DMBI Data Hackathon
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
In light of many requests the DMBI data-hackathon was moved to
Thursday May 3rd, and will take place between May 3rd-4th, 2018
BGU Main Campus, Carole and Marcus Weinstein Information Systems Engineering and Cyber Security Building (96)
Number of participants is limited! Hurry up and register
Scroll down or click here for more information regrading the challenges
Thanks to all the participants, mentors and organizers who helped us is having a great Hackathon, and congratulations to the winners:
First place: Team: Amiel Meiseles, Dima Kagan, Yotam Sandbank, Yovel Rom. Challenge: IoT device identification.
Second Place: Team: Lior Sidi, Dvir Cohen, Ori Bar Ilan. Challenge: Drug-to-drug interaction prediction.
Third place: Team: Alan Lee, Andri Hartanto Kristian, Jia Xiang Lim, Randy Julian & Xin Chen. Challenge: IoT device identification.
Prizes will be awarded @ DMBI, 10.5
About the DMBI Data Hackathon
This year, the SISE DMBI annual conference will be preceded by a Data Hackathon for leveraging the utilization of advanced machine learning and deep learning algorithms and techniques for solving real world challenges.
The hackathon is planned to be a 30-hours event where data enthusiastic programmers, designers and researchers combine their skills to build innovative solutions for real world problems aiming at empowering our society.
The hackathon will include practical tutorials from senior data-scientists from various fields.
The winners will be announced at the conference.
**Please note that the DMBI conference registration is done separately in the DMBI conference website
Information
Where
When
The DMBI Data Hackathon 2018 will take place between Tuesday, May 8th and Wednesday, May 9th
The winner will be announced @ DMBI conference on May 10th.
Information
Where
When
BGU Main Campus Beer-Sheva, Israel, Carole and Marcus Weinstein Information Systems Engineering and Cyber Security
(Building 96)
The DMBI Data Hackathon 2018 will take place between Thursday, May 3rd and Friday, May 4th
The winner will be announced @ DMBI conference on May 10th.
Who
The DMBI Data Hackathon 2018 will host many mentors from several companies from the industry.
You will have an opportunity to work, learn and mingle with the best in the field
What
The DMBI Data Hackathon 2018 will contain 3 parallel group challenges. Full details will be provided on April 23rd @ two locations: Taboola offices in Tel Aviv, and Ben-Gurion University.
Each group may contain up to five members
The Challenges
The Data Hackathon for social good will include challenges related to the following domains:
Cyber - Protect networks from malicious IOT devices
Medical - Enhance drug-drug interaction discovery
Meteorology - Improve weather prediction, in collaboration with the Israeli meteorology services
Full details will be provided on April 23rd, 19:00 @ two locations: Taboola offices in Tel Aviv, and Ben-Gurion University (Carole and Marcus Weinstein Information Systems Engineering and Cyber Security Building [96], room 001).
The Prizes
10,000 NIS
5,000 NIS
2,500 NIS
The Rules
Teams of up to 5 participants are allowed. All team members must have registered to the hackathon.
The hackathon's organizers do not claim ownership of your solutions built during the hackathon; but by participating you are granting the organizers a free right to use, reproduce, publish and sublicense your solution.
You should start building your solution only after the competition officially begins
Teams may be subject to a code-review towards the end of the competition.
The Schedule
Day 1, 3/5:
9:00 - Arrival and light breakfast
9:45 - Hackathon starts! Challenges overview
12:00 - Tutorial - "an Introductory Tutorial on Embeddings with TensorFlow" by Taboola
14:00 - Lunch
16:00 - Tutorial - "Advanced Keras Applications" by Yam Peleg
19:00 - Tutorial - "Interpretability of Machine Learning Models" by Michaël Mariën from KBC
20:30 - Dinner
21:30 - Stretches and Body Relaxation
Day 2, 4/5:
00:00 - Night snacks
6:30 - Test sets are given
7:00 - Breakfast
9:00 - First judging round
12:00 - Presentation and second judging round
13:00 - Hackathon ending!
The Tutorials
All tutorials will take place in building 96, room 102
16:00 "Advanced Keras Applications" by Yam Peleg
Yam Peleg is the founder of Deep Trading ltd. He is also a major contributor to the Python community and to Keras specifically who spoke at dozens python conferences around the world, including PyData, PyCon, SciPy and many more.
12:00 "an Introductory Tutorial on Embeddings with TensorFlow" by Taboola
Efrat Solodnik, is an Algorithm Engineer at Taboola, mostly using ML and Deep-Learning with affection to real-world problems. Holding a M.Sc in EE (TAU).
Zohar Komarovsky is an Algorithms Developer at Taboola, focusing on discovery of personalized content through Deep Learning. Holding an M.Sc in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University, in the field of Distributed Search and Multi-Agent Systems.
19:00 - "Interpretability of Machine Learning Models" by Michaël Mariën
Michaël Mariën joined the KBC Big Data Analytics group as a data scientist in the fall of 2016. He holds a Master's degree in Mathematics (University of Leuven) and obtained a PhD in Theoretical Physics at the University of Ghent (Belgium) in the area of computational tensor network methods for quantum many body systems. In 2016, he was also associated with the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Although his background and expertise are in the development of new algorithms, Michaël is currently mainly interested in the business oriented applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
