DSI-SRP
Demographics of Multi-Messenger Supermassive Black-Hole Binaries from the Illustris Cosmological Simulation (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Katharine (Katie) Cella to work in the laboratory of Professor Stephen Taylor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy during the summer of 2021. Katie is a senior with majors in Computer Science and Physics and a minors in Mathematics. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to determine the properties...
Utilizing Imaging Mass Cytometry to Identify Glioblastoma Cell Clusters (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Rohit Khurana to work in the laboratory of Dr. Rebecca Ihrie in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology during the summer of 2021. Rohit is a junior with majors in Computer Science and Molecular & Cellular Biology. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to understand how specific subpopulations of...
Social Media, Turnout Rate, and Election (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Yuqin (George) Yang to work in the laboratory of John Sides in the Political Science department during the summer of 2021. George is a junior with majors in Economics and Political Science. This project aims to examine how President Trump communicates with his voters and the general public during the 2020 election via twitter,...
The Effects of COVID-19 on Public Opinion and Political Behavior in the Americas (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Xinxin (Amy) Zhang to work in the laboratory of Elizabeth Zechmeister in the Political Science department during the summer of 2021. Amy is a junior with majors in Political Science and Economics and a minor in French. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to understand the relationship between COVID outcomes (COVID case...
Beating the Stock Market with Machine Learning: Better Algorithms or Better Data? (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Qinlian Yang to work with Dr. Jesse Blocher in the Owen Graduate School of Management during the summer of 2021. Qinlian is a senior with major in Mathematics and minors in Computer Science and Business Administration. The project funded by this fellowship aims to understand how to predict the stock market with enhanced precision using...
Using Data Science to Reveal Host-Microbiota Interactions that Promote Obesity During Early Life (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Jessica Mo to work in the laboratory of Professor Mariana Byndloss in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center during the summer of 2021. Jessica is a senior with majors in Medicine, Health, and Society and minor in Earth and Environmental Sciences. This project centered around the...
Examining the Evolution of Mitochondrial Genomes in a Group of Closely-Related Pathogenic and Non-pathogenic Fungi (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Miya Hugaboom to work in the laboratory of Dr. Antonis Rokas in the Department of Biological Sciences during the summer of 2021. Miya is a senior with majors in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Medicine, Health, and Society. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to understand the evolution of and...
Microdebitage Soil Analysis of Tzikin Tzakan Stoneknappers (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Amy Rieth to work in the laboratory of Professor Markus Eberl in the Department of Anthropology during the summer of 2021. Amy is a junior with majors in Anthropology and English. The project funded by this fellowship investigated the effectiveness of two methods of computer-based soil particle sorting methods. This investigation...
Deep-CCA: Developing a Deep Multi-view Learning Algorithm for Aggregating Multi-modal Patient Data (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded funded Jiaxin (Nicole) He to work in the laboratory of Professor Yuankai Huo in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science during the summer of 2021. Nicole is a junior with majors in Computer Science and Mathematics. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to apply canonical correlation analysis (CCA) for cancer’s survival...
Investigating fMRI Preprocessing Variations: Multi-echo ICA vs. Conventional Preprocessing (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Hangling Liu to work in the lab of Catie Chang during the summer of 2021. Hangling is a Junior with majors in Computer Science and Economics and a minor in Spanish. Hangling worked in the Neuroimaging & Brain Dynamics Lab during the summer of 2021, and focused on computational analyses and...