Team: Expensight

Team Participants:

  •  Elia Romero
  • Ashton Liu
  • Winferd Wei
  • Davit Hakobyan
  • Isabella Fernandez

“AI tools can definitely streamline the improvements for auditing functions in the future, and universities are no exception and could benefit from using AI to streamline their auditing process“

Problem

The current expense auditing process at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is highly manual, time-consuming, and prone to errors. The senior manager of finance and administration faces challenges such as combining data from multiple sources, dealing with miscategorized expenses, lack of automation in data validation, and difficulty in identifying high-risk outliers.

Technical Solution

The team developed an AI-driven solution that leverages Python libraries to combine data files, automate expense categorization, analyze expense data for policy violations and exceptions, and flag true high-risk activities. The solution streamlines the auditing process, enhances efficiency, and reduces the risk of errors and delays.

Showcase

Presentation Recording A recording of AI Summer Camp students presenting their project.
Slideshow The accompanying slides shown in the video.
Source Code All of the code and assets developed during the course of the AI Summer Camp.

About the DxHub

The Cal Poly Digital Transformation Hub (DxHub) is a strategic relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is the world’s first cloud innovation center supported by AWS on a University campus. The primary goal of the DxHub is to provide students with real-world problem-solving experiences by immersing them in the application of proven innovation methods in combination with the latest technologies to solve important challenges in the public sector. The challenges being addressed cover a wide variety of topics including homelessness, evidence-based policing, digital literacy, virtual cybersecurity laboratories and many others. The DxHub leverages the deep subject matter expertise of government, education, and non-profit organizations to clearly understand the customers affected by public sector challenges and develop solutions that meet the customer needs.