CAII Announces the Winners of the 2025 Ashby Prize in Computational Science Hackathon

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is proud to house the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation and through this collaboration, and the funding by the Ashby Foundation at the University of Illinois, we are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s competition.

Rooted in NCSA’s mission to bring people, computing, and data together to benefit society, the Hackathon reflects the center’s vision of a future enlightened by research discoveries that expand human understanding and improve the world. By fostering collaboration across disciplines and harnessing the transformative power of computing, software, and data sciences, the event embodies NCSA’s approach to solving society’s greatest challenges through research.

This year’s hackathon attracted 19 teams of students from the University of Illinois, with 11 presenting their final results. CAII would like to introduce you to the top five teams below—each wanting to showcase their skills in a friendly competition while working on challenging problems involving HPC and AI on state-of-the-art compute platforms.

3rd Place Co-Winners

2nd Place Co-Winners

Congratulations to the First place winner!

For more detail on the science behind the competition, read the story from the Office of Data Science Research HERE

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