Fourth Year Poster Competition

The University of Oxford’s Business Innovation award aims to reward engineers who develop ingenious ideas that could solve real problems in society in a sustainable manner. Projects are needs-led, have a strong market fit or have a well defined problem with a clear costumer base for which an innovative solution is developed.

First place: Upstream QA

Project:

The advancement of AI technologies has led to the release of powerful models like ChatGPT. Given their extensive potential impact on society, it is crucial to ensure that their Question Answering (QA) capabilities provide reliable and accurate responses to a wide range of questions and so they do not mislead users. Upstream QA, led by Fernando Almansa, looked at how to present a new dataset designed to train and evaluate QA systems on handling unanswerable questions, robustness, paraphrasing and adaptability to changing information.

Positive feedback

The EIBF prize provides value beyond the competition. It allows students to become aware of the value of combining Business and Entrepreneurship with Engineering. It is a catalyst to attract students to this interdisciplinary domain.

Professor Jeroen Bergmann
Associate Professor in Engineering Science
University of Oxford