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Presidential Fellows

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Using Data Science to Uncover Native Kinship

Presidential fellows Margot Bjoring and Christopher Whitehead are using data science and history to uncover native kinship of indigenous peoples from the Northeast 400 years ago. Through parish records, the two fellows have found names and answered questions of people that otherwise would have gone unnoticed.

History Psychology
Cal Buelo and Neda Nazemi

Cloudy, with a Chance of Algal Blooms

Doctoral students Cal Buelo and Neda Nazemi are studying algal blooms and water toxicity using machine learning

Presidential Fellow Environmental Science
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Using machine learning and image data to study bacterial communities

Cell behaviors and the coordination of those behaviors affect how bacterial communities amass and operate as a population. Jie Wang and Mingxie Zhang are using image data and machine learning to study that behavior.

Machine Learning Biology Presidential Fellow
Eli and Jack

Using Neural Networks to Investigate the Spread of Disease

Malaria affects between 300 and 600 million people every year. UVA doctoral students Eli Draizen and Jack Lanchantin want to change that. 

Neural Networks Biology Presidential Fellow
Shenandoah

Researchers Investigating Climate Change Impact on Shenandoah forests

Researchers Jake Malcomb and Linnea Saby plan to analyze a massive geospatial data set collected over a two-year period from the International Space Station using an “extreme learning machine” tool that aims to mimic the human brain.

Environmental Science Presidential Fellow
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Data Science Fellows’ Research Cracking the Code on What Makes a Job Candidate Successful

Data Science Fellows’ Research Cracking the Code on What Makes a Job Candidate Successful

Presidential Fellow Careers Student Spotlight

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