Past Winners

2025

Best Overall Hack: AlgoRhythm

Winners: Abraham Agbota, Ryan Ghimire, Justin Ma, Arjun Babla

Description: AlgoRhythm is an innovative digital audio workstation designed to empower beginner songwriters with intuitive music composition tools. Users can sing melodies, which are then transformed into various instrumental notes, while AI enhances their creations.

Best Mobile Hack: SeachParty

Winners: Aryan Gadre, Kanishk Sivanandam, Chetan Maviti, Adarsh Bharadwaj

Description: SeachParty enables users to create and join search parties for missing persons with real-time collaboration, live location tracking, and heatmaps of searched areas to prevent redundancy.

Best AI/ML Hack: SafeScape

Winners: Ansh Malhotra, Nivaan Kaushal, Pratham Singh, Armaan Ahmed

Description: SafeScape offers tailored experiences for civilians and first responders, with features for emergency reporting, 3D environment models, AR-guided navigation to exits, and direct communication channels.

Best Web Hack: QuantumFold

Winners: Deven Hagen, Justin Lee, Alan Zhu

Description: QuantumFold models proteins and calculates solutions faster than existing classical algorithms using quantum computing and AlphaFold to balance high accuracy and speed.

Best Quantum Hack: Quantum Enhanced MRI Diagnostics

Winners: Kashi Kamat, Sarvani Vemuri, Surbhi Singla

Description: Enhanced MRI diagnostics using quantum computing to process medical images, performing edge detection, frequency domain filtering, and quantum amplitude encoding to highlight regions of interest.

Best Finance Hack: Circa

Winners: Maneesh Vaddi, Agastya Sondhi, Arjun Chitla, Adhiraj Chhoda

Description: Circa allows users to barter and rent different items, utilizing blockchain technology to make barters as accessible as possible.

Best Lifestyle Hack: PinPoint

Winners: Soham Jain, Shaurya Jain, Anmol Karan, Jason Hao

Description: PinPoint helps you quickly locate sections of videos relevant to your queries, for rewatching tutorials, reviewing security footage, and setting up cameras to detect specific events.

Best Cyber Technology Hack: DeepShield

Winners: Rohan Honganoor, Amogh Katiki, Andrew Chen, Jayden Yang

Description: Deepfake Detector is a Chrome extension that analyzes images and videos directly on any webpage to check whether media content is AI-generated or manipulated.

Best Biomedical Hack: RDD: Respiratory Disease Detection

Winners: Luv, Anush, Sanjeev, Saatvik

Description: RDD uses audio pattern recognition to determine tuberculosis likelihood and includes a camera component to detect Parkinson's disease and other conditions.

Best Environmental Science Hack: Retro Rower

Winners: Darwin Goldstein, Daniil Prokofev, Christoph Knaeble

Description: Retro Rower is a rowing simulator where you take the role of the coxswain/coach, building the best team of rowers to collect as much trash as possible.

Best Beginner Hack: AP romance

Winners: Nathalie Hatchuel, Sohana bahl, Fay Amirullah

Description: AP romance personifies the AP classes and teaches the user a bit more about each one.

Best Use of ROAM AI Agent: CyberGuard

Winners: Shiv Davay, Aahan Sachdeva, Parthiv Maddipatla, Svaran Medavarapu

Description: CyberGuard scrapes the web to find leaked passwords/emails, uses blockchain contracts for validation, scans networks for vulnerabilities, and includes a chatbot for cybersecurity decisions.

Vishnu Murthy Foundation Best Social Impact: Jot It

Winners: Sophia Huang, Jacob Dipasupil, Avery Li, Ipek Sayar

Description: Jot It addresses the problem of doctors' poor handwriting when prescribing medication and diagnosis.

2024

Best Overall Hack: WatchDog

Winners: Shaurya Jain, Arjun Babla, Anmol Karan, Ajith Sivakumar

Description: Watchdog is a security camera that is able to detect a user’s pose and determine if they fell and could be having a health issue such as a seizure, a heart attack, or even a fire, and alert the person’s loved ones and authorities.

Best AI/ML Hack: Nutrium

Winners: Michael Rodriguez, Ryan Ghimire, Syed Raza Haider

Description: Nutrium uses AI to identify ingredients from images or grocery receipts, recommends recipes based on those ingredients, and calculates personalized caloric intake, while also logging daily calorie consumption.

Best Web Hack: WeCode

Winners: Drew Zauel, Nikhit Rachapudi, Max Weinstein, Eshwar Moorthy

Description: WeCode is a coding platform offering diverse challenges, competitions, and learning resources, fostering community engagement across multiple programming languages.

Best Finance Hack: Credit Score Simulator

Winners: Anika Saraf, Sahil Kapadia, Angelina Richter, Alina Chen

Description: This simulator predicts credit scores based on eight financial parameters, providing users with personalized advice to improve their creditworthiness.

Best Mobile Hack: Bites

Winners: Arvind Ragunathan, Brij Baghat, Rohan Kalahasty

Description: Bites allows users to input key financial parameters to predict future credit scores and receive actionable insights on improving them.

Best Beginner Hack: Speaksearch

Winners: Adhiraj Chhoda, Prateek Vadde

Description: Our program uses microphone input to do things like google search, go to websites, scroll, and uses AI head tracking to move the mouse cursor.

Best Design Hack: Fin

Winners: Nivaan Kaushal, Pratham Singh, Armaan Ahmed,Ansh Malhotra

Description: FIN is a financial stock recommendation app that incorporates a swiping mechanism for users

Best Biomedical Hack: Helping Hearts

Winners: Ojas Chaudhary, Noah Kabiri, Alex Nassif, Phong Lam

Description: Cost effective and non-invasive at-home diagnosis for hypertension.

Best Education Hack: IntegriKey

Winners: Aneesh Kalla, Abhikurupati

Description: Our project aims to detect students that are playing video games on their computers during class time, without looking at their screens. Our web app uses machine learning to identify students who are likely playing video games based on the way they interact with their keyboards.

Best Environmental Science Hack: Your Carbon Foot

Winners: Maneesh Vaddi, Kevin Su, Rishab Nanduri

Description: Uses natural language processing to calculate personal carbon emissions based on user input.

Best Cyber Technology Hack: Vigilant

Winners: Deven Hagen, Justin Lee, Alan Zhu

Description: Vigilant is a novel alert system that combines Artificial Intelligence with broadcasting systems to minimize search time for a child. using high fidelity Machine Learning models to identify objects at fast speeds, as well as alerting systems to maximize responsiveness and ease of use.

Best Quantum Hack: Implementing a Pathfinding Heuristic

Winners: Neha Chandran, Kade Yen, Enerel Munkhbaatar

Description: Finding the shortest path length of signal transduction pathways, we can help inform research institutions and companies of how these drugs should be designed to most efficiently induce apoptosis in cancerous cells.

Best Social Impact Hack: Look N Go

Winners: Anurag Perakalapudi, Arnav Gupta, Adarsh Bharadwaj

Description: Voice commands paired with the actual head movements allow disabled people to use a computer with ease and increase their accessibility to technology.

Best Lifestyle Hack: Cider

Winners: Ray Shen, Ken Zhou

Description: Users can upload PDFs or paste text from documents, and Cider will use a large language model to intelligently analyze the document for any events described and displays them to the user.