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Community Spotlight

Highlighting the contributions of our HP Ambassadors and Community Members.

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Ambassador of the Month: Akram Dweikat

We’re excited to spotlight Akram Dweikat as this month’s HP Z Ambassador of the Month!Akram is an AI expert, serial entrepreneur, and currently the Engineering Manager for Deliveroo’s Care Automation (GenAI) team. Recognized by the UK government as an Exceptional Talent in computer engineering, innovation, and entrepreneurship, Akram brings a powerful mix of technical excellence and real-world impact to everything he does.At Deliveroo, Akram Dweikat leads the Care Automation (GenAI) team, where the focus is on transforming customer service for restaurants, partners, and consumers through advanced AI solutions. Under Akram’s leadership, the team leverages Generative AI to automate key support operations—ranging from AI-powered chatbots for common inquiries to workflow tools that enhance the productivity of human agents. The team also builds foundational infrastructure to support broader adoption of GenAI technologies across the organization.Akram’s work stands out for its scale and soph

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Ambassador of the Month: Nik Dorndorf

 🎉 Congratulations to Nik Dorndorf, Our February 2025 Ambassador of the Month! 🎉 Nik, Co-Founder & CTO of cre[ai]tion, is redefining the design process with AI. His startup is building a digital muse for designers, tackling the challenge of translating ideas into visuals more seamlessly. Instead of relying on tedious sketching, cre[ai]tion allows designers to “speak” in their own language—using visual attributes like shape, color, and material. With AI that adapts to each user’s unique style, the platform creates a more personalized, dynamic design experience.Beyond his work at cre[ai]tion, Nik is passionate about making AI more applicable to real-world workflows, shifting the focus from improving models to integrating AI seamlessly into specific tasks. His past research on uncertainty estimation in AI models explored ways to help users trust AI by understanding when a model is confident—or when it’s uncertain. His contributions to this field include co-authoring several papers,

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Ambassador of the Month: Ekaterina Butyugina

We're excited to select our first Ambassador of the Month for 2025, and it's none other than Ekaterina Butyugina! 🎉Ekaterina's dedication to using data and AI to solve real-world challenges has not only inspired her students and created meaningful advancement across various fields. From sustainability innovations using to developing AI-powered assistants, her projects not only innovate but also deliver impactful, practical solutions.About Ekaterina“As a program manager and instructor, I guide my students in addressing real-world data and AI challenges provided by startups, established companies, and research institutes. Many of these projects have practical outcomes, with solutions being integrated directly into the companies' workflows - a testament to how much demand there is for impactful AI solutions. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of supervising more than 50 projects, including recent collaborations with Engageability, ProEngineers, and HealActively”Featured ProjectsSusta

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Ambassador of the Month: Akash James

We’re excited to recognize Akash James as our latest Z by HP Ambassador of the Month! 🎉As a Lead AI Architect at SparkCognition, Akash has shown remarkable ingenuity in creating advanced AI systems that bridge multiple areas of artificial intelligence. His standout project, VERONICA (Versatile ONline Intelligent Cognitive Agent), is an impressive multi-modal AI assistant. VERONICA integrates Automatic Speech Recognition, Large Language Models, Vision Language Models, Face Recognition, and Text-to-Speech Synthesis for a truly intelligent and adaptive assistive system. Inspired by JARVIS from Marvel, VERONICA can “remember,” “learn,” and engage in multi-person conversations, imitating human-like conversational abilities.Featured Projects:VERONICA: Akash’s flagship multi-modal AI Assistant combines a range of technologies to create a highly interactive and adaptive system. Vector: An advanced take on the open-source VectorBot platform, Vector is enhanced with LLMs and RAG for natural lan

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Ambassador of the Month: Javier Eluney Hernandez

 We’re excited to recognize Javier Eluney Hernández as our very first ever Z by HP Ambassador of the Month! 🎉Javier has made significant contributions to AI research, particularly in Computer Vision/Graphics and Generative AI applications within healthcare. He is passionate about exploring the frontiers of machine learning research, particularly in the areas of computer vision, AI in healthcare, and natural language processing. Javier has published papers at various conferences and enjoys sharing his knowledge with the community. In his spare time, he enjoys continuous learning through Kaggle, creating open-source projects, and experimenting with novel neural architectures.Featured Projects:Medical QA LLM Developed a fine-tuned Medical Large Language Model (LLM) to provide accurate and context-aware answers to medical questions. Focused on exploring best solutions for end users that could be patients and clinicians.  Found Spanish Datasets that are currently being worked on for fine

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A Data Science Ambassador's Reflection on Kaggle Competitions Over TimeKaggle Competition

HP Data Science Ambassadors are Kaggle Grandmasters and AI Creator innovators that constantly experiment and share findings. Qishen Ha, a Kaggle Competitions Grandmaster shared his thoughts on the evolution of Kaggle computer vision competitions, a reflection of lessons learned and best practices. ======================================================================Reflecting on the Evolution of Computer Vision Competitions on Kaggle: A Personal Perspective Hello Kaggle Community,Having participated earnestly in Kaggle competitions for about five years now, I felt compelled to share some thoughts and musings, particularly on the changes I've observed in computer vision contests on Kaggle over the years. My writing may be a bit sporadic as I'm jotting down thoughts as they come, so please bear with me if it seems a bit scattered.Over the past decade, with the rapid development of computer vision technology—thanks in large part to advancements in hardware—Kaggle's computer vision compet

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