Best Community Communication Tool, LEAP “Urban Futures” Climate Hackathon (Jan 2026, AMNH)

Built with Team Megalodons at the American Museum of Natural History, Our Era is a climate-aware emergency routing tool for Brownsville, Brooklyn. The project addresses how climate change impacts emergency response in vulnerable neighborhoods.

First Place winner of the Internet Policy Challenge at MIT’s 8th Annual Policy Hackathon, developed with Matthew Greer-Gentis and Christina Qiu for the Integrity Institute.

Our approach:

• Deployed AI to classify 146 state bills and congressional testimonies into quantifiable policy mechanisms
• Analyzed 67,921 real-world youth online sessions to establish threat patterns
• Built an interactive dashboard making legislative data publicly accessible
• Revealed why laws fail: California’s content-based approach was blocked by courts, while Connecticut’s design-focused bill survived — we mapped this pattern across the entire legislative landscape

Why it matters: 186,800 child enticement reports were filed in 2023 (300% increase since 2021). Roblox CEO admitted “any anonymous adult could talk to any anonymous minor” for 18 years. Only 4 of 146 state bills passed, and half were immediately blocked by courts.

Our solution: The Youth Safety & Design Standard (YSDS) — a federal framework with design-based duties, protective defaults, and mandatory transparency addressing documented harms.

2nd Place, ARM AI Developer Challenge (1,600+ participants)

DreamMeridian runs AI-powered geospatial queries entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi, designed for refugee camps and disaster zones where connectivity is unreliable. The system enables spatial intelligence without relying on cloud infrastructure, making geospatial analysis accessible in the most resource-constrained environments.

Featured in NYU Tandon Engineering: “Meet Adam Munawar Rahman: Leveraging AI for Humanitarian Use”.

A suite of open-source tools for mainframe modernization, including:

• xk6-tn3270 — Grafana k6 extension for load testing 3270 mainframe terminals
• k6port — Grafana k6 load testing tool ported natively to z/OS

These tools bridge the gap between modern DevOps practices and legacy mainframe infrastructure, enabling teams to apply contemporary performance testing methodologies to z/OS environments.

2nd Place, ArangoDB & NVIDIA “Building the Next-Gen Agentic App with GraphRAG” Hackathon

AskStreets transforms urban planning through conversational AI. The agentic app extracts OpenStreetMap data into ArangoDB graph structures, then employs a LangGraph ReAct agent to interpret natural language queries and execute GPU-accelerated graph algorithms. This enables non-technical users to analyze infrastructure, optimize service placement, and evaluate transportation networks.

The first public dataset of fire incidents in NYC, scraped, geocoded, and visualized. Presented at NYC Open Data Week’s “Can Data Start a Movement?” Hackathon in March 2020.

An epidemiological simulation of mass incarceration with a synthetic population network. Developed from initial research called Jails by Java, winner of the MIT INSPIRE Political Science award (Dec. 2015) and Social Good Award + 2nd Place Crowd Favorite at Wellesley Hacks 2017.

Utilities for developers and data scientists to perform geospatial calculations on large datasets based on road networks. Built during my work with UNICEF’s MagicBox initiative.

Evaluated two commercial gender classification systems — Amazon Rekognition and Sightengine — using the large-scale UTKFace Dataset to ascertain intersectional gender and race disparities. Results show both systems exhibit bias towards non-white female faces, assigning disproportionately higher male confidence values.

Inspired by the Algorithmic Justice League’s work and my research on racial disparities in criminal justice.