Sarukkai Social Impact Award

The Sarukkai Social Impact Award, established by Sekhar and Rajashree Sarukkai, recognizes the School of Information master’s capstone or final projects with the greatest potential to solve important social problems and improve people’s lives in meaningful ways. Awards are given twice annually in May and December.

During their final semester, I School students in the MIMS, MIDS, 5th Year MIDS, and MICS programs undertake final or capstone projects that cement skills learned throughout their master’s degree program. Teams of students propose and select project ideas, conduct and communicate their work, receive and provide feedback, and deliver compelling final presentations.

Spring 2023

Egaleco

Hilsenton Alcee, Allison Fox, Carlie McCleary, Rex Pan

Egaleco is focused on fairness evaluations affecting machine learning models in the healthcare sector.

2023

Egaleco: Advancing Fairness in Machine Learning (Product and Policy)

Gurpreet Kaur Khalsa, Alan Kyle, Mudit Mangal, Orissa Rose

Product and policy for Egaleco, a fairness toolkit enabling machine learning practitioners in healthcare to identify bias in their models.

Advisor: Daniel Aranki, Marti Hearst

Egaleco: Advancing Fairness in Machine Learning (UX Research and Design)

Jennifer Chan, Mary Grace Reich, Han Yang

UX research + design for Egaleco, a fairness toolkit enabling machine learning practitioners in healthcare to identify bias in their models.

Advisor: Morgan Ames

PoliWatch

Matthew Dodd, Aditya Shah, Jocelyn Thai, Connor Yen

Identifying conflicts of interest in the securities transactions of U.S. congressional members to hold congress accountable for insider trading.

Summer 2022

OZKi

Lauren Ayala, Suvojit Basak, Antony Halim, Mariah Martinez

Open Zero Knowledge Integration: a zk-SNARK-based proof framework for developing privacy protecting components of a web application.

2022

Accessibility, Equity, and Resources for Crisis Response

Priyanka Dasgupta, Sarah de la Vega, Nailah Hill, Amanda Kochak

accesSOS is a nonprofit organization that provides emergency response services to those who cannot call 911. Because Text-to-911 services are not available...

Advisor: Coye Cheshire