2025 DataFest Results

Winners for 2025 ASA DataFest at UCLA

We hosted a successful DataFest 2025 with 80 teams, almost 400 students, and more than a 100 mentors and volunteers. We’re proud of all our students participants for their hard work. Congratulations to all our winners!

The Don Ylvisaker Best Insight

Winner: Revenge Arc (Celine Nugroho, Muhammad Rohan Bodla, Ethan Xiao, Jordan Kikuta, Christine Yuan))

Honorable Mention: DeepThinkers (Ruchira Bhat, Jack Conner, Sara Beniwal)

Best Visualization

Winner: Big Data Hiro 6 (Ryan Chen, Kevin Nguyen, Taylor Prince, Theresa Unsulangi, Maya Hirsch)

Honorable Mention: NAN sense (Sean Gee, Angela Guo, Alyssa Mei, Daniel Pae, Jared Fong)

Best Use of External Data

Winner: Dark Monkey (Jacob Bianchi, Loretta Hu, Aryan Sunkersett, Anthony Chen, Aditya Murthy)

Honorable Mention: Chi-Squared Cranes (Mindy Zhu, Selena Lam, Sanskriti Shindadkar, Clyde Villacrusis, Vivian Yee)

Judges Choice

Winner: Data Engibears (Anna Dupree, Allison Lynn, Melissa Chang, Cassidy Sadowski, Emma Morrison)

Winner: YooHoo (Mingyang Li, Yuhan Xie, Daniel Wang, Oscar Su, John Tan)