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cohort 2026–27 · kccemsr

the team.

twenty-four students across five departments. we run the hackathons, manage the code, book the stages, and back the ventures.

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Prof. Yogesh Karunakar

Faculty Coordinator

approves everything. reads every proposal. still replies at 11pm, which is either dedication or insomnia.

Raaj Patkar

Raaj Patkar

President

runs the show, calls the meetings nobody asked for, and somehow still finds time to sleep. probably.

Daivik Pawar

Daivik Pawar

Vice President

the president when the president is busy. knows where every document is, including the one you lost.

Subhra Parijha

Subhra Parijha

Secretary

writes the minutes no one reads, sends the emails no one answers, and keeps the calendar honest.

Krishna Mundhara

Krishna Mundhara

Treasurer

counting money that does not exist yet, chasing invoices that do, and explaining budgets.

Ishwar Suthar

Ishwar Suthar

Web Dev Head

ships the site, breaks the site, fixes the site. lives in dev tools and argues about semicolons.

Rushabh Makwana

Rushabh Makwana

Web Dev Co-Head

reviews the PRs the head rubber-stamped. writes the tests nobody asked for. always right.

Aryan Wesavkar

Aryan Wesavkar

Cybersecurity Head

breaks things on purpose so the rest of us do not have to. will find the bug.

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Amey Thanekar

Cybersecurity Co-Head

backup paranoia. runs the CTFs and reads postmortems. knows your password was in a dump.

Sachman Chadha

Sachman Chadha

AI/ML Head

trains models on data we should not have. writes prompts like spells. hallucinates, but on purpose.

Sanchita Pawar

Sanchita Pawar

AI/ML Co-Head

tames the GPU bill and reads the arXiv so the rest of the team can pretend they did.

Siddhi Pandey

Siddhi Pandey

IoT Head

solders things to other things, then wonders why the lights flicker. owns four broken arduinos.

Aditi Panchal

Aditi Panchal

IoT Co-Head

has a favourite sensor. won't admit which. solders better than the head.

Vaishnav Yewale

Vaishnav Yewale

DevOps Head

pipes data from here to there. the deploy works on their machine, which is the only machine that matters.

Jeeval Patil

Jeeval Patil

DevOps Co-Head

pages the team at 3am when the cluster sneezes. sticker on the laptop: it works on my box.

Piyush Singh

Piyush Singh

Event Head

says yes to every event idea, then figures out how. has a calendar that would break a normal human.

Sahil Madiwala

Sahil Madiwala

Event Co-Head

books the room, books the mic, books the panic attack. brings the clipboard to every meeting.

Siddhesh Pawar

Siddhesh Pawar

Event Co-Head

the second clipboard. the second coffee. the reason nothing catches fire.

Krupa Marakal

Krupa Marakal

Hospitality Head

feeds the team. feeds the speakers. knows which canteen is open on sundays.

Jimeet Trivedi

Jimeet Trivedi

Volunteering Head

herds the volunteers. has a group chat that pings constantly and a patient face.

Siddhi Bhangale

Siddhi Bhangale

Design Head

turns rough napkin sketches into pixel-perfect Figma components. argues about kerning and grid systems.

Disha Suthar

Disha Suthar

Social Media Head

posts at the worst hours for the algorithm. knows which trend to skip and which one to hijack.

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Devyani Palaye

Social Media Co-Head

drafts the captions the head edits. holds the brand voice together when everyone wants to be funny.

Maahi Nagdeote

Maahi Nagdeote

Editor

reads the writing twice, fixes it once, and is the reason the posts sound human.