Scholar-E: A Human-Centered Scholarship Coach Powered by Specialized AI Agents

Sponsor: System Innovation - Dr. Tracee Gilbert
Keywords: Scholarship Application Coaching, Human-Centered AI Systems, LangGraph-Based Multi-Agent Workflows, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Personalized Educational
Summary: Scholar-E is a human-centered, AI-powered platform that uses a coordinated system of specialized agents to help students discover suitable scholarships, understand what each opportunity is asking for, and develop stronger applications aligned with each scholarship’s prompt and mission. Through structured prompts and AI-assisted extraction from uploaded documents, students build a single, evolving digital profile that captures their experiences, achievements, interests, and goals. Scholar-E’s agents first assess each student’s eligibility and fit for an opportunity by matching scholarship requirements with their profile, then provide grounded, personalized guidance for essay development and revision. Rather than writing on the student’s behalf, Scholar-E helps them strengthen each draft through clear criteria, targeted feedback, and tracked revisions, while keeping student voice, ownership, and agency at the center.

Team Members: Macy Tham, Stephen Naboth, Aastha Mahajan, Akshat Tripathi

ATR 360 Sales Lead Generation Platform

Sponsor: Agellus Tank Robotics - Kweku Sekyiamah
Keywords: Lead Generation, Data Pipeline, Lead Scoring, Data Enrichment, CRM, AI Outreach, Aboveground Storage Tanks
Summary: An end-to-end, cloud-native platform that converts fragmented public storage-tank regulatory data into a scored, sales-ready pipeline. The system automatically ingests facility and tank registries from six states (TX, OK, NM via state agencies; AL, LA, MS via the U.S. EPA), deduplicates and reconciles the records, and enriches them with EPA Facility Registry matches and Apollo company data. A weighted, per-state scoring model ranks 20,000+ accounts by fit, surfacing the highest-value prospects. A React CRM lets ATR's sales team own, prioritize, and contact leads, with AI-assisted email outreach (grounded in each lead's real facts and sent via Gmail) and a website chatbot that answers product questions and captures inbound interest. The platform replaces hours of manual prospecting per rep each week, shifting sales time from finding leads to closing them, and doubles as the team's system of record.

Team Members: Ethan Sims, Si Qin Huang, Syed Fazail Haider

Rice University Faculty Search Co-Pilot

Sponsor: Alexander Byrd
Keywords: AI-Powered Faculty Recruitment, Natural Language Search, Talent Pipeline Analytics, Research & Institution Mapping, Enterprise GCP Deployment
Summary: Faculty Search CoPilot is an AI-powered platform designed to help university search committees make more informed and data-driven faculty hiring decisions. Through natural-language queries, the platform integrates academic workforce data, institutional characteristics, program rankings, and research information to identify talent pipelines, research expertise, and potential candidates. Its capabilities span micro-level faculty insights, meso-level institutional and research analysis, and macro-level talent landscape insights, supported by interactive maps and visualizations. As the platform evolves, the project aims to integrate Faculty Search CoPilot into Rice University’s technology ecosystem using GCP and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, enabling secure access, streamlined data integration, and long-term scalability. By helping search committees understand where relevant talent exists, what expertise is available, and how potential talent pools compare with applicant pools, the platform supports more strategic and efficient faculty recruitment.

Team Members: Aalokeparno Dhar, Kaavin Balasubramanian, Elakkiyan Pugazhenthi, Ila Gaur

Genesis 360: An AI-Assisted Fitness Coaching Platform

Sponsor: Genesis 360
Keywords: AI-Assisted Fitness Coaching, Personalized Workout Programming, Coach-Client Collaboration, Health and Wearable Integration, Mobile Fitness Technology
Summary: Genesis 360 is an AI-assisted fitness coaching platform built around the relationship between coaches and their clients. It brings workout planning, daily training, progress tracking, communication, and personalized support into one connected experience.

Coaches can create and assign training programs, monitor client activity, review completed workouts and readiness feedback, and adjust plans based on each client’s progress. The platform also includes an AI Coach that helps clients understand their workouts, ask fitness-related questions, and receive guidance based on their goals and training history. Genesis 360 aims to reduce the administrative work involved in coaching while making personalized fitness support more consistent, accessible, and engaging.

Team Members:Miguel Artazos, Grace Jordan, and Jade Yan