Three third-year software engineering students pitched and won at the inaugural AI EarthHack competition at Microsoft’s headquarters in Toronto.
Competing as Team Cyclic Geese, Valerie Fernandes, Tanmay Pilla and Ekanshh Praveen presented EcoPulse, an application which aims to harness the power of generative AI to revolutionize the process of investing in the circular economy.
EcoPulse provides personalized investment recommendations by dynamically generating metrics based on individual user profiles.
In addition to winning a grand prize, Team Cyclic Geese will receive internships at Manulife.
“We were innovative about our use of generative AI by going beyond generating numerical data like scores and weights, but also allowing some of the criteria itself to be generated by GPT. Doing this allowed us to best leverage the creative potential of generative AI for the project,” Fernandes said.
The AI EarthHack competition was made possible through a partnership with Waterloo-based start-up DotsLive and the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard to organize a series of GenAI Competition initiatives — AI EarthHack was the first one.
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Team Cyclic Geese - Valerie Fernandes, Tanmay Pilla and Ekanshh Praveen - pitch and win at AI EarthHack competition.