Before arriving at Rutgers, Joseph Anthony Candelaria built an app combining icons, text-to-speech, and AI to help users communicate complete sentences.

In Rupa Misra’s summer studio, students used AI to explore ideas, then designed and built physical games—including RU Monopoly—at the Rutgers Makerspace.

Rutgers faculty Rebecca Brody and Jason Stevens created AI simulations where students practice clinical reasoning, communication, and leadership in a virtual health system.

Rutgers–Newark music professor Stefon Harris collaborated with engineers to create Harmony Cloud, an AI-powered app that helps musicians practice improvisation. Watch him use it with students.

Rutgers professor Adam Gormley and alumnus Matthew Tamasi developed Plexymer’s AI and automation technology to help design, run, and analyze experiments—turning laboratory research into a startup.

Rutgers alumnus Eric Wengrowski and professor Kristin Dana helped turn university research into Steg.AI, a company using AI-powered invisible watermarks to protect digital media and verify authenticity.

A filmmaker with no coding experience built Movipods Virtual Producer with Lovable. See how he turned a production challenge into a working tool.

The Django co-creator demonstrates how he uses ChatGPT and Claude to prototype, write, and test code—and explains where expert judgment still matters.

Before her final UCLA quarter, Rebecca built Where2Eat in seven days using AI tools. Watch her demonstrate an app that helps groups choose where to eat.

A designer used ChatGPT and Xcode to build his first iOS journaling app, learning along the way. Read his firsthand account of moving from a design to a functioning app.