MIMS Final Projects: 2023

Session 1: Tools for Sustainability and Productivity

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Soil monitoring has become an increasingly prominent environmental measurement in climate change, water resource forecasting, land stability, and crop...
Advisor: John Chuang
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A one-stop platform for college students to get information, action plans with incentives, measurement, progress tracking, and community building for (a more)...
Advisor: John Chuang
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Explore the sustainability of electric vehicles (EV) and factors that contribute to the vehicles’ environmental impact.
Advisor: Marti Hearst

Session 2: Supporting Diverse Populations

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User account creation is often the first interaction with a digital product. How can we make this experience more inclusive of LGBTQ+ users?   
Advisor: Morgan Ames
MusicMate
Despite coming from different backgrounds, all of us share one common belief — if put to use the right way, technology can be a social enabler. With this...
Advisor: Kay Ashaolu
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MYND is an app designed to empower users to be proactive about their mental health by monitoring the user’s mental wellbeing. The app will automatically check...
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Applied data science and analysis in issues surrounding the housing crisis. Storytelling and data visualization to aid in ending evictions and restrictive...
Advisor: Morgan Ames

Session 3: Algorithmic Fairness and Social Impact

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A user-friendly compilation of technology resources, tools, and exercises for organizations of all sizes and stages.  
Advisor: AnnaLee Saxenian
Egaleco
Product and policy for Egaleco, a fairness toolkit enabling machine learning practitioners in healthcare to identify bias in their models.
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UX research + design for Egaleco, a fairness toolkit enabling machine learning practitioners in healthcare to identify bias in their models.
Advisor: Morgan Ames
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Algorithmic audit aimed at investigating the potential impacts of AI-based recruiting on diversity and inclusion.
Advisor: Morgan Ames
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Reignites goal is to introduce potential donors to small, lesser known non-profits; making the discovery process easier and more reliable. This helps NPOs...
Advisor: Michael Rivera

Session 4: Innovations with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Synthetic-voice cloning technologies have seen significant advances in recent years, giving rise to a range of potential harms. From small- and large-scale...
Advisor: Hany Farid
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Better recommendations for everyone, powered by graph neural networks
Advisor: Daniel Aranki
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Cracking the course transferring problem in a university system using NLP
Advisor: David Bamman
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Foundation models (your favorite chatbot’s “brains”) are rife with errors. We benchmark their fact recall with a new multilingual test.
Advisor: David Bamman
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Privacy Assistant is an intelligent writing assistant that flags instances of PII in your text and suggests a range of word alternatives by using privacy...
Advisor: Daniel Aranki