SURE 2025
Project Showcase
Join us in highlighting and celebrating the 2025 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
| PassPredictR: Contextualizing NFL Throwing Decisions By Modeling Receiver Choice (external partner: Karim Kassam, Teamworks Intelligence) Lou Zhou (Rice University), Zachary Pipping (University of Florida) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Maximizing Roster Efficiency in the MLS (external partner: Daniel Wicker, Charlotte FC) Oliver Daboo (Colby College), Otis Birnbaum (Williams College) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Clustering Swing Behavior Within MLB Hitters (external partner: Bryant Davis, Miami Marlins) Joseph Dante Maurice (Rice University), Tai Fowler (Pomona College) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Tracking the Intangible: Quantifying Effort in NFL Running Backs (external partner: Sam Ventura, Buffalo Sabres) Emily Shteynberg (New York University), Luke Snavely (Robert Morris University), Sheryl Solorzano (Amherst College) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Draft Smart: Identifying Hidden Value in WNBA Expansion (external partner: James Hyman, Connecticut Sun) Ella Sylvester (Smith College), Isabella Ferrandiz (Syracuse University), Jada Douthit (Winston-Salem State University) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Forced Turnover: Evaluating Pressing Effectiveness in Soccer (external partner: Daniel Wicker, Charlotte FC) David Almona (Centre College), Natalie Rayce (Carnegie Mellon University) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Predicting Plays, Revaluing Rushers (external partner: Preston Biro, Washington Commanders) Verity Nwabuisi (University of Southern Mississippi), Cale Latimer (University of Alabama) |
Slides Poster Report |
CMU-Optum Bridges to Healthcare Data Science
| County-Level Risk Analysis of Healthcare Access and Racial Disparities in Preventable Hospitalizations Arturo Espana (UC Santa Barbara), Payson Johanson (Clark University), Victoria Nguyen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Understanding the Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Premature Deaths by Race Saima Rahman (Colby College), Maximus Liu (University of Texas at Austin), Meris McElveen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
Slides Poster Report |
| The Link Between Mental Health Provider Density and Poor Mental Health at the County Level Joann Jun (University of Connecticut), Lily Fransen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Karim Zaggoti (Washington University in St. Louis) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Teen Birth Trends: Addressing Intergenerational Effects Olivia Kim (Duke University), Isaac Calderon (Brown University), Gedeon Rumega (Arizona State University) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Mapping Obesity: A County-Level Analysis of Lifestyle and Food Environment Factors Jordan Faustin (Howard University), Helen Peng (Carnegie Mellon University), Anvith Thumma (Arizona State University) |
Slides Poster Report |
| Uncovering Predictors of Substance-Related Death: Social & Demographic Risk Becky Zhou (University of Pittsburgh), Georgina Mbonu (University of Texas at Austin), Thomas Kim (University of Minnesota) |
Slides Poster Report |