Invitation

Dear University Faculty Members, Students, and Industry Partners,

On behalf of The International Society of Data Scientists (ISODS), we are pleased to cordially invite you to participate in the 6th World Championship in Data Science & AI (2026). Building upon the success of our previous competitions, this year's installment transitions into a premier, research-driven global event focusing on the critical frontier of "Privacy-First" Agentic AI.

The competition is open to high school students, university students, and professionals (including alumni graduated within the past 5 years). Team composition can be from 1 to 3 team members. 

To honor high-level R&D achievements, the global round of the 2026 Championship will be structured as a Scientific Conference (See More). Rather than standard leaderboards, teams will be evaluated by an international committee of professors and industry leaders through comprehensive research reports, code repositories, and video presentations. Presentation videos should be hosted on a given video platform such as YouTube (< 10 minutes). Top-performing teams will earn the championship's highest honors: international certification, widespread media coverage, and official peer-reviewed publication in a Special Issue of the Journal of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (JDSAI). There will be a First Place, a Second Place, a Third Place, and three Honorable Mentions, tentatively.

Register your team here. 

Integrating Your Vector Database with Yankee AI

The Generative AI World Championship centers on Yankee AI, a freemium, privacy-first agentic system developed by the George Washington Institute at ISODS. Built specifically for companies, governments, and institutions, as well as for personal usage, Yankee AI allows users to harness the full potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) while keeping all data processing entirely local and secure. To succeed, participating teams must engineer and optimize a custom vector database, seamlessly integrating it with the platform to support secure local workflows. Your finalized vector database - along with your original data files, source code, and final presentations - must be submitted via a shared storage link for qualitative evaluation by the expert committee, proving that high-performance, agentic AI orchestration can be achieved without sensitive data ever leaving the local environment.

Committee Members

  • Dr. Bao The Pham, Associate Professor, Saigon University, Vietnam & JDSAI Chief Editor.
  • Dr. Giang Nguyen Long, Associate Professor, Vice Director of the Institute of Information Technology (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology), Vietnam.
  • Dr. Khanh Pham Van, Department of AI Systems and Management Optimization, Institute of Information Technology (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology), Vietnam.
  • Dr. Tung Hoang Do Thanh, Institute of Information Technology (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology), Vietnam.
  • Mr. Long Nguyen Duc, Founder and CEO of AIUni Academy, Senior Advisor at Khan Academy Vietnam, and VEF 2.0 Program Ambassador, Vietnam.
  • Dr. Anh Nguyen Viet, Associate Professor, Chairman of the Scientific Council, Institute of Information Technology (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology), Vietnam.
  • Dr. Christopher Do, ISODS President & Professor, MA, US.
  • Dr. Jung Sungbo, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma Tulsa, OK, US.
  • Dr. Solomon Berhe, Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific, CA, US.
  • Dr. Zhexu Ai, Assistant Professor, ISODS George Washington Institute and Wagner College, New York, US.
  • Dr. Sang Vu, Saigon University, Vietnam & JDSAI Guest Editor
  • Dr. Khuong Vu, Associate Professor & Director of AI, ISODS George Washington Institute, Japan.
  • Dr. Tin Huynh, Associate Professor & Project Director, ISODS George Washington Institute, and AI Lab Director & Head of AI (Saigon International University, Vietnam.
  • Dr. Son Nguyen, Vice Department Head, Department of Mathematics, University of Economics and Law, Vietnam
  • Ms. Trang Tran, VP, ISODS Vietnam
  • Mr. Yildirim Salahaldin Hussein, VP, ISODS Iraq & Lecturer, University of Kirkuk, Iraq.
  • Mr. Abdelaziz Darwiesh, VP, ISODS Egypt
  • Mr. Arockia Liborious, VP, ISODS India
  • Ms. Lillian Nanyunja, VP, ISODS Uganda

    *** The committee composition is tentative and is currently being updated. ***

Sponsors

We extend our sincere appreciation to Google for their sponsorship of Google Ads.

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