Akamai PREP - Computer Science: this team of scientist/engineer educators designed and taught an inquiry lab activity through ISEE’s Professional Development Program

L-R: Grace Lin, Geetanjali Rakshit, Lauren Anderson

Venue: Akamai PREP

Team Members: 

Grace Lin (Design Team Lead): Data Scientist, Computer Science at UCSC / Data Science at StoryFit

Geetanjali Rakshit: Graduate Student, Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz

Lauren Anderson: Postdoc, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute

Audience: 38 undergraduates

Activity Name: Akamai Computer Science

Learning Goals: Building decision trees to predict a desired attribute of a dataset while maximizing the prediction accuracy, and optimization of algorithms.

Funding for this team was provided by: National Science Foundation (AST#17431117), Air Force Office of Scientific Research