khizar@site:~$ ls projects/

Hackathon builds, side projects, analysis tools, and prototypes.

4 entries found.

01.panda.mdMar 2026
02.wikifish.mdJan 2026
03.sentinel.mdSep 2022
04.mytable.mdAug 2021

Check out each project by clicking its dropdown.

khizar@site:~/projects$ cat panda.md
namePanda
eventHack The Student Life 2026
dateMar 2026
stackPython / FastAPI / HTML/CSS/JS / AWS Bedrock / DynamoDB / NumPy
aboutA discovery app that matched students to faculty opportunities and generated AI-assisted outreach starting points.
-Built for Challenge Area 3 at Hack The Student Life 2026 to improve network visibility and personalized matching between students and faculty.
-Scraped and enriched profiles for 85 UofT CS professors, generated embeddings with Amazon Bedrock Titan, and implemented semantic search with cosine similarity.
-Used Amazon Bedrock Nova models to generate paper summaries, outreach ideas, and cold-email drafts from uploaded student resumes while logging search activity to DynamoDB.
[github][devpost]
khizar@site:~/projects$ cat wikifish.md
nameWikiFish
eventWikiRace Analysis Engine
dateJan 2026
stackPython / Dash / Plotly / NetworkX / NumPy
aboutA post-game analysis engine for WikiRace that explains how good every move was over a graph of 1.79M Wikipedia articles.
-Built on the Stanford SNAP wiki-topcats dataset with 1.79M articles and 28.5M directed edges.
-Implemented BFS, bidirectional BFS, and A* search with a Jaccard category-overlap heuristic to classify each player move as GREAT, OPTIMAL, NEUTRAL, or BLUNDER.
-Designed an interactive Dash interface with a Stockfish-style evaluation chart, clickable move inspection, and a NetworkX/Plotly path visualization.
[github]
khizar@site:~/projects$ cat sentinel.md
namesentinel
eventHack the North 2022
dateSep 2022
stackTypeScript / React / Vite / Tailwind CSS / AssemblyAI / Cohere
aboutA Twitch sentiment analysis pipeline that classified live chat in real time and made the stream's emotional tempo visible.
-Built at Hack the North 2022, Canada's largest hackathon hosted by the University of Waterloo.
-Combined TypeScript, React, AssemblyAI, and Cohere to classify Twitch live-chat sentiment in real time.
-Demoed the project to hundreds of visitors during the event.
[github][devpost]
khizar@site:~/projects$ cat mytable.md
nameMyTable
eventStemWarriorHacks 2021 Winner
dateAug 2021
stackVue.js / Tailwind CSS / Vercel Serverless
aboutA customizable calendar app designed for niche routines, from school schedules to gardening and health tracking.
-Built a flexible calendar experience that could adapt to very different personal workflows instead of assuming one default template.
-Designed use cases around gardening schedules, menstrual cycles, school timetables, and other recurring planning systems.
-Won the Best Beginners' Hack prize at StemWarriorHacks 2021 out of roughly 500 participants.
[devpost]