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

DaanMatch - A decision-making tool/method to facilitate the correlation of NGO’s and Corporation’s datasets for an efficient fund/aid allocation

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) - Erroneous High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Degradation

NHERI SimCenter - Enhancing regional scale natural hazard simulations with artificial intelligence

Platforms/Infrastructure

SF Chronicle - Disaster Maps

Berkeley Law Center for Law, Energy & the Environment - Analyzing Research on the Environmental & Energy Impacts of the Digital Economy

United Ways of California

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Creative Commons - Image Clustering and metric inference

Platforms/Infrastructure

Creative Commons - Image Popularity and Authority

Platforms/Infrastructure

Creative Commons - Linked Commons Graph Analysis

Platforms/Infrastructure

Goodly Labs - Public Editor

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Goodly Labs - Research Ready Government Archives

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Goodly Labs - Demo Watch

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Bay Area Rapid Transit - Reduce service outages of BART

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

Platforms/Infrastructure

City of Paterson - Mapping Eviction Trends in the City of Paterson

Cal Alumni Association - CAA Data Analysis Project

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Girl Effect - Using NLU to derive evaluation results from qualitative in-product feedback

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Girl Effect - Speaking her Language: Using NLU to build conversational products for girls in developing countries

East Bay Community Energy - Evaluating Alameda County CO2 Emissions and Optimizing Customer Programs Using Marginal Emissions Data

Physical Science/Engineering

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

UC Berkeley, Biophysics - Identification and Classification of Intrinsically Disordered Regions in Proteins

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

Public Health

BioXplor Inc - Data Visualisation for Covid-19 Free online Platform

Platforms/Infrastructure

Public Health

School of Information - Evaluating Accessibility on Congressional Websites

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Using AI and real-time data to power an early warning system for public safety and the recognition of emotions

ESPM - Addressing Structural Inequality in U.S. Agricultural Higher Education: An Assessment of Pedagogical Practices and Food Systems Coursework at Land-grant Institutions

Lawrence Hall of Science - Building Data Science Apps to teach Data Science

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Mapping for Environmental Justice

Sumerian Networks

The Tempest Media - AI Content Management System for The Tempest Media

Platforms/Infrastructure

Wordnik - Hyphenation Project

Platforms/Infrastructure

Voice of Specially Abled People - Business Case for Investment into MMR vaccination by Developing Nations

NLP for Cannabis Text Data

Wordnik - Etymology Search

Platforms/Infrastructure

Group Dynamics on Reddit

Term

Fall 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Berkeley School of Law - Empirical Examination of Corporate Rebranding and Trademarks

UCSF - Clinical Natural Language Understanding using transformer models and extensions incorporating tabular data

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

Innovations for Youth - Exploring spaces and places of violence against young people experiencing homelessness

Powerside - System Telemetry Analysis

Physical Science/Engineering

Platforms/Infrastructure

Berkeley School of Law - What's Important to the Supreme Court

WITI@UC, CITRIS and COE - Visualizing Women in Tech Data at UC