2025 Projects
A team of students under Biomedical Engineering professor Megan Madonna will explore the connection between young students’ sense of belonging in a community and their ability and motivation to solve hard problems related to their community. We are interested in studying who and why people become and remain engineers. The...
A team of students led by Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest researchers will develop a machine learning approach to identify aquatic insects and contribute to a long-term ecological dataset being used to examine changing insect population dynamics. Students will use a set of existing images to train a supervised machine learning...
A team of students will collaborate with a doctoral fellow in Computational Humanities and the Asian American Studies Librarian to develop a statistics-based Natural Language Processing toolkit to study the linguistic styles of Asian American short stories published between 1974 and 2024. This toolkit will support historians, literary scholars, and...
This is an innovative project that explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and mathematics. This initiative aims to leverage AI’s capabilities in pattern recognition and exhaustive search to tackle complex problems in discrete mathematics, such as finding counterexamples to open conjectures. By framing these mathematical challenges as computational problems, students...
Is it ethically permissible to sell, buy, and use luxury goods? What labor practices do we tolerate to make these goods available? In the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, England was faced with an ever-growing supply of new and exciting goods, made possible by new trade routes to the New...
The application of deep learning to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research using MRI is a rapidly evolving field, with existing studies serving primarily as proof of concept. This Data+ project aims to contribute to the development of a deep learning model that integrates MRI-based topological biomarkers for the early detection of...
A team of students led by an interdisciplinary group including statistician Fan Li, neurologist Brian Mac Grory, and preventive medicine physician/clinical data scientist Jay Lusk will integrate information from diverse real-world datasets to better understand risk factors for cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke and for cognitive disorders...
Duke has a new Chief Engagement Officer, a Double Dukie, who is passionate about advancing and optimizing alumni engagement, involvement, and experience. With a private sector performance marketing and media background, she hopes to lead a team of students, in collaboration with Professor Shep Moyle (a Duke alum, former Duke...
A team of students led by researchers in the Energy Data Analytics Lab and the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative will develop a method to evaluate electricity access in developing countries through machine learning techniques applied to aerial imagery data. Students will first improve the accuracy of the solar array identifying...
A team of student researchers will collaborate with the Southeast Regional Coalition for University-Assisted Community Schools (SRCUACS) and the North Carolina Community Schools Coalition (NCCSC) to examine how statewide policies have impacted funding for public schools throughout history. The team will create a dashboard to illustrate the correlation between per-pupil funding and enrollment and...
While states that have legalized THC / Cannabis typically regulate these products with safety-focused guardrails, THC is largely unregulated in North Carolina and federally. The uncontrolled purity, safety, and strength of THC products can lead to adverse effects including hallucinations, anxiety, loss of consciousness, and even death. Unlike alcohol and...
A team of students led by staff from the Duke Office of Climate and Sustainability will explore improvements to Duke University’s greenhouse gas data system. Students will see how the data flows through campus and how it is ultimately used to quantify and report on Duke’s contribution to climate change...
Online data scraping has reached a fever pitch, as AI creators seek food for their hungry models. Researchers from the Argus Lab at Duke are building tools to analyze web scraping at scale based on analysis of Duke’s web logs. Data+ students will investigate the time-scale of AI data scraping (e.g....
Established in 1913, Jewelers Mutual Insurance Company, SI (JM) insures jewelry businesses and personal jewelry owners throughout the United States and Canada. As a mutual insurer focused on the best interests of its policyholder members, JM has an obligation to ensure it carefully evaluates the accuracy of all information that...
A team of students, led by Nicholas School professor David Gill and Masters student Sameer Swarup, will develop the first global coastal social-environmental atlas: a high-resolution, interactive data platform that provides social, economic, demographic, and environmental data relevant to climate and ocean science and conservation. Students will synthesize spatial and...
A team of students, collaborating with Professors Mike Bergin, David Carlson, and PhD Candidate Zach Calhoun will develop a modeling approach to estimate heat stress in urban areas. Students will further develop a dataset consisting of high-resolution temperature and relative humidity observations in over 60 cities (https://www.heat.gov/pages/mapping-campaigns), satellite imagery and...
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