The REU site is featured in the A&M-SA Today news article “Summer Research Program Focuses on Interdisciplinary AI Research in Healthcare.”
We are recruiting!
We have our application portal open. Visit our application page for more information for our REU site summer research at Texas State University in partnership with Texas A&M – San Antonio.

Ana @ ASHA’24
Ana presented her REU research poster titled “Understanding Emotion Perception in Neurotypical and Neurodivergent Individuals” at the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention in Seattle.

Jessica @ BIBM’24
Jessica Li was awarded travel funds to attend and present her paper at the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal

NSF-REU Renewed!
This NSF-REU site was renewed in collaboration with Texas A&M-San Antonio, “REU Site: Undergraduate Research Experiences in Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Mixed Reality for Smart and Connected Health“

Winner @ VURF!
Maya Nachega won the Best Poster at the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair (VURF) Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics category. Congratulations!
Her work: Enhancing Early Autism Diagnosis with Machine Learning Algorithms using Postural Control Features
Faculty Mentor: Yumeng Li, Texas State University

IEEE BIBM-AIBH 2024 Paper Accepted!
Jessica Li’s paper “Data Augmentation for Classifying Multiple Sclerosis Severity through Inertial Measurement Unit-Based Gait Analysis” has been accepted to the AIBH Workshop at the 2024 IEEE BIMB and will be presented in December in Lisbon, Portugal.

Abrar Presenting @ IBM
Abrar Zaki presented his REU research work – “Virtual Reality on Assessing the Motor Skills of Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder,” at the 2024 IEEE 15th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON) at IBM in Yorktown Heights, NY

IEEE FNWF’24 Paper Accepted!
Ashley Yang’s paper “Development of an Augmented Reality Handwashing Tool for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder” has been accepted to the 2024 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF) and will be presented in October in Dubai, UAE.

UEMCON’24 Paper!
Ayesha Malik’s, Abrar Zaki’s, Chung Tran’s, and Irene Liang’s “Virtual Reality on Assessing the Motor Skills of Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder” collaborative paper has been accepted to the 2024 IEEE 15th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON) and will be presented in October at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York.
