Team CrashAI won first place and $5,500 in the Nittany AI Challenge. The team was also awarded the $3,500 Cocoziello Award and the $3,500 Office of Physical Plant Award.
Corey Lee, security chief technology officer at Microsoft and College of IST class of 2012, was among more than two dozen judges at the Nittany AI Challenge.
Cranium CEO Jonathan Dambrot (second from right) presented the Jonathan and Alana Dambrot AI Excellence Awards to five students for their contributions to the Nittany AI Alliance. Pictured left to right are student Sri Gourav Aravind Turaga, Saatvik Pradhan, Tony Shpilsky, Ishita Sinha Aravind Turaga and Raul van Hoorde, along with Dambrot and Nittany AI education program specialist Andy Gatto.
Kushal Joseph Vallamkatt, Kapil Ravi Rathod and Aneesh Shamraj won fifth place in the Nittany AI Challenge for ClaimShield, which addresses errors in the nation’s health care billing system that leave patients vulnerable to overpayment.
Lance Streuber accepted the fourth-place award in the Nittany AI Challenge for Surge, which addresses difficulties with discovering, curating and updating events for community event calendars. Streuber's challenge teammate was Ishaan Narang.
Troy Matthew LaPolice, Julien Victor Mutton and Gustavo Rodrigues Foz won third place in the Nittany AI Challenge for MatchMyLab, an AI web-based platform to help college administrators and course coordinators resolve teaching assistant scheduling problems.
Katerina Dimitrova placed second in the Nittany AI Challenge for SignLink, a real-time American Sign Language-to-text translation system designed to enable direct communication between Deaf and hearing individuals.
Team CrashAI won first place and $5,500 in the Nittany AI Challenge. The team was also awarded the $3,500 Cocoziello Award and the $3,500 Office of Physical Plant Award.
