2024 Open Source Research Experience
Matching summer students with research mentors and sponsors.
The Open Source Research Experience (OSRE) program provides support for undergraduate and graduate students contributing to open source projects and reproducible research efforts. With its dual focus on both increasing open source communities and making computational research efforts reproducible, the OSRE supports a wide variety of projects. In connection with the OSRE, the UCSC OSPO has taken part in the Google Summer of Code as a mentor organization and managed other sponsored programs such as the NSF funded Summer of Reproducibility. Information from past OSRE years can be found here: 2023 and 2022 (final 2022 reports). Mentors interested in participating in the OSRE (including for projects relevant to GSoC and the SoR) can post their project ideas for students to review. Project ideas are short abstracts that provide an overview of the tasks students will accomplish over the summer. See mentor page for more details. Interested Students or other newcomers to open source or reproducibility should review these project ideas and work with mentors to develop a full proposal. Student projects are due by April 4, 2024. See student information page for more details.
Table of Content: OSRE News | OSRE 2024 | For students | Student pages | For mentors | For sponsors | Timeline | Projects | Tag cloud | Mentors and Contributors
OSRE News
OSRE 2024
Open Source Research Experience
As last year OSRE 2024 will include mentors across multiple University of California campuses. Project ideas are listed below.
This year will again include the Summer of Reproducibility with research projects around producing and using reproducibility artifacts (see also ctuning.org and sysartifacts). Quite a few conferences are now offering awards for reproducibility artifacts. This encourages authors to produce reproducibility artifacts. There is great potential for using these artifacts not only for validating research results but also as teaching tools in classrooms and as baselines in research labs. Making producing and using reproducibility artifacts easier can significantly accelerate the rate of insights. The Summer of Reproducibility gives summer students the opportunity to help out in this cutting-edge effort and acquire valuable skills related to reproducibility.
For students
If you are interested, have a look at our guidelines for students, which includes timelines on when to contact mentors and proposal guidelines and expectations.
New projects for OSRE 2024 will be published by the end of February. Students can begin reaching out to mentors after February 22, 2024. Proposals are due April 2.
Students interested in applying to any of our projects should join our Slack channel before March 20. Email OSRE Admins to request an invitation.
You can also use our Gitter channel for general questions before reaching out to mentors. https://gitter.im/uc_ospo-osre/community
We typically support the work of undergraduate students; however graduate students may also apply to work on more advanced project ideas. Please check out the project ideas page and contact the mentor if you have questions.
Student pages
We are asking OSRE 2024 students and contributors to share their progress on a regular basis. We are excited to be able to highlight their work on this website and in events such as our Open Source Symposium. This blog post contains instructions on how to start highlighting contributor work with blog posts, also known as “student pages”. And here they are:
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For projects and mentors
The UCSC OSPO is looking for mentors to be part of our 2024 Open Source Research Experience Program (OSRE), which this year also includes a new initiative – the Summer of Reproducibility (SoR). Please read the FAQ for Mentors and, if interested in participating, the instructions for posting projects.
While typical OSRE supported projects require mentors who are connected to University of California-based open source projects, thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation, the Summer of Reproducibility allows us to also support US-based mentors interested in research projects related to the creation and usage of reproducibilty artifacts.
The goal of OSRE 2024 is to increase student capabilities in working in open source projects and creating reproducible artifacts, as well as add productive open source contributors and promote open source and reproducibility throughout the UC system and beyond.
The program team at UCSC OSPO values diversity and inclusion in all our projects. We invite mentors from groups traditionally excluded in computer science/open source communities to participate in this program.
Why should you be an OSRE mentor?
If you could use undergraduate research assistance over the summer with your on-going research, this is a great opportunity to get matched to top students. Like Google Summer of Code, the OSRE allows the mentors to choose the students they want to work with based on an interactive and iterative proposal process. The proposal process provides mentors the opportunity to select someone they want to work with who will benefit their project and research.
Who can be a mentor?
Your project needs to
- EITHER have at least one mentor affiliated with one of the University of California campuses or associated DOE national labs
- OR have some connection to producing or using reproducibility artifacts.
For University of California (UC) projects: Any UC-affiliated faculty, researchers or graduate students working on projects that are or will ultimately be part of an open source community/ecosystem.
For Summer of Reproducibility (SoR) projects: Researchers and faculty from any US-based organization looking to support the open source production or use of reproducibility artifacts.
For more details, please see the FAQ for Mentors and the instructions for posting projects.
For sponsors
Is your organization looking to better utilize open source and want to support projects that directly benefit your work?
Does your company want to strengthen the talent pipeline able to work on technologies essential to your organization’s success?
Do you want to collaborate with innovative open source projects being developed by University of California researchers?
The UC Open Source Research Experience (OSRE) offers your organization the chance to participate in projects that can help your development cycles run faster, benefit from wide collaborations, and help support workforce development in domains your organization needs.
To become a sponsor, fill out the Sponsorship Interest Form. You will be asked to indicate the level of sponsorship you would like to fund and the open source projects you are most interested in engaging with.
Benefits of sponsorship
- Collaborating on innovative project that are of strategic interest to your industry;
- Supporting the teaching of open source techniques to a wide range of student contributors;
- Interacting with the next generation of open source leaders and up and coming talent; and
- Recognition as an OSRE Sponsor at the Open Source Research Symposium (Fall 2024)
OSRE Sponsor Levels
| Level | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bronze | $3,750 (covers 50% of one student stipend for summer) |
| Silver | $7,500 (covers one student full-time for summer) |
| Gold | $15,000 (covers two students full-time for summer) |
Becoming a Sponsor
Becoming a sponsor is easy! Fill out the Sponsorship Interest Form or reach out to the OSRE Admins by April 20. Information requested by the form include: name of contact person, level of sponsorship, and projects you are most interested in (if applicable.) The OSRE Admins will follow up with next steps for finalizing the sponsorship process.
Timeline
Go to last year’s timeline
| Feb 6 | Priority deadline for posting projects to be considered in the OSPO’s GSoC mentor organization application |
| Feb 22 | Deadline for mentors posting projects for OSRE/SoR consideration |
| Feb 22 | Accepted Mentor Organizations announced by GSoC - OSPO Accepted! |
| Feb 22 - Apr 2 | Mentors help candidates improving their applications, applications are submitted |
| Mar 20 | Deadline for students to join Slack channel (a student proposal requirement – do so as early as possible) |
| Apr 2 | Student proposal deadline |
| Apr 3 - 22 | Mentors evaluate and rank student proposals |
| Apr 24 | Student proposal rankings completed by Org Admins |
| May 1 | Accepted student proposals announced |
| May 2 - May 28 | Community Bonding / Onboarding |
| June - August* | OSRE participants work on projects / includes one mid-term evaluation |
| *Project start and end dates are flexible but need to be OK’d with Mentor and Org Admin |
2024 Projects
Go to last year’s projects
Administration
Open Source Program Office
UC Santa Cruz
Stephanie Lieggi
Executive Director of OSPO, Executive Director of CROSS, UC Santa Cruz
University of California Mentors
Aldrin Montana
PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz
Austin Rovinski
Assistant Professor, New York University
Bin Dong
Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Cindy Rubio González
Associate Professor, UC Davis
Colleen Josephson
Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz
Dan Bryce
Fellow, Smart Information Flow Technologies, LLC.
David Lee
Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Dustin Richmond
Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at UC Santa Cruz
Emily Lovell
OSPO Incubator Fellow, UC Santa Cruz
Hao-Nan Zhu
Ph.D. Student, University of California, Davis
Houjun Tang
Computer Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Indira Iyer
Head of Customer Success and Outreach
Jack Luar
Student at National University of Singapore
Jean Luca Bez
Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jesse Cirimelli-Low
Ph.D. Student, UC Santa Cruz
John Wu
Senior Computer Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jose Renau
Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Department Chair
Kiran Deol
Undergraduate at the University of Alberta
Leilani H. Gilpin
Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Matt Liberty
VP R&D Precision Innovations & Visiting Scholar UCSD
Oskar Elek
OSPO Incubator Fellow, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Cruz
Sakshi Garg
Ph.D. Student, UC Santa Cruz
Stephanie Lieggi
Executive Director of OSPO, Executive Director of CROSS, UC Santa Cruz
Tim Fallon
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego
Tyler Sheaves
PhD Student at UC Davis
Vitor Bandeira
Cloud and DevOps Architect at Precision Innovations & Visiting Scholar UCSD & PhD Candidate UFRGS
Ziheng Duan
Ph.D. Student, University of California, Irvine
Summer of Reproducibility Mentors
Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner
Research Scientist, Intel Labs
Anjus George
HPC Storage R&D staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ashutosh Srivastava
PhD Student, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Ayse Coskun
Interim Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Professor (ECE, SE); Director, Center for Information and Systems
Ben Greenman
PI at the University of Utah
Bogdan "Bo" Stoica
PhD Student, University of Chicago
Cindy Rubio González
Associate Professor, UC Davis
Dan Bryce
Fellow, Smart Information Flow Technologies, LLC.
Daniar H. Kurniawan
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago
David Koop
Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University
Flavio Castro
Systems Developer, Argonne National Laboratory
Fraida Fund
Research Assistant Professor, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Georg Carle
Full Professor, Technical University of Munich
Hao-Nan Zhu
Ph.D. Student, University of California, Davis
Haryadi S. Gunawi
Associate Professor, University of Chicago
In Kee Kim
Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
João Felipe Pimentel
Postdoctoral Researcher, Northern Arizona University
Joaquin Chung
Research Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
John Bent
Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Juliana Freire
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Data Science at NYU
Junchen Jiang
Assitant Professor, University of Chicago
Kate Keahey
Scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory and Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago
Kexin Pei
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago
Luke Rasmussen
Senior Clinical Research Associate, Northwestern University
Mark Powers
Research Software Engineer at the University of Chicago
Meng Wang
PhD Student, University of Chicago
Miao YU
Ph.D. Student, The Ohio State University
Michael Sherman
Research Software Engineer at the University of Chicago
Raül Sirvent
Established Researcher, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Ray Andrew Sinurat
PhD Student, University of Chicago
Ruidan Li
Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago
Sandeep Madireddy
Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory
Sascha Hunold
Associate Professor, Technical University of Vienna
Sebastian Gallenmüller
PostDoc, Technical University of Munich
Swami Sundararaman
Senior Manager, IBM
Tanu Malik
Associate Professor for Databases, High Performance and Scientific Computing, Systems Development
Tim Fallon
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego
Vijay Chidambaram
Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Yang Wang
Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
Yeonju Ro
Ph.D. Student, The University of Texas at Austin
Yuyang (Roy) Huang
Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago
2024 Contributors
Haoling (Henry) Zhou
Senior student in computer science
Acheme Christopher Acheme
PhD Student at Clemson University
Aditya Narayan
CS Undergraduate, Amity Noida
Ahmed Hassan Falah
Computer and Communications student
Archit Dabral
Mathematics and Computing Student at IIT BHU
Arya Sarkar
Founding Engineer @ Docunexus Inc.
Ashwin Bardhwaj
Undergraduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science student at University of California, Berkeley
Audrey Ostrom
Alumni of UC Santa Cruz
Aviral Kaintura
Student at National Forensic Sciences University, Delhi Campus
Ayush Sharma
GSoC Contributor, LFX mentee, Data scientist @Medlr
Jiajun Mao
OSRE 2024 Participant/Researcher
Joanna Cheng
Student at Johns Hopkins University
Joel Tony
Computer Science Junior at Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani
Kilian Warmuth
M.Sc. student at Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Klaus Kraßnitzer
Master’s student, TU Wien
Kyrillos Ishak
Computer Engineering student
Lihaowen (Jayce) Zhu
Master Student, University of Chicago
Mahdi Banisharifdehkordi
Ph.D. student in Computer Science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence
Martin L. Putra
Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago
Mohit Goyal
Student at National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar
Mrigank Pawagi
Mathematics and Computing Student at the Indian Institute of Science
Nicole Brewer
OSPO Summer of Reproducibility Fellow
Nikhil Wani
Graduate, University of Southern California (USC)
Palaniappan R
Student at Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani
Peiran Qin
Pre-Doctoral. Student, University of Chicago
Qianru Zhang
University of Waterloo Graduate
Rafael Sinjunatha Wulangsih
Student at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Bandung
Sarthak Chowdhary(Shaburu)
GSoC Contributor | Student at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, VJTI, Mumbai | Product Manager at Purplle | Entrepreneur
Shaivi Malik
Computer Science and Engineering student
Shuang Liang
Undergraduate Student, The Ohio State University
Triveni Gurram
Graduate Computer Science student at Northern Illinois University
Ujjwal Shekhar
Undergraduate Computer Science student at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
William Nixon
Student at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Bandung
Xikang Song
Master’s student at University of Chicago
