Muhammad Asim Hanif@masimhanif

DrRetina is an end-to-end AI diagnostic system for Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) detection, built for ophthalmologists and medical professionals. DR affects over 537 million diabetics worldwide and is the leading cause of preventable blindness, yet most clinics in South Asia and Africa lack access to specialist screening tools. Our system solves this through three integrated layers: VISION ENGINE: A fine-tuned ViT-MAE (facebook/vit-mae-base) model trained on the APTOS 2019 dataset using AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs via ROCm. The model achieves Cohen's Kappa of 0.9097 — surpassing the WHO DR screening benchmark of 0.80 and our own target of 0.85. GradCAM heatmaps highlight the exact retinal lesions driving each diagnosis, building clinical trust. AGENTIC LAYER: A LangChain ReAct agent powered by Qwen3-8B with 5 specialized clinical tools. The agent generates structured diagnostic reports and answers follow-up clinical questions with full diagnosis context. Reports are automatically generated in 6 languages — English, Urdu, Arabic, Hindi, Spanish, and French — with RTL text support for Urdu and Arabic via WeasyPrint and Google Noto Fonts. AMD INFRASTRUCTURE: The entire fine-tuning pipeline runs on AMD Instinct MI300X via ROCm 7.2 and PyTorch. Training completes in approximately 5.3 minutes per 50 epochs. The system is deployed as a Hugging Face Space with a FastAPI inference microservice backend. DrRetina is a three-track submission covering Vision & Multimodal AI, Fine-Tuning on AMD GPUs, and AI Agents & Agentic Workflows — making it one of the most complete medical AI systems in this hackathon with verified, quantified accuracy metrics.

AgentSourcing is a multi-agent research network built on the Arc blockchain, powered by Circle Programmable Wallets and Nanopayments. A user submits a research task with a small USDC deposit. A Manager Agent — powered by LLaMA 3.1 70B via Featherless AI — decomposes the task into specialized sub-tasks and autonomously hires 6 Specialist Agents. Each specialist is paid $0.002 USDC per task. These specialists, in turn, purchase premium data from external APIs using the x402 payment standard at $0.0005 per call. The entire pipeline — from task intake to final report delivery — generates approximately 50 on-chain USDC transactions per run, all verifiable on the Arc Testnet Block Explorer. On-Chain Trust Layer: Every agent maintains a reputation score tracked by a custom ERC-8004 smart contract written in Vyper and deployed on Arc Testnet. The Manager uses these scores to select the best available specialist for each task. Why this is impossible without Arc: On Ethereum, each micro-payment of $0.002 would incur $2+ in gas fees — a 100,000% overhead. On Polygon or L2s, gas still ranges from $0.01 to $0.05, making sub-cent payments unprofitable. Arc's USDC-denominated gas makes this model economically viable for the first time. Tech Stack: Arc Testnet (settlement), Circle Programmable Wallets (agent treasury), Circle Nanopayments + x402 (per-API monetization), Featherless AI (LLaMA 3.1 70B Manager + Qwen/DeepSeek/Mistral Specialists), ERC-8004 Vyper Smart Contract (reputation), FastAPI backend, React + TypeScript frontend.

📅 May 11–19, 2026 • May 11 – 19: Online Build Phase. • May 18 (Hybrid Build Day – Online & Onsite) • May 19 (Demos & Awards – Online & Onsite) 🌍 Hybrid event. Join online from anywhere or build onsite at the venue. 🏆 Winners will be announced live on stage at the AI & Big Data Expo North America on May 19 📍 On-site Venue (May 18–19): San Jose McEnery Convention Center, CA, USA 🤝 Join solo or with a team. 🎟 FREE AI & Big Data Expo North America ticket included for participants that are able to join the on-site phase. 🏆Compete for a $10,000 prize pool 🧑‍💻 Apply now to design, prototype, and showcase enterprise-ready innovation.

⏱️ Build the next generation of Autonomous Agents in the heart of Europe’s AI Revolution. 📅 May 13 – 20, 2026 May 13 – 19: Online Build Phase. May 19: An exclusive on-site build day at Milan AI Week for selected participants. May 20: Awards Ceremony. 📍On-site Venue (May 19–20): Fiera Milano (Rho), Milan, Italy 🤝 Join solo or with a team. 🎟 FREE Milan AI Week conference ticket included for participants. 💰 $32,000+ prize pool 🧑‍💻 Apply now to turn your autonomous agent into a market-ready enterprise solution.

Build solutions that improve how software is built. Work with an AI that understands your codebase, helping you reduce repetitive work and build with real context. ⏳ Build your project in 48 hours. 🚀 Get hands-on with IBM Bob and explore how AI fits into real development workflows before it becomes standard. 💡 Build tools and workflows that developers would actually use. ⭐ Learn directly from experts throughout the event. 🤝 Join a team or build solo. 💰 Prize pool: $10,000 🧑🏻‍💻 Register before the Kick-Off Stream and start building with Bob.

Grab your ideas, spin up compute, and start building what’s next! Start with $100 in AMD Developer Cloud credits and begin building right away. Get access to hands-on tutorials, workshops, and curated learning resources to help you build faster and go further. To unlock credits and join the hackathon, sign up for the AMD AI Developer Program. 🤝 Go solo or team up — ship something real. 💰 $21,500+ total prize pool & 1 × AMD Radeon™ AI PRO R9700 GPU up for grabs. 📍 On-site Venue (May 9-10): MindsDB SF AI Collective 3154 17th St, San Francisco, California, USA 📍On-site participation is by invitation only. Travel and accommodation expenses will not be covered. 🧑‍💻 Developers, builders, and innovators - bring your boldest ideas and let’s turn them into real AI systems on AMD.

In this hybrid hackathon powered by Arc and Circle, developers will build the next generation of Agentic economic applications using Circle’s Nanopayments infrastructure with settlement on Arc in USDC. For the first time, high-frequency, usage-based transactions between users, APIs, and AI agents can operate without gas overhead eroding margin. Arc provides stablecoin-native settlement with predictable, dollar-denominated USDC fees and deterministic, sub-second finality — enabling real-time coordination and economically viable per-action pricing at scale. 📅 April 20 – 26, 2026 • Apr 20 – 25 (Online): Submit projects by Apr 25. • Apr 25 (On-site Build – SF, CA): Teams refine projects. • Apr 26 (On-site Demos & Awards – SF, CA): Live pitches & winners announced. Get guidance from Arc and Circle experts through on-site support. 📍 On-site Venue (April 25-26): MindsDB SF AI Collective 3154 17th St, San Francisco, California, USA 🤝 Go solo or team up, it's your flow. 🏆 Compete for a $15,000+ Prize Pool. 📍 Please note: If approved for the on-site experience, you’ll also have the opportunity to showcase your project live. Travel and accommodation will not be covered. 🧑🏻‍💻 Secure your spot now – sign up before the Kick-Off Stream!