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Education/Training

Education and research go hand in hand. In addition to its research activities, a significant focus of CARIDA is to support activities related to education and training on AI/ML/BD topics, including but not limited to:

  • Offering introductory tutorials and inspirational lectures to a variety of audiences, including UTA researchers, community partners, and K-12 students
  • Serving an advisory role on related curricula, e.g., UTA’s Master of Science in Data Science (MSDS) degree program
  • Supporting related projects in various settings, e.g., MSDS capstone projects, senior design projects and REU, by facilitating project formulation, student mentoring, industry sponsorships, and so on
  • Supporting faculty and student organizations in carrying out enrichment and outreach activities such as summer camps, hackathons, student workshops, and curricula exhibitions

Recent Educational and Training Activities by CARIDA Members

  • Dr. Chengkai Li led the organization of OurCS@DFW (https://uta.engineering/ourcs/), an annual three-day regional research-focused workshop for undergraduate students in underrepresented groups in computing and SCRF (https://uta.engineering/scrf/), an annual one-day UTA Student Computing Research Festival of talks, posters, research competitions, and mentoring and networking activities.

    These events are for recruiting and retaining women and underrepresented minority students to participate in research. The inaugural events in February 2020 were funded by Google and NCWIT/Microsoft, respectively, and received sponsorships from Lockheed Martin, IEEE, and the Arlington Sunrise Rotary Club. The second installment these events took place February 2021, and were again funded by Google and Lockheed Martin.