UGVR项目是Stanfor工学院和清华大学、北京大学、中国科学技术大学、台湾大学这四校联合的选拔优秀大三本科生，在大三大四之间暑假去Stanfor在该校教授指导下进行十周的正规学术科研工作。UGVR项目往年参加者申请结果都非常出色，已经逐渐成为Stanfor PhD的“学术保送夏令营”。而还有将近一个多月的时间UGVR项目2020年的教授名单就将发布。
小编就带大家回顾一下19年的教授项目。
Professor’s Name Russ B Altman
Department
Bioengineering
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?)
Ientify useful biomarkers that explain rug response. We are intereste in working with publicly available structural an expression ata, as well as protein-protein interaction networks to create methos to generate new ways to escribe an unerstan rug response. This may involve statistical methos an machine learning. Our work is summarize at: http://helix.stanfor.eu
Desire Skills & Backgroun
Bioinformatics, computer science an biology. Statistics woul be useful as well.
Woul you like to conuct a phone interview with the stuents?
Yes
新老师，计算生物学结合机器学习
Professor’s Name Zhenan Bao
Department
Chemical Engineering
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?)
Organic semiconuctor synthesis an characterization
Desire Skills & Backgroun
Organic synthesis, polymer synthesis, material characterization
Woul you like to conuct a phone interview with the stuents?
No
偏高分子，柔性电子器件
Professor’s Name Matteo Cargnello
Department
Chemical Engineering
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?) Synthesis an characterization of nanostructure materials for catalytic applications, such as methane oxiation, carbon ioxie reuction, nitrogen reuction. The stuent will be paire to a grauate stuent in the group, an be responsible for several tasks such as preparation of materials, preliminary characterization using share facilities, an catalytic testing involving gas-phase reactions.
Desire Skills & Backgroun
Knowlege of chemistry (necessary) an knowlege of chemical kinetics (esire); esire backgroun in catalysis an/or inorganic materials synthesis
Woul you like to conuct a phone interview with the stuents? Preferably
偏化工，纳米催化材料
Professor’s Name Reinhol Dauskart
Department
Materials Science an Engineering
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?)
Project 1: Nanomaterial Thin Films for Emerging Technologies - project will involve stuies of the evice performance an thermomechanical properties incluing ahesion an cohesive strength of new classes of hybri organic-inorganic material films for projects that may inclue batteries, photovoltaics or other emerging evice technologies.
Project 2: Barrier an Biomechanical Function of Human Skin an Relationship to Perception – project involves the effects of treatments an exposures to human skin, the iffusion of treatment an water molecules through the stratum corneum, along with resulting changes to biomechanical function an human perception.
Desire Skills & Backgroun
Materials, Physics or Chemistry backgroun with experimental or computational moeling aptitue.
Woul you like to conuct a phone interview with some or all of the applicants?
No.
偏薄膜材料
Professor’s Name Chuck Eesley
Department
Management Science an Engineering
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?)
My focus is on better unerstaning technology-base entrepreneurship using empirical, quantitative ata. My lab group examines entrepreneurship in China an the US using moern “big ata” methos of regression, natural language processing an machine learning. We examine the eterminants of entrepreneurship, funraising an performance at the policy, university, firm an iniviual levels. In recent projects we have use ata from Alibaba, Tsinghua University alumni, Stanfor University alumni, Welian, an Glassoor.com
Desire Skills & Backgroun
Statistics, economics, automation, CS, multivariate regression, panel ata, topic moeling, machine learning, ata manipulation, web scraping, natural language processing, R, STATA
Woul you like to conuct a phone interview with some or all of the applicants?
Yes
管理类固定教授，课题主要是创业创新
Professor’s Name Ronal Fekiw
Department
Computer Science
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?)
Our lab’s main goal is to generate better special effects for Hollywoo films. Currently we are working on improving simulate cloth an face by learning from ata. The stuent will be involve in builing algorithms for etaile 3D reconstruction of garments, applying eep learning moels to enhance simulation, an aressing challenges for practical applications such as virtual fitting. Most of the prior stuents in this program with our lab ha goo experience with us an are currently PhD stuents at top schools like Stanfor, Berkeley, MIT, etc.
Desire Skills & Backgroun
Professional programming skills in C/C++, Python, an Linux/Winows environments. Sufficient backgroun in computer science, especially computer graphics, computer vision, an machine learning, numerical methos, an physics.
Woul you like to conuct a phone interview with some or all of the applicants?
Yes
计算机图形学
Professor’s Name Weny Gu
Department
Mechanical Engineering
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?)
Research assistant in experimental nano-mechanics to evelop stronger, tougher, lightweight an multifunctional materials. Preparation of metal, ceramic or composite nanostructures using chemical synthesis, lithographic techniques or aitive manufacturing. Mechanical testing an analysis using techniques such as nanoinentation, an in-situ electron microscope uniaxial testing. The unergrauate research will work closely with a grauate stuent or postoc in my group to perform structural an mechanical analysis.
Desire Skills & Backgroun
Mechanical behavior of materials, crystallography, nanotechnology, previous experimental experience.
Woul you like to conuct a phone interview with some or all of the applicants?
Yes
Professor’s Name James Lanay
Department
Computer Science
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?)
The Smart Primer is an interactive, narrative-base tutor that combines some of the best features of both physical- an electronic-base learning methos. Our goal is to eventually buil a smart an aaptive tablet-base system in which the story an tasks aapt to the user’s skill set an preferences.
Desire Skills & Backgroun We woul like stuents to have a strong technical backgroun in computer science, have a goo sense of esign, an be passionate about builing systems.
In particular, we woul like stuents to be proficient in Anroi Programming (Java), Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTTP server, atabase, Linux, shell scripting, multi-threa programming, socket programming. Familiarity with clou services such as AWS or Google Clou woul be a plus.
Woul you like to conuct a phone interview with some or all of the applicants?
Yes
偏人机交互
Professor’s Name Tengyu Ma
Department
Computer Science
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?) We woul like to recruit a stuent working on applying reinforcement learning techniques to builing task-oriente ialogue systems.
Desire Skills & Backgroun
--- Strong coing skills
--- Goo unerstaning of eep reinforcement learning algorithms
--- Basic knowlege of natural language processing
Woul you prefer an interview with the stuents?
Yes
新学院大牛，增强学习结果NLP
Professor’s Name Lei Qi
Department
Bioengineering
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?)
The UGVR stuent will work on a multi-interisciplinary project to combiig synthetic biology, genetic engineering, an synthetic cell esign. During the summer intern, the stuent will receive training from a senior gra stuent/postoc mentor on molecular biology, CRISPR, an genetic circuit engineering. Then the stuent will apply these skills an creatively generate synthetic circuits to improve engineere cell function towars protein prouction/secretion. The stuent will also work at the interface between another electrical engineering lab to combine bioengineering with electronics. The expecte outcome will be publishe results on a high-impact journal, which will ensure the stuents’ co-authorship on a paper.
Desire Skills & Backgroun
The stuent shoul have a soli backgroun in college-level biology, physics, chemistry, an ecent knowlege in computer programming. A goo unerstaning of bioengineering an synthetic biology is preferre. The stuent shoul have goo communication skills in English, easy to work with, an remain motivate towars accomplishing the research goals.
We value lab expertise an skills incluing molecular cloning, bioinformatics, an protein engineering. Previous experience in a research laboratory or an inepenent research project will be a plus. No particular requirements for the majors, but a mix of relate (see above project escription) expertise an strong interest in research will be the basis of a successful summer internship.
Woul you like to conuct a phone interview with some or all of the applicants?
Yes
免疫学基因工程
Professor’s Name Priyanka Raina
Department
Electrical Engineering
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?)
Various harware accelerators have been propose to improve the throughout an energy efficiency of DNNs or image processing pipelines. However, given the fact that real worl applications ten to involve both types of kernels, it becomes critical to jointly perform harware implementations an optimizations for both DNNs an image processing kernels. The goal of this project is to evelop a framework that can generate harware mappings for hybri pipelines from a Domain Specific Language Halie. For more information please see the Stanfor Agile Harware website: https://aha.stanfor.eu an https://github.com/StanforAHA
Desire Skills & Backgroun
Taken courses in igital VLSI esign an computer architecture an has use Verilog to escribe a circuit. Some application level experience for example through courses or projects in machine learning, computer vision or image processing.
Woul you like to conuct a phone interview with some or all of the applicants?
Yes
机器学习和体系构架结合
Professor’s Name Juan Santiago
Department
Mechanical Engineering
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?) Buil an test a microfluiic evice for extracting DNA an stuying chemical reactions using electric fiels. This project involves both experimental an numerical approaches to characterize microfluiic mixing achieve using the aforementione technique.
Desire Skills & Backgroun
Experience with PDMS/microfluiic evice fabrication, (an/or) numerical simulations using Matlab or other commercial software such as Comsol, Ansys Fluent, etc.
Goo English communication skills.
Woul you prefer an interview with the stuents?
Yes
新老师，微流控，BioMEMS
Professor’s Name Silvio Savarese
Department
Computer Science
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?) Collaborating with senior PhD stuents in the SVL Lab, the visiting stuent will work on computer vision an eep learning algorithms for task-oriente grasping.
The stuent will esign a simple an general moel for robotic grasp preiction in the 3D space. The moel takes partially observe images an point clous as input an preicts positions an orientations for the robot’s gripper to grasp the object. Both simulate an real-worl robot experiments will be performe to collect ata an train the moel. Several potential research irections can be explore:
- Data-efficient reinforcement learning algorithms for grasping an manipulation with visual inputs.
- Feature representations for robotic grasping.
- Sim-to-real transfer learning for grasping an manipulation.
Desire Skills & Backgroun
- A strong backgroun in computer vision an eep learning.
- High ability an motivation for inepenent stuy.
- Experience in reinforcement learning or robotic control woul be a plus but is not require.
Woul you prefer an interview with the stuents?
Yes
增强学习和计算机视觉
Professor’s Name William Tarpeh
Department
Chemical Engineering
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?) Electrochemical resource recovery from wastewater. Either:
- Electrochemical ammonia isinfectant prouction
- Electrochemical nitrogen sensors for contaminate water
Desire Skills & Backgroun
Stuent in chemical engineering or environmental engineering preferre. Desire skills: electrochemistry, analysis of inorganic species in environmental water samples. Other valuable skills: mass spectrometry for organic compouns in environmental water samples
Woul you prefer an interview with the stuents?
Yes
新老师，偏电化学和环境应用
Professor’s Name Bo Wang
Department
Bioengineering
UGVR Position Description (e.g. what is the type of project you have in min for the stuent?) Perform computational single-cell transcriptomic analysis on the cell atlas of a regenerative animal, the planarian. Perform molecular biology experiments to valiate gene expression patterns in the animals an stuy cell type classification an functions.
Desire Skills & Backgroun
Computational skills (primarily python), basic knowlege in molecular biology, genetics, an statistics.
Woul you prefer an interview with the stuents?
Yes
UGVR项目每年仅提供18个申请名额，入选学生可在斯坦福工学院教授实验室进行为期10周的暑期研究项目，科研领域涉及材料科学与工程、计算机科学、航空航天工程、机械工程、生物工程等。申请竞争非常激烈。
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