2026 HDSI Capstone Showcase

Poster session for the undergraduate data science major's senior capstone program

Friday, March 13th, 2026, 10AM-3:00PM

Price Center East Ballroom, UC San Diego Campus


The event is split into two sessions – Session 1, from 10.30AM-12:00PM, and Session 2, from 1.00pm-2:30PM. Each project will only be presented in one session.

If you have questions or would like to participate as a mentor on future editions, contact Umesh Bellur at ubellur@ucsd.edu.

This year, we proudly present 73 project groups spread across a variety of topics. The showcase is divided into two blocks based on topics, 10.30AM-12PM and 1.00-2:30PM. The showcase will operate as a poster session, where attendees can approach the projects that interest you and ask their teams questions.

Below, you'll find the posters, websites, reports, and code repositories for all projects.


Jump to: Block 1 (10.30-12:00PM) β€’ Block 2 (1.00-2:30PM) Floormap of Posters


Block 1 (10.30AM-12:00 noon)

AI and Health

B08-1 Multi-Facility Patient Flow Optimization: A Simulation Approach
Kayanne Tran, Nadine Orriss (Mentor(s): Aaron Boussina and Dr. Karandeep Singh)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B08-2 Large Language Models as Information Extractors in Healthcare
Leah Seseri, Lewis Weng, Omid Alamdar (Mentor(s): Karandeep Singh, Aaron Boussina)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B08-3 Large Language Models for Trauma Care Quality
Kaijie Zhang, Viv Somani (Mentor(s): Aaron Boussina, Karandeep Singh)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B14-1 The Influence of IQ on the Brain’s Auditory Cortex Activation in Schizophrenia
Katrina Suherman, Paige Pagaduan, Rheka Narwastu (Mentor(s): Armin Schwartzman and Gabriel Riegner)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B14-3 Pre-Screening Motor-Imagery BCI Literacy Using Low-Sample EEG-Derived Features
Shaheer Khan, Daniel Mansperger, Andrew Li (Mentor(s): Armin Schwartzman, Gabriel Riegner)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B16-1 Clinical Trial Matcher
Aryan Kanuparti, Yen-Hsiang Chiu, Viveka Dhanda, John Collins (Mentor(s): Abed El-Husseini, Balaji Veeramani)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B18 Absolute vs. Relative Microbial Abundances: Predictive Performance on EHR Data and Transformability
Monica Dai, Sophie Wang, Nathan Wang, Katelyn Zhao, Camille Sicat (Mentor(s): Dr. Rob Knight)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B20-1 Multimorbidity-Aware Early Sepsis Prediction Using Patient_Specific Deterioration Trajectories
Yash Patel, Ethan Vo, Guoxuan Xu, Varun Pabreja (Mentor(s): Kyle Shannon)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B20-2 Multimorbidity-Aware Early Sepsis Prediction Using Cluster-Specific Deterioration Patterns
Samuel Mahjouri, Juntong Ye, Utkarsh Lohia, Kate Zhou(Mentor(s): Kyle Shannon)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B21-1 Classification of Pulmonary Edema: Combining Physician Assessment and Machine Learning Inference, Integrating Neural Networks with Large Language Models
Kendall Underwood, Jeru Balares, Dallas Plunkett (Mentor(s): Albert Hsiao)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B22 Graph-Based Phenotyping of Morphine Dose Effects and Recovery in Mice
Kyra Deng, Michael Vasandani, Matthew Budding, Pansy Kuang (Mentor(s): Benjamin Smarr, Manny Ruidiaz)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B23-1 Neuro-Symbolic Framework for predicting Off-Target effects using Gene and Phenotype Ontologies
Hannah Lee, Haily Vuong, Stephanie Yue, Zoey He (Mentor(s): Raju Pusapati, Murali Krishnam, Justin Eldridge)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B23-2 Neuro-Symbolic Off-Target Prediction for Pralsetinib Using Ontology-Grounded Knowledge Graphs
Ishaan Bal, Taranvir Chima, Suchit Bhayani, Ryan Cao (Mentor(s): Justin Eldridge)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

Applied AI

B01-2 Evaluating Credit Risk Through Transaction-Level Cash Flows: A Data-Driven Alternative to Traditional Scoring
Ada Mo, Brighton Chan, Haris Saif, Kyle Choi (Mentor(s): Kyle Nero, Daniel Mathew)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B01-3 Beyond Credit Scores: Transaction-Level Modeling for Credit Risk
Ethan Flores, Aile Banuelos, Yujie Kang, Jason Kim (Mentor(s): Kyle Nero, Daniel Mathew)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B03-1 Integrating Wearable Devices with Digital Twin Models for Personalized Health Insights
Levy Sahoo, Dhyay Thakrar, Essie Cheng, Selina Zhang, Camille Tran (Mentor(s): Tauhidur Rahman)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B03-2 Patient-Specific Cardiovascular Digital Twin for Personalized Cardiac Monitoring/b>
Brandon Ng, Shruti Yamala, Samuel Eun (Mentor(s): Tauhidur Rahman)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B04 DataLingo
Norah Kerendian, Sadrac Santacruz Ibarra, Yiran Zhao, Kevin Wu, Natasha Lie, Chloe Kim, Eshaan Roy, Omar Ali (Mentor(s): Benjamin Smarr)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B05-1 Quantifying the Economic Impacts of Potential Sea-Level Rise
Nolan Chu, Ritvik Mohindru, Desmond Vu (Mentor(s): Duncan Watson-Parris)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B05-1 Predicting HAB Risk Through Climate Modeling and Machine Learning
Owen Yang, Sohan Raval, Adams Yang, Sivaram Ari (Mentor(s): Duncan Watson-Parris)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B07 Automated Quality of Service Anomaly Detection in Wildfire Monitoring Networks Using Vision Transformers
Rishaant Jain, Sharon Ni, Aneesh Pamula, Josh Osofsky (Mentor(s): Nathan Hui, Falko Kuester, Neal Driscoll)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B09 Hunting for Ghost Particles
Prithvi Kochhar, Eunice Cho, Jade Choi, Nomin Batjargal (Mentor(s): Aobo Li)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B12 Alternative Input Interfaces for Audio Consumption
Ryan Ly, Justin Lu, Edgar Cisneros Barron, Tim Mao, Devesh Panda, Wan-Rong (Emma) Leung (Mentor(s): Victor Minces, Virginia da Sa)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B13-1 Wildfire Property Intelligence: Finding Outliers Before Fire Finds Them First
Tatiana Samokhvalova, Angela Shen, Sardor Sobirov, Nathaphat Taleongpong (Mentor(s): Peter Nagy, Lawrence Vulis)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B13-2 Wildfire Severity and Structural Damage Prediction in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Areas
Rushyendra Katabathuni, Reema Alsaeed, Chanyoung Park, Jahnavi Naik (Mentor(s): Ilyes Meftah)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B13-3 Wildfire Frequency and Damage Prediction for Real Estate Applications
Stuti Verma, Gahn Wuwong, Lacha Barton-Gluzman, Diego Arevalo Fernandez (Mentor(s): Ilyes Meftah)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B14-2 Structural vs. Chemical: A Statistical Approach to the Multimodal Covariance Structure of the Human Brain
Kevin Souder, Kevin Huang (Mentor(s): Armin Schwartzman and Gabriel Riegner)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B15-1 Balancing Privacy and Utility: Differentially Private Synthetic Data Generation for Intel Telemetry
Dhruv Patel, Reva Agrawal, Jordan Lambino (Mentor(s): Yu-Xiang Wang, Dr. Bijan Arbab)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B16-1 Personalized Supplement Recommender Using Agentic AI and Knowledge Graphs
Kevin Chen, Parna Praveen, Sia Patodia, Jovanna Fernando (Mentor(s): Abed El-Husseini, Balaji Veeramani)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B19-1 PREVAIL: Predictive Response for Emergency Volume Assessment in Incident Locations
Aditya Surapaneni, Suhani Sharma, Angela Hu, Subika Haider (Mentor(s): Phi Nguyen, Mike Hilden, Chuck Hahm, Fatemeh Aarabi)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B19-2 Seeing the System: A World Model for SDG&E Scheduling
Stephanie Wang, Zhenghao Gong, Weijie Zhang, Bingyan Liu (Mentor(s): Phi Nguyen, Chuck Hahm, Fatemeh Aarabi)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B19-3 ROAM: From Data to Dispatch
Derrick Nguyen, Iain Bustillos, Nathan Dang, Brian Docena (Mentor(s): Phi Nguyen)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B24-2 Generative AI For Good: Detecting Misinformation Online
Daniel Birman, Gavin Meregillano, Selina Wu (Mentor(s): Ali Arsanjani, Sam Lau)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B24-3 Multi-Agent Misinformation Analysis System
Amelia Lei, Jacquelyn Garcia (Mentor(s): Ali Arsanjani, Samuel Lau)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B24-4 LiarDB
Kliment Ho, Kevin (Keqing) Li, Shiwei Yang (Mentor(s): Samuel Lau, Ali Arsanjani)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B25 Workforce Optimization on Intuit’s Virtual Expert Platform
Hao Zhang, Jackie Wang, Sarah He, Sophia Fang (Mentor(s): Akash Shah, Lisa Li, Victor Calderon, Ken Yocum and Joe Cessna)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B26-1 Agentic and Fractal Reasoning for Article-Level Automated Fact-Checking
Cecilia Lin, Yulin Chen, Yaoxi Li (Mentor(s): Ali Arsanjani and Samuel Lau)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B26-1 Misinformation/Disinformation Detection Using Agentic AI
Chris Mo, Ryan Xavier (Mentor(s): Ali Arsanjani, Sam Lau)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B01-1 Utilizing Cashflow Underwriting for Fairer Credit Assessment
Heidi Tam, Jasmine Hong, Ellie Wang, David Tsukamoto (Mentor(s): Kyle Nero, Daniel Mathew)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

Block 2 (1:00 - 2:30 PM)

Blockchain

B10 Blockthentic
Andres Riera Ortiz Parraga, Jonathan Gu, Snigdha Podugu, Fred Danese, Ryan Cheung (Mentor(s): Rajesh Gupta)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

Systems & Hardware

A02-1 Hardware Acceleration for Tensor Multiplication in Neural Networks
Owen Shi, Edgar Guzman, Idhant Kumar (Mentor(s): Rajesh Gupta)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A02-2 Hardware Acceleration for Tensor Multiplication in Neural Networks
Brendan Kuang, Pranav Kumarsubha, Brandon Chiou (Mentor(s): Rajesh Gupta)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A08-2 Inference-Time Scaling for GUI Agents with Process Reward Models and Internal World Models
Bella Wang, Rita Yujia Wu, Shuchang Liu, Ziyu Huang (Mentor(s): Zhiting Hu, Kun Zhou)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»



Interpretability, Alignment & Fairness

A03 The Effect of Concept Neuron Perturbations in Concept Bottleneck Models
Neil Dandekar, Christian Guerra (Mentor(s): Lily Weng)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A07-2 Judging-the-Judges
Haoyang Yu, Jessie Zhang, Jessica Zhang, Anduo Zhang (Mentor(s): Ryan Lingo, Rajeev Chhajer)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B21-2 Explaining Black box predictions in Medical AI
Brian Huynh, Joshua Lee, Zoya Hasan (Mentor(s): Albert Hsiao)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

LLMs & Foundation Models

A06-2 Towards Trustworthy Reasoning: Hybrid RFT for Reliable LLM Reasoning
Hargen Zheng, Charlie Sun, Avi Mehta, Mihir Joshi (Mentor(s): Hao Zhang)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A07-1 Iterative Refinement of LLM as judge Framework
Zachary Thomason, Akshay Medidi, Rahul Sengupta, Zeyu Qi (Mentor(s): Ryan Lingo, Rajeev Chhajer)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A07-3 ContextEval: Evaluating LLM Agent Context Policies for ML Experiment Design
Hikaru Isayama, Julia Jung, Adrian Apsay, Raghavan Narasimhan (Mentor(s): Rajeev Chhajer, Ryan Lingo)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A08-1 Think, Search, Correct: A Self-Reflection Mechanism for Adaptive Tool-Use Agents
Arshia Vadhani, Megha Kataki, Joyce Lu, Jiaxin Yang (Mentor(s): Zhiting Hu, Kun Zhou)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A08-3 Benchmarking LLM-Generated Biological Hypotheses for Scientific Discovery
Jefferson Chen, Samuel Lee (Mentor(s): Zhiting Hu; Zhen Wang)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A09 Human-Centered Algorithmic Bias Auditing of Large Language Models
Derrick Dollesin, Rosey Gutierrez, Huize Mao, Bhagya Ram (Mentor(s): Stuart Geiger)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A12 Uncertainty Quantification in Large Language Models
Fong Vo, Pranav Singh, Calwin Li, Brooklyn Pagaza (Mentor(s): Yian Ma)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A15-1 Motif-preserving Graph Tokenization for Biological Structure Generation using Sequence Transformer
Kaiwen Bian, Andrew H. Yang (Mentor(s): Yusu Wang, Gal Mishne)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

Math & Algorithmic Foundations

A04-2 Causal Calibration: Precision Tuning Causal Analysis Algorithms for Domain Performance
Laura Diaz Rodriguez, David Oh, Yukon (Yujin) Lee (Mentor(s): Biwei Huang)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A13 Communication lower bounds for multi-party graph traversal
Ryan Batubara, Ivy Hawks, Darren Ho, Ciro Zhang (Mentor(s): Shachar Lovett)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A17 Simulation Coding Exercises for Teaching Probability Theory
Alyssa Tallada, Marguerite Church, Jingjun Ni, Yunqi Zhang, Rihui Ling (Mentor(s): Peter Chi)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

ML Theory

A15-1 Hypergraph Learning for General 3D Point Cloud Alignment
Minghan Wu, Chanyoung Park (Mentor(s): Yusu Wang, Gal Mishne)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A01 Curating Fine-Tuning Data with KAIROS-Based Valuation
Deepika Senthil, Matilda Gaddi (Mentor(s): Babak Salimi)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A10-1 TeleSpeak: Modeling Early Language Acquisition with Reinforcement Learning
Longhao Lin, Colin Wang, Banff Jiang (Mentor(s): Alex Warstadt)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A10-2 Sleep-Consolidated Learning & Plasticity Decay
Peter Shamoun, Sai Sri Lasya Yadlapati, Tianqi Zhang (Mentor(s): Alex Warstadt)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A11-1 What Enables In-Context Learning in Transformers? An Analysis of Attention Mechanisms
Anish Kasam, Dhanvi Patel, Krish Prasad, Shou Tai Yue (Mentor(s): Arya Mazumdar)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A11-2 Investigation into In-Context Learning Capabilities of Transformers
Rushil Chandrupatla, Leonardo Bangayan, Sebastian Leng (Mentor(s): Arya Mazumdar)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B02 Agentic Privacy Control Center
Sebastian Ferragut, Nian-Nian Wang, Jesse Huang, Jimmy Huang, Arya Verma (Mentor(s): Haojian Jin, Qiyu Li)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B06-1 "Turbocharging Data Transformation: A Preconditioning Approach to Optimal Transport"
Chengxi Xu, Owen Miller, Cosun Zhou, Chia-Lun Tsao (Mentor(s): Alex Cloninger, Rayan Saab )
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B06-1 Automated Labeling of MoCap Data via Rigid-Body Constraints and Temporal Analysis
Takafumi Matsui, Quy-Dzu Do, Caden Pascual, Matt Tokunaga (Mentor(s): Alex Cloninger, Rayan Saab )
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B24-1 Generative AI for Good: Detecting and Mitigating Misinformation
Jason Huynh, Raymond Williams, Jonathan Yi (Mentor(s): Ali Arsanjani, Sam Lau)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

NLP & IR

A04-1 Market Foundry: From documents to intelligence β€” built your way.
Marija Vukic, Matthew Wong, Jessica Batbayar (Mentor(s): Biwei Huang)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A06-1 CHAI-KTQ: Extending CHAI Framework for Efficient LLM Inference
Aaron Feng, Andy Huang, Son Nguyen, Zhongyan Luo (Mentor(s): Hao Zhang)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

Optimization & Training Dynamics

A05 Beyond Retraining: investigation on how early stopping and sensitivity of different unlearning methods help mitigate the adversarial attack of a simple model
Justin Seo, Qirui Zheng, Imangali Amangeldi (Mentor(s): Jun-Kun Wang)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A14-1 Shortening the Loss Plateau
Jet Yue, Samuel Cho, Tommy Li (Mentor(s): Tianhao Wang)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

A14-1 Investigating Optimizer Behavior Under Varying Training Regimes
Eric Cheng, Matthew Jacobsen, Prashant Potluri, Zijin Qin (Mentor(s): Tianhao Wang)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»

B15-2 Training-free versus training-based differential privacy for data synthesis
Hana Tjendrawasi, Mehak Kapur, Jason Tran, Phuc Tran (Mentor(s): Yu-Xiang Wang)
Poster πŸͺ§ Website 🌐 Report πŸ“– Code πŸ’»