IMFD students win in Hackathon "Data Challenge in the Cloud".

September 2024 - The hackathon was held at Google' s offices in Chile with the presence of the sponsors: Le Wagon, Kaggle and Google Cloud, in order to take learning and application of cloud technologies and data science to a new level in our region.

The first place winners of the hackathon were: Luis Miranda and Cristobal Vásquez, students of the UC Department of Computer Science and the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, together with DCC UC studentsOscar Loch and Rodrigo Pozo (master's student), Cristobal Vásquez (master's student).

Luis Miranda, after the triumph, shared: "We found out about the instance through social networks, and it was a very entertaining and challenging experience, and the fact that it was in the google offices made it even nicer. After winning first place, we won a nintendo switch, and we were delighted with the prize because we left it at the IALAB (Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the DCC UC) and in our free time we enjoyed it".

Source: DCC UC.