2026 S3 Symposium

In 2026, we have many outstanding students participate in the student symposium, where they presented their findings, innovations, and creativity.

The presentation titles and presenters are listed below:

  • The Chiara Project: Mapping Women’s Health Inequities and Gendered Violence Across the San Diego, California–Tijuana, Mexico Border (Rita Herfi, Pilar De Haro, Jesus Garcia Hernandez, Eddie Rosas, Marina Sannes)
  • Unhoused in San Diego, California: Results from the 2025 SDHeart Surveys (Olivia Pugsley, Alexandra Ngu, Jill)
  • Exploring Mobile Clinic and Street-Medicine Outreach Strategies using Agent-Based Modeling (Hetty Zhang and Nhan Le)
  • Improving YOLOv5 Deep Learning Models for Detecting Homeless Encampments (Ashley Funk)
  • Visualizing the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and Spatiotemporal Patterns of Homeless Encampments in San Diego County (Annie Mewkill)
  • Enhancing Human Mobility Prediction through an OSINT-Based LLM Multi-Agent System (Shangyu Lou)
  • NSF SDHeart Homeless Project (Timothy Boyd and Craig Lewis)
  • Advancing Marine Microplastic Monitoring through Deep Learning-Based Image Segmentation (Dipsy Dipsy, Siddharth Suresh Babu, Kawther Kaziz, Sayali Sanjay Shelke)
  • US-Mexico Border Surveillance Study: Community Views on Border Technologies and Artificial Intelligence (Alice Wilshire)
  • Automated Detection of Homeless Encampments and Homelessness related Entities using Deep Learning (Pranjal Patel and Palash Vijaykumar Suryawanshi)

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