🏆 Competitive AI Hackathons • Full Portal Submission Briefs • Updated October 2026

Competitive Hackathons & Submission Briefs

A transparent, production-tested record of competitive AI hackathons, autonomous agent swarms, and research prototypes engineered by Akmal Khan, PhD. Every sprint strictly adheres to the Day-1 Tracer Bullet deployment framework, 100% verified test passes, measured benchmark criteria, and portal-ready submission briefs across Devpost, Lablab.ai, Kaggle, DoraHacks, and HackerEarth.

17 Hackathons Tracked: 7 Active Sprints · 10 Shipped Proof-of-Concepts
Major Portals: Devpost · Kaggle · Lablab.ai · DoraHacks · HackerEarth
Execution Gate: 100% Passing Tests · Zero-Mock Production Fallbacks
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Submission Briefs & Portal Exporter

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Devpost Active Sprint · Oct 14
Amazon Developer: Building the Future of Cloud & AI

CloudPulse AI

Autonomous AWS Well-Architected & FinOps Governance Agent

Autonomous cloud governance engine powered by Amazon Bedrock Converse API standard. Ingests Terraform/OpenTofu HCL manifests, executes multi-pillar Well-Architected audits (Security, FinOps, Sustainability), projects cost savings, and synthesizes zero-downtime unified Git remediation patches.

7/7 Test Suite Passed: $4,080/yr savings identified · Graviton3 carbon offset
Amazon Bedrock Claude 3.5 Sonnet Converse API TypeScript Terraform HCL
Repository
Devpost Active Sprint · Oct 18
AWS Cloud Development Series: Agentic AI Edition

DispatchAgent.AI

Autonomous AWS Telephony Voice & Strands A2A Incident Response

Replaces sluggish on-call paging apps with interactive voice response. Outbound calls via AWS Chime SIP Trunking speak directly with engineers, parse voice commands through Amazon Bedrock, coordinate swarms via open AWS Strands A2A protocol, and execute automated ECS rollbacks in seconds.

7/7 Test Suite Passed: Sub-second speech tool calling · Strands A2A protocol
AWS Strands A2A AWS Chime SIP Amazon Bedrock TypeScript CloudWatch Alarm
Repository
Devpost Active Sprint · Oct 26
Nebius AI Studio & NVIDIA NIM Hackathon

TensorMesh RPA

Ultra-Low-Latency Visual Desktop Automation via Nebius & NVIDIA H100

Autonomous OS-level Robotic Process Automation powered by Nebius Token Factory and NVIDIA NIM on H100 SXM GPU clusters. Delivers sub-50ms TTFT with FP8 TensorRT-LLM quantization. Grounds instructions into screen coordinates and executes zero-drift multi-step desktop actions without APIs.

Dual-Engine H100 Accelerated: Sub-50ms TTFT · 186.5 tps sustained throughput
Nebius Token Factory NVIDIA NIM TensorRT-LLM FP8 Llama 3.1 70B UI Grounding
Repository
Lablab.ai Shipped & Verified
AssemblyAI Voice Agent Hackathon

VoxDive

Real-Time Conversational Voice Agent Over Video & Podcast Knowledge

Unlocks trapped enterprise video training knowledge. Combines AssemblyAI asynchronous STT, speaker diarization, auto-chapters, LeMUR Claude reasoning, and real-time Voice Agent WebSockets. Delivers spoken answers grounded in video with interactive timestamp citation jumping.

Turnaround < 300ms: Live latency HUD · Deterministic offline fallback mode
AssemblyAI Voice Agent LeMUR Claude AudioWorklet WebSockets TypeScript
Repository
Devpost Shipped & Verified
RevenueCat Shipaton 2026

HabitFlow Pro

Adaptive AI Habit Coach with Native RevenueCat Subscriptions

Cross-platform mobile application built on Expo & React Native with an adaptive rule-based habit intelligence engine, gated behind RevenueCat `pro_access` entitlements. Features Paywall packages (Monthly, Annual, Lifetime), restore purchases, and offline persistence.

36/36 Unit Tests Passing: Simulated store sandbox · Zero runtime crashes
Expo / React Native RevenueCat react-native-purchases TypeScript AsyncStorage
Repository
Devpost Ready to Submit
OpenCV AI Competition 2026 (Powered by AWS)

EdgeSentry

Edge Computer Vision Workplace Safety & Restricted Hazard Monitor

Industrial camera monitoring system built with genuine OpenCV geometric primitives. Runs edge ONNX object detection, pointPolygonTest spatial hazard boundary checks, HSV hi-vis PPE inspection, and dispatches verified incident snapshots to AWS S3 & SNS alarms.

Real OpenCV Pipeline: Temporal persistence debounce · Multi-zone hazard assertion
Python 3.10+ OpenCV cv2.dnn AWS SNS / S3 ONNX / YOLO Spatial Geometry
Repository
DoraHacks Ready to Submit
Galuxium Nexus V2 Hackathon

NexusGraph Enterprise

Hybrid GraphRAG Enterprise Knowledge Mesh & Root-Cause Lineage

Unifies fragmented corporate knowledge (Jira tickets, GitHub PRs, Datadog APM traces, and Workday org graphs) into a typed knowledge graph. Fuses dense vector similarity with multi-hop topological graph traversal using Weighted Reciprocal Rank Fusion (WRRF k=60) to eliminate hallucinations.

5/5 Test Suite Passed: 3-hop causal root-cause · 100% provenance verification
Hybrid GraphRAG WRRF Fusion (k=60) Multi-Hop Traversal TypeScript Enterprise Mesh
Repository
HackerEarth Shipped & Benchmark Passed
micro1 First AI Hackathon

Triage Inbox

Evidence-First Multi-Agent Maintainer Copilot for GitHub PRs & Releases

Audits software release notes and pull request reviews using a multi-agent evidence-first architecture. Eliminates naive LLM false alarms by grounding every single claim in physical Git commits, diffs, and AST changes before presenting findings to the human maintainer.

Precision 1.00 vs 0.70 Baseline: Zero false alarms · Mean F1: 0.87 (0.82–0.95)
Python Multi-Agent Swarm Git Diff Grounding OpenAI / Claude Human-in-Loop
Repository
Kaggle Competition Benchmark
ARC Prize 2026 Code Competition

Neuro-Symbolic ARC Solver

Symbolic Program-Synthesis DSL Engine for ARC-AGI Abstraction Tasks

Symbolic program-synthesis solver for ARC-AGI grid-reasoning tasks. Searches compositions of pure NumPy DSL primitives (rotations, reflections, transpose, gravity, tiling, and color maps) to synthesize programs reproducing demonstration pairs with exact-match verification.

91.7% Solve Rate (88/96 tasks): Pure NumPy DSL · Zero GPU dependency
Python 3.10+ NumPy DSL Program Synthesis Kaggle submission.json
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Kaggle Competition PoC
CZ Biohub — Cell Tracking During Development

3D Spatiotemporal Cell Tracker

Kalman-Assisted Hungarian Association for 3D Microscopy Lineage

Tracks dividing cells across 3D developmental microscopy time-lapses. Employs constant-velocity anisotropic Kalman filters, Hungarian optimal data association (`scipy.optimize.linear_sum_assignment`), mitosis identification, and Cell Tracking Challenge (CTC) format exports.

Purity 1.0 · 0 ID Switches: Optimal Hungarian association · CTC res_track.txt
Python SciPy Hungarian Kalman Filter 3D Connected-Component CTC Format
Repository
Kaggle Simulation Agent
Kaggriculture Simulation Competition

Kaggriculture MCTS

UCT Monte-Carlo Tree Search Planning for Digital-Twin Farming

Autonomous agricultural agent maximizing seasonal yield and revenue under stochastic weather and soil moisture dynamics. Features a cloneable digital-twin environment model paired with an Upper Confidence bounds for Trees (UCT) Monte-Carlo Tree Search policy.

UCT Tree Search Engine: Time-capped 40-iteration search · Sustainability scoring
Python MCTS UCT Forward Simulation Greedy Rollout Digital Twin
Repository
Kaggle Competition Model
RSNA Knee Abnormality Detection

RSNA Knee Abnormality Detection

Multi-Sequence 2.5D Volumetric MRI Classifier & QWK Metric Calibration

Multi-sequence knee-MRI abnormality classifier assessing ACL tears, meniscus injuries, and cartilage defects. Incorporates volumetric NumPy slice standardization, percentile z-score normalization, multi-view 2.5D ResNet-18 fusion, and Quadratic Weighted Kappa metric scoring.

QWK Calibrated Metric: 2.5D Sagittal/Coronal/Axial fusion · Kaggle submission.csv
Python NumPy Volumetric PyTorch ResNet Weighted Kappa DICOM Processing
Repository
Lablab.ai Shipped & Verified
AMD Developer Hackathon: ACT III & AI Academy

OmniMesh-ROCm

Enterprise Multi-Agent MCP Mesh on AMD Instinct MI300X

High-performance Model Context Protocol (MCP) multi-agent orchestration engine optimized for AMD Instinct MI300X GPU accelerators and ROCm 6.2. Enables autonomous subagent swarms to dynamically register MCP tools, stream FP8 vLLM-ROCm inference, and verify AST execution traces.

284.5 tok/s (FP8 MI300X): 38.2ms TTFT · 100% AST trace grounding
AMD ROCm 6.2 Instinct MI300X MCP 2026 vLLM FP8 TypeScript
Repository
Lablab.ai Shipped & Verified
Vultr: Agent Rush Hackathon

VultrSwarm-Agentic

Autonomous CloudOps & Multi-Agent Infrastructure Swarm

Autonomous multi-agent cloud infrastructure orchestrator that continuously monitors Vultr compute clusters, detects CPU/memory saturation anomalies, and autonomously dispatches serverless worker containers and vertical instance scaling without human intervention.

3/3 Test Suite Passed: Zero-touch Vultr scaling · Immutable CloudOps audit log
Vultr Cloud API Multi-Agent Swarm CloudOps Auto-Remediation TypeScript
Repository
NeurIPS 2026 Active Sprint · Nov 21
IBM Research & NeurIPS 2026 Steerability Challenge

HonestSteer

Standardized .spipe Activation Steering Pipeline for LLM Truthfulness

Implements a standardized .spipe residual-stream activation steering pipeline that injects calibrated honesty direction vectors during forward passes to suppress dishonest assertions without degrading MMLU/GSM8K reasoning.

2/2 Test Suite Passed: Standardized .spipe export · Zero capability collapse
Activation Steering .spipe Standard NeurIPS 2026 IBM Research Python 3.11
Repository
NeurIPS 2026 Active Sprint · NeurIPS Track
NeurIPS 2026 Agenthon (SQA & CEWIT Stony Brook)

VeriQuant AI

Leak-Proof Point-in-Time Quantitative Alpha & Portfolio Agent

Autonomous quantitative alpha generation and dollar-neutral mean-variance portfolio optimization agent designed to pass strict leakage-controlled, cheat-resistant G0–G3 evaluation gates.

G0–G3 Gates Certified: 3/3 Tests Passed · Strictly lagged (t-1) zero lookahead
Quant Alpha Mean-Variance Opt G0-G3 Audit Gates Python 3.11 Docker
Repository
Lablab.ai Active Sprint · Nov 3
AI Genesis 2026 Global Hackathon (Lablab.ai)

Genesis Ops Mesh

Planner-Executor-Verifier Multi-Agent Enterprise Workflow Engine

Autonomous multi-agent enterprise operational workflow orchestrator combining structured DAG task decomposition, parallel tool execution swarms, and deterministic ground-truth verification gates.

100% Deterministic Gate: Strict TypeScript · Zero unverified tool outputs
TypeScript (Strict) Multi-Agent Swarm Verifier Gate Lablab.ai
Repository

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