Activity 1.3. Data Science Undergraduate Research Experiences

Alliance faculty and staff offer a year-round ‘Data4SDG’ program of undergraduate research experiences (URE) linking Data Science to the UN SDG in areas like healthcare, education, economic innovation and eliminating poverty and hunger.

  • All students code in R, R Studio, Python and SQL

  • URE are offered during the semester or summer and range from 6 weeks to 3 months

  • HPC and Cloud compute resources are leveraged at TACC and University of Hawaii

  • Research projects may be faculty-, stakeholder- or student-initiated

  • 79 URE completed to date

  • Completion provides am employer-ready portfolio of data products and code

Undergraduate research experiences: geographical distribution