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With this focus, the REU Site will expand its trajectory as an attractor for students who will gain experience with sensing hardware and software towards transformative advances in intelligent systems focused on human behaviors and cognitive processes. Enabling stakeholders early in their careers to discover how to collect, fuse, make inference with, and visualize multimodal human data can transform how humans and machines engage and collaborate. The REU Site will stimulate novel, safe ways for systems to team up with people to address society's vexing problems.

1. advance fundamental research in multimodal computational sensing for human-centered AI, leveraging generative machine learning techniques
2. formally assess the efficacy of triad-based REU research projects
3. evaluate and report on a novel collaborative partnership between the undergraduate cohort-based REU Site and a graduate cohort-based NRT program
4. disseminate findings in conferences or journals, both of the scientific outcomes of REU teams' research and of Site-based computing education research to the STEM community

Students will receive guidance for pursuing graduate careers in computing or STEM and experience public outreach enrichment that promotes the communication of research to wider audiences.

• December 1, 2025: applications open (apply here) 
• February 15, 2026: application deadline
• March/April: application review, interviews
• March/April: notification of acceptance
• June 1: REU activities begin
• July 30, 2026: RIT Undergraduate Research Symposium 
• July 31, 2026: REU activities end (departure August 1)