NYUAD 2014 Hackathon

The 3rd annual NYUAD International Hackathon for Social Good which focused on one of the most promising technologies of our time, Quantum Computing (QC). The event was held from February 13, 2014, to February 16, 2014.

Teams  Gallery   Students   Mentors   Judges

The 2014 Teams

1st Place Winner Liwa Ventures Social Impact Award Audience Choice Award

MedCare/Tabibi (Healthcare) MedCare/Tabibi (Healthcare)

Digital nurse app reminding the elderly to take their medicine and alerting their emergency contacts with life saving information when health problems occur.

Students

Saeed Al-Mannaee Student, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE
Rashid Al-Matar Student, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE
Yousef AlAhmedi Student, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE
Islam Alhusban Student, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Mustafa Hammad Student, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE
Abdallah Zoubir Ourad Student, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE

Mentors

Kenneth Leland Senior VP of Engineering, Monmouth Telecom, United States
Akram Dweikat Co-Founder & Co-Leader, PALinnO, Palestine
2nd Place Winner

Jedis (Economic Development) Jedis (Economic Development)

 an SMS-based platform to let local arab businesses instantly create a web presence (incl. location, hours etc.).

Students

Kmar Ben Abdallah Student, National School of Computer Science (ENSI), Tunisia
Leila Chan Currie Student, University of Toronto, Canada
Omar Gafsi Student, Private High School of Engineering and Technologies (Esprit), Tunisia
Lester (Colin) Mayer Student, Stanford University, United States
Zach Reneau-Wedeen Student, Yale University, United States
Harrison Tan Student, NYUAD, UAE
Adrian Vatchinsky Software Developer, Cornell Tech, United States

Mentors

Geoffrey Litt Software Engineer,
3rd Place Winner

WellSense (Vulnerable populations) WellSense (Vulnerable populations)

Cost-effective web- & hardware solution for well monitoring, to benefit NGOs and local populations

Students

Lingliang Zhang Student, NYUAD, UAE
Rodrigo Ceballos Student, NYUAD, UAE
Koh Terai Student, NYUAD, UAE
Andres Rodriguez Caceres Student, NYUAD, UAE
Sameer Ansari Student, Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Mentors

Thierry Sans Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, France
Michael Paik Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NYUAD, UAE

LinkDoctors (Healthcare) LinkDoctors (Healthcare)

Website leveraging Linkedin to allow knowledge sharing among doctors to better treat patients.

Students

Benmerar Mohamed Said Karim Student, National Computer science Engineering School (ESI), Algeria
Ahmad Diab Student, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Mohamed Kamal Kamaly Student, Cairo University, Egypt
Bouaissa Seddik Student, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumedien, Algeria
Salma Saidi Student, Higher National Engineering School of Tunis(ENSIT), Tunisia

Mentors

Samer Atiani Co-Founder & CTO,, liwwa, Jordan
Guillaume Leseur Software Architect, Work4, France

Shoftak (Civic Innovation) Shoftak (Civic Innovation)

an Android app allowing citizens to report public service inefficiencies and corruption (location, description, picture), and shared to centralized website & Twitter.

Students

Izzedeen Ben Khadra Student, University of Petra, Jordan
Hesham Hossam Student, Helwan University, Egypt
Mina Khalil Student, Faculty of Engineering , Ain Shams University, Egypt
Amgad Mohamed Student, Cairo University, Egypt
Razan Qraini Software Developer, Turnkey Solutions, Palestine
Zbynek Stara Student, NYUAD, UAE

Mentors

Serge Humpich Development Engineer – Security Specialist,
David Hu Developer Advocate, FourSquare, United States

Taalemni (Education) Taalemni (Education)

an app democratizing access to SAT tests, via a multiple-choice question game based on historical SAT questions.

Students

Batu Aytemiz Student, NYUAD, UAE
Beatrice Ionascu Student, NYUAD, UAE
Talha Javed Student, NYUAD, UAE
Dorra Mlouhi Student, National School of Computer Science (ENSI), Tunisia
Kenny Song Student, NYUSH, China
Asyrique Thevendran Student, NYUAD, UAE

Mentors

Raymond Cheng Student, University of Washington, United States

Buraq (Civic Innovation) Buraq (Civic Innovation)

a Website visualizing the danger levels of travel destinations based on aggregated news sources.

Students

Mahmoud Al-Ismail Student, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Kevin Aziz Student, Syracuse University, United States
Bonnie Eisenman Student, Princeton University, United States
Nishant Mohanchandra Student, NYUAD, UAE
Morgante Pell Student, NYUAD, UAE
Seung Man Oh Student, NYUAD, UAE
Hassan Adebayo Bello Student, University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE

Mentors

Maraim Masoud Technical Entrepreneur & Research Assistant, University of Southampton, Libya
Yamil Asusta Developer Evangelist, SendGrid, United States

Murshed (Civic Innovation) Murshed (Civic Innovation)

a crowdsourced itinerary-planning app where users ask direction questions for places where online maps are inaccurate.

Students

Saeeda Ahmed Student, Zayed University, UAE
Hamad Al-Hassani Student, UAE University, UAE
Mohammed Al Bahri Student, UAE University, UAE
Amer Almutawa Student, University of Sharjah, UAE
Fatima Saleh Student, Zayed University, UAE
Shaimaa Saleh Student, Zayed University, UAE
Buthaina Zaid Student, Zayed University, UAE

Mentors

Alexandra Qin Front-End Developer, Bloglovin, United States
Sashko Stubailo Student, MIT, United States

MoskMindr (Civic Innovation) MoskMindr (Civic Innovation)

App prompting users to silence their phone in the vicinity of mosques and anywhere at prayer time. Ultimately, the app will be customized to other places (worship places, cinemas, libraries, etc.)

Students

Nabil Lahssine Student, Supinfo International University, Morocco
Karla Danitza Duran Student, Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Coacalco, Mexico
Hassan Mousa Student, Abu Dhabi University, UAE
M’hammed Oulaidi Student, International University Of Rabat, Morocco
Mehdi Agouzal Student, Université Hassan I ENSA Khouribga, Morocco

Mentors

Fareeha Amjad Sofware Engineer, CTED, NYUAD, UAE

Localli (Tourism) Localli (Tourism)

App helping tourists plan trips in the Arab world by generating itineraries promoting touristic & community attractions/activities (incl. volunteering opportunities)

Students

Dihia Bouleguane Student, National Computer science Engineering School (ESI), Algeria
Jiwon Shin Student, NYUAD, UAE
Jin U Bak Student, NYUAD, UAE
Francis Sowani Student, NYUAD, UAE
Anqi Angela Zhang Software Engineer, Quora, United States
Piotr Adam Galar Student, King’s College London, United Kingdom

Mentors

Alexandre Spaeth CTO & PhD, E-180 & École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Stephen Lang Co-Founder/CDO , Uni Creative Inc, Japan , Japan, United States

We Share Your Pain (Healthcare) We Share Your Pain (Healthcare)

Web app allowing patients, caregivers, and professionals to discover real-time content, videos, images, and links aggregated from Twitter, and filtered by country and disease.

Students

Abdullah Mahomed Student, NYUAD, UAE
Yilkal Abe Student, NYUAD, UAE
Chukwuyem Onyibe Student, NYUAD, UAE
Muhammed AbuOdeh Student, University of Sharjah, UAE
Yulia Rovnova Student, NYUAD, UAE

Mentors

Ahmed Ali Senior Software Engineer, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar

Dafah – Impulse (Community) Dafah – Impulse (Community)

Impulse donating platform

Students

Nicole Lopez Del Carril Student, NYUAD, UAE
Juan Felipe Beltran Student, NYUAD, UAE
Chani Gatto Student, NYUAD, UAE
James Hosken Student, NYUAD, UAE
Walid Ould Babaali Student, M'hamed Bougara University, Algeria

Mentors

Mackram Raydan CTO, Seeqnce Alice, Lebanon
Baris Yuksel Senior Software Engineer, Google, United States

Orphan Locator (Vulnerable populations) Orphan Locator (Vulnerable populations)

Reuniting lost children with their parents

Students

Omar Abduljaleel Student, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE
Abdelaziz Boussekine Student, Boumerdes University, Algeria
Siddha Ganju Student, National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India
Amna Mangoosh Al Ali Student, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE
Ammar Mokhtar Student, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Ahmed Nasser Mohamed Rashad Student, Cairo University, Egypt

Mentors

Anirudh Koul Data Scientist, Microsoft, United States
Zahra Ashktorab PhD Student in Information Science: Focus on HCI & Social Computing, University of Maryland, College Park, United States

Lahjatna (Communication) Lahjatna (Communication)

Crowdsourced dictionary of Arabic words with conflicting meanings across dialects, to ease communication between people from different regions in the Arab world

Students

Mahool Al Hammadi Student, UAE University, UAE
Dima Hijazi Student, Yarmouk University, Jordan
Hachem Saddiki Student, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
Rabah Sobaihi Student, Mhamed Bougara University, Algeria
Mahmoud Darawsheh Student, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan

Mentors

Michael Schidlowsky Senior Software Engineer, Google, United States
Maxwell Stoller Student, NYU, United States

Waynak (Safety) Waynak (Safety)

a mobile app reporting current (or last saved) location to trusted contacts for cases when user might be in danger

Students

John Abou Jaoudeh Student, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Obada Aljanadi Student, University of Sharjah, UAE
Saad AL-Khatib Student, The University of Jordan, Jordan
Muhammad Obaidullah Student, Abu Dhabi University, UAE
Fabricio Pontes Harsich Student, Facultad de Ingeniería – Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Faisal Zaghloul Student, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Mentors

Ghady Rayess Co-Founder & Managing Director, FOO, Lebanon
People Directory
Become a sponsor