UROP Project

llm, rag, ai, resource computing

Research Mentor: Dr. Paul Van Der Mark,
Department, College, Affiliation: Research Computing Center, N/A
Contact Email: pvandermark@fsu.edu
Research Assistant Supervisor (if different from mentor):
Research Assistant Supervisor Email:
Faculty Collaborators: Alex Birkovsky
Faculty Collaborators Email: abirkovsky@fsu.edu

Looking for Research Assistants: Yes
Number of Research Assistants: 1
Relevant Majors: Computer Science
Project Location: On FSU Main Campus
Research Assistant Transportation Required:
Remote or In-person: Partially Remote
Approximate Weekly Hours: 8,
Roundtable Times and Zoom Link: NA

Project Description

The Research Computing Center (RCC) at Florida State University supports research and education by maintaining a distinct campus cyberinfrastructure and offering training opportunities and dedicated consulting services. Within RCC, the AI Lab explores the rapidly evolving fields of AI, machine learning, and generative AI to better serve its customers. This has led to several UROP projects, such as the classification of Shakespeare's works and election prediction based on Twitter content.

Research Tasks: FSU has published a significant amount of formal documentation on policies related to travel, purchasing, security, HR, and other areas. However, it can be hard to find specific information. The goal of this project is to develop a chatbot that utilizes RAG and LLM technologies to provide users with answers to questions about FSU policies. This will involve scraping relevant policy documents, training an LLM, and making it accessible through a web interface, such as Open WebUI.

Skills that research assistant(s) may need: Interest or experience with Large Language Models.