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Akasha A Prasad

First-year B.S. student at IIT Madras. 3-time hackathon winner. Co-founder of Aegis AI. Building at the intersection of AI/ML, Cybersecurity, and the Web.

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IIT Madras

B.S. Data Science & Applications

Hello, I'm Akasha

First-year B.S. Data Science & Applications student at IIT Madras, also pursuing CS&E at Scaler School of Technology. I'm an adaptable builder who loves sitting at the crossroads of AI, security, and the web.

As Co-founder of Aegis AI, I'm building an AI security platform that helps businesses prevent chatbots from generating harmful or non-compliant outputs — driving product architecture, frontend, and the core red-teaming pipeline from scratch.

I've won 3 hackathons spanning robotics, AI, and VC sprints, and presented Metasploit-based penetration testing at IISc Bengaluru.

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Hackathon Winner

Projects Built

What I work with

Skills & Technologies

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Frontend Development

React90%

HTML / CSS / JS93%

Responsive UI/UX85%

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Backend & APIs

Python & FastAPI88%

Java & Spring Boot78%

Node.js / MERN82%

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AI / ML & Data

ML & RAG Pipelines82%

FAISS / Chroma / VectorDB80%

SQL & MongoDB85%

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Cybersecurity

Ethical Hacking78%

Penetration Testing72%

AI Red-Teaming82%

ReactPython FastAPIJava Spring BootJavaScript HTML/CSSMongoDB SQLFAISS ChromaDocker Git/GitHubVercel RenderGoogle Cloud REST APIsMetasploit Node.jsTensorFlow

Things I've built

Key Projects

🚀 CO-FOUNDER · MVP STAGE

Aegis AI — AI Safety & Security Platform

Launched an AI security platform that audits chatbots for prompt injection, jailbreaks, sensitive data leakage, policy failures, and harmful outputs. Driving product architecture, business strategy, frontend development and the core AI red-teaming pipeline from the ground up.

Prompt Injection Detection

Jailbreak Auditing

Policy Compliance

Data Leakage Prevention

AI Red-Teaming Pipeline

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Vector + Graph Native AI Retrieval Engine

Hybrid retrieval engine combining FAISS/Chroma vector search with graph-native traversal, delivering richer, faster responses on complex multi-hop queries than standalone vector databases.

FAISSChroma PythonRAGGraph DB

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Deepfake Engine Detector

CNN-based forensic pipeline that identifies the generative engine behind synthetic media using multi-class classification, built for real-world deepfake attribution.

CNNPython Computer VisionPyTorch

🥈 2nd Place — AI Hackathon

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Locomotion Training — Unitree Go2 (Genesis)

Trained a quadruped robot using reinforcement learning in the Genesis simulation framework, achieving stable locomotion policies on the Unitree Go2 platform.

RLRobotics Genesis SimPython

🏆 4th Place — Robotics Hackathon

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GigSync

Platform connecting gig workers with clients via real-time job matching and payments. Full-stack MERN application with live updates and integrated payment flows.

ReactNode.js MongoDBMERN

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Context Aware AI

AI system with persistent context management, enabling smarter multi-turn conversations with memory and awareness of prior interactions across sessions.

PythonLLM FastAPIContext Management

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Shopping Agent

Autonomous AI agent for intelligent shopping recommendations, price comparison, and purchase optimization — leveraging LLM reasoning with tool use.

AI AgentPython LLMAutomation

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AI Study App

Intelligent study assistant that generates personalized learning paths, quizzes, and explanations to enhance the student learning experience with AI-powered tools.

ReactPython AI/MLEdTech

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Agrosync

AI assistant for farmers with crop advisory, live market pricing, and weather-integrated recommendations. Built to empower agricultural decisions with ML intelligence.

ReactAI/ML Node.jsMongoDB

Recognition & Milestones

Achievements

🚀 Co-Founder

Aegis AI — AI Security Platform

Building an AI security platform from scratch — product architecture, business strategy, frontend, and the core AI red-teaming pipeline. Currently at MVP stage.

🥉 3rd Place

VC Sprint Hackathon — Campus Fund

Competed in a venture-capital focused sprint hackathon organized by Campus Fund, presenting Aegis AI's business model and product roadmap to a panel of judges.

🏆 4th Place

Robotics Hackathon — Unitree Go2 Locomotion

4th place in a competitive robotics hackathon for training the Unitree Go2 quadruped robot with reinforcement learning in the Genesis simulation framework.

🥈 2nd Place

AI Hackathon — Deepfake Engine Detection

Won 2nd place at a competitive college AI hackathon for developing a CNN-based forensic pipeline that identifies the generative engine behind synthetic media.

🏛️ Speaker

Metasploit Penetration Testing — IISc Bengaluru

Presented Metasploit-based penetration testing techniques at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), demonstrating advanced offensive security methodology.

Let's Connect

I'm always open to exciting projects, research collaborations, internships, and conversations about AI, security, or startups. Let's build something great.

akashaprasad@aegisai.tech github.com/AkashaPrasad akasha-a-prasad