Well done to three students from University of Southampton Malaysia (UoSM) who have become the youngest individuals to win an award in a hackathon designed for professionals.
During the BlockchainSPIRIT Hackathon at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the team won the ‘Most Impactful Project’ award for their app that improves court recordings.
Left to right: Delveer Singh, Do Wen Rei, Anthony Law (NEM Blockchain trainer), and Chia Tze Hank
The team was comprised of engineering students Do Wen Rei, Delveer Singh and Chia Tze Hank. They created the ‘Legal-chain’, a solution that uses Microsoft’s speech recognition technology to generate court transcripts for legal proceedings. The solution then stores this information in NEM’s blockchain – a distributed ledger technology – to make the recordings unalterable.
Being one of the youngest participants in the hackathon, the team received coaching from Anthony Law, one of the event’s technical trainers.
Delveer, an engineering foundation year student explained:
“He [Anthony] taught us how to use the platform and the fundamentals needed to understand blockchain technology. He explained us the NEM platform, then me and Wen Rei coded the blockchain part while Tze Hank worked on Microsoft’s speech API as well as the user interface.”
