2023 IS Student Research Outreach
ITE 459, 11:30-1 PM, Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
Students and faculty at the Department of Information Systems (IS)
conduct exciting and frontier research in many areas. This event
provides a platform to explain how to conduct research and
highlight research opportunities to our own students. The event
mainly targets undergraduates at the IS department.
Undergraduates at other departments and graduate students who
want to start research with IS faculty are also welcome to attend.
Lunch will be provided in the end.
Goals of the event
● Engage with students who have little research experiences
● Explain what research is about
● Highlight research opportunities at IS department, UMBC and beyond
● Connect students with our faculty to discuss possible research opportunities
● Encourage students to conduct research and submit their work to yearly IS Student
Research Symposium (around April)
Meeting format: The event will be in person. We also provide a Webex
link for those who can only attend virtually.
Attendee Registration Form: Please fill out the form (before 11/21 if
possible) for food accommodation and future communications
Contact Person: Jianwu Wang <jianwu@umbc.edu>, Associate
Professor and IS Liaison for Research Innovation
Tentative Agenda
● 11:30-11:35 Leadership welcome message
● 11:35-11:55 Why and how to do (interdisciplinary) research by Dr. Ian Stockwell
● 11:55-12:15 Undergraduate research experiment sharing
● 12:15-12:35 Undergraduate research opportunities at IS, UMBC & beyond (University
Undergraduate Research, Data Science Scholars, CWIT, NSF REU, and Individual
Faculty)
● 12:35-1:00 Lunch and discussion
What is considered as research work? Novelty or innovation is the core of research work.
Novelty/innovation can be shown in many aspects such as a new approach for an existing
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2023 IS Student Research Outreach
problem, a novel application of an existing technique to a new domain, and new findings from
your research. Research done by IS faculty and students can be found at
How can I find research opportunities? You are very welcome to contact faculty in our
department on research opportunities in their groups, including undergraduate research
opportunities. University level undergraduate research opportunities can be found at
Department of