C3.ai Launches C3.ai COVID-19 Grand Challenge

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--C3.ai, a leading enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software provider for accelerating digital transformation, today welcomes data scientists, developers, researchers, and creative thinkers from around the world to participate in the C3.ai™ COVID-19 Grand Challenge. The competition invites participants to leverage data science techniques in new and innovative ways to generate insights that previously were neither apparent nor achievable. “The C3.ai COVID-19 Grand Challenge represents an opportunity to inform decision makers at the local, state, and federal levels and transform the way the world confronts this pandemic,” said Thomas M. Siebel, CEO of C3.ai. Projects may address, but are not limited to: • Applying machine learning and other AI methods to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic • Design and sharing of clinical trials for collecting data on medications, therapies, and interventions • Modeling, simulation, and prediction for understanding COVID-19 propagation and efficacy of interventions • Logistics and optimization analysis for design of public health strategies and interventions • Improving societal resilience in response to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic • Broader efforts in biomedicine, infectious disease modeling, response logistics and optimization, public health efforts, tools, and methodologies around the containment of rising infectious diseases and response to pandemics. A panel of judges will evaluate submissions on the extent to which they derive insights, leveraging data science techniques (e.g., statistical analyses, AI/ML algorithms, optimization approaches, etc.)

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