UAE: Two MBZUAI students win $5,000 with innovative metaverse solutions

UAE: Two MBZUAI students win $5,000 with innovative metaverse solutions

They have also received a paid internship with DP World, the Emirati multinational logistics company

Published: Tue 13 Dec 2022, 3:39 PM Last updated: Tue 13 Dec 2022, 3:46 PM

A team of two students from Abu Dhabi’s Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) have won DP World’s Big Tech Project.

The project is a competition for students in the UAE and India to solve global trade challenges through the power of the metaverse.

Team Digicortex duo of Dhanalaxmi Gaddam, a machine learning student from India, and Abbas Bamidele Abdulsalam, a computer vision student from Nigeria, created an innovative two-in-one metaverse-based solution to claim the top prize.

These future innovators are among 52 students who will graduate with master’s degrees in machine learning and computer vision from MBZUAI during an inaugural commencement ceremony on Wednesday. MBZUAI is the world’s first graduate university dedicated exclusively to AI research and post-graduate studies.

Later, Gaddam and Abdulsalam will commence their prize of a paid internship with DP World, the Emirati multinational logistics company. They also received a $5,000 cash prize.

MBZUAI prepared duo for any challenge

Abdulsalam said the first idea they pitched was flawed and had to be developed again. They came out on top with their third