Fellows Proof-of-Work Registry

Engineered for Impact.
Proven in Production.

Explore the technical artifacts engineered by IBA Foundation fellows. Every project in this registry has undergone independent code audits, hardware-in-the-loop stress tests, and academic jury defense across AI, Robotics, Climate, and Systems.

48+
Audited Fellow Projects

Production-grade artifacts reviewed by technical jury

160+
Builder Fellows

Engineers, researchers, and technical founders funded

$18.4M
Venture Capital Unlocked

Follow-on institutional and angel capital raised

92%
Open Source Codebases

Publicly auditable repositories with reproducible benchmarks

8 of 8 Projects
Robotics
Grand Prize Winner — Autonomous Systems

AeroPulse: Micro-UAV Swarm Perception & Decentralized SLAM

Sub-35ms distributed visual-inertial odometry for autonomous drone swarms in GPS-denied disaster environments.

End-to-End Latency34ms
Localization Drift< 0.8%
Concurrent Swarm8 Agents

“AeroPulse is an extraordinary triumph of edge computing and spatial intelligence. Achieving drift-free multi-agent SLAM on sub-15W Jetson Orin Nano hardware under simulated collapsed mine conditions represents gold-standard robotics engineering.”

Dr. Elena Vance•MIT CSAIL Fellow & Aerial Autonomy Jury Lead
Audited Stack
ROS 2RustC++20Jetson Orin NanoPX4 AutopilotWebRTCEigen3
Fellow Builders
AT
Aris ThorneStanford Robotics Lab
PS
Priya SenUC Berkeley EECS
Fall 2025 Genesis Cohort
AI
Distinguished Research Honor — Applied AI

Synapse-KV: Speculative Attention for Ultra-Long Context LLMs

Sparse key-value cache pruning and speculative kernel synthesis for 1M+ token inferences on consumer hardware.

Inference Speedup4.2x
VRAM Footprint Reduction78%
Context Window Evaluated1.2M tokens

“Synapse-KV re-examines transformer memory bottlenecks from first principles. Slashing VRAM footprint by 78% while preserving needle-in-a-haystack retrieval accuracy unlocks local enterprise deployment for long-horizon autonomous workflows.”

Marcus Chen•ex-DeepMind / AI Hardware Benchmark Chair
Audited Stack
PyTorchOpenAI TritonCUDA C++vLLMHuggingFaceNext.js
Fellow Builders
LM
Liam K. MercerCarnegie Mellon LTI
ML
Maya LinIBA AI Research Cohort
Winter 2026 Fellow
Climate
Climate Impact Honor & Venture Grant

TerraVolt: Microgrid Dynamic Dispatch & Battery Degradation Guard

Edge reinforcement learning orchestrator optimizing islanded community microgrids with zero-loss renewable curtailment.

Diesel Generator Offset31.4%
Battery Life Extension+3.8 Years
Power Continuity SLA99.98%

“TerraVolt bridges rigorous electrochemical thermodynamics with modern distributed control. In real-world microgrid pilot benchmarks, it sustained a verified 31% diesel displacement and quadrupled simulated pack life.”

Sarah Al-Mansoor•Clean Energy Innovation Forum
Audited Stack
JuliaPythonEmbedded CTimescaleDBMQTTReactESP32-S3
Fellow Builders
TM
Tatsuya MoriTokyo Institute of Technology
CD
Camila DuarteImperial College London
Fall 2025 Genesis Cohort
Systems
Most Scalable Infrastructure Award

KryptonDB: Deterministic Multi-Raft Consensus in Pure Rust

Microsecond-tail-latency distributed ledger engine for verifiable financial settlement without leader bottlenecks.

Sustained Throughput1.25M tx/sec
p99.9 Tail Latency240µs
Memory AllocationZero in hot path

“KryptonDB is an engineering masterclass. Between its formal TLA+ protocol verification and zero-allocation io_uring disk scheduler, the architecture demonstrates a level of systems maturity usually reserved for multi-year enterprise teams.”

Prof. Henrik Vanger•ETH Zürich / Systems Evaluation Board
Audited Stack
RustTokioio_uringRaft ConsensusWebAssemblyeBPFTLA+
Fellow Builders
DZ
David S. ZhaoUniversity of Waterloo
AN
Ananya NairIIT Madras Systems Group
Fall 2025 Genesis Cohort
AI
Breakthrough Bio-Compute Citation

BioFold-Diff: Generative Macro-Molecular Binding Conformation

Geometric diffusion network predicting ligand-protein allosteric transitions for rapid antibiotic discovery.

Docking Speedup12x vs AutoDock
Affinity Correlation (R²)0.946
Novel Leads Synthesized3 Candidates

“The SO(3) equivariant architecture implemented by Lindqvist and Chen sets a new standard for computational drug design. Wet-lab surface plasmon resonance assays confirmed their predicted cryptic affinities with 94.6% correlation.”

Dr. Katherine Wu•Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Audited Stack
PyTorch GeometricJAXBioPythonOpenMMFastAPITailwindCSS
Fellow Builders
SL
Soren LindqvistKarolinska Institutet
CC
Chloe ChenHarvard Biostatistics
Winter 2026 Fellow
Robotics
Excellence in Hardware Ergonomics

HydraGrip: Compliant Soft-Actuator Prosthetic with Tactile Haptics

Closed-loop neuromorphic touch feedback utilizing bio-mimetic pneumatic artificial muscles and fiber optic sensors.

Total Prosthetic Weight350g
Feedback Loop Latency12ms
Tactile Array Channels16 Sensels

“HydraGrip completely overturns the economics of advanced bionics. Delivering true closed-loop haptic proprioception in a featherweight 350-gram assembly produced for under $600 is life-changing humanitarian engineering.”

Dr. Robert Vance•Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Audited Stack
Embedded RustSTM32H7Micro-ROSSolidWorksCustom Flex PCBSwift
Fellow Builders
MR
Mateo RossiPolitecnico di Milano
ZW
Zoe WashingtonMIT Department of MechE
Fall 2025 Genesis Cohort
Climate
CleanTech Pioneer Laureate

SkySiphon: Solar-Thermal Direct Air Carbon Capture Sorbent Desorber

Low-temperature desorber unit powered by ambient humidity cycling and structured metal-organic frameworks.

Projected Cost / Ton$68 / ton
Desorption Temperature55°C
Thermal Efficiency85.2%

“By dropping desorption thermal requirements to just 55°C, SkySiphon radically shifts the unit economics of carbon capture. Their field reactor in the Mojave desert sustained continuous day-night cycling with outstanding sorbent stability.”

Dr. Amara Okafor•Oxford Climate Nanotechnology Institute
Audited Stack
PythonSCADAOpenFOAMArduinoNext.jsChart.jsFreeCAD
Fellow Builders
KM
Kofi MensahUniversity of Toronto
LR
Leila RostamiCaltech Chemical Engineering
Winter 2026 Fellow
Systems
Best Open Source Tooling Award

VortexFlow: Zero-Overhead eBPF Distributed Telemetry & Kernel Mesh

Kernel-native distributed telemetry and kernel-bypass network firewall for ultra-dense Kubernetes clusters.

Host CPU Overhead< 0.8%
Network Line Speed100 Gbps
Span Attribution100% Kernel-Native

“VortexFlow achieves what cloud architects have dreamt of for years: true zero-overhead distributed tracing. Processing 100Gbps line-rate traffic with under 0.8% CPU overhead makes this project an instant open-source sensation.”

Alexey Petrov•Cloud Native Computing Foundation Contributor
Audited Stack
eBPFCGoRustPrometheusGrafanagRPCKubernetes
Fellow Builders
JF
Jonas FalkKTH Royal Institute of Technology
NP
Nina PatelIBA Systems Research
Fall 2025 Genesis Cohort
Open for Applications & Peer Review

Have you engineered something remarkable?

The IBA Foundation invites student engineers, university researchers, and independent fellows to submit their technical repositories for our next grant and showcase cycle. Accepted projects receive non-dilutive compute grants up to $50,000, venture capital introductions, and permanent indexing in our open registry.

Reproducible code repository & hardware bill of materials
Verified latency, accuracy, or efficiency benchmarks
Public research whitepaper or interactive live demo
Commitment to open source or open scientific licensing