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By Staff Reporter, The Site

A team of two Jamia Millia Islamia(JMI) students, Mohamed Ahmad ( B.Tech Electronics & Communication Engineering 4th year) and Mohd. Azhan (B.Tech Electrical Engineering 4th year) has won the Regional Level Developer Circles Community Challenge hosted by Facebook which invited developers and creators to put an innovative spin on technical education by creating tutorials that showcase the capabilities of Facebook technologies. A total of 2422 participants from across the world participated in the challenge.

The team has been awarded, according to an official presss statement, US $2,000 as cash prize for their project  ‘Transfer Learning Model hosted on Heroku using React & Flask’,  a way to create own text classifier which can be used to check whether the sentiment a sentence carries is positive or negative. The implementation of this deep learning model is based on RoBERTa, which is a Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining approach.

JMI team along with 20 others from across the world will now be invited to make further enhancements to their projects by Monday November 30, in order to have a chance at the Global prizes to be announced in mid-December.

The Facebook Developer Circles are communities of innovators, where aspiring and experienced developers receive free tools to build new skills, grow ideas and boost their careers. They invite participants to go one step beyond creating software solutions by creating tutorials on the code they have created.

Prof. Najma Akhtar, Vice Chancellor, JMI congratulated both students for the achievement and wished them good luck for future endeavours. With the scientific research by the university researchers getting world attention Prof. Akhtar said that more emphasis will be given by the university on this front.