J. Sakthivel

§04 / Research & Wins

Peer-reviewed. Battle-tested.

Publication · 2025

UWE-Net: A Deep Learning Framework for Underwater Image Enhancement Integrating CBAM and Charbonnier Loss

Procedia Computer Science · ScienceDirect

A hybrid CNN combining a VGG16 encoder with a custom decoder and CBAM attention in skip connections, trained with Charbonnier loss for robust underwater image restoration.

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§04.b / Hackathons

1st2026

HackAZona v1.0 — Cognite Track

Industrial Digital Twin · out of 25+ teams

Winner2025

Principled Innovation Academy Problem Solving Event, ASU

out of 40+ teams

Best Security2025

Opportunity Hack

out of 40+ teams

People's Choice2025

HackAZona v0.1

out of 30+ teams

§04.c / Certifications