CHALLENGES
Challenges are problems being experienced by education, government and non-profit organizations. When challenges are submitted to and accepted by the DxHub for engagement, we will work with the submitting organization’s team to align goals for the effort and introduce innovation mechanisms to support creative solutions.
PRISM uses GenAI to make their extensive institutional knowledge more accessible for their members
Learn how the DxHub helped PRISM turn years of guides, videos, and trainings into a quick-answer assistant that finds what you need, summarizes it, flags sensitive topics with clear notes, and connects you to specialists—saving time for members and staff.
Using Generative AI to validate causal chain of death
See how DxHub and AWS helped PHII, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston Children’s, and Massachusetts UNHS automate pediatric audiology classification. Generative AI plus rule-based logic extracts findings, applies consistent guidelines, and explains each decision—cutting manual work and accelerating referrals for infants who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.
Using Generative AI to Automate Pediatric Audiology Diagnoses
See how DxHub and AWS helped PHII, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston Children’s, and Massachusetts UNHS automate pediatric audiology classification. Generative AI plus rule-based logic extracts findings, applies consistent guidelines, and explains each decision—cutting manual work and accelerating referrals for infants who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.
AI Driven Classification of Immunization-related Clinical Data
Learn how DxHub worked with HLN Consulting to prototyped an AI solution that maps patient conditions to CDSi immunization codes—even from messy EHR text—using LLMs, medical ontologies, and cloud services. The goal: faster, more accurate vaccine guidance for clinicians and public health teams.
Alameda County Deploy AI Assistant to Demystify Property Tax Regulations
The Cal Poly DxHub partnered with the Alameda County Assessor’s Office to develop an AI-powered chatbot that helps residents navigate California’s complex property tax system. The assistant answers questions using official documents, suggests relevant exemptions, and streamlines support, saving time for both the public and county staff.
Automating Housing Record Extraction with Amazon Textract for City of SLO
Learn how the DxHub teamed up with the City of San Luis Obispo to build a lightweight, ML-powered web app that uses Amazon Textract to pull critical data from housing-title PDFs, turning minutes of manual entry into seconds of instant insight and letting staff focus on serving residents.
Mapping Genomic Data
Learn how the DxHub, the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, and Virginia DCLS to streamline genomic data standardization, helping public health labs save time, reduce errors, and accelerate critical insights through the AI-powered GenomicsMapper.
Leveraging RAG and AI to Redefine IT Support at the USDA
Learn how the DxHub and AWS partnered with the USDA to develop an AI-powered chatbot that streamlines IT support, helping 100,000 employees get faster, more consistent help while reducing operational costs and boosting efficiency.
Drafting scope of work for university contracts using GenAI
Learn how Cal Poly employed Generative AI to assist buyers in generating high quality SOWs for campus contracts.
CalFire Alexa Skill: Bringing Real-Time Wildfire Information to Citizens
Learn how the DxHub collaborated with CalFire to build a voice-enabled solution that provides Californians with real-time wildfire updates, emergency resources, and location-specific alerts through Alexa devices.
Improving user experience with generative AI
Learn how the DxHub helped Snopes.com provide a simpler user experience that allows them to better engage their users while uncovering insights to new content.
Reducing mental burden of 911 call takers with machine learning
See how the DxHub worked to help employ AI to assist dispatchers in rapidly and accurately categorizing incoming calls to 911.
Using generative AI to improve cyber-resiliency
Learn how the DxHub built a generative AI chatbot that conducts a natural language interview currently based on the NIST 1.1 framework to assess an organization’s security posture.
Applied AI to provide summarized content from large document collections
Learn how the DxHub was able to provide meaningful answers to questions about new developmental projects by leveraging artificial intelligence to retrieve and summarize content from the World Bank’s public document repository.
Developing a cloud-based dashboard to convey near real-time Covid-19 data
Learn how the DxHub worked with university partners to build a public web dashboard to help communicate the impact of Covid-19 on the campus population.
Using machine learning to improve student safety
Learn how the DxHub built a machine learning model that can use existing camera images to detect fights in public areas and notify school administrators within seconds.
Illegal Dumping In San Bernardino County
Learn how the DxHub used aerial drone imaging and machine learning solutions to counter the prevalent issue of illegal dumping in San Bernardino county.
Building a more fire resilient California
Learn about a project the DxHub is working on with the State Of California Governors Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to help remove wood biomass to help create a healthier forest.
The Effect of Urban Growth on Traffic and Urban Mobility
Learn how the DxHub used Waze for Cities traffic data to assist World Bank groups in understanding traffic congestion causes with spatial and temporal models of Cluj-Napoca in Romania.
Enhancing Transparency and Effectiveness of Interventions in FCV Settings
Learn how the DxHub worked with the World Bank GEMS team to assist in sustainable data collection and analysis methods in areas of fragility, conflict, and violence.
Improving Learning Outcomes and the Quality of Public Administration
Learn how the DxHub use Machine Learning algorithms to help the World Bank improve learning outcomes in multiple countries.
Exploring Methods to Improve Purchasing Power Parity Calculations
Learn how the DxHub helped the World Bank’s International Comparison Program architect and demonstrate a more efficient method to gather and match common consumer products to estimate Purchasing Power Parities.
Flexible and Customizable Mass Notification Alerts
Learn how the DX Hub helped develop an award winning mass notification and recall roster system for the U.S. Air Force.
Identifying Food Insecurity with Enhanced Monitoring and Reporting
Learn how the DxHub, Cal Poly students and faculty improved poverty estimates using satilite imagery and machine learning.
Using Soft Skills to Predict Labor Market Outcomes
Learn how Cal Poly faculty, students and the World Bank staff developed a model that would analyze patterns of soft skills measured over panels of youth to understand which soft skills drive which labor market outcomes.
Identifying Food Insecurity with Enhanced Monitoring and Reporting
Learn how the DxHub, Cal Poly students, and staff of the World Bank’s Agriculture & Food Global Practice collaborated to design and demonstrate a dashboard to more quickly and effectively identify heightened food insecurity.
Transforming Customers’ Experience in Launching Rockets at the Western Range
Learn how Vandenberg Space Force Base collaborated with the DX Hub to reinvent their launch customer requirements and approval process using a new digital interface.
Transforming Access to Weather Data at the Western Range
Learn how the DXHub worked with Vandenberg Space Force Base to rapidly modernize their weather data to support launches in a customer friendly way.
Preventing Opioid Overdose Deaths
The SLO Opioid Safety Coalition is working with the DxHub to create a simple solution that provides free access and training for usage of Naloxone, an Opioid overdose medicine, for the San Luis Obispo County community.
Simplifying the creation of visuals to convey complexities of economic data
Learn how Cal Poly faculty and students collaborated with the World Bank’s Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice group to develop a method to visually present results based on complex economic data and models.
CSU Maritime explores adding cloud technology to supplement their existing ship based computing environment
CSU Maritime explores the possibility of bringing a cloud based learning environment to the ‘Edge’ on a research vessel at sea.
Utilizing Mixed-Methods Research to Examine Public Transportation Use by Gender in Kenya
Learn how Cal Poly faculty and students collaborated with the World Bank’s Transport Group to inform a series of new policy recommendations to enhance the gender-responsiveness of the transportation system in Nairobi, Kenya.
Helping Academy Graduates Stay on Track and Connected through Technology
The Grizzly Youth Academy promotes leadership and academic skills for teens while building self-esteem, pride, and discipline. The academy is part of the National Guard’s Youth Challenge designed for students at risk.
Cal Poly Creates a Virtual Learning Platform for Students to Enhance their Cybersecurity Skills
Cal Poly has launched a new virtual cyber range that takes high school students through a 3D, immersive, and realistic ransom-ware scenario to apply and practice their cybersecurity skills from home.
Protecting Endangered Species through Faster Data Access
To protect threatened biodiversity, NatureServe works with nearly 100 organizations and over 1,000 conservation scientists to collect, analyze, and deliver standardized biodiversity information.
Creating New Web-Based Virtual Lab Platform to Enhance Remote Learning
Cal Poly DxHub pilots a virtual operating system, making it cheap and easy for faculty to control virtual computers that students can experiment on from their homes and personal computers.
Simplifying the Identification of School Infrastructure Vulnerability at Scale
The DxHub collaborated with Cal Poly faculty and students and the World Bank to design a process that could save time and money in determining the structural type of school buildings to assess their vulnerability.
Implementing Best Practices in Near-Realtime at the San Luis Obispo County Juvenile Hall
The San Luis Obispo County Juvenile Hall works to improve the quality of service provided to youth in their care by reinforcing positive conduct rather than punish negative actions.
Democratizing Cybersecurity in SmallSats with the Teensy Encryption Device
Securing data communications between satellites and Earth using encryption was expensive, but it might now be accomplished for small sats with a $20, off-the-shelf micro-controller and open-source software.
Improving Public Health Services through Data Sharing
See how Iowa City is working with the DxHub to improve public health services by using the cloud to share data.
Improving the Way Investigators Discover and Subpoena Digital Evidence
Working with attorneys and investigators across California, the DxHub is trying to make the process of discovering and requesting digital evidence easier.
Using machine learning to quantify scooters on sidewalks
Learn how the Digital Transformation Hub built a computer vision model to better quantify the problem of citizens riding dockless e-scooters on sidewalks.
Using Voice Assistive Technologies with Computer-Aided Dispatch Systems
See how the DxHub developed a system to aid law enforcement officers in keeping roads safer.
Connecting prospective foster care families with the right opportunity
Family Care Network partnered with the DxHub to reimagine their website to modernize the conversation about fostering children, while making the process more accessible and understandable to potential foster providers.
Incentivizing Riders of Electric Scooters to Avoid Sidewalks
See how the City of Santa Monica worked with the DxHub to modify an electric scooter to encourage its rider to stay off the cement sidewalk and ride the road.
Allowing Farmers to Better Manage Pests from the Field
See how the California Strawberry Commission worked with the DxHub to create a chatbot that would allows farmers to better manage pests in their field via SMS and voice communication.
Using Machine Vision to Help Reduce Graffiti in Orange County
See how DxHub staff and students are creating a proof of concept machine vision model to recognize gang graffiti in Orange County.
Enhancing Student Communication and Engagement On Campus
See how CSU Fresno is working with the DX Hub to reinvent the way they communicate with their students to improve graduation rates.
Digital Evidence Collection Made Easier Through Innovation
See how students created a simple solution to help police investigators legally collect digital evidence while preserving citizen privacy.
Improving Accessibility and Reducing the Cost of Virtual Labs
See how a consortium of California Community Colleges are making virtual labs more accessible, relevant, and cost effective for students.
Smart Cow Tracking Prototype Developed by Cal Poly Students
See how Cal Poly students and faculty created a solution to help cattle ranchers track animals in remote areas with no communication infrastructure.
Using Deep Sea Animal Recognition to Measure the Impact of Offshore Wind Energy
See how Cal Poly students and faculty are collaborating with scientists to reduce the cost and uncertainty of environmental monitoring for offshore wind projects.
San Leandro Police Department Evidence Based Policing
See how students and faculty are working with police departments to explore crime trends and design creative ways to positively impact the community.
Improving Dual Language Teaching and Learning Experiences at Cal Poly
See how Cal Poly polymer science faculty explored options to improve the technical and bilingual classroom setting.
San Leandro Police Department Data Deep Dive
See how three Cal Poly students used geospatial mapping, time series analysis and statistical methods to better understand crime patterns in the San Leandro, California area.
Ask Alexa About Water Quality in Central Coast Area Waters
See how the DX Hub and students worked with the local Central Coast Regional Water Quality Board to develop an Alexa skill to inquire about water quality projects.