October 2023 – December 2023

Objective

Provide students the opportunity to learn new ways to use technology to help address critical problems and opportunities facing the university, its students, and the broader Los Angeles community.

The Innovation Challenge offered by UCLA Epicenter professionally prepares students as future entrepreneurs and exposes them to real-world problems that arise in the technology workplace. Harman International has signed on as an industry partner for the Fall 2023 challenge. Senior Harman staff will serve as guest speakers, subject matter experts, and industry coaches for students, resulting in Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) created by students solving 2 of Harman’s business problems. Past industry partnerships for the Innovation Challenge include AWS, Slalom, LA28 and LA County.

Teams of students will register to participate in the Innovation Challenge. At the orientation event, students will be provided with a well-defined scope and approach to 2 challenges. Teams will be given 8-weeks to generate ideas and technical architectures for proposed solutions.

Team 1

First Name	Last Name	Major	Class Level
Adrian	Onggowarsito	Quantative Economics	Graduate
Carin	Dang	Computer Science	Freshman
Chelsea	Wan	Cognitive Science	Junior
Edgar	Adel	Financial Engineering	Graduate
Osbert	Sudjana	Cognitive Science	Senior
Roshni	Sen	Computer Science	Senior
Vienna	Hawes	Cognitive Science w/ Specialization in Computing	Senior

Team 2

First Name	Last Name	Major	Class Level
John	Kasraei	Engineering Management	Graduate
Leslie	Castelan Chavez	Cognitive Science w Specialization in Computing and Minor in Public Affairs	Senior
Nancy	Okeke	Cognitive Science	Sophomore
Wanxin (Felicia)	Xiao	Linguistics and Computer Science	Freshman
Warnakulasuriya	Fernando	Electrical Engineering	Senior
Zane	LaBute	Computer Science	Sophomore