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Cambridge, Massachusetts
2027 Dates Upcoming: October 8th-10th, 2027
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MIT URTC is an internationally-renowned research conference for undergraduates and by undergraduates. Our annual conference is themed around incredible breakthroughs in engineering and technological research made by student researchers at the undergraduate level all over the country.
MIT URTC @ Ray and Maria Stata Center
(32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139)
Note: Technical paper submission deadline extended!
Technical Paper Submission Deadline: August 9th, 2026
Technical Paper Acceptance Notification: August 28th, 2026
Poster and Lightning Talk Submissions Deadline: September 4th, 2026
Poster and Lightning Talk Acceptance Notification: September 6th, 2026
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
2026 AWARD WINNERS
Congratulations to this year's winners, chosen by URTC 2026 attendees!
Best Lightning Talk
Mitigating Seed-Dependent Class Instability in Pruned and Dense IDS Models: A Lightning Talk
Ishan Mishra
Failure as a Form of Engineering: Rethinking Hypersonic Failure Through Geometry-Controlled Buckling
Naiessha Nayyar
Heat-Flux Targeted Neural Closure Surrogates for Fokker-Planck Simulation Acceleration
Francis Padilla
Best Poster Presentation
A Low-Cost Multi-Sensor E-waste Sorting System Optimized for Accessibility
Julia Chan, Chloe Chen, Vijeta Garg, Elizabeth Petrunis
AeroProtect: A Low-Cost Predictive Multi-Agent 3D Air Traffic Collision Avoidance System via A Novel Cockpit Warning Light Framework
Sakethram Kuncha, Jeevan Vakati
LEAPS: Open-Source Software for Exoplanet Photometry and Secondary Eclipse Analysis Using a Random Forest Classifier
Aviv Dobzinski, Roger Lian, Asher Suter, Jasmine Wu
URTC 2026
SPEAKERS (2026)
Yujun Ge (Amy)
Computer Science Student at Stanford University
Ignacio Vázquez-GarcÃa
Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital
Jalyn Kelley
Senior Manager of IEEE University Partnership Program
Jeremy Kepner
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center, Head and Founder
2026 PATRONS
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