{"id":139,"date":"2023-08-08T17:59:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T17:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/opendata\/?page_id=139"},"modified":"2023-08-15T16:27:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T16:27:34","slug":"2022-mit-prize-for-open-data","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/opendata\/open-data-mit-home\/mit-prize\/2022-mit-prize-for-open-data\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 MIT Prize for Open Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_106\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106\" class=\"wp-image-106 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/11\/opendata102822-042-copy-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/11\/opendata102822-042-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/11\/opendata102822-042-copy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/11\/opendata102822-042-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/11\/opendata102822-042-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/11\/opendata102822-042-copy-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/11\/opendata102822-042-copy.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Bryce Vickmark.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The MIT School of Science and the MIT Libraries presented the inaugural MIT Prize for Open Data in 2022. The following winners and honorable mentions were selected from more than 70 nominees representing all five schools and several research centers across MIT.<\/p>\n<p>Recipients were honored at the \u201cOpen Data @ MIT\u201d event on October 28, 2022, in Hayden Library, featuring remarks from School of Science Dean Nergis Mavalvala and MIT Libraries Director Chris Bourg, award presentations, and short talks by the winners. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2022\/celebrating-open-data-1118\">Read more in MIT News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Winners<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Yunsie Chung<br \/>\n<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Graduate student, Department of Chemical Engineering<br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/record\/5970538#.Y0XB6ezMKX0\">SolProp<\/a>, the largest open-source dataset with temperature-dependent solubility values of organic compounds<\/li>\n<li><b>Matthew Groh<\/b>, g<i>raduate student, MIT Media Lab; <\/i><b>Caleb Harris<\/b>, <i>MEng, MIT Media Lab; <\/i><b>Luis Soenksen,<\/b><i> postdoc, MIT; <\/i><b>Felix Lau, <\/b><i>research engineer, Scale AI; <\/i><b>Rachel Han,<\/b><i> software engineer, Scale AI; <\/i><b>Aerin Kim,<\/b><i> manager, Scale AI; <\/i><b>Arash Koochek,<\/b><i> dermatologist, Banner Health; <\/i><b>Omar Badri<\/b>, <i>dermatologist, Northeast Dermatology Associate<br \/>\n<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mattgroh\/fitzpatrick17k\">Fitzpatrick 17k dataset<\/a>, an open dataset consisting of 16,577 images of skin disease alongside skin disease and skin tone annotations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/10\/Fitzpatrick17kdataset.slides.10.28.22.pdf\">Presentation slides<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Tom Pollard, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">research scientist<\/span><\/i><b>; Benjamin Moody, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">programmer analyst;<\/span><\/i> <b>Li-Wei Lehman; <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">research scientist<\/span><\/i><b><i>; <\/i><\/b><b>Brian Gow, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">technical associate; <\/span><\/i><b>Chen Xie<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> engineer; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Jesse Raffa<\/strong><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, research scientist; <\/span><\/i><b>Dana Moukheiber, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">technical associate; <\/span><\/i><b>Lama Moukheiber; Ken Paik, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">research scientist<\/span><\/i><b><i>; <\/i><\/b><b>Leo Celi, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">principal research scientist<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; <\/span><\/i><b>Alistair Johnson,<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">research scientist;<\/span><\/i> <b>Roger Mark,<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences and Technology;<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Institute for Medical Engineering &amp; Science<br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/physionet.org\/\">PhysioNet<\/a>, a data-sharing platform that enables thousands of clinical and machine-learning research studies each year and which allows researchers to share sensitive resources that would not be possible through typical data sharing platforms<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/11\/PhysioNetOpenDataSlides.pdf\">Presentation slides<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Joseph Replogle<br \/>\n<\/b><i>Graduate student, Whitehead Institute<br \/>\n<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/gwps.wi.mit.edu\/\">Genome-wide Perturb-seq dataset<\/a>, the largest publicly available, single-cell transcriptional dataset collected to date<\/li>\n<li><b>Pedro Reynolds-Cu\u00e9llar, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">graduate student, MIT Media Lab\/ACT; <\/span><\/i><b>Diana Duarte, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">co-founder at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/diversa.co\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diversa<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the Diversa team and the Retos\u2019 network of <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/retos.co\/ecosistema\/comunidades\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">community partners<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and universities.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/retos.co\/\">Retos<\/a>, an open-data platform for detailed documentation and sharing of local innovations from under-resourced settings, also aiding with matching hundreds of university students with challenges from rural collectives<\/li>\n<li><b>Maanas Sharma<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Undergraduate student<br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/reports\/states_of_emergency.html\">States of Emergency<\/a>, a nationwide project analyzing and grading the responses of prison systems to COVID-19 using data scraped from public databases and manually collected data<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/10\/Sharma.M.slides10.28.22.pdf\">Presentation slides<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Djuna von Maydell<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Graduate student, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences<br \/>\n<\/span><\/i>First <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/djunamay\/APOE4_impairs_myelination_via_cholesterol_dysregulation_in_oligodendrocytes\">publicly available dataset<\/a> of single-cell gene expression from <i>post-mortem <\/i>human brain tissue of patients who are carriers of APOE4, the major Alzheimer\u2019s disease risk gene<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/10\/VonMaydell.D.slides.10.28.22-4.pdf\">Presentation slides<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Raechel Walker, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">graduate researcher; <\/span><\/i><b>Olivia Dias, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">undergraduate researcher;<\/span><\/i> <b>Zeynep Yalcin, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">undergraduate researcher;<\/span><\/i> <b>Lina Henriquez, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">undergraduate researcher;<\/span><\/i> <b>Sophia Brady, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">undergraduate researcher;<\/span><\/i> <b>Matt Taylor, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">senior research team; <\/span><\/i><b>Cynthia Breazeal, <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">director, Personal Robots group, MIT Media Lab<br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2022\/empowering-cambridge-youth-through-data-activism-0921\">Data Activism Curriculum<\/a> for high school students through the Mayor&#8217;s Summer Youth Employment Program (Cambridge); activities involved using data science and open data to challenge power inequalities, such as racism, and students learned how to use data science to recognize, mitigate, and advocate for people that are disproportionately impacted by systemic inequality<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/10\/DataActivismCurriculumTeamSlides.10.28.22-5.pdf\">Presentation slides<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Suyeol Yun<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Graduate Student, Department of Political Science<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/syyunn\/DeepWTO\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DeepWTO<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a project creating open data for use in legal NLP (Natural Language Processing) research using cases from the World Trade Organization (WTO)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Jonathan Zheng<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Graduate student, Department of Chemical Engineering<br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/IUPAC\/Dissociation-Constants\">An open IUPAC dataset<\/a> for acid dissociation constants, or \u201cpKas,\u201d physicochemical properties that govern how acidic a chemical is in a solution, transformed into FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) data from verified data locked in print<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><b>Honorable Mentions<\/b><b><\/b><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Awad Abdelhalim and Ilham Ali<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/khartoumap\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">KhartouMap Initiative Project:<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mapping the semi-formal bus system of Khartoum, generating public maps, data for research, and GTFS-compliant feeds.<\/span><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Alvina Adimoelja and Advait Athreya<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.31219\/osf.io\/hmgnq\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Policy position paper<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> recommending the establishment of detailed federal open science guidelines<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Simon Axelrod<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Open-source Geometric Ensemble of Molecules <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910\/DVN\/JNGTDF\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">dataset (GEOM)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Junyi Chu, Gal Raz, Sabrina Piccolo, Catherine Mei, Peter Hart, Peng Cao, Shari Liu, Melissa Kline Struhl, Katherine Fairchild, Joshua Tenenbaum<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/psyarxiv.com\/up97k\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">iCatcher+<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Robust and automated annotation of infant gaze from videos collected in <\/span>laboratory, field, and online studies<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.media.mit.edu\/~gaikwad\/\"><b>Neil S. Gaikwad<\/b><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/neilsgaikwad\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@neilsgaikwad<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kdd-humanitarian-mapping.herokuapp.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping and Policymaking:<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a Global Initiative in Data Science Research for Planetary-Scale Resilience, Equity, and Sustainability, collaboration across academia, industry, governments, and communities <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/humanitariansys\">@HumanitarianSys<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3534678.3542918\">ACM KDD Paper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Rikab Gambhir, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In collaboration with Benjamin Nachman and Jesse Thaler<\/span><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rikab\/GaussianAnsatz\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using open data to improve the calibration of particle physics measurements with machine learning<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Carmelo Ignaccolo<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/livingheritage.mit.edu\/map\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Living Heritage Atlas | Beirut;<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mapping and activating Beirut&#8217;s crafts<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nJoint work with Daniella Maamari, Ashley Louie, Sarah Williams, Azra Aksamija<\/li>\n<li><b>Benjamin Lahner\u00a0 <\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/algonauts.csail.mit.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Algonauts Action Video (AAV) dataset<\/span><b><\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Barrett M. Powell<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bpowell122\/tomodrgn\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mining cryo-electron tomography open data resource with tomoDRGN<\/span><b><\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Suhas Eswarappa Prameela<br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/craedl.org\/\">Magnesium Database Project (MDP)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Julian Rippy<br \/>\n<\/b>A Mixed Methods Approach to Force Estimation in Military Operations Other Than War<\/li>\n<li><b>Martin Schrimpf, Tiago Marques, and Michael Ferguson<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brain-score.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brain-Score.org<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Rahul Singh<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2107.02780\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Causal Inference with Corrupted Data: Measurement Error, Missing Values, Discretization, and Differential Privacy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a framework for policy analysis using privacy-protected open data. Joint work with Anish Agarwal (Amazon)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Dylan Walsh, Nathan Rebello, Wizhong Zou, Jiale Shi, Bruno Salom\u00e3o, Ardiana Osmani, Reid Mello, Mike Deagen, Navid Harari, Berenger Dalle-Cort, Carlos Villa, Klavs Jensen, <\/b><b>Tzyy-Shyang Lin, Brad Olsen<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/cript.mit.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Resource for Innovation in Polymer Technology (CRIPT)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Victory Yinka-Banjo, Tessa Bertozzi, Yi Hua Chen<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/vyinkabanjo\/CRISPRi_poorKD_genes\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curation of a list of genes that are recalcitrant to the effect of CRISPRi knockdown<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Jonathan Zong and J. Nathan Matias<br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/citizensandtech.org\/2022\/02\/designing-and-evaluating-research-ethics-systems\/\">Bartleby<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Committee<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Committee Co-Chairs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris Bourg, Director, MIT Libraries<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Saxe, Associate Dean of Science, School of Science (SoS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Committee Members<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Bishop, School of Science Events Planner<\/li>\n<li>Iain Cheeseman, Herman and Margaret Sokol Professor of Biology, SoS and Whitehead<\/li>\n<li>Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor in the Social Sciences, School of Humanities, Arts,\u00a0and Social Sciences (SHASS) and Institute\u00a0for Data,\u00a0Systems, and Society (IDSS)<\/li>\n<li>Katharine Dunn, Scholarly Communications Librarian, MIT Libraries<\/li>\n<li>Satrajit Ghosh, McGovern Institute, SoS, and Director of Data Models and Integration, ReproNim<\/li>\n<li>Nick Lindsay, Director of Journals and Open Access, MIT Press<\/li>\n<li>Amy Nurnberger, Program Head, Data Management Services, MIT Libraries<\/li>\n<li>Jack Payette, graduate student, Earth and Planetary Sciences, SoS<\/li>\n<li>Dave Rand, Erwin H. Schell Professor and Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Sloan School of Management<\/li>\n<li>Devavrat Shah, Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of EECS, School of Engineering and IDSS<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Spanoudaki, Scientific Director, Preclinical Imaging and Testing facility, Koch Institute, SoS<\/li>\n<li>Greg Wagner, Research Scientist, Earth and Planetary Sciences, SoS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MIT School of Science and the MIT Libraries presented the inaugural MIT Prize for Open Data in 2022. The following winners and honorable mentions were selected from more than 70 nominees representing all five schools and several research centers across MIT. Recipients were honored at the \u201cOpen Data @ MIT\u201d event on October 28, 2022, in Hayden Library, featuring remarks from School of Science Dean Nergis Mavalvala and MIT Libraries Director Chris Bourg, award presentations, and short talks by the winners. 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