Images from the challenge

Highlights from the student teams

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Five graduate student teams competed in the School's first-ever wearable device design challenge.
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Dhruv Nair demonstrates Guide, a highly customizable device with applications ranging from navigation and emergency notification.
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Omar Kyani (left) co-designed Stride, which tied for first place; right, Fred Sanchez of Graduate Student Affairs.
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Ellie Bastani of Graduate Student Affairs welcomes presenters and judges.
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Judges weigh each team’s marketability, innovation, and commercial readiness.
Engineering Challenge student presentations
Student presenters Vaibhav Paraashar and Dhruv Nair.
Engineering Challenge student presentations
Sanket Gupta demos Speaksense, a device that plays recorded audio to enable people who rely on sign language to easily communicate in emergency situations.
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Kay Igwe explains Control iT, a brain computer interface device that turns minds into joysticks for novel games.
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Stride is co-developed by electrical engineering graduate students Omar Kiyani (center) and Arvind Srinivasan (right, background).
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Watch faculty congratulate the Class of 2021

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Class Day 2021 Faculty Congratulations

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Columbia Engineering honored the Class of 2021 at Virtual Commencement Ceremonies on Thursday, April 29.

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School of Engineering and Science - Graduate Class Day 2021

Class of 2021 Award Winners

Valedictorian and Illig Prize – Noah Huber-Feely
Salutatorian – Alexander Paskov
George Vincent Wendell Prize – Adheli Gonzalez
Morton B. Friedman Memorial Prize for Excellence – Tingjun Chen
Graduate Student Life Leadership Awards – Christophe Jean-Michael and Aimee Rose Moses
Doctoral Graduate Student Life Leadership Award – Shreya Narasimhan

The full program is available online.

Faculty Award Winners

Edward and Carole Kim Award for Faculty Involvement
Ali Hirsa, Professor of Professional Practice
Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy, Lecturer in the Discipline of Innovation and Design

Janette and Armen Avanessians Diversity Award
Chris Boyce, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Augustin Chaintreau, Associate Professor of Computer Science

Visual Behavior Modeling for Robotic Theory of Mind

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About the Study

Journal: Nature Scientific Reports

Title: Visual Behavior Modelling for Robotic Theory of Mind

Authors: Boyuan Chen, Carl Vondrick and Hod Lipson, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, Columbia Engineering.

The study was supported by NSF NRI 1925157 and DARPA MTO grant L2M Program HR0011-18-2-0020.

COI: The authors declare no competing interests.

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