# Here are the winners of the 1st virtual Tesseract Hackathon 🎉

**URL:** https://si-tesseract.discourse.group/t/here-are-the-winners-of-the-1st-virtual-tesseract-hackathon/114
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [February 5, 2026, 3:36pm UTC](https://si-tesseract.discourse.group/t/here-are-the-winners-of-the-1st-virtual-tesseract-hackathon/114 "2026-02-05T15:36:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![dionhaefner](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/si-tesseract.discourse.group/dionhaefner/32/13_2.png) [@dionhaefner](https://si-tesseract.discourse.group/u/dionhaefner)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2026, 3:36pm UTC](https://si-tesseract.discourse.group/t/here-are-the-winners-of-the-1st-virtual-tesseract-hackathon/114/1 "2026-02-05T15:36:46Z")

</div>

The results of the #TesseractHackathon are finally out. Congratulations to the winners, and a huge thanks to all participating teams! 🎉 We’ve seen some amazing contributions pushing the boundaries of differentiable systems that we want to introduce below 👇

🥇 First prize: Multi-Agent Differentiable Predictive Control for Zero-Shot PDE Scalability, by [Pietro Zanotta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pietro-zanotta/) et al.

How can agents in a moving liquid collaborate to shape their environment without communicating with each other? Multi-Agent-DPC answers this question by exploiting a differentiable PDE solver, wrapped as a Tesseract. A brilliant showcase of how differentiable programming at the systems level drives real innovation 🚀

🥈 Second prize: DeepSwingr – A Differentiable Framework for Cricket Ball Swing Optimization, by Pavan Govindaraju

An ambitious project implementing end-to-end trajectory optimization that uses no less than four Tesseracts, two of which are higher-order Tesseracts 🤯 We love the engineering + care poured into it, and how it demonstrates that Tesseract scales well to complex cases like this one.

🔥 Social media prize for the most viral submission: PruneDeepONet by [Tomoki Koike](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomoki-koike/)

Competition was tough. There were three particularly strong honorable mentions:

- diffopteract: Differentiable Optimization via JAX \<\> Julia interoperability with Tesseract by [Laurens Lueg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurens-lueg-453508197/)
- DiffPIC: Differentiable Particle-in-Cell Optimization with Tesseract by [Alejo Ballester](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejo-ballester/) et al.
- Backend-Agnostic Inverse 1D Burgers Solver via Tesseract by [Julian Chan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-chan-a86b2921b/)

Keep an eye out on our socials + the Tesseract Forums for more in-depth showcases of select submissions, and thanks again to all participants 👏