Current Projects
Partnership project with American Homes 4 Rent (AMH) (AY 2023-2024):
Title: Analyzing Rental Property Churn, Vacancies, and Property Quality
Focus: Help AMH optimize the property management strategy through enhancing overall customer satisfaction, reducing churn, and minimizing vacancy durations. Specific objectives include measuring the quality of a property based on maintenance data and customer surveys, analyzing the relationship between property quality and customer satisfaction, identifying the factors affecting customer churn, predicting the customers most likely to churn, and explaining why certain properties remain vacant more than others in the AMH portfolio and on the market.
Student Team: Anh Nguyen (MSBA), Dan Nguyen (MSBA), Daniel Nguyen (MSBA), Noemi Ferman (MSBA), Ronald Carillo (MSBA)
Faculty Advisor: Mohammad SalehanPartnership project with Boeing (AY 2023-2024):
Title: Using Machine Learning to Derive Insights from Aircraft Maintenance Records
Focus: Derive valuable insights from freeform aircraft maintenance records related to corrosion by developing a machine learning model for natural language processing (named entity recognition model), capable of identifying most frequently occurring patterns.
Student Team: Dylan Ton (CIS), Adam Adrian Chua (CIS), Hua Yang (MSBA), Nathan Leung (CIS), Rishabh Aji (MSBA)
Faculty Advisors: Mohammad Salehan, Rita Kumar, Mehrdad Koohikamali
Partnership project with American Homes 4 Rent (AMH) (AY 2023-2024):
Title: AI-Enhanced Analysis of Tenant Attributes and Sentiment Dynamics for Improved Property Management
Focus: Investigate factors that influence residential property tenants’ stay-or-go strategies, utilizing AI-driven sentiment analysis techniques to evaluate tenant sentiment over time; investigate relationships between move-in/move-out surveys and tenant sentiment, propensity for lease renewals and overall satisfaction; to employ AI predictive models to forecast the likelihood of a tenant renewing their lease.
Student Team: Eric Young (MSBA), Jose Ortiz (MSBA), Nicholas Fiumetto (MSBA), Spoorthi Kumaraswamy (MSBA), Vy Nguyen (MSBA)
Faculty Advisor: Mehrdad Koohikamali
Partnership project with the Southern California Real Estate Research Council (Fall 2023):
Title: Affordable Housing Development in Pomona
Focus: Identify eligible parcels of land for potential affordable housing development in Pomona and prioritize based on sustainability criteria including consideration of environmentally sensitive areas, proximity to facilities such as transit, healthcare, and grocery stores; and on criteria related to ‘healthy places’, such as education, job opportunities, and clean air and water.
Student Team: Margaret Anderson (ACC), Nicole Cromwell (IB), Enrique Jimenez (CIS), Ilke Suzer (URP), Adam Wakoli (GEO), Cristopher Zavala (FRL)
Faculty Advisors: Anthony Orlando, Rita Kumar
