Data Discovery Projects

Spring 2025 Award Winners

An Empirical Analysis of Section 230

Data Discovery Insights (Best Poster Award)

Dan Chizik, Isabelle Ng, Nihar Nuthikattu, Siyona Sarma (Advised by Dr. Emma Lurie)

Equitable Stewardship of California’s Water in a Changing Climate

Data Discovery Insights (Best Poster Award)

Claire Meaney, Maram Ahmed, Isabelle Goebel, Rain Zou (Advised by Prof. Laurel Larsen and Dr Dino Bellugi)

Measuring Board Effectiveness

Data Visualization (Project Award)

Brian Hwang, Canon Stringer, Iris Liu, Kenny Wongchamcharoen, Keryssa Li (Advised by Brittni Levinson)

MangroveGPT: Real-Time Multi-Modal Analysis with Agentic AI

Human Contexts and Ethics (Project Award)

Gilbert Harijanto, Ashley Nguyen, Aniket Kamat (Advised by Dr. Ranjan Sinha)

AI Meets Innovation: Berkeley’s AMP Manager Toolkit for Leaders

Large Language Modeling Innovation (Project Award)

Keagan Jon Aromin, Sheryas Rana, Aditi Singh, Gabriel Gomes, Brian Chen, Atharv Naidu (Advised by Dr Jolie Lam)

Discovery Projects

Train Service Delay Pattern Study

Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping

Term

Fall 2022

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

Incident Impact on Youth Outcomes

Advanced Methods of Time Series

web3 Security Use Case

Curating and Harmonizing 11M Patient Records

Solution for Online Image Abuse

Diversity Data Analysis Tool

Machine Learning for Improved Energy Logistics

Quantifying Ecosystem Carbon Cycling

Geographic information system (GIS)

Building NLP Models to Classify News Articles

Natural language processing (NLP)

Precision Medicine Using Text Mining and Data Science

Natural language processing (NLP)

Ancient World Citation Analysis

Natural language processing (NLP)

Solar forecasting

Term

Spring 2022

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

Mentia: Facial Emotion Recognition and Speech To Text For Dementia Patients

Natural language processing (NLP)

Alecto AI: Cross-content abuse content moderation tool

Machine Learning (ML)

Application for Driving AR-for-Architecture Marketing and Sales Growth

Causal Inference in Data Science Platform

AI Platform for Social Media Listening

Machine Learning (ML)

Analysis of Yosemite and Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park Long Term Hydrology

Geographic information system (GIS)

Continuation of ESG text analysis project from Fall 2021 Data Science Discovery

Natural language processing (NLP)

Theoretical Research on Synthetic Data for Machine Learning

Term

Spring 2022

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

Converting User Data to Drive Growth at Budding Seed Startup "Wing"

Term

Spring 2022

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Accounting for Growth of Chesapeake Bay Pollution

Geographic information system (GIS)

Machine Learning for Groundwater Model Emulation

Machine Learning (ML)

Flaubert Project - Literary Analysis

Natural language processing (NLP)

Public Editor - Labeling News Misinformation

Natural language processing (NLP)

Game data analysis for discovering implicit communication

Causal Inference Dashboard - Sliding Scale Health

Term

Spring 2022

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Public Health

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

Web-Crawling for All: A Universal, Accessible Framework for Collecting Digital Data

Platforms/Infrastructure

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Street Level Organizations in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Machine Learning (ML)

Search Driven Analytics - Simplicata

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Visualizing BART Daily Operations

Geographic information system (GIS)

Pre-trained Video Models with Domain Transfer for Efficient Disease Detection Using Echocardiograms

Theoretical Research in Planning Simulations using Reinforcement Learning

Term

Spring 2022

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

Students walking up the steps to the Campanile on campus. (Photo /Keegan Houser)

Equity and environmental education - Social network analysis

Deep-learning for real-time prediction of storm-surges and tsunamis

Data Integration to demonstrate the impact of women's leadership

Country Risk Service Performance Model

Child Welfare collaboration with Berkeley Journalism and PBS