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Tokyo eng’g lab holds hackathon & lecture in UP
| Written by Jo. Florendo B. Lontoc
“I know you’re earning deep technical skills in this course… It is very important to apply these in solving problems and challenges in society. And to do that, we have to team up together… Instead of solving just a very narrow problem, let’s try to address a larger, societal-scale problem with the skills that you have.” UP Vice President for Research Innovation Joel Joseph Marciano advises enrollees of the Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory Global Consumer Intelligence course from the Philippines and welcomes the teaching team from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering laboratory during a hackathon and lecture for the course, May 19 at UP Diliman. Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO.
The University of the Philippines hosted the Global Consumer Intelligence Hackathon and Lecture, May 19 at the UP Diliman School of Statistics. A collaboration between the UP Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation and Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory of the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering, the event aimed to expand the competencies of GSI course participants — 1,781 of whom are from UP, 581 of them from UPD.
Hackathon participants were tasked to create a machine learning model predicting the probability of loan defaulting by using several data sets. Electronics Engineering student Kent Joseph Palima won first place, earning the honor of Outstanding Student and getting a free study tour in Japan.
Dr. Akihiro Nakano of Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory guides participants through the dynamics of the Global Consumer Intelligence hackathon and delivers a lecture on data science, May 19 at UP Diliman. Nakano notes the high retention rate of the course enrollees from UP. Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO.Erin Hirakawa, Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory technical assistant and leader of the laboratory’s Global team, oversees the laboratory’s one-day academic event at UP Diliman, May 19.
Dr. Akihiro Nakano of the laboratory was the resource person who guided participants through the dynamics of the Global Consumer Intelligence hackathon and gave salient points on data science to ensure that machine learning models deliver results more reliably.
Nakano noted the high retention rate of the course enrollees from UP.
UP Technology Transfer and Business Development Office Deputy Director Jimbo Reverente (left) congratulates hackathon third place winner Mark Louis Briones, a UP Diliman computer engineering student, during the Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory’s Global Consumer Intelligence event at UP Diliman, May 19. The first and second place winners were not around for the awarding. Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO.Participants of the Global Consumer Intelligence event at UP Diliman with the team from the course-provider Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, and UP officials during the laboratory’s one-day face-to-face hackathon and lecture, May 19. Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO.A networking session allows Global Consumer Intelligence students in the Philippines to meet and interact, as part of the Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory’s one-day face-to-face hackathon and lecture at UP Diliman, May 19. Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO.
