Analytics Olympiad 2022

The Academy of Continuing Education at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, in collaboration with MachineHack, successfully completed the annual Analytics Olympiad 2022 for data scientists and machine learning professionals.

The competition began on September 30 and concluded on November 6. The two-month-long championship was designed to strengthen the data science community in India and pave the way for innovation. In addition, it was an opportunity for participants to showcase their technical skills and potential in business analytics to prospective employers.

The event was a roaring success, with over 1,000 registrations from across the country. After stringent qualifying rounds, the top 9 participants got an opportunity to make in-person presentations before an eminent jury panel at the Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR. Aman Garg, Head of Data & AI, DSP Mutual Funds; Anubhav Srivastava, Head of Data Science, Digital Ventures, and Rishit Jain, Director of Product Management, 1mg Technologies, formed the jury for the Analytics Olympiad.

After much deliberation, the jury declared Manish Pathak, Senior Data Scientist, the winner, Varun Jagannath, Senior Data scientist – first runner-up, and Rishi Madhav, Presales & Solutions Lead, Data & Analytics – the second runner-up.

The winner received a grand prize of INR 1 lakh. The runners-up in the second and third positions were awarded INR 30,000 and INR 20,000.