Olajide Folarin, Sadiq Aderinto and Stanley Dukor have emerged joint winners of the Data Science Nigeria 2018 Inter-Campus Machine Learning Competition.
The three students (Olajide Folarin – Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; Sadiq Aderinto and Stanley Dukor – University of Lagos, Akoka) emerged winners following an intensive five-day boot camp.
The competition was sponsored by Bluechip Technologies and organised by Data Science Nigeria.
The three first-place winners individually earned the highest score for machine learning algorithm development. The boot camp was facilitated by 11 visiting international experts in artificial intelligence, five online tutors and 15 Nigerian-based business leaders.
More than 10,000 students from 95 campuses participated in the four-stage competition. It included a pre-qualification, pre-study, a quiz, a Kaggle competition and a validation call. The top 85 students competed at the five-day all-expenses-paid boot camp at the Peninsula Resort, Lekki-Ajah Expressway, Lagos, from October 10-14 [2018].
The Data Science Nigeria Inter-Campus Machine Learning competition was aimed at increasing Nigeria’s experience and expertise in data science and to enhance the opportunities and employability of Nigerian students through an incentivised exposure to advanced world-class knowledge
Each of the three winners received $1,000 and an opportunity for a short-term internship at the Bluechip technology firm. In addition, campus volunteers from the universities with the highest number of participants in the pre-qualification process were also rewarded for promoting and mobilising participants for the competition.
