aarav chandra
Blogger, Tourette Association of America at Tourette Association of America
student neuroscientist | blogger | math taekwondo teacher | co-founder learning space | co-founder vtc
Tourette Association of America
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tourette-association-of-america
Provide a national voice through blogs to raise awareness and for those affected with Tourette's. 1 out of every 100 children are affected with TS or another tic disorder. The tourette.org has over 2.7 million visits and the only resource for those with this condition.
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Blogger, Tourette Association of America
Learning Spaces
https://www.linkedin.com/company/learning-spaces-global
Co-founded Learning Spaces (Combating inequality with knowledge) in July 2020. Inequality is a problem across the globe and knowledge gap is a big contributor to it. Learning Spaces aims to bridge that gap by taking knowledge to people that do not have access to it easily.

- Partnered with AID India’s Eureka initiative to augment English education for kids in rural India. 70 middle school students attended the program so far and improved reading and writing skills. Classes conducted through Zoom with kids who use their parents’ phones

-Project Library launched in 450 Indian villages covering 30,000 children

- Project Library organized book drive for under-funded schools in San Diego. 6 schools engaged in the project and were beneficiaries of the project.

- Project Read in summer event with elementary school children of Alcott Elementary had 20 students attend it and read with us

- Raised $13K partnering with Youth Circle in DC for Covid affected areas of rural India to fund one COVID care facility for one month that would help with oxygen concentrators, PPE, masks

- Co-author and illustrator of "I can be" book series to be distributed to 1500 villages covering over 125,000 children in rural India
San Diego, California, United States
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Co-Founder and Co-President
UC San Diego
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ucsandiego
Study response of Planaria to light and mechanical stimulus; the goal is to be able to understand the nervous system of Planaria and possibly make connections to that of the human nervous systems and their behaviors. Co-author of research paper submitted.

Lead researcher on a project regarding GABA involvement in planarian regeneration and behavior. Mentored by Dr. William Kristan (UCSD) and Dr. Keller (Bishop’s Wu Tsai Chair). Conduct research with planaria to understand their nervous system and the impact of increase or decrease of GABA on it.
Set up a lab at home to do the experiments.
San Diego, California, United States
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Research Intern, Neuroscience
UC San Diego
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Research study: Fruit Fly Sex-Specific Gene Activity in the Brain During Stress

Quantify metabolic brain gene activity of female and male fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) under several stressful conditions, including toxicant exposure, heat, and hypoxia
Synthesized through thesis the difference in gene expression levels between male and female fruit flies
Statistical data analyses on whether or not there was a significant difference in expression of the gene Dopamine 2R between male and female fruit flies 
Conclusions on sex-specific coping mechanisms during stress arising out of the differences in gene expression levels
San Diego, California, United States
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Research Scholar
Church's Martial Arts
Teach self-defense to children under eight years old and to teens and families in a group class
Assist in choreography of demo team form and coach team members for World Championship performance (ETD July 2021). The team has 35 members.
San Diego, California, United States
Taekwondo Junior Instructor
Virtual Tutoring Center
https://www.linkedin.com/company/virtual-tutoring-center
Covid has disrupted learning for several children around the world. VTC aims to provide tutoring support to those children with a special focus on under-privileged students. Whether it be homework support, extra support to understand the concepts or learn new concepts, VTC offers tutoring across several subjects. We are passionate about teaching and aim to help as many students as possible locally and nationally. 
Inducted over 15 student tutors across several schools in San Diego to teach multiple subjects
I have been teaching Math and English for 15 students since April 2020
San Diego, California, United States
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Co-Founder
San Diego Math Circle
https://www.linkedin.com/company/san-diego-math-circle
Teaching Math (Probability and Counting) to Euler group (middle school students). Over a 50 math-enthusiastic students from around San Diego community attend these sessions.
San Diego, California, United States
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Mathematics Teacher
The American Embassy School, New Delhi
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-american-embassy-school
Teach Tae Kwon Do (forms, sparring, demo team) to elementary, middle and high school students at AES.
Co-captain Demo Team for European Championship
New Delhi, Delhi, India
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Assistant Instructor (American Embassy School ATA)
High School Baccalaureate
High School Diploma
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The Bishop's School
https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-bishop's-school/
Clinical Neuroscience Immersion Experience (CNI-X): Capstone Project
CNI-X is a selective program that is fast-paced, intense, challenging and creative. I was exposed to the breadth of research found in the Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Through interactive seminars with Stanford faculty and researchers, we learn about principles of neuroscience, clinical neuropsychiatry, neuroscience research, psychiatric epidemiology, behavioral and social sciences, and more.
Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Psychology 
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Stanford University School of Medicine
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Middle School Diploma
8th
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The American Embassy School, New Delhi
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Localized stimuli to planarians elicit one of three responses — turning, elongation, and contraction—depending upon the location of the stimulus. Remarkably, the same three regionally different responses also occur in tissue fragments. Hence, the behavior elicited depends upon interactions among different nervous system regions.
Planarian fragments behave as whole animals
Current Biology
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01296-3
Proof of Kaneko-Tsumura conjecture on Triple T-values
Co-author of math paper (pre-print)
arXIV
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02393
Award for over a 100 hours of volunteer service from May 2019 to April 2020
250+ hours from May 2020 to April 2021
The White House, Washington
President's Volunteer Service Award (Gold (10th), Gold (11th))
Eight Individual World Champion titles and One Team title in Taekwondo organized by American Taekwondo Association (Participants from over 25 countries). Championships were across several events: Traditional Forms, Traditional Weapons, Combat Weapons and Creative Weapons (2014-2019)

Traditional Forms Gold (2014)
Traditional Weapons Gold (2015)
Creative Weapons Gold (2015)
Combat Weapons Gold (2015)
Traditional Weapons Gold(2017)
Creative Weapons Gold (2017)
Creative Weapons Gold (2019)
Creative Weapons Gold (2021)
Demo Team Gold (2021)
Ranked 1st in state over 20 times and National Championship over 10 times.
American Taekwondo Association
Nine World Championships (Takewondo)
Won team gold in Math Counts in Cairo (8th grade) representing American Embassy School (AES), New Delhi
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International Math Counts - Team Gold
Traditional Weapons Gold (2018)
Creative Weapons Gold (2018)
Team Demo (Co-captain and Silver)
MAC Barcelona (ATA)
Two European Championship Taekwondo
Winner of talent contest: raised 10K scholarship donated to my school (Solana Ranch Elementary)
Super Dentists
$10k School Fund Winner (Taekwondo)
Two-time AIME qualified (10th, 11th grade) Distinguished Award AMC 10 (10th). 
Students who score in the top 5% of the AMC 12 or the top 2.5% of the AMC 10 are invited.
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AIME Qualified and AMC Distinguished Award
Two-time AIME qualified (10th and 11th) and Distinguished Award AMC 10 (10th)
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AIME Qualifier and AMC Distinguished Award
Latin 1 - Outstanding Achievement Award - 2019
Latin 3 honors - Gold - 2020
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National Latin Exam (Gold 2020, Outstanding achievement 2019)
Education
Globe Aware
https://www.linkedin.com/company/globe-aware
Lived at Albergue Hatun Soncco Wasi with several high school students and staff. The students are from Native Peruvian families that typically live in the Andes and are below poverty lines. 


Built school infrastructure for kids in the Albergue Hatun Soncco Wasi at Cusco, Peru: converted a tool shed into a carpentry and vocational training room
Laundry facility through building drainage systems
Taught the students to read and speak in English
Built cooking fire pits for native Peruvian family in the Andes
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Volunteer (Cusco, Peru: Albergue Hatun Soncco Wasi)
Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
Association for India's Development (AID)
https://www.linkedin.com/company/aid-india-tx
Chennai (India) and many villages around the city were flooded after a hurricane struck and the dam gates were opened. Several families lost their homes and belongings thereafter. I worked as a disaster relief volunteer with AID India at Chennai to help sort and pack the donations (food, medicines, clothing, and blankets) meant for disaster relief to over 5,000 families.
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Volunteer: Chennai Flood Relief
Education
The Happy School (Gurugram, India)
While spending a year in India during my 8th grade, I taught basketball to over 20 under-privileged kids every weekend. Sports was a way to develop them and grow their perspective.
Basketball Coach (volunteer)
Several San Diego Organizations
Volunteered with multiple organizations with the intention to give back to San Diego!
●	Feeding San Diego
●	ATPF for autistic kids to encourage their learning and development
●	ATA Taekwondo to encourage martial arts in kids and adults
●	San Diego Parks and Recreation to help improve our environment
Volunteer
Coursera
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Computational Neuroscience
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Human Neuroanatomy
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Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life
Coursera
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Introductory Human Physiology
ATA American Taekwondo Association
Taekwondo Instructor Level II
ATA American Taekwondo Association
Third Degree Black Belt
https://www.linkedin.com/in/iritrappley
San Diego, CA
Irit Rappley
VP Neuroscience and Translational Research at Recursion Pharmaceuticals
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San Diego, CA
Elena Andree
MIT Student
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San Diego, CA
Adam Zheng
MIT Math and CS
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaurav-tyagi-898213133
Palo Alto, CA
Gaurav Tyagi
Founder, CEO, Board Chair at Reading Good | Student at UC Berkeley
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Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Mira Gowda
Student at The Bishop's School
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San Diego, CA
Nicholas Gustafson
CS + Math @ MIT
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San Diego County, CA
Joanna Hirst
Student at Harvard University
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Palatine, IL
Anushree Vaidya
Neuroscience student
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San Diego, CA
Ashton Horowitz
Student at La Jolla High School
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San Diego County, CA
Samantha Russman
PhD Student at University of California San Diego
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San Diego County, CA
Sarina Krishnan
Sophomore at Princeton University
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San Diego County, CA
Zachary Nelson
Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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San Diego, CA
Hila Hashemi
Applied Scientist at Amazon
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San Diego, CA
David W.
Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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San Diego County, CA
Abby Bertics
Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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San Diego, CA
Kevin Chen
EECS @ MIT
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooke-buchner-797542207
Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Brooke Buchner
Student-athlete at the University Of California Berkeley
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Urbana, IL
Jinghao Jia
Software Engineer Intern at Rally Health | Ph.D. Student at UIUC
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San Diego County, CA
Kian Tayebi
Student at The Bishop's School
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Commie 1 at Hyatt Regency
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Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area
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Cloud Software Development Engineer at Intel
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