Rakan Alseghayer received the People's Choice of Best Pitch Video at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2021) for his work entitled "Racoon: Rapid Contact Tracing of Moving Objects Using Smart Indexes"
Rakan is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science, working in the ADMT Lab, with Dr. Panos K. Chrysanthis and Dr. Constantinos Costa.
The award was determined by a popular vote among all conference participants.
You can view a 10-minute video presentation of his work or the award-winning 30-second teaser video: