WINNERS
Beall Student Design Competition at the Samueli School
- 1st Place ($7,500):
Krobotech
Project Description: An opportunity exists in developing a prosthetic hand that can outperform the current prosthetic hands on the market, at a competitive price point, all while creating a brand that resonates with the user. An ideal situation would be to come as close as possible to the degrees of freedom of a human hand. Krobotech’s goal is fill this gap in the prosthetic industry between cost and functionality with Krobohand.
Students: Ethan Kirkley, Zepyour Khechadoorian, Cameron Hunt, Kevin Wong - 2nd Place ($5,000):
Red Lion Robotics
Project Description: Red Lion Robotics develops accessible low-cost tools for motivational walking rehabilitation and assistance.
Students: Yasemin Sarigul-Klijn, Peter Wang, Hwan Heo - 3rd Place ($2,500):
Syntr Health Technologies
Project Description: Seeking to provide an affordable, point-of-care therapeutic for diabetic foot ulcer patients. By utilizing a small amount of the patient’s own body fat, our device is able to activate the stem cells found within it and use their regenerative properties to repair damaged tissue. The entire treatment can be performed in under one hour.
Students: Ahmed Zobi, Hugo Salas, Justin Stovner, Jade Tassey, Adrain Bahani
Butterworth Product Development Competition at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
- 1st Place ($7,500):
Memorlane
Project Description: Memorlane is a collaborative photo sharing platform that streamlines photo categorization and sharing. The app allows users’ photos to be uploaded to communal albums. These albums correspond to specific locations, events, businesses, etc. when the user in within the preset geofence. Participant’s photos for a collaborative album can be instantaneously uploaded, if the user is within a predefined time or distance window. This allows for a simple solution to store and collect many photos in the cloud from an event all at once, without having to ask anyone.
Students: Evan Schein, Yocelyn Recinos, Michael Tran - 2nd Place ($5,000):
AirNotes
Project Description: The Motion Analytic System (AirTouch) is a wearable hand computer designed and optimised for interactive computing. AirTouch tracks the relative position of each finger (all five fingers including the thumb) and uniquely provides haptic feedback to each finger. The device is capable of tracking hand gestures such as a grasp, release, thumbs up, or point and runs the Linux operating system, thus supporting numerous applications in virtual and augmented reality.
Students: Olaoluwa Adesanya, Laura Beken, Brandon Cabrera - 3rd Place ($2,500):
Pippy
Project Description: MunchiesPippy is “on-demand anything”, powered by AI. Whatever people need done, we do, in a short timeframe and at a very competitive price. Users open our app, tell us what they need and tap go – we use AI to plan logistics, give them an instant price estimate, then dispatch their task out to fulfillers who will start working on their task right away.
Students: Karan Kanwar, Douglas Huynh, Kausthub Raj Jadhav, Martin Gomez, Antonio Lopez, Sam Chen
MEET THE TEAMS
Beall Student Design Competition (Hardware) Teams
3DlmaGene
Team Leader: Jimmy Cai
Team Members: Jimmy Cai, Jonathan Chong, Kellie Won, Audrey Vu, Jasmine Morris, Robert Dunn
ASPIRE
Team Leader: Spencer Mattson
Team Members: Spencer Mattson, Ali Siddiqui, Sara Boukai, Asana Pebdani, Brandon Szeto, Amirah Aryan
BitByte
Team Leader: Fatemeh Nosrati
Team Members: Fatemeh Nosrati, Petra Wilder-Smith, Bryant Trinh, Anuradha Nayudu, Cherie Wink
General Tactile
Team Leader: Leon Cao
Team Members: Leon Cao, Paul Dao, Niraj Patel
Krobotech
Team Leader: Ethan Kirkley
Team Members: Ethan Kirkley, Zepyour Khechadoorian, Cameron Hunt, Kevin Wong
Lazrostics
Team Leader: Alexander Chang
Team Members: Alexander Chang, Elijah De Guzman, Miguel Bautista, Jonathan Abebe, An Ma
Nprogress
Team Leader: Yu-Bin Moon
Team Members: Ashley Gin, Heidi Hsu, Yu-Bin Moon, Rosalia Hernandez
Red Lion Robotics
Team Leader: Yasemin Sarigul-Klijn
Team Members: Yasemin Sarigul-Klijn, Peter Wang, Hwan Heo
Sensenium Medical
Team Leader: Zachery Robinson
Team Members: Zachery Robinson, Nuria Perez Varela, Tuyetnhi (Nicole) Le, Stella Doering, Martin Valdez, Brandon Trieu
Syntr Health Technologies
Team Leader: Ahmed Zobi
Team Members: Ahmed Zobi, Hugo Salas, Justin Stovner, Jade Tassey, Beatrice Sun, Adrain Bahani
Unicorn
Team Leader: Jennifer Schuler
Team Members: Jennifer Schuler, Mahshad Sharifi Serkani, Basil Joseph Ittiavira, Tingting Yang
YCrutch
Team Leader: Wesley Chiang
Team Members: Samantha Huang, Cyrus Hosseini, Brandon Lee, Shyen Nasseri, Wesley Chiang
Butterworth Product Development Competition (Software) Teams
Bottles
Team Leader: Aaron Soto
Team Members: Aaron Soto, Kiyo Beverly, Alex Figueroa, Jenny Huang
COMPAS
Team Leader: Curtis Hendrick
Team Members: Curtis Hendrick, Michael Glover, Aaron Soto, Donny Magnuson, Tam Dang
Contract-OR Amour
Team Leader: Dustin Nirschl
Team Members: Dustin Nirschl, Eric Malmgren
Driving License
Team Leader: Ahmad Razavi
Team Members: Ahmad Razavi, Nazanin Ghasemian
Failsafe
Team Leader: Natalie Sweis
Team Members: Natalie Sweis
KaamLo
Team Leader: Heran Patel
Team Members: Heran Patel, Anuj Shah, Madhav Gharmalkar, Sashank Pulagam, Jeremy Yang, Rohan Chadha, Taran Singh, Ahmed Gorashi, Michael Martin, Jordan Oz
Memorlane
Team Leader: Evan Schein
Team Members: Evan Schein, Yocelyn Recinos, Michael Tran
Miracle Mile
Team Leader: Stanley Chen
Team Members: Thanapon Sat, Stanley Chen
Pippy
Team Leader: Karan Kanwar
Team Members: Karan Kanwar, Douglas Huynh, Kausthub Raj Jadhav, Martin Gomez, Antonio Lopez, Sam Chen
Planet Innovate
Team Leader: Sabeena Sebastian
Team Members: Sabeena Sebastian, Sreeja Sthrothra Bhashyam
Safewayz
Team Leader: Swaroopa Kadam
Team Members: Swaroopa Kadam, Pratik Shetty, Chamandeep Singh, Ameya Raje
SANDY
Team Leader: Mohammad Nobar
Team Members: Mohammad Nobar, Shreyaan Kaushal, Kai Cheng, Kelly Lin
Secure Say
Team Leader: Mania Sadaghianpoor
Team Members: Mania Sadaghianpoor, Monica Arya
Squad Inc.
Team Leader: Mahamadou Sylla
Team Members: Nefertiti Rogers, Suha Sattar, Zeina Mousa, Nezar Eltal, Mahamadou Sylla
STACK
Team Leader: Cass Tao
Team Members: Cass Tao, Alex Dinh, Shawna Tuli, Truong Xe, Kevin Tran
Team Go!
Team Leader: Kenny Nguyen
Team Members: Jonathan Lam, Ryan Yue, Kenny Nguyen, Albert Tang, Nhi Lam, Patrick Mang
Team Ultra
Team Leader: Ting-Wei Lin
Team Members: Ting-Wei Lin, Anthony Luong, Martin Hsieh
TourUp
Team Leader: Anshul Singhal
Team Members: Anshul Singhal, Vatsal Rustagi, Ganeshram Chockalingam, Vishnu Manivannan, Milisha Merchant, James Purpura
YOLOBOLO
Team Leader: Annie Wong
Team Members: Niles Boriboon, Jon Michael Desiderio, Jonathan Nguyen, Nicharat Saepung, Annie Wong, Chris Wong
VRock
Team Leader: Maharshi Singh
Team Members: Maharshi Singh
Beall Student Design Competition (Hardware) & Butterworth Product Development Competition (Software) Teams
3Drone
Team Leader: Daryosh Vatanparvar
Team Members:
AirNotes
Team Leader: Olaoluwa Adesanya
Team Members: Olaoluwa Adesanya, Laura Beken, Justin Mogannam, Peter Philips, Adelanwa Adesanya
Beauty Advisor
Team Leader: Kai Ding
Team Members: Kai Ding, Sina Askari, Xiaoyan Qu, Mohammad Asadian, Bahram Seifi, Daryosh Vatanparvar
Coffee Buddy
Team Leader: Sid Kasat
Team Members: Sid Kasat, Omair Farooqui, Cameron Haddad, Nicholas Vong, Arya Kalantar, Jasmine Ngo
GPU
Team Leader: Steve Cho
Team Members: Steve Cho, Michael Wegener, Takahiro Ishikawa
NP-Compete
Team Leader: Tushar Dhadiwal
Team Members: Tushar Dhadiwal, Bhushan Pagariya
Smart Needle
Team Leader: Sina Askari
Team Members: Sina Askari, Kai Ding, Xiaoyan Qu, Mohammad Asadian, Bahram Seifi, Daryosh Vatanparvar
Spark
Team Leader: Beenish Patel
Team Members: Beenish Patel
UCI Parking Lot
Team Leader: Ahmad Razavi
Team Members: Ahmad Razavi, Nazanin Ghasemian
VOXEL
Team Leader: Prachi Shah
Team Members: Prachi Shah, Dishant Donga, Natali Mai, Leslie Fernando, Paul Nguyen, Andrew Dam