Mathematics
DSI and Anthropology project aims for largest image-based survey of archeological features and sites in America
Jan. 24, 2023—Vanderbilt’s Steven Wernke, an Associate Professor of Archeology, is working with the Data Science Institute on a project using satellite imagery and deep learning to produce the largest image-based survey of archeological features in all of the Americas. Archaeologists have faced perennial problems of scale and representation, struggling to match the scale of analysis to...
Apply for Citadel Securities’ Midwest Datathon and Midwest Regional Terminal Live for a chance at $15,000
Jan. 18, 2023— Applications are now open for Citadel Securities’ Midwest Regional Datathon and Midwest Regional Terminal Live challenge. At stake in both challenges is $15,000 in cash prizes and exclusive recruitment opportunities with Citadel. The Midwest Regional Datathon is a data science competition challenging students from the best universities in the region to take on real-world...
Detection of microbiota change caused by inborn errors of immunity (IEIs) through 16S rRNA sequence analysis (DSI-SRP)
Sep. 8, 2022—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Qi (Kathy) Liu to work in the laboratory of Dr. Janet Markle in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology during the summer of 2022. Qi (Kathy) is a senior with majors in Mathematics and Biological Sciences: Molecular & Cellular. Inborn errors of immunity (IEIs) are immunodeficiencies caused by rare genetic mutations. Because...
Outsourcing Repression: How States Mobilize Civilians for Violence (DSI-SRP)
Sep. 8, 2022—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Clara Jiang to work in the laboratory of Emily Ritter in the Department of Political Science during the summer of 2022. Clara is a senior with majors in Mathematics and Political Science. Over the summer, Clara worked on the Outsourcing Repression project to examine how race riots and US Marshal appointments...
District-Level Resource Allocation during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding How Districts Leveraged Federal Stimulus Funds (DSI-SRP)
Sep. 8, 2022—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Jingyi Chen to work in the laboratory of Christopher Candelaria in the Department of Public Policy and Education during the summer of 2022. Jingyi is a senior with majors in Human & Organizational Development and Mathematics. Over the summer, Jingyi worked with Professor Christopher Candelaria to analyze district and school-level allocation...
Eosinophilic Granulocyte Recognition on Whole Slide Imaging Using CircleSnake Deep Learning Model (DSI-SRP)
Sep. 8, 2022—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Yilin Liu to work in the laboratory of Dr. Yuankai Huo in the Department of Computer Science during the summer of 2022. Yilin is a senior with majors in Computer Science and Mathematics. Eosinophil granulocytes, also called eosinophils or eosinophiles, are white blood cells that are one of the immune system...
Examining the Impact of Social Media Functions and Algorithms on Emotion and General Well-Being (DSI-SRP)
Sep. 8, 2022—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Yixin Wang to work in the laboratory of Dr. Shilo Anders in the Department of Anesthesiology during the summer of 2022. Yixin is a senior with majors in Mathematics and Psychology. This summer, Yixin and Dr. Andres’ laboratory focused on locating which social media platforms they wanted to investigate, analyzed social...
The Contested Meaning of Abortion (DSI-SRP)
Sep. 8, 2022—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Rebecca Rossi to work in the laboratory of Dr. Sophie Bjork-James in the Department of Anthropology during the summer of 2022. Rebecca is a senior with a major Mathematics. This project examines how individuals and organizations discuss the topic of abortion on social media. By examining Twitter data related to abortion...
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...
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...