Abbottics (AntKilla)
The AntKilla™ platform consists of a custom-built heavy-lift drone platform designed to map fire ant activity and migration over farm and pasture land, to precision-apply a custom formulation of organic pesticide to mounds, and to map all applications and measure effectiveness of treatment. This platform is designed as a Robot-as-a-Service offering to enable farmers and ranchers to engage our technology without capital expenditures.
Team Members:
Rob Abbott
Heidi Clubb
College of Computing and Informatics
Brighten Analytics: Data Analytics for Metabolomics
We have had many years of experience in developing analytics solution for making sense of -omics data using machine learning, signal processing, and big-data analytics. We provide customized data analytics solutions for knowledge discovery from biological and non-biological data.
Team Members:
Academic Lead, Xiuxia Du
Entrepreneurial Lead, Rick Hudson
Bioinformatics and Genomics
School of Data Science
Bridge to STEM
We are interested in developing an online science learning app, that supports the culturally responsive and culturally sustaining learning needs that are required to effectively teach urban adolescent students. Our team consists of two third year urban education Ph.D. students and a faculty member in the Cato College of Education; all of whom have an interest in creating equitable learning opportunities for students in underserved communities.
Team Members:
Entrepreneurial Lead, Wally Keith Burgess
Entrepreneurial Lead, Jimmeka Anderson
Academic Lead, Dr. Victor Mack
Cato College of Education
Automation and Me
Our team is working on developing a confidence based shared control framework. Wherein control authority is allocated to either the robot or human partner based on their task performance. The goal of this framework is to minimize human control effort while maximizing task performance.
Team Members:
Daniel Saraphis
Amir Ghasemi
Williams States Lee College of Engineering
Volunto
Volunto is a startup aimed at revolutionizing the nonprofit sector by facilitating channels of digital volunteering that connect nonprofits in need with eager volunteers, all through a simple click of the mouse. Our platform allows volunteers to donate their technological skills, helping nonprofits grow and sustain themselves. Volunto was founded by Samra Kanwal, a business student and aspiring entrepreneur at UNC Charlotte .
Team Members:
Entrepreneurial Lead, Samra Kanwal
Academic Lead, Diane Zablotsky
Levine Scholars
Belk College of Business
Intelligent Nursing Surveillance System for Elderly Care
We are developing an intelligent and automatic nursing surveillance system for elder care, which will automatically document the normal activities, recognize the abnormal behaviors, and predict the potential health risks for elderly people. The team consists of Dr. Pu Wang (assistant professor from CS), Chen Chen (assistant professor from ECE), Dr. Kelly Powers (assistant professor from school of nursing), Ayman Ali (PhD student from CS), and Thao Tran (Undergraduate student from CS)
Team Members:
Academic Lead, Pu Wang
Fatema Jannat
Thao Tran
Ayman Ali
Chen Chen
Kelly Powers
College of Computing and Informatics
Healthy Revolutions
The concept is to create an app that specifically targets the determinants of childhood obesity by affecting access, culture, time, habit, and structure. A personalized app for customized user experiences through the use of game and simulation will help meet goals of improved health, in fun and engaging ways.
Team Members:
Entrepreneurial Lead, Sarah Rutgers
College of Education
Enterprise Management Expertise Organizer
We are developing a machine-learning platform as a real-time monitor of companies' performance from different stakeholders' perspectives, including investors, customers, employees, and society, as well as the predictors. It is being built on big data resources such as social media and online textual resources. And visualize different business performance indicators concerning different stakeholders and explore casual associations, that helps to gather evidence for the hypothesis instantly. Our project has a broad application in any private sector organizations, with more relevant applications in the predictive analytics for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
Team Members:
Entrepreneurial Lead, Ramya Prakash
Academic Lead, Dr. Victor Z. Chen
Belk College of Business
College of Computing and Informatics
Intelligent Sanitization Booth
An intelligent sanitization and scanning booth that uses sensor inputs to optimize the spray of disinfectant based on attributes of the human body like height and weight. * As per the guidelines of CDC and WHO, sanitization and isolation are key aspects of our fight against viruses like Covid-19. A smart booth will help in: - Avoiding any human contact during sanitization and scanning - Optimizing the quantity of disinfectant sprayed - Improving user experience spraying disinfectant on hands and feet tracked using of-the-shelf mmWave sensor. - Sensing body temperature of the subject inside the booth * For the current pandemic situation and in the future, intelligent disinfectant booths can be used at schools, universities, airports, train stations, supermarkets, shopping malls, offices, or any social gatherings.
Team Members:
Entrepreneurial Lead, Vinit Amrutlal Katariya
Academic Lead, Dr. Tao Han
William States Lee College of Engineering
TeleView
Our current technology is a mixed reality device that has the capabilities of telepresence and interaction. One use case is that we are able to connect and interact with others from any location and share content in real-time. In this manner, shared experiences are produced and collaboration between teams helps increase productivity as well as reimagine the way we communicate with each other.
Team Members:
Entrepreneurial Lead, Pedro Regaldo
Entrepreneurial Lead, Yongjie Guan
Academic Lead, Dr. Tao Han
William States Lee College of Engineering