SEIR-GA: A dynamic model for unmasking gerrymandering's impact on voter turnout and representation
Vaddi, M., Ogueda Oliva, A., & Seshaiyer, P.
Journal of Student-Scientists' Research, Vol. 7 (2025). doi:10.13021/jssr2025.5321 · Open access (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Research intern, Prof. Padmanabhan Seshaiyer · Summer 2025
Selected for GMU's Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program (11% acceptance rate the year I was selected; fewer than 12 students chosen for the math and computational sciences track). Built SEIR-GA, a coupled ODE model of gerrymandering's impact on voter turnout and representation, published as first author with mentor Prof. Padmanabhan Seshaiyer and Alonso Ogueda Oliva in the Journal of Student-Scientists' Research (doi:10.13021/jssr2025.5321).
Research intern, Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi · Summer 2024
Worked in Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi's lab in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. NLP for chip architecture design (GenAI for Hardware Design). Personally assessed and labeled 550+ data points; validated and documented uniform labeling methodologies applied across 1,000+ data points. Acknowledged contributor to QuArch (arXiv:2501.01892), the lab's question-answering dataset for AI agents in computer architecture, coauthored by faculty and researchers from Harvard, IIT Bombay, NC State, Qualcomm AI Research, and Google DeepMind.
Summer training intern · Summer 2025, returning Summer 2026
Completed NASA Ames's GeneLab for High Schools (GL4HS), a 12-week asynchronous summer training program in space biology and bioinformatics run out of NASA Ames Research Center. Trained in omics-based research methodology, transcriptomics, molecular biology, and RNA-seq analysis using Python and NASA Ames's Open Science Data Repository (OSDR), plus computational biology techniques including differential gene expression and gene set enrichment analysis. Returning for the 2026 cohort.
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