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

California Media Landscape Project / Exploring CA's News Deserts and more

Build data pipeline for mobile app

Term

Fall 2021

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Build a Speech Emotion Recognition system

Analyzing education and income disparities between persons with disabilities and without disabilities specifically by state, gender and race

Analyses of Distributed Data Accesses

Term

Fall 2021

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Algorithmic Analysis to Better Connect Patients with Services

Agent-based modeling of COVID-19 with a focus on health equity

Dynamics on Reddit

Natural language processing (NLP)

Developing standard phenology crop signatures for training Earth Observation classification models

Developing a geospatial knowledge graph for NGOs

Data discovery and visualization for BART's daily operation reports

Data access pattern study for High Energy Physics data analysis with Xrootd/Xcache logs

Term

Spring 2021

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

Dashboard/Model on Primary Health Delivery in Nigeria

Creating the Training/Test Data for Algorithms

Term

Spring 2021

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

Consumer Cohort Predictive Modeling

Clinical text classification/information extraction to understand real-world treatment effects at a large, academic medical center

Clinical information extraction to understand real-world treatment effects at a large, academic medical center

California Economic Stability Tool: Addressing the California Benefits Cliff

CAA Facebook posts engagers analysis

Term

Spring 2021

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

CAA Facebook posts engagers analysis

Term

Spring 2021

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Building an NLU model to auto-generate knowledge graphs from social data

Building an NLU model to auto-generate knowledge graphs from social data

Building an NLU model to analyze evolution of topics in sets of text documents

Ancient World Citation Analysis

Achievement Gaps in Public Schools

Analyzing Research on the Environmental & Energy Impacts of the Digital Economy

AI Platform for Social Media Listening

Machine Learning (ML)

Empirical Examination of Corporate Rebranding and Trademarks

CAA Data Analysis Project

Building Integrated Solar Photovoltaics Assessment via ML

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

Building Data Science Apps to teach Data Science

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Ancient World Computational Analysis

A Precision Medicine Recommender System for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: a pilot study using real electronic health records data from UCSF

CAA Data Analysis Project

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Addressing Structural Inequality in U.S. Agricultural Higher Education

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab - Modeling Access Pattern of Large Scientific Data Repository with Machine Learning

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Berkeley Police Department- Simulating Alternative Responses to Calls for Service

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

UC Berkeley School of Law - Indigenous Brands and Social Movements

Exploring the Achievement Gap in Berkeley Public Schools

Building Integrated Solar Photovoltaics Assessment via ML

Physical Science/Engineering