{"id":508402,"date":"2022-01-20T11:42:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T16:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=508402"},"modified":"2022-01-29T13:54:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T18:54:39","slug":"rochester-math-professor-champions-undergraduate-research-508402","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/rochester-math-professor-champions-undergraduate-research-508402\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this Rochester math professor champions year-round undergraduate research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"width: 85%; font-weight: bold; line-height: 135%; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\">Alex Iosevich has seen first-hand how research experiences bolster his students\u2019 confidence and independent thinking.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"side-right\">\n<h3><strong>Tripods REU or STEM for All at Rochester<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Tripods REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) and the STEM for All summer programs are slated to take place in person July 18\u2013August 12, 2022. <strong>The deadline to apply is Monday, February 21.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/dsc\/undergraduate\/vsre.html\">Learn more<\/a> about the programs, eligibility requirements, and how to apply.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Discover more opportunities<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hajim.rochester.edu\/optics\/undergraduate\/reu.html\">Nanophotonics, Quantum Photonics, and Vision\/Biomedical Optics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/dsc\/undergraduate\/reu.html\">Computational Methods for Understanding Music, Media, and Minds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/pas\/undergraduate\/reu\/index.html\">Physics, Optics, and Astronomy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hajim.rochester.edu\/ece\/undergraduate\/reu.html\">Imaging in Medicine and Biology for Underrepresented Minorities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/cmap\/education\/index.html\">Discovery Science Center Summer School for Matter at Extreme Conditions in the Laboratory and the Cosmos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of <a href=\"https:\/\/people.math.rochester.edu\/grads\/caten2\/\">Charlotte Aten<\/a>\u2019s first research experiences at the <a href=\"https:\/\/rochester.edu\/\">University of Rochester<\/a> helped her in ways she never imagined at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Aten, who grew up in Groveland, New York, transferred to the University in 2014 after earning an associate degree in mathematics from Monroe Community College.<\/p>\n<p>The following summer she joined 15 other students in a research experience for undergraduates (REU) program led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/mth\/\">Department of Mathematics<\/a> faculty members Alex Iosevich, Jonathan Pakianathan, and Giorgis Petridis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt resulted in my first <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1509.01090\">paper<\/a>,\u201d says Aten, who completed her undergraduate degree in 2017 and is now a PhD student in <a href=\"https:\/\/people.math.rochester.edu\/faculty\/jonpak\/\">Pakianathan\u2019s research group<\/a>. \u201cWe had groups doing experimental computations and other groups that were more just purely mathematical, and we would take turns sharing our results. It was a really great process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her participation in the REU established the foundation for many of her subsequent research and teaching experiences. In fact, the student has become the teacher: for the past two summers, Aten has served as an instructor for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Tripods REU and STEM for ALL programs that Iosevich directs for the <a href=\"http:\/\/sas.rochester.edu\/dsc\/\">Georgen Institute for Data Science.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Iosevich\u2019s encouragement and support, Aten has expanded her mathematical research interests to applications that include data science and machine learning. Moreover, she has parlayed those interests into new projects for Rochester undergraduates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlex creates a very positive and fun environment,\u201d Aten says. \u201cFirst of all, he definitely meets students where they are. He\u2019s also really strong at seeing how he can help them to do their best in their particular situation, which I think is why he is so approachable and has such a large number of students.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong><br \/>\n\u2018Research is not something you can turn on and off\u2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/mth\/people\/faculty\/iosevich-alex\/index.html\">Iosevich<\/a>, a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, has published more than 130 papers. He has received more than $2 million in grants to fund his research interests, which include combinatorics, number theory, classical analysis, and, most recently, neural nets\u2014a computational framework that imitates the workings of the human brain. He currently advises eight of the 27 PhD students in the department.<\/p>\n<p>But Iosevich\u2019s passion is creating research opportunities for undergraduates. Most recently, these have included the 2021 summer Tripods REU program, an associated summer STEM for All program, and a fall undergraduate research program in data science (including for those students who wished to continue their summer research projects).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI no longer believe undergraduate research experience is optional. I think it needs to be a fundamental part of the curriculum,\u201d Iosevich says. \u201cAnd it cannot be relegated to the summer. Research is not something that you can turn on and off. Students need to keep doing it during the fall and spring semesters, even if they cannot do it full time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why is participating in research so important for undergraduates? Too often, Iosevich says, his industry contacts tell him that even straight-A college graduates enter the workplace ill-prepared to think independently or to pivot quickly and learn new skills to complete an assignment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boss gives them an assignment to create such and such, using such and such package,\u201d Iosevich says. \u201cThey tell the boss, \u2018I didn\u2019t learn this technique in my data science class, and I\u2019ve never seen this package.\u2019 And the boss says, \u2018That\u2019s not my problem.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Undergraduate research experiences, though, can give students the confidence and independent thinking skills to handle those kinds of scenarios, Iosevich says. By extension, equipping students with such skills benefits the reputation of universities that not only emphasize undergraduate research but also invest in making such opportunities available for all students. In the humanities and social sciences as well as STEM, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Iosevich doesn\u2019t pressure his undergraduates to produce research papers\u2014despite the emphasis many program administrators might place on that outcome. \u201cI introduce students to research techniques: how to look up literature, how to investigate things, how to determine if the problem is open or not, how to take something that is known, say in data science, and make small tweaks\u2014and if that leads to a research paper, that\u2019s great,\u201d he says. \u201cBut to force publications can be very detrimental.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iosevich has been practicing what he preaches for more than 25 years, dating back to mentoring high school students and undergraduates as a new assistant professor at Wright State University, and then at Georgetown, the University of Missouri, and Columbia, before coming to Rochester in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, \u201cOne of my motivations has been to get more women and underrepresented minorities interested in math,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>This year, a University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/provost\/faculty-support\/faculty-development\/funding-opportunities\/bridging-fellowships\/\">Bridging Fellowship<\/a> relieved Iosevich of his classroom teaching obligations so he could direct the research programs. In other years, however, Iosevich has volunteered his own time as necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love doing this,\u201d he says while recognizing the colleagues and students who have helped him organize and facilitate undergraduate research programs. In addition to Pakianathan and Petridis, they include Stephen Kleene \u201905, assistant professor; Sevak Mkrtchyan, associate professor; current and former visiting assistant professors Emmett Wyman \u201913, Ivan Chio, and Ayla Gafni, and former undergraduate student Yujia Zhai \u201913.<\/p>\n<h4><strong><br \/>\n\u2018This kind of experience on your resume can only help<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\u201cAlex is really good at making you do things on your own. He doesn\u2019t spoon feed his students,\u201d says Mandar Juvekar \u201922, a dual major in math and computer science from Pune, India.<\/p>\n<p>Juvekar joined one of Iosevich\u2019s independent study groups the summer after his first year. Iosevich told the students to start reading a book about ongoing research in combinatorics, an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting and that tackles a breadth of problems involving algebra, probability theory, topology, and geometry. The students would then apply techniques described in the book to various problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe preface said the book is intended for students who have at least a first year of graduate studies in mathematics,\u201d Juvekar recalls. \u201cThat was scary because I was a first-year undergraduate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Juvekar quickly realized that he could look elsewhere\u2014on Google or in other textbooks\u2014to learn more about the concepts he needed to use. \u201cLearning how to do that is very useful, and Alex stresses that a lot,\u201d says Juvekar, who subsequently participated as both a student and workshop leader for the Tripods REU.<\/p>\n<p>Michele Martino \u201922, a mathematics major from Rome, Italy, participated in the Tripods REU the last two summers. He says that Iosevich is \u201cvery open to discussing with undergraduates any sort of mathematics they might be interested in. He\u2019s famous in the department because he tries to involve as many students as he can in his research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, it is not surprising that Iosevich received an Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award from the Students\u2019 Association in 2015. He also received outstanding teacher awards or was a finalist at the three other universities where he worked.<\/p>\n<p>Martino, who is doing independent study with Iosevich this fall on a project involving harmonic analysis, is grateful for the research experience he\u2019s gained. \u201cWhen undergraduates apply to graduate school, having this kind of experience on your resume can only help,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd you get a chance to work with other students on interesting projects, and with amazing professors who are great mathematicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martino and Juvekar each plan to pursue doctorates after they graduate, with Martino concentrating on probability theory and its applications in data science and Juvenkar studying computer science. Both say their undergraduate research experiences with Iosevich and other mentors at the University helped them identify their areas of interest for advanced studies.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Aten, who completes her PhD this year, is looking for a postdoctoral position, with an eye to working in academia. \u201cBut I also want to get some experience in real-world applications of math to business, so I\u2019ll be looking for internships,\u201d she says. Not with the goal of transitioning to industry, Aten says, but to have \u201csimilar connections to the ones that Alex has, to be able to send students to different companies or connect them to internships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"large-up-3\">\n<div class=\"column\" style=\"padding-left: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/2021-undergraduate-research-expo-virtual-stage-475042\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fea-expo-collage-crop.jpg\" alt=\"Array of nine research posters.\" \/><strong>Undergraduate researchers take a virtual stage to share findings<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .9em;\">Held online for the second year in a row, the annual Undergraduate Research Expo celebrates \u2018an important part\u2019 of University of Rochester culture.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"column\" style=\"padding-left: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/summer-in-rochester-means-research-390542\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fea-2019-summer-research.jpg\" alt=\"Student leans over equipment in chemistry lab.\" \/><strong>Summer in Rochester means research<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .9em;\">There\u2019s no better time to do research at the University than during the summer. While the classrooms may be quiet, labs and libraries remain busy as undergraduate students work on projects from engineering to political science.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"column\" style=\"padding-left: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/anya-khalid-leap-of-faith-leads-to-data-science-studies-317342\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anya_Khalid.jpg\" alt=\"Student seated at table, smiling at camera, with laptop.\" \/><strong>\u2018Leap of faith\u2019 leads to data science studies<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .9em;\">Anya Khalid came to the University without having ever coded. Now she&#8217;s graduating with a double major in data science and economics, bound for Seattle and a job as a data analytics consultant.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Iosevich, a professor of mathematics and director of the Tripods REU and STEM for ALL programs at the Goergen Institute for Data Science, seeks to make undergraduate research &#8220;a fundamental part of the curriculum.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":286,"featured_media":508422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23492,29502,25592,16072,20932],"class_list":["post-508402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-department-of-mathematics","tag-featured-post-side","tag-goergen-institute-for-data-science-and-artificial-intelligence","tag-school-of-arts-and-sciences","tag-undergraduate-research"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why this Rochester math professor champions year-round undergraduate research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prof. Alex Iosevich has established multiple undergraduate research programs at the University of Rochester.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/rochester-math-professor-champions-undergraduate-research-508402\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why this Rochester math professor champions year-round undergraduate research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prof. Alex Iosevich has established multiple undergraduate research programs at the University of Rochester.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/rochester-math-professor-champions-undergraduate-research-508402\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-20T16:42:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-29T18:54:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fea-iosevich-undergraduate-research.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bob Marcotte\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bob Marcotte\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/rochester-math-professor-champions-undergraduate-research-508402\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/rochester-math-professor-champions-undergraduate-research-508402\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Bob Marcotte\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e0d8d271cd290d592461fa9cefca013b\"},\"headline\":\"Why this Rochester math professor champions year-round undergraduate research\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-20T16:42:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-29T18:54:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/rochester-math-professor-champions-undergraduate-research-508402\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1574,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/rochester-math-professor-champions-undergraduate-research-508402\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/fea-iosevich-undergraduate-research.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Department of Mathematics\",\"featured-post-side\",\"Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence\",\"School of Arts and Sciences\",\"undergraduate research\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Campus &amp; 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