{"284861":{"#nid":"284861","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech\u2019s CheckDroid Wins 2014 Startup Madness Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECaught up in the spirit of March Madness, 14 teams of college entrepreneurs faced off in bracket-style competition for \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.startupmad.com\/\u0022\u003EStartup Madness\u003C\/a\u003E last week at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, but only one team emerged victorious: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/checkdroid.com\/\u0022\u003ECheckDroid\u003C\/a\u003E from Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Computer Science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECheckDroid is a service designed to help Android-focused developers test and identify issues with their applications across multiple devices. The program saves considerable time for developers by enabling them to address problems by targeting devices within their user demographics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETeam members include Shauvik Roy Choudhary, Tyler Dutton, Karan Jhurani, Chad Lane and David Mashburn.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChoudhary, the team\u2019s leader, is a Ph.D. candidate in Professor Alex Orso\u2019s research group working on developing techniques to improve testing of web and mobile applications. He received the TI:GER fellowship from Georgia Tech\u2019s Scheller College of Business. Through this\u0026nbsp;program, he teamed with MBA and JD students to commercialize\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;technology developed in his lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the grand prize winner, the CheckDroid team earned a pitch trip to Silicon Valley to visit with venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins as well as a nine-month residency at Raleigh\u2019s new living and learning entrepreneurship initiative, the ThinkHouse.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe college entrepreneurs represented eight ACC schools, and N.C. State\u2019s Poole College of Management hosted the fourth annual event. CheckDroid of Georgia Tech was the only team from the field of computer science.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECheckDroid, representing School of Computer Science, bests entrepreneurial teams from seven other ACC schools in bracket-style competition in Raleigh, NC.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CheckDroid, representing School of Computer Science, bests entrepreneurial teams from seven other ACC schools in bracket-style competition in Raleigh, NC."}],"uid":"27897","created_gmt":"2014-03-24 08:59:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:03","author":"Phillip Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"284841":{"id":"284841","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech\u0027s CheckDroid","body":null,"created":"1449244216","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:50:16","changed":"1475894978","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:38","alt":"Georgia Tech\u0027s CheckDroid","file":{"fid":"199015","name":"tiger_with_margiberbari_edit.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tiger_with_margiberbari_edit_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tiger_with_margiberbari_edit_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":144375,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tiger_with_margiberbari_edit_0.jpg?itok=fI5G0Yt8"}}},"media_ids":["284841"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"89781","name":"CheckDroid"},{"id":"11797","name":"TI:GER Program"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhillip Taylor\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENews \u0026amp; Media Relations Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ptaylor@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eptaylor@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.894.7253\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ptaylor@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}