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Flagship competitions, lectures, sessions and our members' podium finishes. Pick a year to see what the club did.
2025–26: the Nirmaan year. The club ran its first Technical IPD Project Competition, five mentored research groups, a resume and LinkedIn clinic for second-years and three technical blogs, while members finished on the podium seven times.
flagship · 27 February 2026
The first edition of our Technical IPD Project Competition, built for third-year students. Teams presented their projects to engineers from industry, took the feedback, and came back with working prototypes.
01 / format
The day opened with a lamp-lighting ceremony in the presence of Principal Dr. Hari Vasudevan, IT department faculty and the invited judges.
round 1 · 8 parallel tracks
Each of the four domains was split into two judging tracks. Teams presented their problem statements, methods, technical architecture, implementation plan and expected real-world impact. One winner was picked from each track.
judged on: innovation · feasibility · implementation · presentation · impact
round 2 · grand finale
The top teams returned with refined projects based on Round 1 feedback, showing working prototypes, system architectures, implementation plans and deployment strategies to a panel of alumni.
judged on: innovation · scalability · implementation · feasibility · societal impact
02 / round 1
T1
Mitvi Dattani, Jash Shah, Moksh Shah, Mukti Bhavsar
Guide: Prof. Neha KatreT2
Rishi Panchal, Prathamesh Dattani, Rachit Chotalia, Vedant Samant
Guide: Prof. Prachi SatamT3
Nandini Nema, Parv Siria, Jovita Shetty, Paril Rupani
Guide: Prof. Sharvari PatilT4
Pranav Agarwal, Krishna Naudiyal, Nyasa Parikh, Poorva Sawant
Guide: Dr. Ramachandra MangrulkarT5
Dirgh Shah, Fahim Badgujar, Akansh Maroli, Dhruv Lukhi
Guide: Dr. Vinaya SawantT6
Rachit Chawda, Raiyyan Patel, Shardul Aher, Rohit Singh
Guide: Dr. Vinaya SawantT7
Hitanshu Gala, Pranav Dharwadkar, Mihir Patil, Omkar Dalvi
Guide: Dr. Abhijit JoshiT8
Vedehi Choudhary, Zainab Hotelwala, Yash Chaturvedi, Shubham Debnath
Guide: Prof. Neha Ram03 / grand finale
Rishi Panchal, Prathamesh Dattani, Rachit Chotalia, Vedant Samant
Pranav Agarwal, Krishna Naudiyal, Nyasa Parikh, Poorva Sawant
Hitanshu Gala, Pranav Dharwadkar, Mihir Patil, Omkar Dalvi
04 / judging panel
Their questions and feedback made Nirmaan a bridge between the classroom and industry.
also in 2025–26
Career readiness workshop for 26 second-year students.
achievements · 2025–26
Seven podium finishes by club members at hackathons and competitions.
2024–25: the INITiate.AI year. The lecture series was relaunched as INITiate.AI, the Junior Research Program ran its first full cycle, and the new #DecodeSeries of one-minute reels explained AI terms on social media. Club members won Maha-Hackathon 1.0 and the Smart India Hackathon, and Data2Knowledge ran for a third time.
flagship · 22 March 2025 · The Matrix
The third edition took a cyberpunk theme. Teams from several institutes registered on Devfolio, went through resume shortlisting and an online quiz, and then spent nine hours offline on four industry problem statements. The top eight presented to a panel of experts.
problem statements
PS1
Derive behavioural and technical insights from interview audio and video.
PunctualitiPS2
A multimodal model that flags misinformation from both image and text.
Hexamad DigitalPS3
Reinforcement learning for route optimization under dynamic constraints.
SolunationPS4
Sentiment-driven wellness tracking for mental clarity and productivity.
Antennae Ventureswinners
partners
also in 2024–25
A Teachers' Day bootcamp with the IEEE committee of DJSCE, led by Dr. Rajkumar Patil, for 150+ students.
Ideation to execution across AI, IoT and cybersecurity, for 80+ second-years.
SHAP on an XGBoost regressor and LIME on VGG16, taught by final-year members to 90 students.
Python, NumPy, Pandas and Matplotlib, then linear and logistic regression and Naive Bayes with a build-your-own-model project. 50+ students each.
Semester-long projects evaluated by alumni mentors and faculty.
achievements · 2024–25
Club members at hackathons and competitions in 2024–25.
Internships: Soham Patil at Google, Surabhi Waingankar at Goldman Sachs, Anish Sharma at Fractal AI, and Surajsingh Rajpurohit and Sagar Harsora at ARCON.
2023–24: Data2Knowledge goes intercollegiate. The club added full event, publicity, creatives, marketing and logistics teams. The lecture series ran as bootcamps with themed sessions (GitInit, PyInIT), and the second Data2Knowledge drew teams from colleges across Mumbai.
flagship · 6 February 2024 · Star Wars
The second edition opened to students from other colleges. Teams were shortlisted on resumes, then ranked by a quiz on Unstop the day before, which decided the problem statement each team got. Dextra Labs set five problems across five tracks, and eleven teams reached the final presentations.
problem statements
Data Science
Answer questions about agritech stock-ageing reports to protect fertilizer subsidies.
Computer Vision
Score how visible pharma products are in shop images to set retailer incentives.
MLOps
Find and mitigate demographic bias in heart-disease diagnosis models, end to end.
NLP
Infer where posts and articles come from, for recommendation and regional analysis.
GenAI
Extract keywords from content and generate trending hashtags for creators.
winners
partners
also in 2023–24
Python basics and linear regression for 50 second-years across all three divisions.
Past Smart India Hackathon winners on picking problem statements, forming teams and preparing. About 150 attended.
A hands-on introduction to Git and GitHub.
NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib and Seaborn, taught batch by batch in the labs.
An online deep-dive for the club's junior mentors.
achievements · 2023–24
Club members at hackathons and competitions in 2023–24.
2022–23: the first datathon. Lectures moved back into the classroom, the club website was redesigned, and InIT ran its first ever event: Data2Knowledge, a Money Heist-themed datathon. The year closed with a Transfer Learning masterclass for third-years.
flagship · 16 February 2023 · Money Heist
The club's first event was a datathon for students into data science and ML, with the IT and CS departments dressed as Money Heist sets and the labs named after mints. Mentors shortlisted teams of one or two on their resumes and matched each to a problem statement. Teams got an hour to plan and six hours to build, and three finalists per problem presented in the seminar hall.
problem statements
PS1
Use census and market data to justify a single ten-year investment.
PS2
Scrape 150+ AI and data science quotes, build a recommender and re-rank daily from clicks.
PS3
Turn a medical research paper into a 300–400 word blog and a five-slide deck.
winners
partners
also in 2022–23
On MS Teams, 47 students.
In classroom 64, 42 students.
The rest of the series, from Excel pivot tables to serving models behind an API.
AlexNet, VGG, ResNet, Inception and keypoint regression in Jupyter, for about 100 third-years.
achievements · 2022–23
Club members at hackathons and competitions in 2022–23.
2021–22: online, and first in print. A year of rebuilding. Junior mentors taught a Python lecture series on MS Teams, each with a Colab notebook and assignments, while the research groups got their first two papers published.
in 2021–22
There was no flagship event this year. The lecture series ran online.
Syntax, data structures, loops and functions, with Mentimeter polls along the way.
Sets, tuples, lists, dictionaries and a first look at NumPy arrays.
The four pillars, worked through a banking-system example. 52 students.
Indexing, boolean masks and broadcasting.
2020–21: where the reports begin. Lectures ran twice a week for second-years, covering statistics, regression, classification, clustering and data mining, with coding sessions, assignments and online courses alongside. The club tried project-based learning for the first time and started posting on Instagram (@djinit.ai), Facebook and LinkedIn.
in 2020–21
The report lists no dated events for this year, only the weekly rhythm.
Every Wednesday and Friday, theory plus hands-on coding. Weekly tasks on online courses covered what the lectures couldn't, and senior members answered doubts.
Members were pushed into Kaggle competitions and ML hackathons with brainstorming support from seniors, and a weekly Instagram contest brought more students in.