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

Detecting and confirming adaptive convergent amino acid evolution in hibernating animals: A computation and CRISPR-based approach

Mapping global terrestrial photosynthesis with machine learning and satellite images

Patterns of HIV Care Engagement in Tanzania

Establishing Sierra Nevada Precipitation Response to Ocean Teleconnections

The Evictions Study

Estimating human-technology team consensus and creativity from physiological signals

Teaching People to Invest

San Francisco Southeast, D10 Needs Insights

Predicting Quantum advantage timeframe

Term

Fall 2022

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

Natural Capital Valuation Model

Early Learning Data Streamlining

Impact of Climate Change on Mangrove Forests

Longhand

Product Bundling and Consumer Screening in Video Game Markets

Public Editor

Matching Algorithm

Analyzing 3D Data From Augmented Reality Headsets

Spirometry for Access to Pulmonary Care in Underserved Populations

Automating Spirometry Quality Assurance

Building Comprehensive Ontologies

Data Visualization for Scaleup Entrepreneurship

Visualizing Diversity and Gender Equity in Tech and Entrepreneurship at UC

Tracking Neural Stem Cells

Term

Fall 2022

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

Public Health

Computational Literature Reviews

Using Online Obituaries for Public Health Surveillance

Improving the Sumerian Language Linguistic Annotation Pipeline

Quantifying the Commons

Role of Climate Change in Infectious Disease Pandemics

Build Actionable Climate-Smart Proactive Risk Resilience

Building Machine Learning Models for Arctic Ice Restoration

Simulating Alternative Responses to Calls for Service

Predicting Alzheimer's Disease

Coral Reefs Overtime

Collections Explorer

Utilizing Deep Active Learning for Optimizing SLO

Global Poverty & Practice Organizations

Analyzing Changing Rainfall Patterns in the Bay Area

Using AI to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Term

Fall 2022

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

Earthquake Ground-Motion Simulations

Recruiting and Retaining Bi-Lingual and Bi-Cultural Clinical Staff