Student research opportunities
Every year, Skidmore CS majors present their research at the faculty-student summer research presentations, Consortion for Computing 科学s in Colleges- Northeast Region conference, the NY6 conference, and the Skidmore Academic festival CS poster session.
Zander Chown ’25 presents a talk on his research on securing fertility and period-tracking
apps using secure multi party computation at the faculty-student summer research presentations
2023年8月
Cassie Davidson’25 and Maddy Fung ’25 present a poster on their research into building a 隐私-centric social media app for kids at the faculty-student summer research presentations 2023年8月
Here are some frequently asked questions about undergraduate research in Computer 科学.
Research experience prepares students for demands of both graduate school and the 就业市场. Research projects give you the opportunity to apply what you have learned 在课堂上. You also get first-hand experience at working on innovative solutions to real-world 问题. If you are doing well 在课堂上es, you should consider doing research – research projects are open-ended, take longer time to solve and are typically more 具有挑战性的.
Talk to the faculty whose research interests match yours.
教授. 迈克Eckmann的 research interests are in computer vision and graphics.
教授 Tom O’ Connell’s current research interest is in developing heuristic algorithms for hard computational
问题.
教授. Aarathi Prasad的 research interests include mobile and wearable computing, and usable security and
隐私.
教授. 大卫·读的 research interests focus on data integration, semantics and security.
教授. 克里斯汀·赖利’s current research interests are data mining in social networks, distributed data storage
systems, and computer science education.
A one-credit research course CS275H, gives you a chance to try out research with a particular faculty member, while spending as few as three hours every week during 这学期. Skidmore also has a Summer Faculty Student Research Program that allows you and a faculty to apply for an 8- or 10-week paid research experience.