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

D-Lab, Digital Humanities, Near Eastern Studies - Ancient World Citation Analysis (AWCA)

Data for Social Good Foundation

Term

Spring 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

SimpleWater Inc - Environmental Health Estimator

Platforms/Infrastructure

Kiwi Campus - Dispatcher algorithm

Kiwibot - Kiwibot delivery robots

Clarity Movement Co. - Automated reports for city-wide air sensor network

Catalyst Off-Grid Advisors - Data visualization and analytics for off-grid solar in Africa

Physical Science/Engineering

Gauge.io - Data Visualization for User Experience Startup Projects

New Sun Road - Anomaly Detection in Solar Microgrids

Term

Spring 2020

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

East Bay Community Energy - Forecasting Day Ahead Electric Load using a Machine Learning Application and Bottom-up Aggregation of Individual Meters

Term

Spring 2020

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

East Bay Community Energy - Identifying Electricity Usage & Disconnection Patterns in Disadvantaged Communities

Term

Spring 2020

Topic

Physical Science/Engineering

Public Health Institute - Pathologists Cancer Alert

Term

Spring 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Public Health

Political Research Associates - Right Wing Sheriffs

Drexel University - Community Air Monitoring Monthly Report

Innovations for Youth - Examining the spaces of violence against youth experiencing homelessness

Climate Policy Initiative - D3 Data Viz using climate finance data

WAHVE

Platforms/Infrastructure

NASA Ames Research Center - NASA Data Visualization

Physical Science/Engineering

WITI@UC (CITRIS/COE) - Data visualization of State of Women in Tech

Women in Tech Initiative (COE/CITRIS) - Innovation Resources Database

Term

Spring 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

LBNL - Streaming data analysis

Platforms/Infrastructure

LBNL - Geometric and Manifold Learning on Graphs and Unstructured Data

Platforms/Infrastructure

UCSF - Meta-analysis of individual participant data from clinical trials of Crohn's Disease

UCSF - Detecting heart disease with cardiac sensor data

UCSF - Knowledge Representation and Discovery from a large Clinical Text Corpus

UCSF - Text Classification on Clinical Notes

UC Berkeley School of Law - The Docket of the Supreme Court of the United States: How does the Supreme Court decide what cases to take?

Exploring the Achievement Gap in Berkeley Public Schools

Cal Alumni Association - Cal Alumni Association Analysis of Engaged Alumni

Term

Spring 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure

Energy Resources Group - Thermal Unit Characterization Based on Data

Physical Science/Engineering

Department of Linguistics - Exploratory cross-linguistic analysis of acoustic data

Sociology & Haas School of Business - Pricing norms in cannabis markets

Sociology - Computational Analysis of Charter School Identities and Stratification

Sociology - Computational Analysis of Social Science Research

D-Lab, Digital Humanities, Near Eastern Studies - Sumerian Network Analysis

D-Lab, Digital Humanities, Near Eastern Studies - Ancient World Citation Analysis (AWCA)

ESPM - Addressing Structural Inequality in U.S. Agricultural Higher Education: An Assessment of Pedagogical Practices and Food Systems Coursework at Land-grant Institutions

Assessing Research Usability for Development Practitioners in Southern Africa

Making Cyberspace Inclusive: Developing Inclusive Online Speech Detector

Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship - Campus Discovery Opportunities Database

Term

Spring 2020

Topic

Platforms/Infrastructure