DataHacks is a hackathon event held at UC San Diego that encourages students of all experiences to explore their curiosity and gain new skills in Data Science. Participants in DataHacks will hack for 30 hours, then pitch their projects to a panel of judges, consisting of UC San Diego professors and research scientists. Exceptional projects will be recognized and awarded exciting prizes, valued at over $1000!

Winners have been announced!

Advanded Track: OnlyDance by OnlyDance

Intermediate Track: AI Dance Battle by The Gigabytes

Beginner Track: Central or Cental? by Krishang Solo

Promising Prototype Award: Script2Screen by R^2 - ML

Best Presentation Award: koreai by Debug Thugs

Innovation Lanchpad Award: StatPilot by Suraj's Scholars

Check out our website for more information!

Check out the team's pitches here!

Speakers

Opening Keynote Speakers
Closing Keynote Speaker
  • Greg Horowitt, Director of Innovation at UCSD, Venture Capitalist.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

6 non-cash prizes
Advanced Track Winner
1 winner

4 x Sprout 7 Premium Mechanical Keyboards (Courtesy of milktypes)

Intermediate Track Winner
1 winner

4 x Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse

Beginner Track Winner
1 winner

4 x JBL Clip 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker

Promising Prototype Award
1 winner

4 x Owala (24oz) Waterbottles

Best Presentation
1 winner

4 x Pop Funkos

Innovation Launchpad Award
1 winner

The Basement 10th anniversary Mug, Notebook, Stickers, Canvas Bag, and other small goodies, along with JLab Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Janine Tiefenbruck

Janine Tiefenbruck
Lecturer | HDSI

Marina Langlois

Marina Langlois
Lecturer | HDSI

Haojian Jin

Haojian Jin
Assistant Professor | HDSI

Alex Cloninger

Alex Cloninger
Associate Professor | Math

Umesh Bellur

Umesh Bellur
Visiting Professor | HDSI

Amarnath Gupta

Amarnath Gupta
Research Scientist | SDSC

Guoer Liu

Guoer Liu
Assistant Professor | PoliSci

Suraj Rampure

Suraj Rampure
Lecturer | UMich

Judging Criteria

  • Judging Criteria
    To be announced!

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