Resume

Education

• Emerald High School, expected graduation June 2027

Awards and recognition

• 2nd place and $2,000 team prize, SVCAF AI4Legislation 2025, for DebateSim
• 2nd place and $100 prize, BISV Hacks 2025, for the Political Bias Detector
• Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (California’s 10th District)
• Invited speaker at BeyondX, pitching DebateSim
• DebateSim covered in the news
• Plaque for a seminar on debate and higher education given to 250+ students in India
• 2026 AP Scholar with Distinction
• Board Member, National Honor Society
• Scholar award in a varsity sport, and President’s Award for golf and GPA
• Certificate of Participation, High Life Art Exhibit, Splatter 2025
• Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) piano exams, grades 3 to 7

Research

• Lead Developer and Independent Researcher, SDR (Algoverse): built a metric to detect reasoning instability in language models, analyzed hidden-state trajectories with optimal transport, and lead ongoing interpretability research. Lead author of a paper accepted at MATH-AI, NeurIPS 2026

Work

• Software Engineering Intern, VoiceOS (YC-backed): building Swift frontend and backend features alongside the founders
• Full-Stack Engineering Intern, Dear Future Me: built the Swift frontend and backend for the DFM Voice app, with speech-to-text features that reduce journaling friction for 720+ students
• Paid Golf Coach and Volunteer, Tri-Valley First Tee: coach and mentor 50+ youth golfers weekly on swing mechanics, course management, and First Tee core values

Leadership and activities

• Co-Founder and Lead Developer, DebateSim: built the frontend and backend of an AI legislative analysis and debate simulation platform, integrating 100+ language models through OpenRouter and live Congressional data
• Co-Founder and Co-Organizer, AeroHacks 2025 and 2026: offered $14k in prizes to 140+ participants, with sponsors including Desmos. Led budgeting, sponsorships, judges, and the event day. Also built software at 4 regional hackathons
• Co-President, Programming Club: weekly workshops for 30+ members on Python, quantum computing, and cybersecurity, and mentoring on hands-on coding projects
• Vice President, Computer Networking Club
• Treasurer, Indian Student Association: manage budgets and finances for cultural events like Bollywood Night, overseeing $2,000+ in revenue
• Student and Teaching Assistant, Bala Vihar (Chinmaya Mission), a Hindu cultural organization: study and help teach Hindu philosophy and cultural values to 120+ students, and organize activities and games
• International Keynote Speaker, Agarwal Siksha Samiti: keynote on debate skills, public speaking, and academic strategies to 250+ underprivileged students in India
• Varsity Golf: varsity for 2 seasons and JV for 1, with year-round training
• Independent Artist: paint and sketch in weekly studio classes, and apply the same principles to UI and web design. See the Gallery
• Public Forum Debate, Junior Varsity (grades 9 to 10)

Skills

• Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift, C/C++, SQL
• Web: React, Next.js, Gatsby, Node.js, HTML, CSS, Tailwind
• Systems and security: Linux administration (Mint, Ubuntu, Kali), penetration testing, ethical hacking
• AI research: chain-of-thought reasoning, large language models, world models, optimizers, evaluating AI harnesses
• Tools: Git/GitHub, Lambda, Runpod, Google Colab