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
Click on the images below to see our Ph.D. students' research
in each of the four core research themes.
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Computing and Technology
Human Development and Well-Being
Sustainable and Safe Communities
Final Dissertations on KSU Digital Commons
Grey Literature Publications on KSU Digital Commons
Click on the links below for the winning master's level posters from recent Analytics Day competitions
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Spring 2023
The Agony of Delays: A Look at Airline Clusters - James Down & Julia Hollis
Mapping Post-Secondary Transfer Rates - Nate Jones
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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
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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
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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
Click on the links below for the winning undergraduate-level posters from recent Analytics Day competitions
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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
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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
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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
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Fall 2021
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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)
- Stanford Undergraduate Research Conference (fee and travel)
SUMMER
Research Experiences for Undergraduates
