DAC Award Winners


2025

  • Douglas Bayliss, Department of Pharmacology
    Characterizing RTN Population Activity Following Hypercapnia and Drub Challenges Using in vitro Calcium Imaging
  • Zezhou Cheng, Department of Computer Science
    Detect, Track, and Relate Anythin in 3D
  • Nick Guagliardo, Department of Pharmacology
    Analysis of Calcium Activity in Ex Vivio Adrenal Slices
  • Yangfeng Ji, Department of Computer Science
    Legal Document Analysis via Large Language Models: A Preliminary Study on Constitutional Court of Colombia
  • Sheng Li, School of Data Science
    Towards Efficient and Reliable Reasoning with Large Language Models
  • Thomas Loughran, Division of Hematology & Oncology
    LGL Leukemia Medical Data Extraction and Search Program for Translational Research
  • Nikhil Shukla, Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
    Scalable Combinatorics Accelerator Inspired by Physics
  • Bon Trinh, Division of Experimental Pathology
    Virtual Compound Screening for Cancer-Causing Proteins

2024

  • Alan Bergland, Department of Biology
    Drosophila Evolution through Space and Time 2.0 – Data Repository Updates
  • Josh Colston, Division of Infectious Diseases & International Health
    Pipeline Feasibility Study and Dashboard Implementation for the Planetary Child Health & Enterics Observatory Plan (Plan-EO)
  • Matthew Crawford, Division of Infectious Diseases & International Health
    Research Computing to Guide the Functional Optimization of Anti-bacterial Peptides
  • Gretchen Gamrat, McIntire School of Commerce
    To Buy or Not to Buy: Effectiveness of Boycotts in Consumer Goods
  • Andres Norambuena, Department of Biology
    Using AlphFold2 to Unveil Seminal Molecular Dysfunctions in Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Alexander Podboy, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
    Outcomes of Dexmedetomidine during ERCP on post-ERCP Pancreatitis
  • David Rekosh, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
    Analysis of ONT Long-Read Data to Elucidate Differential mRNA Isoform Expression Induced by Viral and Cellular Proteins
  • Heman Shakeri, School of Data Science
    CLEAR-iOP: Comprehensive Learning Engine for Assessment of Risk in IntraOcular Pressure
  • Sarah Siegrist, Department of Biology
    Identifying Cell Types within Three Dimensional Tissues across Populations
  • Jeffrey Smith, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
    Dissecting the Role of Acetyl-Coenzyme A Synthetase Coding Genes in Calori Restriction-Driven Longivity
  • Cynthia Tong, Department of Psychology
    Intensive Longitudinal Data Analysis and Compositional Predictors
  • Justin Yaworsky, Department of Emergency Medicine
    STEMI Database Development and Deep Learning ECG Algorithm for STEMI Diagnosis in Emergency Department Patients

2023

  • Steven Johnson, McIntire School of Commerce
    Distribution and Discovery of Digital Information (3Di)
  • Jingjing Li, McIntire School of Commerce
    Responsible-by-Design: Combating Biases in Generative AI Applications