds.

These travel grants are provided by the generous contributions from the National Science Foundation.

• Eligibility Requirements: Any undergraduate student that are interested in the REU research experiences may apply.
• Application Materials: To apply for a travel grant, please send the form (download it here) to reuns2017@gmail.com with the subject "REUNS 2017 Travel Grant Application."
• Important Dates:
  • Application submission deadline: January 15, 2017
  • Announcement of recipients: January 20, 2017

Registration

• Please note that at least one author of each accepted paper needs to register and present the paper at the workshop.
  
• Please find the registration information here

Conference Venue and Local Information

Please refer to the main conference ICNC for hotel and local information

Program

• The workshop technical program is in the following. You can also find a pdf version here.
  
• In this workshop, each submitted paper has received at least 3 technical reviews from the TPC. 16 papers were selected for presentation and publication, which represent research progress of 11 different REU sites. We want to thank all the student authors and REU mentors and PIs for submitting your final papers and registering for this workshop. We hope you will encourage your other REU mentors and REU students to participate in this workshop. We may expect limited partial travel support for some REU students that are not our authors yet.
  REUNS 2017 Technical Program Sunday, January 29, 2017 Grand Ballroom B, Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara, CA

  10:00am - 11:00am: Keynote Talk

  11:00am - 12:00pm: Session I

  • A Study of Single-Sided HPC Communication Paradigm Using Chameleon Bare-Metal Cluster Justin Y. Shi (Temple University); Kimberly Kosman (University of Notre Dame); Travis Evans (Louisiana Tech University); Yasin Celik (Temple University)
  • Spatial-Temporal Campus Crime Pattern Mining from Historical Alert Messages Shela Wu (New York University); John Male and Eduard Dragut (Temple University)
  • IoTOne: Integrated Platform for Heterogeneous IoT Devices Nathaniel Gyory and Mooi Choo Chuah (Lehigh University)

  12:00pm - 13:30pm: Lunch (on attendee own)

  13:30pm - 15:30pm: Session II

  • A Survey of Social-Based Routing Protocols in Delay Tolerant Networks Lauren Good (Purdue University Northwest REU & DePauw University); Jacqueline Hom (Wellesley College); Shuhui Yang (Purdue University Northwest)
  • Does Bad News Spread Faster? Anna Fang (Cornell University); Zina Ben-Miled (IUPUI)
  • A Command-level Study of Linux Kernel Bugs Yiliang Shi (University of Utah); Mai Zheng (New Mexico State University)
  • Energy-Efficient Sparse Routing Protocol for Delay Tolerant Networks Max Hastings and Shuhui Yang (Purdue University Northwest)
  • Obfuscating Function Call Topography to Test Structural Malware Detection against Evasion Attacks Andrew Choliy (Rutgers University); Feng Li and Tianchong Gao (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)
  • Investigating and Securing Communications in the Controller Area Network (CAN) Zachary King and Shucheng Yu (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
  • Applying Rating Systems to Challenge Based Cybersecurity Education Andrew Samuels (Clemson University); Feng Li (Indiana University- Purdue University Indianapolis); Connie Justice (Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI)

  15:30pm - 16:00pm: Coffee break

  16:00pm - 18:00pm: Session III

  • Personalizable Neurological User Authentication Framework Dennis Frank (Georgia Institute of Technology); Jasmine Mabrey (Norfork State Universtiy); Kenji Yoshigoe (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
  • Exploitations of Wireless Interfaces via Network Scanning Nathalie Domingo (Carnegie Mellon University); Bryan Pearson (Stetson University); Yier Jin (University of Central Florida)
  • Radio Receiver Design for Unmanned Aerial Wildlife Tracking Daniel Webber (Santa Clara University); Nathan Hui (University of Califronia, San Diego); Ryan Kastner and Curt Schurgers (University of California, San Diego)
  • Change Detection by Deep Neural Networks for Synthetic Aperture Radar Images Frank Liao (Carnegie Mellon University); Elizabeth Koshelev (Brandeis University); Malcolm Milton (Salisbury University); Yuanwei Jin(University of Maryland Eastern Shore); Enyue Lu (Salisbury University)
  • SDR Based Indoor Localization Using Ambient WiFi and GSM Signals Varun Nambiar (Georgia Institute of Technology); Edwin Vattapparamban, Ali Ihsan Yurekli and Ismail Güvenç (Florida International University); Mohammad Mozaffari and Walid Saad (Virginia Tech)
  • Wireless Mesh Networking Protocol for Sustained Throughput in Edge Computing Josiah Burchard (Southeast Missouri State University & University of Missouri); Dmitrii Chemodanov, John Gillis and Prasad Calyam (University of Missouri-Columbia)

Submission

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 5 pages. Important: At least one 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.
Submission link is here

Important Dates

• Submission deadline (extended): August 15, August 22, 2016.
• Acceptance Notification: September 20, 2016.
• Camera-ready paper: October 10, 2016.

Workshop Organizers

• Steering Committee Chair:
  • Dr. Jie Wu, Temple University
• General Chairs:
  • Dr. Shuhui Yang, Purdue University Calumet
  • Dr. Mina Guirguis, Texas State University
• Program Chairs:
  • Dr. Feng Li, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
  • Dr. Xinwen Fu, University of Massachusetts Lowell

TPC Members

• Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida,
• Mina Guirguis, Texas State University,
• Manghui Tu, Purdue University Calumet,
• Tae-Hoon Kim, Purdue University Calumet,
• Xiao Chen, Texas State University,
• Quan Yuan, UT Permian Basin,
• Kemal Akkaya, Florida International University,
• Mengjun Xie, University of Arkansas-Little Rock,
• Shuhui Yang, Purdue University Calumet,
• Mooi Choo Chuah, Lehigh University,
• Feng Li, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis,
• Xinwen Fu, University of Massachusetts Lowell,
• Huiping Cao, New Mexico State University,
• Mai Zheng, New Mexico State University,
• Hameed Badawy, New Mexico State University.

Please contact Dr. Shuhui Yang at shuhuiyang@pnw.edu if there are any questions.