IEEE INFOCOM 2016 Innovation Challenge
At IEEE INFOCOM 2016, we co-organized an exciting 1st innovation challenge panel / pitchfest, where innovators from both academia and industry pitched/presented their entrepreneurial ideas that are original, business-worthy and technically groundbreaking in the area of networking and communications. We were privileged to have the following esteemed individuals serve as judges for the event.
- Vivek Mehra, General Partner, August Capital
- Guido Appenzeller, Chief Technology Strategy Officer, NSBU at VMware
- Nan Boden, Director of Engineering, Google
We congratulate the team from University of Napoli Federico II and Meetecho SRL for winning the pitchfest with their idea of Janus, a general purpose WebRTC gateway!!
Here is a full list of our participants, and their ideas:
| Institution | Title | Authors | |
| University of Napoli Federico II, Meetecho SRL | Janus: a general purpose WebRTC gateway | Simon Pietro Romano; Alessandro Amirante; Tobia Castaldi; Lorenzo Miniero | Winner! |
| North Eastern Univ | Context Aware Diabetes Management (CADiaM) using Intra-body Internet | Meenupriya Swaminathan; Kaushik Chowdhury | Runner-up |
| Virginia Tech | Privacy-Preserving SAS | Yanzhi Dou; Yaling Yang; Kui Ren | |
| Politecnico di Torino, Telecom ParisTech, Politecnico di Bari | Web QoE: Moving beyond Google’s SpeedIndex | Dario Rossi; Enrico Bocchi; Luca De Cicco | |
| Carnegie Mellon Univ | Enabling Flexible and Elastic DDoS Defense for IoT | Seyed K. Fayaz; Vyas Sekar |
