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International AI Hackathon
A team of four EECS undergraduate students from BCompSci and BEng(Hons) won first prize in the International AI Hackathon. The hackathon was held in Bangkok from July 24 to 27. They created a flood prediction application that was 75% more accurate than Google’s flood forecasting, based on the historical data that they used. Representatives of […]
A team of four EECS undergraduate students from BCompSci and BEng(Hons) won first prize in the International AI Hackathon. The hackathon was held in Bangkok from July 24 to 27. They created a flood prediction application that was 75% more accurate than Google’s flood forecasting, based on the historical data that they used. Representatives of the Thai government expressed interest in supporting the team to continue their work on the project.
The team received funding support from CIRES to travel to Bangkok to participate in the hackathon and CIRES also provided the team with pre-trip training on information resilience.
At the hackathon, Aneesha Bakharia from EECS provided a full-day training workshop on developing software that uses LLMs delivered to all hackathon participants. The hackathon was jointly organised by EECS, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, and the Thai National Innovation Agency. It was supported by AWS, AMD, and Digital Focus.
Congratulations to First Prize Winners: Pritika Guglani, Abdallah Azazy, Bailey Stoodley, and Sidney Neil