Archived Projects 2018
Mindful
Mental health journaling application that uses real-time facial expression recognition, natural language processing and sentiment analysis on users’ voices to help them track their mental well being.
Team: Anvita Achar, Daniel Moreno, Karinna Loo, Francisco Selame
Faculty Advisor: Chris Callison Burch
Foot’s Ease
Design a smart shoe to assist people with foot drop problem.
Team: Ece Sahin, Julia Lin, Cody Clouser, Kelly Larkin
Faculty Advisor: Sid Deliwala
Clinical Advisor: Ari Brooks
Sleepalyzer
A mobile adaptive psychomotor vigilance test to detect sleep deprivation.
Team: Jenny Chen, Alice Ren, Paul Zuo
Faculty Advisor: Boon Thau Loo
Clinical Advisors: Mathias Basner & David Dinges
Alternative Splicing
Deep learning methods to detect alternative splicing.
Team: Joseph Kupferberg, Liam Murphy, Nazih Bissat
Faculty Advisor: Yoseph Barash
Smart Fibers
Smart Fibers enabled by liquid crystal for personalized health.
Student: Samantha Burns
Faculty Advisor: Shu Yang
Secondary Advisor: Genevieve Dion (Drexel Univ)
LifeWatch
Design a wearable that can be transformed into an auto-injector delivery device for epinephrine.
Team: Reed Ginsberg, Spencer Fox, Jacob Snipes, Daniel Orol, Alexander Garcia, Benjamin Bernstein
Faculty Advisors: Kevin Turner, Paulo Arratia
Orbis
Design a wearable that detects opioid levels based on anxiety, tremors and other body functions.
Team: Manjari Ganti, Eric Helfgott, Margaret Schroeder, Kyle O’Neal
Faculty Advisor: Michael Rizk
Clinical Advisor: Ari Brooks
Balance
A novel solution to solve the daily balance discrepancy within cash registers.
Team: Bill (Li Le) He, Phillip Trent, Enrique Mitchell, Rhianna La Chance, Alison Weiss
Faculty Advisors: Sid Deliwala, Nicholas McGill, Graham Wabiszewski, Mark Yim
Multiplay AR
Democratize multiplayer access in augmented reality.
Team: Akshat Agrawal, Krishna Bharathala, Devesh Dayal, Jacob Kahn,Amit Patel
Faculty Advisor: C. J. Taylor
Remote Rangers
Increasing efficacy of search and rescue efforts for lost hikers.
Team: Rohun Patel, Carter Rice, William Archer
Faculty Advisor: Tania Khanna
DreamFit
An AR application for kinect that allows customers to visualize clothing in the comfort of their home.
Team: Meghana Jayam, Tyler Douglas, Ben Henry, Sydney Morton, Nikhil Raman
Faculty Advisor: Kostas Daniilidis
Predicare
Healthcare accessiblity for low income patients in Philadelphia area.
Team: Sonia Kumar, Claire Frankel, Bari Gordon, Sabrina Aberman
Faculty Advisor: Megan Ryerson
Sleep-Dx
Using machine learning to analyze data from sleep studies to predict emphysema and depression.
Team: Sam Lerner, Kanishka Rao, Zane Stiles, Michael Terracciano
Faculty Advisor: James Weimer
Clinical Advisor: Nalaka Gooneratne
Peri
Design smart socks for peripheral edema to predict serious health issues.
Team: Bernardo Penteado, Leo Kensicher, Fabian Louis, Nikhil Krishnan, Christian de Abreu, Alejandro Villasmil
Faculty Advisor: Graham Wabiszewski
Clinical Advisors: Pamela Cacchione, Ari Brooks
Boston Optimized Healthcare
Optimize health care services for low income, elderly populations in New York City using agent-based modelling tools.
Team: Brian Zeoli, Dillon Lynch, Adam Christenson, Ujjwal Tamhankar, Caroline Duckworth
Faculty Advisor: Barry Silverman
3D Manufacturing of Personalized Implants
Novel biocompatible 3D printed bone graft substitute for bone tissue.
Team: Young-Hun Kim, Kevin Hayes, Michael Solomon, Robert Pierson
Faculty Advisors: Paul Duchyene, Pedro Alvarez-Urena
BlockChat
Create a decentralized messenger on the blockchain.
Team: Sahil Shah, Yassine Saadi-Elmandrja, Andrew Zhang, Mark Decesare
Faculty Advisor: Scott Snyder
Get2KnowUs
Create an interface to classify and understand online data.
Team: Matt Cohen, Natasha Narang, Vivian Ge, Samantha Caby
Faculty Advisor: Chris Callison-Burch
Aggregating Amazon Reviews
Build a web application that aggregates amazon reviews of computers using machine learning.
Team: Carolina Zheng, Raymond Yin, Sumit Shyamsukha, Joe Cappadona
Faculty Advisor: Chris Callison-Burch
Cement3D
Design a portable, deployable, delta 3D cement printer, that can be rapidly built and used anywhere.
Team: Christopher Painter, Miranda Cravetz, Sarah Ellen, Karim Boulos
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Lukes
MS Tribometer
Design and build a multifunctional tribometer that can test friction and wear under different conditions.
Team: Kai Wang, James Buser, Ben Riedel, Sabino Padilla, Darryl Beronque, Omar Rizkallah
Faculty Advisor: Richard Carpick
Thesis
Exploring Fairness and Bias in Algorithms and Word Embedding.
Student: Michael Sosnick
Faculty Advisor: Aaron Roth
Thesis
The orphan drug act-Effect on innovation and unintended consequences.
Student: Samantha Carter
Faculty Advisor: Abby Alpert
Thesis
Resisting adversarial attacks against neural networks.
Student: Summer Yue
Faculty Advisor: Insup Lee
Project
ParaLLL: Parallelizing the LLL Algorithm
Student: Paul Lou
Faculty Advisor: Nadia Heninger
Thesis
Cooperative reinforcement learning.
Student: Lawrence Chan
Faculty Advisor: Val Tannen
Thesis
Deciphering Crypto Networks- Investigation into the Potential of Decentralization,
Real-World DApps & Cryptoeconomics
Student: Parth Chopra
Faculty Advisor: Brett Hemenway
Thesis
Machine Learning & Algorithmic Trading of a Mean-Reversion Strategy from the Cloud for Liquid ETFs on Robinhood.
Student: Fan Zhang
Faculty Advisor: Abraham Wyner
Thesis
A Survey into the Bitcoin Scaling Dilemma.
Student: Raja Atluri
Faculty Advisor: Brett Hemenway
Thesis
Buy-‘Til-You-Die Models for Large Data Sets via Variable Selection.
Student: Rafael Dimaano
Faculty Advisor: Pete Fader
Thesis
Sum of Squares Optimization.
Student: Akhilesh Tangella
Faculty Advisor: Aaron Roth