Each semester CKIDS organizes DataFest, a collection of projects proposed by USC faculty and researchers where students can learn through data science practice. Awards for students that demonstrate salient contributions and unique skills are given when the final DataFest project presentations take place at the end of the semester.
DataFest F19 was held in collaboration with the GRIDS data science student association. GRIDS provides mentoring, tutorials, and presentations for all participating students.
Everyone in the USC community is welcome to participate in DataFest. Please contact CKIDS for more information. USC faculty and researchers can submit project proposals. Students can join the GRIDS data science student association.
A summary of the DataFest F19 project presentation event describes the projects and awards given to students.
DataFest F19 Projects
In the Fall 2019 semester, CKIDS hosted twenty DataFest projects listed below. These projects were proposed by USC faculty and researchers through an open call for project proposals. More detailed DataFest F19 project overviews can be found here. A report of the final presentations can be found here.
1. Understanding Internet Communities through Videogames
2. Measuring population-level nutrition and dietary habits from Instagram
3. Tracking Coastal Change at Catalina Island
4. Data Mining Over Past Climates
5. Understanding human environmental perceptions using multi-biometric signals in the built environment
6. Mining Side Effects in Cancer Treatment
7. Modeling the career trajectory of music artists
8. Automated generation of paper authors
9. A visual analytic toolkit for cultural biases
10. Modeling uncertainty in drought data
11. Automated time series analysis
12. Creating and visualizing a linked knowledge base of crime data
13. Building an open catalog of integrated datasets for Los Angeles
14. Building Sports Data Knowledge Graphs
15. Tell us where it hurts
16. Capturing provenance of data analyses
17. Data infrastructure for USC
18. Detecting deep fakes
19. Measuring Pollution Benefits from Congestion Pricing Initiatives
20. Learning to Connect: Modeling Social Network Dynamics and Evolution by Imitation Learning
DataFest F19 Co-Chairs
Andres Abeliuk
Senior Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
Deborah Khider
Senior Data Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
Fred Morstatter
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
Project Advisors
USC faculty and advisors participating in DataFest in Fall 2019 proposed twenty DataFest projects through an open call for project proposals:
Andres Abeliuk
Senior Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
Wael Abd-Almageed
Research Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
Research Team Leader, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
Joon-Ho Choi
Associate Professor of Building Science, School of Architecture
Associate Dean for Research & Creative Work, School of Architecture
Kayla de la Haye
Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine
Jessica Dutton
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Program Administrator, Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Emilio Ferrara
Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
Director, Applied Data Science Program, Viterbi School of Engineering
Daniel Garijo
Senior Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
Yolanda Gil
Research Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
Research Professor, Spatial Sciences Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Director, Interdisciplinary Data Science Programs, Viterbi School of Engineering
Abigail Horn
Postdoctoral Fellow, Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine
Neda Jahanshad
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine
Deborah Khider
Senior Data Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
Diane Y. Kim
Director of Undergraduate Programs, Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Seon Ho Kim
Associate Director, Integrated Media Systems Center, Viterbi School of Engineering
Phil McAbee
LA Care Health Plan
Fred Morstatter
Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
Jill Sohm
Assistant Professor (Teaching), Environmental Studies, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
George Tolomiczenko
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology, Keck School of Medicine
Co-Director, Master of Healthcare Data Science Program
Thuy Tranh Truong
Project Manager, Michelson Center for Convergence Bioscience, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Viterbi School of Engineering
Dmitri Williams
Associate Professor of Communication, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
Aimei Yang
Associate Professor of Journalism, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
Student Participants
More than 50 Ph.D. and masters students across eleven departments and seven USC schools participated in DataFest in Fall 2019:
- Do Own (Donna) Kim
- Ph.D. student in Communication, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
- Natalie Jonckheere
- Ph.D. student in Communication, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
- Calvin Liu
- Ph.D. student in Communication, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
- Joo-Wha Hong
- Ph.D. student in Communication, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
- Eunhye Ahn
- Ph.D. student in Suzzane Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
- Yilei Zeng
- Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Qiyao (Joyce) Peng
- Master student in Communication Management, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
- Lingkai Cen
- Master of Building Science, School of Architecture
- Mengqi Jia
- Master of Building Science, School of Architecture
- Ian Myoungsu Choi
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Jinney Guo
- M.Sc. student in Business Analytics, Marshall School of Business
- Malika Seth
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Tanay Shankar
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Wei-Fan Chen
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Keerti Bhogaraju
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Prateek Athreya
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Sameeksha Mahajan
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Tieming Sun
- M.Sc. student in Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Xingyu Wei
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Ruiyu Zhao
- M.Sc. student in Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Xingyu Wei
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Shenoy Pratik Gurudatt
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Shravya Manety
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Abhilash Pandurangan
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Shagun Gupta
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Divyatmika Lnu
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Nina Thiebaut
- M.Sc. student in Analytics, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Yuan Sun
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Shubham Banka
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Gurav Gupta
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Manoj Muralidhara
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Yi-Hsin Chung
- M.Sc. student in Business Analytics, Marshall School of Business
- Sankareswari Govindarajan
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Justin Ho
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Sangeeth Koratten
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Kevin Tran
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Yang Dai
- M.Sc. student in Spatial Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering and Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
- Parul Gupta
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Sanjiv Soni
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Yu Wang
- M.Sc. student in Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Zixuan Zhang
- M.Sc. student in Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Rahul Jeswani
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Mansi Ganatra
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Saatvik Tikoo
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Feng Zhu
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Myron Kwan
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Shilpa Thomas
- M.Sc. student in Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Nikhil Dhara Venkata
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Ramkumar Ramesh
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Vedant Diwanji
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Yi-Li Chen
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Andrew Zhao
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science (Data Science), Viterbi School of Engineering
- Priya Dharmala
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
Schedule
CKIDS events are open to everyone, but note that RSVP is required.
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Project proposals due: September 12, 2019
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Faculty and student leads meeting: September 16, 2019, 12pm-2pm
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Project proposals and student-project matching: September 16, 2019, 5pm-7pm
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Presentations of project plans: Tuesday October 15, 2019 — 7pm-9pm
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Final project presentations: Monday November 25, 2019 — 5pm-7pm
- See the summary of the DataFest F19 project presentation event
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