Itikela Bhaskar
Index — Hackathons

Built under pressure.

On-device generative AI, flood mapping under tiny labels, agentic data systems — projects conceived, built, and judged in 24–48 hours. Each card opens a full write-up: the constraint, the approach, and what actually shipped.

7
Hackathons
First place
On the podium
2000+
Largest field
Podium & awards
7
Software Defect Prediction
1st

Software Defect Prediction

2026

ISEC 2026 Student Data Science Challenge

Predicting which software modules are defect-prone from static code metrics alone — without ever running the code.

PythonLightGBMXGBoostCatBoost+4
SnapGen — On-Device Image Generation
1st

SnapGen — On-Device Image Generation

2025

Qualcomm Megathon 2025

Stable Diffusion running entirely on an Android phone — no cloud, no network, accelerated on the Snapdragon NPU.

Prize₹75,000
KotlinJetpack ComposeStable DiffusionQualcomm Hexagon NPU+4
Flood Inundation Mapping from SAR
2nd

Flood Inundation Mapping from SAR

2026

ANRF AISE Hack 2026

Separating floodwater from permanent water on ~79 labeled SAR patches, with optical imagery cloud-occluded and the classes severely imbalanced.

Prize₹1.25 lakhField2000+
PyTorchPyTorch LightningConvNeXt-LargeEfficientNet+4
YouMatter — Gamified Wellness & Insurance
2nd

YouMatter — Gamified Wellness & Insurance

2025

StarHack (SUD Life)

A wellness app that turns healthy habits into insurance value — gamification, AR yoga, and an AI coach in one React Native build.

React NativeExpoTypeScriptReanimated 3+2
Real-Time Pose Detection
2nd

Real-Time Pose Detection

2024

Qualcomm Megathon 2024

Real-time human pose estimation tuned to run smoothly on Snapdragon mobile hardware.

MediaPipeQualcomm QIDKSnapdragon NPUAndroid+1
Agentic Data Quality on GCP
3rd

Agentic Data Quality on GCP

2025

Lloyds Banking Agentic Hackathon

A multi-agent system that lets non-technical users detect, treat, and remediate data-quality issues across financial datasets — autonomously and auditably.

Google ADKGeminiBigQueryGCP+3
SmartMess — Intelligent Mess Management
Most Impactful

SmartMess — Intelligent Mess Management

2026

HackIIIT 2026

Real-time crowd analytics, a peer-to-peer meal marketplace, and community-driven reporting for IIIT Hyderabad's mess system.

FastAPIGoReact NativeNext.js+2