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Portfolio — 2025

Manas
Mehra

"Born to dilly-dally.
Forced to lock in."

3.7Major GPA

$64KChancellor's Scholarship

3Hackathon Wins

15+Projects Built

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IndiaCBSE School Topper · 99/100

SingaporeNUS Admit · #8 CS Globally

Amherst, MAUMass · Chancellor's Scholar

New Haven, CTHackYale 2025

Hanover, NHHackDartmouth · Best Use of Solana 🏆

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The Story

2020 — 2022

The Maker

RC cars, Morse code machines, ultrasonic radars, GPS trackers. A restless teenager teaching himself embedded systems — and publishing a paper in an international journal at 17.

8 hardware projects · 1 published paper

2023 — 2024

The Scholar

Chancellor's Scholarship. Dean's List. MENACE reinforcement learning from scratch. ML-powered cancer predictor. A full pivot from hardware to statistical computing and machine learning.

4 ML projects · 3.7 GPA

2025 — Present

The Builder

HackYale. HackUMass. HackDartmouth — three hackathons, three wins. Data Science consultant. Peer Mentor to 600+ students. Real USDC flowing on Solana. The kid locked in.

3 hackathon wins · consulting · peer mentor

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Featured Projects

🏆 HackYale 2025

Sir Alibi

A full-stack AI app that generates elaborate alibis and ships real gifts.

ReactViteThree.jsTypeScriptAuth0SSEExpress.js

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🥇 1st Place · Best Use of Solana

👛▶️

PayPerPlay

Netflix doesn't know if you finished the movie. We fixed that — on Solana.

Per-second USDC micropayments for YouTube & Prime Video. Real money. On-chain. Instant stop.

tx confirmed128

SolanaUSDCWeb3.jsChrome ExtensionNode.jsJavaScriptBigIntPhantom Wallet

~400ms block finality

~$0.00025 per transaction

View on Solana Explorer →

Built with a teammate at HackDartmouth

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Hackathon Record

3 Hackathons. 3 Wins.

— Yale · UMass · Dartmouth

🎖️

Yale University, New Haven CT

Sir Alibi

Hackathon Entry, top project

AI alibi generator with Three.js 3D scenes and streaming SSE backend.

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Dartmouth College, Hanover NH

PayPerPlay

🥇 1st Place — Best Use of Solana

Per-second USDC micropayments on Solana. Real money. On-chain. Instant.

🎖️

UMass Amherst, Amherst MA

Crewlytics

Hackathon Entry

Team bottleneck optimizer with custom TypeScript matching algorithm.

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Deployed Projects

#0xCREWLY

Operations & Platforms

Crewlytics

An automated resource optimization platform identifying team bottlenecks using a custom TypeScript matching algorithm.

TypeScript

GitHub

HackUMass

#0xBREAST

ML & Data Science

Breast Cancer Predictor

Supervised ML model for breast cancer recurrence with class imbalance handling, deployed as an interactive Streamlit app.

PythonPandasScikit-learnStreamlitMatplotlibSeaborn

GitHub Live →

#0xFANPOW

ML & Data Science

FanPower MLS Analytics

Predicting MLS player market value and fan engagement using XGBoost, deployed on AWS.

PythonXGBoostStreamlitAWS SageMaker

GitHub

#0xMENACE

ML & Data Science

Tic-Tac-Toe Learning Agent (MENACE)

A reinforcement learning agent built from scratch implementing the 1960s MENACE algorithm, evaluated over 50,000+ self-play games.

PythonNumPyMatplotlib

GitHub

#0xPERCOL

Math & Computing

2D Percolation Simulation

Monte Carlo simulation of percolation thresholds — the math behind network connectivity.

PythonNumPyMatplotlib

GitHub

#0xCRYPTO

Math & Cryptography

Cryptogram Decoder

A solver for substitution ciphers using frequency analysis and iterative refinement.

Python

GitHub

#0x3D-END

Game Development

3D Endless Runner

A Unity endless runner game with procedurally generated obstacles and increasing difficulty.

UnityC#

GitHub

#0xIOT-SM

Robotics & IoT

IoT Smart Home

A Raspberry Pi-based home automation system — built as a hobbyist, published in an international engineering journal.

Raspberry PiPythonIoT

Live →

IJERT Published

Published: International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology, July 2022

#0xRASC-M

Full-Stack & Web

Rasc-March-Questions Survey

A custom survey platform built for the UMass Peer Mentor program to improve data collection for 600+ students.

Full-Stack

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Tech Stack

— verified deployments

STATUSSKILLCATEGORYUSED IN

PythonLanguages6 projects

TypeScriptLanguagesSir Alibi, Crewlytics, PayPerPlay

JavaScriptLanguagesPayPerPlay, Chrome Extension work

SQL (MySQL)Languages2 projects

JavaLanguagesCoursework

RLanguagesConsulting + Coursework

C / C++LanguagesHardware projects

React + ViteFrontendSir Alibi

Three.jsFrontendSir Alibi

Node.js + ExpressBackendSir Alibi, PayPerPlay

Solana Web3.jsBlockchainPayPerPlay — real USDC on-chain

Chrome ExtensionPlatformPayPerPlay

BigInt / USDCBlockchainPayPerPlay — 6 decimal precision

PyTorchML/AIMENACE, coursework

Scikit-learnML/AICancer predictor, FanPower

XGBoostML/AIFanPower MLS

StreamlitML/AICancer predictor, FanPower

AWS SageMakerCloudFanPower MLS

Pandas + NumPyDataMultiple projects

Tableau / Power BIData VizCoursework + consulting

Arduino / RPiHardware8 projects

Unity + C#Game DevEndless Runner

BlenderCreative3D modeling

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Field Notes

Sept 2025 – Jan 2026

Data Science Consultant — Environmental Analytics

Client project, team of 4
Analyzed 1,200+ NCAA Division I football games across 30 Power Five programs
Built hierarchical linear models in R to isolate game-day effects versus institution-level effects
Produced publication-grade analytical manuscript

R, Quarto, tidyverse, lme4, ggplot2

Feb 2025 – Present

Peer Mentor — UMass Amherst

Selected as 1 of 25 from 1,000+ applicants
Mentors 600+ first-year students
Built the Rasc-March survey tool for data collection

Honors

★ Highest Merit Award

Chancellor's Scholarship, $64,000

NUS Admission, National University of Singapore, ranked #8 globally for CS

Dean's List, Fall 2023, Spring 2025, Fall 2025

Directed Readings Program, research apprenticeship with PhD candidate

Commonwealth Honors College

STEWARDS Award, UMass Amherst Foundation

School Topper, CBSE Class 12, 99/100, Distinction

1500 SAT + AP Scholar with Distinction, 36 AP credits entering college

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The Human

Math, machines, and a lot of curiosity.

Manas grew up in India, where a habit of taking things apart — RC cars, Morse code machines, radios — turned into a published IoT paper at seventeen. That same restlessness got him admitted to the National University of Singapore, ranked #8 for CS globally, before he chose UMass Amherst and a $64,000 Chancellor's Scholarship instead.

Since then it's been a full pivot from hardware to statistics, machine learning, and — most recently — three hackathons and three wins, including 1st place for Best Use of Solana at HackDartmouth, where real USDC moved on-chain in front of judges.

He's pursuing a BS in Mathematical Computing + Statistics & Data Science at UMass Amherst, Class of 2027 — equal parts rigorous scholar, creative builder, and Web3 developer who ships.

Born to dilly-dally. Forced to lock in.

🏀 Basketball, Varsity Captain🎌 Anime♠️ Poker & Blackjack🤿 Scuba Diving💪 Fitness📷 Photography

2020

Built first RC car. Started Create STEM blog.

2022

Published IoT paper in IJERT. School topper, 99/100 CBSE.

2023

Admitted to NUS, #8 CS globally. Chose UMass + $64K Chancellor's Scholarship.

2024

MENACE RL agent from scratch. Dean's List. Directed Readings program.

2025

HackYale. HackUMass. HackDartmouth, 1st place, Solana. Data Science consultant. Peer Mentor, 1 of 25. Real USDC flowing on-chain.

ManasMehra

The Maker

The Scholar

The Builder

Sir Alibi

PayPerPlay

3 Hackathons. 3 Wins.

Sir Alibi

PayPerPlay

Crewlytics

Crewlytics

Breast Cancer Predictor

FanPower MLS Analytics

Tic-Tac-Toe Learning Agent (MENACE)

2D Percolation Simulation

Cryptogram Decoder

3D Endless Runner

IoT Smart Home

Rasc-March-Questions Survey

Data Science Consultant — Environmental Analytics

Peer Mentor — UMass Amherst

Math, machines, and a lot of curiosity.

Manas
Mehra