Dear Anitej,

To write an honors thesis, you need to find a faculty advisor to supervise it. Often this is done in tandem with joining a faculty member's lab and contributing to the lab's research agenda. We recommend the following strategies for finding a faculty advisor.

Registrar for the honors seminar, if you haven't taken it already.

Through the seminar, you will learn more about research at UMD and faculty advisors.

Go through the faculty webpages(https://www.cs.umd.edu/people/faculty). If you are interested in someone's research, you can go to the individual lab websites to find more information about how to apply to their research groups e.g.

Can Firtina - https://www.cs.umd.edu/~firtina/index.html
Fumeng Yang - https://fig-x.github.io/workwithus

Ask the faculty teaching your classes if you can get involved in research in their groups and relatedly register for classes taught by faculty that you would like to conduct research with

Best regards,

Erin Molloy
Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

University of Maryland, College Park

Lab Website: molloy-lab.org

On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 10:37 AM Anitej Suklikar <asuklika@terpmail.umd.edu> wrote:

Hi,

I hope you’re doing well. My name is Anitej Suklikar and I am a rising senior at UMD and I wanted to reach out because I’m interested in pursuing a CS honors thesis and would love to learn more about the process and what it involves.

Would you happen to be free sometime next week for a Zoom call to discuss it? I’d really appreciate the chance to get your perspective and guidance.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best,
Anitej Suklikar
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