NYUAD 2017 Hackathon

The 6th 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 13, 2017, to April 16, 2017.

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The 2017 Teams

1st Place
Hiat

حياة / Hiat Hiat

Connecting skilled refugees and the local community in an easy-to-use gig-economy platform.

Students

Camilo Luciano Fosco Student,
Amro Alabsi Aljundi Student, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Vladimir Illievski Student, Ecole polytechnique f̩d̩rale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Sonia Xu Student, MIT, United States
Munira AlAli Student, Khalifa University, UAE
Radwa Hamed Software Engineering Intern, Google Knowledge Graph Team, Egypt

Mentors

Islam El-Ashi Student, University of Waterloo, Canada
2nd Place
3rd Headache (I Have a Headache)

3rd Headache (I Have a Headache) 3rd Headache (I Have a Headache)

Automating triage nurses.

Students

Daniel Watson Student, NYUAD, UAE
Khalid Abul Borghol Student, AUS, UAE
Hayat Al Hasan Student, NYUAD, UAE
EitharAl Fatih Student, University of Khartoum, Sudan
Moiri Gamboni Student, NYUAD, UAE
Chenhao Xu Student, NYUAD, UAE
Munachiso Nwadike Student, NYUAD, UAE

Mentors

Razan Qraini Software Developer, Turnkey Solutions, Palestine
Varun Arora CEO, OpenCurriculum, United States
Lingliang Zhang Student, NYUAD, UAE
3rd Place
Tarakeeb

تراكيب / Tarakeeb Tarakeeb

An automated grammar checker to teach Arabic.

Students

Lama Ahmad Student, NYUAD, UAE
Jordan Fahmi Al-Najjar Student, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan
Maha Amjad Student, FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
SkyeIm Student, NYUSH, China
Saleh Shorook Student, University of Sharjah, UAE

Mentors

Anas Shahrour Research Assistant, NYUAD, UAE
Balsam Alkouz Student, University of Sharjah, UAE
David Warr Founder, Language Garden Ltd, United Kingdom
Hanan Hadad Student, University of Sharjah, UAE
Saeed Motamed Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft, UAE
3rd Place
AnNahr

"In 3 days, the team worked together to identify a problem worth solving they felt personally passionate about, and had a chance to learn, apply and teach one another new tools and frameworks, from Quantum, ML, data visualization, storytelling, and business strategy, allowing them to build and practice new skills."

Sama Kanbour

النهر / AnNahr AnNahr

An interactive hardware/software solution that addresses the issue of water wastage during the Wudhu (ablution) at the Masjid (mosques) by providing feedback to the user in an attempt to raise awareness and change their behavior, encouraging positive water saving.

Students

Zakaria Belkham Student, M’hamed Bouguerra University, Algeria
Hijazi Abdur Rahman Student, Birla Institute of Technology, UAE
Emmad Arif Student, Yale University, United States
Elissa Mkanna Student, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Driss El Ouiqary Student, Abdelmalek Essaadi University,National School of Applied Sciences in Tangier, Morocco
Abdelrazaq Al-Sharif Innovation Engineer, StartAD, UAE
Seyed Mohammad Ahlesaadat Student, NYUAD, UAE

Mentors

Fahim Imaduddin Dalvi Student, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Sama Kanbour
Sama Kanbour Executive Director, GE Aerospace, United States
Joyce Zhang Student, MIT, United States
Audience Winner
Teslam

تسلم / Teslam Teslam

Service to visualize actionable data in the Arab world related to NCDs (specifically obesity & diabetes) through big data & machine learning, to share with government and business entities, and to educate the targeted subjects of these diseases through a conversational intelligent chat bot.

Students

Athra Al Khatri Student, UAE University, UAE
Shahan Ali Memon Student, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Leanne Dsouza Developer, Accenture, UAE
Khalid Alawar Student, Khalifa University, UAE
Ibrahim Soltan Student, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar
Daria Zahaleanu Student, NYUAD, UAE

Mentors

Farah Shamout Professor, NYUAD, UAE
Harini Kannan Student, MIT, United States
Khalid Machchate Student, University Mohammed V – Souissi (Engineering school ENSIAS), Morocco
Tabboush

طبوش / Tabboush Tabboush

Tabboush is the name of a virtual pet companion to assist autistic children coping with every day tasks.

Students

Randa Elbehery Student, Cairo University, Egypt
Hera Arif Student, Abu Dhabi University, UAE
Anas Einea Student, University of Sharjah, UAE
Nouf Alsaedi Student, UAE University, UAE
Alaa Maarouf Student, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
Noura Hussain Student, Khalifa University, UAE

Mentors

Bassem Dghaidi Technical Director, SE Factory, Lebanon
Dani Arnaout CTO, Saily, Lebanon
Muneeza Patel MIT, UAE
Areni

أرني / Areni Areni

 Connecting resettled youth refugees with local volunteer teachers

 

Students

Mariam Garba Student, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Zachary Sorenson Student, Stanford University, United States
Shaikha Aldoukhi Student, Khalifa University, UAE
Sana Khiari Student, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, Tunisia

Mentors

SamrSamir Ali Teaching and Research Assistant, Abu Dhabi University, UAE
Erin Hoffman PhD, University of Washington, United States
Mike Clarke CEO, Atlas IQ, United States
Transparent

مكشوف / Transparent Transparent

A platform to encourage people to donate more confidently by improving the financial integrity of charities,NGO’s and other governmental organizations through the use of block-chain’s innately transparent technology, giving donors the ability to track the effects of their donations.

Students

Ahmad Ilaiwi Student, Najah, Palestine
Amaan Kulshreshtha Student, Birla Institute of Technology, UAE
Anas Aloweiwi Student, The University of Jordan, Jordan
Manaf Alanazi Student, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Param Singh Student, National Institute of Technology,Hamirpur, India
Najwa Azzabi Student, University Hassan 1st – National School of Applied Sciences of Khouribga, Morocco

Mentors

Stephen Lang Co-Founder/CDO, Uni Creative Inc, Japan, United States
Kenneth Leland Senior VP of Engineering, Monmouth Telecom, United States
Musaeada

مساعدة / Musaeada Musaeada

SMS-based personal crisis broadcaster.

Students

Shirley Miao Student, University of Waterloo, Canada
Rashiq Zahid Student, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Samridha Man Shrestha Student, NYUAD, UAE
Jaisal Friedman Student, NYUAD, UAE
Naomi Pentrel Student, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Kunal Malhotra Student, BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus, UAE

Mentors

Aidan Feldman Engineer, 18F,
Feel Better

اشعر بتحسن / Feel Better Feel Better

An Arabic-speaking virtual assistant that engages with the user and uses machine learning to assess their mental health and happiness levels.

Students

Marisa Chow Student, Princeton University, United States
Walid Abismail Student, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’informatique, ESI ex INI, Algeria
Muhammad Owais Student, University of Sharjah, UAE
Brooke Hopkins Student, NYUAD, UAE
Einea Omar Student, University of Sharjah, UAE

Mentors

Baris Yuksel Senior Software Engineer, Google, United States
Tiffany Tong Project Coordinator, NYUAD, UAE
Fabricio Pontes Harsich Student, Facultad de Ingeniería – Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2nd Place
3ndi Headache (I Have a Headache)

3ndi Headache (I Have a Headache) 3ndi Headache (I Have a Headache)

Automating triage nurses.

Students

Daniel Watson Student, NYUAD, UAE
Khalid Abul Borghol Student, AUS, UAE
Hayat Al Hasan Student, NYUAD, UAE
EitharAl Fatih Student, University of Khartoum, Sudan
Moiri Gamboni Student, NYUAD, UAE
Chenhao Xu Student, NYUAD, UAE
Munachiso Nwadike Student, NYUAD, UAE

Mentors

Razan Qraini Software Developer, Turnkey Solutions, Palestine
Varun Arora CEO, OpenCurriculum, United States
Lingliang Zhang Student, NYUAD, UAE
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