Product Studio Fall 2018

Team Shutterstock

Wei Wei CS

Munazza Khan MBA

Ta-Wei Mao Connective Media

Xiran Sun Connective Media

Iman Diarra Parsons School of Design

How might we enable image sharing for people in developing countries where access to technology and internet is limited?

Team Elle

Yue Wang CM

Siyu Yao CM

Maria Luisa MBA

Yanni Du ORIE

Huimin Hu Parson

How might we use internet enabled devices to better understand consumers and provide them with hightouch, personalized experiences across digital and instore channels?

Team Frog

Advaita Patel CS

Gabi Zandi MBA

Steven Wu CS

Marisha Thakker LLM

How might use emerging technology to help support an internet user in protecting their privacy?

Team USA for UNHCR

Amy Jarvis MBA

Jake Bass CS

Kulvinder Lotay CS

Natalie Chyi LLM

How might we give refugees in camps a greater degree of financial independence?

Team TruePic

Ben Norman CS

Dana Leshem LLM

Adam Naor MBA

Yuekun Wang OR

How might we help journalists detect "deep fakes" and other false information?

Team Microsoft

Raga Kolli MBA

Zhihao Liu CM

Nabeel Seedat ECE

Boning Hou CS

Yantao Yu ECE

How might we use technology to help people with disabilities with everyday tasks?

Team Anti-Defamation League

Mark O'Looney

Meera Nanda

Michael Barron

Yixue Wang

How might we create tools or services to support likely and actual targets of cyberhate and cyberharassment?

Team Verizon (Ursa Major 2018)

Zui Chen Design (Parsons)

Natalie Friedman Connective Media

Wesley Gea Electrical and Computer Engineering

Aayushi Jain Connective Media

Oluseyi Sonaiya MBA

How might we design and shape digitally enabled and connected living spaces of the future?

Team BBMA PC011

Pooja Kale CS

Jim Campbell MBA

Cyrus Ghazanfar CS

Kibum Byun LLM

How might we understand cryptocurrencies to help startups launch ICOs that are compliant, valuable, and relevant to the business and customers needs

Team Adobe

Chris Salib LLM

Rafael Daraya MBA

Ryan Pencak CS

Shawn Wang CS

How might we validate the “authenticity” of digital content shared on social networks and attribute the content to the creator?

Team Team Output

Kelly SUN CM

Benjamin Hwang ORIE

Dhruv Jain MBA

Mike Chen CS

How might we use technology to empower people to be musically creative without formal music training?

Team Team Accenture

Aakanksha Aggarwal Design

Kevin Jürgen Clemens CS

Amarildo Gjondrekaj MBA

Marissa Joseph ORIE

Varun Madhava-Ravi Narayan CS

How might we better prepare workers in low and middle-skilled jobs for changes to their occupations, to ensure they have the necessary skills to continue working in the workplace of the future?

Team VaynerMedia

Ryan Farr CS

Campbell Weaver CS

Wen Guo MBA

Maximilian Kuester ORIE

How might we develop a system that monitors changes in global shoreline and/or other ongoing effects of global warming?

Team dataWall

Anthony Bisulco ECE

Wei Duan CS

Daniel Nissani CM

Rick Peng MBA

How might we realize the benefits of shared data and computation models amongst untrusted parties while maintaining the security and privacy of each party and their data?

Team Biometric (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)

Alexa Lempel CS

Alex Shyu ECE

Paula Barmaimon CM

Donovan White MBA

How might we leverage advances in biometric identification to provide the safest possible care for patients by linking them directly to their medical records?

Team Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Pargol Gheissari HT

Sonia Yifan Zhu CS

Alana Lipson MBA

Kuan Wen "Johnny" Wang CM

How might we use technology to reengineer everyday life to be healthier (example, cooking real food; getting more and better sleep; spending time outdoors)?

Team WeWork

Bryce Frost MBA

Hongsun Kim ORIE

Kai-Chun Hsu CM

Steffen Baumgarten CS

How might we invite online learners into physical spaces to improve their learning experience and outcome?

Team Oscar

Orrin Belden MBA

Vishaal Chhabria CS

Emmanuel Cruz CS

Matthew Dalton ORIE

How might we help individuals understand their health journey and adhere to recommended behaviors?

Team American Express

Deepika Singla MBA

Matheus Clemente Bafutto CS

Satwick 'Sat' Sharma MBA

Yezhou 'Yeats' Ma CM

How might we use merchant purchasing data to help small business gain bigger purchasing power through group buying?

Team Kinder Surprise

Natalie Abrams CS

Adi Gutner CS

Ojasvin Kirpane (O.J.) Parsons

Ashley Torres MBA

Bharath Satheesh CM

How might we leverage the commoditization of 3D printing to foster a highly customizable and surprising play experience for children?

Team Team Etsy

Sophie Fang CS

Xianhui Li ORIE

Kate Min-Jung Seo MBA

Anastasios Belesiotis ORIE

Carolyn Olaguivel Design

How might we create an engaging ecommerce experience that leverages a diverse and growing inventory to excite shoppers everyday?

Team JP Morgan

Brian Pfaff ORIE

Esteban Wesson MBA

Anil Vadali CS

Jo-Anne Loh CS

How might we employ social media to forecast the next recession?

Team Big Citi Red

Yi Yuan CS

Yifang (Regan) Chen Orie

Balaji Kamakoti MBA

Sara Sun CS

How might we create an intelligent routing of payments so that merchants can pay their suppliers in the fastest and most cost effective way possible?

Team Ferrero

Ananya Paul CM

Leanna Mulvihill CM

Romane d'Oncieu ORIE

Saniya Shah MBA

How might we use AR/VR to engage confectionary products consumers and educate them on the health impact, the ingredients and the sourcing of the raw materials?

Team Civil Media Company

Noel Konagai CM

Manuel Viejo CS

Amelia Wellers MBA

Zimeng Zhu CM

How might we help journalists in other parts of the world facing challenges from censorship to personal safety?

Team Trash

Isha Rana MBA

Keith Yu CS

Chenyu Zhang CS

Owen Daw ORIE

How might we repurpose and reduce tons of useful items being sent to a landfill?

Team Microsoft Uplift

Lizzie Christmas LLM

Rory Connolly CS

Rebecca Rubin MBA

How might we predict societal risks like bullying, school shootings, teenage drug abuse, suicide, etc.?

Team Hospital for Special Surgery

Caitlin Maguire MBA

Jeffrey Huang HT

Ishan Virk HT

Haojie Zhang ORIE

How might we harness technology to improve the experience for patients undergoing spinal surgery, by enabling easier communication, monitoring progress between appointments, and tracking progress and goals following surgery?

Team Samsung Electronics America

Siqi Shi MBA

Chris Brownell MBA

Jessie Han ECE

Dan Berman ECE

Yiko Li Design

How might we introduce consumers to the world of smart home products in settings where wifi products are generally difficult to demonstrate?

Team Neckflix

Milan Gunasekera ECE

Ran Ji CS

Courtney Levering MBA

Hongyun (Kevin) Oh CS

How might we help reduce neck pain for digital screen users?

Team Team Wayfair

Karim Arem ORIE

Aobei Cheng ORIE

Karthik Dakshinamurthy MBA

Minzhe Jiang Design

Shantanu Phadke CS

How might we bring the touch and feel furniture buying experience to customers on mobile platforms?

Team Teamolution

Ayumi Suzuki MBA

Jiaqi Tong CS

Seray Nalbantoglu LLM

Victor Popov CS

Yashwanth Iragattapu Design

How might we help crossborder brands introduce their products to consumers who live in different countries?

Team Votem

Shaine Leibowitz CS

Alice Kamens MBA

Ben Dobkin CM

Robert Zalcman LLM

How might we rethink voting to make democratic decision making and elections more verifiable, accessible, secure, and transparent?

Team Team AccuWeather

Emily Shaw MBA

Hao Rong ORIE

Yuze Fu ORIE

Fei Li CS

How might we use weather data in combination with other available data sets to predict how different types of weather will affect business operations?

Team Maven

Richard Hill CS

Ashley Liu HT

Yong Huang HT

Lalo Gonzalez MBA

How might we help encourage and empower women with high risk pregnancies to follow an education and prevention plan curated by medical professionals so that they might lower their risk of complications during the pregnancy and birth?

Team The Green Mile

Cameron Mine CS

Giselle Lewars MBA

Kang Raye Ng ORIE

Yuxi Sun CM

How might we help to save natural resources and promote sustainability of peer to peer logistics?

Team Team Pfizer

Apurva Desai MBA

Ryan Hall CS

Ruoyu Wang CS

Halyna Vasylevska LLM

How might we enable people to gather, manage, and share their health information in a way that is secure and private?

Team Team MasterCard

Ian Anderson MBA

Sunna Halldorsdottir CS

Tony Muchai Parsons

Kathleen Szabo ORIE

Yi-Ling Tung CS

How might we help B2B businesses generate actionable insights from transaction based metrics?

Team Team Snap

Allison Ing Design

Henri El Daher MBA

Siqi Ouyang CM

Shunzhe Yu CS

Xiaoyun Su CM

How might we improve our everyday lives by leveraging a smart camera that understands what it sees?

Team Bloomberg

Avital Szulc ORIE

Chris Kruger CS

Hemanth Kondapalli CS

Tanay Khandelwal MBA

How might we leverage data and technology to make small farming in India more cost effective?

Team Samsung

James Kluz CS

Sandra Ebirim CM

Aviv Sheriff MBA

Karen El Asmar MFA Design and Technology

Xiangru Qian CS

How might we create new devices or physical interfaces to connect people over long distances?

Team Turbonomic

Tal Genkin MBA

Yu Jin Hur ORIE

Zeheng Wang ORIE

Jingxuan Zhang CM

How might we help seasonal businesses efficiently handle massive spikes in user demand?

Team DigI (HSBC)

Edward Berman CS

Ipsita Basu MBA

Natalia Becerra LLM

Jiaxin Guo CM

How might we develop a universally accepted, user controlled digital passport?

Team Freewheel

Nikhil Kejriwal MBA

Joey Pinhas CS

Dan Ran Design

Prasenjit Roy CM

Irene Wei CM

How might we rethink the entertainment experience in the world of IoT?

Team Trendalytics

Omer Winrauke CS

Lauren Glasky MBA

Nafisa A. Iqbal Design

Celi Sun CS

Lina Tao ECE

How might we develop social image recognition technology to help retailers predict trends?

Team Weill Cornell Medical College

Jonathan Hirko MBA

Rehan Rasool CS

Yimeng Wu CS

Hanbing Wang ORIE

How might we help researchers to visualize and explore the availability and extent of EHR (electronic health record) data for research?

Team MSK Patient/Physician Encounter

Skyler Erickson CS

Kriti Shah MBA

Eshannn Toteja CS

Benjamin Yellin HT

How might we free clinicians from computer workstations and allow them to focus directly on their patients during clinical encounters?

Team Cooper Hewitt

Zhiling Hu CM

Julia Narakornpichit CM

Joseph Wheeler, Jr. LLM

Sara Yun MBA

How might we design an experience for visitors entering museums, physically and virtually, which prompts and captures an exchange about the work?

Team Verizon

Conor Cunningham CS

Sungseo Park CS

Stanton Burke LLM

Rahul Naryani MBA

How we might enable internet users to better manage their digital content?

Team Team Nozama

YiTong (Mia) Chen ORIE

Yihang (Tannah) Geng MBA

Inga Kan Design

Tianshi (Sean) Ni CS

Bowen Zhang CM

How might we bridge the gap between online and offline retail?

Team HALE.life

Andrea Qiu HT

Gabriel Costa MBA

Ken Choi CS

Shwetha Anand ECE

How might we present comprehensive and complex health information in an easy, interactive, and portable format for patients?

Team Tata PC0081

Mae Tan MBA

Ang Zhou CS

Jiahui Zhou CM

Yingying Zheng ORIE

How might we help reduce food waste by identifying freshness of the perishables goods and predicting the remaining life of the product?

Team Capital One

Jillian Burns CS

Nian Ji ORIE

Terry Lai ECE

Omer Reshef MBA

How might we help gig economy workers better manage their healthcare, taxes, savings and retirement?

Team Clear

Charles Kuang CS

Gabriel Paredes MBA

Christophe Rimann CS

Miakel Williams LLM

How might we leverage the use of notrust public ledgers to enhance identity sharing and identity storage?

Team Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Will Krasnoff CM

Omari Powell CS

Sridharan Ravichandran MBA

Dinesh Malla MBA

How might we provide tailored financial coaching services to millions of low income people with extremely volatile incomes and expenses that sets them on the path to positive financial health?

Team ZX Ventures