MDI Scholars Spring 2024 Research Showcase Posters
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DistrictView: Exploring Methods for Isolating Public Comments in School Board Meetings
Corrina Calanoc, MS-DSAN ’24
Maggie Sullivan, MS-DSPP ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Rebecca A. Johnson
Leveraging LLMs in Incident Reporting
Brian Holland, MS-DSPP ’24
Gabriel Soto, MS-DSPP ’25
Collaborator(s): Dr. Robin Dillon-Merrill
Reducing Administrative Burdens with Technological Innovation
Holt Cochran, MS-DSPP ’25
Sunaina Bakshi Kathpalia, MS-DSPP ’25
Collaborator(s): Dr. Sebastian Jilke and Dr. Donald Moynihan
Partner Organization(s): Code for America, Office of Evaluation Sciences (General Services Administration)
Compiling Data Sources to Inform Head Start Programs
Amanda Hao, BS-STIA ’26
Collaborator(s): Dr. Amy O’Hara, Rosemary Rhodes, and Gabriel Taylor
Partner Organization(s): National Head Start Association
Measuring French Racism and Misrepresentation on Social Media to Better Understand Online Perception
Xinyu Li, MS-DSAN ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Lisa Singh, Dr. Andrew Sobanet, Rokhaya Diallo, Noah Aire, and Amy Li
Partner Organization(s): Gender+ Justice Initiative
Optimizing Data Usage in Federal Government
Aastha Jha, MS-DSPP ’25
Katharyn Loweth, MS-DSPP ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Michael Bailey
Partner Organization(s): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Services (OCS)
Democratizing Access to the IRS 990 Database, An Automated Script for Simplified, Universal Retrieval
Yunhan Zhang, MS-DSAN ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Sandeep Dahiya
A Data Collection Protocol that Protects Individual Privacy for Distributed and Sensitive Data Sources
Alivia Castor, BS-Computer Science & Government ’25
Jason Yi, BS-Computer Science ’26
Collaborator(s): Dr. Micah Sherr, Dr. Lisa Singh, Dr. Harel Berger, and Jianan Su
Analyzing Behavioral Patterns for Immigrant Respondents
Kefan Yu, MS-DSAN ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Qiwei Britt He and Dr. Katharine Donato
Federal Spending: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law — Evaluating the Impact of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law across Disadvantaged Communities under Justice 40
Madhvi Malhotra, MS-DSPP ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Michael Bailey
Analyzing Carceral Ideology : Metadata Database Construction on Public and Private School Handbooks
JaeHo Bahng, MS-DSAN ’25
Collaborator(s): Dr. NaLette Brodnax
Predicting Forced Migration: A Comparative Analysis of Organic and Traditional Indicators
Rich Pihlstrom, BS-Computer Science ’24 MS-DSAN ’25
Bernardo Medeiros, BS-Computer Science ’24
Kate Liggio, BS-Computer Science ’24
Jenny Park, BS-Computer Science & Justice and Peace Studies ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Lisa Singh, Dr. Katharine Donato, Dr. Ali Arab, and Dr. Helge Marahrens
A Federal Workforce Data Commons
Haiyang Chen, MS-DSPP ’24
Linlin Wang, MS-DSAN ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Mark Richardson and Benjamin Reese
Reading Policy Documents using AI: Fine-tuning Open-source LLMs for Custom Tasks using LoRA
Himangshu Kumar, MS-DSPP ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Michael Bailey
Partner Organization(s): Atlas Public Policy, EPIC, Statt
Examining the Intersection Between Wildfires and Political Representation in Australia
Raunak Advani, MS-DSAN ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Le Bao
Auditing Probabilistic Genotyping Software Used in Forensic DNA Analysis
Roy Hwang, BS-Computer Science ’25
Julia Nonnenkamp, BS-Computer Science & Mathematics ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Elissa Redmiles, Dr. Lisa Singh, Dr. Ioannis Ziogas, Dr. Lucy Qin, Christian Schoeberl, Yanchen Wang, Stevie Glaberson, and Emily Tucker
Partner Organization(s): Georgetown Law Center
Harnessing AI to Map Political Ideologies: Challenges and Strategies for Cost-Effective Deployment
Zhiqiang Ji, MS-DSPP ’24
Collaborator(s): Dr. Michael Bailey
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