Every project ML@Purdue has run, grouped by the year it wrapped up. 17 projects; each one keeps its full write-up, the team behind it, and whatever it shipped.
Topic
Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 · 4-8 hrs/week
RAG chatbot answering Purdue course and degree questions, plus a graph planner that finds the shortest path to graduation.
Project Manager
Andrew Qiang
Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 · ~10 hrs/week
Open-source arena benchmarking enterprise retrieval systems (RAG, GraphRAG, Elasticsearch), built with YC-backed Captain.
Project Manager
Taaha Khan
Advisor · Lewis Polansky (Captain)
Spring 2026 · 4-6 hrs/week
Fine-tuning vision models to grade acne severity and classify scars, closing the accuracy gap on darker skin tones.
Project Manager
Ishaan Buddharaju
Advisor · Dr. Josephine Nguyen
Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 · 4-5 hrs/week
Forecasting weekly TSA checkpoint volume from federal data to trade the Kalshi prediction market profitably.
Project Manager
Eubene In
Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 · 3 hrs/week
Modeling how NFL salary cap and draft capital spent across positions translates into player and team success.
Project Manager
Pranay Nandkeolyar
Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 · 6-7 hrs/week
End-to-end driving models for autonomous vehicles, built and submitted to the Waymo Open Dataset challenge.
Project Manager
Manav Gagvani
Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 · 3-5 hrs/week
Monte Carlo tree search and reinforcement learning agent that plays competitive Pokémon VGC at tournament level.
Project Manager
Akkshay Rajan
Fall 2025 · 10-15 hrs/week
CNN-LSTM models correcting NASA satellite pollutant forecasts against real ground-station measurements.
Project Manager
Aakarsh Rai
Advisor · Prof. Guang Lin, Dr. Gary Doran, Dr. Sina Hasheminassab
Fall 2023 – Spring 2025 · ~10 hrs/week
Autonomous 12-foot boat for a Navy-funded Indiana collegiate challenge, combining computer vision, path planning, and Gazebo simulation.
Fall 2024 – Spring 2025 · 1-5 hrs/week
Testing whether GAN-generated images can meaningfully augment small training sets, and how that holds across domains.
Project Manager
Ivan Philip
Fall 2022 – Spring 2025 · 5-10 hrs/week
Competitive quant team building statistical and ML trading strategies for the CME, MIT, and Cornell challenges.
Fall 2024
Deployed web app that takes plain-English rules and labels, drafts, forwards, and archives your Gmail automatically.
Project Manager
Rishi Mantri
Fall 2024 · 3-8 hrs/week
Live hackathon leaderboard that scores model submissions without ever exposing the held-out test set.
Project Manager
Nihal Gunukula
Fall 2023 – Spring 2024 · 1-5 hrs/week
CNNs that tag a painting's genre (Impressionist, Renaissance, Abstract), trained on thousands of WikiArt images.
Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
Full-stack portfolio generator scoring S&P 500 stocks from price history, news sentiment, and financial ratios.
Project Manager
Ansh Tandon
Advisor · Prof. Eugenio Culurciello
Fall 2023
Constraining language model sampling to a formal grammar, so output is always valid JSON, code, or regex-matched text.
Project Manager
Sagar Patil
Fall 2023
Real-time object detection on a tactical indoor drone, flagging people, weapons, and doors in the operator's video feed.
Advisor · Duncan Mulgrew
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