Industry-Sponsored Capstone Project
Offered every year, the HCI MS Industry-Sponsored Capstone Project is where student teams of three or four work with one of our corporate or community partners to bring the culmination of their HCI MS experience and the materials learned across all courses within their degree to a real-world partner-defined UX product, service, experience design, or research challenge.
To learn more about the HCI MS Industry-Sponsored Capstones and how to partner with us, please contact us at hci@ucsc.edu. If you already have a rough proposal in mind, please click on the button below, and we will get in touch with you shortly!
HCI MS Industry & Community Partners
Featured Capstone Projects
Spring 2024 (mid-point, final coming Dec 24)
Leveraging GenAI in Financial Narrative Report Process
Team: Neelambika Manvi, Radhika Jain, Kendra Wu
Sponsor: Oracle
Generative AI Conversational Agent for Financial Data Visualization & Synthesis
Team: Neha Choudhary, Bridget Ho, Mehul Sahni
Sponsor: NVidia
From Vision to Reality: Innovating Tech with Microsoft Research
Team: Meghana Reddy Karri, Tzuwei Su, Royce Yang
Sponsor: Microsoft
AI-Integrated Planning Decision Support
Team: Jilly Li, Shivam Shukla, Nhi Tran
Sponsor: NASA AMES
Keysight UXR Deck
Team: Sophia Nguyen, Alyssa Castaneda, Sanaz Khanali
Sponsor: Keysight
Fine-tuning GenAI models for Non-Technical Users
Team: Hebah Haque, Prajas Kadepurkar, Rocio Perez
Sponsor: IBM
Improving the online shopping ecosystem for small businesses
Team: Caro Araujo, Mandy Cai, Andrew Li, Tracy Nguyen
Sponsor: Google
Augmenting the Experience of Exercise & Well-Being
Team: Samantha Chen, Niveditha Dudyala, Advait Gadre
Sponsor: Augment Therapy
Improving Online Learning: Bio-sensing Interactive Conversational Agent
Team: Amina Vinson, Bianca Villamor, Cindy Lopez
Sponsor: Accenture
2023
Generative AI for Assistive Decision Making in Healthcare
Poster
Team: Hardika Gawde, Tina Shih, Maya Stack, Matthew Tung
Sponsor: Accenture Labs
Training Foundation Model AI Research
Poster
Team: Franky Dominguez, Naomi Du, Pei Jiun Lin, Siddharth Subramanian
Sponsor: IBM
Pathwave Measurement Analytics
Poster
Team: Rebeka Asryan, Tom Dai
Shivanshi Gupta, Kimia Mostadam
Sponsor: Keysight Technologies
The Data Journey to Precision Medicine
Poster
Team: Kristina Lapira, Mandi Martin, Dulce Zayas
Sponsor: Microsoft
Trustworthy LLM Chatbot
Poster
Team: Shivani Birajdar, Tam Cao, Jurine Gong, Yi Qing Khoo
Sponsor: Nvidia
Master Search
Poster
Team: Emmanuel Ezenwa Jr., Jay Iyer, Sakshi Shah
Sponsor: MasterCard
Designing AI Tools for Humans
Team: Emmanuel Ezenwa Jr., Jay Iyer, Sakshi Shah
Sponsor: DCO.ai TagStream
2022
Mapping User Journeys on DCO.ai TagStreamTM for Media
Team: Pariya Samandi, Nathan Stern
Sponsor: DCO.ai TagStream
Mapping User Journeys on DCO.ai TagStreamTM for Education
Team: Marina Castellanos, Andrea Estrada, Selin Ovali
Sponsor: DCO.ai TagStream
Navigator – Closing the (Enterprise Knowledge) Gap & Connecting One Another
Team: Mireya Leon, Victor Li, Julian Davis
Sponsor: Mastercard
Sentence Collector User Experience
Team: Justin Grant
Sponsor: Mozilla Common Voice
Redesigning the ISSIP Digital Membership Experience
Team: Derusha Baskaran, Dylan Hardma
Sponsor: International Society of Service Innovation Professionals
Truist x Digital Navigators UX Research
Team: Mireya Leon, Victor Li, Julian Davis
Sponsor: Truist Financials