Congratulations to all the Teams for their hard work and making it this far in the CUNY-IBM Watson Case Competition 2018. After reviewing their submissions for Milestone#2, the following ten teams have been able to make it to the next round.
So the Ten Finalists are:
Team Number: 2 NYCapable
Business Case Title: NYCapable: Advocating for Mental Health in New York City
1-minute video : By analyzing Social Media posts, NYCapable will be able to identify Individuals who are struggling and provide them NYC mental health resources specific to their case.
Team Members: Lily Caplan, Yizoung Kuang, Sarah Ann-Mathew, and Noam Sohn
Team Number: 26 CivicAI
Business Case Title: The Fairer NYC Bail Algorithm.
1-minute video: CivicAI plans to reduce bias within the NYC Court System’s bail determination algorithm by using IBM Watson and modern data science tactics.
Team Members: Connor Rowland, Samuel Bouiss, Kaizhen Tan, Yingqiu Lin, Yinheng Li.
Team Number: 30 Barrier Breaker
Business Case Title: Barrier Breaker
1-minute video: A personal interpreter that breaks any language barrier for you anytime, anywhere.
Team Members: Yiu Chung Yau, Daniel Constantine, Shinan Liu, Liang Fang, Luis Rizo
Team Number: 34 Baruch Capital
Business Case Title: Utilizing IBM Watson in Addressing Child Abuse
1-minute video :Child abuse is a real issue that occurs with little to no hints, our project aims to utilize data science techniques alongside IBM Watson to identify and mitigate child abuse.
Team Members: Yoel Aryeh, Cristine Chen, Nelson Lai, Chun Li
Team Number: 36 WatsonER
Business Case Title: WatsonER: Augmenting Triage Process in NYC Health + Hospitals
1 minute video: The WatsonER system will revolutionize New York City hospitals, creating a more efficient, enjoyable experience for both patients and medical personnel.
Team Members: Andrea Abarentos, Fariha Islam, Nicole Sandoval, Nora McCarten, Shaun Daniel
Team Number: 37 Urban Flooding Analytics Team
Business Case Title: Providing Real-Time Flood Data to Improve Climate Change Resiliency Efforts.
1 minute video: Leveraging Watson AI to create crowdsourced flood maps for New York City.
Team Members: Nathaniel Zinda, Augustus Kaptko, Sett Hein
Team Number: 41 Four C & J
Business Case Title: Introduction to QuickTransfer (QT)
1-minute video : “Our platform, QuickTransfer, is an interactive tool built on Watson AI, designed to assist university faculty and students streamline the transfer credit process.”
Team Members: LinWei(Jeff) Ren, YanXing(Esther) Gao, Jiarui(Jessica) Shao, Ruitian(Ray) Qian, XiaoLong(Shawn) Wei
Team Number: 51 Minimizing R. I.
Business Case Title: Reducing Recidivism
1-minute video : Improving release program accessibility by automating the process and making it personalized to the individual.
Team Members: Carlos Bibiloni, Sohail Anwar, Christian Collazo
Team Number: 53 CSI Devs
Business Case Title: Synthia: The SMS Census Assistant
1-minute video : New Yorkers will have the option to text an AI named Synthia answers to the 2020 Census along with any questions they have.
Team Members: Egor Semeniak, Anthony Astarita, Yuri Yurchenko, Vincent Vitiello
Team Number: 61 WatPlace
Business Case Title: Wator – Virtual Mentor for College Students
1-minute video : Virtual mentor that guides students in the right path by finding their strengths, recommend suitable extracurriculars and jobs, and protecting mental health.
Team Members: Brian Chew, Seung Ah Choi, Stacy Oppenheimer, Meng Shi
