Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon

 

 

Four teams from Chandigarh University emerge winners at grand finale of Smart India Hackathon-2022

 

CU student beats hundreds of teams to solve problems by MHA, Jal Shakti Ministry, ISRO, Madhya Pradesh Police

 

 MOHALI: In a momentous achievement, four teams of Chandigarh University emerged winners at the grand finale of Smart India Hackathon-2022 held across the 75 institutions all over the country, providing technology-driven solution to problems faced by union ministry of Home Affairs, Union Ministry of Jal Shakti, ISRO and Madhya Pradesh government. Three teams secured first positions, even as another team bagged third position, and with their application being considered by ISRO in the LULC part of their BHUVAN portal.

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Among these, the first team, comprising of Chandigarh university’s CSE department students including Lokesh, Talib, Gursimran, Malika, Dolly, and Team leader Rajat won First Prize at the SIH’s grand finale held at IIT Kanpur for providing solution to the problem statement titled 'Crime prediction model/ tool for mapping hotspots' given by ministry of Home Affairs. Team Agrocon, comprising of Chandigarh university’s CSE department students including Atul, Mahak Saxena, Bhuvan Sharma, Shubham, Preeti Lakshmi, and Team leader Yogendra Singh, along with mentor Ankita Sharma won First Prize at the SIH’s grand finale held at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Andhra Pradesh. Around 900 students from 150 teams had submitted proposals for different problems provided by the union Ministry of Jal Shakti for National Jal Shakti Mission, of which six teams were shortlisted for final round, where CU’s Team Agrocon won the first prize for providing solution to the problem statement titled ‘Android app for predicting natural occurrence’ to find the occurrence of natural disaster and act as a portal between farmers and government.

Likewise, Team Orions from Chandigarh University comprising of Mocktic joshi, Aniket Thakre, Isha Verma, Divyanshu Dobriyal, Prashant Pandey, and Team leader Siddhant Bhardwaj won First Prize at the SIH’s grand finale held at Dr B C Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, West Bengal for providing solution to the problem of Madhya Pradesh Police titled ‘Predictive analytic solutions using AI’. A total of 247 teams had participated wherein 25 teams made it to the finals. Team Orions emerged as the winners. Both Team Agrocon and Team Orions were awarded with the 1 Lakh rupee cash prize.

Another team of Chandigarh University’s ECE department-Shoonya, led by Subhadeep Chatterjee and comprising of Adwait, Gautam, Mayank, Safeer, and Shruti, and mentored by Jeba Shiney O and Dhiraj Kumar Singh won Third Prize at SIH’s grand finale at Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad. A total of 240 teams participated in the competition, out of which 34 teams were shortlisted for the final round, where Team Shoonya bagged third spot for providing solution to the ISRO’s problem statement titled: ‘Water quality from Satellite Images’. Their application and algorithm was accepted and appreciated by ISRO which will give spatial and temporal water quality of entire India and is being considered by ISRO in the LULC part of their BHUVAN portal.

Congratulating the students for this glorious achievement, Chandigarh University Pro-Chancellor Dr R S Bawa said that it is a matter of pride for the university that our students and their mentors proved their mettle at the national stage.

In this year’s edition, the SIH had offered 476 problem statements received from 62 organizations. More than 15000 students from 2033 winner teams of campus level hackathons organized under SIH-2022, participated in this year’s SIH grand finale at national level, at various assigned nodal centers.