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

Discovery Projects

Visualizing Trends in Student Experience at Research Universities

Accelerating Equitable Access to Environmental Literacy for CA TK-12 Students

Integrating data resources for California plants

Can planting trees help fight climate change? - Building a data-driven framework for evaluating natural climate solutions

Addressing Hospital Pricing & Access to Care

How can teachers' social networks advance climate resilience?

Mapping Orphan Oil Wells in California

Quantifying surface evaporation changes post-wildfire

Promoting Student Well-being in K-12 Education

Symbiotic co-design for Cyber-Physical Systems

Enzyme selection for compostable plastics/rational design of protein-like heteropolymers

Massive Neurophysiology Data for Coma Recovery

Allele specific editing program for CRISPR gene therapy

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

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

Computational Literature Reviews

Using Online Obituaries for Public Health Surveillance

Improving the Sumerian Language Linguistic Annotation Pipeline

Quantifying the Commons