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SCU's Ethical, Pragmatic, and Intelligent Computing (EPIC) Research Laboratory is one of the leaders in supporting Humanitarian Technology research at 58ºÚÁÏÍø. The faculty and students involved in the lab span across many departments as most projects in the lab are multidisciplinary in nature and execution. SCU's EPIC lab is in partnership with SCU's Frugal Innovation Hub on several student driven as well as industry sponsored projects. 

Current Projects (Alphabetical Order per Area):

Agricultural IoT:

DOxy

Low cost Dissolved Oxygen monitoring system for aquatic life applications

Internal Articles: Driven to Succeed

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GrapeSense

A Grape Aging Classifier Using Residual Transfer Learning on Drone Images

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HA (Hydration Automation) - learn more

Energy efficient system for automation of water systems including livestock watering, crop irrigation, etc.

Articles about the project: | A 58ºÚÁÏÍø engineering lab creates moisture sensors for a San Jose community farm

Awards: Most Interdisciplinary Award at Ciocca Center's 2020 Business Pitch Competition

Expo presentation: EPICS in IEEE 2019 |

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HiveSpy  - learn more

Automation of beekeeping with a specific focus on labour shortage and the prevention of hive swarming

Awards: | Most Social Impact Award at Ciocca Center's 2020 Business Pitch Competition

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Expo presentation: EPICS in IEEE

Internal Articles: An EPIC Effort to Help Beekeepers in the Spring 2020 issue of Engineering News

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Blockchain and Smart Contracts:

InspiredEarth

Creating an online store for a local business which donates part of its proceeds to environmental causes using smart contracts for donation accountability.

Data Science:

Paper Prisons -

The Paper Prisons project encompasses several sub-projects focused on criminal justice reform and expungement:

Expungement Tool

Web application for assisting in the identification of qualification for expungement of criminal records as well as assisting individuals with the application process.

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First Step ID / Reentry ID

Web application for helping newly released rehabilitated citizens obtain/renew their various IDs such as Drivers Licenses.

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Second Chance Gap Initiative

A statistical study of the gap size in individual criminal history expungement of decriminalized offenses for all 50 states.

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Disaster Mitigation and Recovery:

FloMoSys (Flood Monitoring System)

Low cost and energy-efficient Flood Monitoring System

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IncidentAid

First Responder (Firefighters, EMTs, etc.) mobile app and future specialized handheld device(s) for saving lives

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Education:

ClassRoute

Humanitarian project aiming at the creation, translation, and delivery of highschool level STEM curriculum in 15 different languages to underprivileged students in various provinces of India and neighboring countries.

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SwingBeats: Haptics -

A haptic feedback system for teaching/learning how to dance to music.

Awards: INTETAIN2020 Best Paper Involving IoT and Haptics | 1st Place Award at Ciocca Center's 2021 Business Pitch Competition

Internal Articles: Student presents dance app at Malaysian conference | Tap Dance Revolution

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TailorEd - learn more

Custom Image recognition applied to classroom environments in a study of the effects of technology and classroom strategies in learning

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Energy:

AB

An Energy Aware Communication Protocols (EACP) for use in IoT and other networks which is currently under testing in EPIC Lab's DOxy, HA, and HiveSpy IoT projects.

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Extended Reality (XR: AR/MR/VR):

SwingBeats: XR - learn more

An XR Music visualization addition to the SwingBeats haptic feedback system for dance education.

Financial Technology:

DoBid

A platform for the democratization of political bargaining and fundraising

Health Care Technology:

eVision

A machine learning approach for forecasting seasonal influenza outbreaks

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GluMo (Glucose Monitoring)

Small factor noninvasive blood Glucose Monitoring medial instrumentation

Internal Articles: A Bloodless Coup

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Optimization:

DivOp

Divisibility Operator for Large Integers Using Divisibility Rules which can save CPU time and energy consumption

Social Media:

Mitigation of Misinformation (MoM)

A new approach to solving the problem of fake news propagation in social media networks.

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Technology Ethics:

Ethics of Data Indices

A study of the ethical concerns and dangers of metadata ownership.

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GoodBuys

Mobile and web application for making ethical decisions when purchasing products.

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Transportation:

Public Transit Hub (PTHub)

Mobile and web application for assisting SCU students with public transportation

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Panterix

A mobile navigation application that takes the safety of the roads into account when suggesting routes.

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Past Projects (Alphabetical Order per Area):

Blockchain:

Research Paper Blockchain (RPB)

A consortium level blockchain for tackling plagiarism and double submission of research papers to conferences and journals

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Data Science:

Aromyx

Research into the quantification and visualization of olfactory data

Internal Articles: The Sweet Smell of Career Experience

Education:

STEM

A collection of continuing research on educating students in a STEM environment.

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Energy:

DeLorean Energy

A software for estimating number of EVs needed in a community for the EVs to be able to play a role in 1) Peak Energy Demand Curve Shaving and 2) Energy Curve Smoothening

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Extended Reality (XR: AR/MR/VR):

KeyLight

Leveraging Alexa voice control, Unity Engine visualization, and virtual reality (VR) technologies to train designers to create lighting looks using standard industry terminology and commands.

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Health Care Technology:

BOxy

A cost-effective blood oxygen and heart rate monitor using off the shelf components and custom software

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SmartPsych

Platform for matching patients with mental health professionals

Optimization:

Cuckoo Prefix

A new data structure for the purpose of blocking IPs leveraging IP subnets that achieves similar throughput rates as cuckoo++ with 8 times less memory usage.

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Stacked LSTM

An innovative technique for correcting for data gaps/outliers in time series forecasting

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Social Media:

Locals

New social media platform centered around travel experiences and recommendations from locals.

Website:

Twitter isn't real life

An analysis of whether the sentiment surrounding a Twitter handle (of politicians or celebrities) is at all an indicator of the sentiment  surrounding the owner of that Twitter handle

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Technology Ethics:

Ethics of Facial Recognition AI

A study of the ethical concerns and dangers of facial recognition AI systems.

Transportation:

Drive Health

System for identifying potholes and other road hazards

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