🟢 Open Source & Mentorship Stats

• Google Code-In'19 @Tensorflow   ❯   (Mentor)
• HackInCodes'20   ❯   (Project Admin + Mentor)
• Kharagpur Winter of Code (KWoC) 2020 @IITKgp   ❯   (Mentor)
• NJACK Winter of Code 2020 @IITPatna   ❯   (Project Admin + Mentor)
• DSC NSEC Winter of Code 2020   ❯   (Mentor)
• Script Winter of Code (SWOC) 2020   ❯   (Mentor)
• Hyperedge Winter of Blockchain 2023   ❯   (Mentor)
• GirlScript Summer of Code (GSSoC) 2023   ❯   (Mentor)
• Social Winter of Code (SWoC) 2023   ❯   (Mentor)
• GirlScript Summer of Code (GSSoC) 2026   ❯   (Mentor)

Other affiliations include being PA's in TSoC, SSoC.

💡 Fun Fact : I've mentored over 2.5K+ students across the globe by mentoring hackers in International Hackathons,

Hackathon Host Place Hack the North 2020++ University of Waterloo, CA Remote SunHacks 2020 Arizona State University Remote nwHacks 2021 UBC Vancouver, CA Remote Hack the NorthEast 2021 HTNE Remote SacHacks 2021 UC Davis Remote TartanHacks 2021 Carnegie Mellon University Remote SigmaHacks-2.0 2021 SigmaHacks Remote SBUHacks 2021 Stony Brook University Remote StormHacks 2021 Simon Fraser University Remote UofTHacks-X 2023 University of Toronto Remote Hack@Brown 2023 Brown University Remote McHacks 2023 McGill University Remote HackMIT 2023 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Remote Cal Hacks 10.0 2023 UC Berkeley Remote

Tensorflow MediaPipe EleutherAI Hugging Face LangChain LlamaIndex Apache Software Foundation Pytorch Numpy Layer5 Sigstore Cilium Processing Foundation Publiclab gRPC BioConda Fossasia Anitab-Org OpenTelemetry

🔵 Hackathons (International + National) that I've Won 🏆

Year	Name of Hackathon	Organizer (Name of International Institution/Organisation) 🏫	Position / Award 🏆	Explore Project
2026	Midnight Hackathon 2026	Midnight Foundation + Major League Hacking (MLH)	Best Overall Winner	View
2026	Show and Tell Challenge Presented by Mux	MUX + DEV	Show and Tell Challenge Track Winner	View
2025	ETHOnline 2025	ETHGlobal	ETHOnline 2025 Finalist ; Avail - Best DeFi or Payments app with Avail Nexus SDK 1st place	View
2025	Midnight Network "Privacy First" Challenge	Midnight Foundation + DEV	Best Overall Winner — $5000	View
2025	AssemblyAI Voice Agents Challenge	AssemblyAI + DEV	Business Automation Voice Agent Track Winner	View
2025	AI Blueprints with Filecoin Hackathon	Filecoin Foundation + Encode Club	3rd Place Overall (Hack the Data Layer for AI) ; Akave & Lilypad Track Winners (Best LLM/Agent Workflow or Use Case)	View
2025	SacHacks VI	UC Davis	Best Design with code + Best Technical Implementation	View
2024	Build with Squid 2024	Squid AI	Best Overall	View
2024	CalgaryHacks 2024	University of Calgary	Tier 1 — Second Place	View
2023	Hacktech 2023	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	Grand Prize — Best Hack (Senior Division)	View
2023	MetroHacks 2023	MetroHacks — ACP / ASR-X	1st Place (Best Overall) — Communication Track (18+, Advanced Category)	View
2023	Web3Apps	Major League Hacking (MLH)	Best Use of Hedera	View
2023	University of Bridgeport Hackathon	University of Bridgeport	1st Place Prize	View
2023	Citro Hacks 2023	Citro Tech	Best Collegiate Hack	View
2023	Hack the Hill	University of Ottawa & Carleton University	Best Use of Google Cloud	View
2023	Scaling Ethereum	ETHGlobal	Polybase — Pool Prize	View
2023	Hack Around the World 2	Major League Hacking (MLH)	Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry [APAC Only]	View
2023	EthForAll 2023	Devfolio x ETHIndia	Arcana Network Auth Prize	View
2023	Linode Hackathon 2023	Linode x DEV	Runner-Up — Smooth Shifters	View
2023	Hacklytics 2023	Georgia Tech	Best Healthcare Hack	View
2023	DeisHacks 2023	Brandeis University	Hidden Jem Track Prize ($500)	View
2023	HackED	University of Alberta	Best Use of MongoDB Atlas	View
2022	Hacky New Year!	Major League Hacking (MLH)	Most Innovative Hack	View
2022	Hacky Winterland 2	Major League Hacking (MLH)	Best Use of Google Cloud	View
2022	MongoDB Atlas Hackathon 2022	MongoDB x DEV	Runner-Up — Choose Your Own Adventure	View
2022	MetroHacks 2022	MetroHacks — ASR-X	1st Place (Best Overall) - Education Track (18+, Advanced Category) ; Most Creative Use of Twilio	View
2022	Impractical Hackers 2	Major League Hacking (MLH)	Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry [APAC Only]	View
2022	PeddieHacks	Peddie School, Hightstown, New Jersey	Passion Prize by 1517 & Education College Prize	View
2022	KYH Hackathon	KatyYouthHacks	Best Overall Winner	View
2022	Impact Hacks	Irvington High School Data Science Club	Judge's Choice	View
2022	GryphHacks	University of Guelph	Second Place Overall ; Best CI/CD Application Using CircleCI ; Best use of CockroachDB	View
2022	RU Hacks	Ryerson University	Best Application of DCP API 1st Place ; Best Use of Google Cloud ; Mini Win: Most Engaging Demo Video	View
2022	SD Hacks	UC San Diego	First Place ($1000) - MageAI challenge (Tied)	View
2022	PickHacks	Missouri S&T	Best Use of MATLAB	View
2022	HackPrinceton Spring'22	Princeton University	Most Creative Use of Twilio	View
2022	Faber Web3 Hackathon	Faber Inc.	Third Best Overall ; Across the Line Award	View
2022	Hacktech	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	Best ML/AI Hack ; Passion Prize by 1517	View
2022	HackNYU	New York University	Best Overall — Track: Inclusion	View
2022	TAMUhack	Texas A&M University	PIMCO Challenge	View
2021	Kent Hack Enough	Kent State University	Best Use of Google Cloud, Best International Hack (Tied)	View
2021	MetroHacks	ACP x Tsinghua University	Best Overall	View
2021	HackUMBC Fall 2021	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	Best Financial Hack — Capital One	View
2021	VolHacks V	University of Tennessee	Jina AI — Best Hack Using Jina AI	View
2021	Cal Hacks 8.0	UC Berkeley	BlackRock Challenge — Financial Wellbeing (Best Overall) ; The @ Company — Mobile Apps Post “The Social Dilemma” (First Place) ; MLH — Best Use of Google Cloud ; The @ Company — Best Use of @ Platform	View
2021	Pitt Challenge	University of Pittsburgh — School of Pharmacy and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)	Overall 2nd Place (Tied)	View
2021	MHacks 14	University of Michigan	Best Machine Learning Hack ; Best Educational Hack - Leading Learners	View
2021	MakeUC	University of Cincinnati	[Givaudan] Best Hack for Demystifying Food Experience ; [Tezos] Best Project Using Blockchain — 2nd Place ($2000)	View
2021	DivHacks	Columbia University	Most Fun or Unique Hack	View
2021	HyperHacks	HyperHacks Inc.	Top 10	View
2021	Backyard Hacks 2.0	Major League Hacking (MLH)	Best use of Google Cloud	View
2021	HackMIT 2021	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Best Financial Hack — Capital One ; Best Hack for Environmental Sustainability Investing — Arrowstreet Capital	View
2021	PyTorch Annual Hackathon 2021	Facebook	Honorable Mention	View
2021	HopHacks Fall 2021	Johns Hopkins University, Maryland	Hacking — Runner Up	View
2021	PennApps XXII	University of Pennsylvania	Top 10 ; Sponsored Route: Best Use of IPFS and/or Filecoin	View
2021	PeddieHacks	Peddie School, Hightstown, New Jersey	Judges' Prize	View
2021	Slam Dunk Hacks	Major League Hacking (MLH)	First Overall ; Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry [APAC Only]	View
2021	HackUPC 2021	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Barcelona Tech - UPC	Second Best Overall ; IThinkUPC Challenge (Best Overall)	View
2021	IBM Healthcare Innovation Challenge	IBM	Second Best Overall (APAC) ; Innovators Award	View
2021	Hacktech 2021	Caltech	Runner-Up (Best Overall)	View
2021	HueHacks	Major League Hacking (MLH)	Work of Art Hack	View
2021	HackPSU Spring 2021	Penn State University	Nittany Ai Alliance — Ai for Good (First Place) ; HackPSU Health and Wellness	View
2021	Hackthrob	Major League Hacking (MLH)	Best Hardware Hack presented by Digi-Key	View
2021	HackBU 2021	Binghamton University	Best Design (UI) sponsored by RubyApps	View
2021	uOttaHack 4	University of Ottawa	1st Place Overall ; Solace - Best use of PubSub+ (Best Overall)	View
2021	TartanHacks 2021	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)	Best use of DataStax Astra	View
2021	Hoya Hacks 2021	Georgetown University	1st Place Overall	View
2021	Quantahacks 2021	Quantahacks	Second Place Overall	View
2021	Hack APAC	Major League Hacking (MLH)	Best use of Google Cloud	View
2021	Hack Your Portfolio	Major League Hacking (MLH)	Best Social Good Hack	View
2021	DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon	DigitalOcean x DEV.to	Runner up	View
2020	SharkHacks	Major League Hacking (MLH)	Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry [APAC Only]	View
2020	DandyHacks	University of Rochester	echoAR Track Prize	View
2020	Def Hacks — Global 2.0	Def Hacks Inc.	SecurePDF — Advanced Track Winner	View

... and 20+ more across Devpost, Devfolio, AngelHack & Other Platforms!

Furthermore, in addition to my role as an MLH Mentor, I have taken on the responsibility of judging in various prestigious international hackathons, including: BigRedHacks, Hack BMU 5.0, StormHacks, YUHacks, KnightHacks, BrickHack, etc.

💡 Fun Fact : I don't participate in domestic ones much since there, (Politics + Partiality) >> Skills 😆

🟡 Been a part of Prestigious Programs including (but not limited to)

• Research Assistant (RA) Intern at IIIT Hyderabad — Remote
  ↳ Worked on Deep Neural Net Acoustic Model for Phoneme Segmentation under Dr. Naresh Manwani
  
  
• Summer Intern at III Kanpur — Remote
  ↳ Was a part of the Applied Machine Learning & Data Science group, governed by CCE, IITK (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), in collaboration with the Intelligent Data Engineering and Automation (IDEA) Laboratory under Prof. Nishchal K. Verma
  
  
• Summer Intern at Space Applications Centre (SAC), ISRO — Remote (5m) / In-Person (1w)
  ↳ Created Gecko plugins utilizing TensorFlow.js for the detection, instance segmentation, and classification of distinct segments within objects in satellite images. These extensions are optimized for high-resolution remote sensing data, enhancing their applicability in scientific research and analysis.
  
  
• Software Development Engineer Intern & LFN Mentee (DevOps) at Layer5, Inc — Remote
  ↳ Migrated SMP to Rails, refactored UI to cut dependencies (improving site health & SEO by 63%), and enhanced unit tests with Cypress to streamline workflows, reducing processing time by 30%
  
  
• HackIllinois OS Fellow 21 — Remote
  ↳ Worked on async wrappers of k8s.io/apiserver under CNCF
  
  
• MITACS GRI'21 — Remote // uAlberta
  ↳ Worked on Mobile Head Motion-Tracking Unit based on RCV designed for specially-abled under Dr. Nilanjan Ray (Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, CA)
  
  
• The Visual Computing & Artificial Intelligence Lab at TUM, 2022 — Remote
  ↳ Worked on Panoptic Segmentation & Object Detection with YOLOv8
  
  
• Google Summer of Code 2023 ~ Tensorflow (MediaPipe / Google) — Remote
  
  
• Machine Learning Research Intern at University of Hong Kong (HKU) — Remote
  ↳ Worked with Dr. Praveer Singh under the supervision of Prof. Liangqiong Qu to help develop FL algorithms for decentralized training of small LLMs on resource-constrained devices, facilitating adaptive knowledge integration from diverse domains while ensuring high performance across each domain.
  
  
• SVS Lab, Syracuse University — Remote
  ↳ Worked on Real-Time Efficient End-to-End Multi-Person Pose Estimation from Low-Res Video Feed, under Senem Velipasalar
  
  
• Image Analysis and Computer Vision (IACV) Lab, IISc Bangalore — Remote
  ↳ Worked on Few-Shot Multimodal Synthesis (Expandable AI), under Soma Biswas
  
  
• Applied AI / Research Engineer at SimPPL under Unicode Research — Remote
  ↳ Working on Social Data Scraping and AI for fairness, under Swapneel Mehta
  
  
• Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, Boston University — Remote
  ↳ Dedicated to advancing free speech, social media, and democratic values through the application of state-of-the-art methodologies. Currently developing cutting-edge measurement and mitigation techniques to address online harms, contributing to advanced platform governance and the formulation of impactful policies, under Prof. Marshall Van Alstyne
  
  
• Summer of Reproducibility (SoR) Fellow 2024 via UCSC OSRE — AIEA Lab, UC Santa Cruz — Remote
  ↳ Worked under the guidance of Prof. Leilani H. Gilpin at the AI Explainability & Accountability Lab (AIEA) on Logical LLMs, an open-source research initiative focused on trustworthy reasoning, explainability, and automated hallucination detection in large language models. Contributed to graph-workflows involving LLM prompting, user feedback collection interfaces, and data pipelines for storing and analysing corrections in reusable formats. Also supported the development of logic-based evaluation and feedback mechanisms aimed at identifying inconsistencies in model outputs, improving error traceability, and enabling more transparent human-in-the-loop LLM systems.
  
  
• AI Fellow, Swades.ai Fellowship — Remote (4 months)
  ↳ Accepted into the Swades.ai Fellowship to work with OpenMic.ai on evaluation systems for enterprise-grade AI voice agents. Worked on designing evals for conversational quality, task success, turn-taking robustness, latency sensitivity, and instruction following across inbound and outbound call workflows. Built testing and analysis workflows to benchmark agent behaviour under realistic conversational conditions including interruptions, ambiguous user intent, and long-horizon multi-turn exchanges, contributing to more reliable voice agent assessment and iteration. The programme concluded earlier than planned following a strategic realignment of fellowship operations and product focus within the organisation.
  
  
• Machine Learning Engineer (Research Engineering Intern) at ARTPARK, IISc Bangalore — Remote
  ↳ Worked under the guidance of Sid Parida & Jigar Doshi & built a production agentic RAG system at ARMMAN using sub-3B models & deployed for ~1M frontline healthcare workers. Besides, employed Hybrid FAISS-HNSW + BM25 retrieval, multi-agent routing, and guardrails to reduce clinical errors by 37% across 22 domains while keeping P50 latency under 330 ms. Added hallucination checks using self-consistency voting, logit-entropy clustering, and ontology validation, cutting hallucinations by another 18%. Moreover, set up model evaluation and routing infrastructure & DSPy consensus grading, multilingual CRAG for Indic queries, and benchmarking 8+ quantized models, bringing P95 latency from 1.75s to 0.9s at 80+ QPS and validating Qwen3-30B-A3B as a near-equivalent evaluator at 63% lower cost.
  
  
• CoreML and Data Science (Fellow) via Build for Bharat Fellowship 2025 — Remote
  ↳ Pioneered an 8-bit quantized CNN-Transformer hybrid for on-device liveliness detection, reducing biometric spoofing by 83%, strengthening resistance to presentation attacks & enhancing facial recognition integrity in the Digi Yatra app. Ensured sub-200ms inference time on edge devices, enabling secure, real-time passenger verification on the go
  
  
• Open Source Promotion Plan'24 (OSPP) mentee ~ OpenDigger — Remote
  ↳ Worked under the guidance of Frank Zhao at X-Lab to help develop and improve an open-source analysis platform — OpenDigger. This program is jointly sponsored by Huawei & ISCAS, CN.
  
  
• Winter Research Intern at Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar — Remote
  ↳ Worked under the guidance of Prof. Shreya Ghosh on an Indic travel recommendation system using multi-SLMs with graph-based modeling and path-aware retrieval for contextual reasoning. This research was jointly sponsored by Microsoft Research, India
  
  
• IndiaAI Fellow 2025 under the IndiaAI Mission (MeitY, Govt. of India) — Online
  ↳ Selected among top-145 M.Tech researchers from leading Indian institutions to pursue applied AI research in machine learning, language technologies, and real-world AI systems.
  
  
• Code for Govt Tech (C4GT) 2025 (Mentee) — The Apprentice Project (TAP) — Remote
  ↳ Selected from over 4200+ applicants nationwide to work on “The Apprentice Project: AI-First Internal Transformation” under the Dedicated Mentoring Program (DMP) 2025, focused on building production-grade, governance-focused open-source infrastructure. Worked alongside TAP’s CEO, Anand Gopakumar, other mentors, and public sector PoCs to deliver real-world digital solutions with public impact.
  
  
• Open Source Promotion Plan'25 (OSPP) mentee ~ OpenDigger — Remote
  ↳ Worked under the mentorship of Frank Zhao at X-Lab to implement & publish full MCP (Model Context Protocol) support for OpenDigger, enabling LLMs to stream real-time open-source metrics via SSE, using TypeScript and Node.js. This program is jointly sponsored by Huawei & ISCAS, CN.
  
  
• NUS Young Fellowship Programme'26 (NYFP) fellow at NUS — Singapore / Remote (Jun–Jul 2026)
  ↳ Selected for the highly competitive National University of Singapore Young Fellowship Programme 2026, focused on AI and Graduate Research. Grants a prestigious opportunity to engage with NUS faculty and global peers through a hybrid format, including on-campus lectures, research lab visits, and hands-on project work. Also, includes exploring applications of AI across science, engineering, healthcare, business, and social sciences, culminating in a final research presentation. Programme includes fully sponsored on-campus accommodation during the Singapore residency and a SGD 500 travel grant upon successful completion.
  
  
• Research Intern (IR & NLP), University of Cambridge, Department of CST — Remote (Present)
  ↳ Collaborated with Qiyao Wei on ODHEMIS (Orchestrated Dual-tier Hierarchical Evaluation with Multi-agent Inspection and Scoring), a joint research effort towards an EMNLP ’26 submission focused on improving evaluation pipelines for agentic LLM systems. Lead the design and development of a dual-stage verifier–judge framework combining probabilistic verification, structured feedback, and rubric-based quality assessment across reasoning, code generation, and retrieval tasks. Besides, helped build evaluation workflows for candidate selection and retry optimisation, reducing unnecessary downstream judging and delivering up to 43% lower evaluation cost in controlled experiments, while producing stronger feedback signals for model refinement and alignment research.
  
  

ⓘ WIP — last updated till late Dec 2025, & will be updated to February 2026 soon.

ⓘ Stats of Other Endeavours ...  

• 🔴 MLH Fellowship → Program discontinued for APAC since 2023 ❎
• 🟣 Google Season of Docs (2023) → Shortlisted but had to withdrew due to terms of GSoC 2023
• 🟣 Outreachy (May 2023 Cohort) → Selected but withdrew due to overlap with GSoC 2023
• ⚪ DAAD WISE Scholarship (2021) → Could not apply due to institutional eligibility requirements ❎
• 🟡 Summer of Bitcoin → Missed 2026 ❎ / (Target cycle 2027)
• 🟡 European Summer of Code (ESoC) → Didn't apply in 2026 ❎ / (Target cycle 2027)
• 🟠 NTU MMLab Research Internship → Reapplied in early 2026, & no response so far 😔
• ⚪ HKUST PG Visiting Research Internship → Not eligible earlier due to institutional constraints ❎
• 🟡 NUS Research Internship → Summer / Fall research internship track ⏳ (Planned cycle 2025)
• 🔴 MIT Summer Geometry Initiative 2025 → Application Rejected due to profile-mismatch ❎
• 🔴 IUSSTF – Viterbi Program (Indo-US research exchange fellowship) → Application Rejected ❎
• 🔴 EPFL E3 Program → Application rejected in round-3 due to project-lab mismatch ❎
• ⚪ NTU Global Connect Fellowship → Self-rejected due to pre-committed obligations ❎
• ⚪ KOSPIE Scholarship Programme 2024-2025 → Stalled due to lack of formal approval from home institution ❎
• ⚪ UNSW Global ToR – India SP2 2025 → Administrative constraints at home institute prevented continuation ❎
• ⚪ Charpak Research Internship 2025 → Skipped due to partial funding & overlap with fully-funded commitments ❎
• ⚪ Aalto Science Institute ISRP 2025 → Skipped due to partial funding & other commitments ❎
• ⚪ CaCTüS — C2 Tübingen Summer Internship 2025 → Couldn’t commit due to existing obligations ❎
• 🔴 ETH Student Summer Research Fellowship (SSRF) 2026 → Application Rejected ❎
• ⚪ Taiwan International Internship Program (TIIP) 2026 → Skipped due to partial funding issues ❎
• ⚪ SciML Summer Fellowship 2026 → Wasn't aware, hence didn't apply ❎
• 🟠 CMU LTI Language Technology for All Internship 2026 → Application Waitlisted ⏳
• 🟠 OIST Research Internship 2026 → Application Waitlisted ⏳

👥 Other noteworthy groups and communities I am associated with ...  

• IEEE AOT, Academy of Technology
• IEI-AOT, Academy of Technology
• IITG.ai, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
• Consulting & Analytics Club (C&A), Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Kolkata Chapter
• Vision and Learning Research Group (VLRG), ISI Kolkata
• The Computer Society of India (CSI), Kolkata
• Machine Learning Research Group (MLRG), ISI Kolkata
• Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), India
• The International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT), Singapore
• The European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) / DE, Europe
• Developer Students Club, AOT, Academy of Technology
• Tensorflow User Group, Kolkata
• Mozilla Kolkata
• Google Developer Group (GDG), Kolkata
• Google Developer Group (GDG) Cloud Kolkata
• CodeChef AOT Chapter, Academy of Technology
• AWS User Group, Kolkata
• Facebook Developer Circle, Kolkata
• AOT Technology Business Incubation Centre, Academy of Technology

And several others including, OpenAI Community, FOSSASIA Community, CNCF Kolkata, etc.

ⓘ NOTE
If you're reading this, do know that the struggle for excellence is hard but worth mentioning. I've struggled psychologically, and I had to sacrifice a lot of things in the same process, be it living or non-living, but it's the good memories that stayed with me and propelled me forward. Much of my foundation is built on the challenges my parents had to endure and the risks they took to raise me. It is in large part my determination to vindicate their leap of faith and make them proud that drives my ambitions. Sometimes, I get lost in the mess, but then I prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Like a lot of people, I'm not sure what the future holds for me. Regardless of what I do, I'll do it to the best of my ability, in order to perform my duty to impart a net good onto the human race! 😃

⚪ Journey & a few Easter Eggs 🥚

• Achieved a remarkable Top-10 position in the prestigious SAP Semicolon Hackathon 3.0, held in Bangalore in 2019 🏆
• Regional Top-10 in Build for Digital India (BFDI), 2020, hosted by MeitY and Google among 51/4756 teams across India!
• Runner-up of TCO19 and TCO22 (Topcoder Open) Regionals, India. 🎉
• Scored a prestigious ticket to the Oxford Machine Learning Summer School, OxML 2020 (Computer Vision Track), hosted by University of Oxford among 2000+ applicants across the globe!
• Became the maintainer of the Service Mesh Performance under Layer5, Inc. 🧑🏻‍🔬
• Top 0.1% among all GCP labs practitioners, APAC.
• HoyaHacks's Instagram page gave a shoutout to our project KrishAI for becoming the Best Overall among more than 500 participants at Hoya Hacks 2021 hosted by Georgetown University! 🏆
• Solace published our hackathon project — Ambuplus for uOttaHack'21 on their Blog page!
• Project Adoptic got highlighted on the PennState engineering blog!
• Selected for Nittany AI Challenge 2021 (invited by Brad Zdenek), hosted by PennState among 1000+ teams across the globe!
• Scored #167th rank (Global) in Quora Programming Challenge 2021! 🏆
• One of the fortunate 25 UG students (globally) who secured a ticket to the 11th Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School, LxMLS 2021 (Virtual)
• Selected for CIFAR Deep Learning Reinforcement Learning Summer School, 2021
• Scored an opportunity to be a part of the Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) in Taipei 2021, an initiative collaboratively held by NTU and ACLCLP.
• We proudly clinched the Runner-Up position in the prestigious CERN Openlab Webfest, 2021. Our team showcased groundbreaking solutions and exemplified our commitment to pushing the limits of technology in the realm of nuclear energy. Check out the live judging session here.
• Project EyeBalliN got featured on Major League Hacking aka MLH's Twitter page! 🎊
• Became a finalist of J.P. Morgan & Co. (JPMC) Code for Good Hackathon, 2021 (APAC, Virtual) 🥳
• Made it to the Top-10 with Rexis in Accenture Innovation Challenge, 2021 hosted on HackerEarth! 🚀
• Our team (AlphaStark) of three (consisting of Me, Sandipan and Saif) became the college finalist in Optum Stratethon - Season 3, 2021 (Engineering Track), and our Project/PPT can be viewed here 🎉
• Developed a Pytorch-based model utilizing the Fruits360 dataset to accurately predict the lifecycle of 131 fruits based on their exterior color, & earned an Honorable Mention at the renowned PyTorch Annual Hackathon 2021 hosted by Meta 🏆
• Selected as the Top-6 undergraduate for Research Week with Google among 3500+ applications across India!
• Selected for AI+Science Summer School, jointly hosted by the Data Science Institute (DSI) and the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI).
• Regrettably, I received an email notifying me that I didn't secure a spot in the esteemed CaCTüS Internship's Top 10 (globally). This prestigious three-month paid program at the Max Planck Institutes focuses on fostering inclusion and supporting talented students in the fields of Biological and Artificial Intelligence research 🥺
• RentEasy got rebranded to RentalHunt & has successfully raised $150k with the help of UBC Innovation cell & FounderFuel 🎉
• Presented RentEasy live on @-platform (by AtSign) Demo Day via YouTube and received an exclusive Limited Edition swag kit as a token of appreciation! 🤙
• Project Unisight clinched the Overall Best Prize award in DeveloperWeek Austin which happened on November 17-18, 2021, during the virtual edition of the largest hackathon in Texas. 🎉
• Selected for CNI Summer School, 2022 hosted by Centre for Networked Intelligence, IISc Bangalore (Virtual)
• Secured acceptance into the highly prestigious HackMIT 2022 and HackHarvard 2022!
• Chosen as one of the top 600 students nationwide to participate in the prestigious Amazon Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) 2022!
• Earned the prestigious TensorFlow Developer Certificate! 🎊
• Attended ASONAM 2022 — IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining Istanbul, Turkey! (Virtually)
• Scored a ticket for the prestigious AstroHackWeek 2022 Summer School, hosted by the esteemed Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany (Virtual).
• Landed a finalist spot in the prestigious Microsoft Imagine Cup 2022, (R3) India Finals 🎉
• Got accepted into Stanford's prestigious annual hackathon TreeHacks 2023 & secured an all-expense-paid round-trip scholarship to visit Stanford, CA.
• The sole recipient worldwide to be awarded the prestigious 3x 1517 Medici Grant (2022-2023) for three distinct projects (Lyceum, Summarizr, & Ziro) in a single annual season! 🎉
• The Brandeishoot blog showcased our Project Land of a Thousand Hills Collectibles built at DeisHacks 2023!
• Project ZenTube got featured in App-In Club webinar, special thanks to Anthony and Richard for giving us a shoutout! 🙌
• The official blog of Caltech featured Project Upcycle built at Hacktech 2023!
• Project Upcycle got featured on Karmactive!
• As a recipient of the esteemed Dan Kohn Scholarship, I have been awarded a fully funded trip to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, which will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and is hosted by the Linux Foundation.
• Applied, interviewed & even got shortlisted for Google Season of Docs 2023 (under both Sigstore & AsyncAPI org), but then decided to drop out of GSoD'23 (full-time) because of recurring clash between GSoD'23 & GSoC'23 (full-time). Both Lisa (from Sigstore) & Alejandra (from AsyncAPI) advised me to apply next semester. ☀️
• Although I was unable to participate in this year's Samsung Solve for Tomorrow due to age limitations, I am thrilled to announce that my juniors (Team Stemly) have achieved a place in the Top 30 of the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2023 (PAN India). As their mentor, I couldn't be more delighted to witness their success! 😃
• Was accepted into Outreachy's May 2023 cohort for the project "Extend automated validation of API reference request/response samples." However, I had to withdraw due to a scheduling conflict between Outreachy and GSoC'23. Outreachy's eligibility criteria prevent participation in both programs (refer to this). Sadly, this means I won't be able to participate in Outreachy in the near future. 💔
• HealthifAI has been successfully accepted into the prestigious Create-X 2023 program. Among over 300 applications at Georgia Tech, HealthifAI stands out as one of the top ten projects. We are thrilled to announce that HealthifAI will receive funding from the esteemed Sony Corporation. 🎊🎉
• Project SparkStream got enrolled into Graph-Paper-Capital, the most value-add web3 accelerator and networked ecosystem! 💎
• [Dated: 05.06.23] → The LFX Mentorship 2023 program under Hyperledger Org announced mentees, but the selection process seemed extremely unprofessional. Received no interviews or feedback, and it appeared that diversity and networking played a bigger role than merit. This makes me hesitant to apply for future Hyperledger projects.
• [Dated: 06.06.23] → I received an email from Maciej regarding my proposal (for this) for the AsyncAPI 2023 Mentorship program. While he appreciated my effort and dedication in crafting the proposal, I regret to share, that my application was rejected due to my current involvement in GSoC'23. They emphasized the importance of focusing on my current programs, allowing others to apply for the AsyncAPI Mentorship Program and grow their open-source skills.
• [Dated: 11.06.23] → Had a chat with Alejandra (from AsyncAPI), & confirmed that I'm not eligible for AsyncAPI 2023 Technical Writer Mentorship Program for the same aforementioned reason. However, I am hopeful and determined to actively pursue opportunities for the GSoD'24 program if they become available and circumstances align favorably. Fingers crossed! 🤞
• [Dated: 11.06.23] → I stumbled upon C4GT'23 on June 9th, and today I swiftly drafted and submitted a proposal (#ai-tools) for the program. I also assisted my friend in writing his proposal 😜. It has been an exhilarating journey so far, although the chances of acceptance are uncertain. Hence, remaining hopeful and keeping my fingers crossed. 🤞
• Accepted for Mathematical Summer in Paris 2023, hosted by Université Paris-Saclay! (Virtual)
• Attended a workshop tutorial on Denoising Diffusion Models: A Generative Learning Big Bang by Arash Vahdat, Jiaming Song & Chenlin Meng at CVPR'23.
• [Dated: 20.06.23] → Received an email from C4GT'23 (specifically, GautamR from Samagra), stating that they are not accepting mentees who have been selected in this year's GSoC (2023). However, they did suggest that I consider becoming a Mentor instead. Additionally, Chakshu Gautam reached out to me regarding the opportunity to mentor for DSEP, which I unfortunately had to postpone due to other commitments.
• Absolutely delighted to be among the fortunate 500 recipients of the prestigious 2023 LiFT Scholarship awarded by @linuxfoundation! 🥳🎉
• Secured a scholarship ticket to attend AI-DLDA, the International Summer School on Artificial Intelligence, scheduled from July 3rd to 7th, 2023, Udine (Virtual)
• [Dated: 30.06.23] → Despite catching a cold, I decided to participate in MLH's #Web3Build Hackathon sponsored by NEAR Horizon. I teamed up with Niku, Pranav, and Kamal to create NearSocialBoost 🔥. Unfortunately, the results didn't turn out as expected, as we witnessed some diversity drama and saw pre-coded projects being selected under a rebranded guise. The lack of strict rules allowed one of the winning teams (among the Top-4) to exploit the T&Cs and engage in plagiarism.
• Got selected for the 7th edition of CVIT Summer School Event on AI with Focus on Computer Vision and Machine Learning organized by IIIT Hyderabad, held from 18th July to 19th August, 2023. 🎉
• [Dated: 12.07.23] → Received an email from MLH & MongoDB who're interested in publishing our EDWiz project on their website!
• Super stoked to let you know I've landed a spot at the ZTF Summer School 2023 at Caltech! It's a dream come true for a space geek like me! 🪐
• Got invited to join Berkeley SkyDeck's portfolio of startups to receive ~$50,000 in funding for RentalHunt and attend UC Berkeley's prestigious annual AI Hackathon 2023 hosted by Cal Hacks.
• [Dated: 17.07.23] → Originally, I applied to be a participant at HackMIT 2023. However, I was pleasantly surprised when they offered me a position as a Mentor instead & provided a generous travel grant. But after giving it some thought, I decided to offer my mentorship remotely, virtually. I'm super excited and thrilled to be able to assist other hackers in turning their ideas into reality. Let's launch those projects into the stratosphere! 🚀
• [Dated: 18.07.23] → Scored an entry into the prestigious Data Science in India 2023 conference, organized by ACM SIGKDD India Chapter (IKDD) 🎉
• [Dated: 12.08.23] → Started developing a parallelized module for building Super-Resolution of frames using Lossless Pooling Convolutional Networks 🧠
• [Dated: 28.08.23] → My Google SoC journey officially concluded, as I submitted my final report. However certain details are missing from the report due to Google's proprietary content. Overall, it has been an exhilarating journey, and I am extremely grateful to my mentor Jen Person 👩 for her consistent guidance & support throughout the program! 💙
• [Dated: 01.09.23] → I've been featured on the Devpost Blog! Dive into the article to discover how I collaborate with teams from around the world during hackathons and find out what keeps me motivated! 🚀
• [Dated: 04.09.23] → Successfully completed Google Summer of Code 2023 under TensorFlow org. Access the Certificate here! ✨
• [Dated: 21.09.23] → Scored an opportunity to attend the prestigious Workshop on Responsible and Open Foundation Models hosted by the Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University and Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM), Stanford University & a chance to engage with some of the most brilliant individuals globally! 🔥
• Scored an invite to the prestigious 2023 AI Symposium hosted by AI Lab at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor! 🎉
• Got accepted into AI ATL, the biggest and Atlanta's first state-of-the-art AI event-cum-hackathon for makers, engineers, designers, + everything in between hosted by Georgia Tech and Startup Exchange 🥳
• Participated in Stanford University's Graph Learning Workshop 2023, featuring cutting-edge developments in Machine Learning and AI for Relational domains, Foundation Models, and Multimodal AI 🤖
• [Dated: 04.11.23] → Participated in Headout's annual hackathon → Hackout 2023. I teamed up with Niku, Pranav, and Devesh & built NeoWay, a smart mobile app which acts as your Stress-Free Travel Companion for Budget-Friendly, Epic Solo Adventures 🔥. Unfortunately, the results didn't turn out as expected, as we witnessed mismanagement and unfairness in the judging process, revealing incompetent projects as the winners.
• [Dated: 07.11.23] → Project Sakhi (সখী), led by a join collaboration of team AI4Good & WaterAid BD, received a developmental grant of €10,000 🚀
• [Dated: 25.11.23] → Participated in the AI Symposium 2023 organized by the Society for Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning (SAiDL) at BITS Pilani, fostering connections, exposing students to AI trends in science, and providing insights for aspiring researchers and practitioners.
• [Dated: 28.11.23] → Presented সখী aka "Sakhi-bot" during an information session of SimPPL at DJSCE, Mumbai, led by our team — Raghav Jain, Mrunmayi Parker, Nahush Patil, and myself. Feel free to surf the video here
• Excited to announce SimPPL's Responsible AI Research Fellowship program, offering undergraduates a 4/6-month research training sponsored by Google Research with experienced mentors from MIT, Oxford, NYU, X (prev. Twitter), Goldman Sachs, Adobe, CERN, Bombora. Fellowship applications opening soon! 🚀 [UPDATE: Event ended!]
• [Dated: 28.11.23] → Submitted a workshop paper addressing fundamental research questions and societal impacts, for the 2nd Workshop of Deployable AI (DAI 2024) at AAAI 2024, organized by faculty from IIT Madras and supported by RBCDSAI and CeRAI.
• [Dated: 21.12.23] → Became the sole individual (globally) who has achieved an unprecedented hat-trick of Best Overall victories in the prestigious MetroHacks for the consecutive years 2021, 2022, and 2023! 🔥
• [Dated: 21.12.23] → Our first report under Tech Global Institute (TGI) has been published! 🎉
• [Dated: 05.02.24] → Project সখী (Sakhi) has been accepted into MIT's prestigious IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge! This is an exciting opportunity for us to join forces with MIT and collaborate on addressing global social and environmental challenges! 🚀
• Got selected as an OSPP'24 (Open Source Promotion Plan) mentee under x-Lab organization, under the mentorship of Frank Zhao! 🥳

ⓘ UPDATE: This list is no longer maintained due to privacy concerns. More can be found scattered across LinkedIn & other platforms. If you want to know more about my journey, feel free to connect on LinkedIn or Twitter! 🙌

ⓘ UPDATE (Dec 2025): My primary setup now includes two MacBook Pros (14-inch M4 Pro, 18GB RAM, and M1 Pro, 16GB RAM, 1TB storage), along with a Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB) for side projects. Besides, the previous desktop GPU was upgraded to an RTX 4070 Ti (12GB), replacing the RX 570 (4GB) 🚀

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