Mathematics
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...
Exploring Online Sub-communities for Autism and Social Connections (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Chet Weissberg to work in the Network and Data Science (NDS) laboratory led by Assistant Professor Tyler Derr in the Department of Computer Science during the summer of 2021. Chet is a junior with a majors in Mathematics and minors in Computer Science and Cinema and Media Arts. The project funded...
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...
Undoing the Chilean Reform (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Janet Stefanov to work with Professor Kathleen McKiernan in the Department of Economics during the summer of 2021. Janet is a senior with majors in Economics and Mathematics and minors in Russian and Data Science. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to understand the macroeconomic and welfare implications of proposed social...
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...
Understand Rare Disease by Aggregating In-House Data with Public Data from Pubmed, Social Media, and Search Engine (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Zheyu (Richard) Zhu to work in the laboratory of Professor Yuankai Huo in the Department of Computer Science during the summer of 2021. Zheyu is a senior with majors in Computer Science and Mathematics. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to understand the segmentation performance of four different feature extraction...