Computer Science

Around the world, communities aim to make water quality data publicly accessible in order to help community members recognize how local water supplies may be impacting their health and environment. This project assists with this goal by taking on the critical tasks of collecting, storing, managing, analyzing, and publishing water quality data from the Kishwaukee River Water Quality Assessment Study ... Read More

Although the use of machine learning for disease detection has seen a sharp increase within the past several years, diagnostic methods for mental illnesses such as schizophrenia remain largely qualitative. This project aims to introduce a data-driven diagnosis by using genomic wide array data to predict schizophrenia. Various machine learning models using Python and TensorFlow were run on a dataset ... Read More

Human evaluation of machine translation is extensive, but expensive and inefficient, thus, automated evaluation metrics were created. Yet despite recent advances in the field of machine translation, there has been little changed about standard automated evaluation metrics such as BLEU. As the quality of machine translation systems has dramatically improved over the past decade, evaluation becomes an increasingly challenging— and ... Read More

Transformer networks have shown great promise in video classification and understanding tasks by reducing the dependency on recurrent networks, and instead using self-attention techniques. Recurrent techniques are often not suitable for videos/data with long-term temporal dependencies due to the vanishing gradient problem, as well as the inability to fully backpropagate due to computational power restrictions. By using self-attention, a neural ... Read More

Vaccine misinformation is widely disseminated on social media, and it is often difficult to correct. Social media posts that contain vaccine misinformation have been found to generate high engagement among social media users, and the spread of misinformation can be harmful to society. This project focuses on monitoring and analyzing sources and types of HPV vaccine misinformation on different social ... Read More