Apurba Tech Lead attends prize giving ceremony for the Bengali Digit Recognition Competition organized by Bengali.ai


Added on 6th July 2018
BANGLADESH, Dhaka, 6th July 2018 – On the 6th July 2018, the prize giving ceremony was held at Independent University Bangladesh (IUB) in Bashundhara R/A, Dhaka to celebrate the winners for the Bengali Digit Recognition Competition. This event was organized by Bengali.AI community and exclusively sponsored by Apurba Technologies Ltd.
In this competition, the participants had the opportunity to correctly identify digits from NumtaDB, a large dataset (85,000+) of Bengali digits. The prizes were awarded for two categories which were Best Model and Best Kernel.
The winners for this competition are as following:
Winners for Best Model -
1st Prize: Team BackPropers (BUET)
2nd Prize: Team Digit_Branch (CUET)
3rd Prize: Team Dekhi_ki_hoi (BUET)
Winners for Best Kernel –
Md. Tareeq Mahmood (BUET)
The prizes were presented by Dr. M. Kaykobad who was the Chief Guest of the event. Apurba congratulates all the winners.
Apurba Technologies Ltd is a data science company based in Silicon Valley focused on Big Data, machine learning and natural language processing technologies with solutions in the healthcare, financial and automotive industries.