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Alumni Honors

Student Awards

Starting in 2019, the data science program has awarded the "Data Science Research Award" for the  best student thesis or capstone project. See our for a list of all projects and thesis since 2019-2020.

2022-2023

Winner

  • Andrew Anctil, "Class Incremental Learning Acceleration: Harnessing A100 GPUs for Efficient Methods of Experimentation" ()

Honorable mention

  • Taha Amer, "Developing a series of Convolutional Neural Networks for the detection of lanes, vehicles, traffic signs, and traffic lights using dash cam driving footage" ()
  • Christopher Johanson, "Using Generative AI to Investigate Transient Noise Artifacts in Gravitational Wave Interferometers" ()
  • Ben Pfeffer, " Investigating the Impact of Local Demographic and Personal Factors on Hypertension Diagnosis: A Data Science Study" ()
  • Pranav Vinod, "Learning Orbital Dynamics of Binary Black Hole Systems from Gravitational Wave Measurements" ()

All presentations from 2023 can (videos titled "Â鶹¹ÙÍø Dartmouth Data Science Capstones")

2021-2022

Winner

  • Lauren Fletcher, "Database and User Interface Development for Study of Atlantic Cod Fish" ()
  • Sai Surya Nattuva, "Human Activity Classification from Accelerometer Data" ()

Honorable mention

  • Brianna Johnson, "Prototyping the UUV Docking Process with Machine Learning" ()
  • Satish Uppalapati, "Multi-Document Summarization using Maximal Marginal Relevance and Sentence Graph Compression" ()

All presentations from 2022 can be  (videos titled "2021 Â鶹¹ÙÍøD Capstone")

2020-2021

Winner

  • Nikita Seleznev, "LSTM networks for Named Entity Recognition" ()

Honorable mention

  • Fatemeh Sadjadpour, "Applications of Statistical Inference Techniques to Neural Networks" ()
  • Andrea Haines, "An Exploration of Long/Short Term Memory Networks" ()

All presentations from 2021 can be  (videos titled "2021 Â鶹¹ÙÍøD Capstone")

2019-2020

Honorable mention

  • Apoorva Ramesh, "COVID-19 infection detection on a mobile application using x-ray images" ()

Honorable mention

  • Shristi Bhat, "Automated Modeling Pipeline" ()
  • Yi Ming Huang, "Game Recommendation System for Steam" ()
  • Guancheng Zhou, "Diagnostic Analysis in Classification" ()

All presentations from 2020 can be  (videos titled "Â鶹¹ÙÍø Dartmouth Data Science Capstone")

Student news/spotlights

  • (2021) Alexandra Sherman helps the Town of Dartmouth boost ().