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Top Projects Address Mental Health, Refugee Support, Detecting Organized Crime, Fighting Global Misinformation, and More<\/h4>\n

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TigerGraph<\/u><\/a>, provider of a leading graph analytics platform, today unveiled the winners of the Graph for All Million Dollar Challenge<\/u><\/a> \u2014 awarding $1 million in cash to game-changing, graph-powered projects that analyze and address many of today\u2019s biggest global social, economic, health, and climate-related concerns. The winning projects, announced at this week\u2019s Graph + AI Summit<\/u><\/a>, were hand-selected by the global judging committee from more than 1,500 registrations from 100+ countries. Mental Health Hero claimed the $250k Grand Prize for creating an application to help provide greater access and personalization to mental health treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom addressing mental health issues to supporting Ukrainian refugees to predicting how supply shocks will spread through the world economy, the submissions we received tackle real-world concerns and demonstrate innovative approaches to resolving them with graph technology,\u201d said Dr. Yu Xu, founder and CEO of TigerGraph. \u201cWe wanted to create a challenge that produced new and innovative applications of graph technology and the global community did just that. The overwhelming focus on global issues in this challenge shows that regardless of geography, we all share many of the same concerns and challenges, and that graph technology can help address them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Graph For All Million Dollar Challenge Winners<\/strong>
\nAfter extensive review by the global judging committee, consisting of 32 experts from industry, academia, and TigerGraph, the following are the 15 award-winning projects<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Graph For All Million Dollar Challenge Grand Prize Winner <\/strong>
\nGrand Prize, $250,000: <\/strong>Mental Health Hero<\/u><\/a> – Mental Health Hero is a graph-based approach to solving one of the largest public health epidemics today: the prevalence of untreated mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. According to the CDC, 400 million people globally are not receiving essential treatment for their mental health disorders [1]. Additionally, only 40% of adults with mental illness are estimated to receive treatment for it [2].<\/p>\n

Graph For All Million Dollar Challenge <\/strong>Top Awards<\/strong>
\nMost Impactful 1st place, $100,000: <\/strong>UAWelcome<\/u><\/a> – The global refugee crisis reached a new level of awareness with the war in Ukraine. In response, UAWelcome created a platform that uses graph technology to connect individual refugees and their needs with a fast-growing community of volunteers and the limited and scattered resources. Their application is already in use connecting volunteers and scattered resources with Ukrainian refugees and helping refugees seek asylum in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Most Innovative<\/strong> 1st place, $100,000: <\/strong>Universe Planner<\/u><\/a> – A multiverse-metaverse planning app that allows users to solve complex problems by tapping into and leveraging social knowledge. It also socially connects users to others working on the same or similar mission, plan, or task.<\/p>\n

Most Ambitious 1st place, $100,000: <\/strong>ShockNet<\/u><\/a> – Allows users to adjust assumptions, investigate the predicted chains of shocks through the world economy, and identify ways to avoid economic crises by gaining visibility into how and why shocks spread. ShockNet includes an app that allows policymakers to visualize and adjust the model to better understand how to offset or avoid a future crisis.<\/p>\n

Most Applicable 1st place, $100,000: <\/strong>BioDex<\/u><\/a> – BioDex combines our natural curiosity with the motivation of gaming. By gamifying the experience of connecting to nature, players can snap images of nature, identify its species, and display its properties in real time while striving to identify as many species as possible and contributing biodiversity information to research.<\/p>\n

Women Who Graph, $30,000: <\/strong>Diagnosx<\/u><\/a> – After seeing first hand in the ER the dual struggles of patients not understanding their health conditions and doctors trying to draw pictures to help explain conditions, Bree Day knew there had to be a better way. Her idea to get 3D models to illustrate breadth and depth of a patient’s diagnosis into all patients\u2019 hands is realized in Diagnosx. The application presents a 3D model of a patient’s diagnosis and medical history to better illustrate the findings and diagnosis, and decrease disparities in doctor\/patient communication.<\/p>\n

Most Popular, $20,000:<\/strong> Multimodality Cancer Graph<\/u><\/a> – Many diseases are related to each other, and complications from a certain disease could cause another. Through the power of graphs and machine learning, this project aims to uncover new disease links and help researchers better prepare for future pandemics or emerging diseases.<\/p>\n

Additional Winners<\/strong>
\nMost Impactful<\/strong><\/p>\n