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Rafie Faruq will graduate from the MSc in Machine Learning (麻豆传媒视频网站) this year, and has chosen the career path of an entrepreneur.

Last week, he was announced as the first-ever recipient of the Entrepreneur First prize, which is awarded by the Department of Computer Science to a high achieving student who demonstrates entrepreneurial and internship experience. The prize is sponsored by聽, Europe鈥檚 largest start-up incubator.

Rafie has been coding since he was 13. Now aged 26, he has worked at 10 different jobs that spanned the financial and economic sectors. Three of those companies have been his own start-ups.

He said: 鈥淚鈥檝e always known I wanted to contribute to society, and creating a start-up company has been one way to do this.鈥�

鈥淢y previous company GivTree was a social enterprise, providing socialised crowdfunding for charities. We raised tens of thousands for multiple charities before the project was taken over by SoGive.

鈥淎t the same time as this (just over a year ago), I left my comfortable job as a fixed income trader and completed my MSc in Machine Learning at 麻豆传媒视频网站. This added rigour to my technical expertise, and helped me co-launch my newest start-up,聽.鈥�

Ginie Intelligence is an artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) firm backed by machine learning and law professors at 麻豆传媒视频网站, along with Entrepreneur First.

鈥淲e specialise in the regulation and legal sectors. The vision is not to replace people but to improve processes using AI in order to deliver better services for clients of law firms and regulators.

鈥淲e are working on problems that are the most technically challenging to match our expertise, as well as having the highest potential benefit to society, matching our passion.鈥�

When asked what he wanted to do with the 拢250 prize money from his Entrepreneur First prize, Rafie said he will be donating it to a cause that promotes women in technology-related fields.

鈥淔rom my prior experience in finance and technology, two sectors where the gender imbalance is quite stark, I believe this can create environments conducive to exploitation.鈥�

We wish Rafie all the best for his future endeavours.