Congratulations to the four engineering & computer science students who were awarded research funding this semester from the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute.
A partnership among UWM, Marquette University and Northwestern Mutual, NMDSI aims to establish Wisconsin as a national hub for data science and technology.
Since its inception, NMDSI has awarded more than $300,000 to support over 100 semester-long projects through the Student Research Scholars initiative. The selected projects focus on five areas: artificial intelligence; AI and data bias and ethics; behavioral economics; financial literacy; and health and wealth inequities.
This semester’s student scholars from the college and their faculty advisors include:
Xavier Sebastian Adettu, “Partial Evaluation for Optimizing Data Science Library”
Tian Zhao, associate professor, computer science
Sajede Farahani, “Use of AI in Leveraging Alternative Data in Mortgage Industry.”
Wilkistar Otieno, associate professor, industrial & manufacturing engineering
Mohammad Shalmani, “Leveraging Large Language Models and User-Centered Design to Enhance Older Patients’ Engagement with Patient Portals.”
Jake Lu, associate professor of health informatics, affiliate professor of computer science, graduate program director of biomedical health informatics
Divakar Yadav, “LLMFlux: Cold-Start-Aware Inference Server for Modern Transformers.”
Tian Zhao, associate professor, computer science