Manas Pandya
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Merida
2026
Prediction markets for personal opinions — built in six hours at a University of Birmingham hackathon.
experiment
Nodoz
Nov 2025 - present
AI research intelligence platform that recommends ML architectures for scientific datasets using cross-domain similarity over 30,000+ papers.
startup
TanzPay
Jan 2025 - Present
Low-fee mobile payments infrastructure for East Africa, born from noticing 5-12% transfer losses on everyday mobile money transactions.
startup
Academic
Deepfake Detection IEEE SPS Cup 2025
March 2025
Built deep learning pipelines for facial manipulation detection using transfer learning under IEEE competition constraints.
research
ISIC 2024 Medical Imaging Challenge
June 2024
Ranked 178 of 2,739 globally in skin lesion classification (Kaggle Bronze Medal) using fine-tuned CNNs.
experiment
Judiciary Health Index
Jan 2024
A weighted and PCA-based index measuring judicial health across African countries, built for a Liberal Democracy course using the V-Dem dataset.
experiment
Layerwise Quantization: A Replication Study
2025
Replication of Chen et al.'s layer-wise DNN quantization paper on CIFAR-10 and TinyImageNet, confirming results hold under limited data conditions.
research
Manifold-Robust Speech Representations
May 2025
Self-supervised approach to noise-robust speech using manifold-aware contrastive learning, preserving geometric structure without heavy augmentation.
research
µSentinel
July 2025
Real-time intrusion detection system for embedded devices combining rule-based detection with an autoencoder anomaly detector, built on Renesas EK-RA8D1 for the TRON Project 2025 competition.
research