Duke MIDS Capstone Symposium

Friday, March 29, 2024
Capstone Directors: Gregory Herschlag, Andrea Lane

MIDS Capstone Symposium

Click to view full size

Online viewing

Schedule

8:30 – 8:40 AM

Gross 107
Welcome

8:40 – 9:05 AM

Gross 107
Project: Building a College Recommendation Engine for NCSA Student Athletes
Partner: Next College Student Athlete (NCSA)
Students: Kashaf Ali, Alexander Dany Jabban, Ke (Chloe) Liu, Jiahui (Heather) Qiu
Mentor: Lauren Nichols

9:05 – 9:10 AM

Break

9:10 – 9:35 AM

Gross 103
Project: Understanding US Army Special Forces Application Pipelines
Partner: United States Army
Students: Nick Carroll, Andrew Kroening, Eric Javier Rios Soderman, Suzanna Rose Thompson
Mentor: Nicholas Eubank

Gross 107
Project: Social Drivers of Health and Child Well-Being with the Duke Children’s Health Initiative
Partner: Children’s Health & Discovery Initiative, Duke Department of Pediatrics
Students: Huiying Lin, Emmanuel Ruhamyankaka, Xinyi Sheng, Bei Yu
Mentor: Yue Jiang

9:35 – 9:40 AM

Break

9:40 – 10:05 AM

Gross 103
Project: Automating Data Processing with Data Oceans
Partner: Data Oceans
Students: Xiaoyu (Echo) Chen, Beibei (Bella) Du, Quanliang (Scott) Lai, Jiaxin Ying
Mentor: Gregory Herschlag

Gross 107
Project: Generating Drug Diversion Care Flags with Duke Anesthesiology
Partner: Duke Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine
Students: Susanna Anil, Xiaoquan Liu, Song Young Oh, Yucan (Zoey) Zeng
Mentor: Andrea Lane

10:05 – 10:10 AM

Break

10:10 – 10:35 AM

Gross 103
Project: Moral Approach-Avoidance Tendencies as a Measure of Implicit Moral Attitudes with Duke Psychology & Neuroscience
Partner: Duke Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
Students: Paul McKee, Sanskriti Purohit, Natalie Smith, Kristi Ann Van Meter
Mentor: Gregory Herschlag

Gross 107
Project: Address Verification with Orderly Health
Partner: Orderly Health
Students: Ya-Yun Huang, Ahmed Ibrahim, Ruixin Lou, Ying-Chih (Emma) Wang
Mentor: Alex Fisher

10:35 – 10:40 AM

Break

10:40 – 11:05 AM

Gross 103
Project: Machine Learning-Driven Targeted Marketing with Data Oceans
Partner: Data Oceans
Students: Yunhong (Steve) Bao, Wafiakmal Miftah, Derek Tao, Wenjing (Alisa) Tian
Mentor: Lauren Nichols

Gross 107
Project: Fairness in Machine Learning for 2nd Order Solutions
Partner: 2nd Order Solutions
Students: Yiyu Lin, ZiHeng (Genesis) Qu, Pragya Raghuvanshi, Yinting Zhong
Mentor: David Banks

11:05 – 11:10 AM

Break

11:10 – 11:35 AM

Gross 103
Project: Optimizing Large Language Models with Proofpoint
Partner: Proofpoint
Students: Elisa Chen, Aditya John, Zhanyi Lin, Yiran (Jenny) Shen
Mentor: David Ye

Gross 107
Project: Building a Dynamic Pricing Model with AMECO
Partner: AMECO
Students: Shiqi Liu, Jiahua Wang, Yuyou (Pomelo) Wu
Mentor: David Banks

11:35 AM – 12:35 PM

Energy Hub
Lunch

12:35 – 1:00 PM

Gross 103
Project: Examining Disparities in Research Funding Allocation Among US Higher Education Institutions
Partner: Scarlett Bellamy, Boston University
Students: Lorna Maria Aine, Medhavi Darshan, Zhonglin Wang
Mentor: Andrea Lane

1:05 – 1:10 PM

Break

1:10 – 1:35 PM

Gross 103
Project: Analyzing the Scope and Scale of Solar Energy Adaptation at Wastewater Treatment Plants in the US
Partner: Duke Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability and Penn State University
Students: Pooja Kabber, Sukhpreet Singh Sahota, Dingkun Yang, Yuanjing Zhu
Mentor: Kyle Bradbury

1:35 – 2:45 PM

Energy Hub
Reception