How do you trust artificial intelligence, or AI, when it doesn’t know what it doesn’t know? How do you safely move computing systems trained in simulation into the real world, where mistakes carry real consequences?
In the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, those questions are the starting point for undergraduate research projects, where students tackle real-world problems as they reshape the future of computing.
That work earned national recognition this year, as four Fulton Schools undergraduate students received Honorable Mentions in the 2025–2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards from the Computing Research Association, or CRA. The program honors students across North America who show exceptional promise in computing research, prioritizing originality and impact.
Visit Engineering News to meet four students whose work spans statistical modeling, robotics, uncertainty-aware AI and sustainable computing, and who are already thinking like leading researchers.