After a successful Undergraduate Big Data Challenge, experts in the field have selected 15 finalist teams to compete at our finale event: Big Data Day. Below you will find the project reports as well as 10-minute video presentations for each finalist team. We encourage you to view these to see some of the work of the brightest undergraduates in Canada as they compete for monetary and scholarly prizes, which include the opportunity to work with health startups, publication opportunities, and cash awards.
Event Schedule
Our Panelists
Deepak Kaura
Chief Medical Officer for 1QBit
Deepak serves as 1QBit’s Chief Medical Officer and as the Chair of the Board of Joule, a Canadian Medical Association subsidiary. Before this, he had spent 5 years in Qatar with the Sidra Medical and Research Center, most recently as the Executive Chairman of the Foundational Clinical Services Management Group, where he helped to set new standards inpatient care for women and children and led ground-breaking work in the application of machine learning to healthcare. Deepak has also served the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as a Subspecialty Chair in Pediatric Radiology and has established a number of startups in the healthcare space
Eleanor Haine-Bennett
Program Officer for Natural Sciences for Canadian Commission for UNESCO
Eleanor Haine Bennett is the Program Officer for Natural Sciences at the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. She has a background in ecology research, science communication, and STEM education, and is the former Executive Director of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Eastern Ontario.
Suzanne Kettley
Executive Director of Canadian Science Publishing
Suzanne Kettley is the Executive Director of Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), Canada’s not-for-profit leader in mobilizing scientific knowledge and publisher of 24 journals including FACETS, Canada’s first multidisciplinary open access science journal. With three decades of experience as a scientific publishing professional, Suzanne has held several positions in the company and led the team during CSP’s transition from the federal government to the private sector. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors for the Canadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ) and STEM Fellowship, the editorial board of Scholarly and Research Communications, and a funder-publisher task force for the Society for Scholarly Publishing
Michael Duong
Head of Personalized Healthcare Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Michael is an experienced professional and senior leader in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. He has held roles in scientific research and development, pharmaceutical consulting, and health economics and outcomes research. He is currently the Head of Personalized Healthcare at Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. where he is fully accountable for the integration and implementation of commercial, medical, and access strategies to drive the success of a diverse portfolio focused on transforming the healthcare system through innovative personalized healthcare solutions.
Sacha Noukhovitch
Founder and President of the STEM Fellowship
Our Judges
Kashif Siddiqui
kliq.ca
Dean Callahan
Hoffmann-La Roche Limited
Jodi Garner
Hoffmann-La Roche Limited
Donna Janzen
Hoffmann-La Roche Limited
Olayinka (Yinka) Awoyemi
SAS User Group
Sean Rourke
University of Toronto
Christopher Gravel
Health Canada
Agnes Klein
Health Canada
Ann Meyer
Ontario Genomics
Finalists
Identifying COVID-19 Instagram Behaviour Patterns via a Novel Network Analysis Pipeline
Arthur Boschet, Vivian Chia-Jou Lee, Brenda Shen, and William Zhang
A Convolutional Neural Network Approach for Skin Cancer Detection
Andy Dai, Yi Zhou Tang, Kevin Zhu, and Nicolaus Wong
Analysis of Socioeconomic Determinants of Increased COVID-19 Vulnerability
Alexandra Mircescu, David Cao, Pramith Senaratne, and Sajeev Kohli
Investigating the Effectiveness of Strict Government Policies in Decreasing the Incidence of COVID-19
Andrew Pringle, Christine Orcullo, Adam Tinaburri, and Seokhyoun Hong
An analysis of US health insurance and H1N1 vaccination coverage: Implications for a COVID-19 vaccine
Anaïs Rojas Vélez, James Li, Ziniu Chen, and Yen Ching Tan
The Impact of COVID-19-related Unemployment on Suicide Rate in Canada
Catherine Chen, Denny Liu, and Nan Ji Suo
The Impacts of International, Domestic, and Local Mobility on COVID-19 Deaths
Cathy Yan, Simran Pal Waraich, and Liza Babaoglu
An Analysis of the COVID-19 Infodemic:
The Extensive and Disproportionate Impact of Public Figures on Public Behaviour and Sentiment Towards Hydroxychloroquine
Emily Chan, Ginah Choi, Kendrew Wong, and Shirley Zeng
Deep learning transcriptomic model for prediction of pan-drug chemotherapeutic sensitivity
Eddie Guo, Mehul Gupta, Pouria Torabi, and Sunand Kannappan
An Analysis Of COVID-19 Data to Identify Key Social and Policy Factors Affecting its Progression and Forecast Future Trends
Jia Cui, Yuzhou Liao, Qiaochu Zhang, and Ophelia Zhao
Leveraging Machine Learning Methods to Predict COVID-19 Vulnerability in U.S. Counties Based on Socioeconomic Factors
Katharine Emily Lee, Cynthia Denise Lo, William Ren Xu, and Robert Ye
Correlation Between the Use of User-Image-Based Social Media and Eating Disorder Rates
May Jagodkin, Joanna Roy, Sarina Xi, and Shiqi Xu
Diabetic Prevalence Among Racial Groups and Their Susceptibility to Pandemics: Mitigating Future Harm
Michael Wang, Shubh Fageria, Abdalla Abdelhady, and Geedhanjali Vivekanandan
Dissemination of Canadian Provincial Public Health Policy about COVID-19 on Instagram and Twitter
Payton Mackwood, Hannah Illing and Emilie Kaye
The Dynamic Inter-dependency among Macroeconomic and Physical Health Variables and Their Effects on Suicide Rates in the United States
Ruyan Geng, Jia Yi Ong, Muhammad Ali Sajid, and Francisco Sandoval Macias
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