Data Science Discovery Projects

Fall 2023 Award Winners

Cross-Regional Lead Service Line Prediction using Machine Learning

Data Science Insights Award

Jasmine Andrade, Pranav Walimbe, Andrew Kerr, Akash Iyer, Melad, Freddie Pham

The Data Initiative for Environmental and Climate Action in California's TK–12 Schools

Team Collaboration Award

Avani Gireesha, Cole Hesterberg, Isaac Gonzalez, Jessica Hsu, Michelle Lin

Project AEI

Data Visualization Award

Kai Koerber, Joseph Schull, Mizuho Li, Melad Sabagh, Danielle Wong, Xiaole Guo, Manu John, Theophilus Pedapolu, Hanqi Xiong, Henry Cen, Arnav Dalal

Data Source Pattern Studies for High Energy Physics Data Analysis

Cloud Computing Award

Malavikha Sudarshan

Data Science for Localized Climate Prediction Product

Ribbon of Excellence

Hailee Schuele, Irene Widiaman, Eesha Thaker, Yongzhen Shi James, Farouk Ghandour, Danielle Ma

Natural Hazard Recovery Team

Social Impact Award

Shuqi Chen

Discovery Projects

AI Platform for Social Media Listening

Machine Learning (ML)

Analysis of Yosemite and Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park Long Term Hydrology

Geographic information system (GIS)

Continuation of ESG text analysis project from Fall 2021 Data Science Discovery

Natural language processing (NLP)

Theoretical Research on Synthetic Data for Machine Learning

Term

Spring 2022

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

Converting User Data to Drive Growth at Budding Seed Startup "Wing"

Term

Spring 2022

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Accounting for Growth of Chesapeake Bay Pollution

Geographic information system (GIS)

Machine Learning for Groundwater Model Emulation

Machine Learning (ML)

Flaubert Project - Literary Analysis

Natural language processing (NLP)

Public Editor - Labeling News Misinformation

Natural language processing (NLP)

Game data analysis for discovering implicit communication

Causal Inference Dashboard - Sliding Scale Health

Term

Spring 2022

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Public Health

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

Web-Crawling for All: A Universal, Accessible Framework for Collecting Digital Data

Platforms/Infrastructure

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Street Level Organizations in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Machine Learning (ML)

Search Driven Analytics - Simplicata

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

Visualizing BART Daily Operations

Geographic information system (GIS)

Pre-trained Video Models with Domain Transfer for Efficient Disease Detection Using Echocardiograms

Theoretical Research in Planning Simulations using Reinforcement Learning

Term

Spring 2022

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

Students walking up the steps to the Campanile on campus. (Photo /Keegan Houser)

Equity and environmental education - Social network analysis

Deep-learning for real-time prediction of storm-surges and tsunamis

Data Integration to demonstrate the impact of women's leadership

Country Risk Service Performance Model

Child Welfare collaboration with Berkeley Journalism and PBS

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