Two EECS Undergraduate Students Earn Research Awards


The University of Kansas selected 54 students for undergraduate research awards. EECS students, Junyi Zhao (senior) and William Powers (junior) were among the recipients.

Zhao's research is entitled "RelayAttack: Fooling Image-to-Text and Speech-to-Text Translation Systems," and will be supervised by Professor Bo Luo. Powers' research and creative work is entitled BackTrader V2, a cloud platform that will allow investors to build automated computer trading systems without programming; his work will be supervised by Professor Hossein Saiedian.

The award, a $1,000 scholarship during spring 2023, is granted by the KU Center for Undergraduate Research

Additional details are available on the KU News webpage.