RiskSentinel for Microsoft AI Dev Days 2026

Mar 15, 2026·
Stefano Blando
Stefano Blando
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RiskSentinel for Microsoft AI Dev Days 2026
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RiskSentinel is the project I built for the Microsoft AI Dev Days Hackathon 2026.

The core idea was to create a system that could make systemic risk more explorable and more tangible: instead of treating contagion as an abstract output in a paper or a notebook, I wanted an interface where shocks could be launched, propagated, compared, and interpreted in real time.

The project combines network science, contagion modeling, and agentic AI on top of research-grade financial network data covering 210 S&P 500 stocks and 3,081 daily snapshots. Under the hood, it integrates three propagation models, interactive network analytics with Streamlit and Plotly, and an agentic workflow built with Microsoft Agent Framework and Azure OpenAI.

What I like most about this project is that it sits exactly at the boundary between my research interests and practical prototyping: financial networks, complex systems, decision support, and AI agents all in the same tool.

👉 View the project page
GitHub: risk-sentinel
App: Streamlit demo

Stefano Blando
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PhD Student in Artificial Intelligence
Stefano Blando is a PhD student in the National PhD Program in Artificial Intelligence at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and the University of Pisa. His research lies at the intersection of AI, agent-based modeling, and economics. He studies adaptive multi-agent systems, statistical verification of economic simulations, and robust quantitative methods for financial and socio-economic data.