Hi HDSI folks,
The HDSI Undergrad Scholarship Program is a fantastic opportunity for our students to design and carry out their own multidisciplinary research projects, under the supervision of a mentor. Many of you have already agreed to be mentors for some student projects, so thank you! For the 2022-23 program, we have 9 projects that we would like to support, but are in need of a mentor.
Mentors receive $500 in research funds for their service, and the duties are listed at the bottom of the info page. Mentors can be faculty, research staff, postdocs, grad students, or anyone with the expertise to mentor the project. The projects needing mentors are:
- Applications of Neural Networks for Civil Design and Resource Management
- ParkSmart: A robust and cost-effective computer-vision based solution to parking lot management
- Resolving Major City Traffic Using Automated Train Route Optimization
- Rough Rice Prediction (predicting price of rice)
- SpamBack: Spam detection for social media
- Fixing Form: Using pose estimation to minimize injury from the big three movements
- House Price Prediction in Python Using Machine Learning
- Race and Recidivism: Can Racial Bias Be Removed From Criminal Justice Risk Assessment Tools?
- How to prevent people from over-spending using a machine learning model
If you or anyone you know is interested in mentoring one or more of these projects, please get in touch with me directly and I can share their more detailed proposals and put you in contact with the students. Ideally, you would have a chat with the team before agreeing to mentor them.
Thanks!
Stuart

R. Stuart Geiger, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Dept of Communication and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Practical Ethics, Computer Science & Engineering, and Computational Social Science
University of California, San Diego
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