Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV) and the Columbia Lab-to-Market Accelerator Network (L2M) are seeking undergraduate students from Columbia College, Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia General Studies, and Barnard for part-time (10 – 20 hours per week) temporary (6 – 8 weeks during June to August 2020) summer interns.
We need someone with strong data wrangling capabilities, to be able to determine quick ways to clean and merge data. The format of the data is spatial (GIS) but it could also be manipulated in tabular format. GRID3 is a program within CIESIN which is a research center located at the Lamont-Doherty Campus (with office space on the morningside campus) and is part of Columbia’s Earth Institute. Candidates can learn more about the program at the GRID3 website.
This was a 1-year prospective observational study to examine the relation between sleep and cardiometabolic risk among 506 women in the NYC area. All of the data has been collected and entered in a Redcap database, has been cleaned, and is ready for analysis.
In this project we’ll be expanding on the existing family of supervised topic models. These models extend LDA to document collections where, for each document, we observe additional labels or values of interest. More specifically, one of the goals of this project is to use additional document level data, such as author information, to develop better exploratory data tools.
Bacterial and viral genomic epidemiology. Ongoing and new projects.
Targeted phishing is one of the most common and damaging cybersecurity attacks, incurring tens of billions of dollars in losses a year. In order to increase the success of the phishing emails, attackers often craft emails that impersonate real people or legitimate online services, and send them from networks and hosting sites that have a high reputation. This leads major email security services, including Outlook and Gmail, to often misclassify these emails as legitimate.
The goal of this project is to mitigate the risks of commuting for Columbia employees when they will have to return to work after the state-on-pause is over from May 15. As Columbia has been preparing for ramping up labs with an emphasis on social distancing within campus, higher risks could arise when the employees have to commute between home and campus. It is estimated approximately one in five residents in NYC might have been infected by COVID-19 . With the fear of exposing to coronavirus, commuters have shifted from transit to individual cars or bikes, leading to a significant drop in subway ridership , more speeding tickets , surging bike traffic , and more crashes with cyclist injuries . On the other hand, low-income people of color, who have been hit the hardest by the coronavirus , could be in a more disadvantaged position after the state “un-pause”, because: (1) they lack accessibility to other travel modes than public transit; (2) they usually live far from their workplace for an affordable accommodation and have to commute a long way; and (3) many of them take night shift but most transportation options are shut down at night after the pandemic. This project aims to address travel safety and equity concerns of essential workers and provide a responsible and safe transportation solution for the Columbia community.
