2025 UMSI Exposition Award Winners

2025 UMSI Exposition

Congratulations UMSI Exposition Award Winners!

This year, the annual UMSI Exposition had 532 students presenting 174 projects to a diverse crowd of UMSI alumni, clients, and community members. All five UMSI degree programs were represented, and posters came from twenty courses, along with independent endeavors and Engaged Learning Office programs. Thank you to everyone who participated and made the Exposition a great event.

Presenting teams were eligible for awards and judged by a panel of UMSI partners, alumni, and industry professionals. The UMSI Office of Organizational Culture and Community provided funding for the Access, Belonging, and Inclusion awards, and the rest of the awards were funded by the Hoffman Family Engaged Learning Fund.

Check out award winners below:

Final Project Categories ($3,000 for first prize; $1,500 for second prize)

Residential Master's Programs Final Projects

First prize: News That Matters: Intelligent Risk Monitoring for Global Supply Chains
- Huiyu Su, Shuting Lin, Xiyuan Wang, Yujun Zhang
- SI 699 Big Data Analytics Mastery Course
Second prize: Reimagining Digital Surrogates at the Henry Ford Museum
- Julia Cave Arbanas, Andrew Nakamura
- SI 699 Librarianship and Archival Practice Mastery Course

MADS Capstone

First prize: Analyzing Brands on Reddit
- Andreea Serban, Chris McAllister
- SIADS 699: Master of Applied Data Science Capstone
Second prize: Detecting and Mitigating Implicit and Explicit Bias on Social Networks Using ML and Generative AI
- Celia B. Banks
- SIADS 699: Master of Applied Data Science Capstone

BSI Capstone

First prize: Interlibrary Loan: Connecting Rural Libraries to National Resources
- Violet Ruiz, Anastasia Papageorgiou, Cindy Tan, Yilin Fang
- SI 407/487 User Experience Capstone
Second prize: Empowering Involvement in Criminal Justice Reform
- Erin Chai, Charlotte Foley, Kishan Sripada, Amy Rodriguez
- SI 407/487 User Experience Capstone

Thematic Categories ($1,500 for first prize; $500 for second prize)

Entrepreneurship/Innovation

First prize: OrchestrateXR
- Chiao Lin, Nathaniel Liganor, Ying Hei Lau, Andy Yao, Ting Lu, Evelyn Luan, Vivek Selvaraj, Anhua Wu, Tony Ren
- Independent Project
Second prize: EchoRead
- Niloufar Sedarati
- SI 699 Big Data Analytics Mastery Course

Access, Belonging, and Inclusion

First prize: Empowering Trans Youth: Stand with Trans Website Redesign
- Robin Jiao, Sarah Penrose, Elle Feldman, Maddie House
- SI 407/487 User Experience Capstone
Second prize: Reimagining Eviction Court Forms
- Rachael Zuppke
- SI 691 Independent Study

Community/Civic

First prize: UnityPhilly: Community-Driven Response to the Opioid Overdose Crisis
- Hamza Naveed and Sheza Naveed
- Independent Project
Second prize: Enhancing Medication Adherence Through Contextual Reminders
- Sarosh Manzar, Mya Dobbs, Angelica Wang, Ziqian Wang
- SI 699 UX Research and Design Mastery Course

UMSI Theme Year: Future of Work

First prize: Optimizing Tire Health Management: Bridging the Gap for Fleet Efficiency
- Jess Cummings, Robert Bowser, Scarlet Wong, Kimberly Lillios, Siyu Zhong
- SI 407/487 User Experience Capstone
Second prize: Icicl
- Melp Meredith, Steven Liu, Marie Nurdauletova, Shawn Halimman
- Independent Project

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