Brandeis Innovation

Current and Past Spark Projects

SPARK

Each year, students, faculty, and staff compete with each other in a unique competition: SparkTank. Winners come away with funding, mentorship, and the opportunity to take their innovations to the next level. Here are the grant winners taking part in this year's program:

 

Protégé.AI

Protégé.AI
Hardik Shukla

Protégé.AI is building the quality-assurance infrastructure layer for LLMs, chatbots, and AI agents—similar to what Datadog does for observability and Postman does for APIs, but focused on AI reliability. The platform acts as a QA control plane that captures real-time interactions, runs automated evaluations, detects failures like hallucinations, tool errors, and policy violations, and triggers guardrails or escalation workflows.

GetTogether

GetTogether
Hui Wen

GetTogether is a spontaneous activity-matching app that connects nearby users to walk, study, exercise, or share everyday activities together in real time. It aims to make socializing easier on campus and off by connecting users to activity buddies close by.

Strangers

Strangers
Ivy Tran, Sherren Jielita, Gerald Deng, Jenny Park, Michael Leung, Linh Nguyen

Strangers is a platform that connects students for face-to-face meals, turning shared time into meaningful relationships and building a lifelong ecosystem for belonging. Through dining together, students can build connections and feel a deeper sense of community.

MakeMySchedule

MakeMySchedule
Vivek Hein, Salah Maalim

MakeMySchedule helps Brandeis students plan their courses through smart filters, an AI chatbot, drag-and-drop scheduling, and one-click Google Calendar export. It makes it easy for students to manage their time and classes from one portal.

Bookline

Bookline
Jai Deshpande

Provides AI voice agents that book appointments, answer customer questions, and filter spam calls for small businesses. It enables any small business to offer chatbots and appointment setting via voice.

Remi AI

Remi AI
Heidy Naranjo, Gregory Oppong

Remi AI is a Meta glasses assistant designed for people with dementia. Running entirely on-device for privacy, it serves as a dignified memory companion—recognizing loved ones and surfacing compassionate, context-aware prompts without requiring an internet connection.

Cartlytics

Cartlytics
Shaun Biswas

Cartlytics is a receipt-powered budgeting platform designed for neurodivergent users, automating expense tracking to deliver behavior-aware financial insights. It helps users not only manage their finances, but also understand their spending habits and relationship with money.

NXPlay VR

NXPlay VR
Fitz Wangeru

NXPlay VR is an immersive training platform that enhances athletes' decision-making, reaction time, and tactical performance through real-game simulation.

Field Vision

Field Vision
Elan Romo, Gabriel Diaz

Field Vision is an AI-powered sports recruiting platform that helps athletes create highlight reels to get noticed by college recruiters. It makes content creation easier for athletes, raising their visibility and increasing their chances of being recruited.

Ganfan

Ganfan
Xi Yu, Mo Chen

Ganfan brings authentic Chinese flavor to everyday life by transforming traditional dishes into convenient, balanced, and truly accessible frozen meals. These authentic Chinese frozen meals bring affordable Chinese cuisine to the US in a new way.

RadiantAI

RadiantAI
Pacifique Ishimwe

RadiantAI is an AI-powered triage tool for emergency rooms that detects the six deadliest missed diagnoses—pneumothorax, pulmonary embolism, intracranial hemorrhage, aortic dissection, bowel obstruction, and fracture with vascular injury. The company aims to become the standard diagnostic safety net in every US emergency department, then expand into ICUs and urgent care centers.

See Past Teams