100 of Michigan's top STEM students worked on a problem statement related to airbnb lodging data, and competed for $25,000 in cash prizes!  Michigan students won the first and third prize in the competition. The Statistics Department had a particularly strong showing - including three members from the 1st place team and all members of the 3rd place team.

Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

The Michigan Datathon took place on November 4, 2017 at the Michigan Union.  It was hosted by Citadel, LLC and Citadel Securities in partnership with Correlation One and the UM Department of Statistics.

1st-place winning team from the University of Michigan:

Ruofei (Brad) Zhao, Statistics Ph.D. student

Zheng Gao, Statistics Ph.D. student

You Wu, Master's in Applied Statistics student

Kevin Zheng, Sophomore, Computer Science

2nd-place team:

Zi Yi, Statistics Master's student, University of Chicago

Tian Gu, Biostatistics Ph.D. student, University of Michigan

Shuo Zhang, Statistics Master's student, University of Chicago

Shiyang Lu, Robotics & Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Master's student, University of Michigan

3rd-place team from the University of Michigan:

Hanbo Sun, Master's in Applied Statistics student

Xinghui Song, Master's in Applied Statistics student

Tuo Wang, Master's in Applied Statistics student

Hang Yuan, Master's in Applied Statistics student

Photos provided by Correlation One