The HAwK and GenoGra projects, which stem from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering research activities, are among the winners of the 2021 edition of Switch2Product|Innovation Challenge, the technology transfer program that enhances innovative solutions, new technologies and business ideas proposed by students and graduates, researchers, alumni and professors of the Politecnico di Milano. The challenge is organized by PoliHub, Politecnico di Milano’s Technology Transfer Office and Deloitte.
Both projects won an S2P Grant, the first one in the Industry Transformation category, the second one in the Life Science & Med Tech category. The 30-thousand-euro prize will be allocated to prototyping and technological development activities. Out of the 250 projects presented this year, only 26 were awarded the grant.
HAwK is a hardware accelerator for the analysis of data coming from high data rate sensors, with the aim of reducing costs and energy consumption, enabling Artificial Intelligence on edge. It was presented by Luca Bertulessi (Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering), Domenico Nucera (Department of Management Engineering) and alumnus Tommaso Maioli and is going to be realized with the scientific advisory of Prof. Salvatore Levantino (DEIB) and Profs. Marco Macchi and Luca Fumagalli (DIG).
GenoGra is a next-generation computing platform that, thanks to a non-linear, graph-based representation of the genome, allows for the rapid analysis of a large number of genomic data. It was presented by the Biomedical Engineering students of the Politecnico di Milano Guglielmo Bruno and Mirko Coggi together with PhD candidate in Information Technology Guido Walter Di Donato and is going to be realized with the scientific advisory of Prof. Marco D. Santambrogio (DEIB).