hackathons, competitions
2025
Sanofi Device Innovation Challenge
Team of 5
Developed SanoFit, an innovative on-body drug delivery system featuring an indwelling needle to minimise repeated punctures, a vibration motor for pain relief, and a no-slip band for stability. Integrated redundant safety mechanisms, real-time user feedback, and smart connectivity to deliver drug volumes up to 25 mL.
2024
SwissHacks 2024
Runner-upTeam of 5
Used a fine-tuned audio transformer model and OpenAI's Whisper to detect deepfakes and impersonators in client audio recordings of private bank Julius Bär. Packaged and deployed a user-friendly application using Firebase and Docker.
Datathon 2024
Runner-upTeam of 4
Solar PV forecasting and trading challenge by Axpo. Developed two separate models for the intraday and spot market powered by XGBoost.
START Hack
Team of 4
Developed an educational farming game for Syngenta. Used satelite data and public APIs to simulate influence of farming decisions on soil quality and plant growth
2023
Optiver volatility forecasting competition
Top 10 P<eam of 4
Real time $TSLA stock volatility forecasting competition using Optibook. Constrained to linear model including given observables (OIL, MACRO_VOL, FORD_VOL, YIELDS, MUSKPOP..)
Swiss MathWorks AI Hackathon
Runner-upIndividual Participation
Image classification of rock, paper, scissors images, evaluated through model accuracy. Final accuracy: 92%; Fine-tuned resnet18
MATLAB Cody Contest
Runner-upIndividual Participation
Solved second-most MATLAB cody challenges in 1 hour.
2022
Team of 4
Google Developers Student Club (GDSC) Hackathon in collaboration with Picnic. We built a custom model that allows employees to reliably detect fraud in customer payments.
Team of 2
Built a solution to produce Evonik's chemical products in a decentralized way.