COSAM News Articles 2023 January DMS Assistant Professor Jingyi Zheng, Ag. Econ. Assistant Professor Wenying Li, and CSSE Assistant Professor Shubhra Kanti Karmaker first in national Coleridge Initiative Food for Thought Data Challenge

DMS Assistant Professor Jingyi Zheng, Ag. Econ. Assistant Professor Wenying Li, and CSSE Assistant Professor Shubhra Kanti Karmaker first in national Coleridge Initiative Food for Thought Data Challenge

Published: 01/09/2023

Auburn University team “Auburn Big Data” placed first in the national Coleridge Initiative Food for Thought Data Challenge, in association with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The team comprised of Wenying Li, assistant professor of agricultural economics; Jingyi (Ginny) Zheng, assistant professor in mathematics and statistics; Shubhra Kanti Karmaker, assistant professor in computer science and software engineering; and his doctoral students, Naman Bansal and Alex Knipper. spent more than 1,000 hours developing a model predicting links between scanner data and the Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies.

The Coleridge Initiative Food for Thought Data Challenge asked data scientists to use natural language processing and machine learning to link food and nutrition databases on a large scale.

Read more about the Food for Thought Data Challenge.

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