# Undergraduate College alumnus Vishakh Sandwar (BS '25) is featured: “Indian-Origin NYU Students Win NFL’s Big Data Bowl.”

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Excerpt from [New India Abroad](https://www.newindiaabroad.com/english/sports/indian-origin-nyu-students-win-nfls-big-data-bowl) -- “Smit Bajaj and Vishakh Sandwar, both Indian-origin students at New York University, have won the National Football League’s 2025 Big Data Bowl, a competition that challenges participants to use technology and analytics to improve the sport. The two received a $25,000 prize for their project, 'Exposing Coverage Tells in the Pre-Snap,' which they presented at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis earlier this year.”

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