Summary
This award supports an on-campus summer research program at Tufts University on Directed, Intensive and Mentored Opportunities in Data Science. Each summer, 10 undergraduates from across the country come to Tufts and complete a 10-week research project with a faculty mentor. Projects cover a broad range of data science and machine learning, from theoretical foundations to applications in computational biology, healthcare, and cyber-security. Participants work closely with their dedicated mentor all summer to learn how to conduct research while doing research. The program's novelty is in exposi