Susi Liu, Ben Plotnik and Jordan Sanford took home the top prize Wednesday evening at the 2026 Generative AI Lab final presentations event. Their project, “Development Application Assessment Assistant,” was developed over the course of a semester in collaboration with Hunter Water.
This MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy Action Learning class connected students with Hunter Water professionals, who provided insight as students collected data, conducted analysis, and created a solution to company challenges, powered by GenAI.
The IDE’s GenAI Lab, and the Analytics Lab run during the fall semester, provide MIT Sloan graduate students with real-world experience developing and executing tech-driven solutions while collaborating with large, well-known organizations, including Wayfair, MassMutual, BMW, and the Boston Public Health Commission.
At the presentation event, each student group had five minutes to present their projects, which were then assessed by course judges, Rama Ramakrishnan, Shahid Azim and Sid Pardeshi.
Honorable Mentions were also awarded to the following student projects:
Cesar Dori, Elie Juvenspan, Ido Levy, Pat Ovando Roche
iTradeNetwork: AI Agent Swarm Marketplace for Perishable Food Spot Markets
Mingyang Sun, Freya Tan, Yifan Wang, Kaibo Zhang
Wayfair: LLM-Driven Taxonomy Generation and Automated Review Classification