Winners

2025 Winners

Best Statistical Analysis

Spatial and Structural Optimization of Commercial Real Estate in California by Niyathi Gorantla, Amanda Guo, and Neha Jatla.

The judges were impressed by their use of fragmentation as a predictor as well as leveraging residential trends to predict commercial trends.

Best Insight

(High) Rise of Manhattan Finance by Alyssa Albritton, Duaa Alzouby, Layla Gusa, Madelyn Pallotta-Barton, and Riham Mohammed.

The judges were impressed by their actionable and nuaced business insights.

Best Visualizations

“Where should I locate my new office? by Jason Deng, Sophia Shen, Kevin Tao, Lucy Wang, and Thomas You.

The judges were impressed by this team’s creation of visuals that were dynamic, consistent and infomative.

Best Use of Outside Data

Predicting Leasing Activity with Economic Indicators by Cooper Ruffing, Liane Ma, Amy Xu, Hyunjin Lee, and Phillip Lin.

The judges were impressed by this team’s use of FRED data coupled with unemployment data.

Judges’ Pick

Project recognized by the judges for outstanding achievement outside of the core award categories.

Resilience in Commercial Real Estate: Post-COVID Comebacks & Strategic Opportunities by Eric Ge, Ezi Ilabor, Yae Young Kim, and Kaley Wong.

The judges were impressed by this group’s use of resilience scores to provide framework from which to gain real world value.

Past winners

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