HPCC Systems collaborates with a number of academic institutions in the USA, Europe and India. Our intern program, welcomes students on to the HPCC Systems platform team during the summer recess to work on HPCC Systems related projects. Our Academic Program supports research projects requiring data analytics which students also contribute to and as a result, are eligible to enter this contest. In fact, any student working on an HPCC Systems related project is welcome to enter this contest, regardless of whether they are an intern or academic partner contributor.
We held our first technical presentation competition at our Community Day Summit in 2016. The aim of this contest is to give students working on HPCC Systems related projects, an opportunity to showcase their achievements to a wide audience of HPCC Systems open source community members and LexisNexis Risk Solutions employees. This event is held at our annual HPCC Systems Community Day Summit and you can read all about what happened at last year's poster contest by reading our Fly on the Wall - 2019 Poster Contest Blog.
Our 2020 Poster Contest will be held virtually this year, so it is going to look a little difference to our judges and students, but the outcome will look the same. We will announce the results during our HPCC Systems Community Day Summit on Monday 5th October 2020 between 2-3pm ET. Also on the day, we will be presenting a new award to the student whose poster receives the most votes from all our Community Day attendees. This award is called the 'Community Choice Award'.
About the Students
We have 13 entries into our 2020 Poster Contest, with students presenting from 4 continents; North America, South America, Asia and Europe. The students range from high school right the way through to PhD level and there is also a wide variety of topics covered by their work. The posters will be available on Community Day (Monday October 5th 2020) when you will also be able to meet the students at our Interactive Expo and visit the chat room to ask questions or comment on their work. Once you have seen them all, you can then register your vote for our new Community Choice Award.
The list of students entering this contest is shown below. Simply click on the name and poster to view more details.
Students Presenting from Asia
| Ambu Karthik RV College of Engineering, India | Implementation of Generative Adversarial Networks in HPCC Systems using GNN Bundle |
| Atreya Bain RV College of Engineering, India | HSQL: An SQL-like language for HPCC Systems |
| Varsha Jenni RV College of Engineering, India | Hybrid Density-based Adaptive clustering using Gaussian kernel and Grid Search |
Students Presenting from Europe
| Nathan Halliday Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, UK | The Parallel Workflow Engine |
Students Presenting from North America
| Gurman Singh North Carolina State University | The Making of an Agriculture Data Lake |
| Jack Fields American Heritage School of Boca/Delray | Using HPCC Systems GNN Bundle with TensorFlow to Train a Model to Find Known Faces Leveraging the Robotics API |
| Jefferson Mao | HPCC Systems on Google Anthos |
| Matthias Murray New College of Florida | Applying HPCC Systems TextVector to SEC Filings |
| Robert Kennedy Florida Atlantic University | Distributed GPU Accelerated Neural Networks with GNN |
| Vannel Zeufack Kennesaw State University | Preprocessing Bundle for HPCC Systems Machine Learning Library |
| Yash Mishra Clemson University | Leveraging and Evaluating Kubernetes Support on Microsoft Azure |
Students Presenting from South America
| Johny Chen Jy Federal University of Santa Catarina, (UFSC), Brazil | Deltabase caching solutions: an exploratory analysis for increasing ROXIE queries performance |
| Lucas Varella Federal University of Santa Catarina, (UFSC), Brazil | A Cross Provider Assessment for HPCC Systems Container Orchestration |
About the Judges
As always, we have four judges this year. Three of our judges are colleagues representing different LexisNexis Risk Solutions teams and our external judge is one of our academic contributors.
| Jingqing Zhang PhD Candidate, Department of Computing Imperial College London | Jingqing Zhang is a 3rd-year PhD (HiPEDS) at Department of Computing, Imperial College London. His research interest includes Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Data Mining and Deep Learning. Jingqing’s Masters and PhD at Imperial College, London have been funded via the HPCC Systems Academic Program and he has used our big data analytics platform to process the data used in his research. He meets regularly with HPCC Systems team members who provide mentoring involving the use of HPCC Systems. JIngqing has produced at least 6 papers during his HPCC Systems sponsored research, maybe more! Find more details about our academic collaboration with Imperial College, London. |
| Kenneth Rowland Consulting Software Engineer LexisNexis Risk Solutions | |
| Raju Nagarajan Architect LexisNexis Risk Solutions | Ken is a member of the HPCC Systems platform development team. He has worked on maintaining the current configuration management components. Most recently he has developed a new Metrics Collection Framework for core platform components as part of the migration to the cloud. |
| Nicole Navarro Software Engineer II LexisNexis Risk Solutions | Nicole was an HPCC Systems intern in 2018 working on an HPCC Systems related project to measure the social distribution of opioid prescriptions. She presented a Tech Talk and Poster about her project and you can find out more using these links (Watch Recording / View Slides / View Poster). |
About the Awards
This year, we are awarding prizes in the following categories:
Content
This category focuses on looking at the originality of the project, the relevance to the HPCC Systems and the relevance to the conference theme.
Poster Design
This category focuses on looking at the organization and the visual appeal of the poster as well as the relationship with the content.
Presentation
This category focuses on how the student communicated their ideas, including the flow and clarity of the presentation.
Community Choice
This will be awarded for the first time in 2020. All Community Day attendees can vote for their favourite poster in an award that will truly reflect the views of the HPCC Systems Open Source Community. Find out more about our Virtual Community Day Summit and watch out for more to details to come.
