NYUAD 2015 Hackathon

The 4th 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 April 9, 2015, to April 12, 2015.

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The 2015 Teams

First Place Winners

حكيمي / hakee.me hakee.me

A wearable device to monitor construction worker health. Provides anonymized reports of working conditions to governments / third party monitors and can provide warnings to workers if they are getting dehydrated or getting too much sun.

Students

Farah Shamout Professor, NYUAD, UAE
Martin Slosarik Student, NYUAD, UAE
Tony Lin Student, NYUAD, UAE
Nora Benson Student, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, United States
Agoune Juba Student, Ecole nationale Supérieure d’Informatique, Algeria
Badreddine Zebbich Student, National Computer science Engineering School (ESI), Algeria
Hajrah Jahan Student, Manipal University, UAE
Mohamed-Zakariae El Khdime Student, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco
Hassan Adebayo Bello Student, University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE
Dora Palfi Student, NYUAD, UAE
Saif ur Rehman Muhammad Yousuf Cloud Developer Advocate , IBM, UAE
Malak Milhem Student, Yarmouk University, Jordan

Mentors

Katy Blumer Software Engineer , Google, UAE, United States
Anas Shahrour Research Assistant, NYUAD, UAE
Ayman Farhat Software Engineer,
Second Place

ترجمني / TranslateTube TranslateTube

TranslateTube is a crowdsourced voiceover translation service for existing video content.

Students

Khouloud Sahli Student, National School of Computer Science (ENSI), Tunisia
Krishna Chaitanya Aluru Student, Brown University, United States
Andrej Maris Student, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Jiadong Du Student, NYUSH, China
Mark Surnin Student, NYUAD, UAE
Dana Abu Ali Software Developer for MEA Client Center, IBM, UAE

Mentors

Rasha Rasem Web Developer,
Thierry Sans Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, France
Arkadiy Kukarkin Software Engineer,
Third Place

Eco-Eco Eco-Eco

An open world Farmville-like game where the resources can only be earned through doing real-life environmental activities. In order to let children understand the issues and actively engage in making changes in their real life, we believe gamification is the best way.

Students

Yan Zou (Rock) Student, NYUAD, UAE
Julia Xu Student, NYUAD, UAE
Yaser Omar Abdelaziz Student, Helwan University, Egypt

Mentors

Hussam Mohsineh Advisor, Power of Art Startup Consultancy, UAE
Audience Choice

ارشدني / GuideMe GuideMe

Increasing awareness for labor laws in the Arab world while providing analytics on the platform’s impact.

Students

Stephanie Coleenr Student, Manipal University, UAE
Leanne D’souza Developer, Accenture, UAE
Pranav Gokhale Student, Princeton University, United States
Calvin Chan Student, UCLA, United States
Pranav Maddi Student, Yale University, United States
Malak Milhem Student, Yarmouk University, Jordan
Dina Ashraf Mohamed Student, Cairo University, Egypt

Mentors

Stephen Lang Co-Founder/CDO , Uni Creative Inc, Japan , Japan, United States
Mona Demaidi Co-founder and CTO, M&M Innovators, Palestine

ConnectMeBack ConnectMeBack

SMS platform that provides a language agnostic bulletin board to enable lost refugees to safely reconnect with their loved ones

Students

Jocelyn Schulz Student, NYU, United States
Joe Jean Student, NYUAD, UAE
Adrian Soghoian Student, Cornell, United States
Ali Zeineddine Student, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Peter Hadvab Student, NYUAD, UAE
Abhimanyu Vasishth Student, NYUAD, UAE
Wafa Ayad Student, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumedien, Algeria
Diala Alabsi Student, University of Sharjah, UAE

Mentors

Adrian Vatchinsky Software Developer, Cornell Tech, United States
Fatma Zohra Djoudjou Software Developer, Ericsson, Algeria
Abed El Karim Halawi Tech Lead, Vinelab, Lebanon

مكاني / handiPark handiPark

An app that helps handicap people to find the nearest handicap parking, report parking violators or lack of maintenance.

Students

Ahmad Mohammad Student, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE
Fahad Bader Student, Saudi Electronic University, Saudi Arabia
Hanan Haddad Student, University of Sharjah, UAE
Balsam Alkouz Student, University of Sharjah, UAE
Saeed Abdallah Student, University of Sharjah, UAE

Mentors

Razan Qraini Software Developer, Turnkey Solutions, Palestine
Anqi Angela Zhang Software Engineer, Quora, United States
Abdallah Zoubir Ourad Student, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE

Qarsan / Pirate Pirate

A decentralized mobile app based off bittorent and Tor, allowing citizen reporting to a news portal that is hosted by everyone who installs the app. It is uncensorable, un-DDoS-able and will amplify the true voice of the population.

Students

Michael Weingert Student, Stanford University, United States
Asyrique Thevendran Student, NYUAD, UAE
Muhammad Zaman Student, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Amn Rahman Student, MIT, United States
Brooke Hopkins Student, NYUAD, UAE
Ya-Chen Chang Student, Masdar Institute, UAE
Erin McMahon Student, Columbia University, United States

Mentors

Aurelia Moser Map Scientist + Developer, CartoDB, United States
Seth Thompson Project Manager, Google, United States

Dalila Dalila

Dalila is a Chrome extension that utilizes cutting edge natural language processing (NLP) research to help learners of Arabic and Arabic dialects by providing dialectal word analysis and definitions

Students

Hiba Bejaoui Student, High Private School of Engineering and Technologies, Tunisia
Sara Rashed Al Kendi Student, UAE University, UAE
Fatima Al Neyadi Student, UAE University, UAE
Maeda Hanafi Student, NYUAD, UAE

Mentors

Nizar Habash Professor, NYUAD, UAE
Ayah Soufan Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Fnarsoft, Palestine
Clair Seager Software Engineer, Nomi, United States
Houda Bouamor Special Faculty-Senior Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Tunisia
Salam Khalifa Research Assistant, NYUAD, UAE
Ayman Awartani Project Manager for Product Line Engineering, Harri.com, Palestine

FarFesh FarFesh

Most people focus on negative Arabic content, and we would like to change this by creating a website that collects happy stories from users or from Twitter and their reactions to these stories, in order to cheer them up and shed light on the happy content in the Arabic world.

Students

Abdelrahman Al Harahsheh Student, UAE University, UAE
Jumana Sultan Student, University of Petra, Jordan

Mentors

Geoffrey Litt Software Engineer,
Alaa Shaheen Software Engineer,
Ahmed Ali Senior Software Engineer, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Hieu Hoang Research Scientist, NYUAD, UAE

Jaras Jaras

An integrated news platform that will give users a different experience by allowing the local people to share their views and opinions about the events in their region and how they are covered by the media. This posts will be authenticated through a voting process where only the local people will vote on whether the related posts are true or false.This process will help in reducing the biases that may exist and the readers can get the closest version to the true story.

Students

Takieddine Bouyoucef Student, National Computer science Engineering School (ESI), Algeria
Nesrine Chalouah Student, National School of Computer Science University of Manouba, Tunisia
Jihed Khiari Student, National School of Computer Science University of Manouba, Tunisia
Yasmine Abobakr Student, Cairo University, Egypt
Ahmed Genaidy Student, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Marc El Achkar Student, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Mentors

Mikhail Oparin Ph.D. Candidate, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Russia
Nyokabi Njugana Founder and Executive Director, Impacting Youth Trust, Kenya

عراسي / Heads Up Arabic Heads Up Arabic

An open source mobile game where people can act out different words with a friend to learn English and Arabic. Players can add their own words and categories online.

Students

Meriem Chehih Student, National Computer science Engineering School (ESI), Algeria
Lidia Daniela Jeronimo Sanchez Student, Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Coacalco, Mexico
Mohammed Mubarak Al Tamimi Student, UAE University, UAE
Rihab el Houda Djabou Student, Mohamed el Bachir El Ibrahimi Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria
Kong Huang Student, NYU, United States

Mentors

Rabeb Othmani Software Engineer, Microsoft, Tunisia
Oleksandr Stubailo Core Developer, Meteor Development Group, United States
Henok Getachew Alemayehu Software Developer, Medic Mobile, Ethiopia

Afwan Afwan

A mobile app for tourists to ask questions and locals to answer them to receive payment on a first come first serve basis.

Students

Sama Kanbour
Sama Kanbour Executive Director, GE Aerospace, United States
Abderrahmane Melhaoui Student, Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingenieurs, Morocco
Jihyun Kim Student, NYUAD, UAE
Chien Chen Student, Masdar Institute, UAE
Areg Karapetyan Student, Masdar Institute, UAE
Izzedeen Ben Khadra Student, University of Petra, Jordan

Mentors

Kenneth Leland Senior VP of Engineering, Monmouth Telecom, United States
Yassine Karmouche Web and Mobile Apps Project Manager, Méditel – Orange Group, Morocco

Qataret Haya / SingleDrop SingleDrop

An efficient system for hospitals to connect to blood donors. Donors can register via an application and this information is put in a database accessible to hospitals. Hospitals can access eligible donors based on blood type and location.

Students

Raman Srivastava Student, Manipal University, UAE
Pooja Biswas Student, Manipal University, UAE
Vaishali Harish Student, Manipal University, UAE
Layan Abu Yassin Student, NYUAD, UAE
Mariem Ghezali Student, Ecole nationale Supérieure d’Informatique, Algeria
Zbynek Stara Student, NYUAD, UAE
Mathieu Michel Student, Gymnase de Chamblades, Switzerland
Muaz Ahmed Student, NYUAD, UAE
Shehroze Umer Khan Student, NYUAD, UAE
Bernat Moix Alcaraz Student, Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech, Spain

Mentors

Saira Qureshi Data Systems Manager, The Earth Institute, United States
Julia Winn Product Designer, Ginger.io, United States
Guilherme Santos Software Engineer, Buddycloud, Brazil
Piotr Adam Galar Student, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Mohamed Mansour Software Engineer, Microsoft, United States
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