Master's student capstone spotlight: AI-Assisted Frontline netbet online sports betting

Speeding up document analysis ahead of negotiations

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June 5, 2024

Harvard netbet online sports betting student Susannah Su with a poster for her master's student capstone project — For their master's student capstone netbet online sports betting, Susannah Su and Nathan Zhao (not featured) used ChatGPT to develop three tools to help frontline negotiators quickly process large amounts of documents (Brittany Buzzutto/SEAS)

Data netbet online sports betting and computational netbet online sports betting and engineering master’s students at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of netbet online sports betting and Applied Sciences (SEAS) take “AC297R: Computational Science and Engineering Capstone netbet online sports betting.” Taught by Weiwei Pan, Assistant Director for Graduate Studies in Data Science, the course groups students together for semester-long research projects in which they work with “client” organizations to tackle real-world challenges.

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Susannah Su (AB/SM ‘25), Nathan Zhao (AB/SM ‘24)

Client: Frontline Associates

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What did you learn, or skills did you gain, through this netbet online sports betting?

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