Congratulations !
Winners of the 2019 CUNY-IBM Watson Social Impact Challenge
Watch the video of the FINAL PRESENTATIONS on Baruch College’s Digital Media Library.
WINNER: Team 25 RED TIES
Business Case Title: “Guardian: The Mental Health System for Veterans”
One-line about the proposed project: “Leveraging Cloud-Based Artificial Intelligence-Driven Personal Assistant System Powered by IBM Watson to Reduce Suicide Rates and Promote Mental Health Wellness in the Veteran Community.”
1-minute video
Team Members: Egor Semeniak, Mark Vitebsky, Vincent Vitiello, Anthony Astarita
SECOND PLACE WINNING TEAM: Team 3 TEAM WORK
Business Case Title: Watson Study Buddy – The Future of Higher Education
One-line about the proposed project: Watson Study Buddy is supplemental education platform with the mission of helping students improve, achieve, and succeed in college so they can graduate on time.
1-minute video
Team Members: Anthony Sokolov, Karina Ionkina, Andy Mina
THIRD PLACE WINNING TEAM: Team 2 WATSON FOR EARTH
Business Case Title: NYCT Efficiency Improvement by IBM Watson Predictive Maintenance System (PMS)
One-line about the proposed project: IBM Watson PMS is designed to help the NYCT maintenance department to efficiently design schedules utilizing the computer algorithm with big data.
1-minute video
Team Members: Dean Yu, Yao Qian, Soo Rim Kang, Anastasiya Uraleva
FINALISTS
2019 CUNY-IBM Watson Social Impact Challenge
Team 21 META
Business Case Title: Spotty
One-line about the proposed project: Spotty, is a platform that aims to inform users of the most optimal place to park according to their desired destination.
1-minute video
Team Members: Muhammad Khalil, Meldin Kajoshaj, Nora Elattar, Yousef Khudair
Team 24 CUNY HEALTH DEVELOPER
Business Case Title: Watson On Record
One-line about the proposed project: Leveraging voice recordings of healthcare professionals for patient data entry to populate accurate and efficient Electronic Health Records (EHRs), thus improving patient prognosis, diagnosis, medication, and treatment.
1-minute video
Team Members: Anam Munawar, Benjamin Kravets, Chester Rath, Eric Melerud, & Luis Gualpa
Team 19 NYCHA
Business Case Title: IBHome, better home
One-line about the proposed project: IBHome – I, be home.
1-minute video
Team Members: Yutong Du, Jiawei He, Jingyi Pan, Guichun Pan
Team 28 SAVE THE W
Business Case Title: Watson IAS
One-line about the proposed project: Watson IAS assist Child Protective Specialist to give early appropriate supports to children and their families.
1-minute video
Team Members: Mariko Chida, Kaori Yonemura, Yurui Wei
Team 15 SAFEBIT
Business Case Title: Decrease the frequency of falls and accidents by helping senior be reminded to take their pills on time and schedule their next refill.
One-line about the proposed project: SafeBit is developing a real-time medication voice activated reminder app and a carry on wearable for their pills; this carry on wearable will allow the caretaker to track when the seniors takes their pills and then schedule their next refill.
1-minute video
Team Members: John Saeteros, Shuhua Song, Rances Tremols
Team 9 WATSON FIT
Business Case Title: Fix Transit!
One-line about the proposed project: Watson Fix Transit will use Artificial Intelligence to perform root-cause analysis on MTA delay incidents (reducing them), create subway maintenance models (cutting costs), and improve customer service responses on Social Media.
1-minute video
Team Members: Sohail Anwar, Alexandru Lapsin, Olesia Ivanyshynets
Team 6 WATSON MENTOR
Business Case Title: Improving Post-Graduate Outcomes and Student Experience with Watson Mentor
One-line about the proposed project: Using IBM’s deep learning technology, Watson Mentor completely overhauls how students are guided and encouraged in their academic careers and beyond.
1-minute video
Team Members: Michael DiGiorgio, Arif Banai, Kei Nemoto
For what’s next in the Competition, please check out the Challenge Schedule.
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