Undergraduate Research

Undergraduate Research

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme in Science or UROPS allows a student the opportunity to engage in independent learning and research. It also affords a student the chance to delve into topics that may not be present in the regular curriculum. The programme allows students to engage actively in research, discussions, intellectual communications and other creative activities. The experience gained upon completion of a project would help students in the preparation for future careers and postgraduate training. For more information on the general structure and related course codes, visit Science UROPS page

The Faculty of Science also offers exchange students from selected partner universities the opportunity to participate in Summer UROPS and Summer URAPS.

  1. The supervisor is automatically the examiner.
  2. Department recommends the following standard guidelines for assessment. The supervisor may propose a different set of assessment weightage and should do so in the proposal before it is endorsed by the department’s coordinator. No deviation is allowed once the proposal has been endorsed.
    • Written Report (50%)

This consists of a systematic study and elaboration of the topic of the UROPS Project. The report shall be typed on A4 size paper and shall include a title page.

    • Oral Presentation (20%)

The student is required to give an oral presentation on the work done. The oral presentation shall last between 30 to 45 minutes.

    • Interview (30%)

This will take place soon after the oral presentation. The purpose of the interview is to allow the supervisor to further probe the student’s understanding of the material presented in the project. The interview shall last about 30 minutes.

Timelines in italic are Faculty recommendations, for reference.

Activity

UROPS
(for NUS and Exchange students)

Summer UROPS/URAPS
(for FoS-Exchange students only)

Semester 1 intake

Semester 2 intake

Special Term intake

Only Special Term intake

Project and module application

Early June – Mid July

(See Faculty schedule for details)

Late November – Late December

(See Faculty schedule for details)

Early December – Early February (for Exchange students)

Late March – Early April (for NUS students)

(See Faculty schedule for details)

Mid-February

(See Faculty schedule for details)

Project work begins

Week 1, Semester 1

Week 1, Semester 2

Day 1, Special Term 1

Day 1, Special Term 1

Extension of 4MC UROPS  to 8 MC UROPS
(see Note 1)

Apply by end of Term Break, Semester 1

(See Faculty schedule for details)

Apply by end of Term Break, Semester 2

(See Faculty schedule for details)

Not allowed

NA

Project thesis submission (see Note 2)

Before Reading Week

By 4.30pm, Friday of Week 12 in same semester

Before Reading Week

By 4.30pm, Friday of Week 12 in same semester

By the last week of Special Term Part 2

By 4.30pm, Friday of Week 4, Special Term 2

Friday of Week 8, Semester 1 of following academic year

By 4.30pm, Friday of Week 8, Semester 1  (see Note 2 & 3)

Evaluation of project

Week 13

Week 13

Week 5, Special Term 2

Week 9, Semester 1

Examiner to submit completed grading forms before Wednesday of Week 10, Semester 1

Oral presentation & interview

Complete by Friday of Week 13 in same semester

Examiner to submit completed grading forms after interview and before Wednesday of Reading Week

Complete by Friday of Week 13 in same semester

Examiner to submit completed grading forms after interview and before Wednesday of Reading Week

Complete by Friday of Week 5, Special Term 2

Examiner to submit completed grading forms after interview and before Wednesday of Week 6, Special Term 2

Complete by Friday of Week 6, Special Term 2 (students must leave Singapore thereafter)

Complete by Friday of Week 6, Special Term 2 (see Note 3)

 

Note 1:

If application for extension is approved, students will follow the submission timeline in the following semester:

  • Extend from Semester 1 > follow Semester 2 timeline;
  • Extend from Semester 2 > follow Semester 1 timeline;
  • Not allowed to extend from Semester 2 to Special Term 2.

 

Note 2:

Students are required to submit:

  • 1 set of thesis report, in hard copy and directly to supervisor, for assessment, and
  • 1 set of thesis report, in PDF format, to the Department, and
  • A4 page abstract of the thesis in PDF format, to the Department.
  • Summer UROPS students only need to submit 1 set of thesis report, in PDF format and directly to supervisor, for assessment.

 

Note 3:

Summer UROPS requires students to give oral presentation and interview before project submission (reverse of regular UROPS) as students are given more time to complete thesis writing after leaving Singapore.

The list of project titles for the past three academic years are for reference purpose only.




Updated on 14 June 2024
AYStudent Project Title Supervisor
2021/2022ANG MING LIANGInverse Problems with Generative ModelsJonathan Mark Scarlett
2021/2022AKSHAI VENGATAdvanced machine learning theory and applicationsGhosh, Subhroshekhar
2021/2022CHENG YUI TOAlgebraic geometry over finite fieldsChin Chee Whye
2021/2022CHONG JING QUANNon-abelian Harmonic AnalysisZhang Lei
2021/2022CHOW BOON WEIIdentities on once punctured hyperbolic toriTan Ser Peow
2021/2022DICK JESSEN WILLIAMIntroduction to Deep LearningZhang Lei
2021/2022FANG XINYUIntroduction to Arithmetic GeometryZhang Lei
2021/2022IVAN TAN YONG HONGFinite element method for Stokes-type equationsCai Zhenning
2021/2022MICHAEL TAKAAKI LEONGBasic Concepts in Recursion TheoryYang Yue
2021/2022TENG YU-HSIANGTheory of Harmonic FunctionsYu Hui
2021/2022WANG YIDINGKernel methods for machine learningTong Xin
2021/2022XU YUNFEINumerical simulation for high-dimensional hyperbolic equations on simplicesCai Zhenning
2021/2022YAO HUAIZHENGeometry of plane curvesZhang De-QI
2021/2022YIP JUNG HONColorings and minors: progress towards hadwiger’s ConjectureHuang Hao
2021/2022ZHANG LIUp-Wasserstein Distance between High-dimensional Point Clouds via Persistent HomologyHan Fei
2021/2022KONG ZUXIANGThe Geometry of Discrete GroupsDinh Tien Cuong
2021/2022YUUKA FOO XIAO YINGA Mathematical Model of Cetacean BycatchBrett Mcinnes
2021/2022NIXON WIDJAJAMonte Carlo methods and Applications to Financial EngineeringRen Weiqing
2021/2022TIMOTHY WAN KAI YANGCategory TheoryTan Kai Meng
2022/2023CHEN YANYUComplexity measures of Boolean functionHuang Hao
2022/2023LIU YILIUAlgebraic schemes – an introductionZhang De-QI
2022/2023PAN YUTINGProbabilistic algorithms for data scienceGhosh, Subhroshekhar
2022/2023PAN JINGBINAnalysis and its applicationsGhosh, Subhroshekhar
2022/2023SPOUNCER LUCY ELIZABETHHomological/topological exploration of problems in combinatorics and discrete geometryHao Huang
2022/2023AGAMJYOT SINGH CHADHAEfficient algorithms for solving primal block-angular problemsLam Xin Yee
2022/2023ZHAI JUNGauss quadratic sumsLoke Hung Yean
2022/2023FANG XINYUProbability and Statistics fior Random Groups in Number TheoryGan Wee Teck
2022/2023SRIVATHSAN AMRUTHDistance Weighted DiscriminationLam Xin Yee
2022/2023LI BAISHIKlainerman-Sobolev’s inequality and its applicationAn Xinliang
2022/2023FATHIMA RAIZA RIFKYRepresentation of Wely GroupsZhang Lei
2022/2023CHRISTOPHER TAN RUI YANGSelected topics from Automata Theory and its ApplicationsFrank Stephan
2022/2023NGUYEN ANH DUCDiscrete optimal transport and related problemsToh Kim Chuan
2022/2023TAN YONG ANNOn the Hoffman-Singleton Theorem and related problemsHao Huang
2022/2023WEN FEIYANGSingular integral theoryAn Xinliang
2022/2023SUN HAOCHENGRepresentations of p-adic groupsZhang Lei
2022/2023QI ZHOUModeling and simulation for droplets in Bose-Einstein condensateBao Weizhu
2022/2023LI LINYIAdvanced statistical learningTong Xin
2022/2023WONG ZHI-YUANInvestigating post-earning announcement driftChen Kan
2022/2023LIU ANZONGFinancial time seriesTong Xin
2022/2023ZHANG MINGLANGAnalysis of Financial Time SeriesRen Weiqing
2022/2023CHEN YIMINGMathematical models of synchronization phenomenaYao Yao
2022/2023FENG QINGYANG Dynamical systems on differentiable manifoldsDinh Tien Cuong
2022/2023ISAAC LAI YIN CHUNG Generalized Inverses and OptimizationWertz, Timothy Michael
2022/2023KIM HEESAHNG Stone spaces and profinite spacesGoh Jun Le
2022/2023AY CANInverse problemsTong Xin
2023/2024LIU YILIUCohomology theory in Algebraic GeometryDe-Qi Zhang
2023/2024EOM IKHOONBrownian Motion and Related TopicsSun Rongfeng
2023/2024QI FULINThe Calderon-Zygmund theorem and its generalizationAn Xinliang
2023/2024KHOR JUN WEIUniformly distributed sequences of real numbersGoh Jun Le
2023/2024CHENG YUI TOExtremal problems on substructure enumerationHao Huang
2023/2024AGRAWAL NAMANMathematical topics in deep learningGhosh, Subhroshekhar
2023/2024TAO XINRANAnalysis of Financial Time SeriesRen Weiqing
2023/2024CHAOVEERAPRASIT CHAYAPOLAlgebras and Representation TheoryTan Kai Meng
2023/2024NGUYEN ANH DUCRobust optimization and related problemsMelvyn Sim
2023/2024WANG JUNHUAIStochastic optimizationTong Xin
2023/2024GOH JUN KIAT, EUGENEIntroduction to Calculus of variations and their applications.Chua Seng Kee
2023/2024JAX LEE LE SHENGVaR estimation with AI-generated financial time-seriesChen Kan
2023/2024Xu Xuezhou Reinforcement learning for roboticsTong Xin
2023/2024ZONGMIN YUStrichartz estimates for wave equationAn Xinliang
2023/2024KONG ZUXIANGCoxeter groupsZhang Tengren
2023/2024SHU LUOANDIBrownian motion and its connections to PDEsYao Yao
2023/2024BINLUO WEIYIAnalysis of Financial Time SeriesRen Weiqing
2023/2024FENG QINGYANGStochastic differential equation and its applicationsYao Yao
2023/2024WONG PUI LUNMonte Carlo methods and Applications to Financial EngineeringRen Weiqing
2023/2024JING XIAOYANGOptimization theoryTong Xin
2023/2024CLARENCE CHEW XUAN DATuran-type problems in connection with additive combinatoricsHao Huang
2023/2024SEOW MAO YUExamining fluctuations in stock prices through the Hurst exponentChen Kan
2023/2024HUANG YUQIMulti-Armed BanditsTan Yan Fu, Vincent
2023/2024NG JING RUIThe 2-fold branched cover of the 3-sphere along a pretzel knotWong Yan Loi
2023/2024LIU XINYUFinding critical points in nonlinear problems.Leung Man Chun
2023/2024WANG ZIXUANNonlocal ODEChua Seng Kee
2023/2024XIE YUBINA parabolic Faber-Krahn inequality via variational methodAn Xinliang
2023/2024LIM LI XIANGAdvanced problem solving in Undergrad MathematicsGhosh, Subhroshekhar