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

Reconstructing 2D CT dicom images into 3D volumes and perform registration-based quality check

Geographic information system (GIS)

AIrish

Natural language processing (NLP)

Role of climate change in infectious disease pandemic

Geographic information system (GIS)

NGO Insights Dashboard

Geographic information system (GIS)

Impacts of localized artificial enhancement of sea ice albedo in Arctic for the Fire-weather Worldwide

Geographic information system (GIS)

Machine Learning (ML)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Data and Genome Sciences Department: Network modeling to infer sparse gene co-expression estimates from single-cell sequencing data

Automated Optical Structure Recognition and Activity Extraction

Machine Learning (ML)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Machine Learning for Optimised Magnetic Field Computation

Physical Science/Engineering

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

The Causes and Consequences of Physician Misconduct

Natural language processing (NLP)

Visualizing Trends in Student Experience at Research Universities

Platforms/Infrastructure

The impact of personal networks on advancing environmental education in schools

Geographic information system (GIS)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Current Status of the Arctic-related research cooperation between U.S., Russian, and Chinese

Machine Learning (ML)

Natural language processing (NLP)

The Project on Arms Trade History

Geographic information system (GIS)

Fuel management in pebble bed reactors

Physical Science/Engineering

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

Toward Computational Literature Reviews: Analyzing Organizational Theories through Citations and Concepts

Natural language processing (NLP)

Ensuring the Longevity of Just As Special's Foster Care Resource Database

Term

Spring 2023

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Project AEI

Machine Learning (ML)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Building allele analyzer from human genomes for CRISPR gene therapy

Longitudinal data harmonization of child development in Latin America

Linking Scientific Articles to Media Mentions

Natural language processing (NLP)

Geospatial Analysis for Wildland-Urban Interface fire

Geographic information system (GIS)

Machine Learning (ML)

Using vision transformer for retinal video object detection and instance-level semantic segmentations

Physical Science/Engineering

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

Continued Research in D10 and San Francisco Districts

Term

Spring 2023

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Technical Area(s)

Geographic information system (GIS)

Real-Time Damage Assessment for Aerial Drone Imagery and Videos using AI

Term

Spring 2023

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

Technical Area(s)

Geographic information system (GIS)

Machine Learning (ML)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Machine Learning-based design and modeling of Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits

Physical Science/Engineering

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

Neuroprotective targets for treating Glaucoma

Un-supervised behavioural classification of laboratory mice

Machine Learning (ML)

Photogrammetric model volume studies for forest fire fuel load analysis

Geographic information system (GIS)

Machine Learning (ML)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Reconstructing the evolution of river systems across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary 66 million years ago

Geographic information system (GIS)

The Eviction Research Network

Term

Spring 2023

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Technical Area(s)

Geographic information system (GIS)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Diversity, Dominance, & Discrimination: "Dominance Terms" in Venture Capital Contracts

Machine Learning (ML)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Analyzing internet broadband availability to close the digital divide

Platforms/Infrastructure

Technical Area(s)

Geographic information system (GIS)

How Data can Accelerate Environmental Literacy for All CA TK-12 Students

Term

Spring 2023

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Technical Area(s)

Geographic information system (GIS)

The Power of Health in Africa: Remote sensing of power quality and reliability in Congolese health facilities

Geographic information system (GIS)

Creating patient summary using NLG

Machine Learning (ML)

Natural language processing (NLP)

The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) and Youth Outcomes

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Technical Area(s)

Geographic information system (GIS)

Scalable data analytics of off-grid solar receivables payments in Africa

Platforms/Infrastructure

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Supreme Court Opinion Draft Viewer

Natural language processing (NLP)

Text Analysis of Securities and Exchange Commission Comments and Rules

Machine Learning (ML)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Diversity Tagging and Scoring for Films and TV

Natural language processing (NLP)