A team of undergraduate Computer Science students placed in the top eight at a recent AI Hackathon with “Skyline,” a project that uses demographic data and machine learning to simulate cities and use these patterns to optimize its transit infrastructure.
The four students – Rajan Agarwal (Software Engineering), Elijah Kurien (Software Engineering), Ishaan Dey (Software Engineering) and Joshua Yan (Computer Science) – were able to attend the hackathon, which took place from June 22 to 24 at the University of California – Berkeley, thanks to sponsorship from the Math Endowment Fund. “We had two goals,” Agarwal says: “to represent Waterloo on an international stage, and to learn more about the connections between machine learning, math and calculus.”
Read the full story from Waterloo News to learn more.