Innovation Day Awards 2026
Awards are made in three categories - Senior Design, Undergraduate Projects, Graduate Students. Congratulations to the following prize winners.
Senior Design
First Place
Facial Symmetry Quantification: Landmarked-Based Analysis Through Computer Vision Modeling
Anthony Gomez | Natalie Mar | Katherine Zoller
Second Place
Wireless Laser Power Transmission
Xavier Guzman | Jose Gonzalez | Esam Ibraheem | Juan Jesus Figueroa
Third Place
Emergency Field Intubation Feedback System
Annabelle Tantemsomboon | Malak Al-Noubani | Abhidha Kunwar
Judges' Choice
Indoor Security Drone for Smart Homes
Jakub Wojtowicz | Eric Le | Stockton Cortright | Alan Tran | Emmanuel Kajopelaye | Bryant Luong
Undergraduates
First Place
AI Proposal
Blaze Paul | Sherou Bateki
Second Place
POSTURE: Posture Observation System for Task-based User Risk Evaluation
Md Muhtasim Sarker | Eshwara Prasad Sridhar | Ansal Mohammed Abdul Khalam Azad
Third Place
Investigating the Effect of Additive Manufacturing Parameters on Surface Roughness of High-Performance Thermoplastic Components
Mohammed Abu-Saqer | Arina Elyasi | Tiago Teixeira
Judges' Choice
Classifying and Forecasting H5N1 Avian Influenza Across The Conterminous United
Will Maberry
Edge AI and LLM-empowered Monitoring and Process Optimization of Additive Manufacturing
Amogh Modgekar Desai | Armaan Nalli | Tyler Nguyen
Graduate Students
First Place
Generative AI-Based Manufacturing Quality Issue Analyzer
Ajinkya Sanjay Kadam | Jaadullah Mohammad
Second Place
gHAWK: Local and Global Structure Encoding for Scalable Training of Graph Neural Networks on Knowledge Graphs
Humera Sabir | Fatima Farooq
Third Place
Creating a Searchable Database of Texas Mobile Work Zone Safety Regulations through Web Scraping and Semantic Embedding
Venezer Odhiambo
Judges' Choice
ADEPT-VR: A Large Language Model - Based Adaptive De-escalation Trainer
Eshwara Prasad Sridhar | Jose Lopez | Anish K C | Ashirwad Sharma Dahal