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Congratulations to the #Become_a_Kaggle_Master_2026 cohort for their third Kaggle competition! The 13 teams from the Université Paris Dauphine - PSL AI Master 2 (IASD) did a great job on the #BirdCLEF_2026 challenge, a large-scale, real-world Kaggle competition with 4,043 competitors. A special congratulations to the teams who ranked in the top 500: 🏅 256th — Giuns07 Mayy Miled, Giuliano Aldarwish 🏅 313th — Sequoia Yacine Abdelouhab, Sepanta Farzollahi-Zanjani 🏅 491st — Kagg’oulés Tamazouzt Ait eldjoudi, Paul JANIN And congratulations to all teams for their commitment, resilience, and perseverance throughout the competition: 501st — EstOuest Amine Rouibi, Mohamed ZOUAD 657th — Centre31 Manel Benzakour, Abderraouf TAYARI 918th — Straggle Paul Hoerter, Rachelle Nasr 1041st — Babinski Alexis Michel, Lysa Rabia 1131st — Kaggle Island Adam Hannachi, Tomil SHI 1353rd — Emile & Oscar Emile Descroix, Oscar Periana 1385th — Kagglettes Mellissa HAFIS, Ilona Le Drogoff 1716th — Kaggle Ninjas Anaël Ernadote, Thomas Sinapi 1923rd — China Number Laurent Lin, Alexandre You 3336th — RafChar Charly KAMGNE, Rafael Tamim This course, taught by Eric Benhamou, Head of Machine Learning at Ai For Alpha, is designed to provide students with practical experience, robust methodology, and valuable insights inspired by top Kaggle competitors. A special thank you as well to the students for the drinks and food they brought at the end of the course 🥂🍽️🍪. It was a very nice way to close this intense and rewarding learning journey together 🎓✨🤝. Congratulations to all the students for their energy, discipline, teamwork, and excellent work throughout the challenge. This third Kaggle competition was another valuable hands-on learning experience and a strong demonstration of collaborative machine learning in practice.