HackDavis

Hello hello ?? This past weekend, I had the honor of attending my very first hackathon, HackDavis 2024. I was blessed to work with my amazing team, Abhimanyu Warrier, Daniel Kim, and Danielle Koay. With the intention to hack for social good, we created nomad/\, a mobile application that allows users to pin locations of homeless people or stray animals, which alerts the closest relevant shelter to provide support and resources! During the hackathon, my team acknowledged my aspirations in product management and allowed me to take on the role for the team. Some of my takeaways were: ?? ideating an innovative and feasible solution that allows the community to help displaced groups ?? expanding my skills in React Native and Figma to assist my team in the product's development ?? prioritizing certain features to ensure that we had a minimum viable product to pitch to the judges The results: ?? We won 2nd place for Best Hack for Social Good, winning an iPad! I am so thankful to all the HackDavis directors, judges, and volunteers for making my first hackathon experience so wonderful. Check out our project here: https://lnkd.in/gNnMTzM2

Attended HackDavis our First Hackathon in USA and we won in it: “Best Interactive Media Hack”.?The hackathon had more than 800 participants, the largest number in HackDavis ever, and we were very proud to represent our university San Jose State University. We built an End-to-End application called Matra AI( Matra is a Sanskrit word where Ma means mother, and Matra means pronunciation) that is built to solve a global problem which helps non native children learn a new language with the help of AI providing feedback on the pronunciation. Our goal was to build an AI that teaches a kid like a mother in a nurturing and soothing way, and we achieved it. Our team: Suhaas Teja Vijjagiri worked on the frontend using react JS, Sai Anuraghav Savadam worked on the backend with Flask handling website routes and AI preprocessing, Sai Naveen Chanumolu worked on the cloud integration and hosted our website with .TECH and also found best Speech-to-text API. I worked on the database Supabase with and finding resources like TTS, STT, and all the use cases needed for our project. Had an amazing team, even though it was our first time building something together, we really pushed through with hardly any breaks with lots of Peet's Coffee and Red Bull for straight 24hrs and the only thing on our minds was building a great product for the social good. Link:?https://lnkd.in/gjjf32QF

16 Weeks in a row, 16 Hackathons completed, 16 All Nighters Pulled - An Unforgettable Journey Over the past five months, I embarked on an incredible hackathon streak, participating in 16 hackathons across the United States, traveling nearly 3,000 miles from the west coast to the midwest and east coast. Despite juggling both a full time job and being a student, I committed every weekend to these hackathons and emerged victorious in 10! ?? My streak concluded at HackDavis (with 599 participants!), where my team won Best Use of Intel Developer Cloud and developed Doggo AI - an empathetic and interactive companion for children in hospitals worldwide. We worked tirelessly for 24 hours in a tiny study room, with Dylan Vu spending almost the entire hackathon sewing the Doggo plushy and working on hardware (we thank you for your sacrifice ??). Our custom multithreaded solution for interruptible AI, built from the ground up within 24 hours, impressed the Intel judges, who recognized Doggo AI's potential to bring comfort to isolated children. Doggo AI converses in real-time, handling interruptions, end of turn detection, and additional context naturally, while also observing emotions to tailor its responses and provide appropriate support. Checkout the behind-the-scenes of how we developed this responsive AI here! https://lnkd.in/g-nZadmi This journey has not only helped me grow technically, but also taught me valuable lessons in teamwork, perseverance, and the power of innovation to make a real difference in people's lives. I am incredibly grateful for the friends who joined me on this hackathon adventure. Special shoutouts to Kevin Wu, Dylan Vu, Spike O'Carroll, Jasmine Wu, Jay Wu, Simon Quach, Elissa Yang, Michelle Feng, Daniel Kim, Hebe Huang, Akash Iyer - I couldn't have done it without you! And to those I couldn't mention here, please know that your support and camaraderie meant the world to me. ?? During this journey, I had the privilege of meeting some truly inspiring individuals. A heartfelt thank you to Ravin Kumar from Google, who sparked my fascination with Google's Gemma Models and its powerful fine-tuning capabilities, Ugonna Chikezie from Intel Corporation for showcasing the incredible potential of the Intel Developer Cloud for fine-tuning Large Language Models, and Allen H. for introducing me to TensorDock, a cloud GPU company I'm excited to explore further! While it's bittersweet that this particular hackathon streak has come to an end, I'm filled with anticipation for the future. As one chapter closes, I'm already looking forward to the next, aiming for an even longer and more impactful hackathon streak in the coming year. ?? Checkout our HackDavis project video here! https://lnkd.in/g85Ay_pS And a montage video as well! https://lnkd.in/g7r3AE_T #NeverStopLearning #Hackathons

Over this past weekend, I participated in my inaugural in-person Hackathon at HackDavis 2024 (4/27 - 4/28). I'd like to give a shoutout to my teammates Ziqiang Zhu, Truong Nguyen, and Ian Yoo. We were complete strangers at the start and newbies to the whole Hackathon scene. Even though we were beginners, we didn't even know how to efficiently program together or even integrate a machine learning model into an application—but WE DID IT. Despite our competitive spirits, our main aim wasn't to win a category but to create a full-stack application that users could interact and to learn the most from other developers and on our own as well. We built a Bill Splitter Application called "Split-It". On the backend, we employed Express.js, while for the frontend, we utilized a combination of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and the elegant Material UI framework. Our application's core functionality lies in its powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models, enabling receipt scanning and analysis. Leveraging libraries such as Matplotlib, NumPy, OpenCV, PIL, and Pytesseract, we crafted a robust image scanner capable of accurately extracting total costs, taxes, and individual orders with their respective prices. To further enhance user experience, we integrated ChatGPT hosted in llama.cpp to facilitate JSON encoded responses, enabling intuitive selection of order cards directly on the frontend. A proud accomplishment at heart but so much more to explore and learn off of. Being in an environment of designers and developers taught me an incredible amount of technology, ways to tackle a problem, and communicating code. Thank you HackDavis for this opportunity and I look forward to going to more in the future. Check out our Devpost:

I’m happy to share Split-It, a project I worked on developing at HackDavis 2024! Split-It is a handy bill-splitting web app that automatically calculates the split cost per person, whether paying individually or family-style. Simply upload a picture of your receipt, select your desired options, and split it on the spot! Big thanks to my fellow first-time teammates Ziqiang Zhu, Wesley Kieu, and Truong Nguyen for their hard work! Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gziiFGSU Devpost: https://lnkd.in/ge3iMWv9

We Won at HackDavis !!! First Competitive Hackathon attended in USA with over 800 participants conducted at University of California, Davis and We won the Best Interactive Media Hack for our project Mātrā AI.??Mātrā AI helps non-native bilingual children enhance their English speaking skills where children can listen and read the stories interacting with it. It gives complete audio feedback by highlighting which words were wrongly pronounced and nurtures children like mother how it should be pronounced.? We developed a full-scale application using React, Flask, APIs from OpenAI, Speechace, and ElevenLabs, Supabase for data storage, hosted the application on Heroku and made it accessible through our .tech domain—all in under 24 hours without any sleep! ?? Kudos to my Amazing teammates Harsh Raj Jeripothula Sai Anuraghav Savadam and Suhaas Teja Vijjagiri for their incredible efforts and passion pulling out an all nighter. Link to know more about our project: https://lnkd.in/g7BHVSC3 ?#HackDavis #UCDavis #AI #Innovation #SJSU #TechForGood San Jose State University #Hackathon

We Won at HackDavis !!! First Competitive Hackathon attended in USA with over 800 participants conducted at University of California, Davis and We won the Best Interactive Media Hack for our project Mātrā AI.??Mātrā AI helps non-native bilingual children enhance their English speaking skills where children can listen and read the stories interacting with it. It gives complete audio feedback by highlighting which words were wrongly pronounced and nurtures children like mother how it should be pronounced.? We developed a full-scale application using React, Flask, APIs from OpenAI, Speechace, and ElevenLabs, Supabase for data storage, hosted the application on Heroku and made it accessible through our .tech domain—all in under 24 hours without any sleep! ?? Kudos to my Amazing teammates Harsh Raj Jeripothula Sai Anuraghav Savadam and Suhaas Teja Vijjagiri for their incredible efforts and passion pulling out an all nighter. Link to know more about our project: https://lnkd.in/g7BHVSC3 ?#HackDavis #UCDavis #AI #Innovation #SJSU #TechForGood San Jose State University #Hackathon

We’re at HackDavis! Having a blast meeting so many talented students at our booth and workshops! Can’t wait to see what they create tomorrow in the Intel Tiber Developer Cloud challenge #HackWithIntel #IAmIntel #AIEverywhere Intel Software

We’re at #HackDavis this weekend. Feel free to stop by at #Intel booth to ask any question. Looking forward to the awesome #projects that will be developed by the amazing #student hackers at HackDavis. #IntelSoftware #HackwithIntel #IamIntel