Let talented students from the Master Artificial Intelligence help you out with an AI challenge.
After following courses on different topics on Artificial Intelligence the master students are ready to put this all into practice in a AI consultancy project. You can bring your question and data and let students consult you on what you can (or maybe cannot) learn from and/or do with your data.
✅ Key features of the challenge
Students per team: 3 students.
No. of hours spent per team: 170 hours
Course: AI in the Professional Workfield
Program: Master Artificial Intelligence
Duration: April 14 – June 18
Supervision: Student teams will be assigned internal supervisors at the university to monitor their progress. The details and content of the project are mainly under the supervision of supervisors in the company.
Deliverables: Presentation and report with recommendations.
Company time investment: 8-12 hours
Matching fee: €850,- (ex tax, charged by Master Challenge (NOT the university)).
📑 Challenge Examples
The student teams can work on challenges that require AI techniques to come up with a solution. Examples of challenges that students worked on in previous years:
AI in healthcare
Pattern Detection and Classification
Automatic subject indexing
Visual place recognition for image retrieval
Neurotechnology and healthcare
And a few concrete examples from last year:
Help us identify interesting side effect reports using a prediction model with NLP
Recognizing intermediate company profiles using vacancy text
Can A.I. create more human friendly doctor schedules?
Help us understand and predict the energy consumption of all Dutch houses
But any challenge that requires the application of AI techniques to be solved is most likely suitable.
Questions? Want to discuss your challenge before submitting one? Schedule a call here.
🏢 Company requirement
Any company (startup/scale-up/corporate/incubator/NGO) with at least two founders/employees working full time in the company.
In business for at least 6 months.
Available dataset (there is time for data understanding / cleaning, but this should not require too much work).
As the aim is to give the students the opportunity of experiencing the job on the site, it is preferred to have some time spent at the company/organization or arrange visits.
💰 Costs
To help facilitate this challenge a matching fee of €850,- (ex tax) per team applies (charged by Master Challenge and NOT the university).
❗️You will only be charged when matched to a team.
📨 How to apply
You can submit the challenge directly through the website. Provide a title that summarises the challenge. Subsequently, briefly elaborate on your challenge. See link for a template you could use: https://link.masterchallenge.me/challenge-template or use the challenge generator: https://masterchallenge.me/challenge-generator
🗓 Planning
April 4 (extended): Deadline to submit a challenge
April 4 (or sooner): Receiving message if your challenge is approved by the Course Coordinator
April 7-13: Matching phase
April 8: Student teams rank the challenges
April 10: You rank the teams that want to work on your challenge(s)
April 13: Our matching algorithm will create perfect matches
April 14-17: Kick-off meeting with your team (hand over data to the team)
June 16 or 18, 9:00-17:00: Final presentations (offline (preferred) or online) (in times slots of 20 minutes)
We're happy to have you on board 👋
This will happen next 👇
Once you are assigned to a team, get together (offline or online) with your team asap, to discuss which challenges you want to work on and why, and submit this selection. Deadline is April 8. Please note, one team member will have to submit the challenge ranking.
Subsequently, the participating organizations will rank the teams that want to work on their challenge on April 10.
Finally, our platform will generate and share the team-challenge matches on April 13.
Once you're matched to a challenge, schedule a kick-off meeting with the company representative on April 14-17. (☝️Use this template). Make sure to prepare for this meeting (e.g. read about the company and the contact person, draft and share an agenda, formulate questions, etc.).
Good luck!