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Introduction

Team DIVA is an undergraduate research team at the University of Maryland, College Park. Led by students in the Gemstone honors program, Team DIVA is attempting to develop a virtual reality tool to visualize climate data more effectively.

Mission

Thanks to the sheer size of the universe, climate and astronomy research generate a colossal volume of data. However, research funding is primarily used to collect even more data, with less attention paid to developing methods for displaying these truly enormous datasets. This project specifically focuses on using virtual reality to visualize data. Our goal is to make data interactive and more understandable for everyone and to help researchers better interpret and analyze climate data on a global scale.

Members

Dr. Stephen Penny

Mentor

Asst. Research Prof. — UMD | AOSC
Visiting Scientist — NCEP
Visiting Scientist — RIKEN | AICS
Dr. Kelley O'Neal

Librarian

Geospatial Librarian — UMD | CGIS
Teddy Corrales

Library Liaison

Mathematics '19
Interests: Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks
Hobbies: PAD, Anime
Erin Estes

Team Liaison

Computer Science '19
Interests: Neural Networks, Data Science, Data Visualization
Hobbies: Violin, Painting Nails
Kevin Ho

Web Liaison, Clerk

Electrical Engineering '19
Interests: Electrophysics, Robotics, Optics
Hobbies: Cooking, Training my cat
Austin Hom

Financial Liaison

Mathematics '19
Interests: Data Analytics, Biometrics, Business Analytics
Hobbies: Video Games
Mughil Muthupari

Computer Science & Statistics '18
Interests: Data Science, Finance
Hobbies: Tennis, Drawing
Justin Pan

Social Media Liaison

Electrical Engineering & CS '19
Interests: FPGA Design, Embedded Systems, Computer Architecture
Hobbies: Tennis, Chinese Yoyo, Cooking
Justin Shen

Ombudsperson

Computer Science '18
Interests: Machine Learning, Big Data, Computer Vision
Hobbies: Puzzles