2023 Cohort

• Aakriti Shah @ Rollins College
  • Adversarial ML Resilience in Autonomous Driving through Human Centered Perception Mechanisms
• Chaitrali Samant @ Virginia Tech
  • Towards Human-AI Collaboration For Physical-World Attack Mitigation
• Christian Classen @ UIUC
  • Balancing Originality and Reality: How Prompting Affects Plagiarism in Language Models
• Matthew Iceland @ U. Rochester
  • How Good Are SOTA Fake News Detectors?
• Nicholas Abegg @ Saint Vincent College
  • UID as a Guiding Metric for Automated Authorship Obfuscation
• Randy Truong @ Northwestern
  • Cyberspace Situation Awareness for Safety and Privacy of Connected Autonomous Vehicles

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The 2023 program plans to recruit ~6 undergraduate students nation-wide and engage them in research projects on Machine Learning + Cybersecurity. Selected REU students will receive the following support for the 10-week-long participation:

• Stipend: $6,000
• Pre-paid meal plan ($1,700 worth)
• Free lodging at PSU’s dormitory (double occupancy)
• Round-trip transportation (pre-approval required)
  • Driving: up to $300
  • Flying: up to $750