Alexa Prize Winner 2020

The Emora team won the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 3. Our final average rating was 3.81 compared to 3.17 and 3.14 achieved by the 2nd and 3rd-place winners, Stanford University and Czech Technical University, respectively. This prize came with a $500,000 cash award. Here is a list of the team members:

• Jinho Choi (Faculty Advisor)
• Sarah Finch (PhD Student; team lead)
• James Finch (PhD Student; team lead)
•  Ali Ahmadvand (PhD Student)
• Zihao Wang (PhD Student)
• Harshita Sahijwani (PhD Student)
• Sergey Volokhin (PhD Student)
• Jason Ingyu Choi (MS Student)
• Xiangjue Dong (MS Student)
• Zihan Wang (BS/MS Student)
• Chenxi Xu (BS/MS Student)
• Ruixiang Qi (BS Student)