{"id":212611,"date":"2025-04-16T11:56:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/?p=212611"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:48:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:48:49","slug":"graduate-students-repeat-win-in-raise-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/2025\/04\/16\/graduate-students-repeat-win-in-raise-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Students Repeat Win in RAISE Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bloustein.rutgers.edu\/raise-25-recap-our-future-with-ai-utopian-or-dystopian\/\" target=\"_blank\">RAISE-25<\/a> challenged teams to unravel the scope of AI\u2019s impact on our lives and human society. RAISE-25 is\u00a0 a novel Informatics, Advanced Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Competition. This year competitors were asked one of the most defining questions of our time: <em>What will our AI-powered future look like<\/em>? From February through the culminating event on April 11 the Next-Gen Tech Thinkers worked meticulously to answer this question. The team representing Montclair this year consisted of students: Blessing Austin-Gabriel, Ernest Chianumba, Shibbir Ahmed Arif, Cristian Noriega and Keerthana Gajari and Faculty Mentors: Dr. Aparna Varde and <a href=\"\/~liuha\">Dr. Hao Liu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our students demonstrated exceptional dedication and innovative thinking throughout this prestigious competition. As mentors, we are immensely proud of their hard work and intellectual contributions.<\/p>\n<footer><cite>Drs. Varde and Liu<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Please join us in congratulating Team Next-Gen Tech Thinkers on this great achievement and for continuing the School, College and University&#8217;s tradition of excellence in data science!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Next-Gen Tech Thinkers has won the first prize in the nationwide RAISE-2025 Data Science competition hosted by Rutgers University, NJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":212612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csam-students","category-school-of-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212806,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212611\/revisions\/212806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}