News - CS 189 Best Project '20

First place awarded to Minimum Viable Team who partnered with Well Health to create a telemedicine platform to make virtual doctor's visits effective and efficient by enhancing patient-doctor communication

cs capstone winning team

This year’s summit.cs was hosted on March 11, 2020 at UC Santa Barbara. Each year, the summit brings past and current students, faculty and industry partners together for a whole day of idea-sharing and networking. The summit was available via zoom, making it accessible to those who were unable to physically attend. 

Capstone Awards Spotlight – ”Computer Science gave special recognition to the three winning teams: 

1st: Minimum Viable Team - Well Health 

  • Team: Ekta Shahani (Lead), Terrell Marshall (Scribe), Chris Lianides, Michelle Nguyen, Aditya Nadkarni
  • Project Overview: A telemedicine platform to make virtual doctor's visits effective and efficient by enhancing patient-doctor communication

2nd: No Cap Stone - Logmein 

  • Team: Andrew Doan (Lead), Bikram Nandy (Scribe), Adjon Tahiraj, Ryan Gormley, Tim Chang
  • Project Overview: Creating more personalized and engaging online interviews to better simulate a real, in person interview

3rd: 2B || !2B - PowWow Energy

  • Team: Daniel Shu (Lead), Richard Rodriguez (Scribe), Anna Ivannikova, Bryan Wu, Yiyang (Meredith) Xu
  • Project Overview: A tool that will analyze satellite data to help farmers more efficiently use water and energy

Tevfik Bultan, CE/CS Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at UCSB shared his reaction to the summit – “It was great to see the innovative projects and high-quality research produced by our students. CS Summit is a wonderful event since it provides you glimpses of the future of the computing industry and computing research.”

Bultan believes the Capstone presentations were one of the best parts of the event, and overall the event went very well. In future summits, he thinks the Department should “investigate more virtual attendance options in the future, such as taking questions from people who are listening to talks online [and] would like to see more attendance from outside of UCSB such as local computing companies, or students from local high schools or from SBCC.”

CS News - "summit.cs. 2020" (full article)

CS 189 Capstone Senior Projects (course website)