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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE RAISE-25 GRAD. TRACK WINNERS!!! 🏆 The final round of the RAISE-25 Informatics - Data Science - AI Competition was held on Friday, April 11, 2025, at Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. We had 119 teams join RAISE-25 from universities across the US, 14 finalist teams; these are the winners from the 7 graduate finalist teams. 🌟 First Prize Winner: Team NextGen Tech Thinkers – Montclair State University Blessing Austin-Gabriel, Ernest Chianumba, Shibbir Ahmed Arif, Keerthana Gajari, Cristian C Noriega M 🌟 Second Prize Winner: Team Semantic Squad – Rutgers University Shubham Patil, Sai Srichandra Ravuri, Mark Doughten, Arushi Gupta 🌟 Special Mention: Team HashNCache – Rutgers University Variath Madhupal Gautham Nair, Sharan Varghese, Ranga Sai Reddy Yalaka, Vishal Varma Dantuluri, Abhinav S Bharadwaj We applaud all the teams for their brilliant presentations on the topic of ‘Our Future with AI: Utopian or Dystopian?’ We are deeply grateful to our graduate judges – Balaji Dhamodharan, Udayan Bose, and Cory Yemen for lending their expertise, thoughtful feedback, and support throughout the final round. Thank you for championing the next generation of data-driven leaders in public informatics and AI. RAISE-25 was hosted by the MPI program https://lnkd.in/ebvPx5NN at Rutgers Bloustein School  Join us on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/eyQjCdQN Thank you all for being a part of our journey toward advancing informatics and AI for the public good! #PublicInformatics #Informatics #AI #DataScience #Analytics #ML #STEM #Rutgers #GraduateSchool #Bloustein #DataScience #Analytics #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #HumanCenteredAI #AIForGood #Innovation #RAISE #DataChallenge #BigData  #RutgersUniversity #Innovation #ML #NLP #HAI #HCAI  #LLM #aiethics #aieducation #GenerativeAI #GenAI Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Rutgers University–New Brunswick Rutgers University - Newark Rutgers University - Camden  The New Jersey Big Data Alliance The Daily Targum New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA) Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub Rutgers Business School Heldrich Center for Workforce Development