2024 Winners

Beall Student Design Competition at the Samueli School Of Engineering

  • 1st Place:
    Neomold (Summary Video)
    Project Description: NeoMold is a customizable, 3D-printable ear mold designed to correct newborn outer ear deformities within 2-6 weeks of birth. Each mold is based on a 3D scan of a patient’s unique anatomy, increasing efficacy while decreasing complications and patient readmittance.
    Members: Christine Ly, Christine Nguyen, Frida Sandoval, Kathy Duong
  • 2nd Place:
    Instinct (Summary Video)
    Project Description: Our mission is to accelerate drug development for neurological diseases. By mimicking the human brain in a microfluidic chip, we can empower researchers and pharmaceutical companies to accurately assess the safety and efficacy of drugs, expediting novel therapeutics from lab bench to patients.
    Members: Edouard Aleman, Jay Tong, Milan Das, Nathaniel Green, Winston Doud
  • 3rd Place:
    PetPointDx
    Project Description:
     PetPointDx is developing a user-friendly portable diagnostic platform that provides pet owners with affordable and accessible at-home fecal testing kits to test for different parasites as a supplement to their tele-visit with the vets, which improves and facilitates delivering care to pets.
    Members: Lawrence Kulinksy, Luke Chavez, Will Janlaor, Zarya Rajestari

Butterworth Product Development Competition at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

  • 1st Place:
    Sentinel (Summary Video)
    Project Description: Sentinel is the first driver-conscious AI safety system to detect fatigue and distraction. We target vehicle fleets with high operator liabilities, such as trucking companies, to help fleet managers and drivers improve road safety.
    Members: Cody He, Kevin Wu, Kyle Deck, Michael Ross, Nathan Ampudia, Spike O’Carroll
  • 2nd Place:
    Two Cube (Summary Video)
    Project Description: A platform that offers fully autonomous bioinformatics analysis and research agents. It streamlines single-cell RNA analysis pipelines, enabling automatic code generation, result interpretation, and hypothesis development, empowering users to advance their scientific inquiries with ease.
    Members: Dylan Riffle, Shushrruth Sai Srinivasan
  • 3rd Place:
    Biru (Summary Video)
    Project Description: A maid-matching digital platform for households in Indonesia to ensure convenience and reliability.
    Members: Jessica Hardisurjo, Kevin Salim, Nicholas Chairnando, Pierre Theodorus, William Hartono

Beall Butterworth Brazilian Collaboration Prize

Cartello (Summary Video)
Project Description: Cartello is a B2B marketplace for corrugated cardboard pallets. Cartello streamlines the pallet procurement process and makes it much more efficient.
UCI Team: Ariel Tjandra , Ariya Gowda, Felix Toffaneto Werner
PUCRS Team: Pedro Vaz Lorea, Thiago Borges de Souza