Teams of 4-6 students come from a variety of disciplines and experience levels (advanced undergraduates and graduate students). Teams are co-mentored by a sponsor mentor, D2K Fellows, and Rice data science faculty.

A non-disclosure agreement for the students and faculty mentor is built into the sponsored research agreement. Rice will educate students and faculty as to the particular clauses of this agreement.

At the end of the semester, student teams produce a data science report and deliver all software and scripts used in the report.

As a D2K Lab member, you have the opportunity to sponsor a data science capstone project. Our sponsors are paired with student-faculty teams to solve complex, real-world problems with the power of data science in an experiential learning environment like no other. With a sponsored research agreement, sponsors will own any resulting Intellectual Property (IP). Learn More about our Sponsor Research Agreement and the D2K Capstone Project Timeline >>

“The cool thing about the Capstone program is that we actually help produce something useful, especially something like predicting cardiac signals, that I never would have thought I would be doing as a computer science and electrical engineering major.”

Read more about what our students and clients say about the D2K Capstone program >>