Sarukkai Social Impact Award

The Sarukkai Social Impact Award, established by Sekhar and Rajashree Sarukkai, recognizes the School of Information master’s capstone or final projects with the greatest potential to solve important social problems and improve people’s lives in meaningful ways. Awards are given twice annually in May and December.

During their final semester, I School students in the MIMS, MIDS, 5th Year MIDS, and MICS programs undertake final or capstone projects that cement skills learned throughout their master’s degree program. Teams of students propose and select project ideas, conduct and communicate their work, receive and provide feedback, and deliver compelling final presentations.

2024

Bringing efficiency to accurate fabric sorting and fight climate change — faster 

Spring 2023

Egaleco is focused on fairness evaluations affecting machine learning models in the healthcare sector.

2023

Product and policy for Egaleco, a fairness toolkit enabling machine learning practitioners in healthcare to identify bias in their models.
UX research + design for Egaleco, a fairness toolkit enabling machine learning practitioners in healthcare to identify bias in their models.
Identifying conflicts of interest in the securities transactions of U.S. congressional members to hold congress accountable for insider trading. 

Summer 2022

Open Zero Knowledge Integration: a zk-SNARK-based proof framework for developing privacy protecting components of a web application.

2022

accesSOS is a nonprofit organization that provides emergency response services to those who cannot call 911. Because Text-to-911 services are not available…

Fall 2021

Methane Anomaly Detector (MAD) utilizes deep learning techniques to identify potential methane emission anomalies in California.

2021

The Public Defense Project is partnered with a local non-profit Secure Justice with the…