RAISE-26: Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Is AI Transforming Us All?

The nation's strongest AI-NLP research competition is live now! RAISE-26 is an exciting AI - Informatics - Data Science Research competition for graduate and undergraduate students in the United States. The RAISE-26 competition theme is "Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Is AI Transforming Us All?". We aim to provide students with an opportunity to showcase their problem-solving skills to address one of the most defining questions of our time: Is artificial intelligence (AI) transforming us? Participants will be tasked to uncover key insights emerging from the competition dataset using exploratory analyses, text analytics, data visualizations, machine learning and other analytical methods. This competition will be an incredible research-oriented learning journey in diving into technical interests, improving skills, and gaining experience in problem-solving, logical thinking, and professional presentations. Last year we saw more than 119 national teams from many states across the US participate in RAISE-25! Open to All Students at US Universities (Separate tracks for undergraduate and graduate students), key dates: Priority registrations: Due by December 8, 2025 Virtual Round Submissions due by January 14, 2026 For more details about the competition, you may visit our webpage here: https://sites.rutgers.edu/raise/raise-2026/ If you have any questions, please contact us at informatics@ejb.rutgers.edu. Please reach out if you need additional information!