Tim Porter, Madrona, and Hank Levy, Allen School, bracket the winners of the Madrona Prize and Runners Up
Again this year, it was a fun and inspiring night at UW Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. Every year we look forward to the day of presentations and then the frantic round robin of poster sessions in the evening. It is inspiring and humbling to attend and listen to the invention and creative thinking that goes on at the Allen School. And this year there were many breakthrough projects that spanned disciplines and schools at the University of Washington. We also see this collaboration and collision of disciplines, particularly data science, computer science and life science, in companies being built in the greater Seattle region and it is something we are excited about investing in as we move into our next 20 years.
Every year we award the Madrona prize to the most commercially viable ideas presented. This year the winners were as follows.
Madrona Prize Winner
EMBARKER: A hierarchical Bayesian approach empowering big data with prior knowledge for expression marker discovery and its application to Alzheimer’s disease
Safiye Celik, Josh C. Russell, Cezar R. Pestana, Ting-I Lee, Shubhabrata Mukherjee, Paul K. Crane, C. Dirk Keene, Jennifer F. Bobb, Matt Kaeberlein
Advisor: Su-In Lee
Runners Up
Puddle: A System for High-Level Microfluidic Programming
Max Willsey, Ashley Stephenson, Chris Takahashi, Pranav Vaid, Bichlien Nguyen, Michal Piszczek, Christine Betts, Sharon Newman, Sarang Joshi
Advisors: Karin Strauss and Luis Ceze
Slim: OS Kernel Support for a Low-Overhead Container Overlay Network
Danyang Zhuo, Kaiyuan Zhang, Yibo Zhu, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Matthew Rockett,
Advisors: Arvind Krishnamurthy and Tom Anderson
Implantable Wireless Brain-Computer Interface
Jared Nakahara, Vaishnavi Ranganathan, Soshi Samejima, Nicholas Tolley, and Chet Moritz. See this for background on this poster.
Advisor: Joshua Smith
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