Capstone Symposium

Where:
Gross Hall
140 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708 (map)
Duke University

Schedule:

8:30 AM

Gross 330: “Subsalt: The Query-Regulated Engine”
Antara Bhide, Simrun Sharma, Minling Zhou
Mentor: Vijay Keswani

Gross 270: “Modeling Player Impact for Recruitment with Duke Women’s Soccer”
Donald Cayton, Chuhan Guo, Mark Okello, Ofosu Osei
Mentor: Leo Biral

9:00 AM

Gross 330: “Climate TRACE: Estimating global greenhouse gas emissions from buildings”
Meixiang Du, Bárbara Flores, Jiechen Li, Yulei Xia
Mentor: Kyle Bradbury

Gross 230C: “BNY Mellon: Developing Multi-Agent Frameworks for Federal Interest Rate Prediction”
Yuhan Hou, Tianji Rao, Jeremy Tan, Vivian Zhang, Adler Viton
Mentor: David Ye

Gross 270: “Using Airbnb reviews to expand accessible short-term rental options with Becoming rentABLE”
Xintong He, Cassie Kang, Jiwon Shin
Mentor: Lauren Nichols

9:30 AM

Gross 330: “Decoding User Personas through Cluster Analysis for Monopolio’s Real Estate Platform”
Shaila Güereca Guzmán, Matthew Holden, Daniela Jiménez Lara, Gavin Li
Mentor: Greg Herschlag

Gross 230C: “Enhancing Customer Satisfaction: A Citizens Bank Study”
Alexander Chernikov, Lin Hui, Tina Yi, Zaolin Zhang
Mentor: Hengzhong Liu

Gross 270: “Data Doppler: Enterprise Log Monitoring & Anomaly Detection for DataOceans”Lisa Wang, Ziying Ye, Yabei Zeng
Mentor: Lauren Nichols

10:15 AM

Gross 330: “Improving Marketing Recommendation Systems with Alternative Data for Anheuser-Busch InBev”
Rafael Davila Bugarin, Aarya Desai, Javier Cervantes, John Coogan
Mentor: Nick Eubank

Gross 230C: “Using Marketing Mixed Model to Simulate Marketing Budget Allocations”
Ayush Gupta, Divya Sharma, Jon Campbell
Mentor: Hengzhong Liu

Gross 270: “Estimating Unique Social Media Page Reach for Social Insider”
Xinyan Liu, Netra Mittal, Xingzhi Xie, Yujie Ye
Mentor: David Banks

10:45 AM

Gross 330: “Blind Spots in Text-to-Image Models: Evaluating Cultural Gaps, Failures, and Hidden Risks in GenAI Media Safety with Meta”
Osama Ahmed, Faraz Jawed, Dhaval Potdar, Rakeen Rouf
Mentor: Alex Fisher

Gross 230C: “Predictive Analysis for Conversion and Growth with Social Insider”
Hoi Mei (Kelly) Tong, Xueqing (Annie) Wu, Haochong (Harry) Xia, Jaxon Yue
Mentor: Alessio Brini

Gross 270: “Developing an LLM-based tool for easy data cleaning and analysis for Duke Anesthesiology”
Gunel Aghakishiyeva, Katherine Tian, Poojitha Balamurugan, Revanth Ganga, Udyan Sachdev
Mentor: Andrea Lane

11:15 AM

Gross 330: “Comparative Benchmarking of Single-View and Multi-View Models for Partially Obscured Object Detection with C5ISR”
Robin Arun, Katelyn Hucker, Afraa Noureen, Jiayi Zhou
Mentor: Nick Eubank

Gross 230C: “Developing A Medical Question Answering Model for Duke Department of Medicine”
Yun-Chung (Murphy) Liu, Keon Nartey, Suim Park, Bob Zhang
Mentor: Yue Jiang

Gross 270: “Building an Educational Chess Tutor”
Kian Bagherlee, Sayali Pingle, Anastasiia Saenko, Minh Anh To
Mentor: Eric Laber

11:40 AM Reception