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AwardApr 2025

"Lezgi Ghed" Award — Preserving Minority Languages

Lezgi Star Award

Honored with the Lezgi Ghed award for preserving minority languages through AI — translator and TTS system.

NLPTTSLezgin LanguageCultural Preservation
HackathonJun 2024

1st Place — Talent Match Hack

1st place

RAG-based resume matching system using LLMs and vector search for intelligent hiring.

RAGLLMNLPVector Search
HackathonApr 2024

2nd Place — True Tech Hack

2nd place

Adapting MTS bank website for visually impaired users with NER, RAG, and sentiment analysis.

NERRAGAccessibilityNLP
HackathonMar 2024

2nd Place — Digital Breakthrough

2nd place

Multimodal video classification system combining visual and textual features.

Computer VisionMultimodal AIVideo Processing
HackathonMay 2023

Top 5% — Google Sign Language Recognition

58th place, top 5%

Placed top 5% among 1,000+ teams in Google's Kaggle competition for isolated sign language recognition.

Computer VisionTensorFlowKaggle
HackathonNov 2022

1st Place — GoCodeHack

1st place

Telegram bot for packaging startups — automated pitch deck creation and profiling.

PythonNLPTelegram API
HackathonOct 2022

2nd Place — TenderHack

2nd place

AI-powered search engine with autocomplete, text and layout correction for tender platforms.

NLPSearch EngineText Processing
HackathonMay 2022

2nd Place — NTO ATS Olympics

2nd place

Computer vision for autonomous car, robotic arm, and drone control at NTO Olympics.

Computer VisionRoboticsAutonomous Systems
HackathonNov 2021

1st Place — AIIJC Hackathon

1st place

Neural network for recognizing Russian sign language finger-spelling at AIIJC Inclusive Environment Track.

Computer VisionDeep LearningSign Language