The winners of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s HACKATHON: Tech & Media Solutions to Reduce Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) were announced on June 23, 2023, at the end of a two-day event at the Beckman Center in Irvine, California.
The winners are as follows:
AI-Powered Software Solutions Track:
1st place: Poppy — Joshua Inhyuk Choi (University of California, Irvine), Nathan Choi (University of California, Irvine), and Paul Wong (University of California, Santa Cruz)
2nd place: STIcker — Lalit Patel (data science) and Sean Patel (University of California, Riverside, Neuroscience 2023 Graduate)
YouTube Health Innovation Prize: SympToDialog — Jimy Bombela (California State University, Fullerton, Computer Science 2023 Graduate), Kenny Garcia (California State University, Fullerton, Computer Science Undergraduate), Mauricio Macias (California State University, Fullerton, Computer Science 2021 Graduate), and Ricky Morales (California State University, Fullerton, Computer Science Undergraduate)
Data Analytics Track:
First Place and YouTube Health Innovation Prize: Porcupine — Zhuyuan He (full-stack developer/data visualization/interaction design and prototyping) and Jimmy Wang (software engineering/computer science)
Second Place: STIgma — Oscar Florez (full-stack developer/generative AI), Cornelius Jamison (family medicine physician/health care researcher), Matt Kilboy (registered nurse/health informatics), and Victor Nguyen (front-end developer/software engineering)
The National Academies will soon host a virtual Hackathon to generate further solutions around STI prevention; registration will open in mid-August.
The NAM would like to issue a special thanks to the mentors (Catherine Diamond, Abraham Johnson, Elizabeth (Lizzi) Torrone, Sean Young) and judges (Abhik Choudhury, Jen Hecht, Alok Patra, Sonia Almonte, Saugat Karki, Allysha Maragh-Bass).
More information about the Hackathon can be found here: nam.edu/STIHackathon
A full press release can be found here: https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/07/first-national-academies-hackathon-awards-60k-to-innovative-implementable-solutions-to-prevent-treat-and-control-stis-in-the-us
