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June 24, 2022<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

DePaul Students Shine at the Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium.\u00a0<\/h3>\n

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CDM students (left to right)\u00a0Ahad Abubake, Jake Peterson, Maria Alexandra Theodorescu and Nailah Ali are four of 11 Blue Demons who presented at this year's Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Image courtesy of\u00a0Maria Alexandra Theodorescu)<\/em><\/p>\n

In the spring, 11 DePaul students participated in the Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium at Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center. Two students, Elena Sasso and Maria Alexandra Theodorescu, earned second and third place, respectively, for their poster presentations at the symposium.<\/p>\n

\u201cParticipation in undergraduate research is a learning activity that broadens and deepens students' classroom learning,\" says Daniela Stan Raicu, associate provost for research at DePaul. \u201cStudents engaged in research develop a range of skills including critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration. Having our undergraduates present at CAURS provided an opportunity to showcase undergraduate research taking place at DePaul, as well as offered the students a sense of community to research teams and labs belonging to the Chicago area.\"<\/p>\n

Sasso, a student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Science and Health, presented on how inflammatory caspases, or enzymes, involved in the immune response are overactive in many inflammatory diseases, such as arthritis and lupus. She argued further study of these caspase will help differentiate them to better understand their inflammatory pathway and achieve the development of caspase inhibitors.<\/p>\n

Theodorescu, a student in the School of Computing in the Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media, covered data science and how end-users of machine learning models are not always trained data scientists. She argued it is crucial these models be infused with domain knowledge in order to increase explainability and trust in their output.<\/p>\n

DePaul's showing at the conference included two oral presentations and nine poster presentations. Disciplines of research work presented by the students included engineering, mathematics, computer science, chemistry, physics, biological sciences and psychology.<\/p>\n

Check out the latest featured research at DePaul on the University Research, Creative Activities and Innovation website.\u200b<\/p>\n

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December 2020<\/p>\n

A Finalist in Transportation Data Analytics Challenge<\/h3>\n

Bhooma Shivakumar, a graduate student in Data Science at DePaul University, has become a finalist at the Student Data Challenge on Urban Travel Time, Speed, and Reliability organized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine \u2013 Transportation Research Board (TRB) Joint Subcommittee on Travel Time, Speed, and Reliability. The main challenge was to develop a data-driven methodology to assess the impact COVID-19 has had on the transportation networks.<\/p>\n

In this project, Bhooma and her advisor Dr. Ilyas Ustun analyzed the effect that COVID-19 has had on driving behavior in Austin, Texas. It was found that the crash count was significantly lower in 2020 compared to 2019. Even though there was a significant drop in the number of crashes, the number of fatalities increased by 14% in 2020. Meanwhile, the average speed in Austin increased during the pandemic and was higher in 2020 than in 2019. The largest increases in average speed occurred during the mornings between 7 \u2013 9 AM and evenings between 4 \u2013 6 PM. These changes in crash count and speed were observed to be the strongest with the onset of the lockdown in March and waned off as the pandemic progressed.<\/p>\n

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The project will be presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of TRB to be held virtually on January 26th, 2021. We wish the best of luck to Bhooma and Dr. Ilyas Ustun.<\/p>\n

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October 2020<\/p>\n

Data scientists fill in gaps on race, ethnicity in COVID-19 testing \u2013 DePaul University researchers use U.S. census data to impute missing data<\/h3>\n

Thousands of people are being tested for COVID-19 each day, but collecting complete demographic information, including race and ethnicity, has proven difficult. Data science researchers at DePaul University have stepped up in Chicago to help public health officials fill in this missing information. Their work imputing data \u2014 replacing missing information with predicted values \u2014 brought down the category of \u201cunknown\u201d race in COVID-19 tests in Chicago from 47% to 11%… Read the full article here<\/a>.
Discover more information on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Chicago Tonight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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October 2020<\/p>\n

Congratulations to our faculty for receiving the AGIF Grant<\/h3>\n