Results
UCORE 2018 is now completed, following an impressive range of interesting presentations. Thanks to all who helped, the program committee, judges, and students.
Given the high quality of work presented picking the best is a very difficult process. Special congratulations to our winners this year:
- First prize: Gabriel Downs, Encoding Scene Symmetry for Convolutional Neural Networks
- Second prize: Shenyang (Andy) Huang, Continual Learning Using Network Transformation
- Third prize: Étienne Fortier-Dubois, Using literature mining to compensate for a small dataset in a healthcare application of machine learning
About
The Undergraduate Computer Science Research Symposium (UCORE) offers
undergraduate students at McGill University who have been involved in
summer research the opportunity to submit and present their research.
This allows students to learn about the breadth of computer science
research and share their accomplishments with a wider audience. UCORE
usually takes place during the last week before the semester starts. The
program committee will select the best summer research project
presented by an undergraduate student together with 2 runners up.
4-5
projects will be nominated to be presented as posters at the
Undergraduate Research Symposium of the Faculty of Science later in the Fall.
We ask interested students to submit an abstract and title by Monday August 20. A program committee will then provide feedback and select the abstracts to be presented at the symposium on August 29. This follows the model of the ACM student research competition (http://src.acm.org/submissions.html) and many other workshops in computer science.
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Step 1: Submit a title and short abstract (not more than 600 words) by Aug 20.
The abstract has to be authored only by the undergraduate student(s) working on the project. In case of a single student working on the project, the abstract must describe the student's individual research. If the work is collaborative with others and/or part of a larger group project, the abstract should make clear what was the contribution of the undergraduate student(s) and should focus on that portion of the work. The extended abstract must not exceed 600 words and must not be longer than 2 pages including references. We will use Easychair to simplify the submission and organization. - Step 2: Present your work at the Undergraduate Computer Science Research Symposium, if you receive a notification of acceptance.
Important Dates:
- 20 August, 2018: Submission deadline
- 25 August, 2018: Notification to authors
- 29 August, 2018: Symposium date
Submission details:
Each submission should include the student author's (authors') name(s), institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and research advisor's name in addition to the title and an extended abstract addressing the following:
- Problem and Motivation: Clearly state the problem being addressed and explain the reasons for seeking a solution to this problem.
- Background and Related Work: Describe the specialized (but pertinent) background necessary to appreciate the work. Include references to the literature where appropriate, and briefly explain where your work departs from that done by others.
- Approach and Uniqueness: Describe your approach in attacking the problem and clearly state how your approach is novel.
- Results and Contributions: Clearly show how the results of your work contribute to computer science and explain the significance of those results.
Submitted papers should be in PDF, formatted using the ACM SIGCONF style guidelines (download acmart-master.zip and look at sample-sigconf.tex and sample-sigconf.pdf). The paper should not exceed 600 words (excluding references).
Submit here.
Organizers and Program Committee
- Nathan Friedman
- Joseph Vybihal
- Audrey Durand
- Vincent Francois
- (Clark Verbrugge)
Presentation Judges
- Kaleem Siddiqi
- Joseph Vybihal
- Audrey Durand
- Vincent Francois
- Clark Verbrugge
Questions: Send email to Clark Verbrugge (clump at cs.mcgill.ca)