URAP

Michelle Wilkerson - Professor, Education

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

My research so far has focused on how teacher education programs incorporate justice and critical consciousness into K-12 computer science curricula. By investigating both their theoretical foundations and the lived experiences of CS pre-service teachers (PSTs), I have found significant variance in how these programs prepare educators to...

Clancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This project builds partnerships between community groups and academic researchers at studio.geo-?, an experimental mapping studio hosted out of the Department of Geography + the Berkeley Centre for New Media. It connects people and organisations who need cartographic assistance, from simple technical advice, access to geographic data + other resources to community...

Clancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

In partnership with a wide range of Pacific-based organizations including Fåha’ Digital Media, Pacific Islanders in Communication, the Northern Marianas Humanities Council, and Blue Ocean Law, this wide-ranging research consists of two central projects: - Researching, compiling and mapping films about Pacific Islander stories, made by or in partnership...

Clancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This project is in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Botanic Gardens. It focuses on the use of signage and interpretive materials within the Crops of the World garden (and the gardens more broadly), with specific focus on geographical, cartographical and decolonial frameworks. It would suit an undergraduate student with interests...

Clancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

General Description The breaking apart of the American state is as old as the concept of the United States itself. This project seeks to document the scale of state secessionist movements through time using primary and secondary sources. The broader context of this project is a study of the co...

Avideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

In this project, we will design algorithms that use computer vision to navigate in GPS denied environments to reach a pre-specified target. Two problems will be considered: first, apply visual slam to reach a waypoint at a specific offset from the initial position; second, use place/object recognition to...

Avideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

In this project, we will use inverse kinematics type ideas to teach a hose mounted on a robot to vacuum the immediate area in front of the robot. We will also design autonomy algorithms and methods for joint movement of robot and hose in order to vacuum a large area...

Avideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

In this project, we will develop methods to enable a drone equipped with perception and depth sensors to follow a dynamic object such as a bird or another drone. All computation must be done on board the drone and real time. You will have a chance to implement your method...

Andreas Zoglauer - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

COSI, the Compton Spectrometer and Imager, is a NASA-funded gamma-ray telescope which is currently under development and scheduled for launch in 2027. It will observe Galactic nucleosynthesis and positron annihilation, as well as the most violent events in our Universe (supernovae, neutron star mergers) and the most extreme...

Andreas Zoglauer - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a NASA high-altitude balloon mission designed to detect messengers of dark matter interactions in the galaxy. Apprentices are needed to participate in development and testing of both hardware and online software as GAPS prepares for a December 2024 launch from Antarctica. GAPS is...