Calling IT specialists: join the Stanford & UN competition at NeurIPS 2026

On August 17, 2026, SimulacraBench — a NeurIPS 2026 competition was launched: AI must model population groups from UN microdata. The organizers are Stanford's Digital Economy Lab and the STAIR research group (Stanford CS), together with UNHCR, UNICEF and the World Bank. The development phase runs until October 30; the finals and prizes — November 1–14, 2026.

I, Boris Yarovoy, author of TRON — a technology for the short-term forecasting of earthquake magnitude, location and time — am assembling a volunteer team to take part in this competition.

A strong result at NeurIPS means a leaderboard position, international visibility and, above all, partners and resources for testing and validating the TRON prototype — and, subsequently, for scaling the technology.

I am looking for IT specialists who understand (or want to understand) how AI works.

Short-Term Earthquake Forecasting System TRON (Technology Real-time Online Nucleus)

Write to me on LinkedIn with the subject line "SimulacraBench".

Location: Калифорния, США
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