Data Science Capstone

Interested in working with Rice student and faculty teams to solve real-world data science challenges? We are now accepting project proposals for Fall 2024. Submissions are due May 3, 2024.

D2K Capstone Timeline

The First-of-its-kind Capstone Program

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Experiential Learning

Innovative Education in Applied Machine Learning and Data Science

Interdisciplinary student teams in the D2K Capstone program have the opportunity to utilize their machine learning and advanced computational skills by working on real-world data science challenges.

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Industrial and Social Impact

Solutions to Real-World Data Science Challenges

D2K Capstone students work on industry-sponsored (finance, energy, healthcare, tech) projects, community impact (government and non-profit) projects. At the end of the semester, students will present their work, compete for prizes and showcase their impact in the D2K Showcase. Learn more about our impact >>

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The Future of Data Science

We need people who can transform data into actionable knowledge.

The D2K Capstone helps students gain technical and practical skills, and prepares them to become the next generation of data scientists, analysts, and computational engineers. Many of our students continue working with clients through an internship or a full-time position.

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How It Works

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.

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Partnerships

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 >>

What D2K Lab students and clients say about the Data Science Capstone

Student and Client Testimonials

“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 >>

Recent Capstone News

Thursday, Apr. 21, 2022

Horned Owl Genome Sequenced by Students at Rice University

Rice CS' Treangen Lab collaborated with D2K students, the Houston Zoo, and Baylor College of Medicine on the project.

Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021

D2K students develop a deep learning model to forecast stroke risk

Monday, Dec. 6, 2021

Audubon project wins D2K Showcase Fall 2021

Team’s computer vision system tracks waterfowl, counts them from the air

Monday, Jun. 7, 2021

“To Predicting a Better Tomorrow”

Rice D2K Lab students build a predictive maintenance model to improve operations with machine learning.

Thank you to our partners and Spring 2023 project sponsors:
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