Recent HSS Student Summer Research
| Year | Last Name | First Name | Mentor | SFP Program | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | O'Donnell | Cadence | Camerer | WAVE Fellows | Assessing Individual Differences in Habit Propensity via Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (rs-fMRI), Integrated Laboratory, and Real-World Behavioral Data |
| 2024 | Dy | Hudson Kaleb | Mobbs | SURF | Reinforcement Learning-Based Agents to Study Fear and Anxiety Responses in Gamified Environments |
| 2024 | Hu | Chia-Yu | Adolphs | SURF | Video-based Analysis of Social Behaviors in Children With Autism |
| 2024 | Xin | Allison | Katz | SURF | Enhancing Electoral Predictions With the ElectIt Package: Analyzing Election Dynamics |
| 2024 | Mathews | Samuel | Nielsen | SURF | Political Orientation and Social Choices: A Study on Political Orientation and Risky Financial and Social Decisions for Others at Varied Social Distance |
| 2024 | Hu | Ryan | Alvarez | SURF | Using Causal Machine Learning to Explore the Role of Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Genetics in the Aging of People With HIV |
| 2024 | Brainard | Ivy | Nielsen | SURF | Effect of Task Stereotype on Racial Identity of Multiracial Individuals |
| 2024 | Tsogtgerel | Saikhanbileg | Saito | SURF | Measuring Irrationality of Choice Using Network Flow Theory |
| 2024 | Chen | Yen-Shan | Camerer | SURF | The Biology Mechanisms Behind Rational Inattention: Bridging Inferred Information Costs and Cognitive Workload |
| 2024 | Hu | Simon | Adolphs | SURF | Investigating Amygdala Function With Naturalistic Movie-fMRI |
| 2024 | Koclanes | George | Alvarez | SURF | Creating Predictive Knee Injury Models From Biomechanical Data |
| 2024 | Alhalimi | Mohammedsaid | Tamuz | SURF | On the Existence of Harmonic, Finitely-Additive Measures Normalizing Paradoxical Subsets of the Free Group |
| 2024 | Sandroni | Alec | Saito | SURF | Measuring Irrationality of Deterministic Choice |
| 2024 | Wei | Kaylee | Druckenmiller | SURF | Comparing the Human Health Effects of Urban Heat and Climate Change in LA County |
| 2024 | Duan | Jeff | Eberhardt | SURF | Data Partitioning in Causal Inference |
| 2024 | Patel | Ria | Camerer | SURF | AI-Generated Images and Messages to Determine Behaviors for Risky Decision-Making in the Stag Hunt Game |
| 2024 | Gurijala | Ashug | O'Doherty | SURF | Probing Changes in Neural Representations During Training of Complex Decision Tasks: From Novice to Mastery |
| 2024 | Hartwell | Wilder | Adolphs | WAVE Fellows | Psychological Symptoms of Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum in Early Childhood |
| 2024 | Dods | Olivia | Adolphs | SURF | Emotional Expression in 24 Month Olds With Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum Compared to Typical Development |
| 2024 | Ngo | Cady | Camerer | VURP | Using Price History, Forecasts, Risk Attitudes, and Emotional Measures to Predict Experimental Asset Bubble Crashes |
| 2023 | Alsup | Jena | Alvarez | SURF | Investigating the Role of Greenwashing in Social Media |
| 2023 | Barbano | Ava | Adolphs | SURF | Using webcam-based eye tracking technology to probe atypical gaze behavior in autism |
| 2023 | Bohlman | Ella | Adolphs | SURF | Developmental Milestones in Children with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum |
| 2023 | Goldman | Jacob | Rangel | SURF | GPU Estimation of Computational Models of the Impact of Attention on Simple Choice |
| 2023 | Hong | Qianhui | Adolphs | SURF | Using Pupil Response to Measure Emotion in Autism |
| 2023 | Kim | Julia | Mobbs | SURF | Effectiveness of Positive Reinforcement in Preventing Toxic Disinhibition |
| 2023 | Lai | Audrey | Adolphs | SURF | Using Machine Learning to Classify Autism from Oculomotor Features |
| 2023 | Marquis | Katherine | Janas | SURF | Machine Learning, Image Processing, and Economic Activity During COVID-19 in the US |
| 2023 | Nag | Shreya | Alvarez | SURF | A Joint-Sentiment Topic Modeling Approach to Examining the Effect of Social Media Discussions on Gaming Activity |
| 2023 | Omosun | Jamal | Alvarez | VURP | Identifying and Predicting Toxicity in Online Communities Using Data Modeling Techniques |
| 2023 | Onderdonk | Gabriella | Rangel | SURF | The Role of Attention in Decision-Making and Its Influence Over Choices in Online Experiments |
| 2023 | Raghunath | Sarita | O'Doherty | Amgen | |
| 2023 | Sandroni | Alec | Saito | SURF | Axiomatization of Random Utility Model with missingdata |
| 2023 | Shendrikar | Siddhartha | Alvarez | SURF | Climate Misinformation in Twitter |
| 2023 | Strulieva | Yelyzaveta | Sherman | SURF | Moment Estimation for Within- and Across-Time Correlated Random Coefficient Linear Panel Data Models: A Comprehensive Analysis |
| 2023 | Yang | Lynn | Rangel | SURF | Estimation of computational models of the impact of attentionon simple choice using Julia |
| 2022 | Avila-Rimer | Beatriz | Lopez Moctezuma | SURF | The Impact of Electoral Gender Quotas on Policy |
| 2022 | Bohlman | Ella | Adolphs | Amgen Scholars | Early Language Development in Children with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum as Compared to Children at High- and Low-Likelihood for ASD |
| 2022 | Chang | Katherine | Camerer | SURF | Exploring habit formation theories with large scale field data for travel behavior |
| 2022 | Dey | Sreemanti | Alvarez | SURF | The New Face of Political Advertising: Using Image Sentiment Analysis to Classify Tone in Political Campaign Ads |
| 2022 | Granovskiy | Reggy | Jacobson | SURF | Archival Study of Visualizations of California Groundwater Infrastructure |
| 2022 | Graven | Henry | Camerer | SURF | Simulated Models of Bursty Human Behavior Analyzed with Underused Statistical Tests |
| 2022 | Hightower | Erica | Wey-Gomez | WAVE | The War of Words: An Exploration of the Literary Battlefield During the Age of Discovery |
| 2022 | Kalburge | Ishan | Camerer | SURF | Modeling Habit Formation Using Novel "Neural Autopilot" Model |
| 2022 | Laurent | Kushnerniva | Alvarez | WAVE | Parcel-Level Disaster Recovery in the Florida Panhandle: An Analysis of Hurricane Michael |
| 2022 | Li | Zhuoya | Ewens | SURF | The Key Features Venture Capitalists Focus on for the Most Promising Investment |
| 2022 | Luna | Carla | Adolphs | WAVE | Webcam Based Eye-tracking as a Tool for Characterizing Atypical Visual Attention in Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| 2022 | Malueg | Georgia | Ewens | SURF | Startup's predicted performance without public disclosures |
| 2022 | Maule | Beatrice | Camerer | SURF | Warm, Competent, Unequal: The Current State Of Hiring Discrimination |
| 2022 | Okada | Noah | Mobbs | WAVE | A Paradigm For The Study Of Escape and Reward Computation Under Threat |
| 2022 | Ortega Grisso | Alejandro | Ewens | SURF | Innovation of Private Firms in Growing Markets |
| 2022 | Rajagopalan | Kavya | Camerer | SURF | Discrimination metrics, coalition games and it's influence on the impoverished |
| 2022 | Rim | Patrick | Alvarez | SURF | Analyzing Emotion in Political Ad Videos Using Novel Neural Model |
| 2022 | Sandroni | Alec | Saito | SURF | Computational Analysis of Random Utility Model with Missing Information |
| 2022 | Sherman | Bre' Anna | Adolphs | WAVE | Remote Administration of a Visual Matching Interhemispheric Transfer Test to Capture Individual Variation in DCC Adults |
| 2022 | Swartwood | Brea | Ewens | SURF | Private Company Outcome Prediction |
| 2018 | Abney | Nayla | Mobbs | SURF | How Fear Impairs Positive Life Choices |
| 2021 | Ateyeh | Abdullah | Ewens | SURF | Financing Sources and the Trajectory of Innovation |
| 2021 | Banse | AD | Katz | WAVE | Is Democracy Fair? An observation of congressional elections over time. |
| 2021 | Blanes | Camila | Lopez-Moctezuma | SURF | The Effects of Electoral Institutions on Party Discipline: An Analysis of Speech and Votes in Mexican Congress |
| 2021 | Blend | Halle | Ewens | SURF | The Impact of Blue Sky Laws on Financial Development |
| 2018 | Briones | Jack | Alvarez | SURF | Real-Time Election Analysis: Using NLP to Avoid Bias in Corpora Containing Short Documents |
| 2021 | Chang | Katherine | Camerer | SURF | Using Remote Webcam-Based Eye-Tracking to Test Theories of Salience and Rational Inattention in Economic Decisions |
| 2020 | Chang | Katherine | Camerer | SURF | Impact of Forced Exploration on Habit Persistence |
| 2017 | Chase | Zach | Tamuz | SURF | Property HT |
| 2017 | Chung | Bo Ryehn | Adolphs | SURF | Computational Modeling of Social Learning in Humans: How Implicit Race Bias Influences Trustworthiness Judgments |
| 2019 | Ciecierski-Holmes | Tads | Camerer | SURF | Revisiting the Intertemporal Choice Problem in the Context of Exercise Habits |
| 2019 | Clark | Ryan | Adolphs | SURF | Can the Implicit Association Test Predict People's Biases? |
| 2021 | DelRosario | Dasani | O'Doherty | WAVE | The Role of Overconfidence in Susceptibility to Conspiracy Theory Belief |
| 2017 | Denko | Alex | Eberhardt | SURF | Determining Independence Relations in Cyclic Graphs |
| 2018 | Devasenapathy | Kriti | Adolphs | SURF | Computational Modeling of the Influence of Implicit Bias on Trait Learning |
| 2019 | Eason | Ethan | Alvarez | SURF | Using Real-World Training Data and Machine Learning to Detect Voter Fraud in Honduras |
| 2018 | Fager | David | Sherman | SURF | Analysis of a Correlated Random Coefficient Panel Data Model |
| 2021 | Gaskin | Karlton | Hagan | WAVE | Individuals high in symptoms of anorexia nervosa display differences in attention and learning |
| 2021 | Ghezae | Isaias | Camerer | WAVE | Social learning and the dynamic updating of group value |
| 2021 | Gorokhovsky | Elia | Tamuz | SURF | A Quantitative Neumann’s Lemma and Investigation of Group Growth |
| 2021 | Gowrishankar | Akshay | Alvarez | SURF | Election Forensics and Anomaly Detection in the 2020 Georgia Election Cycle |
| 2018 | Grotzinger | Heather | Wey-Gomez | SURF | Bartolome de Las Casas's Devastation of the Indies: the Rise of Human Rights From a Debate Over Spain's Lordship of the Indies |
| 2021 | Hashash | Sarah | Alvarez | SURF | Detecting and Deterring Harmful Online Speech Directed at American Election Officials |
| 2020 | Hummel | Lexa | Mobbs | SURF | Creating a Set of Virtual Decision-Making Tasks |
| 2019 | Hyun | Michelle | Alvarez | SURF | Analysis of Vote Share Drifts During Post-Election Canvass in Orange County |
| 2021 | Israel | Daniel | Eberhardt | SURF | Brain Parcellation With Causal Feature Learning |
| 2021 | Jenkins | Leo | Rosenthal | SURF | Digitalizing Parisian Death Records for Building a Searchable Database |
| 2017 | Jensen | Sam | Hagan | Amgen Scholars | Interoception and Its Relationship to Prospection and Retrospection |
| 2018 | Josyula | Maya | Tamuz | SURF | Studying Minimal Winning Coalitions of Transitive Voting Rules |
| 2020 | Juarez | Ben | Alvarez | SURF | Detecting Election Fraud With Machine Learning in Bolivia |
| 2017 | Karthikeyan | Niv | Kiewiet | SURF | The Evolution of Candidates in the Face of California's Top-Two Primary System |
| 2020 | Kukavica | Tony | Camerer | SURF | Income Targeting and the Labor Supply of Rideshare Driver-Partners |
| 2019 | Kukavica | Tony | Camerer | SURF | Empirically Identifying Habitual Behavior in Gym Attendance |
| 2018 | Lee | Hye Joon | Camerer | SURF | Meta-Analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss-Aversion |
| 2019 | Lee | Lin Lin | Eberhardt | SURF | Mapping Causal Connections in Leech Ganglia |
| 2021 | Li | Eileen | Nielsen | SURF | Eliciting Decision Algorithms for Choices Under Uncertainty |
| 2018 | Li | Jingjing | Camerer | SURF | Study of Relationship Between Curiosity and Confidence |
| 2018 | Liang | Crystal | Gilmartin | SURF | Tristram Shandy as Material and Historical Fiction |
| 2019 | Liebana Garcia | Samuel | Eberhardt | SURF | Neuroscience meets Electrical Engineering: neuroscientists might be able to understand microprocessors after all. |
| 2021 | Lin | Damon | Rosenthal | SURF | Digitalizing Twentieth Century Parisian Death Records to Build a Searchable Database |
| 2019 | Liu | Elise | Adolphs | SURF | Psychophysical Studies of Human Cognitive Control |
| 2018 | Liu | Sarina | Ewens | SURF | The Role of Contracts in Venture Capital Returns for Limited Partners |
| 2020 | Liu | Victoria | Gilmartin | SURF | Constructing Deviant Women: The Intersections of Victorian Medicine and Literature |
| 2021 | Mathur | Leena | Adolphs | SURF | Learning Culturally-Invariant Representations of Affect for Multimodal, Cross-Cultural Affect Perception |
| 2021 | McGraw | Kyle | O'Doherty | SURF | Classifying Decision Making Behavior in Psychiatric Disorders |
| 2020 | McGraw | Kyle | Alvarez | SURF | Surgical Risk Calculator: Predictive Modeling of Surgical Outcomes |
| 2019 | Moar | Rae | Adolphs | SURF | Perceptual Straightening Task to Test Predictive Coding Theory of Autism |
| 2017 | Moffatt | Connor | Kousser | SURF | Investigating Legislation Intended to Curtail Minority Vote Dilution |
| 2018 | Moss | John | Eberhardt | SURF | Causal Discovery Methods for Analyzing Mouse fMRI |
| 2021 | Onyekonwu | Chidinma | Wiggins | SURF | The Job Conundrum: Exploring the Politics of Work Among African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era |
| 2020 | Pagon | Chase | Alvarez | SURF | Using Machine and Deep Learning Approaches to Improve the Estimation of Social Media Geographic Locations |
| 2021 | Park | Eunice | Adolphs | SURF | Examining the Impact of an Individual's Physical and Personal Proximity to COVID-19 on Mental Health |
| 2021 | Parker | John | Eisenthal | SURF | Mach, Einstein, and the Rejection of the Luminiferous Ether |
| 2021 | Pruitt | Trinity | Rangel | WAVE | Sampling Noise Does Not Change With Experience During Simple Choice |
| 2017 | Pu | Peter | Jin | SURF | Eye-tracking shows how people with ASD differ in collecting visual information for social inferences on daily scenes |
| 2021 | Rajagopalan | Kavya | Camerer | SURF | Determining the Priority Queuing Mechanism From a Poverty Framework |
| 2021 | Redmond | Heidi | Adolphs | SURF | The Influence of Gender on Social Perception |
| 2021 | Russell | Jada | Adolphs | WAVE | Longitudinal Impacts of Discrimination on Depressive Symptomatology in Racial/Ethnic Minorities During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| 2017 | Sandra | Dasha | Adolphs | SURF | Computational Approaches to Individual Differences in Altruistic Decision-Making |
| 2020 | Santiago | Raffy | Jin | SURF | Reinforcement Learning and Investor Behavior in Financial Markets |
| 2019 | Santiago | Raffy | Sherman | SURF | Identification and Estimation in a Linear Panel Data Model Allowing Random Coefficients to Be Correlated With Regressors Within and Across Time Periods |
| 2019 | Santos | Louis | Adolphs | SURF | Predicting Intelligence from Structural MRI Data |
| 2018 | Schneider | Spencer | Alvarez | SURF | Testing the Integrity of Voter Registration Databases Using Repeated Record Linkage |
| 2021 | Siri | Jay | Gilmore | SURF | Recovering the Legacy of the Schuster Siblings and Arthur Schuster’s International Science Efforts in 19th-Century Siam |
| 2021 | Solovyeva | Nina | Ewens | SURF | Startups Raising Capital Without Public Disclosures |
| 2020 | Solovyeva | Nina | Camerer | SURF | Effects of Visual Saliency in Human Behavior |
| 2018 | Sontakke | Sumedh | Adolphs | SURF | Predicting General Intelligence using Resting State fMRI data: A Machine Learning Approach |
| 2021 | Tan | Lance | Ewens | SURF | Determining the Predictive Power of Pre-IPO Signals for Post-Public Stock Returns |
| 2021 | Twombly | Gabriella | Ewens | SURF | Non-Venture Capital Backed Startups |
| 2019 | Valencic | Luka | Kiewiet | SURF | Supplemental Education and Educational Outcomes in the California Public School System |
| 2019 | Vinson | Jamie | Pomatto | SURF | Non-Monotonic Decision Making Under Ambiguity via Interval Preferences |
| 2018 | Wahle | Iman | O'Doherty | SURF | A Feature-Based Model for Artwork Valuation |
| 2018 | Wang | John | Hoffman | SURF | The Economic Impact of Banking Networks in Early 19th Century England |
| 2019 | Windham | Amy | Jahner | SURF | Medieval Mystics and Female Authorship in the Middle Ages: An Examination of the First Autobiography in the English Language |
| 2018 | Xu | Mark | Eberhardt | SURF | Alternate Interhemisphere Connections Given Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum |
| 2017 | Yin | Tenzin | Eberhardt | Amgen Scholars | Causal Analysis of Brain Imaging Data to Understand the Minds of Split-Brain Patients |
| 2021 | Yu | Jennifer | Adolphs | SURF | Smartphone-based Eye-tracking for Assessing Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| 2021 | Zhang | Emily | Adolphs | SURF | Exploring the Effect of Media Consumption on Attitudes Towards Asian Americans |