Spring 2025 Award Winners

Law, Section 230

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)

Climate change

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)

Typical boardroom

Measuring Board Effectiveness

Data Visualization (Project Award)

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

Mangrove Forest

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)

Campanile Clock

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

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

Term
Fall 2020
Topic
Social Sciences

NLP for Cannabis Text Data

Term
Fall 2020
Topic
Industry/Economics
Social Sciences

Wordnik - Etymology Search

Term
Fall 2020
Topic
Humanities
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

Term
Fall 2020
Topic
Social Sciences

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

Term
Fall 2020
Topic
Public Health

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

Term
Fall 2020
Topic
Public Health

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

Term
Fall 2020
Topic
Public Health

Powerside - System Telemetry Analysis

Term
Fall 2020
Topic
Industry/Economics
Physical Science/Engineering
Platforms/Infrastructure

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

Term
Fall 2020
Topic
Social Sciences

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

Term
Fall 2020
Topic
Data Visualizations
Industry/Economics

D-Lab, Digital Humanities, Near Eastern Studies - Ancient World Citation Analysis (AWCA)

Term
Fall 2020
Topic
Humanities

Data for Social Good Foundation

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Platforms/Infrastructure

SimpleWater Inc - Environmental Health Estimator

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Environment
Platforms/Infrastructure

Kiwi Campus - Dispatcher algorithm

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Industry/Economics

Kiwibot - Kiwibot delivery robots

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Industry/Economics

Clarity Movement Co. - Automated reports for city-wide air sensor network

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Data Visualizations
Environment

Catalyst Off-Grid Advisors - Data visualization and analytics for off-grid solar in Africa

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Data Visualizations
Physical Science/Engineering

Gauge.io - Data Visualization for User Experience Startup Projects

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Data Visualizations
Humanities
Industry/Economics

New Sun Road - Anomaly Detection in Solar Microgrids

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Physical Science/Engineering

East Bay Community Energy - Forecasting Day Ahead Electric Load using a Machine Learning Application and Bottom-up Aggregation of Individual Meters

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Physical Science/Engineering

East Bay Community Energy - Identifying Electricity Usage & Disconnection Patterns in Disadvantaged Communities

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Physical Science/Engineering

Public Health Institute - Pathologists Cancer Alert

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Platforms/Infrastructure
Public Health

Political Research Associates - Right Wing Sheriffs

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Social Sciences

Drexel University - Community Air Monitoring Monthly Report

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Environment

Innovations for Youth - Examining the spaces of violence against youth experiencing homelessness

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Social Sciences

Climate Policy Initiative - D3 Data Viz using climate finance data

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Data Visualizations
Environment

WAHVE

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Industry/Economics
Platforms/Infrastructure

NASA Ames Research Center - NASA Data Visualization

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Data Visualizations
Physical Science/Engineering

WITI@UC (CITRIS/COE) - Data visualization of State of Women in Tech

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Data Visualizations

Women in Tech Initiative (COE/CITRIS) - Innovation Resources Database

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Platforms/Infrastructure

LBNL - Streaming data analysis

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Data Visualizations
Platforms/Infrastructure

LBNL - Geometric and Manifold Learning on Graphs and Unstructured Data

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Data Visualizations
Platforms/Infrastructure

UCSF - Meta-analysis of individual participant data from clinical trials of Crohn's Disease

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Public Health

UCSF - Detecting heart disease with cardiac sensor data

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Public Health

UCSF - Knowledge Representation and Discovery from a large Clinical Text Corpus

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Public Health

UCSF - Text Classification on Clinical Notes

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Public Health

UC Berkeley School of Law - The Docket of the Supreme Court of the United States: How does the Supreme Court decide what cases to take?

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Social Sciences

Exploring the Achievement Gap in Berkeley Public Schools

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Social Sciences

Cal Alumni Association - Cal Alumni Association Analysis of Engaged Alumni

Term
Spring 2020
Topic
Platforms/Infrastructure