Meera Ramasamy, a second-year engineering student at Penn State Brandywine in Media, has been selected to participate in Penn State’s highly competitive Multi-Campus Research Experience for Undergraduates (MC REU) Summer Program.
The MC REU is an intensive eight-week summer research program that provides a select group of College of Engineering students the opportunity to conduct faculty-mentored research and gain hands-on experience in their field.
Meera will work under the guidance of Sharon Tan, assistant teaching professor of engineering at Penn State Brandywine.
They will investigate how well Vision Transformer (ViT) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models can perform fine-grained image classification of visually similar images.
Using models available through Hugging Face, her research will explore emerging applications of artificial intelligence and computer vision.
“I’m so excited to be able to participate in this program over the summer,” Ramasamy said. “I’m very happy and proud of myself to be accepted into this program.”
Inspired to apply by a fellow student, Meera chose this research project because of her interest in artificial intelligence and computer vision.
Building on her knowledge of transformer models used in natural language processing, she was eager to explore how similar technologies can be applied to visual data.
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