Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thang Dinh

• Area: Quantum Computing & Graph Machine Learning
• Opportunity: Funded or volunteer research assistant
• Role description: Implement algorithms, perform numerical analysis, and write reports
• Contact: Send CV and transcripts to Dr. Dinh at tndinh@vcu.edu 
• Lab/Group: https://thang-dinh.github.io/ 

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bridget Thomson-McInnes

• Area: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Extraction, Biomedical Informatics
• Opportunity: Research assistant roles in various NLP and biomedical projects
• Role description: Work may involve named entity recognition, relation/event extraction, text mining, or applying large language models to biomedical/clinical text. Students can gain experience in annotation, corpus development, model training and evaluation, or tool development
• Contact: Email Dr. Thomson-McInnes at btmcinnes@vcu.edu 
• Lab/Group: https://nlp.cs.vcu.edu/research.html | https://vip.vcu.edu/nanoinformatics/ 

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tamer Nadeem

• Area: Health Applications, Sensor Data, Smart Environments
• Opportunity: Volunteer undergraduate research assistant (NIH-funded HomePal project + related projects like BabyTalk)
• Role description: Work with real-world sensor data streams—cleaning, processing, and analyzing data to infer daily activities and mobility patterns. Opportunities to contribute to health-focused applications that support patient well-being and family engagement.
  • Familiarity with programming is required (Python preferred), along with curiosity, reliability, and a willingness to learn. If you’re excited by improving health through your CS knowledge, we’d love to hear from you!
• Contact: Email Dr. Nadeem at tnadeem@vcu.edu (subject line must start with CS-UGrad)
• Lab/Group: https://music.lab.vcu.edu