Winners of the 2017 Competition

Winners announced of a competition to predict student interest in science

Researchers at WPI, UPenn, UMass and released the results of an educational data mining competition at the NorthEast Big Data Spoke Meeting at MIT, February 16th 2018.

74 research teams participated in the competition.

The first place winning team of Chun Kit Yeung, Kai Yang, and Dit-yan Yeung is from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. They used a state-of- the-art “Deep Knowledge Tracing” model to predict student performance, combined with boosting algorithms. Prof. Yeung said, “It was great to participate in this challenge and to be recognized. We learned a lot about deep learning, and were glad to be given a chance to practice those skills.

The second place winner was Makhlouf Jihed from Japan’s Kyushu University, and third place honors went to the University of Michigan Data Science Team, a group that regularly competes in data competitions like this one.

For additional details on the competition, participants, and information, please visit the competition webpage.