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Name Description Team Status
Karl Roesch
Finalist
Team led by Glimmary founder Karl Roesch (M.Arch, Univ. of Colorado Denver), building an AI video lie-detector; expertise: Python, React, generative AI, dataset scaling.
Karl Roesch
Accepted
Adam Weiler
Team led by founder Adam Weiler (Emplicit, DogFood Labs), MBA San Diego State — 17 years in Amazon eCommerce, SaaS (FlatFile.Pro, ReviewPulse.ai), A/B testing, catalog management.
Adam Weiler
Accepted
JNSN
Team led by founder Eric Jensen (JNSN Co, Utah State CE): ex-developer/product leader skilled in backend/platform, observability, APIs, Linux, RAG, agents, edge AI.
Eric Jensen
Accepted
Thomas
Team led by a Founder & Chief Scientist (Pando Industries), ex-AWS/H2O.ai, UW BA; AI/ML, generative‑AI infra, AutoML, HPC, cloud, building AI research assistant (AWS/GCP/Azure).
Thomas Brady
Accepted
Evergreen
Team led by Meta AI engineering leader Michael Burlando (CMU CS), 21 years building generative AI, ads automation, cloud systems and large-scale training infrastructure.
Michael Burlando
Accepted
Amarnath
Team led by a seasoned Meta software engineer (ex-Microsoft), M.S. UCSD, IIT Kharagpur—backend/ML expert in conversational AI orchestration, Python, C++, and cloud systems.
Amarnath V
Accepted
Proofbound
Team led by Stanford & Wharton‑educated CEO Richard Sprague (Opticare AI), ex‑Apple/Microsoft, hands‑on R, Python, JavaScript, ML, healthtech, multi‑omics.
Richard Sprague
Accepted
Ryan Faber
Team led by Ryan Faber, Director of AI Enablement at Infogain (Georgia Tech CS/ME), building LLM-based agent solutions for enterprise IT; AI strategy, prototyping.
Ryan Faber
Accepted
Ross
Storybook creator.
Ross Safronoff
Accepted
TheRain
Team led by a Zillow SDE (MS CS, Arizona State) with 7 years building Spark/Flink AWS data pipelines; Java, Python, Scala expertise and active AI-agent builder.
Dhiren Navani
Accepted
VibeDay
Team led by Extralit founder Jonny Tran, Ph.D. (UT Arlington): AI/LLM engineer experienced with PyTorch, Transformers, graph ML, bioinformatics, FastAPI, scalable Python pipelines.
Jonny Tran
Accepted
Whole Cloth
For creators: web app that transforms prose into structured storyboards, managing characters, scenes, shots; outputs multimedia including lip‑synced video.
Charles W. Parker
Accepted
AlwaysBeCoding
1st Place
Multimodal and interactive PM interview application with deep understanding and feedback.
Puneet Kamal
Accepted
Lopamudra
Dialogue-driven comic generator!
LOPAMUDRA CHAKRAVARTY
Accepted
AshMoney
Team Agentic Dynamic Assist Moodergizer (TADAM)
Ash Malleck
Accepted
GoodVibes
Team led by a UW biomedical‑informatics PhD student (Tulane BS) building AI/omics prototypes with voice‑integration, MATLAB/R/SQL, DevOps, and database‑management expertise.
Jacob Edelson
Accepted
Just Tim
Team led by founder Tim Johns (EpicRoadTripPlanner.com) — Head of Engineering with 30+ years: TypeScript, Node.js, Vue.js, GCP, OpenAI Assistants API, MongoDB.
Tim Johns
Accepted
Rob
Daily quiz for the ACT that adapts to the student’s learning style.
Rob Hillas
Accepted
EvolveMe
Team led by Amazon SDE Kefei Wu, MS (NYU) — Python/Swift engineer with RL trading bots, iOS, AWS, Docker, full‑stack and ML product experience.
Kefei Wu
Accepted
Studio Ann
mobile app for senior care
Ann Mueller
Accepted
RoadrunnerAI
All-in-one app helping runners track marathon training, manage packing reminders, and get personalized race-day checklists with real-time updates.
Raj Akula
Accepted
nuwa-nutrition
Team led by a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon (Tsinghua MSE) with 7–9 years building Python/AWS ML pipelines, LLM/RAG/agent systems, time-series and causal inference expertise.
Chuci Chen
Accepted
Zober
A cannabis smoking assistant that uses voice inputs
Linford Zirangwa
Accepted
Kavya
Team led by a Georgia Tech Computer Engineering student building a social-media AI assistant, ML intern and BattleBots software lead — Python, ML, product and systems design.
Kavya Lalith
Accepted
Canvas
Team led by an Affiliated UW faculty (PhD, UT Dallas), ex-Amazon/Wayfair/LinkedIn data scientist specializing in optimization, pricing, demand estimation using Python, R, SQL.
Emre Ertan
Accepted
Life Advertisement
Team led by founder Gideon Sylvan — real-estate tech entrepreneur who scaled a property search 2k→500k monthly in 15 months; building Desk, an AI transaction assistant.
Gideon Sylvan
Accepted
The Donut Boss
Finalist
Find vegan donuts near you: a comprehensive directory of bakeries, donut shops, and restaurants offering plant-based options.
Craig Rhodes
Accepted
Bike Better
Team led by a VP of Product (SeekOut), UC Berkeley CS grad and founder with 21+ years' experience in mobile, cloud (GCP) and AI strategy.
Anil dhawan
Accepted
JeremyM
Demo site for collaborative, Excel-like sortable/filterable tables editable by AI and humans: https://bucolic-pavlova-88d846.netlify.app/.
Jeremy McClanathan
Accepted
Test
Team led by Product Manager Alwin Eldhose Babu of Identity Digital and UW — 6+ years building ML/AI, Python, TensorFlow, SQL, Docker, Unity, OpenCV, cybersecurity
Alwin Eldhose Babu
Accepted
echohack
Join fellow composers, sound designers, audio engineers, and developers for an evening of Game Audio networking and inspiration.
David Echo
Accepted
SoundGrid
Team led by a Lead Software Engineer at Book Qube (M.S. CS, AI; B.S. Neurobiology) skilled in Next.js/React, TypeScript, Node.js, LangChain, RAG, AWS.
Zak Hussain
Accepted
PropDialer
1st Place
Team consisting of Bury Huang (Peakmojo CTO; backend/OS engineer—MCP Server for autonomous macOS; UMN) and Tian Lan (Founder/ex‑VC; M.S. CS, UPenn) focused on AI agents.
Tian Lan Bury Huang
Accepted
FastLabeling
Finalist
Team led by Sr. Machine Learning Engineer Lucia Botiquin (Intuit), MS CS — document understanding, agentic AI, Python, TensorFlow/Keras, AWS/GCP.
Lucia Botiquin
Accepted
Voice to LinkedIn
A project that turns my voice and voice memos to engaging linkedin posts
Himanshu Tayal
Accepted
ConnectedConf
Team led by CTO Ariel Ben‑Sasson (PhD Technion, postdoc UW), ZipBio/FollicureBio; 10+ years in de novo protein design, Rosetta/PyRosetta, Python, ML.
Ariel Ben-Sasson
Accepted
Aman
Team led by a Google Product Manager (15y) with Aerospace degrees from IIT Kharagpur and Univ. of Minnesota, expert in AI/HPC, compilers, OpenXLA, JAX, TPU/GPU.
Aman Verma
Accepted