WiDS 2025 Winners

The Bowers WBHI is proud to spotlight bright young minds in science! Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Women in Data Science Global Datathon on Women's Brain Health. These scholars proposed machine learning solutions to accurately predict ADHD across sexes, which could advance how quickly professionals diagnose adolescent ADHD and create pathways to intervention and support.

1st place: Manh Nguyen, Thu Nguyen (FPT University)

2nd place: Baixue Yao, Xiaoyue Zhang (Flagship Labs 84)

3rd place: Wei Lyu, Zhida Wang (UC Santa Barbara)

Watch the 2025 winners talk through their results, how they built their models, struggles they overcame, and key insights they uncovered.

You can read more about the winners and other top participants here.

Thank you to the WBHI’s AI Core Directors Amy Kuceyeski and Nina Miolane for leading this challenge and to our co-hosts at WiDS, Child Mind Institute, and Kaggle.