Natural and Life Sciences
State of the Art Big Data Science for Unprecedented Searches for New Z’ Particles Motivated by the B Meson Anomaly and Dark Matter (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Elijah Sheridan to work in the laboratory of Professor Alfredo Gurrola in the Department of Physics & Astronomy during the summer of 2021. Elijah is a senior with majors in Physics and Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science. The project funded by the fellowship sought to investigate the feasibility of...
Addressing Racial Disparities in Lung Cancer Screening (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Andrew Gothard to work in the laboratory of Dr. Jeffery Blume in the Data Science Institute at Vanderbilt University during the summer of 2021. Andrew is a junior with majors in Mathematics and Computer Science. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to introduce Andrew to data science techniques and the...
Mutational Biases in Ascomycota (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Qianhui Zheng to work in the laboratory of Antonis Rokas in Biological Sciences during the summer of 2021. Qianhui is a senior with majors in Computer Science and Biochemistry. Mutations are a major source of genetic variability and novelty, providing the fuel for natural selection. Mutations are random with respect to the...
Substance Uses and Prefrontal Cortex, Thalamus, and Cerebellar Volumes: An Integrative Investigation on Brain Shrinkage (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Qiaochu (Francis) Jiang to work in the laboratory of Neil Woodward in the Department of Psychiatry during the summer of 2021. Qiaochu is a senior with majors in Neuroscience and Psychology and a minor in Asian Studies. Substance use disorder (SUD), or substance abuse, is characterized by excessive and continued use of...
Beliefs and Behaviors During COVID-19 (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 1, 2020—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Reena Zhang to work in the laboratory of Dr. Jennifer Trueblood in the Department of Psychology during the summer of 2020. Reena anticipates graduating in May 2022 with majors in Psychology and Computer Science. Under Dr. Jennifer Trueblood, Reena Zhang and Claire Hanson (another DSI-SRP recipient) used statistical modeling with data from...
Controlling Outlier Contamination In Multimessenger Time-domain Searches For Supermasssive Binary Black Holes (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 1, 2020—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Qiaohong (Joanna) Wang to work in the laboratory of Professor Stephen Taylor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy during the summer of 2020. Qiaohong anticipates graduating in May 2022, and is majoring in Math and Physics. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to understand a versatile outlier mitigation method...
How the Brain Makes Decisions: Modeling the Dynamics of Neurons that Drive Choice (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 1, 2020—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Claire Hanson to work in the laboratory of Professor Thomas Palmeri in the Department of Psychology during the summer of 2020. Claire graduated in May 2021 with a major in Neuroscience and minor in French. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to understand how the brain makes decisions. Historically, the canonical...
Modeling Individual Differences in Human Object Recognition with Deep Neural Networks (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 1, 2020—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Samuel Lee to work in the laboratory of Professor Thomas Palmeri in the Department of Psychology during the summer of 2020; Sam has majors in French Horn Performance, Computer Science, Mathematics and a minor in Data Science. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to understand how and why neural representations...
Mutational Biases in Ascomycota (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 1, 2020—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Qianhui Zheng to work in the laboratory of Professor Antonis Rokas in the Department of Biological Sciences during the summer of 2020. Qianhui anticipates graduating in May 2022 with majors in Computer Science and Biochemistry. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to understand mutational biases in ascomycota. Mutations are a...
Data Science Institute welcomes 18 undergraduate fellows for virtual summer research
Jun. 5, 2020—On Monday, June 1st the Data Science Institute (DSI) welcomed its second cohort of Summer Research fellows. The summer research program (DSI – SRP) engages students who are interested in carrying out data-science-related research with a Vanderbilt faculty member and integrates them into the institute’s community of data science scholars. This year the program will...