Demographics

• Race/Ethnicity: Indian + Hispanic
• Gender: male
• Region: bay area

Intended Major(s): Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence

Academics

GPA: 3.96 UW / 4.40 W
SAT: 1540

like 15 APs

Common App Awards / Honors

1. NeurIPS acceptance for AI safety research
2. Patent granted for AI safety related research
3. Regional Science Fair: 2nd Place + U.S. Air Force Special Award, qualified for ISEF but was unable to attend because of a serious personal circumstance
4. GENIUS Olympiad: Silver Medal
5. USACO Gold

Extracurriculars

1. Community Project Founder/Lead
Developed and implemented programs in 30+ countries focused on suicide prevention and safer uses of AI. Received support/backing from organizations including OpenAI, Microsoft, and UNICEF.

2. Team USA Taekwondo
Represented Team USA in Taekwondo. Expanded the work into teaching martial arts to 1,200+ orphans and supporting suicide prevention and community initiatives. - won 2022 itf silver medal, 2024 national gold, 2025 team usa selection

3. AI Safety Research
Conducted AI safety research associated with a major AI organization. Work was accepted to COLM, NeurIPS, and ICLR, and I received a patent related to the research.

4. UCSC SIP + extended research
Conducted research at the Science Internship Program on the ethical layering of AI systems in suicide and mental health contexts under UCSC professor. Continued the work within a university AI Explainability & Accountability Lab and published a position paper.

5. Rivian Internship
Interned at a major electric vehicle company, where I analyzed product functionality and designed/proposed new functional ideas for an upcoming vehicle platform from an ai safety lens.

6. Digi Dr, Founder
Founded an initiative/company that worked with 300+ doctors to implement AI safety resources and teach safer uses of AI in clinical practice, particularly around preventing harmful AI interactions in mental health contexts. - raised over 500K

7. President of non-profit
Serve as President of a nonprofit organization, leading a bunch of mental health and suicide awareness camps, worked with a UNESCO officials and spoke at a UN/UNESCO conference in Zimbabwe about shortages in psychiatric resources. Helped implement resources across regions in Africa.

8. NeurIPS Reviewer
Served as a reviewer for NeurIPS Program Committee

9. Computer Science Club, Leadership / Competitive Programming
Won hackathons and helped students from multiple countries reach USACO Silver and Gold. Fundraised to bring students to San Francisco to compete in AI hackathons. Helped top teams publish their work and earn a young authors award at SPIE.

10. Varsity Basketball, Team Captain
Varsity basketball player and team captain. - recieved Coach's Award

11. built a coding project that was integrated with Zendesk but idk if I should add it

Letters of Recommendation

• AP Calculus BC teacher: very good rec
• AP Chemistry teacher: should be pretty strong

Main reaches:

• Harvard
• Yale
• Princeton
• Stanford
• MIT
• UC Berkeley
• UCLA

why are people so pessimistic and insufferable in this sub, 1. summer programs are not that deep, 2. college is not that deep, 3. if you really wanna do smtg in life, there are thousands of better ways (if you get accepted, great!; if not, great!

everything happens for a reason ❤️