The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Office of Undergraduate Research has announced award winners and honorable mentions for the 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium. Several CS and CS+X students were recognized for their research and presentations, both as team members and solo researchers.
Outstanding Performance and Exhibits
Our World, Captioned: Empowering Accessibility With Low-Cost Devices and Custom Speech Model
Himnish Jain, senior, CS
Eisha Peyyeti, senior, CS
Research Mentors: Lawrence Angrave, CS and Colin Lualdi, Physics
Outstanding Poster Presentations
Analyzing the Impact of a Science Learning Simulation on Student Collaboration
Arunima Suri, sophomore, CS + Education
Navomi Byju, junior, CS
Helen Ryding, junior, CS
Review of Mental Health Services Offered in Home-Visiting Programs Located in Indiana and Iowa
Karishma Mehta, junior, CS + Economics
Honorable Mention Poster Presentations
Tracking Altered Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Localization of Proteins in Hepatocytes During Development and Disease
Anuprovam Bhowmik, sophomore, CS + Chemistry
Advancing AI-Driven FDK (Fusarium Damaged Kernel) Detection: From Feature Extraction to Disease Risk Prediction
Seung Wook Yoon, freshman, CS + Crop Sciences
The annual Undergraduate Research Symposium offers students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the opportunity to showcase and celebrate their research through performances, exhibits, and oral and poster presentations.
Grainger Engineering Affiliations
Lawrence Angrave is an Illinois Grainger Engineering professor of computer science and is affiliated with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Accessibility Research Group. Lawrence Angrave is a Gies RC Evans Innovation Fellow and CITL Fellow.