05/28/2026
MSBA students celebrated their hard work on this year’s capstone projects at the The Rady Analytics Capstone Excellence (TRACE) Awards with food, a Jeopardy style game with prizes, and the announcement of the top capstone teams.
🏆 Winner – DataCurve
Developed an end to end unified sports fan identity platform, including fan segmentation, lifecycle management, and intelligent fan commerce.
Team: Benjamin Kleiman, Alex Matrajt Frid, Jacob Villar, Evelyn Walter
🥈 First Runner-up – Gramercy
Developed a sovereign signal dashboard for a hedge fund manager to guide investment decisions in emerging markets through an AI driven risk signal platform.
Team: Abhigna Sharma Akkipeddi, Shankar Deenadayalan, Yingtong Ji, Kelun Wang, Junzhe Zhao
🥉 Second Runner-up – Quantum Rise (Dhauz)
Developed an early warning and intervention recommendation system for patients to improve outcomes and optimize nurse workloads.
Team: Eesha Jagdhane, Zekai Li, David Nierman, Anjali Roy
Congratulations to all of our MSBA students and project partners for showcasing creativity, teamwork, and impactful data driven solutions throughout this year’s capstone projects.