UF AI Days

October 28-30, 2024

AI Days 2024

The highly successful AI Days returns October 28-30, 2024, with three days of dedicated to all things AI, from competitions designed to bring students’ ideas to life...to engaging panels discussing AI and data science. Our popular student competitions are scheduled: Gator Hack, Gator Tank, and the generative AI in the arts showcase. Check back soon when we publish our full agenda of events.

Congratulations to our 2023 Student Winners

Congratulations to our student competition winners for the Gator Tank Pitch competition, the Gator Hackathon,
and the Generative AI in the Arts competition.

Gator Pitch Recap Video

Gator Hackathon Recap Video

Candor takes first place in Gator Tank

Congratulations to Akshat Pant and Nishant Nagururu with their pitch for Candor, a platform aimed at bridging the communication gap between constituents and political leaders. Candor is already in use at UF and Georgia Tech student government with approximately 500 users. Their prize $10K.

BiomeFuture seizes second prize

UF PhD students Jessica Tittl Nielsen and Monica Schul pitched their company BiomeFuture that is creating a safer chemical portfolio for users and our planet. Current personal care products are often made from chemicals derived from petroleum and plants that are grown and harvested in unsustainable ways, destroying our rainforests and waterways. Their prize: $6K.

Toad Health garners third prize

Max Kieffer, an undergrad in physics at UF, along with computer science undergrad Rohit Mittal, with other pitch spokespersons Christian Herman and Chuck Winters pitched Toad Health, to improve the clinical workflow using AI technology as a drop-in solution for the most popular electronic health records to catch prescription errors before they are sent to the pharmacy. Their prize: $4K.

Valora Solutions recognized at Gator Tank

Valora Solutions and its product TRAFFIC is a comprehensive machine learning tool that uses AI to make predictions and informed decisions on transportation. The software enables tailored solutions to many problems regarding congestion and accidents. UF students Andres Espinosa, Oscar Diaz de la Rua and Sebastian Valdes received a $1K prize.

Where's My Water wins Gator Hackathon First Place

The all-female Hackathon team led by Tanya Charan, a senior in Soil, Water and Ecosystem Sciences, used artificial intelligence to determine where groundwater sources are now and will be in the future. Our nation is currently pumping out more groundwater than we have at our disposal. Team members in this 48-hour hackathon competition included Aayesha Islam, Shravya Sama and Naydelin Trejo from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Gabriella Smith from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. Their prize: $10K.

Generative AI in the Arts Competition Winner

Yihan Jiang, a first-year graduate student in art and art history, received the first-place prize in the newly formed Generative AI in the Arts Competition with a $4K prize.

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