Sponsors' Awards
Each sponsor gave one award based on broad criteria including novelty, execution, quality of engineering, performance, difficulty, social benefits, presentation, and usefulness. Each sponsor award included a commemorative trophy and a $750 prize.
This year's Sponsor award recipients were:
Air Liquide: Treefolio
Sarang Pramode, Jiahao Dong
EY: Volume
Liam Du, Zach Seidner, Isaac Han, Amy Ge, Vin Bui
Goldman Sachs: Using VR to Study Food Consumer Behavior
Talia Attar
LinkedIn: Xenophobia Meter
Pinxian Lu, Khozoda Umarova, Ray Zhou
Boeing: Xenophobia Meter
Pinxian Lu, Khozoda Umarova, Ray Zhou
Pepsico: AI Learners - Accessible Online Math Games
Adele Smolansky, Alexa Prague, Juan Delgado, Sahar Sami, Sophia Tan
Sandia National Laboratories: AI Learners - Accessible Online Math Games
Adele Smolansky, Alexa Prague, Juan Delgado, Sahar Sami, Sophia Tan
Faculty Awards
The three Faculty Awards were judged by Bowers College of Computing and Information Science faculty and focus on specific areas of Computing, Information,and Statisitcal science. Criteria may include novelty, elegance, simplicity, and appropriateness of algorithms and overall software engineering. The selected projects received a commemorative trophy and $750.
This year's Faculty award recipients were:
Computer Science Faculty Award: AI Generated Lofi Hip-Hop Music
Darren Key
Presented by: Ken Birman, Sanjiban Choudhury, Giulia Guidi, Walker White and Dean Kavita Bala
Information Science Faculty: Hack for Impact - Earth Law Center Project
Ananya Seelam
Presented by: Kyle Harms, Aditya Vashistha, Gili Vidan, and Dean Kavita Bala
Statistical Science Faculty: Treefolio
Sarang Pramode, Jiahao Dong
Presented by: Ahmed El Alaoui, Yang Ning, Sam Wang, and Dean Kavita Bala