Partnerships and Projects
Partnerships
The AI Lab is committed to partnering with impactful organizations since it enables us to grow our students, to empower them as leaders who integrate skill and faith. Through these partnerships, students gain hands-on experience while making a difference for the kingdom of God. It’s a win-win: we foster the next generation of innovative thinkers, advancing Biola’s mission to bring the love of Christ to the world.
Operation Christmas Child
The AI Lab teamed up with Operation Christmas Child (OCC) to help sort items for their 11 million annual shoeboxes. Using a large language model (LLM), we developed a system that quickly reviews item descriptions to ensure they meet OCC’s standards. This AI-driven solution makes packing more efficient, supporting OCC’s mission to share the gospel with millions of children worldwide.
Student leaders: En Duo Wang, Natasha Warner
Global Media Outreach
The AI Lab is working on two projects with Global Media Outreach (GMO), which shares the gospel in 13 languages. These projects focus on streamlining GMO’s outreach processes and exploring scalable AI solutions to expand their reach even further. By leveraging advanced tech, we’re helping GMO connect with more people around the world, efficiently and effectively spreading the gospel.
Student leaders: Rachel Liu, Tobias Pak, Abel Yilma, Lucy Kim, Nicklas Kuo, Ryan Nyberg, Joseph Hartono, Benedict Law
Projects
The AI Lab empowers students to creatively apply their skills to real-world challenges, blending academic knowledge with impactful solutions. Here, students from all majors gain hands-on experience, grow in confidence, and tackle meaningful business and social needs — driving purpose-driven innovation that inspires.
Caf Lizard
The Caf Lizard is an app designed for students to access the campus café menus instantly with just one click. It offers a quick, convenient way to see daily options, helping students save time and plan their meals with ease.
Resume Builder
Our custom, in-house resume builder for Biola’s Career Center simplifies the resume creation process for students. Tailored to highlight the student’s unique skills and experiences, this tool helps create polished, professional resumes that stand out to employers, making career preparation seamless and effective.
Auto Instagram Story Generator
Our AI-powered tool automatically creates Instagram stories for Biola’s daily events, keeping students up-to-date with what’s happening on campus. These stories are generated quickly and efficiently, showcasing important happenings, and students can easily check them out on the @Biola_Today Instagram account.