Schedule

Orientation week January 6-10, 2025

DePaul Jarvis College of Computing CDM 723 and CDM 436A

 

Monday, January 6: 9:30 am – 12 pm Location: CDM 723

  • 9:30 – 9:40 am Welcome remarks and overview of the program (Dr. Ilyas Ustun)
  • 9:40 – 10:00 am Expectations and outcomes for the program (Dr. Daniela Raicu)
  • 10:00 – 10:30 am Faculty Mentors and student introductions
  • 10:30 – 11:15 am Introduction to Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine
    Learning (Dr. Daniela Raicu)
  • 11:15 – 12:00 pm Research Presentation I: Dr. Thiru Ramaraj

 

Tuesday, January 7: 10 am – 12 pm Location: CDM 723

  • 10:00 – 10:45 am Research Presentation II (Drs. Daniela Raicu/Orheanu)
  • 10:45 – 11:30 am Research Presentation III (Dr. Roselyne Tchoua)
  • 11:30 – 12:00 pm Study time: DS, AI, ML, papers related to the presented projects (led by
    Dr. Tchoua)

 

Wednesday, January 8: 10 am – 12 pm Location: CDM 723

  • 10:00 – 10:45 am Research Presentation IV (Dr. Ilyas Ustun)
  • 10:45 – 11:30 am Research Presentation V (Dr. Jacob Furst)
  • 11:30 – 12:00 pm Study time: DS, AI, ML, papers related to the presented projects (led by
    Dr. Furst)

 

Thursday, January 9: 9 am – 11 am Location: CDM 436A

  • 9:00 – 9:30 am Project and mentor assignment (all students and mentors, session
    led by Dr. Furst)
  • 9:30 – 10:00 am How to review a research paper and search for research papers using
    DePaul library (Dr. Jacob Furst)
  • 10:00 – 11:00 am Basic Statistics Review (Dr. Thiru Ramaraj)

 

Friday, January 10: Review papers related to assigned projects, data access, meeting with
the mentor

 

Weekly Research meetings: Larger weekly group research meetings with other students (including Master’s and PhD students) starting week 2 (January 13 – January 16) of the program:
    Mondays, 12 – 2 pm (room CDM 723)
    Thursday, 12 – 2 pm (room CDM 723)
Note: Students will attend only one of these meetings depending on the assigned projects

 

Weekly Friday meetings: Starting week 2, the students will give updates on their
projects. Fridays, 2 pm – 3 pm (room CDM 723)

Date

Activity

Mentor

January 17

Paper presentation, review, and discussion

Dr. Jacob Furst

January 24

Progress Reports

Dr. Ilyas Ustun

January 31

Progress Reports- No Meeting

 

February 7

How to formulate a research hypothesis/question

Dr. Jacob Furst

February 14

Progress Reports

Dr. Daniela Stan Raicu

February 21

Progress reports

Dr. Ilyas Ustun

February 28

Progress reports

Dr. Ilyas Ustun

March 7

Progress Reports

 

March 14

No meeting (Finals week)

March 21

No meeting (Finals week)

March 28

No meeting (Spring break)

Date

Activity

Mentor

April 4

Graduate School

Dr. Thiru Ramaraj

April 11

Best practices for writing a research paper

Dr. Jacob Furst

April 18

Good Friday – School Closed

April 19

Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium 2025

 

April 25

Progress reports

 

May 2

 How to give a good research presentation

Dr. Roselyne Tchoua

May 9

The benefits of a research career path

Dr. Daniela Stan Raicu

May 16

Progress reports

 

May 23

Progress reports

 

May 30

Progress reports

 

June 6

Spring quarter final presentations

All mentors

June 13

No meeting (Finals week)

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