The

Geoffrey
Hinton
Fellowship
for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
The Geoffrey Hinton Fellowship (GHF)
is co-created by Univ.AI with Student
Clubs for Data Science & AI at the
country’s leading academic
institutions.

The GHF aspires to provide a platform

for the best emerging Machine
Learning & AI talent to demonstrate
their prowess, and ultimately gain
access to amazing internships,
employment and research
opportunities, worldwide.

Siddharth Das

Co-Founder and CEO, Univ.AI

“I have always been convinced
that the only way to get Artificial
Intelligence to work is to do the
computation in a way similar to
the human brain. That is the goal
I have been pursuing. We are
making progress, though we still
have lots to learn about how the
brain actually works”.

Dr. Geoffrey Hinton

Turing Award Winner | Emeritus Distinguished Professor

Department Of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada

How it works
8 4
Beginner-to-intermediate Expert level

level Data Science / AI hackathons will

Hackathons will be
be held every

held every year year

Eligibility The Jury

Any student from a participating A panel of Harvard & UCLA
institute professors and notable data
scientists

Top Performers in the Leaders List after THREE

hackathons will be called Geoffrey Hinton
Fellows.
GHF Leaders List
A GHF Leaders List will be created for GHF hackathon
participants through their cumulative performance in
the GHF Hackathons which will be organised every 6
weeks.

Participants will be ranked in Raj Verma

two ways: 1) National Rank,

amongst all participants and
2) Campus Rank, calculated
among participants from each
campus.

Participants with top

1. GHF Participant’s National Rankings
Campus Ranks will be named Anju Rathod

Geoffrey Hinton Scholars.

Geoffrey Hinton Scholars, and

participants with high GHF scores
will be invited to interview for
outstanding internships,
employment, and research
opportunities. 2. IIT Delhi - GHF Participants’ On-Campus Rankings
Awards
Win cash prizes of up to INR 6 Lacs, every year

Top participants in each Top performing

hackathon will receive participants will get

cash prizes. Merit certificates.

Internships and Research and
Employment Conferences
Geoffrey Hinton Fellows will have Fellows will get opportunities to work
privileged access to the best career with professors from top global
opportunities in the world during and universities including Harvard & UCLA
after their college years. on research, live projects & more.

The Geoffrey Hinton Fellowship is the

gateway for the most cutting edge
internship, research & employment
opportunities, worldwide.
About We are making state-of-the-art AI education
available beyond the confines of the world's
top institutions.

Our mission is to build a distributed, global

educational powerhouse that draws on
technology, and the finest AI expertise that
Founding Faculty the world has to offer.

Dr. Raghu Meka

Dr. Rahul Dave

Associate Professor, UCLA Former Faculty, Harvard University

Before founding Univ.AI, Rahul was a
Lecturer in Data Science and Machine
Raghu Meka is an Associate Learning at Harvard University, and
Professor of Computer Science co-creator of Harvard’s famous CS 109
at UCLA. He got his PhD at UT course. Rahul has a Ph.D in theoretical
Austin and was a postdoctoral physics from the University of
fellow at the Institute for Pennsylvania.
Advanced Study, (at Princeton
University). Before joining UCLA
Raghu was a researcher at the
Microsoft Research.

Dr. Pavlos Protopapas

Scientific Program Director, IACS,

Harvard University

Pavlos Protopapas is the

Scientific Program Director,
Institute for Applied
Computational Science (IACS) at
Harvard University, and leads the
Data Science Masters program at
Harvard. Pavlos has a Ph.D in
theoretical physics from the
University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Achuta Kadambi

Assistant Professor, UCLA

Achuta is an Assistant Professor

at UCLA where he directs the
Visual Machines Group. Achuta
received his PhD from MIT, his
BS from UC Berkeley. Earlier,
Achuta was named to the
Forbes 30 under 30 list of
leading inventors, and won a
Google Faculty Award.
Jury Members
Mathangi Sri

Head of Data, Gojek (GoFood)

Former Head of Data Science, PhonePe

Top 10 Data Scientists of India*

Head of Jury, Geoffrey Hinton Fellowship

*Analytics India Magazine

Shailesh Kumar

Chief Data Scientist, Reliance JIO

Visiting Faculty, Machine Learning, ISB

Former VP, Data Science, Ola

Atul Tripathi

Principal Data Scientist, Tech Mahindra

Former Data Scientist, National Security Council

Secretariat, Prime Minister’s Office
Co-Hosts & Partners
Analytics Club, IIT Bombay

Analytics Club, IIT Madras

Vision and Language Group, IIT Roorkee

Dev Club, IIT Delhi

Consulting and Analytics Club, IIT Guwahati

Club Of Programmers, IIT BHU

ML4E club, NIT Rourkela

BDAC cell , NIT Warangal

ACM, MIT Manipal

An exhaustive list of Co-hosts and Affiliates participants

can be found at https://www.univ.ai/ghf
Join Us
Build the country’s first
comprehensive AI & Data
Science fellowship! Create
the best global opportunities
for the best talent, globally.

Contact us
ghf@univ.ai

Atul Dorge

+91 9422 302 559

Nasir Afroze

+91 9897114848

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