Evan Yu

🏆 4th Place - Hyphenate TrackUC Berkeley

Built Eve, an AI agent for event finances that prepares travel reimbursements, prize payouts, and tax paperwork for human approval.

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Top 15 overallMIT

Built Cognito, an AI tutor that checks handwritten work as you write, offers hints without giving away answers, and builds personalized study plans around existing lessons.

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🏆 1st Place - Education Track | Best Creation with HeyGen Avatar APIStanford University

Built an accessible AI tutor platform that teaches any topic over video calls in a non-judgmental environment. Generates MANIM animations for math concepts and integrates with Desmos for interactive teaching.

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🏆 Best Use of Snowflake APIUniversity of Toronto

Built "Mission Control / The Trident" - Completely rebuilt the arduino IDE in the browser complete with LSP, compiling/uploading, and an ai agent. Won best use of Snowflake API.

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🏆 Best Use of VultrUniversity of Toronto

Built an AI-powered recruiting platform with a live OA using Gemini Live. Deployed on Vultr (Object Storage, Container Registry, Compute, Managed Postgres).

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McMaster University

Trained an ML model on Toronto Police data to "predict" crime, fires, accidents, and more.

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UC Berkeley

Built an AI-powered coding assessment platform focused on real-world engineering skills (not algorithm puzzles).

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Github HQ, San Francisco, CA (Invite-only)

Spent 3 days compiling Linux drivers for Intel RealSense on Raspberry Pi.

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🏆 2nd PlaceToronto, ON

Hosted by Hack Club. Built a robot + taser controlled via Twitch chat.

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🏆 Best Use of GenAIUniversity of Toronto

Hosted by UofT UTRA. Built a mental health support robot using multiple locally hosted models.

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🏆 2nd PlaceIroquois Ridge High School

High school hackathon. Trained a classifier to detect bradycardia in ICU neonatal infants.

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🎖 Honourable MentionUniversity of Toronto

Private hackathon for high school students hosted by UofT RSX. Ran TensorFlow on Android to detect patterns.

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