MDI Scholars Spring 2023 Research Showcase Posters
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Air Quality in Schools and Federal Spending on School Bus Electrification
Nikhila Iyer, MS-DSPP ’23
Ethan Rosenbaum, MPP ’23
Elise Rust, MS-DSAN ’23
Collaborator(s): Dr. Michael Bailey
Partner Organization(s): Of interest for potential work with Aclima and Purple Air
American Community Survey: Administrative Record Use
Audrey McIntyre, MS-DSPP ’23
Collaborator(s): Dr. Amy O’Hara
Modeling Ukrainian Movement Patterns Using Organic Data
Didier Akilimali, MS-Computer Science’23
Aidan Pizzo, BS – Mathematics ’23
Sonali Subbu Rathinam, MS-DSPP ’23
Collaborator(s): Dr. Lisa Singh and Dr. Nathan Wycoff
Contextualized Embeddings for Large-k Topic Models of Political Texts
Xinyu Li, MS-DSAN ’24
Haoxuan Weng, MS-DSAN ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. NaLette Brodnax
Killer Robots, the Climate Scam, and Poisonous Vaccines: Understanding Scientific (Mis)Information on Twitter
Fiona Calcagnini, BS-Economics ’23
Sabrina Kwenda, BS-STIA ’23
Rich Pihlstrom, BS-Computer Science ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Lisa Singh and Autumn Toney
Partner Organization(s): CSET
Supporting Efficient Federal Program Operations: Automating the LIHEAP Funding Formula
Alia Abdelkader, MS-DSPP ’23
Caroline Adams, MS-DSPP ’23
Maggie Sullivan, MS-DSPP ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Michael Bailey
Partner Organization(s): Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – Administration for Children and Families, Office of Community Service
Comparing the performance of three name-based race prediction models
Sai Srujana Illa, MS-DSPP ’23
Collaborator(s): Dr. Maria Alva and Dr. Jaren Haber
Using Agent-Based Models to understand disaster response
Yujie Chen, MS-DSAN ’23
Naiqiu Zhan, MS-DSPP ’23
Collaborator(s): Dr. Evan Barba
DistrictView: Constructing a Large-Scale Database of U.S. School Board Meeting Transcripts
Natalie Smith, MS-DSAN ’24
Abigail Wolfe, MS-DSPP ‘24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Rebecca Johnson
Comparing Lexicon, Classic Learning, and Neural-Based Models for Sentiment Detection of Twitter Posts
Kate Liggio, BS-Computer Science ’24
Jenny Park, BS-Computer Science and Justice and Peace Studies ’24
Qihang Wang, MS-DSAN ’23
Collaborator(s): Dr. Lisa Singh, Dr. Ameeta Agrawal, and Yaguang Liu
Comparing Congressional Candidates Using Alternative Word Embeddings Approaches
Ryan Ripper, MS-DSPP ‘23
Shaila Sundram, MS-DSPP ’23
Colette Yeager, MS-DSPP ‘23
Collaborator(s): Dr. Michael Bailey
Exploring Civil and Criminal Legal System Interactions among those in Treatment for Substance Use Disorder
MinAh Kim, MS-DSPP ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Rebecca Johnson
Partner Organization(s): Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Ingesting and using America’s largest building energy dataset
Sean Conner, MPP ’23
Himangshu Kumar, MS-DSPP ’24
Yifan Liu, MS-DSPP ’23
Shaila Sundram, MS-DSPP ’23
Collaborator(s): Dr. Michael Bailey and Dr. Christopher Dick
Partner Organization(s): BlocPower
Comparing Variational Bayesian Approaches to Human Migration Modeling
Linpei Zhang, MS-Data Science ’23
Collaborator(s): Dr. Nathan Wycoff
Classifying Twitter Handles: Harnessing Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis
Abby Fremaux, MS-DSAN ’23
Hanjing Shi, MS-DSAN ’23
Collaborator(s): Dr. Lisa Singh, Yanchen Wang, Dr. Le Bao
Analyzing Carceral Ideology In Public and Private School Handbooks
Grace Jensen, MS-DSPP ’24
Sanha Tahir, MS-DSPP ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. NaLette Brodnax
Fostering Civil Justice Through Analysis of Trends in Court Data
Ahmad Jandal, BS-STIA ’23
Jordan Rinaldi, BS-Mathematics B.S. and MS-DSAN ’23
Collaborator(s): Dr. Amy O’Hara
Partner Organization(s): Civil Justice Data Commons
Data Communication and Community Engagement regarding the Environmental Impact Data Collaborative
Ellis Obrien, MS-DSPP ‘23
Minh Quach, MS-DSPP ‘24
Fanni Varhelyi, MS-DSPP ‘24
Ethan Rodriguez-Shah, MS-DSPP ‘24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Michael Bailey
The Silent Epidemic: Documenting the Prevalence and the Socioeconomic Disparities in Undiagnosed and Uncontrolled Diabetes in the United States
Sean Hambali, MS-DSPP ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Maria Alva