NSF I-Corps Site Teams Fall 2018

[ A - G ]

Advanced ACT (Addiction Cognition Technology) for substance use prediction in young adults by measuring cognitive load and physical functionality dynamics in real-time.

Team Members:
| Entrepreneurial Lead | Systems Scientist, HCII, School of Computer Science
Daniel P. Siewiorek| Academic Lead, Faculty, HCII, School of Computer Science
Lynne Porter | I-Corps Business Mentor
Afsaneh Doryab | Faculty, HCII, School of Computer Science, Technological consultant
Prerna Chikersal | Graduate student, HCII, School of Computer Science, Data scientist, Software development
Serim Jang |BS in Statistics and Machine Learning, School of Computer Science, Data analyst, User experience researcher
Tammy Chung | UPMC PhD Department of Psychiatry University Professor, Psychological consultant, Substance use expertise

Diderot

Offering an integrated learning environment to the student where contents, discussions, feedback are all seamlessly integrated.

ExperiML

ExperiML uses AI to enable, accelerate, and automate experimentation. Businesses require experimentation to best meet the needs of their customers, be it developing a new material, optimizing an industrial process, or making personalized recommendations.

[ H - M ]

Lioba

Radio-frequency communication solutions based on full-in band duplexers.

Team Members:
| Entrepreneurial Lead | Postdoctoral Researcher, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gianluca Piazza | Academic Lead, CTO| Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Abhay S. Kochhar | Research Scientist, Vice President of Engineering and Manufacturing , Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lynne Porter | I-Corps Mentor

Mechabotics

Sensor which measures the pose of a rigid object given a CAD model.

Team Members:
| Entrepreneurial Lead | Ph.D. Candidate, School of Computer Science
Jacob Paniklulam | Team Member
Dawn Rucker | I-Corps Mentor

MedAI

We are building a deep learning software to analyze pathological imaging of the placenta and provide diagnostic feedback to the pathologist as a low cost early detection method for predicting which infants will benefit most from more in-depth pathological inspection.

Team Members:
| Entrepreneurial Lead, Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering
Philip LeDuc | Academic Lead, Faculty, Mechanical Engineering
Jonathan Cagan | Advisor, Integrated Innovation Institute
MaryDel Brady | I-Corps Mentor

[ N - Z ]

OpenAMR: Open Antimicrobial Resistance

OpenAMR is an instrument that automatically reads and reports antibiotic susceptibility tests.

ParkAI

A navigation mobile app that guides drivers to find on-street parking space with minimum circling time, distance to destination and parking fee.

Team Members:
| Entrepreneurial Lead | Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Diana Marculescu| Academic Lead | Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ruizhou Ding | Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technology and product development
Ting-wu Chin | Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technology and product development
MaryDel Brady | I-Corps Mentor

PreFab Services enables research-scale microfabrication/nanofabrication solutions by providing high quality fabrication services with quick turnaround and at reasonable cost to clients.

Team Members:
| Entrepreneurial Lead, Staff, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Tepper School of Business alumnus
Lynne Porter | I-Corps Mentor

Regius

Two sets of research-based online interactive materials to teach Python programming to both students and instructors.

Sign Track is developing automatic American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting software to facilitate communication between Deaf and hard of hearing individuals and the non-signing population.

Team Members:
Brandon Taylor| Entrepreneurial Lead | Postdoctoral Fellow, HCII, School of Computer Science
JoAnna Taylor | Team Member
Elijah Mayfield | Mentor

We have built a prototype of a patent search engine that uses natural language processing and machine learning to identify relevant prior art patents.

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