Spring 2023 Discovery Projects

 

Academia / Education

FHA: Faculty Hiring Analysis | Moore Accuracy Lab

Collective Intelligence for Continuous Improvement |  UC Berkeley CalHOPE

Linking Scientific Articles to Media Mentions |  UC Berkeley

Ten Strands/CAELI - How Data can Accelerate Environmental Literacy for All CA TK-12 Students |  Ten Strands and California Environmental Literacy Initiative (CAELI) (Full)

HERE to Promote Student Well-being in K-12 Education |  UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center

Identifying trends and insights from conference abstracts |  Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Predicting Insights from Conference Abstracts |  Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Visualizing Trends in Student Experience at Research Universities (Spring 2023) |  Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium, CSHE, UC Berkeley

The impact of personal networks on advancing environmental education in schools |  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Toward Computational Literature Reviews: Analyzing Organizational Theories through Citations and Concepts |  Dartmouth College and UC Berkeley

Better Learning Through Better Learning Spaces |  University of California, Berkeley (Full)

Access patterns of large distributed data system | LBNL

Data Visualization: Equity in College and University Athletics |  Accelerate Equity (affiliated with non-profit organization Athlete Ally) (Full)

LENS: Learning the Educational Needs of Students | NWEA (Full)

OUSD Budget Analysis |  Oakland Education Association (Full)

 

Business / Economics

Diversity, Dominance, & Discrimination: "Dominance Terms" in Venture Capital Contracts |  University of California, Berkeley, Culture, Diversity, and Intergroup Relations Lab (CDIRL)

Seven Million Demand Elasticities |  Arizona State University, the San Francisco Fed, and the University of Chicago

Workforce Analytics - Employee Engagement |  Petaluma Health Center (Full)

Workforce Analytics-Benefit Utilization |  Petaluma Health Center (Full)

Workforce Analytics - Time in Meetings vs. Productivity |  Petaluma Health Center (Full, no longer taking applications)

Separating Financial Fact from Opinion | Berkeley Law (Full)

A SkyDeck backed startup empowering young stock market investors to have access to the same information as institutional investors | Wisdm (Full)

Understanding the food retail landscape: Are corporate businesses killing small businesses in Mexico? |  UC Berkeley (Full)

 

Environment / Sustainability 

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

Optimizing the climate benefits of seaweed farming |  Environmental Defense Fund

Valuation of Nature Capital |  Zulu Forest Sciences

High spatial resolution mapping of emissions and air | UC Berkeley Department of Chemistry (Full) 

Role of climate change in infectious disease pandemic | Climformatics Inc.

Geospatial Analysis for Wildland-Urban Interface fire |  University of California, Berkeley

Building localized climate prediction product | Climformatics Inc.

Analysis of Snowfall Storms Dynamics in the Western US  |  UCB, ESPM (Full)

Impact of Climate Change on Mangrove Forests | IBM (Full)

ChatBot for Drinking Water Regulations |  California State Water Resources Control Board (Full)

Can planting trees help fight climate change? - Building a data-driven framework for evaluating natural climate solutions |  UC Berkeley (Full)

Climate Synapse Carbon Mitigation Platform |  Tusher Initiative, Haas School of Business (Full)

How much CO2 does our ecosystem breathe in and breathe out? |  UC Berkeley (Full)

Fighting Climate Super-Pollutants |  Project Climate at Berkeley Law (Full)

 

Humanities

Photogrammetric model volume studies for forest fire fuel load analysis |  Dept. Anthropology

AIrish | UC Berkeley Department of English, Irish Studies

PhiloBiblon: From siloed databases to linked open data via Wikibast | PhiloBiblon (Full)

FactGrid Cuneiform |  FactGrid Cuneiform

Text Analysis of Securities and Exchange Commission Comments and Rules | UC Berkeley School of Law

LMC: Language Model Calibration |  Moore Accuracy Lab

The Project on Arms Trade History |  Berkeley History Department

Improving the Sumerian Language Linguistic Annotation Pipeline & lexicalizing the CDLI |  Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)

Investigating the Ethics of AI Art |  Denova Labs (Full)

 

Industry

PAYGo Lab: scalable data analytics of off-grid solar receivables payments in Africa |  Catalyst Energy Advisors

Catalyzing a global movement of food systems leaders, powered by plants and data |  Plant Futures Initiative (Full)

Project membership |  YMCA of the East Bay (Full)

Project AEI |  Koer A.I., Inc

DSG Interns - Various Projects |  Data for Social Good Foundation (Full)

Technovation's data dashboard | Technovation (Full)

Creating employee-rated company review dataset |  University of Colorado Denver (Full)

ZeeMee Year End Analytics and Visualizations | ZeeMee (Full)

Square's Partner-Referred Sellers | Square (Full, no longer taking applications)

Analyzing API Call Activity | Block / Square (Full, no longer taking applications)

Telematics Data Dashboard |  Honda Development & Manufacturing of America LLC (Full, no longer taking applications)

Applying Data to Advance Augmented Reality | Geopogo AR+ (Full)

Community App |  Baby2Baby (Full)

ImpactMapping |  Impact Circles (Full)

Determining success | Callisto (Full)

CAA Members Discovery | Cal Alumni Association (Full)

Self-service data ingestion framework |  Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Full)

Fathers' UpLift Data Dashboard | Fathers' UpLift (Full)

Automated Quality Control and Analysis of Histopathology Images |  Merck (Full)

 

Natural Sciences

Reconstructing the evolution of river systems across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary 66 million years ago |  Earth and Planetary Science (EPS), Berkeley Geochronology Center

Ensuring authenticity of biological imaging data |  University of California, Berkeley (Full)

Un-supervised behavioural classification of laboratory mice |  Dan Lab at UC Berkeley (Full)

Creating a data product using Intelligent Semantic Search |  Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Network modeling to infer sparse gene co-expression estimates from single-cell sequencing data |  Merck Research Laboratory; Data and Genome Sciences Department

Building allele analyzer from human genomes for CRISPR gene therapy |  Clelland lab, UCSF Dept of Neurology; Weill Neurosciences Institute 

Benchmark dataset generation for discovery biologics | Merck

Deep learning for pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics | Merck

IB 32 gecko notebook |  IB 32 Bioinspired Design

Pupil Power - Developing Predictive Models of Pupil Size |  DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (Full)

Building computational tools to analyze life at single-molecule resolution |  Tjian-Darzacq Lab, University of California, Berkeley (Full)

Automated Genome Manipulation Pipeline |  Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Full)

Automated Next Generation Sequencing Workflow |  Regeneron Pharmaceuticals​ (Full)

Host Pathogen interaction in aging |  University of California, Berkeley (Full)

Estimating human-technology team consensus and creativity from physiological signals |  US DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (Full)​​​​​​

 

Physical Sciences / Engineering

Anomalies detection on variable frequency drive | Powerside

New approaches to reconstructing ancient continental motions |  Swanson-Hysell Group

Space Weather Drivers: Understanding Ionospheric Variability using Satellite Data |  Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) (Full)

Machine Learning-based design and modeling of Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits |  Berkeley Wireless Research Center

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

Using Machine Learning for 2D Seismic Facies Classification Along the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf |  Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Pacific Region (Full)

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

Creating Machine Readable Well Test Data to Support Reservoir Evaluation and CCUS Efforts |  Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Pacific Region (Full)

Automated Optical Structure Recognition and Activity Extraction |  Merck Research Laboratories

Machine Learning for Optimised Magnetic Field Computation |  UC Berkeley

Fuel management in pebble bed reactors |  Nuclear Engineering Department (Full)

Using vision transformer for retinal video object detection and instance-level semantic segmentations |  C. Light Technologies

Machine learn with time series data to identify abnormality of air conditioner | BART (Full)

ADAM: Asteroid Discovery, Analysis, and Mapping Platform - Data Inconsistencies in the MPC |  B612 Foundation (Full)

Categorization of journal entries of Operation Control Center (OCC) | BART (Full)

ML for micro robots and solar sails |  Berkeley Autonomous Microsystems Lab (Full)

 

Public Health / Medicine

SFFD EMS and Community Paramedicine |  San Francisco Fire Department (Full)

The Power of Health in Africa: Remote sensing of power quality and reliability in Congolese health facilities |  Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab, UC Berkeley

Analyzing Hospital Prices and Hospital Market Areas | UC Berkeley Petris Center (Full)

Creating patient summary using NLG |  Innovaccer (Full)

Social Listening on Vaccine Confidence in Southeast Asia |  UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Neuroprotective targets for treating Glaucoma |  UC Berkeley School of Optometry & Vision Science

Generating 3D models of the human heart from biomedical images using deep learning |  Shadden Lab (Full)

Using Data Science and Text Mining to Improve Classification and Analysis of Healthy Start Grantee Progress Reports |  Health Resources & Services Administration, Maternal & Child Health Bureau, Division of Healthy Start & Perinatal Services (Full)

The Causes and Consequences of Physician Misconduct |  Haas School of Business

Spirometry AI |  Fisher Center for Business Analytics, Haas School of Business (Full)

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

Healthcare Pricing | UC Berkeley

Developing analysis pipeline for functional calcium imaging dataset |  Kaufer Laboratory, Dept of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley

Machine learning from brain scans for predicting TBI outcomes |  Neural Systems and Data Science Lab (Full)

AHA Data Science - Analysis of > 13 million patient records | American Heart Association (Full)

Hospital Affiliations in California: Trends and Impacts |  Petris Center for Health Care Market and Consumer Welfare (Full)

Deep learning brain data for detecting Alzheimer Disease |  Center for human sleep science (Full)

Deriving eye gaze metrics from functional MRI data |  UC Berkeley Dept of Psychology (Full)

Denoising to improve drug discovery assay models |  Merck & Co (Full)

 

Social Sciences

Multispecies Cities Studio Datathon |  UC Berkelfey

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

Mining and Mapping Racial Attitudes in National Surveys |  Goldman School of Public Policy

Ensuring the Longevity of Just As Special's Foster Care Resource Database |  Just As Special (Full)

Longitudinal data harmonization of child development in Latin America |  University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health

Global Poverty and Practice Minor Organizations (GPP Orgs) Database | UC Berkeley Global Poverty and Practice Minor (Full)

The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) and Youth Outcomes |  Aspiranet (Full)

Supreme Court Opinion Draft Viewer | UC Berkeley School of Law (Full)

Idiographic Dynamics Lab |  Idiographic Dynamics Lab

The Eviction Research Network |  The Eviction Research Network

Istanpolis: Visualizing local Christian communities of Ottoman Istanbul |  UC Berkeley, Department of History

Natural Language Processing for raw naturalistic audio data to learn about parent-child interaction in low-income households |  Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), UC Berkeley

Understanding Racial Disparities in Behavioral Health Emergency Response |  Risk Resilience Research (Full)

Filling Gaps in Social Demographic Data using Machine Learning, Energy Consumption, and Alternative Data |  East Bay Community Energy (Full)

Analyzing internet broadband availability to close the digital divide. |  EducationSuperHighway

UN Common Country Analysis (CCA) |  United Nations Development Coordination Office

Cooperation Frameworks (CF) Good Practices Database |  United Nations Development Coordination Office

NGO Insights Dashboard |  DaanMatch (Full)

We Have to Talk: Resolving Conflict Through Spoken Conversation |  Social and Moral Judgment Lab (SOMO) (Full)

Continued Research in D10 and San Francisco Districts |  Wu Yee Children's Services

Cleaning criminal justice data | EPIC Data Lab at Berkeley

Simulating Police Responses to Calls for Service | Berkeley Police Department (Full)

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Megastudy |  Berkeley Culture Center

Bay Area Arrest Trends: Perceptions vs Reality |  Impact Justice (Full)

A risk model for Social-Political Conflict in US States |  School of Information and Breakwater Strategy (Full)

UNSDG Information Management System |  United Nations Development Coordination Office (Full)

United Nations Country Team Report |  United Nations Development Coordination Office (Full)

Diversity Tagging and Scoring for Films and TV |  Media Metadata Research Lab (mmrl) (Full)