RAISE-24 Recap: Does News Media Spread Fear of AI?

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