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Wright State students Christopher Broach, left, Ryan Murphy and Madison Willis, not pictured, won Technology First\u2019s Award of Excellence in the Student Project category. They were mentored by Amir Zadeh, right, associate professor of information systems and supply chain management.<\/p><\/div>\n

A team of three Wright State University management information systems students has won a regional award for their project \u2014 a way to predict the popularity of smart devices that talk to each other through the internet.<\/p>\n

Ryan Murphy, Christopher Broach and Madison Willis won Technology First\u2019s Award of Excellence in the Student Project category. Technology First is a Dayton-area group of information technology and related companies.<\/p>\n

The Wright State team worked under the mentorship of Amir Zadeh, Ph.D., associate professor of information systems and supply chain management<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a well-respected IT organization in the greater Dayton region,\u201d he said of Technology First. \u201cThis recognizes the students\u2019 innovation and IT leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zadeh said he is proud of his students. \u201cThey did excellent work,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are deserving of this recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n

The students will receive their award at the Technology First Leadership Awards event on Nov. 16 at the Sinclair Conference Center.<\/p>\n

Their project focused on the Internet of Things, which includes devices such as video doorbell systems and personal health monitoring wearables \u2014 things that collect information and send it to a database.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a team of developers wants to make a device that fits into the Internet of Things, they put the project on a website that\u2019s open for people to be viewed and garner likes,\u201d said Broach, a senior who expects to graduate in May with a bachelor\u2019s degree in management information systems<\/a> and a certificate in business analytics<\/a>. \u201cOur project gathered data to try to predict how popular those projects would be. We used data mining methods to analyze data.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cThe advantage of knowing what leads to a project being popular is a greater empowerment to the developers. If you\u2019re making a device, you want it to be accepted by users.\u00a0 You empower developers with feedback to make better projects, and potentially develop a more valuable project for the users.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murphy, who graduated in the spring of 2022 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in management information systems, said of the team\u2019s project: \u201cIt\u2019s a better way of determining what\u2019s hot and what\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murphy, who now works as a contract specialist at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, \u00a0said it\u2019s an honor to receive an Award of Excellence from Technology First.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the credit goes to Dr. Zadeh for promoting it,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cHe really did a lot for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Broach described the honor as both validating and motivating.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a recognition of the things we\u2019ve done,\u201d he said. \u201cIt makes me appreciate Dr. Zadeh and what Wright State has done with the (MIS) program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Willis, who earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in management information systems in 2020 and her master\u2019s degree in information systems<\/a> in 2021, said just being nominated for the award was \u201csuper exciting.\u201d She now is a business analyst for Collins Aerospace in Troy.<\/p>\n

She also had high praise for Dr. Zadeh: \u201cHe made me believe I can be a data analyst. Having him as my master\u2019s mentor meant a lot to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the trio, Zadeh said, \u201cI\u2019m proud of them. They did excellent work. They are deserving of this recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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