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ACHIEVEMENTS / HACKATHONS & RESEARCH

Ideas beyond
the codebase.

Research, team projects and recognition for the work.

AEQUITAS CppCon 2026 poster showing the C++20/pybind11 pipeline, kernel benchmarks and concurrency results
CppCon 2026AEQUITAS · Quantitative research

C++ SYSTEMS · CPPCON 2026

Python research. C++ performance.

AEQUITAS · Poster Presentation

Presented AEQUITAS at CppCon 2026: accelerating quantitative feature engineering with a C++20/pybind11 extension. The poster covers seven kernels computing 19 features, zero-copy NumPy buffers, explicit GIL release and numerical checks against pandas.

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Accelerating Quantitative Feature Engineering — A C++20/pybind11 Extension for a Python-Based Trading Research Platform

Hack_NCState 9/26 HackDayNorth Carolina State University

MULTIPLAYER + AI · HACK_NCSTATE HACKDAY

Two strangers. One legendary duel.

Pocket Rivals · HackDay Winner

Won the Hack_NCState September 26 HackDay with Pocket Rivals, a two-player phone game that turns photos, sketches and battle cries into Gemini-generated gear. Conversation prompts break the ice, while server-controlled combat keeps both players’ results in sync.

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Node.js · Express · Socket.IO · Gemini · Repository currently private

Mayday Mayor prototype showing a 3D Raleigh map with shelter, bus pickup and road protection planning controls
WolfHacks 2026Mayday Mayor · Disaster planning

CIVIC TECHNOLOGY · WOLFHACKS 2026

Play the mayor. Plan for the storm.

Mayday Mayor · 3rd Place & Best Use of Solana

Our team won 3rd Place and Best Use of Solana with Mayday Mayor, a multiplayer disaster-planning game built on real city data. Players plan shelters, evacuation pickups and road protection; their decisions inform a planner view and are recorded on Solana devnet.

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With Aum Pandya, Darsh Rank and Sakhi Patel · Built in 24 hours

AVATAR project logo: a blue flame-shaped character
HackNC 2026AVATAR · Conversational workflows

AI APPLICATIONS · HACKNC 2026

Text a request. Find its owner.

AVATAR · Best Use of Snowflake API

AVATAR won Best Use of Snowflake API at HackNC 2026. It routes workplace requests through iMessage, learns from redirects and coordinates approvals. Snowflake supplies organizational data with role-based access and masking policies in a simulated company.

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Team hackathon prototype · Simulated company data

CoughSense research poster presented at NC State’s AI Student Symposium 2026
AI Student Symposium 2026North Carolina State University

ON-DEVICE AI · AWARD-WINNING RESEARCH

Small device. Meaningful possibilities.

CoughSense · Best Poster Award

CoughSense explores privacy-preserving cough detection on an Arduino microcontroller. Our team presented it at NC State’s AI Student Symposium 2026 and received the Best Poster Award.

Research & publications

With Darsh Rank and Pratham Patel · CSC 542

Official HackNCState 2026 detective-wolf logo
HackNCState 2026North Carolina State University

AI INVESTIGATION · HACKNCSTATE 2026

Connect the evidence. Find the story.

WolfTrace · 2nd Place

Our team earned 2nd Place at HackNCState 2026 with WolfTrace, an AI investigation platform that connects evidence through a Neo4j knowledge graph, confidence scoring and video analysis.

Built at North Carolina State University

Official HackNC 2025 ram and game-console mascot
HackNC 2025University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

FINANCIAL ONBOARDING · HACKNC 2025

A conversation. A clearer financial start.

WolfVest · Best Use of Snowflake API

WolfVest won Best Use of Snowflake API at HackNC 2025. Our team combined conversational AI, document parsing and structured validation to make financial onboarding easier to navigate.

Built at UNC Chapel Hill

TOP 5 of 75 projects

SMART INDIA HACKATHON

WattWatch

Recognized for a full-stack IoT application for energy and water tracking.

Research, publications & posters

Embedded AI · Best Poster Award

CoughSense

A team research prototype using Mel Filterbank Energy audio features and a convolutional neural network on the Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense. Presented at NC State’s AI Student Symposium 2026.

My contribution

Team project with Darsh Rank and Pratham Patel.

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AI applications · AI investigation

WolfTrace

A multi-agent investigation platform combining a Neo4j evidence graph, confidence scoring and video analysis.

My contribution

Led platform development and integrated video-forensics capabilities.

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AI applications · Financial onboarding

WolfVest

An AI onboarding application combining multi-step conversations, document parsing and structured data validation.

My contribution

Designed the conversational onboarding flow and automated document parsing.

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C++ & systems · In progress · Fall 2026

Building a C++ game engine

Current coursework in Game Engine Foundations at NC State. The course involves developing a game engine and games in C++. This entry will grow with implementation notes, source code and playable builds as the semester progresses.

My contribution

Ongoing course project. Implementation details and demos will be added as they are completed.

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IoT & mobile · Undergraduate project

WattWatch

A full-stack IoT mobile application connecting ESP32 sensor telemetry to a Flutter interface and a Django/MongoDB backend for energy and water tracking.

My contribution

Developed the mobile application and backend, connected sensor telemetry, and trained the billing model.

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Data & quantitative · Undergraduate project

StockX

A real-time stock-analysis application with RESTful APIs for scraping and processing financial data, time-series models for forecasting, and NLP for news sentiment.

My contribution

Built the data ingestion APIs and integrated forecasting and sentiment analysis into the stock-analysis workflow.

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AI applications · Undergraduate project

RecipeAI

A full-stack AI application that analyzes user-uploaded food images to predict food items, ingredients and nutritional information, then generates recipes through the Spoonacular API.

My contribution

Developed the image-analysis workflow and integrated recipe generation into the application.

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Games & interaction · Multiplayer icebreaker

Pocket Rivals

Players join a shared room by QR code, photograph something they carry, draw a weapon and record a battle cry. Gemini forges personalized gear and supplies icebreaker questions, while the server applies the combat rules and synchronizes both screens.

Team project

Built as an in-person multiplayer icebreaker. The repository is currently private; contact me for more about the project.

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Games & interaction · Civic planning game

Mayday Mayor

Players allocate a budget to shelters, evacuation pickups and road protection, then see how their plan holds up through a simulated disaster. A planner view brings the resulting decisions together to reveal consensus, blind spots and local knowledge.

Team project

Built in 24 hours with Aum Pandya, Darsh Rank and Sakhi Patel.

View Mayday Mayor on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

AI applications · Conversational workflows

AVATAR

AVATAR breaks requests into steps and routes each one to its owner. Replies update the organization map, while a live dashboard shows request paths and bottlenecks. Snowflake provides organizational data with role-based access and masking policies.

Team project

A team prototype built around a simulated company, with sandbox and devnet payment integrations.

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