Subletting is a common solution for University of Washington students struggling to cover high rents during breaks. However, finding suitable tenants often proves difficult. This financial pressure led our team to develop a reliable platform that connects UW leaseholders with potential tenants. Using detailed search filters, users can find properties that fit their needs and communicate directly with leaseholders. Simple listing instructions enable leaseholders to easily add their properties and manage tenant requests. Our platform offers an essential solution to the subleasing challenges faced by UW students and also helps those seeking short-term accommodation in the UW area.

Sponsored by Amazon, Lambda News Digest transforms traditional Glamazon newsletters into a digestible, engaging, and tailored experience. Our solution tackles the lack of readability and informative content in current newsletters by introducing a live news digest with interactive visualizations. Leveraging state-of-the-art AI and ML technologies, our platform delivers a personalized and engaging news experience, enriched with a diverse selection of news sources. Our generalizable technology infrastructure offers adaptability across various information contexts and fields. This initiative transforms news consumption by making information more accessible and relevant, fostering inclusivity and awareness within and beyond the LGBTQ+ community.

Nurses spend the most amount of administrative time charting and reviewing information in health record systems (Yen et al., 2018). Based on our research, nurses confirmed that this stems from physical chart logging and data entries. LifeLens seeks to address this by providing a voice-to-text and automatic chart mapping system to allow nurses to record a voice note anywhere at any time. LifeLens’ processes the transcription and sorts the audio, saving at least 10-15% of time in our prototype testing. In doing so, nurses can redistribute this saved time toward their most important responsibility: Patient care.

LookingGlass addresses food waste among young adults (18-24) by offering a virtual fridge app. Core features include ingredient tracking and sharing, receipt scanning for inventory input, analytics to monitor habits, and recipe recommendations based on available ingredients. LookingGlass provides a solution to waste management and building better cooking habits by prioritizing accessibility, and giving users a full and free view of their food storage.

Our project tackles the challenges of high food delivery costs, limited meal options, and inefficient deliveries for university students on campus. Integrating a "Mass Delivery" feature into the existing DoorDash app enables students to participate in group orders at designated campus food lockers, significantly reducing the cost per meal and delivery times. Our results from testing with students demonstrated both cost savings and increased convenience. This project makes a significant difference in the lives of students by providing them with a more affordable and efficient way to access meals, allowing an increased focus on studies and less on meal logistics.

Many students entering the software industry are unprepared for the newest expectations of entry-level roles, where understanding security and efficient operations are the bare-minimum at every phase of the software development lifecycle. The "Open-DevSecOps" project addresses this significant gap in education concerning DevSecOps and CI/CD principles. Our extensively researched online modules aim to offer a free educational service to enhance the understanding and application of these crucial skills. This project strives to provide essential up-to-date training, and shape the security industry's future for the better starting with every new-grad employee.

Because of the rarity of their collections, archives are notoriously inaccessible. For most of their history they were reserved for curators and researchers. But history should be accessible to everyone, regardless of background or geography. Digital technologies are the best way to do this, but their application takes a level of funding that is not always available to archives. The purpose of this project is to add an open source tool that libraries and archives can use in the process of creating digital collections. It turns digital scans into searchable documents, allowing for ease of browsing.

Sponsored by Included, an HR analytics consulting firm, our team has developed an intelligent dashboard that tackles the inefficiencies of traditional recruitment processes. Manual resume reviews are time consuming, and assessing candidate qualifications can be daunting. Our solution is a dashboard powered by two AI algorithms. Leveraging LLMs (large language models), it seamlessly matches candidate qualifications to job post requirements. The result is a ranked list of top-notch candidates, ready for recruiters to evaluate swiftly. Our tool puts the power back in recruiters’ hands. They can confidently make final decisions, ensuring a personalized touch while drastically reducing resume review time.

SheWell provides tailored nutritional plans to reduce breast cancer and other gender-based health risks. Our research, inspired by the increasing prevalence of conditions like breast nodules in young women, underscored the need for specific, age-related nutritional guidance. By offering personalized, scientifically-backed nutritional advice, SheWell empowers women to manage and prevent breast issues effectively. This project not only fills a significant knowledge gap but also enhances women’s health outcomes, making a substantial difference in their ability to lead healthier lives

Smartsheet faces challenges in conducting efficient and accurate user access reviews for federal regulation (SOX). The current reviewing process is time-consuming, error-prone, and poses security risks. Our team designed and developed an automated solution that streamlines user access review sheets, flags unauthorized accounts, and tracks KPIs. We also created a centralized data dictionary, providing managers with clear insights into user access and risks. Our solution has saved over 800 billable hours annually, optimized access reviews, enhanced compliance efforts and reduced security risks.