SURE 2024
Project Showcase
Join us in highlighting and celebrating the 2024 Carnegie Mellon Statistics & Data Science Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program!
The Department of Statistics & Data Science offered an 8 week summer undergraduate experience this year with two themes: Data Science in Sports Analytics (aka CMSACamp) and CMU-Optum Bridges to Healthcare Data Science. The program was led by instructor Quang Nguyen. While the applications are in sports and healthcare analytics, the program is focused on developing skills in statistical and data science methodology, data engineering, and being able to apply these skills to a wide range of problems and contexts.
The program culminates in a final group project. In the content below, you can access slides, posters, and reports created by the students detailing their work in this year's projects.
CMSACamp: Data Science in Sports Analytics
| Weapons of Best Production: Predicting the Optimal Pitch Arsenal Adjustment for Superior Stuff+ (external partner: Sam Fleischer, Los Angeles Dodgers) Gabriel Eze (Centre College), Neha Kotha (University of Pittsburgh), Danny Nolan (Bucknell University) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Analyzing Consistency Among NHL Forwards Performance (external partner: Katerina Wu, Pittsburgh Penguins) Celine (Zhongyang) Su (Wake Forest University), Chisunta Chikwamu (Whitman College), Cole Shegan Siniawski (Denison University) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Examining batted passes in the NFL: A hierarchical approach to explaining variance of an unlikely event Lucca Ferraz (Rice University), Maggie Byers (Dickinson College), Yixin (Amelia) Yuan (University of Michigan) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Killer Defense: Evaluating Individual Defensive Contributions on the Penalty Kill (external partner: Sam Ventura, Buffalo Sabres) Frithjof Sanger (Carnegie Mellon University), Ian A. Pérez (University of Arizona), Christina Vu (Texas Christian University) |
Slides Poster Report |
| The Wrong Stuff (external partner: Sean Ahmed, Pittsburgh Pirates) Liam Jennings (Robert Morris University), Tiger Teng (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Belle Schmidt (St. Olaf College) |
Slides Poster Report |
CMU-Optum Bridges to Healthcare Data Science
| Impact of Adult Health-Related Practices on Juvenile Healthcare Outcomes Brooke Benton (Robert Morris University), Rohan Devraj (Georgia Institute of Technology), Jade Kay (Hampton University), Jessica Lambert (University of Virginia) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Examining the Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Premature Death Across Racial Groups Tasnim Rida (Carnegie Mellon University), Lissandro Alvarado (Bucknell University), Oreoluwa Williams (Towson University), Naomi James (University of Buffalo) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Impact of Mental Health Professional Density on Poor Mental Health: A county-level analysis of poor mental health predictors Urvi Chaubal (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Lay Len Ching (Carnegie Mellon University), Nikhil Roy (University of Pittsburgh) |
Slides Poster Report |
| The Socioeconomic Roots of Racial Disparities in Hospitalizations Nicole Sorensen (Carnegie Mellon University), Cristina Antonacci (Belmont University), Jainiah Harden (Indiana University - Bloomington), Macey Kalmanek (The University of Texas at Austin) |
Slides Poster Report |
| County-level interventions to reduce drug overdose rates and alcohol-impaired deaths Dennis Campoverde-Lema (University of Minnesota), Samantha Parras (University of Texas, San Antonio), Jodie Chen (University of California, Los Angeles) |
Slides Poster Report |