After following courses on different topics on Artificial Intelligence the master students are ready to put this all into practice in a AI consultancy project. You can bring your question and data and let students consult you on what you can (or maybe cannot) learn from and/or do with your data.

✅ Key features of the challenge

• Students per team: 3 students.
• No. of hours spent per team: 170 hours
• Course: AI in the Professional Workfield
• Program: Master Artificial Intelligence
• Duration: April 14 – June 18
• Supervision: Student teams will be assigned internal supervisors at the university to monitor their progress. The details and content of the project are mainly under the supervision of supervisors in the company.
• Deliverables: Presentation and report with recommendations.
• Company time investment: 8-12 hours
• Matching fee: €850,- (ex tax, charged by Master Challenge (NOT the university)).

📑 Challenge Examples

The student teams can work on challenges that require AI techniques to come up with a solution. Examples of challenges that students worked on in previous years:

• AI in healthcare
• Pattern Detection and Classification
• Automatic subject indexing
• Visual place recognition for image retrieval
• Neurotechnology and healthcare

And a few concrete examples from last year:

• Help us identify interesting side effect reports using a prediction model with NLP
• Recognizing intermediate company profiles using vacancy text
• Can A.I. create more human friendly doctor schedules?
• Help us understand and predict the energy consumption of all Dutch houses

But any challenge that requires the application of AI techniques to be solved is most likely suitable.

Questions? Want to discuss your challenge before submitting one? Schedule a call here.

🏢 Company requirement

• Any company (startup/scale-up/corporate/incubator/NGO) with at least two founders/employees working full time in the company.
• In business for at least 6 months.
• Available dataset (there is time for data understanding / cleaning, but this should not require too much work).
• As the aim is to give the students the opportunity of experiencing the job on the site, it is preferred to have some time spent at the company/organization or arrange visits.

💰 Costs

To help facilitate this challenge a matching fee of €850,- (ex tax) per team applies (charged by Master Challenge and NOT the university).

❗️You will only be charged when matched to a team.

📨 How to apply

You can submit the challenge directly through the website. Provide a title that summarises the challenge. Subsequently, briefly elaborate on your challenge. See link for a template you could use: https://link.masterchallenge.me/challenge-template or use the challenge generator: https://masterchallenge.me/challenge-generator

🗓 Planning

• April 4: Deadline to submit a challenge
• April 4 (or sooner): Receiving message if your challenge is approved by the Course Coordinator
• April 8-10: Matching phase
  • April 8: Student teams rank the challenges
  • April 10: You rank the teams that want to work on your challenge(s)
• April 11: Our matching algorithm will create perfect matches
• April 12-17: Kick-off meeting with your team (hand over data to the team)
• June 16 or 18, 9:00-17:00: Final presentations (offline (preferred) or online) (in times slots of 2-3 hours)