{"id":33140,"date":"2026-10-13T14:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33140"},"modified":"2026-10-13T14:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:30:36","slug":"cross-campus-collaboration-leads-to-second-place-finish-at-uic-ai-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/cross-campus-collaboration-leads-to-second-place-finish-at-uic-ai-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Campus Collaboration Leads to Second-Place Finish at UIC AI Hackathon"},"template":"","news_categories":[],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-33140","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","hide_subtitle":false,"intro_text_body":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Viviana Kabbabe-Thompson, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs in the College of Applied Health Sciences (AHS), was part of a cross-campus team that earned <strong>second place at the UIC Enterprise AI Hackathon<\/strong>, hosted last week by UIC Technology Solutions in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).<\/p>\n<p>The hackathon challenged interdisciplinary teams to develop AI-powered solutions to real university operational challenges. Team members were selected by LTS but this specific team included\u00a0Tomas Mackevicius (College of Medicine), Viviana Kabbabe-Thompson (College of Applied Health Sciences), Azizul Chowdhury (School of Law), Aagam Sachin Bothara (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Finance), and Juhi Anand (College of Medicine). The was charged with addressing consistent and accessible university communications, specifically the challenges of inconsistent messaging, accessibility gaps, and off-brand content created across university departments.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the team developed <strong>UIC Brand Teammate<\/strong>, an AI-powered web application designed to evaluate written communications against UIC&#8217;s brand and editorial guidelines, offering interactive feedback to help faculty and staff create more consistent and accessible content.\u00a0Their second-place finish highlights the power of interdisciplinary collaboration and the potential of AI to address everyday challenges and improve university operations.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"","content_author":"","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"news_include_thumbnail":false,"components":false,"SEO_meta_description":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33142,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33140\/revisions\/33142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=33140"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=33140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}