Research Experience for Undergraduates Site

REU Site: Animal Language Processing and Understanding

CSE Department, The University of Texas at Arlington

Sinong Wang is pursuing his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He achieved his MS in Computer Science from UTA and his MS in Software Engineering from Northeastern University China. His research interests lie in the Natural Language Processing field of Artificial Intelligence. Currently, he is working on Natural Language Processing for Mental Health.

Tuan Dang is pursuing his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research interests lie in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. Currently, he is working on Animal Language Processing and Understanding.

Essam Abdelghany is pursuing his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). His research interests lie in the Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Currently, he is working on Large Audio Language Models for animal communications.

Mikaela received her bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Biotechnology at Minnesota State University Moorhead. She then went on to Michigan State University to receive her master’s in fisheries and wildlife. During her time at MSU, she studied alternative methods (alarm cues + behavioral responses) to control the invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Arlington. At UTA, she works with Trinidadian Killifish to study the influence of selective pressures on the evolution of stress response.

Peter is currently pursuing his Master’s in Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He is conducting research in Animal Language Processing and developing an online version of Praat that supports speech visualization, acoustic analysis, and video-based annotation, enhancing the processing of multimodal language data.