AES Student Competition: MATLAB Hackathon

Sponsored by MathWorks, the MATLAB Plugin AES Student Competition is an international contest for aspiring audio developers. For participating students, it constitutes an opportunity to learn, make connections with the industry, receive feedback from technical experts, and become an active part of the AES student community.

 In 2024 the competition will take the form of a Hackathon, held as part of the AES Europe 2024 Convention. Contestants may participate in-person or through an online submission during the same timeframe.

 The coding task will be announced at the event by an industry or research partner nominated by the AES. At that time, participants will also be provided access to any supplemental materials such as test data, code baselines, or reference papers. Participation in-person is strongly encouraged but not required.

To participate in the MATLAB Plugin AES Student Competition, you must:

1.    Be a current Student Member of the Audio Engineering Society. Join at aes.org/join. Please note that fees vary by region.

2.    Be enrolled in a student program related to audio engineering or software design at the time of the event. If participating as a team, all members should also be students

3.    If submitting on behalf of a team, gain approval from the rest of the team as the sole representative

4.    Submit your project description electronically according to the submission guidelines prior to the deadline.

If a project is designed by a team of students all team members must, at minimum, also be enrolled students affiliated with a university audio program, which will be verified through the respective faculty advisers. To present as a team all team members must meet the complete eligibility criteria. Violation of these rules will result in disqualification. Late entries will not be accepted under any circumstance.

June 15, 2024 10:00am Announcement of coding challenge

June 16, 2024 6:00pm Submission deadline

June 17, 2024 12:00pm Winner announcement on the AES Education Stage

Last week of June: Build debrief and feedback session for finalists with judges via zoom.

The code along with all required documentation will be uploaded to a secure server. A link will be provided at the time of the competition.

Judging criteria will include, at the discretion of the organizing partner and judging team:

• Fulfillment of coding challenge criteria
• Technical merit
• Degree of innovation and originality
• Creative value
• Execution and cleanliness of the code

First Prize $2000

Second Prize $1000

Third Prize $750

The competition is underwritten by MathWorks as the main sponsor. The winner will be announced at the AES Europe 2024 Convention on the Education stage. The awards ceremony will focus on announcement of winners only. An in-depth technical feedback session with the judges and finalists will take place online approximately a week after the convention.