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NeuraVia is an organization that unites passionate students, researchers, and enthusiasts in the fields of neuroscience and AI, and empowers them to innovate, and create tools that accelerate early AI diagnosis, treatment, and understanding of neurological disorders.
Through NeuraVia hacks, a student-led hackathon running from the competition dates August 22nd-August 24th, we hope to establish a competitive, yet collaborative medicine and neuroscience themed hackathon.
Requirements
Prompt: Capturing Medical Data for Interactive Software
Participants should create a submission that adheres to one or more of the following guidelines:
Detect: Develop solutions that help detect health conditions earlier than traditional methods. For example: using pattern recognition, predictive analytics, or self-assessment tools.
Connect: Create tools that bridge gaps between patients, families, and healthcare providers. Can include intuitive data visualizations, progress tracking dashboards, or communication aids.
Personalize: Leverage AI or machine learning to deliver personalized insights, wellness recommendations, or risk assessments.
Projects must:
Include an interactive element, can be a web or mobile app, a dashboard, a chatbot, or any tool that users can interact with. They should also be designed to have real-world relevance, with usability and impact.
If there are any questions regarding project ideas, please contact info@neuravia.tech.
Prizes
1st Place Overall Category
• $500 cash
• Position on NeuraVia Software Development Team, developing an AI model to track progression of Alzheimer's Disease
• 1:1 mentorship session
• 4x 7-Day full access licenses to Interview Cake's Coding Interview Prep Course
2nd Place Overall Category
• $250 cash
• LinkedIn Learning (6‑mo)
• 4x 7-Day full access licenses to Interview Cake's Coding Interview Prep Course
3rd Place Overall Category
• $150 cash
• Four $25 coupons for Art Of Problem Solving (AoPS) products
• 4x 7-Day full access licenses to Interview Cake's Coding Interview Prep Course
1st Place Beginner Category
- $75 cash
- 4x 7-Day full access licenses to Interview Cake's Coding Interview Prep Course
- Up to 4 .xyz domains (dependent on team size)
2nd Place Beginner Category
- $50 cash
- 4x 7-Day full access licenses to Interview Cake's Coding Interview Prep Course
- Up to 4 .xyz domains (dependent on team size)
Young Researchers Institute Scholarship
- $1,000 worth of Young Researchers Institute Scholarship Aid per student in the highest scoring high-school/undergraduate based team (potentially up to $4,000)
RISE Global Education Scholarship
20% scholarship to RISE Global Education Research Program for top 20 high school participants, valued at $400 per person.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Jeet Mehta
Jeet Mehta is a seasoned software engineer specializing in high-scale distributed systems and ad tech infrastructure. He currently leads engineering initiatives at Netflix for their Ad stack and previously worked at Amazon.
Chirag Agarwal
Chirag Agrawal is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon, leading innovations in AI-powered conversational systems, with focus on AI Tool calling, prompt design, long-term interaction, memory, agent evaluation, and developer tooling.
Nitin Kumar
Nitin Kumar, Director of Data Science at Marriott International, where I lead cross-functional teams in developing and operationalizing AI and large-language-model solutions for customer experience, sustainability, and enterprise applications.
Akshata Bhat
Akshata Bhat is a Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon’s AGI organization, leading initiatives in large-scale multi-modal retrieval, knowledge grounding, and robust evaluation of ML systems.
Abhijit Nayak
Abhijit Nayak is a Senior Data Scientist specializing in Natural Language Processing with 7+ years of experience. He has led NLP pipeline development and fine-tuned large language models across clinical oncology, finance, and retail domains.
Raj Bhowmik
Raj Bhowmik is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with Cognizant, USA. I have a background in data science, specializing in building intelligent, scalable systems using deep learning and generative AI.
Niyati Prajapati
Niyati P is an ML Software Lead with 10+ years of experience in AI, GenAI, Computer Vision, and Robotics. She has led cross-functional teams developing LLMs, multimodal models, and software architectures for RL and transfer learning in consumer robotics.
Sahil Deshpande
Sahil is a seasoned engineer at Meta with 8+ years of experience in large-scale infrastructure optimization. He designs scalable systems that boost data center efficiency and resource utilization, saving millions through performance-driven solutions.
Omkar Bhalekar
Omkar Bhalekar is a Sr. Network Engineer at Tesla, specializing in advanced networking for smart manufacturing, EVs, battery tech, and robotics, aligning with Industry 5.0 standards focused on environmental sustainability.
Senthilkumaran Rajagopalan
Tech Lead Manager at Meta, leading Facebook’s video recommendation systems. With 6+ years in ML leadership and 10 years at Microsoft Bing, I specialize in large-scale AI, user interest modeling, multilingual ranking, and deep learning–based retrieval.
Harshith Vaddiparthy
I'm Harshith Vaddiparthy, AI Product Engineer at JustPaid.ai (YC W23) with 5+ years of experience in AI and startups. I’ve founded and exited ARTIFIN.ai, spoken at NFT.NYC, and built extensively in the accessibility-focused tech space.
Mahendran Chinnaiah
Mahendran Chinnaiah is a visionary Digital Healthcare Architect with 18+ years delivering enterprise solutions across the healthcare continuum. He bridges technology, clinical ops, PBM, insurance, and compliance to drive innovation, efficiency and impact.
Yiyun Qiu
Cloud Qiu is an award-winning innovation strategist and designer with 7+ years leading AI/ML and health tech projects. Her 0-to-1 work spans wearable systems to satellite installations, reaching 200M+ users and earning Red Dot and A’ Design Awards.
Ashwini Joshi
Ashwini Joshi, Senior ML Engineer and Tech Lead with 15+ years driving AI/ML innovation for ISRO, Warner Bros Discovery, and more, applies advanced AI to user engagement, conversational AI, and security while mentoring emerging talent.
Jyoti Shah
Jyoti Shah is a technology leader with 20+ years in app development, digital transformation, and AI. As ADP’s Director of Application Development, she drives scalable solutions, leads GenAI initiatives, and champions inclusion, mentorship, and innovation.
Karthik Ramamurthy
Engineering leader with 10+ years across Fintech, Housing/Mortgage, and B2B, architecting AI/ML-driven automation frameworks that accelerate releases, increase reliability, and ensure regulatory compliance.
Vyshnavi Aitu
Full-stack developer with 5+ years at FedEx, skilled in iOS/Android, AI/ML, and logistics tech. Created an award-winning app (5-Star Award) deployed on 3,000+ devices, expanding rural shipping access. Passionate about real-world tech impact and mentoring.
Srinivasa R. Atta
Srinivasa R. Atta is a Staff Solutions Consultant at Google, specializing in Cloud and AI. He has expertise in software development, cloud computing, AI, distributed systems, and scalable web/mobile apps. He is a Senior IEEE Member and IEEE CS member.
Goutham Bandapati
Goutham is a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft specializing in Azure Cloud and AI. With 13+ years in IT, product management, and AI, he helps enterprises build resilient systems, serves as a Cloud Resiliency Champion, and mentors startups.
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