Ecommerce results in 25% of all goods sold being returned. The convenience of ecommerce has normalized shopping habits that lead to more returns.
From all ecommerce returns there’s nearly 5.8B pounds of landfill waste generated in a year and 16m metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent of waste produced by 3.3m Americans in a year
With Google Goldilocks, brands can:
Reduce the amount of apparel waste to meet sustainability goals
Increase awareness among their customers of the environmental impact of returning from shopping online, while enhancing the online shopping experience
Keep customer data secure: video content is not stored in the cloud, and all customer data is encrypted
Google Goldilocks: a plugin for all brands to reach their sustainability goals by reducing returns and helping customers find clothes that are “just right”
Teammates
Ayesha Kang
Wan Yun Tan
Angela Wu
Aaron Perez
Connecting street vendors with small holder farmers
Competed in the 2023 Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture Hackathon, winning the award for “Most Market Ready”
Teammates:
Anamika Rashmi
Jeffrey Di Santo
Abhirami Nayar
Saksham Tehri
Mansi Zalavadia
Aaron Perez
During my banking years, I co-founded a fashion ecommerce small business that created pieces of season from scratch. This required sourcing the materials, working with different vendors and factories to make the products from our designs and distribute them to customers.
Designed capsule and sent a camera into space to take pictures of Earth’s curvature.
Teammates:
Changlin Li
Rishav Mukherji
William Greenlaw
Adrian Jones
Aaron Perez
Built a system and formed a team around low cost cold chain monitoring for low infrastructure areas where food is wasted. Only engineering student to win Harvard’s esteemed Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for outstanding thesis work.
System integrated GPS, temperature & humidity sensors, texting & RFID capabilities and human interface involving the use of Solidworks, Arduino programming, 3D printing, PCB fabrication and rigorous testing of various prototypes.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/4/10/i3-challenge-winners-finalists/
Teammates:
Rishav Mukherji
Adrian Jones
Michael Perez
Aaron Perez
Harvard Sustainability Grant Recipient, used a drone to model thermal images of campus buildings to highlight energy losses
Teammates
Rishav Mukherji
Adrian Jones
Aaron Perez
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Designed and implemented a novel, flight ready, UV absorption cell that provided highly sensitive stratospheric readings to be incorporated in an upcoming NASA backed balloon flight mission to provide insight into climate change and climate feedback mechanisms related to convective storms. Led the electrical design for the LED Driver and pre-amplifier circuit.
Cofounded a medical device venture developing a low-cost, automated drug delivery patch designed to easily provide cancer patients with increased access to high quality care outside the hospital. Cited as inventor on provisional patent, worked on the electrical and mechanical components of the microfluidic, micropump-based device. Led the fabrication of the micro-needle array using micro-welding and CO2 laser techniques.
https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2013/11/chemotherapy-home
Teammates:
Nikhil Mehandru
Alydaar Rangwala
Brandon Sim
Cofounded a venture that rendered visual art more accessible to the blind with the help of 3D printing and intelligent surfacing; registered as an LLC and sold to a private buyer in Beijing, China as of March 2014. Led the engineering of the pressure-sensitive surface and CAD models for the tactile representations of paintings.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/4/18/visual-art-blind/
Teammates:
Constantine Tarabanis
Vaios Triantafyllou
Rishav Mukherji
Aaron Perez
