Data Discovery Projects

Spring 2026 Award Winners

Agents in the Loop for Small Molecule Drug Design

Research and Storytelling Awards (Best Poster Award)

Akansha Jain, Annie Gao, Ava Joshi, Gautam Ramkumar, Shreyash Goli (Advised by Alan Cheng, Alec Glisman, Claire Suen, David He, and Xiaodong Zhu, Merck & Co)

Predicting Total Clay Content from Well Logs

Research and Storytelling Awards (Best Poster Award)

Joseph Wong, Lisa Hao, and Theo Dela Cruz (Advised by Kimberly Baldwin and Kevin Smith, U.S. Department of the Interior)

Governing the Sea: Automating Detection of Deep Sea Polymetallic Nodules

Research and Storytelling Awards (Best Poster Award)

Brian Hwang, Kailash Ramesh, and Thang Nguyen (Advised by Kimberly Baldwin, Erick Huchzermeyer, Kevin Smith, Obediah Racicot, U.S. Department of the Interior)

Arctic Vegetation Classification Using Machine Learning & Remote Sensing

Research and Storytelling Awards (Best Poster Award)

Jose de Jesus Ochoa Tolento and Thomas Teixeira Scarioli (Advised by Colette Brown, UC Berkeley)

Training and Benchmarking AI/ML Models Using Space Biology Transcriptomic Data

Research and Storytelling Awards (Best Poster Award)

Abraham Guan, Brian Zhou, Karen Meng, Ishanth Hombaiah, and Martin Li. Advised by Walter Alvarado, NASA

Spring 2026 Award Winners

Agents in the Loop for Small Molecule Drug Design

Predicting Total Clay Content from Well Logs

Governing the Sea: Automating Detection of Deep Sea Polymetallic Nodules

Arctic Vegetation Classification Using Machine Learning & Remote Sensing

Training and Benchmarking AI/ML Models Using Space Biology Transcriptomic Data

Data Discovery Projects

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

The Eviction Research Network

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

Analyzing internet broadband availability to close the digital divide

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

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

Creating patient summary using NLG

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

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

Supreme Court Opinion Draft Viewer

Text Analysis of Securities and Exchange Commission Comments and Rules

Diversity Tagging and Scoring for Films and TV

High spatial resolution mapping of emissions and air

Meta-analysis methods for publicly available datasets for Inflammatory bowel disease

Using Data Science and Text Mining to Improve Classification and Analysis of Healthy Start Grantee Progress Reports

Creating Machine Readable Well Test Data to Support Reservoir Evaluation and CCUS Efforts

Technovation's data dashboard

Categorization of journal entries of Operation Control Center (OCC)

Using Machine Learning for 2D Seismic Facies Classification Along the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf

SFFD EMS and Community Paramedicine

Spirometry AI

We Have to Talk: Resolving Conflict Through Spoken Conversation

From siloed databases to linked open data via Wikibase

Filling Gaps in Social Demographic Data using Machine Learning, Energy Consumption, and Alternative Data

Automated Quality Control and Analysis of Histopathology Images

Estimating human-technology team consensus and creativity from physiological signals

Analysis of Snowfall Storms Dynamics in the Western US

Investigating the Ethics of AI Art

United Nations Country Team Report

Denoising to improve drug discovery assay models

Fighting Climate Super-Pollutants

Understanding the food retail landscape: Are corporate businesses killing small businesses in Mexico?

Host Pathogen interaction in aging

Automated Next Generation Sequencing Workflow

LENS: Learning the Educational Needs of Students

Fathers' UpLift Data Dashboard

Empowering young stock market investors to have access to the same information as institutional investors

How much CO2 does our ecosystem breathe in and breathe out?

Better Learning Through Better Learning Spaces

DSG Interns