aakriti lakshmanan
Comp Bio/Machine Learning Intern at Cellular Longevity, Inc.
c + bio @ stanford | rsi ’ 20
'm freshman stanford university interest exploring intersection biology computer science . excited opportunity apply prior experience computational , innovative setting . 'm also passionate public speaking providing educational resource need . feel free reach aakritil @ stanford.edu .
Cellular Longevity, Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/loyalfordogs
- Developed a consumer-facing web application for users to integrate their Instagram accounts to their pre-existing website account using Django, Celery/AWS SQS, and HTML/CSS
- Applied and successfully cleared Facebook's App Review process.
- Built, cleaned, and organized a dog image dataset of size 100k with age and breed metadata using AWS S3 and Python.
- Constructed and tested various deep learning models to predict dog age with inputs of a photo and breed name using Keras/TF and AWS Sagemaker.
San Francisco Bay Area
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Comp Bio/Machine Learning Intern
Research Science Institute (RSI)
https://www.linkedin.com/company/research-science-institute
- One of 86 high school students internationally selected to participate in the 2020 Research Science Institute. 
- Built machine learning models for identifying social vole behaviors in behavioral assays in order to make vole studies more accessible and enable correlations between behavioral and neural data.
- Achieved accuracy of 98% and reduced labeling time from 3 hours to 10 minutes.
Manoli Lab, University of California at San Francisco
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Research Science Institute Scholar
World Science Festival
https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-science-festival
The World Science Festival seeks a diverse group of students from around the world who demonstrate exceptional mathematical ability and express a high degree of motivation and interest to learn outside the formal school setting.
 -  Took classes such as Rewriting the Code of Life with CRISPR and Brain-Machine Interfaces
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World Science Scholar
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
https://www.linkedin.com/company/unc-charlotte
- Developed silver-based chemotherapeutics and novel mercury complexes of N-heterocyclic ligands for catalytic applications. 
- Synthesized organic ligands with various aromatic substituents and donor ions and characterized compounds through X-Ray crystallization, hydrogen, and carbon NMR spectroscopies, and elemental analyses.
Rabinovich Laboratory
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Student Researcher
Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP)
https://www.linkedin.com/company/usaeop
- Assisted with Dr. Yasin Raja’s Physics lab of graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. 
- Conducted research on the application of LEDs in agricultural and medical settings.
- Presented my work at the Summer Research Symposium
Charlotte, North Carolina
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Intern: Physics and Optical Science Department
Bachelor's degree
Computer Science + Biology
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Stanford University
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Associate of Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
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Central Piedmont Community College
https://www.linkedin.com/school/central-piedmont-community-college/
High School Diploma
NCSSM Online is a competitive, application-based, supplemental, two-year sequenced honors program for juniors and seniors in North Carolina.
Online
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North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
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WEF includes more than 34,000 water professionals and offers highly regarded publications, technical resources, networking and professional development opportunities (both online and in-person). I became a part of this organization through the Stockholm Junior Water Prize.
Water Environment Federation
Member
The American Junior Academy of Science (AJAS) is the only national honor society recognizing America's premier high school students for outstanding scientific research. The AJAS mission is to introduce, encourage, and accelerate pre-college students into the professional world of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
American Junior Academy of Science
Member
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo Scholarship Scholar
Each year, online students are eligible for a $250 book scholarship awarded in honor of Dr. Robert Panoff, Executive Director of the Shodor Foundation, a national non-profit in computational science education, and where a number of current NCSSM faculty learned how to do and teach computational science.

This award typically goes to an online student who has displayed excellence in at least two, but typically three or more, computational courses.
North Carolina School of Science and Math
Panoff Excellence in Computational Science Scholarship Award
Awarded 10k for video submission on my passion, biomedical science. This scholarship is for young innovators, creators and dreamers who want to share their passion and receive support to pursue this passion through a higher educational outlet.
Taco Bell
Liv Más Scholar
Placed first in the category of Biotechnology Advanced, given the opportunity to attend the annual AJAS/AAAS meet in coming years.
North Carolina Student Association of Science
1st Place State Science Fair (NCSAS)
Recognized as one of the top 2 delegates at the UNAIDS Committee at the National Model United Nations New York Conference. Topics included addressing HIV/AIDS among young women and TB/HIV coinfection. Also received the Outstanding Position Paper award for my two-page research paper concerning these topics.
National Model United Nations New York Conference
Outstanding Delegate and Outstanding Position Paper
Qualified to participate in the International Science and Engineering Fair through a series of regional fairs. Placed fourth internationally in the category of Chemistry.
International Science and Engineering Fair
Fourth Grand Award at Intel ISEF
Placed first in Chemistry as part of the Senior Category with my project on silver nanoparticles.
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1st Place State Science Fair
I was the only student chosen to represent the state of North Carolina at the National Stockholm Junior Water Prize Competition for my project "A Study on the Coagulating Properties of the M. oleifera Seed."
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North Carolina State Winner of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize
Placed first in the Biotechnology Advanced section, granted an invitation to the annual AAJS meet.
NCSAS
1st Place in Biotechnology Advanced
Placed 1st at the regional science fair, qualified to go to the State Fair.
District 6 Science Fair
1st Place in Biological Science A
Granted the Excellence in Biotechnology award with my research on the Moringa Seed.
District 6 Science Fair
Excellence In Biotechnology
Placed 1st among other water related science fair projects with my project: "A Study on the Coagulating Effects of the Moringa Seed."
NC American Water Works Association
NC American Water Works Association 1st Place
In the 2017 Corona Rostrensis @ Charlotte Latin School, secured 2rd place among varsity members of Speech and Debate. Competed in Informative Speaking.
Charlotte Latin High School
2nd Place in Informative Speaking
Automatic Annotation of Social Behavior of Prairie Voles
Optimization of Biophotovoltaic Devices: An Analysis of the Effects of Cyanobacteria and Electron Transport Methods
First Mercury and Silver Complexes of a Bulky Heterocyclic Thione Ligand
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aniketh-iyengar
San Francisco Bay Area
Aniketh Iyengar
BioE & CS @ Stanford
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aylesse-sordillo-phd
New York City Metropolitan Area
Aylesse Sordillo, PhD
Senior Scientist at Kingdom Supercultures
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhil-suresh2
United States
Nikhil Suresh
Math + CS @ Stanford | RSI '20
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ella-y-wang
Chandler, AZ
Ella Wang
RSI '21 | ISEF '19 '21 | NJSHS '20 '21
https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-quan
San Francisco Bay Area
Melanie Quan
Engineering @ Stanford | RSI '20
https://www.linkedin.com/in/-william-pan
Irvine, CA
William Pan
Stanford '25
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Palo Alto, CA
Sarah Fujimori
Math and CS @ Stanford
https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelin-mathew-5563a918a
United States
Angelin Mathew
Yale '25 | RSI '20 | Davidson Fellow '21
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Greater Chicago Area
Aditya Badlani
Stanford University '25
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellepark314
Solon, OH
Michelle Park
Solon ‘22 | RSI ‘21
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevendliu
Pittsburgh, PA
Steven Liu
RSI Scholar at MIT Research Science Institute (RSI) | ISEF ‘21 | NJSHS ‘21
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajma867
Charlotte Metro
Alan Ma
Mathematics at Columbia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohan-kumar-829567229
Huntersville, NC
Rohan Kumar
Student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Charlotte, NC
Hrishika Roychoudhury
NCSSM'22 | Regeneron STS Scholar | Pete Conrad Scholar | World Science Scholar | Founder | NASA iTech'21, ISEF'19, AJAS'20,21, NTSA'19,21, NSDA'20, BioGENEius'20
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Katy, TX
Stephanie Wang
Harvard '26 | RSI '21 | Coca-Cola Scholar '22 | Research @ Harvard Med | Author of Epidemiology Unmasked
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Charlotte Metro
Eshaan Zaveri
OMS-III | COSGP Global Health Representative | Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
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Louisville, KY
Shreyas Kar
Founder @ Community AI | RSI ‘21 | STS Scholar ’22 | USAMO ‘21 | ISEF Grand & Special Award ‘21 | Broadcom MASTERS Finalist ‘18
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amber-luo
Stony Brook, NY
Amber Luo
Regeneron STS 3rd Place Winner | RSI '21 | USABO '21 | ISEF '22 | Founder and Director of Illumina Learning
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New York, NY
James Gornet
Neural Systems and Machine Learning Researcher
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