By Avery Guest While working in user experience (UX), Josh Cooley grew curious about what his co-workers thought about the company’s product and how they thought it could be improved. That curiosity led to Cooley creating Incubie, a Slack-centric web application that brings everyone’s ideas together.  Cooley, a University of California, San Diego alumnus (2012), majored in Cognitive Science with specialization in Human Computer Interaction, with a minor in Computing and the Arts....

By Avery Guest In 2011, Sarah McEwen’s grandmother was suffering from Alzheimer's. At the time, McEwen was also studying cognitive neuroscience during her postdoctoral fellowship at UC Los Angeles, which touched on neuroplasticity and its impact on various brain disorders. Her study made her curious about how to alter neuroplasticity in Alzheimer’s patients.  She pursued research with both physical and mental exercise, attempting to  understand how these practices could influence...

By Avery Guest Tamara Zubatiy, CEO and co-founder of Barometer (formally VeriCrypt) hopes to help organizations better measure biases on their content via artificial intelligence. The startup’s tool is designed to analyze content for bias and other key attributes that may be manipulative or misleading.   Zubatiy graduated in 2018 from UC San Diego with a bachelor’s degree in cognitive science, specializing in machine learning and neural computation. Following graduation, she decided...

By Avery Guest Deepak Atyam and the Tri-D Dynamics Team with the Bytepipe Technology During his second year as a UC San Diego engineering student, Deepak Atyam was just looking for somewhere to 3D print rocket engines with friends and fellow students, Jesse Lang and Alexander Finch, when he stumbled upon the Moxie Center (now The Basement UCSD). The staff friendly reminded him that to work at the Basement, they would need to create a business case for their rocket engine developments,...

By Sonam Jain Jack Pan, CEO and Founder of Ocean Motion Technologies, followed his childhood dreams and developed and pursued a career exploring the depth of science and technology, with a sustainable twist  Pan graduated in 2013 from UC Irvine with a bachelor's degree in Earth Environmental Sciences. Soon after, he obtained his Master’s and Ph.D. from The Scripps Institution of Oceanography in Polar Oceanography - a field which has intrigued him since he was 10 years old. Part of his...

By Sonam Jain Each and every one of us, especially during these trying times, has felt the personal responsibility and duty to keep our loved ones safe and healthy. For family caretakers, they take on even more responsibility, which can prove challenging and lead to burnout and stress. In order to combat this problem, UC San Diego entrepreneurs Ji Lee and Brandon Peck co-founded Mercury Health, a hands-free remote medical alert device designed to detect and respond to both emergency...

By Sonam Jain With growing opportunities for advancement in the tech industry, college students everywhere are eager to contribute towards groundbreaking, innovative projects now more than ever. What if there was a large database to provide easy access to the general public to discover these innovations?  As a joint cognitive science and computer science major at UC San Diego, German Flores understood this dilemma and aspired to design a platform where “university students can come...

By Tanvi Bajaj 3D printers continue to grow in prominence as their uses are expanded to a wide variety of industries. From printing prosthetics for hospitals, to producing construction materials for supply chains, and even supporting and bolstering coral reef regrowth, 3D printers are being refocused to tackle problems and create solutions within every field.  But what about the military? That’s the question Eric Shnell asked when he and two others co-founded Craitor, a UC San Diego...

By Tanvi Bajaj College students who have stayed in double or triple rooms all agree that one of the biggest, most unavoidable challenges of having a roommate is waking up to the sound of their alarm.  Yohann Samarasinghe is no exception. As a heavy sleeper, yet early riser in a triple room, Samarasinghe found himself in a meeting with his roommates; they asked if there was any other way he could wake up in the morning, since his current method of using the loudest alarm he could find was...

By Tanvi Bajaj When you do a Google search, chances are that, you never even look past the first five listings. In fact, studies have shown that 67% of all clicks on search engine result pages go exclusively to the first five links; while 95% of average users don’t go beyond the first page.  In a time when SEO optimization and web search algorithms determine the popularity of brands and companies, producing tailored content to adhere to these ranking systems has never been more...