RayD Academic

We currently offer customized research projects in the following academic areas for high school and college undergraduate students.

 

School of Engineering and Applied Science

 

Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

【Research Topics】

• Explore scheduling algorithms
• Computer network
• Computer network programming
• Distributed system
• Research on digital logic and circuits
• Machine learning
• Face recognition
• Motion recognition
• Cryptocurrency

 

Engineering, Duke University

【Research Topics】

• User experience design
• Human-computer interaction
• Human-oriented design
• Virtual reality
• Augmented reality
• Novel user interface
• Game design
• Interaction design

 

Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, University of California, Berkeley

【Research Topics】

• Machine learning direction (machine learning). Understand the principles and algorithms of machine learning, and write programs to analyze specific data and problems. Master the use of sk-learn and Tensorflow, and understand data science/ data mining in the enterprise
• Artificial intelligence face recognition system. Understand the principles of image processing and machine deep learning, and learn to use the open source package YOO based on target detection to realize automatic recognition of real image objects
• Artificial intelligence language recognition and text content analysis and summary. Use machine learning to achieve speech recognition, or automatically extract useful information from the literature
• Classification and analysis of people’s attitudes towards risk
• App utilization rate evaluation system and improvement measures
• Research on the application of VR technology in the digital restoration of ancient buildings
• Research on handwritten digit recognition system
• Data Science: sql and Hadoop programming learn how to use sql and hadoop to process and analyze the database
• Analysis and prediction of traffic accidents based on big data
• Research on adaptive examination based on big data
• The application of computational fluid dynamics in engineering, such as: cardiovascular simulation direction, aerodynamic direction, hydraulic engineering direction, etc.

 

Applied Mathematics, MIT

【Research Topics】

• Predictive modeling in business (e.g. company sales, real estate prices)
• Data science: data sorting and quality filtering, Web/Internet-based data analysis; advanced statistical graphics for multivariate statistics
• Dynamic modeling of asset prices in financial markets (e.g. stocks, commodities)
• Analyze economic indicators in time series (e.g. interest rates, foreign exchange rates, macroeconomic variables such as unemployment rate, consumer prices)
• Portfolio management to maximize returns and control risks (volatility, skew/asymmetric and heavy-tailed return distribution)
• The rebalancing strategy of asset allocation in the portfolio (constant ratio rebalancing and Kelly standard)

 

Physics, Carnegie Mellon University

【Research Topics】

• Research on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
• Research on high-energy precision particle detectors
• Research on quarks and quark particle colliders in electrons
• The application of the theory of relativity in the world. Research on the Global Positioning System (GPS)
• Research on the gravitational lens that maps the dark matter in the universe

 

School of Biology and Chemistry

 

Biochemistry and Biomedicine, MIT

【Research Topics】

• Analyze harmful pigments in beverages
• New medical imaging technology
• Detection of pesticides and pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables
• Fast quantification of additives in milk
• Nanomaterials, new materials for drug analysis
• The treatment principle of Parkinson’s disease
• Analyze the effective ingredients of Chinese medicine
• Research on cranial nerve damage
• Research on liver damage caused by alcohol abuse
• Research on carcinogens in tobacco
• Alzheimer’s disease affects the body’s metabolism and induced stem cell therapy/bioinformatics

Biomedical, University of Southern California

【Research Topics】

• Biomedical research and drug development
• Stem cells
• Human genetics
• Cancer
• Nutrition
• Human diseases (such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, liver disease, etc.)

 

Biomedicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences

【Research Topics】

• Detection and research of 2019 novel coronavirus COVD-19
• Application of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology in the construction of animal disease models
• 3D printed bioactive scaffolds are used for research in the field of tissue repair and treatment

 

School of Social Science

 

Psychology, Education, and Sociology, University of California, Berkley

【Research Topics】

• Social structure: For example, in a particular society, what are the determinants and influences of the opportunity structure encountered by individuals that affect their “life opportunities” and “strategies for obtaining and success”?
• Social psychology and identity: For example, in which aspects are personal identity products of social order, social institutions, groups, and communities?
• Race, class and inequality: For example, what is the origin of race as a social characteristic, in these societies, people are considered to belong to racial groups and have different life experiences based on this identity?
• Educational Sociology: For example, what is the standard education model for the institutionalization of society? How are its elements selected?
• Culture: For example, how do members of a human community represent their own group experience and that of others? How can their ideals, goals, and sense of identity be expressed, spread and cultivated among group or community members or outsiders?
• Social organizations: For example, how do individuals and groups mobilize their individual and collective energy, abilities and resources to complete complex tasks. Run organizations, establish businesses, hold performances, maintain organizations, and survive competition and challenges?

 

Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Behavioral Psychology, University of Notre Dame

【Research Topics】

• Cognitive neuroscience of attention and consciousness
• Cognitive neuroscience of sensation and perception
• Cognitive neuroscience of memory
• Abnormal psychology: neurodevelopmental disorders (for example, ADHD)
• Statistics and methods

 

Child and Family Psychology, University of Notre Dame

【Research Topics】

• Developmental Psychology
• Social and emotional development, especially young people
• Parents and parent-child relationships, especially during adolescence
• Mother’s emotional health and parenting stress, especially when the child is adolescent or the child has ADHD or learning disabilities
• Body image of teenagers and young people
• Body image of middle-aged women
• Body image connection between mother and daughter

 

School of Business

 

Business and Economics, New York University

 

【Research Topics】

• Sharing economy or other next-generation economic models to solve long-term systemic problems caused by inefficient use of social assets, overproduction and/or underutilization;
• Analyze a long-term social problem and study how society can achieve market-based sustainable solutions;
• Examine the impact of different salary and incentive strategies in professional sports, and infer the impact of these strategies on the performance of less transparent industry organizations;
• Investigate the role of rapidly expanding digital platforms and technologies in consumer behavior and purchase decision-making processes;
• Analyze the factors that promote the negative externalities of specific forms of business to determine the best intervention points and mitigation methods;
• Conduct general research on the interdependence and relationship between economic activities and social stakeholders, focusing on identifying and understanding logic, dynamics and influence;
• Other possible topics and research fields include marketing strategy, KOL, corporate communication issues, media analysis, market failure, externalities, corporate sustainability, circular economy.

 

Finance, Investment theory and Private Equity, University of Notre Dame

【Research Topics】

• Externalities of corporate governance and pollution issues of public utilities and private enterprises
• Pricing monotonic and conditional information
• The correlation between ETFs and asset returns
• The impact of venture capital on company performance
• Evidence from exchange traded funds
• The revolving door of financial regulators
• Mutual Fund
• Local investors, price discovery and market efficiency
• Patriotism in the portfolio
• Mispricing of dual-class shares: profit opportunities, arbitrage and trading
• Mainstream model of investor behavior
• Private equity return, cash flow timing and investor choice

 

Finance and Investment, Rice University

【Research Topics】

• Capital market and investment value and growth: expected stock returns under time changes; analysis of the effectiveness of information related to stocks and bonds; risk, uncertainty, and asset prices; analysis of investment growth rates and asset returns;
• Finance, Empirical Finance
• The role of administrative decision-making in achieving organizational goals
• The practical application of decision theory (decision science itself constitutes the unity of mental phenomenology and behavioral phenomenology. Decision science provides people with a modern scientific and technological method and means of epistemology. Decision science explores how human society is headed In the future, how to make the development of history smoothly extend to the future scientifically)

 

Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

【Research Topics】

• Randomization and fuzzy theory
• Reverse induction of bounded rationality
• Social Discrimination and Intergenerational Pareto
• Rational expectations of mistakes and measurement of wrong tendencies
• Neural Behavior Network
• Will investment incentives generate innovation? Evidence from China
• Countable collection of infinite utility
• Research on product line marketing model
• Robust pricing under strategic transactions

 

Economics, Duke University

【Research Topics】

• Research on informal finance, such as microfinance, informal insurance, and informal savings
• “Gender economics”, such as domestic violence, gender wage gap, child marriage, etc.
• China’s development and political economy
• Micro theory: contract theory, organization theory, market design, “matching mechanism”, game theory

 

Entrepreneurship, Babson College

【Research Topics】

• Design thinking
• Opportunity identification
• Innovation and idea formation
• Idea shaping (brainstorming)
• SMART business plan
• Value proposition design
• Marketing and branding
• Create customer roles
• Create a prototype to test the feasibility
• Entrepreneur mentality and leadership
• The power of creativity and perseverance
• The role of failure in success: risk and fear of failure
• From prototype to MVP (minimum viable product)
• Tell your business idea coherently: business promotion
• Feasibility and business model vision (BMC)
• Develop and improve your business concept
• Beyond economic benefits: designing social influence
• Measure your success-metrics and key performance indicators to measure business decisions
• Take action and overcome obstacles-next steps

 

Music therapy, New York University

【Research Topics】

• Research on the relationship between musical elements and emotions, cognition and physical elements
• Music therapy research of rock music
• Research on the impact of music therapy on the community
• Research on the application of improvisational works of popular music to clinical treatment
• Research on Jazz Music Therapy
• The religious attributes of popular music and its influence on music therapy

 

School of Liberal Arts

 

Art History, University of Chicago

【Research Topics】

• The Legacy of Protestants: Early Eucharist Studies in the United States
• Research on Protestant materialism in the U.S. and beyond
• Research on the history of early American portraits-Characters, classes and changes (Covering Copley, West, others)
• Quaker Aestheticism Study-Plain style in painting, furniture and architecture
• Research on the history of painting
• American landscape painting-a new frontier of creativity (Cole, Bierstadt, Catlin)
• Research on the history of ceramic art in Anglo-Americans
• Research on art and science (eg: research on casting)
• Research on Retroism
• Early photographic research
• Sculpture research
• Asian, European and Indian art research

 

English Literature, University of Chicago

【Research Topics】

• Research on the adaptability of contemporary novels
• Research on aesthetic form and social connotation
• Research between people’s intimacy and politics in social changes
• Research on the project integration between different cultural forms and histories in the past 30 years (especially in unreal novels)
• How do people adapt to changing race, sex and environment
• Gender and Sex Research
• Film and Media Studies (Film)
• Contemporary literature research
• Research on supernatural novels (horror, etc.)
• Literary and emotional studies
• Research on the History of Literature and Art
• Literature, Internet and social media research
• Race and caste research

 

US/EU History, Brown University

【Research Topics】

• Studies on American and Atlantic culture and religion during the colonial period
• Research on Indian and African slavery
• Research on the religious and material culture of Native Americans
• Research on the history of American science, technology and environmental development
• Research on the history of social, political and cultural movements
• Historical research of comparative law
• Research on the history of children and childhood
• Research on sexual history
• Native American History-Encounter with Native Americans
• European missionaries and Native Americans
• Native American slavery
• African slavery in the United States
• Anti-slavery and abolitionism in the United States
• Colonial American History
• Early European Exploration
• American Revolution
• American Civil War
• Caribbean History
• History of Evangelicalism
• First Great Awakening
• History of Women and Gender in the United States
• Westward migration
• Manifestation of Destiny
• Religion and founding fathers
• Religious Freedom in the United States
• America as a Christian country
• The separation of church and state
• S. Constitution
• Global Missionary Movement (19th century)
• Database and Digital Humanities History Research

 

US/EU History, Rice University

【Research Topics】

• Research on refugees in Europe in the post-World War II era
• The impact of slavery on the economy and culture of American colonies
• The birth of the U.S. government
• The American War of Independence and its legacy: Why did Americans challenge Britain?
• Immigration to the United States: 19th Century
• Industrial Revolution and Modernization
• American Civil War: Experience and Legacy
• America in the 20th century: the birth of the “American Century”
• Cold War America and the Civil Rights Movement
• European Renaissance
• The impact of reforms on European history
• The scientific revolution of the 17th century
• The French Revolution and the formation of modern politics
• The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Modern Europe
• Wars in European history: Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II.
• Europe and China: from the 19th century to the present
• Guns, germs and steel: why the West has a prominent place in the rise of the early modern era
• Great discoveries and their impact on the modern world
• The history of black slave trafficking
• Globalization: Is this a new phenomenon?

 

European Jewish/Islamic/Middle Eastern History Studies, Vanderbilt University

【Research Topics】

• The bible of Trump’s time
• Non-Muslims in the Islamic world
• The economy of the Medieval Mediterranean
• Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls
• The Talmud and the Economy
• Jews, Christians and Islamic conquerors
• Under the Crescent and the Cross: Jews in Medieval Europe and the Islamic World
• Islam from religion to empire

 

Classical Literature and Latin Language Direction, Cornell University

【Research Topics】

Classical literature research topics are very rich, covering three major categories: Roman history, Cicero and Roman philosophy, and Roman epic Virgil’s Aeneid, with a total of 46 sub-topics.

• Research topics on the history of Rome: how epic stories are related to the “real” history of the founding of Rome; trace the political evolution of Rome; how the geography of Italy affects the development of Roman civilization, etc.;
• Research topics on Cicero and Roman philosophy: In what ways are Cicero’s political philosophy different from those of the early Stoics? Which is more attractive to the Romans: Stoicism or Epicureanism?
• A research topic about Aeneid of Virgil, an epic of classical literature: The Aeneid of Virgil, a Roman poet, is an epic with 12 books that tells the story of the establishment of Rome from the ashes of Troy. It may have been written in Rome during the time of Emperor Augustus in 30-19 BC.

 

Philosophy/Film Studies/Film Production, Columbia University

【Research Topics】

• What is a teen movie? How does it work?
• Can movies represent national identity?
• Hollywood sexism?
• Contemporary Asian cinema: theme, perspective and style.
• Movies and Philosophy: How does the free will in “Gataka” behave?
• Choose a historical event (such as the American Civil War, the 2008 financial crisis, the Second World War, the British or the Chinese Empire, etc.) and analyze how it is represented in the movie.
• How does racial discrimination (Asian Americans, African Americans) manifest in cinemas in the United States and/or Europe?
• Does the visual effect improve or destroy the movie?
• Film and Philosophy: The Ethical Dilemma in “Crime and Misconduct”
• Artificial intelligence and special effects in contemporary movies
• Discuss Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and its significance today.
• Discuss Plato’s “Socrates’ Apology” and its meaning today.
• Can we prove the existence of God?
• Are we the first body or mind?
• Is there a difference between artificial intelligence and humans?
• Is beauty purely subjective?
• Is beauty eternal?
• The relationship between morality and relatives?
• How is knowledge about the world generated?
• What is enlightenment? , Is it effective?
• “God is dead”: Friedrich Nietzsche discusses this statement in the context of today’s world.
• Are there any intolerable opinions in democracy?
• Does equality lead to social justice?

 

Film Study and Production, Northwestern University

【Research Topics】

• Animation direction
• Research on the history of animation
• Avant-garde art analysis and experimental animation
• Historical Studies of American and World Cinema
• Film history of 1895-1950
• Film history from 1951 to present
• Movie reviews
• Research on two movies with similar themes and topics
• Filmmaking
• Music and impressions in the movie
• African Americans in animation
• Women in movies
• How did the American film new wave in the 1970s affect today’s film art
• The rise and decline of Hollywood Studio System
• The Mogul
• The Star System (then and now)
• The history and development of independent filmmaking

 

Philosophy, Oxford University

【Research Topics】

• Post-Kantian philosophy (for undergraduate and graduate level), including all 7 characters: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and MerleauPonti.
• Socrates (in Plato’s early dialogue)
• Plato’s mature thought (Republic)
• Aristotle
• Hellenistic Philosophy (Perseverance, Doubt, Epicureanism)
• Descartes
• Pascal
• Leibniz
• Spinoza
• British empiricism (Rock, Berkeley)
• Kant
• Hegel
• Nietzsche
• Kilkegaard
• Mill’s Utilitarianism
• Heidegger
• Sartre
• Camus
• De Beauvoir
• Foucault
• Derrida
• Phenomenology
• Existentialism
• The meaning of life
• Virtue Ethics
• Kantian ethics
• Applied Ethics
• Epistemology (the study of knowledge, truth, skepticism, inductive problems)
• Free Will and Determinism
• Moral responsibility
• Self and personal identity
• Evil problem
• Religious philosophy (controversy over the existence and character of God)
• Philosophy of Art
• Philosophy of Language
• Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Perception
• Body and Mind
• Philosophy and Film

 

Comparative Literature, University of Chicago and University of Toronto.

【Research Topics】

• Modernist literature (especially English, French, German, Italian)
• Medieval literature (especially English, German, French and Italian)
• 19th century literature
• American Literature
• History of Fiction
• Poetry and Poetics
• 20th century drama
• Mainland Philosophy and Critical Theory
• Greek thought and literature
• Roman Literature
• Media Research and Globalization
• Film and film research
• Literature and Film
• Literature and Art
• Screenwriter

 

Comparative Literature and Film Study, Columbia University

【Research Topics】

• Academic and research writing
• Film and media studies
• Gender research
• Italian Studies
• Comparative Literature

 

East Asian Cultural Studies, University of Pennsylvania

【Research Topics】

• Chinese philosophy and art-8 classic characters and interpretation;
• Post-Confucius era-early Chinese philosophy;
• Sexual culture in ancient China;
• Research on ancient Chinese bronze inscriptions;
• The relationship between traditional Chinese culture and Hawaii;”
• Xunzi’s Philosophy-The Way of Etiquette;
• Comparison between Confucius and Santa Claus;
• When “loyal” does not mean “loyal”;
• Why is Taoism not in line with environmentalism?
• Research on the teachings of Han Feizi;
• The border expansion of Wei and Liao;
• Research on anti-rational thinking in ancient Chinese aesthetics;
• Linguistic research on the key words of ancient Chinese philosophy;
• Research on ancient Chinese women and moral dilemmas;
• Research on Zhuangzi’s physical and mental relationship;

 

Research on architectural history, MIT

【Research Topics】

• Architecture/Urban History
• American and European colonial architecture
• Draw a map of urban diseases
• Police brutality and urban protests
• The origin of Christian architecture
• Pit room of ancient architecture
• The trauma of post-war architecture in Berlin and World War II
• Apartheid and the establishment of Chinatown in the United States
• Tempietto and Renaissance architecture exploration in Rome
• Art History
• Oriental painting and racial stereotype exploration
• Japanese art and nuclear bomb
• Black artists in the racial equality movement
• German Expressionist Painting and Urban Society in the Early 20th Century
• Animal subjects in art and science
• Steal or save? The complex role of cultural heritage and museums
• Ancient mythology and 19th century historical painting
• Trauma and Memory in the Art of the 20th Century
• Should we demolish controversial monuments?
• Media/Gender Studies
• Cyborgs and post-humans in anime
• The role of memes (cultural genes) and viral themed videos in shaping public discourse
• Superhero characters become a reflection of society
• Gender representation in children’s toys
• Fear and desire in the narrative of science fiction