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AI wildfire prediction tool
NASA Space Apps 2026
Use satellite imagery + weather data to predict regional wildfire risk, with a public risk map for local authorities.
Team: Santiago Baca — ML · Diego Herrera — Backend
Graph-based fraud detection
Banorte AI Challenge
Model transactions as a graph and flag anomalous money-movement rings instead of isolated transactions.
Team: Diego Herrera — Backend · Mariana López — ML · Ana Ruiz — Design
Shelf availability from store cameras
Retail Vision Hackathon
Detect out-of-stock shelf segments in near real time and push restock alerts to store staff.
Team: Mariana López — Computer Vision
Independent work
Outside competitionsInitiatives and research you drive yourself. They count as evidence in your Skill Tree just like competition submissions.
Open Air Quality Mesh
Climate · led by Santiago Baca
Low-cost sensor network publishing open air-quality data for Mexico City neighbourhoods.
Few-shot Vision for Retail Shelves
Computer Vision · led by Mariana López
Benchmarking few-shot detection on Mexican retail imagery, targeting a workshop submission.
Graph Signals for Card Fraud
FinTech · led by Diego Herrera
Short technical note on graph features that survived a real transaction backtest.
Ideathon Founders Lab
Entrepreneurship · led by Paulina Solís
A recurring ideathon where sales and technical builders pair up to pitch a new venture every month.
Submission history
Real-time anomaly detection
Banorte × Google Cloud 2025
Python · Kafka · FastAPI
Flood early-warning map
NASA Space Apps 2025
Python · GeoPandas · React
Energy demand forecaster
Microsoft AI Challenge 2025
PyTorch · Azure · Docker