Radiance Technologies Announces Winner of 2025-26 Innovation Bowl

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (April 13, 2026) – The 2025-26 Radiance Technologies Innovation Bowl concluded with presentations from three university teams showcasing their innovative solutions at the company’s Huntsville headquarters on March 31, 2026.

This year’s competition challenged participants to develop techniques, procedures, and processes to validate the output of Generative AI models in conducting scientific and technical analysis.

Purdue University’s “Team TruSeLLM” claimed the $25,000 grand prize with their project, “AutoVerifier: An Agentic Automated Verification Framework Using Large Language Models.” The winning team, comprising of students Kaiyuan Zhang, Yuntao Du, Minh Dinh, and faculty advisor Dr. Ninghui Li, impressed judges with their systems ability to extract claims, systematically assess providence, and identify related collaborative validation or refutation to model results.

Two teams shared runner-up honors: Georgia State University’s “Team Panther Nexus,” represented by Yaswanth Pothuru, Velankani Joise Divya Gorla Christuraj, and faculty advisor Dr. Mark A. Chen, showcased their project, “Uncertainty-Aware LLM-Based Inference Using Contextual Knowledge Hypergraphs.” The University of Southern Mississippi’s “Team USM,” featuring Kiran Silwal, Rupak Raut, Hammad Ahmed, Chetanchal Saud, and faculty advisor Dr. Bikramjit Banerjee, presented their report, “Neuro-Symbolic Validation of LLM Output via Multi-Agent Planning.”

Original 2025-26 Innovation Bowl Challenge

The 2025-26 Innovation Bowl topic focused on the accuracy of Large Language Models and Generative Artificial Intelligence, specifically in their conducting of detailed scientific and technical analysis. To fully exploit the technology, innovative verification frameworks driven by large language models that incorporate fact-grounding, source traceability and provenance tracking must be developed to provide a measure of technical assurance that the output is correct.

Innovation Bowl Defined:

A joint effort with the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl, the Radiance Technologies Innovation Bowl is an academic competition between schools and conferences affiliated with the Independence Bowl. Schools compete for a $25,000 grand prize by developing innovative approaches to a current research and development topic selected by Radiance Technologies.

Evaluation of submissions is a two-step process where teams submit their ideas and approaches to Radiance Technologies before the end of the fall term. Scientists and researchers within Radiance Technologies pick three finalists, announced at the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl. These teams then further develop their ideas in the spring semester through prototypes, models and simulation or experimentation and presented their findings in person to a panel of experts.

About Radiance Technologies:

Radiance Technologies is an employee-owned prime contractor founded in 1999. Radiance has over 1000 employee-owners across the United States serving the Department of Defense, the national intelligence community, and other government agencies. From concepts to capabilities, Radiance leads the way in developing customer-focused solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, systems engineering, prototyping, and integration, as well as operational and strategic intelligence, including scientific and technical intelligence. For more information, please visit radiancetech.com.