Bhubaneswar/Bangalore: A young techie from Odisha has once again won a prestigious prize for his innovative smartphone application.

Meet Pratik Mohapatra, a computer science engineering student at R V College of Engineering in Bengaluru, who has come up with an artificial intelligence (AI) powered application that connects organ donors with people waiting for transplant.

The app OrganSecure has bagged third prize in Good Idea Challenge.

Earlier, he had won the 2018 Imagine Cup world championship in Redmond, Washington with his DrugSafe app – a drug authentication app.

Microsoft has launched the initiative to encourage developers, students, and data scientists to use AI to tackle some of society’s greatest obstacles. The Good Idea Challenge offers prizes of up to USD 10,000 worth of Azure credits, hardware from Microsoft, and a chance to present their ideas on the AI Lab.

Mohapatra has been developing apps since he was 14. He has also got a job offer from Microsoft which he will be taking up after completion of his studies in July 2020.

With OrganSecure, the young developer hopes to tackle the two biggest challenges in the organ donation ecosystem—getting more people to become organ donors and ensuring people in need get the organs at the right time.