Undergraduate Summer Research Program
Undergraduate Summer Research Program
Every summer, members of the NYU-Poly faculty open up their labs to allow NYU-Poly, NYU CAS and NYU Abu Dhabi undergraduates 10 weeks of hands-on research under faculty mentorship. Students work full time in the lab with their faculty mentors on their research topics and also participate in weekly seminars presented by distinguished NYU-Poly faculty. In addition, bi-weekly lunches where students can present research to non-specialists and think cross-disciplines are held as well as special presentations on applying for graduate school complete with resume and statement of purpose critiques. At the end of the program, abstracts of the research are published and presented at the New Student Convocation. Abstracts from previous years' programs are available below in PDF format.
The Summer Research Program was initiated in 2007 by the Office of the Provost. Its success has been made possible by the financial support from the Institute’s most loyal and generous donors as well as supplements from the research grants of the mentoring faculty. In total, 164 students and 102 faculty have been involved in the Summer Research Program since its inception.
Application Process
The Undergraduate Summer Research program is open to all NYU-Poly Undergraduates who have completed at least 32 credits of coursework with a GPA of 3.2 or above. In April of the spring semester, faculty will publish their research projects and any special requirements their student researcher must have (i.e. lab experience or specific coursework). Students then fill out the application, including a short statement of intent, and may apply for up to three different projects if they so choose. The researching faculty then review applications and select the student researcher that best fits their researching needs. Selected students will work full time (35 hours per week) on an hourly, paid basis on one project.
2011 Program: June 13th to August 19th, 2011
Read more about this year's program!
Our 2011 Research Team
Students: Koswar Ahmed (EE/CS), Mohamed Abo Ali (BMS), Sarah Allen (CompE), Matthew Lopez Arroz (CBE), Griswald Brooks (CompE), Brian Cairl (ME), Kevin Chen (ME), Lan Duong (NYU-AD), Arthur Dysart (CBE), Michael Hagan (NYU CAS), Kazi Yasin Helal (CBE), Kevin Hischier (ME), Jarred Humphrey (CompE), Michael Hunyh (CompE), Radu Illescu (BMS), Nida Jabbar (BMS), Hyeeun Jeong (NYU CAS), Andrew Karas (CBE), Daniel Kimani (NYU-AD), Supatra Lee (NYU-AD), Quianli Liao (CS), Ara Mangoyan (CS), Sophia Mercurio (CivilE), Lawrence Ng (CompE), Vivian Park (NYU CAS), Daniella Patrick (ME), Melissa Pona (CBE), Jack Poon (ME), Julian Pymento (EE), Kareem Rayn (CBE), Nicole Rivillis (EE), Aadhar Rohila (ME), Cindy Rom (ME), Chong Shao (CompE), Yixuan Shi (EE), Petros Skaliarinis (NYU CAS), Kshitij Sood (PH), Michelle Tse (Civil E), Qian Wu (CivilE), Songyishu Yang (NYU-AD), Chi Xiang (EE), Yu Xiang (Math), Chi Zhang (EE) Kuang Zhang (EE), LiGuo Zhang (CBE), Jinhui Zhao (BMS)
Faculty: Janice Aber (CBS), Steve Arnold (Physics), Francisco De Leon (ECE), Elza Erkip (ECE), Bruce Garetz (CBS), Masoud Ghandehari (ME), Richard Gross (CBS), Nikhil Gupta (ME), Haldun Hadimioglu (CompE), Ramesh Karri (EE), Farshad Khorrami (EE), Jin Kim (CBE), Joo Kim (ME), Erich Kunhardt (PH), Rastislav Levicky (CBE), Nasir Memon (CS), Jin Montclare (CBS), Maurizio Porfiri (ME), Annalisa Scacchioli (ME), Harold Sjursen (HuSS), Carl Skelton (IDM), Lindsey Van Wagenen (Math)
Abstracts
Learn more about the Undergraduate Summer Research Program by browsing the abstracts of the work completed over the past three summers. The abstracts represent the culmination of over 350 hours of focused research, the full extent of which is presented in a poster session every year at the New Student Convocation.