Academic Projects
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site – Summer 2020 February 24, 2020 - This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site engages students in research in the emerging area of Smart & Connected Communities (S&CC), the essential building blocks of smart cities. This summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) is open to 10 undergraduates from across the U.S. to be held at Texas State University for 10 weeks over the summer. Funding… (more)
OptumLabs Data Science Internship Program University of California, San Francisco Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute Summer 2020 February 18, 2020 - Program summaryThis program will appeal to those student/trainees who wish to apply their Data Science training into the field of biomedicine and health care, an area ripe for innovation. The UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute (BCHSI) administers the OptumLabs Data Science Internship Program (“Program”). This Program aligns with UCSF’s core Research Computing Capability initiative… (more)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES IN COMPUTATIONAL SENSING and MEDICAL ROBOTICS (CSMR REU) February 18, 2020 - The application is now available for summer 2020. Please apply at https://academicprogramsonline.org/ajo/reu/15649 Tentative Program Dates- May 26, 2020 – August 1, 2020 Students will need to provide the following: a cover letter with your name, grade level, and top three project selectionsProject List 2020CV or resumeresearch statement including an explanation of why you should be selected for the projects… (more)
Haas Scholars+SURF (due 2/19, 2/20) February 5, 2020 - The deadlines for the Haas Scholars and SURF programs are fast approaching (2/19 and 2/20, respectively)! The Haas Scholars Program provides up to $13,800 in support for students to carry out a research project in the summer prior to, and during, their senior year, including research expenses. It also provides peer support and staff support and guidance at every step of… (more)
Data science GSR January 23, 2019 - Research Assistant Position/AY 2018-2019 Professor Rachel Stern, Berkeley Law The Project. Since 2014, over 60 million Chinese judicial decisions have been placed online as a result of a new national policy mandating the online release of most court documents. The RA will assist in querying and analyzing a database of Chinese court decisions as part of a multi-year effort… (more)
NSF – REU in Sensing and Smart Systems at Florida Atlantic University January 11, 2019 - Florida Atlantic University's Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE) hosts an intensive summer research program in sensing and smart systems for talented undergraduate students across the country. Closely related to the Internet of Things, smart systems represent an emerging class of distributed systems that provide real-time awareness of conditions, trends, and patterns to… (more)
HARVARD SUMMER PROGRAM IN GREECE – DATA SCIENCE January 11, 2019 - NAFPLIO & CRETE 3 JUNE – 26 JULY 2019 If you are planning to pursue academic study abroad this summer, we invite you to consider the Harvard Summer Program in Nafplio and Crete (Greece) – Data Science, 2019, under the title “Introduction to Data Science with Applications”. This new Harvard study-abroad program stretches for eight weeks in… (more)
ClimateNet: a large-scale labeled simulation dataset of climate extremes for machine learning November 2, 2018 - Karthik Kashinanth / Adrian Albert Contact: kkashinath@lbl.gov, aalbert@lbl.gov Databases of extreme weather events identified in climate simulation models are of key importance for quantifying and projecting into the future the effects of climate change, including the risk it imposes on human livelihoods… (more)
Physics-constrained generative adversarial networks for fluid dynamics simulations November 2, 2018 - Adrian Albert / Karthik Kashinanth Contact: aalbert@lbl.gov, kkashinath@lbl.gov Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown astounding success in learning complex distributions of data of different modalities arising across a variety of domains, from media (celebrity pictures, speech) to scientific applications (urban land use, cosmology, fluid dynamics). However key challenges remain: training is notoriously unstable, they don’t utilize… (more)
Local-scale wind field modeling with Generative Adversarial Networks November 2, 2018 - Adrian Albert / Pouya Vahmani Contact: aalbert@lbl.gov Fast, granular, and accurate modeling and scenario generation of the spatio-temporal distribution of wind… (more)
Generative Adversarial Networks for optical metamaterials design November 2, 2018 - Adrian Albert / Sean Lubner / Mahmoud Elzouka Contact: aalbert@lbl.gov Optical metamaterial design entails carefully designing geometric properties and selecting appropriate material combinations to achieve a desired optical properties for surfaces (e.g., spectral reflectivity profile). This is currently a manual… (more)
Cross-View GANs for Urban Built Environment Data Catalogs November 2, 2018 - Adrian Albert / Nan Zhou Contact: aalbert@lbl.gov Information on… (more)
Hydroclimate modeling with Generative Adversarial Networks November 2, 2018 - Adrian Albert / Alan Rhoades Contact: aalbert@lbl.gov Emergent climate change impacts on mountain snowpack pose a serious… (more)
Undergrad research opportunity – SENSOR NETWORKS AND MULTI-SOURCE ANALYTIC October 22, 2018 - An undergraduate research assistantship is available in the Department of Nuclear Engineering to support a project on multi-source data analytics for characterization of operations at nuclear facilities. To complement physical sensing of radiation signatures from fissile materials, indirect physical sensing of ambient conditions can be used along with pattern-of-life assessment to inform assessment of proliferation-relevant… (more)
Bose Challenge: UC Berkeley August 30, 2018 - We’re working with Julie McShane (Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership) and Stanford lecturer / Real Industry Executive Director Jay LeBoeuf to get the word out. The event is organized by our educational nonprofit, Real Industry. The goal of the event is to educate, empower, and inspire university students to thrive in the arts & tech… (more)
Northern California Computational Biology Student Symposium August 23, 2018 - The NCCB Symposium is a one-day conference organized by students from some of the major research universities of Northern California. This year the symposium will be held on Saturday, October 6th on the Genentech Hall auditorium at the University of California, San Francisco. The conference highlights current research in Computational Biology by students and post-docs. It will include… (more)