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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Organizes 1st Ever Innovation Incubator Hackathon 2022

  • The one-week Artificial Intelligence Hackathon was organized in partnership with Innovation Incubator group of companies, headquartered at New York USA
  • Students participated in the hackathon to solve real AI problems in Healthcare, Real estate, Agriculture, Fashion, and Automotive sectors.

Bengaluru : Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, in partnership with Innovation Incubator, recently organized first ever Artificial Intelligence Hackathon in its Bengaluru campus from more than 14 teams comprising of 60 students in the Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Engineering, M.Tech. and MBA.

The one-week Artificial Intelligence Hackathon was won by Team Geekolution, led by Anwar Nadaf, Bhushan Jawre, Sushmitha R, E.Vaan Amuthu and Vishvesh Pathak. The team focused on healthcare doctor note summarization. The team was given with a dataset of patient notes generated by various doctors and the notes need to be converted into proper patient summary files according to the format specified by the client. The team developed the solution using advanced AI and ML techniques and the judging team appreciated their effort for optimizing the solution.

Students participated in the hackathon to solve real AI problems in Healthcare, Real estate, Agriculture, Fashion, and Automotive sectors. They were guided by Innovation Incubator AI, tech and industry experts during the hackathon. Innovation Incubator group of companies, headquartered at New York USA with employees in various states of USA and India, offers the AI entrepreneurs launch pad.

Dr. Sriram Devanathan, Principal of Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru expressed “A common lament of current times is the industry-academic gap. Hackathons have proven to be an effective way of bridging this gap, while at the same time offering excitement, learning, and upskilling all at the same time. This has also become a great way for the industry to identify talent directly and closely suited to their needs. I am sure that the current hackathon event will prove to be of immense value simultaneously to our students, to Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, and to IIC.”

Talking about the Hackathon Sreekar Pai, Vice President, Innovation Incubator Advisory Pvt Ltd., expressed, “We are excited to partner with Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham to organize and run this industry focused hackathon. The collaboration with Amrita is the next chapter of our FutureTalent program. We have made a difference in the lives of more than 900 fresh graduates in India and abroad for the past seven years. The program has hands-on training, peer programming and in-person mentorships to create a truly unique value proposition for the students and the universities we partner with”

Innovation Incubator FutureTalent program has enabled hundreds of students and graduates to start-off at the right step, with the right resources to make them industry ready. The FutureTalent program has impacted in a big way to our group, portfolio companies, key clients and partners by attracting the right talent, building them, and transforming them to be productive and resourceful. The Future Talent program has been running an industry-ready, hands-on curriculum that acts as an extension of their academics and builds the students with the right skill sets, and mindset for the job requirements of the market. The program has special focus on upcoming skills in AI/ML, Metaverse, Blockchain, Full Stack Software Engineering, Quality Assurance, Product Management, DevOps, and UX Design.