UC Davis Team Gunrock won the global 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize for creating the best conversational chatbot and advancing modern artificial intelligence. The announcement of this $500,000 prize was made yesterday at the annual Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference in Las Vegas.
Zhou Yu, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science, led the 10-student team to victory. She joined UC Davis in 2017 and was recognized in FORBES’ 2018 “30 Under 30” in Science list for her work developing algorithms that enable software to adapt to users.
“When our team first came together, we were competing against teams that had already participated in this challenge,” Yu said. “For us, it was our first time competing. Now, we are the best in the world in social conversational systems. They really came together and made this happen.”
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