AI for social good awards

Aaditeshwar Seth (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) and Centre for Collective Development (India)
Building AI-based Market Intelligence Systems for Farmer Collectives

Saket Anand (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi) and M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (India)
High-resolution Satellite Imagery for Modeling the Impact of Aridification on Crop Production: Paddy Cultivation in the Cauvery Delta

Long Tran-Thanh (University of Warwick) and AfriScout (Kenya)
Incentive Engineering and Truthful Mechanisms for Grassland Quality and Local Market Price Estimation in Africa

John Dickerson (University of Maryland, College Park) and Kheyti (India)
What Should I Grow Today so I Make Money Tomorrow? Using Social, Environmental, and Market Data to Support Small Farmers’ Crop Planning

Godliver Owomugisha (Busitema University) and Papoli Community Development Foundation (Uganda)
Adoption of smartphone agro-applications for field-based disease diagnosis and real-time feedback for smallholder farmers

Daphney-Stavroula Zois (University at Albany, SUNY) and AGRI-WEB (Ghana)
Towards Achieving Better Market Access for Smallholder Farmers

Trevor Darrell (UC Berkeley) and Wildlife Conservation Society (Nigeria)
AI for Animal Census

Nataliya Tkachenko (University of Oxford) and Panthera (Nepal, India, Malaysia, Senegal)
Applying AI to Data Challenges in Wildlife Conservation

Poonam Goyal, Navneet Goyal (BITS Pilani) and Wildlife Conservation Society (India)
Collating and analyzing multi-modal, multi-lingual data for countering wildlife crime

Wei Guo (University of Tokyo), National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore and Bioversity International (India)
Exploring and Managing human-bee conflict in Asian cities using AI

Amulya Yadav (Penn State University) and Dakshin Foundation (India)
Harnessing Agent-Based Models to Mitigate Marine Conservation Conflict in the Andamans

Gianluca Demartini (University of Queensland) and Wild Chimpanzee Foundation (Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Guinea)
Human-in-the-loop Chimpanzee Identification

Ashwin Srinivasan (BITS Pilani, Goa Campus) and Mara Elephant Project (Kenya)
Human-in-the-Loop Labelling System for Elephant Identification and Tracking

Fei Fang (Carnegie Mellon University) and World Wide Fund for Nature (India, Nepal, Thailand)
Media Text Monitoring for Timely Conservation Actions

Patrick McSharry (Carnegie Mellon University) and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (Japan)
Using AI to impute missing data in the SDG indicators and test causality

Andrew Katumba and Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende (Makerere University) and Moja Global (Uganda)
Using Machine Learning to Predict Deforestation

Haifeng Xu (University of Virginia) and World Wildlife Fund (Lao PDR)
Combating Poaching through Community Influence

Vipul Arora (IIT Kanpur) and CARE India Solutions for Sustainable Development (India)
AI-based Smart Assistant for Child Deliveries in Low Resource Areas

Thanh H. Nguyen (University of Oregon) and Arogya World (India)
Artificial Intelligence for Health Promotion Intervention in India

Himabindu Lakkaraju (Harvard University) and Living Goods (Kenya, Uganda)
Augmenting Community Health Workers Efficacy using AI

Ayan Mukhopadhyay (Vanderbilt University) HelpMum (Nigeria)
Data-driven Vaccine Demand Forecasting and Health Interventions in Nigeria

Conrad Tucker (Carnegie Mellon University) and Centre for Chronic Disease Control (India)
Deep Learning for Oral Cancer Screening and Referral: A Feasibility Investigation

Arunesh Sinha (Singapore Management University) and D-tree (Zanzibar)
Incentive Design for Better Health Coverage

U. Deva Priyakumar (IIIT Hyderabad) and Lord's Education Health Society | Wadhwani Initiative for Sustainable Healthcare (India)
Intelligent Assistive System for Home-Based Care Delivery

Yiqun Xie (University of Maryland, College Park) and Aquaya Institute (Kenya)
Leave No One Behind: Spatial AI Enabled Settlement Mapping to Enhance WASH Access for Vulnerable Populations

Toby Walsh, Yang Song (UNSW Sydney) and Mothers2Mothers (South Africa)
Predicting early exit from the m2m health program

Malay Bhattacharyya (ISI Kolkata) and Molecular Diagnostics, Counseling, Care and Research Center (India)
Systematic clinical intervention for minors affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Toby Walsh, Yang Song (UNSW Sydney) and Infoxchange (Australia)
The Bootstrap Problem in Recommender Systems

Amulya Yadav (Penn State University) and Jacaranda Health (Kenya)
Using AI to Prevent the Risk of Maternal and Neonatal Deaths in Kenya

Rayid Ghani (Carnegie Mellon University) and Energy Harvest Charitable Trust (India)
Reducing Crop Burning to Improve Air Quality in India