DSI Scholars

The DSI Scholars program provides undergraduate and master’s students an opportunity to work on research in data science. There are two tracks: one to connect students to Columbia faculty, and another to connect students to organizations outside of Columbia, including nonprofits and local government agencies, with the goal of using data science for social good. Students in the second track are called Data for Good Scholars. In addition to their internship work, the scholars attend workshops, training sessions, and enrichment activities as a cohort to learn about the research process, research integrity, scientific reproducibility, and data ethics.

DSI Scholars have produced 200+ research projects on a range of topics, including:

• Meta-Analysis of Single-Cell Genomic Data to Define Cellular Heterogeneity and Dynamics in Atherosclerotic Vasculature • Mitigating Gender Bias in Sentence-level Natural Language Processing Models • Reconstructions of the Ocean Carbon Sink: Assessment of Regional Uncertainties • Streaming Video Analysis and Optimization During Work-from-Home Period • Systems Biology Approaches of Mouse Models of Cancer • Genomics and Epigenomics in Head and Neck Cancer • Improving Observed and Modeled Air Pollution Data Quality over Sub-Saharan Africa Using

Machine Learning • Measuring Liberal Arts: Creating an Index for Higher Education • The Cost of Human Rights Violations • Predicting Capital Construction Cost Overruns • Social Media Echo Chambers Enhancing Anxiety and Depression: The Effects of COVID-19 • Cryptocurrency Analytics: Identifying Bad Actors • Examining the Synergistic Effects of Cannabis And Prescription Opioid Policies on Chronic Pain,

Opioid Prescribing, and Opioid Overdose • Identifying Disease Subtypes by Comorbidity Clustering Using Structured Data from Electronic

Health Records • Inclusionary Zoning in Paris and New York: Antidote to Gentrification or Trojan’s Horse? • Linking State Medicaid and Clinical Registry Data to Assess Long-Term Outcomes for Children with Congenital Heart Disease • Measuring Tax Evasion Using Twitter Feeds • Superior Longitudinal Fasciculi Abnormalities Associated with the Attentional Deficit in Schizophrenia • The Consequences of Language Policing • The Evolution of the Smallest Galaxies in the Universe