Research Rovers: AI Research Assistants for NASA

NASA is currently accepting applications for their “Research Rovers: AI Research Assistants” program. This initiative aims to address a common challenge faced by NASA researchers and many others in various technical and scientific fields. The challenge is the need to grasp the current state of research in specific domains, even when they lack prior knowledge in those areas.

Whether you are an academic conducting your own research, a data scientist exploring novel machine learning methods, or anyone entering a new field of study, this problem can be quite overwhelming. NASA is looking for innovative solutions to evaluate emerging capabilities in AI-based research assistants. In essence, they are seeking creative approaches to make it easier for researchers to navigate and understand unfamiliar bodies of literature in their respective fields.

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Eligibility

• The competition is open to individuals who are legal residents of a country, state, province, or territory within a specified region and meet certain age requirements. It is not open to legal entities or organizations, and no purchase or donation is required to participate.
• Certain individuals, including officers, directors, employees, and advisory board members of specific organizations, along with their immediate families and members of the same household, are not eligible to win prizes in this competition.
• The term “family member” includes spouses, partners, parents, legal guardians, children, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, and in-laws.
• The “Territory” for this competition includes specific regions where participating and receiving a prize is not prohibited by the laws of the United States or local regulations, excluding areas or countries designated by the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
• Participants located in the Russian Federation are not eligible for prizes in this competition.
• If you or your employer receive government funding for similar projects, you may not be eligible for awards in this challenge.
•  Additionally, if your solution was developed under a government contract, grant, or cooperative agreement, the U.S. Government may have intellectual property rights in your solution, which could affect your eligibility for an award.
• Depending on your solution, you may be eligible for an award under the NASA Awards and Recognition Program or other government award programs if you meet the criteria for both this challenge and the relevant awards program.
• If taking part in this competition would lead to a breach of any applicable laws, agreements they are bound by, or their employer or company’s policies and procedures, the participant is not eligible. Additionally,
• if participating in the competition would result in a violation of the participant’s employer or company policies and procedures, they are also ineligible.

Benefits

Prizes will be granted to the top four submissions based on their ranking, as outlined in the judging criteria.

• To claim their prizes, winners must provide supplementary code and documentation. They will also be invited to participate in a live virtual event where they will showcase their winning solutions to the judges and address any inquiries.

Here are the prize amounts for the respective positions:

• 1st Place: $13,000
•  2nd Place: $8,000
•  3rd Place: $5,000
• 4th Place: $4,000

Application Process

• To participate in the competition, you need to complete the registration process on the competition’s website within the specified competition period.
• Once registered, you’ll gain access to the competition datasets, which are essential for developing and submitting your solutions. All submissions must be made within the designated competition period.
• To register, simply visit the competition website and follow the provided instructions. Your registration details collectively form your “Account.” If you’ve previously created an account, you can log in with your username and password.
• After registering individually, you have the option to join a team of collaborators. However, you can only register once for the competition, either as an individual or as part of a team. Registering more than once may lead to disqualification at the discretion of DrivenData.
• Once your registration is complete, you or your team will receive access to the datasets for developing your submissions. It’s important to note that for evaluating submissions quantitatively, participants must process each test data sample independently during inference, without using information from other test cases.
•  Eligible submissions and models should be capable of automatically running inference on new test data without requiring model retraining.
• All submissions must be made within the competition period and should include the specified data, content, and materials, as outlined on the competition website via the submission form.
• This also includes any documentation required for winning submissions. The competition website will specify the number of submissions allowed per participant per calendar day and, if applicable, the number of submissions eligible for final evaluation and winner determination.
• In cases where the competition consists of multiple stages with separate training and leaderboard data, valid submissions must be made and selected during each stage as per the instructions provided on the competition website.

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