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Undergraduate Research

As an undergraduate Computer Science student at UL Lafayette, you can get real, valuable research experience, which makes you stand out when you’re applying for jobs or graduate school. Undergraduate research will enrich your learning experience by making it more fun and interesting. You will learn to publish, present, and perform at a professional level, building the best version of yourself and gaining marketable skills for your future. As part of this research experience, you can work alongside nationally and internationally recognized faculty to discover and create something new. Having research experience means you understand how to solve problems with creativity. The university also organizes an annual undergraduate research conference to promote undergraduate research.

Here are a few recent papers where an undergrdaute student made a significant contribution:

  • Mergist, T., Yenumula, T. M. R., Muhammad, R., James, T., Harimi, A., Khalil, K., & Kumar, A. (2025, March). Heart Sound Classification Using Weka for Machine Learning. In SoutheastCon 2025 (pp. 248-254). IEEE. [pdf]
  • Muhammad, R., Yenumula, T. M. R., Mergist, T., James, T., Harimi, A., Khalil, K., & Kumar, A. (2025, April). Machine Learning Analysis of Heartbeat Sounds Using Weka for Classification. In 2025 IEEE International systems Conference (SysCon) (pp. 1-5). IEEE. [pdf]
  • James, T., Yenumula, T. M. R., Mergist, T., Muhammad, R., Harimi, A., Khalil, K., & Kumar, A. (2025, April). Speech Emotion Recognition Using ML Models and Audio Features. In 2025 IEEE International systems Conference (SysCon) (pp. 1-7). IEEE. [pdf]
  • Haque, M. E., Zobaed, S. M., Hussain, R. F., Islam, A., & Traylor, C. (2020, January). Adaptive and Concurrent Garbage Collection for Virtual Machines. In HICSS (pp. 1-10). [pdf]
  • Shoushtari Moghadam, M., Aygun, S., Riahi Alam, M., Schmidt, J. I., Najafi, M. H., & Taherinejad, N. (2023, December). Accurate and energy-efficient stochastic computing with van der Corput sequences. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (pp. 1-6). [pdf]
  • Masum, A. K. M., Pradhananga, R., Schmidt, J. I., Moghadam, M. S., Najafi, M. H., Unluturk, B., ... & Aygun, S. (2025, May). AMS-HD: Acute Mountain Sickness Detection with Hyperdimensional Computing. In 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (pp. 1-5). IEEE. [pdf]

To learn more about the undergraduate research opportunities, you could talk to a faculty member in your area of interest or visit the Advance Website.