Summary
The final round for the RAISE-24 Informatics – Data Science competition was held Friday, April 19, 2024 at the Bloustein School. Hosted by the Master of Public Informatics (MPI) program, the inaugural competition challenge asked competitors “Does News Media Spread Fear of AI?” This competition aimed to discover dominant themes in media coverage of AI by analyzing news headlines. RAISE 2024 was a great opportunity for talented students to showcase their informatics, data science, analytics, and problem-solving skills. Over a hundred teams registered for the competition. For the final round, teams from as far away as Illinois gathered in New Brunswick, New Jersey for the final presentations and award ceremony. More information about the competition can be found on the RAISE-24 page.
Winners – Graduate Track
First Prize
Team Machine Minds – Montclair State University: Isabele Bittencourt, Ramy Othman, Anand Gopeekrishnan, Ola Suaifan
Second Prize
Team Three Musketeers – Rutgers University: Varun Alur, Tej S., Sabrina Burns
Special Mention
Team AInsight: Nayeon Kwak – Bentley University, Hyo Min Yoo – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Kyung Jin Kwak – Illinois Institute of Technology
Exceptional Excellence in Informatics
Team Ace Attorney: Zhaowen Guo – University of Washington, Chenyue Cao – University of Chicago
Unique Contributions Recognition
Data Dynamos – Rutgers University: Md. Nurul Hoque, Hyeryeng Shin, Jiatong Yang
Winners – Undergraduate Track
First Prize
The Commons: Almutwakel Hassan – Carnegie Mellon University, Kyle De Los Santos – Rutgers University
Second Prize
Breaking Bad Data: Anas Moazzam – New York University, Kevin Soriano Aguilar – New York University, Arjun Rajpal – New York University, Faheem Karim – Stony Brook University, Bishawajit Saha – Stevens Institute of Technology
Special Mention
Team GTG from New York University: Yuxi Z., Quanquan Xie, Ruojin Song, Chuhan Ku
Unique Contributions
VeggieB from New York University: Xiaoxin Liu, Zichao Zhang, Ziyu Kong
Data Arsonists from Rutgers University: YONGYI YU, Jiatong Pan, Jingxuan Ma, Haotian Bi, Xiaozhe Shao
Judges
Justin Hendrix – CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press (Keynote Speaker)
Cory Yemen, Ph.D. – Visiting Scholar – McIntire Business Institute at the University of Virginia School of Commerce, Senior Research Fellow – Center for Appraisal Research and Technology (CART), and a Director of Data Science at Labcorp
Poonam Soans – Chief Data Officer (CDO) and Director of Application Development for the State of New Jersey.
Mark Aakhus, Ph.D. – Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Communication, Rutgers University School of Communication and Information
Florence Hudson – Executive Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, The Data Science Institute at Columbia University
Emily Rothenberg – National Student Data Corps Program Manager, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, The Data Science Institute at Columbia University
Rick Anderson – Director of Virtual Worlds Rutgers University, The Game Research and Immersive Design (GRID) Lab and Co-Founder and Trustee of Fair Use Building and Research Labs
Balaji Dhamodharan – Senior Principal Data Scientist, MLOps strategy, NXP Semiconductors
Acknowledgements
We would like to congratulate ALL the teams for their brilliant presentations on the fear of AI from AI news! We would also like to thank Dean Stuart Shapiro, Prof. Clinton Andrews, Tamara Swedberg, Stephanie Crozier, and the rest of the Bloustein team, our judges, the 103 national teams that registered for the competition, and all other participants that have collaborated with us to make RAISE-24 a success! Thank you for joining us in the pursuit of informatics and AI for public good!
Best wishes,
RAISE-24 Chair Jim Samuel