Robot Jousting Sep 23, 2026
teaching robot arms to joust, Grand Prize @ HackCMU 2026
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Vijayram
Computational Biology & AI @ Carnegie Mellon
selected work
Robot Jousting
Motion control software for sword-fighting SO-100/SO-101 arms, using sim-to-real transfer of arm trajectories. Grand Prize @ HackCMU 2026.
view project → Understanding Mechanisms Behind Cardiotoxicity
Identifying genes driving cardiotoxicity and ICI myocarditis using computational models and multi-omics data
view project → Competitive Programming Problemsetting and Solving
Competing and problemwriting across Codeforces, AtCoder, USACO, and club contests
view project →selected honors & awards
AHA Scientific Sessions 2026 Poster - American Heart Association
accepted as first author for a poster presentation on modeling kinase inhibitor cardiotoxicity → with gene coexpression networks and game theory
learn more Grand Prize, HackCMU 2026 - ACM@CMU
won first prize out of 180+ teams with Robot Jousting →, two player game where robot arms fight each other with 3D-printed swords
learn more Putnam Top 100 - Mathematical Association of America
ranked 64th out of 4,300+ students with a score of 60/120; was the #1 scorer at CMU
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Bronze Medal Performance at ICPC Latin American Championship - International Collegiate Programming Contest
represented CMU unofficially onsite in Santiago, Chile; placed 9th on the official leaderboard, a high bronze medal performance
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