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title: "CDSS Data Discovery Fall 2025 Symposium"

about:
  section_title: "About Data Discovery"
  description: >
    The Data Discovery Program connects teams of Berkeley students with mentors
    across campus and beyond, using data to understand real-world problems in
    academia, industry, government and nonprofits.
    The Symposium is the culmination of the semester as student researchers share
    their work through poster presentations. Please join us in celebrating their
    contributions to the data research community.
  website: "https://cdss.berkeley.edu/discovery"
  contact: "[email protected]"

acknowledgments: >
  We would like to thank everyone who’s contributed to the College of Computing,
  Data Science, and Society’s Data Discovery program and making the Symposium come
  to life. Data Discovery would not be possible without the leadership of
  Professor Deb Nolan. Sierra J. White-Koutsoubos and Associate Dean of Students
  Professor Narges Norouzi have provided invaluable guidance. Jessica McDaniels
  arranged crucial details of the event, and Camille Simsuangco Roxas helped
  execute it. CDSS Development contributed funds for the Symposium. Claire Chen,
  Keryssa Li and Leo Liao have helped keep Data Discovery running smoothly this
  semester. Ryan Lovett helped arrange access to computing resources and provided
  technical support, and we acknowledge the National Science Foundation’s National
  Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot for providing computational
  resources (award number NAIRR240387). Thank you to the experts who shared their
  time and expertise through guest lectures and panels for the Data Discovery
  course. Finally, we’d like to thank the Data Discovery mentors who provide the
  projects and mentorship that make the program possible.

schedule:
  date: "Wednesday, December 10, 2025"
  location: "Hearst Memorial Mining Building lobby, UC Berkeley"
  items:
    - time: "1:30 p.m."
      activity: "Poster session begins"
    - time: "2:00 p.m."
      activity: "Keynote address"
      speaker: "Associate Dean of Students, Professor Narges Norouzi"
    - time: "2:15 p.m."
      activity: "Presentation of student awards"
    - time: "3:00 p.m."
      activity: "Event concludes"

posters:
  template:
    title: "Presentation title"
    authors:
      - "Student Author 1"
      - "Student Author 2"
      - "Student Author 3"
      - "Student Author 4"
    mentor:
      name: "Mentor Name"
      affiliation: "Mentor Affiliation"

other_researchers:
  section_description: >
    We would also like to celebrate the Data Discovery teams who are presenting
    their work elsewhere and aren’t represented at the Symposium.
  projects:
    - title: "Measuring, Mapping, and Interpreting the Shadow Internet"
      students:
        - "Horia Danciu"
        - "Jenna Kudaimi"
      mentors:
        - name: "Abigail De Kosnik"
          affiliation: "alpha60"

    - title: "Healthcare Access for Transitional-Aged Youth"
      students:
        - "Zen Huang"
        - "Jaxon Kaeller"
        - "Fatema Zamani"
        - "Jennifer Sun"
      mentors:
        - name: "Jennifer Andersen"
          affiliation: "Aspiranet"
        - name: "Alex Borja"
          affiliation: "Aspiranet"

    - title: >
        Agentic AI for Retinal Imaging and Oculomotor Analytics:
        Building Prompt-Driven Clinical Agents
      students:
        - "Diana Tao"
        - "Yuki Chen"
        - "Yash Thapliyal"
        - "Jenny Shang"
      mentors:
        - name: "Yifan Zhang"
          affiliation: "C. Light Technologies, Inc."
        - name: "Emily Chen"
          affiliation: "C. Light Technologies, Inc."

    - title: "AI & Blockchain TurboTax for Carbon Accounting and Emissions Reduction"
      students:
        - "Tiffany Yeh"
        - "Anica Chen"
        - "Cedric Xu"
        - "Daniel Li"
      mentors:
        - name: "Paul Bryzek"
          affiliation: "CarbonSustain, Inc."

    - title: "AI-Powered Survey Calling: Voice-First Data Collection Prototype"
      students:
        - "Vivienne Lee"
        - "Rahul Bassi"
        - "Anderson Mao"
        - "Brandon Carlos"
        - "Aanvi Koolwal"
      mentors:
        - name: "Nikolaus Wischmann"
          affiliation: "GrapeData"

    - title: "Building ML models for Asset Quality & Discovery on the Stellar Blockchain"
      students:
        - "Armaann Karnnavat"
        - "Thomas Lee"
        - "Akhil Korupolu"
        - "Keval Amin"
      mentors:
        - name: "Pooja Doctor"
          affiliation: "Stellar Development Foundation"