Amherst College full scholarship (2022-2026)
2019 National Talent Search Examination Scholarship from the Government of India.
2019 Central Board of Secondary Education All India Secondary School Exam 98.6%. 7th highest score in the country.
2020 Ross Mathematics Program First Year Student.
2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Innovation Leadership Bootcamp. Youngest selected. Worked on an AI nutrition app.
2020 TEDx Speaker. Spoke about the education system.
2021 MIT Summer Geometry Institute. Researched singularity-free frame fields, deep learning for surface fitting, and mesh simplification techniques. Was the only high school student participant.
2021 $6500 Spirit of Ramanujan Fellowship. Researched gravitational waves using LIGO data and authored a 33 page research paper at Pioneer Academics.
2021 University of California Santa Cruz Science Internship Program. Was awarded a full scholarship. Researched fish and invertebrate extinctions and determined how vulnerable present animals are based on past selectivity patterns.
2021 Ross Mathematics Program Junior Counselor.
2022 Co-founder of Beru, a human development and AR education app for kids aged 5-10 years in developing countries. Won the award for best presentation at The Knowledge Society Earthshots Challenge.
July 2022 Top 50 finalist (among 7000 applicants) in the Chegg.org Global Student Prize. US$100,000 award presented
2023 The research paper I am the first author of got published in the Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP). I was invited to speak at SGP at the International Geometry Summit 2023 in Genoa, Italy. I worked on this paper for two years starting at the MIT Summer Geometry Initiative in 2021.

Other experiences/interests: Teaching kids in Indian villages at eVidyaloka.
Had leadership positions in basketball, table tennis, student government and Model United Nations at school.

I am currently working on education-based projects like Beru and finishing up my computer graphics research. My goal in life is to understand the universe and improve technology. I want to pursue research in planetary sciences, cosmology, material sciences, or other similar topics. I am also interested in rocket-making and satellites. I hope to pursue a PhD, and then work as a researcher/engineer in research centers or industries, or even pursue an original physics idea through a start up. I also want to improve education access to underprivileged kids and advocate for STEM outreach activities whether through building technology i.e. apps, volunteering, or starting my own organization. The Masason Foundation’s community, funding, and support system will be extremely helpful for me as I set out to achieve these ambitious goals.