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Nov 2025Team LeaderRESEARCH TOOLSAI / MLFULL STACK

Krypton

Find, rank, and understand academic papers in one place

Krypton brings arXiv and OpenAlex results into one search flow, ranks papers with visible criteria, and uses Gemini to help readers summarize and explore the literature.

Krypton interactive showcase screen 1
the challenge

A useful paper search has to merge results from different APIs, handle missing citation data, and make ranking understandable to the person reading it.

architectural approach

The backend searches arXiv and OpenAlex, enriches citation data, and scores results with TF-IDF relevance, publication recency, and citation counts. Personalization can adjust the weights for a reader’s interests and goals.

what shipped

Krypton won first place at the university Project Expo. The live product offers multi-source search, transparent ranking, paper summaries, and a reading-plan interface.

1stPROJECT EXPO
3RANKING SIGNALS
2PAPER SOURCES
System Blueprint

Technical Specs & Highlights

Technologies & Architecture8 core technologies
Frontend
ReactTailwind CSSFramer Motion
Search Backend
FastAPIPythonscikit-learnSQLAlchemy
Research & AI APIs
arXiv APIOpenAlex APIGoogle Gemini API
Data & Delivery
SQLiteTTL CacheDocker
Core Engineering Highlights
01

Implemented a weighted ranking service with a 40/30/30 default formula.

02

Combined arXiv and OpenAlex search results in a FastAPI pipeline.

03

Added citation enrichment, caching, and user-aware score adjustments.

04

Connected Gemini-assisted summaries to the paper exploration flow.

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