Three of our PhD students (Giuseppe Marra, Dario Zanca, and Andrea Zugarini, together with Giovanni Ciccone) won the Hackathon Mediaset Infinity, held in Rimini at Web Marketing Festival 2018.

The goal of the challenge was to predict churn rate of users registered in infinitytv platform. Ten teams, composed of both students and professionals from Statistics or Machine-Learning, partecipated at the competition.

The model developed by our students, based on Artificial Neural Networks, turned out to be the best one.