A team of CS undergrads win Europe's largest student run hackathon

The hack was organised by Imperial College London’s Department of Computing Society, and over 700 of the UK's most creative and talented students worked in teams together for 24 hours to find innovative tech solutions.

Huge congratulations to the following undergraduate UCL Computer Science students who were in the winning team:

• Mert Albeyoglu
• Jasper Koenig
• Savani Sawaikar
• Nikolaos Genethlis
• Sara Abdullahi
• Hugo Marfani

The team’s winning project ‘InCite’ is an AI-powered research tool that visually maps how academic papers cite and build upon one another. It helps users discover cross-disciplinary connections and spot gaps in research.  The team leveraged Anthropic’s LLM, Claude, for natural language processing.  

InCite assists researchers by:

• Performing Conflict of Interest (COI) analysis
• Evaluating research methods and citations
• Constructing a “CiteMap” — a visual representation of how different papers build upon one another. This makes research more accessible and actionable, merging advanced NLP features with customisable visualisations.

The potential impact of InCite is streamlining literature reviews and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, which highlights unexplored research questions.

Third-year Computer Science BSc student Mert Albeyoglu said, “We successfully implemented most of our core features, including citation visualisation and COI analysis. Throughout the process, we expanded our technical skill sets, harnessing feedback to refine InCite into a tool that genuinely supports both researchers and founders. Seeing how quickly InCite came together during the hackathon was incredible. I can’t wait to keep refining the tool and exploring ways it can benefit students and researchers worldwide.”