Off the screen,
in the room.
Hackathons, panels, lectures and workshops. Where the team has shown up, in photographs.
01 / 09
IEM
Impetus
Open innovation hackathon · Final round · 12 Jan 2026
A seat at the judges' table for the final round, then the good part: handing the trophies to the teams that earned them.
02 / 09
ToI Teachers'
Conclave
The Times of India · Panel discussion
On the panel for “Role of Artificial Intelligence in School Education”, in front of a room of people who teach for a living.
03 / 09
Calcutta
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Apex Circle · Techno India
A talk on zero-knowledge proofs, starting from the three pillars, then prizes for the teams that shipped.
04 / 09
Stellar
Build-a-thon
Stellar · Kolkata · Judging
Judging in Kolkata: table to table through what the teams built on Stellar, then on stage to hand over the prizes.
05 / 09
Blockchain
Summit 2.0
IIT Kharagpur · 17–18 January · Invited talk
An invited talk, “Zero-Knowledge Proofs 101: How Cryptography Shapes Blockchain”, plus two days mentoring the hackathon teams.
06 / 09
Youngpreneurs
AI Panel
IIT Kharagpur Research Park · Panel discussion
A panel on what AI changes about education, and what it should leave alone.
07 / 09
Heritage
Agentic AI
Heritage Institute of Technology · Workshop · 28 Sep 2026
A department-industry workshop for third-year computer science students: one afternoon in the lab, building a first AI agent.
08 / 09
ISI Kolkata
Invited lecture
Indian Statistical Institute · ISEA short-term course
“Arithmetization Schemes in ZKP”, delivered at a short-term course and hackathon on privacy-preserving cryptographic security.
09 / 09
Hacker House
Goa
Goa · 4–9 August 2024 · Talk and mentoring
Presenting Anon-Aadhaar for the Ethereum Foundation's PSE team, then mentoring the hackathon teams building on it.