Data Mining Society Data Challenge

Predicting Short Video Popularity for Future Content Success

2025 First Place

Winning material: Two-Stage Hurdle Models for Outage Forecasting

Purpose of the Award

Past Awardees

2025
First Place
Shourya Bose, University of California, Santa Cruz
Tomas Kaljevic, University of California, Santa Cruz
Yu Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz
Second Place
Sahand Hajifar, University at Buffalo
Setareh Kazemi Kheiri, University of Pittsburgh
Third Place
Sarathkumar Devaraj, University of Texas at Arlington
Bharani Nammi, University of Texas at Arlington
Ankit Ranjan, University of Texas at Arlington
Fourth Place
Qiuzhuang Sun, The University of Sydney
Yang Yang, University of Macau
Haoran Ye, National University Singapore
2024
First Place
Yongchun Li, Virginia Tech
Jie Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Second Place
Ravikiran Bhonagiri, University of Texas at Arlington
Sarathkumar Devaraj, University of Texas at Arlington
Bharani Nammi, University of Texas at Arlington
Third Place
Yuxin Du, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Jiacheng Lu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Weijian Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Mingyuan Xiao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Finalist
Penghao Jiang, The University of Sydney
Haixu Liu, The University of Sydney
Qiuzhuang Sun, The University of Sydney
Qirui Wang, The University of Sydney
Wenning Wang, The University of Sydney
Ruiqing Yan, The University of Sydney
Haoxiang Zheng, The University of Sydney