Keysight Innovation Challenge 2022

UB CBE PhD students Patatri Chakraborty and Yaoli Zhao, along with UB Computer Science and Engineering student Vaishali Maheshkar were selected as one of the top six finalist teams in the Keysight Innovation Challenge. Their project is entitled “Piezo-Cantilever Sensor for Real-time Monitoring of Eight Greenhouse Gases with LoRa Communication.” Teams of up to six students—with a female team leader and at least half female membership—were invited to participate by Keysight Technologies. Teams submitted details about an Internet of Things (IoT) innovation that provides carbon neutrality, corporate site monitoring, multi-site monitoring, or community monitoring. The proposed device must communicate wirelessly, be easy to deploy by a non-expert in a secure fashion, and must handle sensitive data. Designs were judged on sensor effectiveness, AI capabilities, and cybersecurity resilience. In the initial round, 52 teams submitted their entries with participants from over 106 countries. As finalists, the team received $2500 to further develop their proposed idea and present it in a final showcase in September 2022. Patrati is a student in SUNY Distinguished Professor Amit Goyal's lab and Zhao is advised by Professor Thomas Thundat.

This project acknowledges support by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. EFMA-2029375. 

The design was cleared after passing through two rounds:

Round 1 : Online Competition

1. Innovation [20%]
2. Real world Applications [20%]
   
3. Sensor effectiveness [20%]
   
4.  AI capabilities [15%]
5. Cybersecurities. [15%]
   

Round 2 : Final Virtual Competition

1. Innovation [20%]
2. Real world Applications [20%]
   
3. Sensor effectiveness [20%]
   
4.  AI capabilities [20%]
5. Cybersecurities. [20%]