Legal Assistant: Police Station Management
Nikhil Karthik S,
Harish V,
Bragadeesh S
Full-stack legal platform with a Mistral chatbot fine-tuned on Indian law data. Graph-native Neo4j backend for relationship-aware queries. Django REST API + Next.js frontend.
- Fine-tuned Mistral on Indian Penal Code & CrPC datasets
- Neo4j graph backend for entity-relationship legal queries
- Role-based access control for officers, lawyers & admins
Next.jsDjangoNeo4jMistral LLMPythonHTMLCSS
Engineering Seat Allocator
Nikhil Karthik S,
Naveenraj J
Automated college seat allocation portal with student preference handling, matrix-based allocation logic, and multi-round waitlist processing. Deployed on PythonAnywhere (now decommissioned).
- Matrix-driven allocation respecting category & preference order
- Multi-round waitlist with automatic seat re-distribution
- PostgreSQL locally, SQLite3 in production; hosted on PythonAnywhere
HTMLCSSJavaScriptPythonDjangoPostgreSQLSQLite3
Hackathon FinalistSecurity
QR Guard — Malicious QR Detection
Nikhil Karthik S,
Moogambigai A,
Pandiarajan D
End-to-end QR threat scanner that traces redirect chains and classifies URLs as safe, suspicious, or malicious using heuristic rules and a trained ML classifier.
- Multi-hop redirect tracing with domain reputation checks
- Heuristic rule engine + ML classifier for three-tier labelling
- Hackathon finalist — real-time scanning with confidence scores
PythonFastAPIMLscikit-learn
Hull Tactical Market Prediction
Nikhil Karthik S,
Dr Ajay Kumar Reddy Poreddy,
Amudhakavi S,
Moogambigai A,
Pandiarajan D
Kaggle competition entry predicting market returns for Hull Tactical Asset Management. Rigorous time-series discipline throughout feature engineering and validation.
- ElasticNet regression with EWM imputation & feature engineering
- 10-fold purged cross-validation, Sharpe ratio optimisation
- Final competition score ~3.99 on held-out market data
PythonLightGBMElasticNetFeature Engineeringscikit-learn
TelmedApp — Real-Time PPG Telemedicine Monitor
Nikhil Karthik S,
Amudhakavi S,
Jayasree R,
Dr R Kanchana
Mobile-first app that measures heart rate and SpO2 in real time using the phone's rear camera and torch via Photoplethysmography — no external hardware required.
- FFT peak detection on red channel for heart rate (42–210 BPM range)
- Ratio-of-Ratios on red/green channels for SpO2; live signal quality scoring
- Real-time finger placement guidance over FastAPI WebSocket stream
TypeScriptReactViteFastAPIWebSocketPython
MilkyWayOS — Custom Linux Distribution
Nikhil Karthik S
A Linux distribution built from scratch on Debian 12 — with a fully custom display server, desktop environment, terminal emulator, and app store, all written in C.
- Starlight: custom display server using DRM/KMS and evdev input handling
- Nebula DE + Pulsar terminal emulator built from scratch in C
- Orbit app store; dark deep-space aesthetic throughout
CCMakeShellDRM/KMSevdevDebian 12
CyberShield — Real-Time Attack Detection
Nikhil Karthik S
Kappa-style streaming pipeline that ingests ~10,000 network events/second via Kafka, classifies 22 attack types across 4 categories with an ensemble ML model, and surfaces live insights on a Flask dashboard — all under 2 s end-to-end latency.
- Spark Structured Streaming with 41 → 122 feature engineering & sliding windows
- Random Forest + GBT ensemble; results persisted in Cassandra with TTL lifecycle
- 7-service Docker Compose deployment on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Apache KafkaApache SparkCassandraPySparkscikit-learnFlaskDocker
plagcheck — PDF Plagiarism Detector
Nikhil Karthik S
Multi-modal CLI tool comparing PDF assignments across text, code (AST), visuals (perceptual hashing), and structure — fully offline, no external API calls.
PythonASTpdfplumberPyMuPDFOCR
OngoingInstitutionally Funded↗
Real-Time Accident Detection and Alerting System
Nikhil Karthik S,
Pandiarajan D,
Harish V,
Madhu Vishahan S,
Nitish Konda,
Dr R Priyadharsini (mentor, until May 2025),
Dr P Mirunalini (mentor, from May 2025)
IoT crash-detection using Raspberry Pi, sensors, GPS, and GSM. Dispatches emergency alerts on collision with SOS button and environmental monitoring. IFSP collaboration.
Raspberry PiPythonGPS/GSMIoT
Lost & Found Website
Nikhil Karthik S,
Pandiarajan D,
Nitish Konda
Platform for reporting and reclaiming lost items with auth, image-based posting, and a claim workflow. Vue.js frontend with Spring Boot REST API and MongoDB.
Vue.jsSpring BootMongoDB
Silent Loop Detector
Nikhil Karthik S,
Moogambigai A,
Nandhika Saravanan,
Joice Anancia S A,
Naveenraj J
Detects routing loops via TTL variation and packet timing analysis. Real-time Flask dashboard with configurable alerts and anomaly visualisation.
PythonScapyFlaskNetworking
Change Detection using U-Net
Nikhil Karthik S,
Pandiarajan D
Segmentation model on the Inria aerial dataset with CLAHE preprocessing. Generates pixel-level change detection maps from before/after imagery.
PyTorchU-NetCUDACV
Optimisation Algorithm Evaluation
Nikhil Karthik S,
Dr A Vijayalakshmi
Compared SGD, Momentum, Adam, RMSProp, Adagrad, Adadelta, LBFGS, and Photon on Rosenbrock, Rastrigin, Ackley, and Himmelblau benchmarks.
PyTorchCUDAOptimisationBenchmarking
CSE Department Website
Nikhil Karthik S,
Moogambigai A,
Nandhika Saravanan
Static website for the Computer Science & Engineering department. Built with clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
HTMLCSSJavaScript
CP Exam Platform
Nikhil Karthik S
Offline competitive programming exam platform with Python & Java code execution, public/private/custom test cases, automatic time & space complexity analysis, and a professor admin panel.
PythonFlaskSQLiteCodeMirrorJava
Exam Platform — M.Tech LAN Deployment
Nikhil Karthik S
Production deployment of the CP exam platform for M.Tech lab exams — runs as a systemd service on 10.6.6.1, serves 40 students over LAN with internet blocked via UFW, no external internet required.
PythonFlaskSQLitesystemdUFWLAN
LabCtrl — Lab Management System
Nikhil Karthik S
Centralized controller for 40 Ubuntu lab machines — toggle internet per machine via UFW over SSH, manage users, distribute files, and monitor CPU/RAM/USB status from a single dashboard.
PythonFlaskSSHUFWHTMLCSSJavaScript
ServicePilot — GTK4 systemd Manager
Nikhil Karthik S
Native GTK4 + libadwaita systemd service manager for GNOME/Ubuntu. Filter, search, start/stop/restart services, view live journalctl logs — all in a non-blocking threaded UI that appears in GNOME Activities.
PythonGTK4libadwaitasystemdGNOME
Intelligent Campus Surveillance & Threat Analysis
Nikhil Karthik S,
Bharathwaj T
ESP32-based smart security system combining motion, sound, light, and ultrasonic sensors with MQTT streaming to a cloud backend. Calculates threat scores, detects anomalies, and visualises intrusion heatmaps on a live dashboard.
ESP32MQTTFlaskPythonSQLiteChart.jsWokwi
