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Apr 11, 2025 We are thrilled to announce that our Montclair State University team “Next-Gen Tech Thinkers” has won the 1st prize in the nationwide RAISE-2025 Data Science competition hosted by Rutgers University, NJ. This marks an outstanding achievement as MSU students have claimed the top honor for two consecutive years!
The winning team consists of:
  • Students: Blessing Austin-Gabriel, Ernest Chianumba, Shibbir Ahmed Arif, Cristian Noriega, and Keerthana Gajari
  • Faculty Mentors: Dr. Aparna Varde and Dr. Hao Liu
  • Team Name: Next-Gen Tech Thinkers
Competition Details:
  • Event: RAISE-2025 Student Data Science/Informatics Competition- Venue: Rutgers University, NJ, Bloustein School - Master of Public Informatics
  • Topic: “Our Future with AI: Utopian or Dystopian?”
  • Participants: Accredited US Institutions
  • Duration: February 15 to April 11, 2025
  • Track: Graduate Students - Award: $1,000 per team member (total $5,000)
Our students demonstrated exceptional dedication and innovative thinking throughout this prestigious competition. As mentors, we are immensely proud of their hard work and intellectual contributions.
Next-Gen Tech Thinkers won the 1st Prize in the Graduate Track at the nationwide RAISE-2025 competition
You can watch the presentation on Youtube.
Please join us in congratulating Team Next-Gen Tech Thinkers on this great achievement and for continuing MSU’s tradition of excellence in data science!
Apr 26, 2024 Congratulations to our students Anand Gopeekrishnan and Shibbir Ahmed Arif on the awesome poster presentation at the Student Research Symposium and congratulations to their mentor, Dr. Hao Liu. Well done!!!!!
  • Students: Anand Gopeekrishnan and Shibbir Ahmed Arif
  • Mentor: Dr. Hao Liu
  • Event: Student Research Symposium
  • Venue: Montclair State University
  • Topic: Accelerating Patient Screening for Clinical Trials using Large Language Model Prompting
Our students put in immense efforts on this project & we were happy to guide them through their journey. Please join us in congratulating the presenters!
Anand Gopeekrishnan and Shibbir Ahmed Arif present their poster at the Student Research Symposium
Happy to share this announcement with all of you!
Apr 19, 2024 We are delighted to announce that our students Isabele, Anand, Ramy and Ola of Team Machine Minds won the 1st Prize in the Graduate Track at the nationwide RAISE-2024 competition hosted by Rutgers University, NJ. Details are as follows.
  • Students: Isabele Bittencourt, Anand Gopeekrishnan, Ramy Othman, Ola Suaifan
  • Mentors: Dr. Aparna Varde and Dr. Hao Liu
  • Team Name: Machine Minds
  • Competition: RAISE-2024 Student Data Science / Informatics Competition
  • Venue: Rutgers University, NJ, Bloustein School - Master of Public Informatics
  • Topic: Does News Media Spread Fear of AI?
  • Participants: Accredited US institutions
  • Duration: Feb 15 to Apr 19, 2024
  • Track: Graduate Students
  • Cash Prize: $1000 per winning team student (total $4000)
Our students put in immense efforts on this project & we were happy to guide them through their journey. Please join us in congratulating Team Machine Minds!
Team Machine Minds won the 1st Prize in the Graduate Track at the nationwide RAISE-2024 competition
Team Machine Minds with mentors at School of Computing, Montclair State University
You can watch the presentation on Youtube.
Happy to share this announcement with all of you!
Apr 04, 2024 MSU Master Students' Research Won the Best Paper Award at conference in Imperial College, London, UK
Mar 25, 2024 Congrats to Montclair student finalists in nationwide Rutgers contest!
Mar 22, 2024 Our software demo was accepted to IEEE/ACM CHASE 2024!
Mar 14, 2024 Our paper was accepted to ICHI 2024!
Mar 01, 2024 The new website for Data Science Lab @ MSU is officially launched!
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