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Date added: 2022-04-12

Gdańsk Tech students among the finalists of the "25 under 25" competition

Barbara Klaudel and Aleksander Obuchowski
Barbara Klaudel and Aleksander Obuchowski, studying applied physics and biomedical engineering, are in the finals of the "25 under 25" competition organized by Forbes and McKinsey. The students were awarded in the category of new technologies for co-creating the company Medical Image Dataset Annotation Service. The winners will receive a prize of 10,000. zloty.

The "25 under 25" competition was launched on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of McKinsey & Company in Poland. On the occasion of the jubilee, the company will select 25 young and ambitious people who have a chance to influence the development of the Polish economy and society in the future.

This year, representatives of Gdańsk University of Technology are among the finalists of the competition. Students Barbara Klaudel (FETI) and Aleksander Obuchowski (FAP&M) are co-founders of the Medical Image Dataset Annotation Service (MIDAS) company, operating at the interface between artificial intelligence and medicine. They are working to develop a platform for the exchange of knowledge and analysis of data collected in hospitals. MIDAS has been recognized as one of the 28 most innovative projects in Europe under the EIT Digital Venture Program.

– The finalists' award in the "25 under 25" competition is a great honor for us. It is the culmination of our work on artificial intelligence in medicine, quantum physics and natural language processing. We are glad that our projects, such as the TITAN and MIDAS systems, scientific publications and victories in competitions and hackathons, have been appreciated by the jury. The gala itself was for us an opportunity to meet interesting people with similar interests, which we hope will translate into the expansion of our activities and will result in new interesting projects. We would also like to thank our colleagues with whom we work as part of the Radiato.ai team – students, Bartosz Rydziński and Roman Karski, as well as Patryk Jasik, PhD, Eng. and Paweł Syty, PhD, Eng. –  said Aleksander Obuchowski, a Gdańsk Tech student.

The finals of the "25 under 25" competition, will appoint one winner in each category, who will receive a prize of PLN 10,000 and support from a business mentor for one year after the end of the competition.

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