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 S20 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. Please contact CKIDS for more information. USC faculty and mentors can submit project proposals. Students can join the GRIDS data science student association.
A summary of the DataFest S20 project presentation event describes the projects and awards given to students.
DataFest S20 Projects
Below are the titles of the DataFest S20 projects. A detailed overview of DataFest Spring 2020 projects can be found here. DataFest projects were submitted by USC faculty and researchers responding to our the open call for DataFest project proposals.
1. A Data Challenge for Parkinson’s Disease
2. Using Biomedical Researcher Judgments to Predict Clinical Trial Outcomes
3. Towards Automated Understanding of Scientific Software
4. A Knowledge Graph for Cybersecurity Experiments
5. Connections within Contemporary Feminism Movements
6. Tracking health and nutrition signals from social media data
7. Predicting Effective Tax Rate of Publicly-Traded Firms
8. Text Analysis, Social Networks and Crowdsourcing
9. Modelling Spatiotemporal Relationships between Waste Water Injection and Induced Seismicity
10. Data scraping for salary benchmarking
11. Microtelcos and the Digital Divide in CA
12. Disparities in educational achievement
13. Gender inclusion in science
14. Annotating Paleoclimate Data
15. Modeling Uncertainty in Drought Products
16. Characterizing the counter-narratives of climate change
17. Digital Democracy: Using Social Media to Improve Political Discourse
18. Turning Library Collections into Data Science Challenges and Resources
19. Capturing the Provenance of Data Analysis Using the PROV Standard
20. Team Dynamics in Online Multiplayer Games
DataFest S20 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
DataFest S20 Project Advisors
Andres Abeliuk
Senior Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
Keith Burghardt
Senior Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
Julien Emile-Geay
Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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
Deborah Holmes-Wong
Director, Digital Library, USC Libraries
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
Kristina Lerman (2019)
Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
T. J. McCarthy
Associate Professor (Teaching) and Vice-Chair, Department of Public Policy, Sol Price School of Public Policy
Jelena Mirkovic
Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
Fred Morstatter
Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
Goran Murić
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
Dan O’Leary
Professor, Leventhal School of Accounting, Marshall School of Business
Aimei Yang
Associate Professor of Journalism, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
Student Participants
- Nazgol Tavabi
- Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Che-Pai Kung
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Abhivineet Veeraghanta
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Likitha Lakshminarayanan
- M.Sc. student in Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Haripriya Dharmala
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Jiaying Wang
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Vedant Diwanji
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Alex Zihuan Ran
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Hardik Mahipal Surana
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Keerti Bhogaraju
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Ian Myoungsu Choi
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Negar Mokhberian
- Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Nazanin Alipourfard
- Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Abhilash Karpurapu
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Erica Xia
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Iris Liu
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Spoorti Nidagundi
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Jae Young Kim
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Yuqin Jiang
- M.Sc. in Machine Learning and Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Kanlin Cheng
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Saravanan Manoharan
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Dan Peng
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Gitanjali Kanakaraj
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Hanieh Arabzadehghahyazi
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Naiya Shah
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Nana Andriana
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Matthew Lim
- Undergraduate (PDP) student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Minh Nguyen
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Kevin Tsang
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Sindhu Ravi
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Vihang Mangalvedhekar
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Yuzi He
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Ziping Hu
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Zicai Wang
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Ninareh Mehrabi
- PhD student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Aditya Gupta
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Vineetha Nadimpalli
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Ayushi Jha
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Yincheng Lin
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Shravya Manety
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Abhilash Pandurangan
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Aditya Jajodia
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Sushmitha Ravikumar
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Vanshika Sridharan
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Alex Spangher
- Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Yash Shah
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Swetha Thomas
- M.Sc. student in Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Hongyu Li
- M.Sc. student in Analytics, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Raveena Kshatriya
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Abhi Thadeshwar
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Chaitra Mudradi
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Feilong Wu
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Hsing-Hsien Wang
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Maria MacHarrie
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Shubhankar Singh
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Yangtao Hu
- M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Kevin Tsang
- M.Sc. student in Applied Data Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Jiaqi Liu
- M.Sc. student in Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
Key Dates
DataFest events are open to everyone in the USC community. If you are interested in attending any of these events, please contact CKIDS or get involved with the GRIDS data science student association.
- January 13, 2020: Project proposals due, see the Open call for DataFest Spring 2020 project proposals.
- Thursday January 16, 2020: Project overviews and kickoff
- Wednesday March 4, 2020: Mid-term project reports
- Tuesday April 14, 2020: Final project presentations and awards (Virtual meeting)
- See the summary of the DataFest S20 project presentation event
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