Hackathons & Co-Curriculars

Building community through hands-on work

Hackathons, teaching, and service activities that complement my research and engineering interests.

Hackathons

Cal Hacks × Fetch.ai Innovation Lab

Winner, Fetch.ai track — AgentViewAR

Built an empathy-driven VR interview coaching system that surfaces real-time stress insights to recruiters. A Meta Quest 3 HUD shows pace, pauses, tension levels, and prompts; Fetch.ai agents coordinate recruiter/candidate feedback loops. Groq Whisper handles fast speech transcription, FastAPI + ChromaDB track recovery patterns, and Claude produces interview summaries and coaching recommendations.

Meta Quest 3WebXRThree.jsVR HUDWebSocketsFastAPIWhisperASRSpeech analyticsClaude APILLM summarizationFetch.ai AgentverseMulti-agent systemChromaDBVector database

Devpost Medium article GitHub

HackHazards ’24

Winner, xxnetwork sponsor track — CrimsonConnect

Built a transparent, user-friendly platform that connects donors and recipients quickly, improving timeliness while preserving privacy with blockchain-based verification. Implemented a Django web app and integrated Solidity/Hardhat with Ethereum tooling and Polygon Mumbai, plus location capabilities with Leaflet.js.

SolidityNode.jsDjangoJavaScriptReact.jsHardhatEthereum TestRPCPolygon MumbaiLeaflet.jsxx-network

Devfolio YouTube Demo GitHub

GeeksforGeeks Ecotech Hacks

2nd place — OptiSpace

OptiSpace is a smart office system that combines IoT sensing, machine learning, and computer vision to optimize energy usage, occupancy-aware climate control, and waste management. It ingests environmental signals alongside OpenWeatherMap context, applies predictive + rule-augmented ML to adjust lighting/HVAC, and uses a lightweight vision pipeline to detect waste and feed real-time dashboards.

IoT & sensingReal-time inferenceMachine learningPredictive modelingDjangoRESTful APIsBackend orchestrationComputer vision

YouTube Demo GitHub

AWS GameDay Hackathon

2nd place — team performance highlight

Secured 2nd place while collaborating under time pressure using Amazon Bedrock, OpenSearch, SageMaker, and AWS Guardrails. This was a competitive team challenge rather than a single product build.

Amazon BedrockOpenSearchSageMakerAWS GuardrailsCloud architectureGenAI workflows

Hackathon Organizer

HackWIE 3.0 – Women-Centric Hackathon

Organized a 24-hour hackathon addressing challenges faced by Women in Engineering, promoting inclusivity in tech. Led technical workshops, webinars, and knowledge-sharing sessions on emerging technologies (AI/ML, blockchain), boosting student engagement and skill development.

HackAvenue Hackathon (2023)

Led planning across budgeting, timelines, event scheduling, and theme development for 32 participating teams. Managed cross-functional teams (marketing, logistics, sponsorship) and coordinated with college authorities for approvals and compliance.

Organizing Committee Member, R10 Hackathon (IEEE India Council)

Contributed to the planning and execution of the IEEE India Council hackathon at KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad (IEEE SSH 2024), facilitating innovation-driven problem-solving.