Year 3 (Summer 2024)

Summer Camp for Year 3 (May 13 – June 13)

39 students and one junior scholar attended the summer camp in-person. We started with a mini-workshop on the first day. The program consisted of two speakers from UH who gave seminars on Energy Transition:

Joseph Powell - Executive Director, Energy Transition Institute, University of Houston
Ramanan Krishnamoorti - Chief Energy Officer and Vice President, Energy and Innovation, University of Houston

Cohort 2 gave poster presentations on their research projects:

Team 1: Predicting Magma Fertility for Porphyry Copper Exploration Using Machine Learning (Winner)
Team 2: Large Language Model on Energy Policy (Runner-Up)
Team 3: Pioneering the Drill: Machine Learning for Predicting Rate of Penetration in Drilling Operations (Runner-Up)
Team 4: Residual Load Forecasting: Kaggle Challenge
Team 5: Predicting The Remaining Useful Lifetime of a Battery

Overview of Summer Camp Curriculum and Schedule

Week 1: Introduction to Statistics and Neural Networks
Week 2: Introduction to Data Science and Machine Learning
Week 3: Public Policy
Week 4: Machine Learning and Data Visualization
Week 5: Geoscience

We concluded with a series of seminars by speakers from industry on the last day (June 13):

Brent Railey & Dr. Ra Inta - Chevron Phillips Chemical
Dr. Alex Asher - Stata
Dr. Shuang (Shela) Jiang - Waste Management
Dr. Jiawei Li - SLB