CI4R Undergraduate Students
Current Students

Josiah Neal
Major: Mechanical Engineering, NC State University
Research Topic:
- Wearable radar for prosthesis control
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Summer Students
- Emily Curl, Computer Science, University of Alabama (2023)
- Research Topic: Gesture-based Tello Drone Control with Radar
- Rebecca Keating, Astrophysics, Swarthmore College (2022)
- Research Topic: Analyzing Kinematics of ASL Signs Versus Transitional Articulator Movements Using Multi-Modal Sensing Data [3rd place in REU poster presentations]
- Megan Brown, Electrical and Computer Eng., The University of Alabama (2022)
- Research Topic: ASL Radar Data Collection Through ML Equipped Video Game
- Lea Townsend, Biology, The University of Alabama (2022)
- Research Topic: ASL Game Design
- Tania Nguyen, Electrical Engineering, Texas Christian University (2021)
- Research Topic: Application of Machine Learning to Identify Communicative vs Transitional Features in American Sign Language
- Tied for 1st place in REU poster presentations
- Joseph Green, Computer Science, Auburn University (Summer 2019)
- Research Topic: Kinect and Radar Data Visualizer (KaRD)

Dr. Gurbuz, Megan, Becca, and Leah at Another Broken Egg Cafe, Tuscaloosa, AL – Aug. 2022
Undergraduate CI4R Alumni
- Dmitriy Sazanov, ECE (Aug. 2024 – May 2025)
- Joshua Peterson, Mechanical Engineering (May – Dec. 2023)
- William Egbert, ECE (June – Aug. 2022)
- Megan Brown, ECE (Aug. 2021 – May 2022)
- Riley Parker, Computer Science (Aug. 2021 – May 2022)
- Blake Somdal, Computer Science (Jan. 2019 – May 2021)
- Sean Kearney, ECE (September 2019 – May 2021)
- Charles Connors, ECE (September 2019 – May 2021)
- Hetavi Shah, Computer Science (January – May 2020)
- Ana Rybnikova, Computer Science, Visiting intern from Cal State Long Beach (May – August 2019)
- Engin Ozcelik, Electrical Engineering, Visiting intern from TOBB ETU @ Ankara, Turkey (April – December 2019)
- Ajay Mehul, Computer Science (May 2018 – August 2019)
- Victor Nguyen, ECE (Spring 2019)
- Reed Campbell, ECE (Spring 2019)
- Eric Evans, ECE (Sep 2018 – May 2019)
- Corben Murphy, ECE (Jan 2018 – May 2019)
- Ivan Johnson, Computer Science (Jan 2018 – May 2019)
- Andrew Janssen, ECE (Spring 2018)