Nivedhitha Dhanasekaran
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  • 2025
  • 2022
  • 2021

Honors & Awards

2025

  • AI Agents Hackathon: Most Effective Project Winner
    Apr 2025 Google & DeepMind
    Built an LLM-based multi-agent system for contextual information synthesis and reasoning at Carnegie Mellon University.

2022

  • Smart India Hackathon: Winner
    Aug 2022 Ministry of Earth Sciences ₹1,00,000
    Developed a marine species threat detection system using real-time underwater vision.

  • Internally Funded Student Project (IFSP)
    May 2022 SSN College of Engineering ₹30,000
    Led the navigation software team to build ORCA and KYOGRE underwater robots under Dr. S. Sakthivel Murugan
    UWARL Lab

2021

  • AIRSA Hackathon: Winner
    Nov 2021
    Proposed a deep learning model for satellite image segmentation.
    GitHub Repo

  • Asian Machine Learning School + ACML: Selected Participant
    Oct 2021
    Invited to join a high-impact ML education and research community across Asia-Pacific.

  • IEEE R10 Student Project Video Contest: Asia-Pacific Champion
    Aug 2021 $300
    Winner across 7 countries and 50+ student councils.
    Watch Video

  • Grace Hopper Celebration (vGHC): Scholarship Awardee
    Jul 2021
    Selected among 1,200 scholars globally for academic and community leadership.

  • Techstars Startup Weekend Chennai: Runner-Up
    Feb 2021
    Ranked 4th among 90+ idea pitches during a national startup sprint.