Hackathon Judging Panel
At the OpenEd.ai Hackathon, we’re offering $19,000 worth of prizes for open source AI projects solving problems in education, generously sponsored by IBM, Omidyar Network, Amazon and Google Developer groups. Anyone, anywhere in the world can participate for free and we’ve had 1400+ people sign up from around the world.
Selecting the winning projects is not a task we take lightly. We want to set the bar high and encourage people to take on ambitious projects which use AI to solve pressing problems in Education.
That’s why we reached out to the leading figures in the AI and open source community to ask for their advice and support. We’re incredibly lucky to have several of these experts agree to come on board and volunteer their time to evaluate submissions.
Introducing the all star judging panel….
Professor Alexander (Sasha) Rush
Sasha is an Assistant Professor at Harvard University, and is the leading expert on NLP and sequence to sequence models. During my time at Harvard, I had the amazing opportunity to attend Sasha’s lectures on language modelling with neural networks, and Anshul and I often stopped by Sasha’s office hours to brainstorm our AI project ideas. Sasha is also a champion for Open Source, releasing many of the projects from his NLP research group at Harvard on GitHub.
François Chollet
If you’ve worked on an AI project you’ve probably encountered Keras, the python neural network library François created. With over 18,000 stars on GitHub, 150,000 users and over 400 contributors, Keras is a thriving open source project maintained by an extensive community of AI enthusiasts. Francois is currently an AI researcher at Google, and the author of the book ‘Deep learning with Python’.
Denny Britz
Denny’s a Stanford CS grad and former Google Brain engineer. He writes about deep learning, NLP and reinforcement learning on his hugely popular website WildML.com. Denny’s blog posts on conversational agents were inspirations for some of the early AI projects Anshul and I worked on.
Joel Tetreault
Joel is an expert on on essay/language-scoring and runs an annual NLP for Education workshop. He’s currently the Director of Research at Grammarly, working on developing state-of-the-art tools to help improve one’s writing. Joel helped us create some of the challenge problems for the hackathon and suggested many useful resources for participants to use in their hacks.
Want your project seen by Sasha, Denny, Francois, Joel and our other expert judges? Submit your hack by Friday August 11th 11:59pm IST http://opened.ai.
Do you know someone who’d be interested in judging, sponsoring or supporting the OpenEd.ai HackWeek? Send us an email team@opened.ai.
