Interdisciplinary Inquiry Projects
Ellis Ackerman (Math, NCSU), Rodrigo Araujo (Computer Science), and Samantha Miezio (Public Policy) spent ten weeks building tools to help understand the scope, cause, and effects of evictions in Durham County. Using evictions data recorded by the Durham County Sheriff’s Department and demographic data from the American Community Survey, the team investigated relationships between rent and...
Pryia Juarez (BME/ECE), Jonathan Pilland (ECE/BME), and Matthew Traum (CS/Econ) spent teen weeks analyzing sensor data synthesized by an agile waveform generator. The team used deep reinforcement learning techniques to understand the performance of different synthetic agents representing potential attackers to the sensor system.
A team of students collaborating with Duke School of Medicine’s Root Causes Fresh Produce Program, community members, and physicians throughout the Duke Health network will help integrate data from food deliveries to Duke Health patients with patient health record data and other available data sources to create a dashboard that...
A team of students will partner closely with the City of Durham’s newly formed Community Safety Department. The Community Safety Department’s mission is to identify, implement, and evaluate new approaches to enhance public safety that may not involve a law enforcement response or the criminal justice system. The student team...
A team of students led by researchers at the Duke Marine Lab will explore the changing distribution of krill around the Antarctic Peninsula. Krill are a key prey species in this ecosystem, supporting a number of animals including whales, seals, and penguins, but they are dependent on winter sea ice...
Today we design communication networks using mathematical models that describe components of the system that affect end-to-end performance. As wireless links become more highly variable, and system components become harder to model, this approach is losing ground. A team of students led by Dr. Robert Calderbank, Dr. Christ Richmond, Dr. Lingjia Liu,...
This project is also part of Duke’s first Climate+ cohort. A team of students led by researchers at Duke and abroad will develop and evaluate machine learning solutions to model behavioral patterns of electric use, emphasizing data privacy. Data collected in different parts of the world will be analyzed to...
Data+ has been in operation for 8 years, and several other linked programs have started up since, including Code+, which focuses on app development and CS+, which focuses on team-based research in Computer Science. A team of students led by John Haws (OIT) will collaborate with Plus Programs administrators to...
A team of students led by Professor Anru Zhang (Duke Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistical Science) will develop methods to investigate the courses of complex diseases through electronic health records. The team will apply tensor methods to identify key features to register the patient’s timeline. This work...
The QSIDES Institute has pulled thousands of pages of police records from the Williamstown Police Department. This project will analyze and identify patterns in police behavior in the town, work with journalists and other activists to use the data to develop action plans to address problems and enact public safety...
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