Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

BOOM 2023 Award Recipients

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

Air Liquide Award

 

EY: Volume

Liam Du, Zach Seidner, Isaac Han, Amy Ge, Vin Bui

EY Award

 

Goldman Sachs: Using VR to Study Food Consumer Behavior

Talia Attar

Goldman Sachs Award

 

LinkedIn: Xenophobia Meter

Pinxian Lu, Khozoda Umarova, Ray Zhou

LinkedIn Award

 

Boeing: Xenophobia Meter

Pinxian Lu, Khozoda Umarova, Ray Zhou

Boeing Award

 

Pepsico: AI Learners - Accessible Online Math Games

Adele Smolansky, Alexa Prague, Juan Delgado, Sahar Sami, Sophia Tan

PepsiCo Award

 

Sandia National Laboratories: AI Learners - Accessible Online Math Games

Adele Smolansky, Alexa Prague, Juan Delgado, Sahar Sami, Sophia Tan

Sandia National Laboratories Award

 

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

CS Faculty Award

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

IS Faculty Award

Presented by: Kyle Harms, Aditya Vashistha, Gili Vidan, and Dean Kavita Bala

 

Statistical Science Faculty: Treefolio

Sarang Pramode, Jiahao Dong

DSS Award

Presented by: Ahmed El Alaoui, Yang Ning, Sam Wang, and Dean Kavita Bala