UROP Sponsorships 2026

Research Travel Sponsorship

Name of Recipient Major / Year Project Title Supervisor Conference Name and Location

FANG Pengjun

Pengjun

COMP / 4 Generative AI CHEN Qifeng / CSE 1st Workshop on Interactive Human-centric Foundation Models (In Conjunction International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2025), Honolulu, Hawai'i

HUANG Zhenghao

Zhenghao

ELEC / 3 A Tactile Rubbing Gripper for Reliable Fabric Separation SHEN Yajing / ECE 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA 2026), Vienna, Austria 
LIU Jiayu COMP / 3 Human-Centric Trustworthy AI/NLP FUNG May / CSE The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), San Diego, California, United States 

LU Yunyang

Yunyang

ELEC / 4 Efficient Combinatorial Optimization Solver Based on Novel Spintronic Devices SHAO Qiming / ECE IEEE International Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG 2026), Manchester, United Kingdom

WANG Shao-fu

Shao-fu

CPFINA / 4 Ultra-low latency network transport for Real-Time Video Streaming MENG Zili / ECE IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2026), Glasgow, Scotland

YANG Haolin

Haolin

DSCT / 4 Automatic and Scalable Data Collection and Pruning for LLM Training ZHOU Xiaofang / CSE The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025), Suzhou, China

Summer School Sponsorship

Name of Recipient Major / Year Project Title Supervisor Conference Name and Location

DINH Vu Tung Lam

MATH-PMA / 4 Cluster Algebra Ivan IP / MATH University of Hamburg, Germany

LI Jizheng

BCB / 2 Engineering an Orthogonal recombinant glycoconjugate vaccine for protection against enterotoxigenic toxins generated by Escherichia coli HSING I-ming / CBE Harvard University, USA