MSDS '18 students Jack Prominski and Pragati Shah, led by faculty advisor and DSI professor Rafael Alvarado, undertook a capstone project to improve an automated system that matches PLOS article manuscripts with appropriate editors.
MSDS students Boh Young Suh, JB Park and James Xie worked with Prof. Quanquan Gu to develop a spatial model to find the intersections across Virginia with the most deadly crashes.
Presidential Fellows in Data Science Mark Rucker and Derek Lam, sponsored by the Data Science Institute and the Office of Postdoctoral and Graduate Affairs, are designing an algorithm that acts paternalistically to help people make decisions that are not just reflective of their immediate desires, but are also based on what they value as good.
Presidential Fellows in Data Science Laura Barry, Tingyang Meng and Jessica Munyan are investigating ozone emissions and photosynthesis rates by measuring gases using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone.