Washington University's Department of Computer Science and Engineering SURA (Summer Undergraduate Research Assistantship) Program served as a model Research Experiences for Undergraduates

Research Experiences for Undergraduates

Research Experiences for Undergraduates are competitive summer research programs in the United States for undergraduates studying science, engineering, or mathematics. Such programs usually focus on targeting women and underrepresented minorities...

 site for the NSF from 1990-1997 and included many exemplary outcomes, including (in chronological order):

• Leana Golubchik (UCLA), paper on video on-demand storage servers cited 206 times, Ph.D. from UCLA in CS, Associate Professor of CS at USC (formerly faculty at Columbia and Maryland)

• Christos Papadopoulos (Wash U), paper on denial of service attacks cited 219 times, Ph.D. from Wash U in CS, Associate Professor of CS at Colorado State (formerly faculty at USC)

• Scott Hassan (Buffalo), paper on digital library interoperability cited 86 times, M.Sc. from Stanford in CS, author of the Google search and spider prototype backrub, entrepreneur founder of eGroups
  EGroups
  eGroups.com was an email list management web site. The site allowed users to create their own mailing lists and allowed others to sign up for membership on the list. The web site provided archives of the messages as well as list management functionality. Each group also had a shared calendar, file...
  
   and Willow Garage
  Willow Garage
  Willow Garage is a robotics research lab and technology incubator devoted to developing hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications. It was started in late 2006 by Scott Hassan, an early Google employee who helped develop Google's technology. Steve Cousins is the president...
  
  http://www.willowgarage.com/

• Quinton Zondervan (Eckerd), CEO at Excelimmune, a natural immunity therapy company, author of 13+ patents, Master's in CS from MIT

• Jennie Dorosh-Chamberlain (Harvard), Producer/Director of seven films, graduate of USC Film School

• Jersey Chen (Yale), paper on beta blockers after myocardial infarctions cited 385 times, M.D. from Yale, Assistant Professor of Cardiology at Yale

• Bill Chen (Wash U), author of Mathematics of Poker, Ph.D. from Berkeley in Mathematics, member of PokerStars
  PokerStars
  PokerStars is the largest online poker cardroom in the world. PokerStars' satellite tournaments produced the 2003 World Series of Poker champion, Chris Moneymaker. 1983 champion Tom McEvoy, 2005 champion Joe Hachem, 2009 champion Joe Cada and 2010 champion Jonathan Duhamel and others also represent...
  
  

• Adam Costello (Wash U), paper on log-structured file systems cited 124 times, Ph.D. from Berkeley in CS, researcher at Google

• Mark Hayden (Berkeley), paper on bimodal multicast cited 512 times, Ph.D. from Cornell in CS

• Neil Heffernan (Amherst), paper on intelligent tutoring systems cited 53 times, Ph.D. from CMU in CS, Associate Professor of CS at WPI

• Lincoln Smith (Berkeley), doctoral student in CS at Illinois-Urbana, software engineer at Google

• Karl Stiefvater (aka Qarl) (Wash U), leading animator of virtual water, including The Matrix Reloaded
  The Matrix Reloaded
  The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 American science fiction film and the second installment in The Matrix trilogy, written and directed by the Wachowskis. It premiered on May 7, 2003, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, and went on general release by Warner Bros. in North American theaters on May 15,...
  
  , The Matrix Revolutions
  The Matrix Revolutions
  The Matrix Revolutions is a 2003 American science fiction film and the third installment of The Matrix trilogy. The film was released six months following The Matrix Reloaded. The film was written and directed by the Wachowski brothers and released simultaneously in sixty countries on November 5,...
  
   and Riven
  Riven
  Riven is a puzzle adventure game and the sequel to Myst. Developed by Cyan Worlds, it was initially published by Brøderbund. Riven was distributed on five compact discs and released on October 29, 1997, in North America; it was later released on a single DVD-ROM, with improved audio and a...
  
  

• Steve von Worley (Wash U), co-founder and CTO of Freestyle Interactive, a digital marketing firm, NSF Fellow at Berkeley CS

• Nancy Chang (Harvard), paper on stochastic word segmentation of Chinese cited 234 times, Ph.D. from Berkeley in CS, researcher at ICSI

• Miranda Flory-Capra (Wash U), Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering/Human Factors from Virginia Tech

• Alex Fukunaga (Harvard), paper on cooperative mobile robotics cited 637 times, Ph.D. from UCLA in CS, Assistant Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology (formerly at NASA/JPL)

• Reid Gershbein
  Reid Gershbein
  Reid Gershbein is an entrepreneur, studio executive, computer-generated imagery specialist, and film producer/writer/director.- Education :Attended Oberlin College, and then went to graduate school at both Princeton University and then Stanford University for his doctorate in Computer Science...
  
   (Oberlin), paper on rendering complex scenes cited 128 times, Ph.D. from Stanford in CS, leading animator on Shrek
  Shrek
  Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow. Loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!...
  
  , Madagascar (2005 film)
  Madagascar (2005 film)
  Madagascar is a 2005 computer-animated film produced by DreamWorks Animation, and released in movie theaters on May 27, 2005. The film tells the story of four Central Park Zoo animals who have spent their lives in blissful captivity and are unexpectedly shipped back to Africa, getting shipwrecked...
  
  , Bee Movie
  Bee Movie
  Bee Movie is a 2007 computer animated family comedy film starring Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, and Patrick Warburton. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, it is directed by Simon J...
  
  , Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
  
  , etc., joint venture producer with Larry Page and Sergey Brin

• Y. Tom Ku (Harvard), principal/founder of Tykhe Capital, a financial services company with expertise in quantitative and computer techniques (formerly at D.E. Shaw)

• Angela Lai (Penn), VP of Engineering at Generic Media, a streaming media technology firm, M.Sc. from Penn in CSE

• Ryl Ashley (Wash U), securities analyst for the telecom and computer hardware industries

• Rosanne Rouf (MIT), M.D. from Duke, Sarnoff Fellow, papers on lipoprotein cholesterol, failing myocardium, etc.

• Vitaly Shmatikov (Washington), paper on cryptographic protocol analysis cited 220 times, Hertz Fellow and Ph.D. from Stanford in CS, Assistant Professor of CS at Texas (Austin)

• Mark Foltz (Wash U), NSF Fellow and Ph.D. from MIT in CS, papers on information maps and spaces, intelligent environments, software engineer at Google

• David Saff (Wash U), paper on continuous testing during development cited 44 times, Ph.D. from MIT in CS, researcher at Google

• Diana Moore (Wash U), VP of Engarde, a computer network security firm

• Noah Treuhaft (Oberlin), paper on recovery-oriented computing cited 284 times, Ph.D. from Berkeley in CS

• Jessica Linsday (Truman), paper on semi-formal legal argumentation and law citation database cited 45 times,, Missouri law graduate, Prosecutor for Missouri township (hometown of current Missouri Governor)

• Joe Altepeter (Wash U), paper on decoherence-free subspaces cited 156 times, NSF Fellow and Ph.D. from Stanford in Physics, formerly research postdoc at Illinois, Postdoc at Northwestern University's Center for Photonic Communication and Computing researching quantum information and entanglement

• Lynn K. Carmichael (Wash U), paper on thetaiotamicron symbiosis cited 237 times, researcher at the Genome Sequencing Center, Wash U School of Medicine

• Nina Kang (Harvard), patents for challenge-response systems and for discovery of servers, researcher at Google and star of Google recruiting videos

• Anne Jump (Harvard), co-editor of collected essays of Susan Sontag
  Susan Sontag
  Susan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, feminist and political activist whose works include On Photography and Against Interpretation.-Life:...
  
  , formerly representing Oliver Sacks
  Oliver Sacks
  Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE , is a British neurologist and psychologist residing in New York City. He is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University, where he also holds the position of Columbia Artist...
  
   at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

The program was conceived as a pro-bono activity in 1986 by Professor Will Gillett and later expanded with NSF funding by Professor Ronald Loui

Ronald Loui

Ronald Prescott Loui is an American computer scientist and philosopher identified as "Frederick" in U.S. President Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father memoir, the first student the ten year-old Obama meets at Punahou School...

. Approximately 90 students were mentored in this program, about half of which were underrepresented minorities in the field of computing.