WUT Teams Achieve Successes at International Hackathons

Read about award-ewinning projects by WUT students and graduates:

Cinegraph

The Cinegraph project won 1^st place at the Cognee x Redis Hackathon in San Francisco. The solution uses artificial intelligence for video editing and learns from the footage it attempts to recreate. The system continuously improves its capabilities by updating its own persistent knowledge base, with each editing attempt helping it refine its methods and more accurately reproduce the desired outcome.

The creators approached video editing as a reinforcement learning environment. A completed video edited by a human serves as the target that the AI agent attempts to replicate. The resulting output is then evaluated by the Gemini model, which records insights in an editable knowledge base used during subsequent editing attempts. The project originated from AutoYT, a platform developed by Piotr Tyrakowski for the automated creation of YouTube videos.

The project team consisted of: Piotr Tyrakowski, a student of Artificial Intelligence Methods at the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Łukasz Kryczka, a graduate of Computer Science and Information Systems (Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science), and Michał Zajączkowski, a graduate of Data Science (Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science).

"Hackathons have taught me the most about people. The individuals I least expected to stand out often surprised me the most - and always in a positive way. A hackathon is really a communication sport: you need to understand others and be able to present your own ideas effectively," says Piotr Tyrakowski, student of the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, hackathon participant.

NpmGuard

Another major success was NpmGuard, which won 1^st place and the ENS "Most Creative Use" Award at ETHGlobal Cannes 2026. NpmGuard is a network of AI agents designed to audit npm packages for malicious code. The solution publishes verifiable analysis results using ENS and IPFS technologies. The system goes beyond static source-code analysis. It also generates tests and executes them in an isolated sandbox environment to identify packages that may attempt to steal data during the installation process. The project was developed in just 36 hours, immediately following the widely publicized attack on the Axios library.

The team behind NpmGuard consisted of: Piotr Tyrakowski, Łukasz Kryczka, and Tanguy Vansnick, a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Engineering (Faculté Polytechnique de Mons), University of Mons (UMONS), Belgium.

These achievements demonstrate the creativity, technical expertise, and entrepreneurial mindset of Warsaw University of Technology students and alumni, who continue to compete successfully on the global innovation stage.

ETHGlobal Cannes 2026

SiteCobra

Another award-winning project was SiteCobra, which earned 3^rd place at the AI Tinkerers x Google DeepMind Hackathon. The solution identifies businesses that do not yet have a website, contacts them by phone, and then creates a website in real time during the conversation. Business owners can provide feedback and request changes on the spot, while watching the website being customized to their needs as it is generated.

The project was developed in just eight hours by a team consisting of: Piotr Tyrakowski, Michał Zajączkowski, Filip Kobus, a student of Applied Computer Science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and Jan Molski, a graduate of the Master’s programme at Kozminski University.

Our team at the AI Tinkerers × Google DeepMind Hackathon