Program Schedule

We are pleased to invite you to attend the CanHack 2026 Hackathon organized by University of Canberra in Online Mode through Google Meet. This page includes all of the information on the CanHack 2026 Hackathon program schedule. Click each date below for the CanHack 2026 Hackathon daily program schedule.

Instructions for Presenters

As a Presenter, please find detailed instructions below to assist you with logging in and navigating for your session. These instructions must be read prior to logging in to your session.

  1. All team presentations will be conducted in online mode through Google Meet and the keynote talk will be held on Zoom.
  2. Click Join button on the respective date tab to attend/present the respective Sessions.
  3. Join the Sessions at least 05 minutes before the scheduled time. All the times are in Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT)/ Indian Standard Time (IST).
  4. All the participants and presenters are requested to keep their mic and video off until and unless it is asked to unmute.
  5. The presenters are requested to be ready with their presentation slides and check their mic and video settings in advance.
  6. The presenters will be called one by one in their respective Sessions by Session Judges.
  7. The presenter has to prepare presentation slides in any format.
  8. The presentation time is 10 Min and 2 minutes for Q & A.

Inauguration Ceremony

03:00 PM (AEDT) - 03:10 PM (AEDT) /
09:30 AM (IST) - 09:40 AM (IST)
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Keynote Talks Session - 1

03:10 PM (AEDT) - 04:40 (AEDT) /
09:40 AM (IST) - 11:10 (IST)
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Name Affiliation Title
Vallikranth Ayyagari Technical Lead, DaVita Inc. Why Most AI Health Innovations Fail—and the Architectural Patterns That Actually Make Them Safe, Scalable, and Trusted
Vijaya lakshmi Middae Senior DevOps Engineer From Reactive DevOps to Intelligent Automation in Multi-Cloud Environments
Jaykumar Ambadas Maheshkar Senior Application Manager | Vice President, U.S. Bank AI-Driven FinOps: Intelligent Budgeting and Forecasting in Cloud Ecosystems

Track 01: AI for Society

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Henry Cyril, Principal Engineer & Systems Architecture, Independent Researcher

Panel Judge 2: Shiva Kumara, Principal Cybersecurity Architect, Independent Researcher

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_1001 ExploreeTinkerBell Naari Shakti Saumya Singh
CH26_1003 Team Shine Project BayanihanAI: Offline-first Application for Disaster Response Erik Agabon
CH26_1007 SocioAI Innovators AI-Based Smart Crop Advisory System Ankit Verma
CH26_1009 Shiv Shakti Artificial Intelligence–Based Sensors Enabled Smart Irrigation System Sundram Kumar Ray
CH26_1010 Raisinova DARNA: An AI & IoT-Powered Smart Home for Elderly Safety and Health Monitoring Lattab Fethi Nedale
CH26_1013 CodeSociety Ai powered early disease detection for rural area Krishna Yadav
CH26_1018 HACKVENGERS NyaySaathi :Ai that Listens, Protects and Guides You to Justice Zaid Yusuf
CH26_1019 Fighter RtamAi Ritika Gaur

Track 02: Cybersecurity & Digital Trust

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Uday Poranki, Independent researcher

Panel Judge 2: Hari Krishna Bethanaboina, Martin Marietta Materials

Panel Judge 3: Darshankumar Prajapati, AT&T, Network Architect

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_1004 Tech Titans Zero-Shot Sentinel: Explainable IDS for New & Unseen Attacks Rashedul Hasan Shohan
CH26_1006 Steganographers Stego-Lock Yasaswini Madhuvarsu
CH26_1011 Sentinelai Real-Time Credit Card Fraud Detection and Prevention using Explainable Al Mukund
CH26_1021 Al Avengers Detecting Fraud Banking APKs Lalit Verma
CH26_1025 CyberShield AI-Driven Real-Time Cyber Threat Detection Vikram Patel
CH26_1028 TrustShield AI TrustShield AI – An AI-Powered System for Scam Message Detection, Website Blocking, Payment & QR-Code Fraud Prevention Sharath Sadige
CH26_1033 Krishna TruthShield: AI-Powered Deepfake & Disinformation Defense System Pran Krishna Maity
CH26_1034 Dominators CYBER ATTACK TREND PREDICTION Archana Vishwakarma
CH26_1035 Hecker Cyber hacking Rinki Gond

Track 03: FinTech & Digital Commerce

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Mohammed Nayeem, Franciscan Health Alliance, IT/Cybersecurity Engineer

Panel Judge 2: Ugala Matta, Senior ETL Developer, USA

Panel Judge 3: Nilesh Kumar, Senior Software Engineer, USA

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_1016 The Hash Instaverify Sunil Singh
CH26_1026 Evoke Stride Ekaansh Verma
CH26_1041 ClearDues FedCollect AI Ashika N
CH26_1054 QuantNeural DeepGreeks Satyam Yadav
CH26_1079 AlgoTrade.AI AlgoTrade.AI: The Multimodal Stock Prediction AI Platform with AutoTrade Execution System Shubham Waghmode
CH26_1080 FinSmart Solutions AI-Based Fraud Detection for Digital Payments Ashish Kapoor
CH26_1095 DoomsDay_ LEN-DEN(लेन-देन) Akash Singh
CH26_2001 Tech Titans AI STOCK MARKET PREDICTOR WEBAPP Arjav Jain
CH26_2009 Parallel Minds FinSight AI Garima Chauhan

Track 04: Generative AI & Creative Computing

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Divya Jain, Quanata LLC

Panel Judge 2: Sreepal Reddy Bolla, Senior Data Engineer | Cloud Architect, Teradyne Infotech

Panel Judge 3: Dr. Mahmood Afzal Hussain, Researcher & Cybersecurity Engineer, Rewards Network

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_1040 Cortex Core CortexCraft Tufail
CH26_1056 NovaCore JAOML Shivansh Chauhan
CH26_1069 Array Yaar AI Resume Reviewer Kavinithi Sera
CH26_1083 TechTitan Black Space AI Anvesh Shingare
CH26_1092 GRID9 VeriYield - A revolutionary tool in Agriculture Kelina Vipu Valan
CH26_1093 Steves ChronoFlow Arpit Thakur
CH26_1094 CyberMinds AI-Based Multilingual Translator Sania Saini
CH26_1097 GenAI Creators Generative AI Platform for Digital Content Creation Sneha Kulkarni
CH26_2002 Innovatrix StudyFlow Aaleesha Sawhney

Track 05: HealthTech & BioInspired Innovation

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Dr. Anand Kadukuntla, Executive Director, Wells Fargo

Panel Judge 2: Sapan Pandya, Software Engineer and Independent Researcher

Panel Judge 3: Subramanya Shashank Gollapudi Venkata, Software Engineer, Meta

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_1002 Compiler Brains Smart Navigation Aid for the Visually Impaired Ahmed Raza Hussain
CH26_1014 Code4Care MEDiSmart: A Digital India Initiative K S Sreeviddya
CH26_1015 AI-PharmaX AI-PharmaX Diya Satish Kumar
CH26_1017 Quad Binary Healthsaarthi - Unified Healthcare Ecosystem Aditya Kumrawat
CH26_1020 Inno8tor India Lapro SimuSkill Yash Solanki
CH26_1024 CellMates BioMinds Vinamra Kishore
CH26_1031 Diamond Blender EcoAI Ayush Kumar Ojha
CH26_1032 Revolutionary Swasthvox Dinesh
CH26_1043 Onco_Reach Onco_Reach: Bridging specialist Gaps Aashutosh

Track 06: Smart Mobility & Autonomous Systems

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Mallikarjun Gouru, Sr Principal Software Developer, Rocket

Panel Judge 2: Rajesh Kotha, Software Development Engineering Advisor, Fiserv

Panel Judge 3: Dr. Azhar Ushmani, Sr. Security Engineer, Amazon Web Service

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_1005 WeCanHack EyesOnIce Anand R
CH26_1008 The Inquisitives SafeSafar Rayan Agrawal
CH26_1012 AutoQuad ROBUST UAV NAVIGATION IN OOD ENVIRONMENT USING CLOSED FORM LIQUID NEURAL NETWORK Jyotiranjan Sahoo
CH26_1036 CROPCREST AgroSmart Tarun Verma
CH26_1066 Code-N-Play Smart Socket Neeraj
CH26_1067 AutoMove Labs Intelligent Traffic Management and Accident Prevention System Rohan Mehta
CH26_1077 Code Slayers Smart On-Spot Assessment of Rainwater Harvesting and Artificial Recharge Potential Sanjay Thivakar
CH26_1090 NextStop India BusNow – A Real-Time Bus Tracking System Netraj Sapkal

Track 07: AI for Society

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Deepak Reddy Suram, Sr. Software Engineer & Cloud Architect, H&R Block, Inc

Panel Judge 2: Surya Veera Brahmaji Rao Sunnam, Vice President, Data Engineer, Bank of America

Panel Judge 3: Ankush Gupta, Senior Solution Architect, HCLTech

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_1022 DRAGORITHM EvaSafe - Practical AI, Blockchain and Cybersecurity Empowering Surveillance System's for Women's, Public Safety and Smart City Innovation Senaaravichandran A
CH26_1023 EmpowerNet EmpowerNet -AI Deepfake and Scam Detection platform Aayushi Johri
CH26_1027 Absolute UrbanEye an AI-Powered Civic Intelligence Platform Ayan Ahmed Khan
CH26_1029 Disha Disha Srinivas Ve
CH26_1030 Battalion Ai based crop advisory and management system Venkatesh
CH26_1039 Last Minute Engineers Dhvani -DEEP HOLISTIC VOCAL & ACOUSTIC NEURAL INTELLIGENCE Abhishek Singh Negi
CH26_1044 Dude Coders Thozhi App Akash M
CH26_1046 Green City Blue and Green Modern Smart Cities Nayeem Motasam Tanim

Track 08: Cybersecurity & Digital Trust

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Sri Lekha Bandla, Quality Consultant, Dr.Reddy's Laboratories

Panel Judge 2: Suresh Chaganti, Architect Data & MLOps, Walt Disney/transnational.ai

Panel Judge 3: Rahul Karne, American Airlines

Panel Judge 4: Ishu Anand Jaiswal

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_1037 Namrata pawan Url Phishing dection attack Namrata
CH26_1038 PAWAN KUMAR Phishing Attacks: Understanding and Preventing Cyber Deception Pawan Kumar
CH26_1042 Shreecode06 Women's safety Rinki Lodhi
CH26_1048 The Lives Wires Paladin Kavish Bansal
CH26_1052 Pioneer Developers BugHuntr - Community-Powered Bug Bounty Mohammed Qasim
CH26_1058 REGENX Predictive cyber attack early warning system Nalluri Ashwith
CH26_1060 Code breakers A Decentralized Product Authentication Protocol on VeChain to reduce curroption Abhinav Tyagi
CH26_1061 Alpha Predictive cyber attack early warning system Ashwith

Keynote Talks Session - 2

03:00 PM (AEDT) - 05:00 PM (AEDT) /
09:30 AM (IST) - 11:30 (IST)
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Name Affiliation Title
Ajay Prasad Global Infrastructure Manager, Apple Unconventional Ways to Understand Systems in Modern Data Centers
Poojitha Kalaru Teksolve IT Solutions LLC, Adobe Systems Federated Learning Integration in Microservices for Privacy-Preserving Enterprise AI
Rohit Laheri Software Developer, Tech Mahindra Americas From Chaos to Context: Scaling Developer Velocity with Platform Engineering
Saugat Nayak Portfolio & Risk Analytics Specialist | Machine Learning Researcher, FinTech Machine Learning for Proactive Credit & Fraud Risk Management in Digital Lending

Keynote Talks Session - 3

03:00 PM (AEDT) - 05:00 PM (AEDT) /
09:30 AM (IST) - 11:30 (IST)
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Name Affiliation Title
Naveen Vaduguru Data and Analytics Consultant, Independent Researcher, USA From Data to Product: Identifying Automation Gaps in Utility Divisions Using AI Analytics
Akshay Manchanda Engineering Product Manager,Cisco Systems The Triple Crisis: Designing Secure Network Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future
Abhishek Vangipuram Data Analyst, McKenna Consulting LLC Building High-Impact Predictive Models: A Practical Framework for Real-World ML
Dhanasekar Elumalai Product Delivery Leader, Fidelity Investments AI Is Not the Future—It's Your New Colleague

Track 09: HealthTech & BioInspired Innovation

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Kishore Subramanya Hebbar

Panel Judge 2: Pallab Haldar, Technical Architect | Supply Chain Analytics & AI

Panel Judge 3: Ravikanth Reddy Gudipati, Principal Member of Technical Staff

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_1045 BioHealth AI AI-Based Early Disease Prediction System Dr. Priya Menon
CH26_1047 Care Coders Diagno+ Pranay Agarwal
CH26_1049 Code Of Wizards Mano Veda - An Early Alzheimer Detection App Mousoom Samanta
CH26_1055 ClinTech Bridge Al- Enabled Early Sepsis Detection System Vidhi Sirsath
CH26_1057 BioNova Surakshasetu Janki Mukeshbhai Soni
CH26_1063 DebugCrew Zenzone Antima Shukla
CH26_1075 SynapStorm ChronoCancer Ved Mehta
CH26_1081 Atom Industries Auris TouchTalk Naitik Bansal

Track 10: AI for Society

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Abhijit Roy, Tata Consultancy Services

Panel Judge 2: Junaith Meeran Haja Mohideen, Amazon

Panel Judge 3: Linga Reddy Alva, IT Spin Inc

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_1050 CoCreate CiviVision - AI that sees and solve city problems Lahar Solanki
CH26_1051 Code & Conquer SafeStreet AI – Predictive Public Safety System Busam Greeshma
CH26_1053 GridMinds High-Resolution AI-Based Short-Term Load Forecasting (STLF) Pranjal Kundu
CH26_1059 Algominds AI Study Mentor for Competitive Exams Hemanth T
CH26_1062 ScholarSphere ScholarSphere Neel Prasad
CH26_1064 Chill_Life AI Hallucination Detector Ansh Somra
CH26_1068 NEOS DEV Confidence builder Anurag Jayswal
CH26_1070 Healing Bits AI-Powered Medicine Authentication M Pallavi

Track 11: Cybersecurity & Digital Trust

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Nishanth Sirikonda, IEEE Raleigh

Panel Judge 2: Chandra Shekhar Pareek, Independent Researcher

Panel Judge 3: Bhargava Varma Konduru, Sr. Product Manager, Analytics at Amazon

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_1065 R2D2 ContriLedger Rachit Anand
CH26_1072 Team Sentinel SentinelFL Shivani Singla
CH26_1073 CyberShield Innovators AI-Based Fake Job & Internship Scam Detection System Sammerpreet Singh
CH26_1089 CipherGuard: Think before you apply Detecting Fake Job postings Abhinav Bansal
CH26_1091 Team Cyra Cypher Aditya Singh
CH26_1098 alphaBoys Ghostshell: The Agentic AI Honeypot Platform Prakash Swami
CH26_2004 BharatBeats JobSafe -URL Inspection Extension Heer
CH26_2008 black_buggy SIEM Multi-Agent Security Analysis System Rajeev Ranjan

Track 12: AI for Society

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Yugandhar Reddy Suthari, Security Engineer / Cisco Systems Inc

Panel Judge 2: Manam Karthik Babu, ContinuumCloud

Panel Judge 3: Venkata Krishna Bharadwaj Parasaram, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_1071 SoloMind AI Smart AI-Based Adaptive Study Planner for Students Palak Rai
CH26_1074 Safe Fall AI AI-Based Smart Fall Detection & Life Saving System Hemant Sahu
CH26_1076 Neuroxion AI - Powered Computational Models for HealthCare Adhul R
CH26_1078 Tech Stellars AI lawyer assistant Sanyam Asopa
CH26_1082 Aquadefenders AI-Driven Water Pollution Detection and Cleanup Decision Support System Basavaraj N S
CH26_1084 BRAINWAVE TECH URBAN SENSE AI-Driven Civic Issue Prioritization Kansagara Krish
CH26_1085 METROMIND CIVICLENS Rushikesh Santosh Kad
CH26_1086 Algo Almonds Sentra AI Liza Nancy D'Souza

Track 13: AI for Society

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Sachin Prasad, IBM

Panel Judge 2: Kapil Kumar Goyal, Zillow

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_1087 TechnoMe VidhyaAI – An Inclusive AI Tutor for Low-Literacy and Low-Resource Learners Parekh Vrunda Nirajbhai
CH26_1088 SignaTech Signbridge is an AI Ayushi Bajaj
CH26_1096 wildsight wildsight Mitesh Naik
CH26_1099 StudyHack​ Study Buddy - AI-Powered Personalized Learning Platform Prince Kumar Singh
CH26_2003 EcoNexa EcoNexa: Intelligent Healthcare & Robotics Misbah Ul Islam
CH26_2005 SANARK AI-Driven Indoor Pollution Tracking and Alert System Udhay Chander Hari Krishna
CH26_2006 Civic Shield URBAN PULSE Utkal Singh
CH26_2007 Gesture X AI-Powered Gesture Based Learning Application for Autistic Children Hanan.H

Track 14: Open Innovation

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Pavana Kumar Chandana, Principal Engineering Manager/The Northern Trust

Panel Judge 2: Vamshidhar Reddy Vemula, Chief Strategic Advisor / Clou6AI & Lead Software Engineer / Wells Fargo

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_2018HackSphereSmartSphereKuldeep Patel
CH26_2023TEAM ARISTITHREAT EYE – From Data → Defense, Instantly.Anirudh Shukla
CH26_2024HireSphereSmart Job Portal with Skill-Based Hiring & Scam DetectionVIKRAM BANERJEE
CH26_2030WillOWispIntentGuardArnab Mandal
CH26_2032ThreatGPTAl-Powered SOC Log Analyzer with Automated Incident ResponseSahil Salgaonkar
CH26_2034EternalBlueRansomware Early Warning System for Android DevicesDevam Shah
CH26_2036EternalBlueML based DDoS Mitigation SystemRaghav Shrivastav
CH26_2022The SingularityA Framework for Trustable GenerationAryaman Gajrani
CH26_2031Tensor TitansContent Recommendation SystemHari Hasvitha Sai
CH26_2035TackleXAI Study Buddy for Engineering StudentKriti

Track 15: AI for Society

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Karunakar Grandhe, Associate Director, Merck & Co. Inc

Panel Judge 2: Bhaskar Manchuri, Independent Researcher

Panel Judge 3: Naveen Kumar Reddy Pajjuri, Independent researcher

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_2010SafeSphereSafeSphere – AI-Powered Disaster Preparedness & Response Education PlatformAbhay Sahu
CH26_2012Divine DevelopersAR Based ForensicsPrerak Patel
CH26_2014Team SagaDarkPatternAIAdhul Ashritha
CH26_2015lios evasEarthGuard: Real‑Time Planetary Resource DashboardAbhiram Ravula
CH26_2016AeroMindAirAware – Intelligent Air Quality Analysis Using AI.Simran Patel
CH26_2026NxtGen CodersCrop Cogni VoiceShaik Arief
CH26_2027Team innovateTruthLens AIV. Sai jeswanth
CH26_2028V-5SMART FINANCIAL SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR GIG WORKERSMohammed Abdul Rafe Sajid
CH26_2037Team IgniteWalk smart - AI Walkthrough Health Prediction SystemNoorul aslina M

Track 16: Open Innovation

03:30 PM (AEDT) - 05:30 PM (AEDT) /
10:00 AM (IST) - 12:00 (IST)
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Panel Judge 1: Gaurav Patel, T-Mobile USA Inc

Panel Judge 2: Saravanan Elumalai, L&T Technology Services, USA

Panel Judge 3: Jaya Krishna Modadugu, Senior Software Engineer, Prosper Marketplace Inc

Team ID Team Name Project Title Team Leader
CH26_2011Byte BustersSMCP- SuperChargedMedicalPlatformVAIBHAV SORCAR
CH26_2013Sparsh DrishtiiSparsh Drishtii: Unlocking Vision Beyond SightAmit Kumar Singh
CH26_2021OZYOZY - Operations EasyPramath Hegde
CH26_2017AdoxfusionSunderban(Forest) Monitoring SystemG Om Prasad Dora
CH26_2019Team youstaTraffic light segmentation and object detectionThiruveedhi chandu chowdary
CH26_2020SPARKAccident-Prone Zone Prediction and Alert SystemKANISHKA R S
CH26_2025TRAFFERGYSelf Powered IoT LanesAltrin Ahas A
CH26_2033SPARKFLOWAI-Driven Smart EV Charging Load Balancer & Grid ProtectorVIBIN REX A
CH26_2029Rural XRural XAbhinav Yadav