UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #1278 | Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement

Submission information

Submission Number: 1278

Submission ID: 20986

Submission UUID: 7b4c56e7-4266-41c3-a0f0-2cb7d682c9e3

Submission URI: /urop-research-mentor-project-submission-portal

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Created: Mon, 08/18/2025 - 08:44 PM

Completed: Mon, 08/18/2025 - 08:51 PM

Changed: Tue, 08/26/2025 - 09:34 PM

Remote IP address: 217.180.196.6

Submitted by: Anonymous

Language: English

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Research Mentor Information

Primary Research Mentor Name Narendra Bosukonda

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Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated) nbosukonda@business.fsu.edu

Position Title Faculty

FSU College (if applicable) Business

FSU Department or Non-FSU Organization Affiliation Marketing

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Overall Project Details

Title of the Project The role of executive tone in firm disclosures

Project Keywords audio analysis, CEO, CFO, earning calls.

Are you currently looking for research assistants? Yes

Number of Research Assistants Needed 3

Relevant Research Assistant Major(s) Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Computer Science, Linguistics

Project Location: On FSU Main Campus

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Please select the choice that most accurately describes your expectations for the research assistant(s): Partially Remote

Approximately how many hours a week would the research assistant(s) need to work? 5-10 hours

Roughly what time frame do you expect research assistant(s) to work? Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)

Overall Research Project Description I am recruiting students to develop my research program in the field of firm marketing strategies. Through this project I am looking to identify the different features of executives voice disclosures that influence stakeholders such as stock analysts and investors. I am trying to develop a machine learning algorithm to extract these features from audio recordings of earnings calls. As a first step, I intend to develop an annotated training data set of voice samples.

Research Tasks This project can involves literature review about audio analysis, linguistics and preparing a training dataset of audio and text data.

Skills that research assistant(s) may need: Required : Knowledge about firm disclosures and earnings calls, Introductory knowledge of Python
Recommended: Familiarity with text and audio analysis in python.

Mentoring Philosophy This is my second year of mentoring students through UROP. My first year has helped me in understanding the expectations of students and the time constraints they face to do research. This year I am recruiting students for a specific project and I will be working with them in developing a very specific set of skills. Through this project students can expect to learn the following:
1. How to conduct a literature review
2. Using LLM's to conduct preliminary academic research
3. Understand different types of firm disclosures, specifically earning's calls
4. Work with text and audio data and learn feature extraction from this data.

While I will provide students with necessary guidance, I give students the opportunity to explore different resources independently and learn from them. Research process is often iterative and I urge students to be flexible as the research positioning may change based on the initial set of results.

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Are you interested in participating in the UROP Research Mentor Roundtable? Yes

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Roundtable Info

Day: Wednesday, September 3
Start Time: 5:00
End Time: 5:30
Zoom Link: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/97670570218

UROP Program Elements

Mentor Handbook, FAQs, and Communication Yes

UROP Performance Evaluation Yes

Materials Grant Yes

UROP Poster Presentation Yes

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Year 2025

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