Madrona Prize

In recent years, our friends at Madrona Venture Group have offered a prize in connection with the Affiliates poster/demo session to recognize projects that combined exciting research with commercial potential. Here is a complete list of all winners, in reverse chronological order:

2023

• Winner:
  'QLoRA: Efficient Fine Tuning of Quantized LLMs' / Tim Dettmers, Artidoro Pagnoni, Ari Holtzman, Luke Zettlemoyer
• Runner up:
  Punica: Multi Tenant LoRA Fine-tuned LLM Serving / Lequn Chen, Zihao Ye, Yongji Wu (Duke), Danyang Zhuo (Duke), Luis Ceze, Arvind Krishnamurthy
• Runner up:
  Wireless Earbuds for Low-Cost Hearing Screening / Justin Chan, Antonio Glenn, Malek Itani, Lisa R. Mancl (Dept. Speech & Hearing Sciences), Emily Gallagher (Seattle Children's Hospital), Randall Bly (Seattle Children's Hospital), Shwetak Patel, Shyamnath Gollakota

2022

• Winner:
  'Video Organization and Exploration' and 'Interactive Video Analytics for Compositional Queries' / Maureen Daum, Enhao Zhang, Dong He, Ranjay Krishna, Brandon Haynes, Magda Balazinska
• Runner up:
  ClearBuds: Wireless Binaural Earbuds for Machine Learning Based Speech Enhancement / Ishan Chatterjee, Maruchi Kim, Vivek Jayaram, Shyam Gollakota, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Shwetak Patel, Steven M. Seitz
• Runner up:
  Data Analysis Systems for Statistical Non-Experts / Eunice Jun, Jeffrey Heer, Rene Just
• Runner up:
  Levity: Contactless Robotics and Automation for Synthetic Biology / Jared Nakahara and Professor Joshua R. Smith

2019

• Winner:
  CoAI: Cost-Aware Artificial Intelligence for Health Care / Gabriel Erion, Joseph Janizek, Allen School professor Su-In Lee, Dr. Carly Hudelson, Dr. Nathan White
• Runner up:
  AuraRing: Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking via Smart Ring / Farshid Salemi Parizi Alvin Cao; Eric Whitmire (Ph.D., ‘19); Ishan Chatterjee; Tianke Li; and Allen School professor Shwetak Patel
• Runner up:
  Molecular Tagging with Nanopore-orthogonal DNA Strands / Katie Doroschak, Melissa Queen, Karen Zhang, Aishwarya Mandyam (B.S., ‘19); research scientist Jeff Nivala; Allen School affiliate professor Karin Strauss, Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research; and Allen School professor Luis Ceze
• Runner up:
  HomeSound: Exploring Sound Awareness in the Home for People Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing / Dhruv Jain, Kelly Mack, Steven Goodman; professor Leah Findlater of the Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering; and Allen School professor Jon Froehlich

2018

• Winner:
  EMBARKER: A hierarchical Bayesian approach empowering big data with prior knowledge for expression marker discovery and its application to Alzheimer’s disease / Safiye Celik, Josh C. Russell, Cezar R. Pestana, Ting-I Lee, Shubhabrata Mukherjee, Paul K. Crane, C. Dirk Keene, Jennifer F. Bobb, Matt Kaeberlein, and Allen School professor Su-In Lee
• Runner up:
  Puddle: A System for High-Level Microfluidic Programming / Max Willsey, Ashley Stephenson, Chris Takahashi, Pranav Vaid, Bichlien Nguyen, Michal Piszczek, Christine Betts, Sharon Newman, Sarang Joshi , Allen School professor Luis Ceze and Allen School affiliate professor Karin Strauss
• Runner up:
  Slim: OS Kernel Support for a Low-Overhead Container Overlay Network / Danyang Zhuo, Kaiyuan Zhang, Yibo Zhu, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Matthew Rockett, and Allen School professors Arvind Krishnamurthy and Tom Anderson
• Runner up:
  Implantable Wireless Brain-Computer Interface / Jared Nakahara, Vaishnavi Ranganathan, Soshi Samejima, Nicholas Tolley, and Chet Moritz, and Allen School professor Joshua R. Smith

2017

• Winner:
  LabintheWild: Large-scale online experimentation with diverse uncompensated samples / Allen School postdoc Nigini Abilio Oliveira; Allen School Ph.D. student Eunice Jun; and Allen School professor Katharina Reinecke
• Winner:
  Augury: predicting visual appeal of website design / visiting scientist Manuel Nordhoff and Allen School professor Katharina Reinecke
• Runner up:
  A Unified Approach to Interpreting Model Predictions / Allen School Ph.D. student Scott Lundberg and Allen School professor Su-In Lee
• Runner up:
  Real-Time VR Video Processing with the Hardware-Friendly Bilateral / Allen School Ph.D. student Amrita Mazumdar; Allen School post doc Armin Alaghi; and Allen School professors Luis Ceze and Mark Oskin
• Runner up:
  TVM: End-to-End IR Stack for Deep Learning Systems / Allen School Ph.D. students Tianqi Chen, Thierry Moreau, Haichen Shen; Fudan University undergraduate and AWS intern Ziheng Jiang; Allen School professors Luis Ceze, Carlos Guestrin, and Arvind Krishnamurthy

2016

• Winner:
  The Next Big Leap in Backscatter Communication / Mehrdad Hessar (EE), Bryce Kellogg (EE), Vamsi Talla, Shyam Gollakota, Joshua R. Smith
• Runner-Up:
  Just Say NO to Paxos Overhead: Replacing Consensus with Network Ordering / Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres, Dan R. K. Ports
• Runner-Up:
  PipeGen: Data Pipe Generator for Hybrid Analytics / Brandon Haynes, Alvin Cheung, Magda Balazinska
• Runner-Up:
  Programming by Examples for Industrial Data Wrangling / Alex Polozov; Sumit Gulwani and the PROSE team at Microsoft

2015

• Winner:
  What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks (Total Moving Face Reconstruction) / Supasorn Suwajanakorn, Steve Seitz, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
• Runner-Up:
  ApneaApp – Diagnosing Sleep Apnea / Rajalakshmi Nandakumar
• Runner-Up:
  Building Consistent Transactions with Inconsistent Replication (TAPIR) / Irene Zhang, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Dan R. K. Ports
• Runner-Up:
  HyperCam – Hyperspectral Imaging and Their Applications / Mayank Goel, Eric Whitmire, Alex Mariakakis, Scott Saponas, Neel Joshi, Shwetak Patel

2014

• Winner:
  Arrakis: The Operating System is the Control Plane / Simon Peter, Jialin Li, Irene Zhang, Dan R.K. Ports, Doug Woos, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas Anderson, Timothy Roscoe
• Runner-Up:
  WiBreathe: Estimating Respiration Rate Using Wireless Signals in Natural Settings in the Home / Ruth V. Ravichandran, Elliot N. Saba, Ke-Yu Chen, Mayank Goel, Sidhant Gupta, Shwetak N. Patel
• Runner-Up:
  Total Moving Face Reconstruction / Supasorn Suwajanakorn, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Steven M. Seitz.

2013

• Winner:
  Ambient Back Scatter: Battery Free Communication / Aaron Parks, Vincent Liu, Vamsi Talla
• Runner-Up:
  Personalized SLAs in the Cloud / Jennifer Ortiz, Victor Texeira de Almeida
• Runner-Up:
  iHome 3D: Capturing Indoor Scenes with Smartphone / Aditya Sankar
• Runner-Up:
  WiSee: Whole Home Gesture Recognition Using WiFi / Ruth Ravichandran, Sidhant Gupta, Qifan Pu

Video of presentation here.

2012

• Winner:
  SpiroSmart: Using a Microphone to Measure Lung Function on a Mobile Phone / Eric C. Larson, Mayank Goel
• Runner-Up:
  FreeDOM: a New Baseline for the Web / Raymond Cheng, Will Scott
• Runner-Up:
  Wireless Power for Left Ventricular Assist Device / Ben Waters, Scott Wisdom, Brody Mahoney, Chen Shi

2011

• Winner:
  Humantenna: Sensing Whole-Body Gestures Using the Human Body as an Antenna / Gabe Cohn
• Runner-Up:
  ShareMeNot: Protecting users from third-party social media buttons / Franzi Roesner
• Runner-Up:
  Playing Games with Robots: Autonomous Small-Scale Manipulation / Cynthia Matuszek

2010

• Winner:
  Prefab: Modifying Any Graphical User Interface / Morgan Dixon & Daniel Leventhal
• Runner-Up:
  SNUPI: Sensor Nodes Utilizing Powerline Infrastructure / Gabe Cohn
• Runner-Up:
  Comet: An active distributed key-value store / Amit Levy & Roxana Geambasu
• Runner-Up:
  Scalable Distributed Network Management / Colin Dixon & Dane Brandon

2009

• Winner:
  HydroSense / Jon Froehlich, Sidhant Gupta, Eric Larson, Gabe Cohen & Tim Campbell
• Runner-Up:
  Reverse Traceroute / Ethan Katz-Bassett
• Runner-Up:
  Deterministic Multiprocessing / Joseph Devietti & Brandon Lucia
• Runner-Up:
  Vanish: Increasing Privacy with Self-Destructing Data / Roxana Geambasu & Amit Levy

2008

• Winner:
  One Swarm / Michael Piatek & Tomas Isdal
• Runner-Up:
  Developing a Wayfinding Application for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments / Alan Lui & Harlan Hile
• Runner-Up:
  Fold-It / Seth Cooper
• Runner-Up:
  Semi-private Internet via Shared Knowledge Questions / Michael Toomin

2007

• Winner:
  Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene Graduate student participants / Pravin Bhat & Noah Snavely
• Runner-Up:
  A Case for OneSwarm / Michael Piatek & Tomas Isdal
• Runner-Up:
  On Best-Response Bidding in Ad Auctions Graduate Student Participant / Yionnis Giotis
• Runner-Up:
  The Organization and Sharing of Web-Service Objects with Menagerie / Roxana Geambasu, Cherie Chung, & Alex Moshchuk

2006

• Winner:
  Summarizing Personal Web Browsing Sessions / Mira Dontcheva
• Runner-Up:
  Interactive Cutaway Illustrations of Complex Models / Wil Li
• Runner-Up:
  SpyProxy: On-the-fly Protection from Malicious Web Content / Alex Moshchuk & Tanya Bragin