Aditya Joshi
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A bit more about me

Everything that didn't fit on the front page.

Awards & Achievements

  • Business Post 30 Under 30
  • 1st Place Overall @ HackEurope for Zerostrike (1,000+ builders across Dublin, Paris & Stockholm)
  • Overall Winner at BT Young Scientist 2022 (National Science Competition)
  • 1st Prize Winner at European Union Contest for Young Scientist (EUCYS) 2022
  • Bio-inspired robotics research @ University of Notre Dame (funded by the Naughton Fellowship REU)
  • Naughton Scholar
  • Top 10 at Y Combinator x Emergent hackathon for Arivo (youngest team to place)
  • 4th Prize at International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2023 in Dallas, USA
  • Winner of ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon (Ireland)
  • Web Summit Scholar 2026
  • Shortlisted to the final 30 of 1,500+ for the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship — one of only two undergraduates in a field of PhDs
  • Patch SF Fellow 2025 — Built Arivo at Y Combinator HQ during a Stripe & OpenAI–backed fellowship, including sessions with Patrick Collison, Sarah Friar, and Jason Kwon
  • Selected for Patch 2024 — represented Ireland at Patch × Y Combinator in San Francisco, where I co-founded Sceach.eu
  • Awarded the AWS Re:invent All Builders Welcome Grant, the ElevenLabs Startup Grant, and a Patch grant to fund production of my PCB cufflinks
  • Sustainability Leadership Award 2026 from Trinity College Dublin
  • Selected for NASA training program, aired on RTÉ Jr's TV show "Space Academy Challenge"
  • 3rd Place at BT Young Scientist 2020
  • 1st Place across 6 universities at National SDG Hackathon (organised by University College Cork)
  • 1st Place at Trinity College Dublin's Inspire Hackathon
  • Winner @ ZEEUS Hackathon for TyreTrack
  • Award winner at TECS competition (University of Limerick) for custom record player Recofy
  • 2nd Place at TES (Trinity Entrepreneurial Society) Incubator
  • Accepted to Edge City Fellows
  • HackIreland 2025, HackTrinity 2024, Raspberry Pi x EF London Hackathon 2026
  • Irish Universities Association BTYSTE Scholarship
  • Took over and co-hosted Demos Anonymous with Julian — a biweekly builder meetup at Dogpatch Labs, Dublin. Ran 50+ sessions, including a milestone 50th, before handing it on to a new team.
  • Invited to a CTO roundtable at Dogpatch Labs, hosted with Earlybird Venture Capital, alongside founders and CTOs including Ciarán O'Mara (co-founder, Protex.ai)
  • Judged at Lovable's Dublin Hackathon at Dogpatch Labs
  • Judged at Formula Trinity x Patch's CAD-a-Thon
  • Mentored at AdvanceHealth, Ireland's largest student medtech hackathon
  • Helped at Patch's stand at BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition

Hackathons & Competitions

  • HackEurope (February 2026 • Dublin, Paris & Stockholm) — 🥇 1st Place Overall (1,000+ builders) . Built Zerostrike, a proactive wildfire remediation platform that predicts dry lightning strikes and deploys autonomous cloud seeding drones. I led hardware. We drove up to Swords mid-hackathon and bought a drone, just so we could actually implement the autonomous cloud-seeding part. Built with Julian , Eniola , Emmanuel . Project · Demo · GitHub · Devpost
  • National SDG Hackathon (UCC) (February 2026 • Cork, Ireland) — 🥇 1st Place . Won first place across 6 universities at a National SDG hackathon organised by University College Cork.
  • Trinity Inspire Hackathon (2026 • Dublin, Ireland) — 🥇 1st Place . Won first place at Trinity College Dublin's Inspire hackathon.
  • Raspberry Pi x Entrepreneurs First Hackathon (2026 • London, UK) . Built DeskHUD, a sci-fi heads-up desk display with hand gesture control and directional audio visualisation. Project
  • NDRC Startup Sprint (2026 • The Engine, Limerick, Ireland) . Took Arivo to the NDRC startup sprint shortly before HackEurope. Built with Julian , Con . Project
  • ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon (December 2025 • Dublin, Ireland) — 🥇 Ireland Section Winner . Built Gomar33, a voice-driven music production platform that lets you modify a song by natural language in real time. Built with Emmanuel , Adelin , Eniola . Project · Demo · GitHub · Demo Video
  • Y Combinator x Emergent Hackathon (November 2025 • San Francisco, USA) — 🏅 Top 10 (youngest team to place) . Built Arivo, a voice-first productivity agent for drivers. Made the final 10 of 2,000+ entrants as the youngest team, attending as part of the Patch SF fellowship. Julian and I also pitched Arivo to Jason Kwon, Chief Strategy Officer at OpenAI. Built with Julian , Con . Project · Demo
  • ZEEUS Hackathon (November 2024 • Dublin, Ireland) — 🥇 1st Place . Built TyreTrack, an interactive map highlighting tyre microplastic exposure hotspots near schools and high-traffic roads, in a 4-hour build window. Built with Julian , Toby , Roshan . Project · Demo

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