Although Final Design Review (FDR) arrived rapidly on Tuesday, April 23rd, the CHAMPS were prepared for the five-hour-long event. The day began with setup and liaisons-only presentations, followed by a fantastic panel featuring Miguel Abdo. Shortly thereafter, the team presented… Read More

The CHAMPS recently concluded their Final Design Review (FDR) poster. This digital piece will be featured throughout the event as the CHAMPS detail their hard work to an audience of university faculty, students, and IPPD liaisons. The poster aims to… Read More

With roughly two weeks left before final documentation and project work is due, the CHAMPS spent this week actively completing the long list of tasks ahead. The model engineering team tackled more model training, serving environment setup, and evaluations. Meanwhile,… Read More

What a busy, yet productive week. The CHAMPS completed a successful presentation during Prototype Inspection Day (PID) and filmed a draft of their promotional video. The team presented to four committee members including coach Rong “Ronnie” Zhang, Laura Cruz Castro,… Read More

The CHAMPS are now a month away from the Final Design Review (FDR) and rapidly completing model adjustments for the upcoming Prototype Inspection Day (PID) next Tuesday. The model engineering team designed a prototype system for the model-serving strategy and… Read More

The CHAMPS are quickly readjusting to their school routines and prioritizing project work for the month ahead. As promised, the team returned with model outputs for Brian and Darryl to review this week. Although the finish line is rapidly approaching,… Read More

The team is currently enjoying some time away from school on a week-long spring break. Nevertheless, the CHAMPS will return to weekly meetings with new model output to review. The ensemble method is provided promising results with fewer than 5… Read More

The CHAMPS are approaching Spring Break with steady progress throughout the week. The feature engineering team implemented and tested several feature reduction methods—albeit with minimal success. However, research and evaluation is necessary due to the project’s complexity. The feature engineering… Read More

Another week of celebration is upon the CHAMPS as the team completed a successful Qualification Review Board (QRB) 2 panel. On Tuesday, February 27th, the five team members presented an overview and status update of the AI Commander project to… Read More

As the Qualification Review Board (QRB) committee of coaches emphasized a couple of weeks ago, the Commander project lacks a model output evaluation method. While the CHAMPS continued to improve the models this week, the team prioritized developing testing data… Read More

The CHAMPS began outlining the Final Design Report this week and with that, they reprioritized the list of necessary tasks and improvements. Deadlines are slowly approaching, but the team is determined to progress every couple of days. The model engineering… Read More

February is off to a busy start for the CHAMPS. On Tuesday, January 30th, 2024, the team delivered their Qualification Review Board (QRB) presentation to a committee of coaches including Dr. Rong Zhang, Dr. Jorg Peters, and Dr. Catia Silva. The presentation… Read More

Welcome back to the weekly CHAMPS update! The team is steadily overcoming challenges as members prepare for the Qualification Review Board (QRB) panel next Tuesday. Michael and John successfully debugged the training issue while Sarah began feature reduction on specific… Read More

Although the team is early into the spring semester, the CHAMPS have already increased collaborative efforts to maintain project deadlines. For example, the CHAMPS embraced the use of Jira for weekly tracking, improving project management, and updating the Gantt chart… Read More

Welcome back to the official team blog that follows the journey of five IPPD students and their project for Verifone. The CHAMPS members have rang in the new year and returned from the holidays. Today marks the end of the… Read More