Washington University's Computer Science SURA Program

Washington University's Department of Computer Science and Engineering SURA (Summer Undergraduate Research Assistantship) Program served as a model Research Experiences for Undergraduates site for the NSF from 1990-1997 and included many exemplary outcomes, including (in chronological order):

• Leana Golubchik (UCLA), paper on video on-demand storage servers cited 206 times,^[1] Ph.D. from UCLA in CS, Associate Professor of CS at USC (formerly faculty at Columbia and Maryland)

• Christos Papadopoulos (Wash U), paper on denial of service attacks cited 219 times,^[2] Ph.D. from Wash U in CS, Associate Professor of CS at Colorado State (formerly faculty at USC)

• Scott Hassan (Buffalo), paper on digital library interoperability cited 86 times,^[3] M.Sc. from Stanford in CS, author of the Google search and spider prototype backrub,^[4][5][6] entrepreneur founder of eGroups and Willow Garage[1]

• Quinton Zondervan (Eckerd), CEO at Excelimmune, a natural immunity therapy company, author of 13+ patents,^[7][8] Master's in CS from MIT

• Jennie Dorosh-Chamberlain (Harvard), Producer/Director of seven films, graduate of USC Film School

• Jersey Chen (Yale), paper on beta blockers after myocardial infarctions cited 385 times,^[9] M.D. from Yale, Assistant Professor of Cardiology at Yale

• Bill Chen (Wash U), author of Mathematics of Poker, Ph.D. from Berkeley in Mathematics, member of PokerStars

• Adam Costello (Wash U), paper on log-structured file systems cited 124 times,^[10] Ph.D. from Berkeley in CS, researcher at Google

• Mark Hayden (Berkeley), paper on bimodal multicast cited 512 times,^[11] Ph.D. from Cornell in CS

• Neil Heffernan (Amherst), paper on intelligent tutoring systems cited 53 times,^[12] Ph.D. from CMU in CS, Associate Professor of CS at WPI

• Lincoln Smith (Berkeley), doctoral student in CS at Illinois-Urbana, software engineer at Google

• Karl Stiefvater (aka Qarl) (Wash U), leading animator of virtual water, including The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and Riven^[13][14]

• Steve von Worley (Wash U), co-founder and CTO of Freestyle Interactive, a digital marketing firm, NSF Fellow at Berkeley CS

• Nancy Chang (Harvard), paper on stochastic word segmentation of Chinese cited 234 times,^[15] Ph.D. from Berkeley in CS, researcher at ICSI

• Miranda Flory-Capra (Wash U), Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering/Human Factors from Virginia Tech

• Alex Fukunaga (Harvard), paper on cooperative mobile robotics cited 637 times,^[16] Ph.D. from UCLA in CS, Assistant Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology (formerly at NASA/JPL)

• Reid Gershbein (Oberlin), paper on rendering complex scenes cited 128 times,^[17] Ph.D. from Stanford in CS, leading animator on Shrek, Madagascar (2005 film), Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda, etc., joint venture producer with Larry Page and Sergey Brin

• Y. Tom Ku (Harvard), principal/founder of Tykhe Capital, a financial services company with expertise in quantitative and computer techniques (formerly at D.E. Shaw)

• Angela Lai (Penn), VP of Engineering at Generic Media, a streaming media technology firm, M.Sc. from Penn in CSE

• Ryl Ashley (Wash U), securities analyst for the telecom and computer hardware industries^{[18][19][20][21][22][23][24]}

• Rosanne Rouf (MIT), M.D. from Duke, Sarnoff Fellow, papers on lipoprotein cholesterol, failing myocardium, etc.

• Vitaly Shmatikov (Washington), paper on cryptographic protocol analysis cited 220 times,^[25] Hertz Fellow^[26] and Ph.D. from Stanford in CS, Assistant Professor of CS at Texas (Austin)

• Mark Foltz (Wash U), NSF Fellow and Ph.D. from MIT in CS, papers on information maps and spaces, intelligent environments,^[27] software engineer at Google

• David Saff (Wash U), paper on continuous testing during development cited 44 times,^[28] Ph.D. from MIT in CS, researcher at Google

• Diana Moore (Wash U), VP of Engarde, a computer network security firm

• Noah Treuhaft (Oberlin), paper on recovery-oriented computing cited 284 times,^[29] Ph.D. from Berkeley in CS

• Jessica Linsday (Truman), paper on semi-formal legal argumentation and law citation database cited 45 times,^[30], Missouri law graduate, Prosecutor for Missouri township (hometown of current Missouri Governor)

• Joe Altepeter (Wash U), paper on decoherence-free subspaces cited 156 times,^[31][32] NSF Fellow and Ph.D. from Stanford in Physics, formerly research postdoc at Illinois, Postdoc at Northwestern University's Center for Photonic Communication and Computing researching quantum information and entanglement

• Lynn K. Carmichael (Wash U), paper on thetaiotamicron symbiosis cited 237 times,^[33][34] researcher at the Genome Sequencing Center, Wash U School of Medicine

• Nina Kang (Harvard), patents for challenge-response systems and for discovery of servers,^[35][36] researcher at Google and star of Google recruiting videos^[37]

• Anne Jump (Harvard), co-editor of collected essays of Susan Sontag, formerly representing Oliver Sacks at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

The program was conceived as a pro-bono activity in 1986 by Professor Will Gillett and later expanded with NSF funding by Professor Ronald Loui. Approximately 90 students were mentored in this program, about half of which were underrepresented minorities in the field of computing.

References

1. ^ Adaptive piggybacking: a novel technique for data sharing in video-on-demand storage servers, L Golubchik, JCS Lui, RR Muntz - Multimedia Systems, 1996 - cse.cuhk.edu.hk, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=9411247803954752754
2. ^ A framework for classifying denial of service attacks, A Hussain, J Heidemann, C Papadopoulos - Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, …, 2003 - portal.acm.org, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=12191775147087507488
3. ^ Using Distributed Objects for Digital Library Interoperability, … , H Garcia-Molina, SW Hassan, SP Ketchpel, M … - COMPUTER, 1996 - doi.ieeecs.org, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=12040057018967752194M
4. ^ How Stanford's computer science department changed the way we get information. Richard Brandt. Stanford Magazine, Nov/Dec, 2004.
5. ^ Google vs. Evil. Josh McHugh. Wired Magazine, 11.01, January 2003.
6. ^ Life after Google, with millions. Stefanie Olsen. ZDNet News, Jan 22, 2008.
7. ^ http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=quinton&FIELD1=INNM&co1=AND&TERM2=zondervan&FIELD2=INNM&d=PTXT
8. ^ e.g., System and method for synchronizing data in multiple databases, United States Patent 6516327, Q. Zondervan and A.J. Lee, http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6516327.html
9. ^ National Use and Effectiveness of Β-Blockers for the Treatment of Elderly Patients After Acute Myocardial Infarction, Harlan M. Krumholz, MD; Martha J. Radford, MD; Yun Wang, MS; Jersey Chen, BA; Asefeh Heiat, MD; Thomas A. Marciniak, MD, JAMA. 1998;280:623-629. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/280/7/623 http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=18024989694337971659
10. ^ Improving the performance of log-structured file systems with adaptive methods, JN Matthews, D Roselli, AM Costello, RY Wang, TE … - ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 1997 - portal.acm.org, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=2183999693088866918
11. ^ Bimodal Multicast, KP BIRMAN, M HAYDEN, O OZKASAP, Z XIAO, M BUDIU, Y … - ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 1999 - portal.acm.org, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=11296426307088158613
12. ^ An Intelligent Tutoring System Incorporating a Model of an Experienced Human Tutor, NT Heffernan, KR Koedinger - LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, 2002 - Springer, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=6496207619624898006
13. ^ From Myst to Riven, Richard Kadrey, Hyperion Books, 1997
14. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1381344/
15. ^ A stochastic finite-state word-segmentation algorithm for Chinese, R Sproat, C Shih, W Gale, N Chang - Computational Linguistics, 1996 - acl.ldc.upenn.edu, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=18438192414840326307
16. ^ Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions, YU Cao, AS Fukunaga, A Kahng - Autonomous Robots, 1997 - Springer, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=7309437354744074211
17. ^ Rendering complex scenes with memory-coherent ray tracing, M Pharr, C Kolb, R Gershbein, P Hanrahan - Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer …, 1997, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=17546921727423465066
18. ^ http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/july1999/sw90714.htm
19. ^ http://www.thestreet.com/tech/semis/759334.html
20. ^ http://siliconinvestor.advfn.com/readreplies.aspx?subjectid=16607&nonstock=False&msgid=10361745
21. ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-74721604.html
22. ^ http://siliconinvestor.advfn.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=6832999
23. ^ http://www.anadigics.com/var/plain_site/storage/original/application/b3593246dc05492bfdf97641cdc9e637.pdf
24. ^ http://www.computersandbusiness.com/2005/10/01/pdf%20docs/OFG%2008-21-06%20Sterne%20Agee.pdf
25. ^ Constraint solving for bounded-process cryptographic protocol analysis, J Millen, V Shmatikov - Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Computer and …, 2001 - portal.acm.org, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=16064520576294059991
26. ^ http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Security/program2/stern.ps
27. ^ http://www.linkedin.com/in/markafoltz
28. ^ An experimental evaluation of continuous testing during development, D Saff, MD Ernst - Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium …, 2004 - portal.acm.org, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=14818243222429727501
29. ^ Recovery-Oriented Computing (ROC): Motivation, Definition, Techniques, and Case Studies, … , N Sastry, W Tetzlaff, J Traupman, N Treuhaft - 2002 - cs.berkeley.edu, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=14074359716999612194
30. ^ http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=261618.261655
31. ^ Experimental Verification of Decoherence-Free Subspaces, PG Kwiat, AJ Berglund, JB Altepeter, AG White - Science, 2000 - sciencemag.org, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=9019208162002400267
32. ^ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/762/941
33. ^ A Genomic View of the Human-Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Symbiosis, … , J Himrod, S Deng, LK Carmichael, HC Chiang, LV … - Science, 2003 - sciencemag.org, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=18313607933772879823
34. ^ http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/7/151/abstract
35. ^ For example, Challenge response systems, USPTO Application #: 20060031338, Inventors: Nina W. Kang, Joshua T. Goodman, Robert L. Rounthwaite, Josh Benaloh, Elissa E. Murphy, Manav Mishra, Gopalakrishnan Seshadrinathan, Derek M. Hazeur, Ryan C. Colvin, http://www.freshpatents.com/Challenge-response-systems-dt20060209ptan20060031338.php
36. ^ For example, System and methods for robust discovery of servers and services in a heterogeneous environment, United States Patent 7467203, Kang, Nina (Seattle, WA, US), Allor, Jason (Seattle, WA, US), Van Hyning, Kenneth (North Bend, WA, US), http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7467203.html
37. ^ YouTube - Working at Google NYC - Nina: Software Engineer, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs6zBN_GEJ8