This project includes creating a mobile app for the Mass Alliance on Teen Pregnancy to connect teen parents with the organization’s resources, policy alerts, and to further engage with the program. Project Lead: Mass Alliance on Teen Pregnancy is the only organization in Massachusetts dedicated to ensuring that state policies and local programs effectively address the […]
This project includes mapping Amman’s social media landscape and exploring how Amman’s citizens imagine their place in the country’s neoliberal investment project. Project Lead: Betty S. Anderson, Associate Professor History Department, College of Arts & Sciences Director of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations (2015-17) Detailed Project Description: I am currently undertaking […]
This project includes using helping ForkOut match restaurants to users based on their tastes using restaurant metadata. Project Lead: ForkOut is a mobile application that makes restaurant reccomendations based on users taste preferences. Detailed Project Description: ForkOut recommends restaurants to users of the app. Metadata about a restaurant is required to match a user’s taste […]
This project includes using machine learning to identifiy mining activities outside contractual boundaries using LANDSAT data. Project Lead: Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), helps people to realize the benefits of their countries’ endowments of oil, gas and minerals. We do this through technical advice, advocacy, applied research, policy analysis, and capacity development. We work with innovative agents […]
This project includes helping the ACLU better understand how policing in Boston works, and thereby help us make policing more just, equitable, and fair for all Bostonians. Project Lead: ACLU of Massachusetts, a private, nonpartisan organization with more than 20,000 supporters across the Commonwealth—is a state affiliate of the national ACLU. They defend the principles enshrined […]
This project includes making an mobile application to assist Black Girls Nutrition in helping black women break the cycle of dieting. Project Lead: Black Girls Nutrition is the first culturally customized artificial intelligence solution that helps millennial Women of Color break the cycle of dieting, lose weight and connect with other dieters. Their AI platform tailors our […]
This project includes analyzing Cradles and Crayons data and tools to help them improve their organization and provide a more meaningful impact on the children they serve. Project Lead: Cradles to Crayons, provides children from birth to age 12, living in low- income and homeless situations, with the essential items they need to thrive – at […]
This project includes using deep learning to improve asssesments of poverty for development organizations, such as the World Bank. Project Lead: Jonathan Hersh, Assistant Professor Economics and Management Science, Chapman University Detailed Project Description: In development, a household’s poverty status is most commonly determined through the use of a Proxy Means Tests (PMT). This is, at its heart, […]
This project would include creating an app for medical students in the residency match process to help coordinate interviews, network with other applicants, and optimize scheduling. Project Lead: Melissa Pritchard, Medical Student School of Medicine, Boston University Detailed Project Description: From an applicant perspective, the national residency match interview process can only be described as an […]