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Start with curiosity.
Workshops, study circles and problems worth reading about. Nobody expects you to know it yet.
Learn
ACM @ Amity
Scroll to follow an idea from curiosity to community.
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Make something real.
Software, hardware, AI and research projects, taken from a first sketch to something that runs.
Build
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Work with people.
Teams form around problems. You join for the role you want to learn, not the one you already have.
Collaborate
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Push it further.
Prototypes become projects, and projects become papers, products and talks.
Innovate
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Belong to ACM.
A student chapter of the world's largest computing society, and a network that stays with you.
Community
ACM @ Amity UniversityBuildHub
Build something worth showing.
ACM @ Amity is a student-driven technical community where ideas become projects, projects become experience, and experience becomes something you can actually show.
- Real problems.
- Real projects.
- Real technical experience.
Pick a problem and follow where it leads
Problem
Could become
In developmentL3 Research
Campus Knowledge Assistant
How might we create a reliable system that allows students to find university information without searching across multiple platforms?
Areas we work inAISoftwareResearchQuantumCybersecurityDataWebEmerging Technology
What we build
We build things
that matter.
Not another collection of ideas sitting inside a presentation. These are problems students can explore, contribute to and learn from.
Every project below states what exists today and what does not.
AI / SoftwareIn development
AI Admissions Assistant
A conversational assistant that answers admission questions about Amity Lucknow from a curated knowledge base, and declines anything outside that scope.
- Open roles
- 5
- Team
- 1 member
- Stack
- 6 tools
- Now
- Integrate
Progress through this phase55%
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- Express
- LLM APIs
- Retrieval
- Conversation design
Built with: JavaScript, Node.js, Express, LLM APIs, Retrieval, Conversation design
View project: AI Admissions AssistantLooking for Frontend, Backend, AI / LLM…
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Note · The admissions assistant is a working student project, not an official university admissions channel. Quantum Handshake is an ongoing research effort with no published result. Neither is presented as more than it is.
Problem Lab
Don’t start with an idea.Start with a problem.
Universities are rapidly adopting AI, automation, digital platforms and data-driven systems. That creates new challenges that still need better solutions.
Find a problem worth solving.
Filter by category
These are student-written explorations. None of them is an official or confirmed university brief.
Problem 01Potential problem
The University Knowledge Problem
Everything is written down somewhere. Nobody knows where.
How might we create a reliable system that allows students to find university information without searching across multiple platforms?
Retrieval (RAG)LLMsVector searchPostgreSQL
L3 Research5 open roles · could become Campus Knowledge Assistant
Problem 02Potential problem
The Timetable Conflict Problem
A room changes. Forty people find out at different times.
How might we create an intelligent scheduling system that detects conflicts and communicates relevant changes?
Constraint solversGraph algorithmsAPIsNotification services
L4 Deploy4 open roles · could become Smart Campus Scheduler
Problem 03Potential problem
The Student Feedback Problem
Thousands of responses. A summary nobody can act on.
How might we analyse student feedback while preserving privacy and identifying recurring issues?
NLPClusteringSentiment analysisAnonymisation
L3 Research4 open roles · could become Campus Feedback Intelligence
Problem 04Example problem statement
The Lost Information Problem
The announcement went out. It is now unfindable.
How might we create a centralised, searchable system for university announcements?
Full-text searchWeb applicationAPIsDatabases
L2 Integrate4 open roles · could become Campus Information Hub
Problem 05Example problem statement
The Campus Navigation Problem
Block, floor, wing, room. Four unknowns in your first week.
How might we create an intelligent campus navigation experience?
MapsGraph routingQRComputer vision
L2 Integrate4 open roles · could become Smart Campus Navigation
Problem 06Student challenge
The Administrative Automation Problem
The same form, the same signature, the same six steps.
Which repetitive administrative workflows could be safely automated while preserving necessary human oversight?
Workflow enginesAPIsDocument automationAudit logging
L4 Deploy4 open roles · could become Campus Automation Engine
Showing 6 of 6 problemsSee every problem
Problem of the week
Rotates weeklyExample problem statement
How might we create a centralised, searchable system for university announcements?
An announcement has a half-life measured in hours once it scrolls past in a group chat.
Explore problem- The Lost Information Problem
- Full-text searchWeb applicationAPIsDatabasesCalendar formats
- L2 Integrate
- Campus Information Hub
Difficulty system
Four levels. None of them about you.
Difficulty here describes the work — its technical complexity, its scope, how much research it needs and how many things have to agree with each other. It is not a statement about who is capable of doing it.
Choose a level
Level 1 of 4
Build
Basic implementation
One clear surface, one technology, a well-understood path from start to finish. You learn by shipping the whole thing yourself.
Problems at this level 0
None open right now. Submit one.
Ideas at this level 2
Project ideas
Don’t have an idea?
We’ve got problems.
Unclaimed starting points, filtered by how much you already know. None of these has a team yet — the first person in decides what it becomes.
How much do you already know?
- Campus Event AggregatorOne page that knows what is happening this week, and where.2–3 peopleLevel 1, BuildWeb · Software
- AI Student Feedback AnalyserTurn a thousand free-text comments into five things worth acting on.3–4 peopleLevel 2, IntegrateAI · Data
- University Knowledge GraphCourses, faculty, labs, prerequisites and research, as a queryable graph.4–5 peopleLevel 4, DeployData · Software · AI
- AI Academic Recommendation SystemsWhat should a student take next, and can you justify the answer?3–4 peopleLevel 3, ResearchAI · Research · Data
- Quantum Cryptography SimulationImplement a key distribution protocol in simulation and attack it.2–3 peopleLevel 3, ResearchQuantum · Cybersecurity · Research
- Lab Equipment TrackerWhat is in the lab, who has it, and when it comes back.2–3 peopleLevel 1, BuildWeb · IoT · Software
Contribution
Your membership says you joined.
Your contributions show what you did.
Every project you touch through ACM leaves a trace — a commit, a review, a write-up, a deployed service. This platform exists to keep that record, so you leave with evidence rather than a line on a list.
“I built something through ACM.”
A commit, a review, a paper, a deployed service, a documented decision.
A student
B.Tech CSE, second year
Last six months
something shipped
- commits merged
- 38
- reviews given
- 11
- write-ups
- 3
- service deployed
- 1
- Merged the retrieval evaluation script in Admissions AI
- Reviewed the timetable conflict checker in Smart Campus Scheduler
- Published a note on anonymising feedback in Feedback Intelligence
What a contribution record can hold
- Projects joined
- Tasks completed
- Repository contributions
- Research contributions
- Documentation written
- Technical presentations
- Reviews given
- Open source contributions
Contribution tracking is not wired to a live source yet — the profile you can view is demo content.
Your next projectdoesn’t have to bea college assignment.
Build something. Research something. Solve something.
- Build
- Research
- Learn
- Collaborate
Don’t just add ACMto your resume.
Add what you builtthrough ACM.
You don’t need to know everything. You just need a problem worth caring about and the willingness to build.