My work

On duty with TeamTeach
May 2015
I see a small program in a Computer Science textbook.

10 PRINT "HOW OLD ARE YOU?"
20 INPUT A
30 PRINT "IN 10 YEARS YOU WILL BE"; A+10
My mind was blown.

Computer Science

  • Software developer (research), Artificial Intelligence - A Co-Pilot Assistant for Spinal Surgeons in Preoperative Evaluation to Decide Treatments for Lumbar Issues, Dr. Komal Prasad Chandrachari, Dr. Madhu Bharadwaj, Dr. Saravana Kumar S, Sanjay Venkatesha, Dr. Mohammed Faisal, Sumukh Prasad
  • President, DiPS Bangalore South Information Technology Council (2024-25)
    • Introduced GirlCode, a learn-to-code initiative for girls in grade 9
    • Introduced DiPS Bytes, the school's first weekly tech blog: by students, for students
    • Introduced Intelligent Classroom Initiative, a programme that aims to understand AI in the classroom, from a student's point of view
    • Led the first IT Council that reached every age group in the school
  • Secretary, DiPS Bangalore South Information Technology Council (2022-23, 2023-24)
  • Creator and event host, BlockJam for grade 5 (novel block-based programming competition)
  • Event host and problem setter for DiPS CodeJam:
  • Qualifier for Indian National Olympiad of Informatics link
  • 1st place, inter-Delhi Public School competitive programming competition link

Education

  • Peer Educator under the Central Board of Secondary Education's Adolescent Peer Educators Leadership programme
  • STEM Curriculum Design for grades 7-9 link
  • Head Student Mentor, Atal Lab under the NITI Aayog scheme of the Government of India
  • Founding member, TeamTeach — organisation that reaches out to government primary schools to teach subjects like code, finance, etc.

Odds and Ends and Other Things

I'm also a senior-level Carnatic vocalist, having pursued the art under the excellent and unparalleled tutelage of Vid. Smt. Gayathri Ravindra for over 10 years. (on hiatus to focus on academics)

Most of my other work can be found on my GitHub. Here's some cool stuff —
  • Code Slinging Sapiens — a developer group focused on making technology for humans
  • 2d Equation Grapher — graphs 2D equations link
  • Indic Language Transliteration Engine — transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters link