Meet Shreyansh Gupta, IIT Madras student ranked in top 0.6% of Google hackathon
IIT Madras student Shreyansh Gupta achieved a top 0.6% ranking in the Google for Developers PromptWars 2026 hackathon. His project focused on improving physical event experiences through efficient crowd management and real-time coordination.
Why it matters
It highlights the growing capability of Indian students in global AI and software development competitions.
For many students, a hackathon is an opportunity to test their coding skills. For IIT Madras BS learner Shreyansh Gupta, it became a chance to demonstrate how technology can be used to tackle a real-world problem. Shreyansh secured rank 278 among 46,719 participants, placing him in the top 0.6% at the Google for Developers × Hack2skill PromptWars 2026 hackathon.His performance was particularly notable for the scores awarded to his solution. Shreyansh recorded an AI Evaluation Score of 88.81 out of 100, with perfect marks for efficiency and near-perfect scores for problem-statement alignment and accessibility.
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