The Corporate Sponsored Senior Projects program at UC Santa Cruz provides a select group of students with a unique opportunity to work on real-world engineering projects as the culmination of their undergraduate education. Throughout the academic year, students interact with teammates and hold frequent meetings with their sponsors, getting feedback on the solutions they have developed and guidance on the work in progress. By working with mentors at corporate partner companies, students learn important skills, take on intriguing challenges, and begin to understand what it means to be a professional engineer.
Browse the projects below, or view our 2024-25 Project Showcase book.
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Gen AI CPU Analytics (Nutanix Inc.)
The team created a benchmarking tool to evaluate LLM performance on CPUs. This tool can be used to gather metrics across a variety of models…
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LogSearch Chatbot (Nutanix Inc.)
The team created a conversational chatbot which translates natural language into DSL queries. It allows Nutanix engineers to ask questions about a database in plain…
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AI/ML For Advanced NVMe Drive Performance (Nutanix Inc.)
This project aims to automate and streamline the process of evaluating NVMe drive performance by applying unsupervised machine learning algorithms to cluster drives into distinct…
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Experiment Visualization Tool (Arsenal Bio Inc.)
The team developed an interactive tool to support scientists in planning, visualizing, and managing biological experiments. This tool is designed to replace time consuming and…
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AI Ticket Topic Modeling (Rimini Street Inc.)
In over 10+ years of service, Rimini has solved millions of support tickets, adding to their ever-growing database. Currently, sifting through these tickets is an…
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UAD NEO4 DSP Interface (Universal Audio Inc.)
Universal Audio is developing a prototype called the NEO4, designed to be an affordable audio device with features typically not found in other products at…
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Test Data Visualization (Keysight Inc.)
At Keysight Technologies, lab managers and engineers rely on precise equipment status monitoring to maintain high testing standards. However, existing data visualization tools often limit…
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Load Test Automation (Keysight Inc.)
This project aims to expand Pathwave’s user base by showing its scalability to both customers and investors. By using generated data, the team show how…
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Attack of the LLMs (Brinqa Inc.)
Brinqaʼs Unified Exposure Management platform allows companies to manage cyber risk data and take action against threats. Data is stored in different data models, which…
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