2020 ECE Capstone Awards

Thank you to all the students, advisers, faculty, and judges who took the time to join us today for the virtual capstone award ceremony!

Special thanks to Dr. Mandayam and Dean Thomas Farris for opening the award ceremony and for their address to our capstone students.  

Before we announce the top ten projects, I would like to thank everyone involved with this year’s capstone program:

Capstone advisers: Many undertook students guidance this year. We would like to thank the ECE faculty who supported the program and advisers inside and outside of Rutgers who contributed their time and effort to help our students. Their efforts and support are key to the success of our capstone program and the students learning experience. Thank you to all capstone advisers for your support!

Capstone sponsors: We would like to acknowledge the support of the following industry sponsors through funding and mentorship: Siemens, Blackrock, JP Morgan, L3Harris, 7x24 Exchange Metro New York Chapter, Interactions LLC and MongodB. Special thanks to Elmer Galbi for the generous projects awards sponsorship.

Our panel of judges: Many thanks to our judges for their effort and time taken to support and celebrate our students’ achievements. The panel included: Nikhil Shenoy (Siemens Healthineers, BS’16), Ashwin Sampath (Qualcomm Inc., PhD’97), Daniel Arkins (Blackrock), Don Bachman (ASCO, BSEE, MBA), Stephen Wilkus (Spectrum Financial Partners), Salman Hoque, (L3Harris Technologies, BS’19), Anand Bhagwat (JP Morgan, MS’91, MBA’94), Dafna Shochat (Blackrock, BS’19), Kamal Abburi (Microsoft), Richard Huber (AT&T), David Galbi (Galbi Research), Soyab Khatumbra (L3Harris, BS’15), Ed Cordero (Protiviti), Srinivas Bangalore (Interactions), Donald Levy (AT&T), Marina Eskander (Stantec, BS’17), Ahmed Turk (Samsung Electronics America, BS’02, MS’05), Douglas Galbi (FCC), Gihan Oraby (US Army, BS’02), Ludwig Randazzo (Juniper Networks, Govindaraj Muthukrishnan (Morgan Stanley, BS’17), Harry Li (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, BS’18), Jonathan Ksiezopolski (KAMTech Solutions, BS’16), Marc Campos (JP Morgan), Mareesh Kumar Issar (WINLAB, Rutgers University), Umama Ahmed (L3Harris, BS’19), Bill Marushak (Lutron Electronics), Kshitij Minhas (SRI International, BS’16), Teddy Brown (Verizon), Shahab Jalalvand (Interactions), Zeid Abdulrazeq (Verizon Wireless, BS’19), Nazmul Islam (Qualcomm, PhD’14), Keon Kim (Verizon Wireless, BS’19), Nicholas Frost (Morgan Stanley, BS’17), Samuel Ramrajkar (Ford Motor Company, MS’15), Daniel Romero (Verizon, BS’19), Franke Hubertus (IBM), Sarah Hallac (Blackrock), Akanksha Pathak, Verizon (BS’18), Jane Luo, Qualcomm (PhD’04), Mhammed Alhayek (Bloomberg, BS’18), Ed Knapp (American Tower), Mike Dolan (L3Harris, BS’99), Joseph Conticchio (L3Harris), Jon Pucila (Blackrock), Nagi Naganathan, and Neharika Bhandari (NBCUniversal, BS’18).

Your expertise, care, and insights where priceless in making the hard decisions as for the top projects.

Capstone team: A very warm thank you to our wonderful ECE team Arletta Hoscilowicz, Pamela Heinold, John Scafidi, Kevin Wine, and Christopher Reid. As always, their commitment and hard work throughout the year is the force behind the program. Many thanks to Diksha Prakash who worked tirelessly to support the capstone program around the year and to all the graduate and undergraduate students who helps with capstone events.

After hours of diligent work our panel of judges selected these top ten projects and winners of special awards:

2020 ECE Capstone Award Presentation slides

Top ten projects:

#1 place (awarded $600, sponsored by Siemens)
Project S12-61: Agora VR: Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy of Agoraphobia & Social Anxiety Disorders
Team members: Aryeh Ness, Daniel Nguyen, Michael Truong, and Ted Moseley
Adviser: Dr. Grigore Burdea
 
#2 place (awarded $400, sponsored by Blackrock)
Project S20-14: Refrigerated Delivery Drone System
Team members: Peter Doroshenko, Alex Ameri, Eric Kraut, Philip Jeszeck, and Williear Glimniene
Adviser: Dr. Laleh Najafizadeh
 
#3 place (awarded $300, sponsored by 7x24 Exchange Metro NY)
Project S20-56: 2020Vision
Team members: Roshni Shah, ​Shruthi Sureshkrishnan, and Nithyasree Natarajan
Adviser: Prof. Kristin Dana
 
#4 place ($100)
Project S20-51: Nephroto: Kidney Modeling App
Team members: Christopher Basilio, Andrea Dumalagan, Parker Fisher, and Christian Remolado
Adviser: Dr. Deborah Silver
 
#5 place ($100)
Project S20-47: Low-Cost Ion-Selective Sensing for Hydroponics Solutions
Team members: Jacob Battipaglia, Andrew Cecil, Krishna Gotur, and Einar Magnusson
Adviser: Dr. Richard Howard
 
#6 place ($100)
Project S20-35: Eagle Eye – Multi UAV Reconnaissance
Team members: Kaavya Krishna-Kumar, Sagar Shah, Harmit Badyal, and Abhishek Kondila
Adviser: Dr. Narayan Mandayam
 
#7 place ($100)
Project S20-70: Smart Sweet Spot of Your Home Stereos
Team members: Zhenzhou (Tom) Qi
Advisers: Dr. Xiaoran Fan and Dr. Richard Howard
 
#8 place ($100)
Project S20-45: hARk - The Next Generation Hearing Aid?
Team members: Joshua Siegel, Aditya Verma, Shantanu Laghate, and Phurushotham Shekar
Adviser: Dr. Waheed Bajwa
 
#9 place ($100)
Project S20-12: Smart Hair-Clipper
Team members: Urmil Bhansali, Jovan Konatar, Eric Roberts, and McWilliam Mawuntu
Adviser: Dr. Yingying Chen
 
#10 place ($100)
Project S20-01: Phased Patch L-Band Antenna Array
Team members: Alexander Cid, Daniel Toth, Marissa Navarro, Cameron Greene, and Stephen Dahl
Advisers: Dr. Anand Sarwate, Dean Telson (L3Harris), and Alejandro Pieroni (Cellgain)
 
 
Best in Research Award (awarded $200)
Project S20-14: Refrigerated Delivery Drone System
Team members: Peter Doroshenko, Alex Ameri, Eric Kraut, Philip Jeszeck, and Williear Glimniene
Adviser: Dr. Laleh Najafizadeh
 
Best in Impact Award (awarded $200, sponsored by Interactions LLC)
Project S20-51: Nephroto: Kidney Modeling App
Team members: Christopher Basilio, Andrea Dumalagan, Parker Fisher, and Christian Remolado
Adviser: Dr. Deborah Silver
 
Best in Commercialization (awarded $200, sponsored by JP Morgan)
Project S12-61: Agora VR: Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy of Agoraphobia & Social Anxiety Disorders
Team members: Aryeh Ness, Daniel Nguyen, Michael Truong, and Ted Moseley
Adviser: Dr. Grigore Burdea

 

The Galbiati Entrepreneurial Awards:

First place with $2,500:
Project S12-61: Agora VR: Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy of Agoraphobia & Social Anxiety Disorders
Team members: Aryeh Ness, Daniel Nguyen, Michael Truong, and Ted Moseley
Adviser: Dr. Grigore Burdea
 
Second place with $1,500:
Project S20-51: Nephroto: Kidney Modeling App
Team members: Christopher Basilio, Andrea Dumalagan, Parker Fisher, and Christian Remolado
Adviser: Dr. Deborah Silver
 
Third place with $1,000:
Project S20-56: 2020Vision
Team members: Roshni Shah, ​Shruthi Sureshkrishnan, and Nithyasree Natarajan
Adviser: Prof. Kristin Dana

 

Congratulations to the students and advisers!!!

Hana

_____________________

Hana Godrich, PhD
ECE Department, Rutgers University
Office: CoRE 617
email: godrich @soe.rutgers.edu

Bo Yuan receives NSF Grant for Advancing On-Device Inference and Learning in Deep Neural Networks

ECE Assistant Professor Bo Yuan is the recipient of a new NSF award for the research project titled "TensorNN: An Algorithm and Hardware Co-design Framework for On-device Deep Neural Network Learning using Low-rank Tensors." Dr. Yuan is the lead PI on a three-year $1.2 million collaborative effort between Rutgers, Columbia University and University of Minnesota.

In this project, Dr. Yuan and his team aim to advance efficient on-device inference and learning for deep neural networks (DNNs). In order to achieve stronger data privacy, less response time and relaxed data transmission burden, deploying DNN functionality in a distributed manner at the edges of the network has become a very attractive proposition. However, DNN-learning on mobile devices that are at the edge of the network is very challenging due to conflicting requirements of large time and energy consumption, and limited on-device resources. In order to address this challenge, this project leverages low-rank tensors as a powerful mathematical tool for representing and compressing tensor-format data, to form a new family of ultra-low cost deep neural networks. This brings an order-of-magnitude reduction in time and energy consumption for deep neural network learning. Investigations in many areas of BigData research will benefit as well. This project involves graduate and undergraduate students, especially from underrepresented groups, through summer research experiences, and senior design projects to broaden the participation of computing. The outcomes of this project will be disseminated to the community in the format of technical publications, talks and tutorials in both academic institutions and industry.

You can find more details on the project at the NSF page https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1955909&HistoricalAward....

Congratulations Bo!

Capstone Expo 2020 Award Ceremony

 

SAVE THE DATE

To ECE Capstone Class of 2020,

We are not done yet with our capstone course but yesterday we crossed a significant milestone: ECE Virtual Capstone Expo 2020. Every year, this event involves so much excitement and the energy is so high. It is a celebration of our students first and foremost! We want to thank you, the class of 2020, for holding strong and pushing through in such an admirable way. It is a testament to your character and strength. We are so proud of you!

ECE Capstone Team Awarded 7x24 Exchange Metro New York 2020 Virtual University Challenge Grant

A shout out to our ‘MediHealth Tracker’ capstone team, Rameen Masood, Purna Haque, Nga Man Cheng, and Holly Smith, who represented the ECE department at the 7x24 Exchange Metro New York 2020 Virtual University Challenge for their creativity, dedication, and excellent work! You made us all proud.

Rameen Masood, Purna Haque, Nga Man Cheng, and Holly Smith are all senior year undergraduate students who developed ‘MediHealth Tracker’ for their capstone design project. The faculty advisor for the team is Dr. Hana Godrich. The team was awarded a $2,000 grant for the project. The ECE capstone program was awarded $4,000 to further invest in senior year capstone projects and research related to datacenters.

Their project tackles the issue of tracking medical records. With people constantly using different doctors and platforms controlled by their medical service providers, the objective of the team was to create a user-controlled mobile application that helps members to gain full control over their medical information in a centralized location. ‘MediHealth Tracker’ provides members with a private and secure environment to store and manage their health information. The app features include uploading files, storing immunizations and medication info, and an appointment manager.

The 7X24 Exchange is a leading knowledge exchange organization in the mission-critical facilities space for those who design, build, operate, and own data centers. The 7X24 Exchange Metro New York Chapter leadership has been holding a yearly University Challenge in the past five years, inviting selected tri-state area universities to participate in design challenges related to data centers. Participating teams and universities are awarded grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 to further advance the visibility of the data center industry to excellent students and expand capstone programs projects concentrating in this field.

Congratulations to the team for their achievements!

Professor Yingying Chen receives Peter D. Cherasia Faculty Scholar Award

Dean Farris has announced that Professor Yingying Chen has been selected for the Peter D. Cherasia Faculty Scholar Award! 

The Cherasia Award, established by Peter D. Cherasia, a Rutgers ECE alumnus, recognizes and fosters excellence in teaching and scholarly activity in highly quantitative and computational aspects of engineering research. The Award is for a three year term and includes $10,000 per year that can be used to support scholarly activity.  

Congratulations to Yingying for this well deserved recognition of her accomplishments!

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