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Learn about 2025 Tech for Aging Hackathon (TASH)

The 2025 Tech for Aging Hackathon (TASH) is a 7-week (May 12-June 27) opportunity for our students to team up and solve real-world healthy aging and caregiving challenges. Participants will work alongside professors from the Center for Innovation, Technology, and Aging (CITA) and the Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity, and Computing. At the end of TASH, solutions will be evaluated, and top teams will receive certificates and prizes (tentative). Exceptional participants may also be offered opportunities to continue as paid research assistants fully develop their innovations. CITA will also help transform the most promising solutions into life-changing technologies through collaborations with organizations and finding agencies. This year, 38 University of South Florida (USF) students (undergrads and grads) formed 14 teams to work on six selected projects. The projects span different topics and ideas and will all require new solutions and different technology being used for each. Additionally, each project will have a mentor or mentors who are CITA affiliated faculty or work in the Bellini College at USF. The job of the mentors are to engage regularly with the students and help them to stay on track toward their goals.

Check out photos of the hackathon teams! 

The projects and students are as follows:

  1. Project 1: Disaster Preparedness App for Older Adults and Caregiver Dr. Lindsay Peterson
    Team 1 → Harshavardan Yuvaraj, Fares Ibrahim, Abdukarim Khusenov 
    Team 2 → Tram Ton, Tan Nguyen, Pravalika Eluka
    Team 3 → Quang Le, Anil Raut, Dana Benish

  2. Project 2: Contextualizing ACHIEVE Clinical Trial Results with Enriched Hearing Aid Data Dr. Theresa Chisolm, Dr. Victoria Sanchez, Dr. Michelle Arnold, Dr. Haley Calloway, Dr. James Pike
    Team 1 → Akash Yallamati and Venkata Sai Teja Renangi

  3. Project 3: Aging Prediction from Physiological Data Dr. Yu Sun, Dr. Xiaoning Qian (Texas A&M), Dr. Shuai Huang (UW)
    Team 1 → Rajesh Kumar Butta , Sneha Siri Nagabathula, and Tri Cuong Luong

  4. Project 4: Emotion-Related Micro-Gesture Recognition Jiayi Wang, Dr. Yu Sun, Dr. Dmitry Goldgof, Dr. Shaun Canavan
    Team 1 → Stuti Goyal, Ishraq Khan, Kautilya Veer
    Team 2 → Nandini Chekuri, Srirama Reddy Pothamsetti
    Team 3 → Tuan Minh Dao, Dat Tran, Mehedi Hasan Jibon

  5. Project 5: Accompanying Robot Dog Carrying Oxygen Generator Dr. William Kearns + Dr. Yu Sun
    Team 1 → Nguyen Hao Hong, Thinh Truong Thinh, Quang Van Thien Le
    Team 2 → Temirzhan Mukhambet, Mariafernanda Belisario, Trung Lam
    Team 3 → Jared Barber, Abdukarim Khusenov, Aarav Jayswal
    Team 4 → Phong Lu, Hieu Tran, Van Nhat Kha Nguyen

  6. Project 6: Universal Lateral Flow Strip Quantifier Dr. Chuanhai Cao
    Team 1 → Vladislav Krukhmalev, Danyl Bulbas, Thao Nguyen