Student Research - College of Computing and Software Engineering

Student Research

Scholarly Research and Publications
The School of Data Science and Analytics is a research unit, supporting interdisciplinary research across the university, with an emphasis on the four core research themes of KSU – Biomedical and Health Sciences, Computing and Technology, Human Development and Well-Being, and Sustainable and Safe Communities.

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH

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Graduate Student Research

Our rich repository of academic achievements and research from the graduate candidates at Kennesaw State live in the Digital Commons. Explore cutting-edge research studies and innovative perspectives in the realm of data science and artificial intelligence through the following dissertations and published Grey Literature.

Access the links below for the winning master's level posters from recent Analytics Day competitions:

Spring 2024

Influence of Demographics in Modern Politics - Joseph Stanton

Predicting the Probability of Heart Disease... A Comprehensive Guide to Model Building - Gregory Balkcom

Predictive Modeling for Low Birth Weight Classification - Brandi Jones
Fall 2023

Mapping Changes in Car Accidents afer COVID-19 - Elizabeth Wile

Analysis of the Foot and Ankle Activity Level Scale (FAALS) Instrument Using the Rasch Measurement Model - Greg Balkcom

XGBoost Unleashed: A Data-Driven Approach to Predicting Employee Churn - James Down
Spring 2023

The Agony of Delays: A Look at Airline Clusters - James Down & Julia Hollis

Mapping Post-Secondary Transfer Rates - Nate Jones
Fall 2022

Flight Delays: A Feature Importance Analysis - Lythia Amoakon & Maria Casas

A Longitudinal Analysis of the Pattern of Change Over Time for Soybean Yield (1990 - 2013) by Country - Emma Pham

Was Inflation Predictable? Classical vs. Modern Monetary Theory - Lindsay Duncan & Tim Martin
Spring 2022

It's All About the Money: Maximizing a Profit Function Using Applied Logistic Regression - Victoria M. Chaney & Juliet M. Womack

Exploratory Applications of NLPs for Developing Syndromic Survelliance Queries - Alyssa Venn
Fall 2021

Predicting College Football Team Wins Using Stepwise Regression - Brett Martin

Logistic Regression for the Classification of Credit Risk - Sammie Haskin

Undergraduate Student Research

Access the links below for the winning undergraduate-level posters from recent Analytics Day competitions

Spring 2024

Don't Stress Out! Student Stress and How Schools Can Help - Megan Wilder
Fall 2023

Does Hands-Free = Accident Free? - Elaine Pollard

Multiple Myeloma, Where are You Hiding?- Desyne Martinez

Burning the Candle for Both Degrees: A Comparison of Factors Influencing Medical Student Burnout among Undergraduate and Professional Students - Megan McCabe
Spring 2023

Logistic Regression: Identifying Factors that Influence the Likelihood of Seeking Evidence-Based PTSD Treatments Among Military Personnel and Civilians - Kimberly Gomes

Live Long and Prosper: And Exploratory Analysis of Life Expectancy Indicators - Trinity Johnson

Heart at Rest: Identifying Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease - Morgan Galloway
Fall 2022

Every Child Deserves to Belong - Monika Vlad

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM: Improving Mission Effectiveness by Identifying Trends in Successful Terrorism - Dalton Shaver

Roller Coasters - What is Your Thrill? - Vanessa Sunar
Spring 2022

A Regression Analysis of Patient and Hospital Characteristics Influencing Length of Stay in South Carolina Hospitals - Michael Schlenk

A Geospacial Analysis of Conflict in Afganistan - Dalton Shaver

Binary Classification of Internet Traffic - Identifying Distributed Denial of Service Attacks - Chris Soyars
Fall 2021

COLIC - Nothing to Horse Around With - Lauren Christian

Collegiate Recovery Brain Games: Establishing Internal Validity for the Perceived Stress Scale and Stroop Task as Measures of Substance-Use-Related Bahaviors - Alexis Lowery
Spring 2021

Why Does an Ex-Offender Reoffend? - Jacob Rybak

Food Deserts - Hungry for Answers - Lawren Cumberbatch

Data Science and Classes - Tiana Chargin

For undergraduate students who are interested in presenting their research, the list of conferences below is a good place to start.

FALL & SPRING

Analytics Day sponsored by the School of Data Science and Analytics at KSU (free and local)
Symposium of Student Scholars at KSU (free and local)

FALL

American Statistical Association eUSR Poster Competition (free and virtual)
Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (free and local)
Southern Regional Council on Statistics (SRCS) (free and local)
Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium at Rice University (fee and travel)
MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (MIT URTC) (fee and travel)

SPRING

National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) at Harvard (fee and travel)
National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) (fee and travel)
Posters at the Georgia State Capitol (free and local)

SUMMER