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Undergraduate Research

Research opportunities exist for undergraduate students and we encourage you to explore this option since the University of Arizona is a Research One institution. A directed research or independent study experience is invaluable and working with research faculty is a wonderful opportunity, especially if you plan on attending graduate school.

It is possible to receive credit as either Directed Research (C SC 392 and 492) or Independent Study. One main difference between Directed Research and Independent Study is the grade that students receive for completing these courses. The grades available for Directed Research are A, B, C, D, E, I, and W. The grades available for Independent Study include S, P, C, D, E, I, and W. As defined in the University's general catalog, grades of S (Superior) and P (Pass) are special grades that replace A and B grades. S, P, I, and W grades are not factored into the grade point average, while grades of A, B, C, D, and E are factored into the grade point average.

How To Get Involved

Fill out an Undergraduate Research Application

Instructors and Research Interests

Andrews, Greg
Concurrent programming, parallel and distributed computing, link-time optimization, operating systems.

Barnard, Kobus
Computer vision, multimedia information retrieval, data mining, digital libraries, color.

Collberg, Christian
Programming languages, compilers, intellectual property protection of software, domain-specific search engines.

Debray, Saumya
Compilers, program analysis and optimization, programming language implementation.

Hartman, John
Scalable storage systems, network file systems, and distributed operating systems.

Kececioglu, John
Computational biology and bioinformatics, algorithm design and implementation, string and graph algorithms, combinatorial optimization.

Kobourov, Stephen
Graph drawing and information visualization, algorithm design and data organization, geometric algorithms.

Snodgrass, Rick
Temporal databases, database security, science of computing.