I completed 80 hours of research training through Think Neuro: 50 hours focused on neuroscience bibliometric research and another 30 hours focused on R programming and bibliometric methods.

I co-authored a project titled Emerging Applications of Brain-Computer Interfaces for Addiction, Depression, and OCD, looking at how BCI research is extending beyond motor rehabilitation. I also analyzed the 100 most-cited BCI publications to identify citation patterns, major disciplines, publishers, and international collaborations.

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• Worked with R, Biblioshiny, Web of Science, Excel, and Python/matplotlib.
• Earned an R Programming Distinction Certificate.
• Learned how research questions can be studied through publication and citation data.

My shadowing experience gave me a closer look at the diagnostic side of eye care. I observed how clinicians use Optical Coherence Tomography, visual field testing, macular scans, optic nerve assessment, and RNFL imaging in glaucoma evaluation and monitoring.

What interested me most was how much ophthalmology depends on interpreting images and measurements over time. It made the field feel like a natural intersection of medicine, technology, and data.

I’ve logged 116 hours organizing and entering eye-care records for a global vision-care outreach effort. The work is detail-heavy, but that is part of what made it useful: accurate records matter when healthcare teams are trying to keep patient information organized across outreach programs.

I was elected Treasurer of my school’s HOSA chapter. I help manage club finances and budgeting while supporting fundraising and event planning with the rest of the leadership team.

I started DSA because I wanted a real space at school where South Asian students could celebrate our culture while also making the club welcoming to anyone who wanted to learn more. It began as an idea and grew into a student organization with more than 40 active members.

I lead meetings, plan cultural events, work with school staff, and built the club’s website myself. Founding a club has made me appreciate how much work happens between the exciting idea and the point where people actually start showing up every week.

HOSA started as one of the clubs I joined because of my interest in healthcare, but over time I became more involved in the organization itself. I was elected Treasurer for the 2026–27 school year, so I now help manage the club’s budget, keep track of spending, and support fundraising and event planning with the rest of the officer team.

I like that the role lets me combine two sides of what I enjoy: healthcare and the practical work of keeping an organization running well.

With CDCA, I help with the behind-the-scenes work that keeps a regional cricket league organized. That includes fixtures, registrations, payment tracking, match-day logistics, communication with captains and umpires, and helping put rules and standings together.

I also work on social media and promotional material. It has been useful experience because I get to see both sides of an organization: the operational side that keeps everything running and the public side that gets people interested in it.

Robotics is one of the places where I learned that engineering teams need much more than engineering. For the 2026–27 school year, I serve as Team 20’s Finance Captain, where I help manage the budget, track expenses, and plan for costs tied to parts, competitions, travel, and team operations. I also work on community outreach through the Impact team.

I have also presented Team 20’s Impact Presentation to official judges. Preparing for that pushed me to explain our work clearly instead of assuming the numbers or projects would speak for themselves.

I manage financial records and budgeting for the youth wing and help organize community events, service projects, and fundraisers. One of the projects I helped lead was a step-walking challenge that raised $400 for charity.

I also independently organized KKCD’s first cricket tournament, which brought in 32 participants and generated $165 for the organization. I handled registration, team formation, scheduling, rules, communication, and match-day operations myself, which taught me a lot about running a community event from start to finish.

I volunteer as the main student admin for Kannada Kali, KKCD’s Kannada language program for children. I help keep the program organized by managing the student list, tracking class information, and handling the Google Classroom for the Kannada teacher.

I’m the only admin managing the classroom side of the program, so I’m usually the person making sure students are added correctly, materials are organized, and the teacher has one place to communicate with everyone. It is a small behind-the-scenes role, but it has taught me a lot about being reliable when other people depend on the system you are managing.

At Joy Yoga, I help manage the practical side of weekly classes: instructor availability, schedules, bookings, registrations, payments, attendance, and communication. It is not flashy work, but it has taught me how much organization matters when other people are relying on you to keep things moving smoothly.

I help organize community events through APAPA. I coordinated a tennis tournament with 89 attendees and helped with a ping-pong tournament that had more than 50 participants. Those events gave me more experience with registration, scheduling, logistics, and communicating with a lot of people at once.

Science Olympiad is one of my favorite ways to learn outside class because the events force me to go deeper than a normal unit or test. I earned the highest score at my school on the Science Olympiad entrance exam, which was a nice sign that all the extra studying had actually paid off.

What I like most is the mix of studying and building. Depending on the event, I might be learning biology or chemistry, working through physics, or figuring out how to design and test something with a teammate.

In Chem Club, I’m currently working on a solar panel research project. I wanted something where I could take science beyond a classroom lab and spend more time asking questions, testing ideas, and understanding how chemistry connects to real energy technology.

The project is still in progress, so I’m keeping this section as a record of the work rather than pretending it is a finished research result. I’ll add more here as the project develops.

DECA has been one of my main ways of exploring business in a competitive setting. I qualified for the state-level competition in Business Management, Law & Ethics, where I had to think quickly, communicate clearly, and apply business ideas to situations I had not seen beforehand.

I also earned the Associate in Marketing Management certification through the American Marketing Association. I like DECA because it rewards practical decision-making instead of just memorizing definitions.

I’m also involved in FBLA, which gives me another way to explore leadership and business outside the classroom. I received a 2025–26 Leadership Award, and I use the club as a chance to keep building confidence with professional communication, teamwork, and business topics.

I’m a member of Math Honor Society, where I get to stay involved with math beyond my regular classes and be around other students who genuinely enjoy problem-solving. Math has always been one of my stronger subjects, so I like having a space where that interest is part of the community too.

Science Honor Society connects naturally with a lot of what I already enjoy, especially biology, chemistry, research, and medicine. I’m involved because I like learning science outside of assignments and being part of a group of students who take that same interest seriously.

Technology Honor Society reflects another side of what I like doing. Between robotics, coding, semiconductor work, and building websites, I enjoy projects where I can take an idea and turn it into something that actually works.

I’ve been an active member of Student Senate since 2024. It gives me a way to stay connected to what is happening across the school and contribute outside the clubs where I already hold leadership roles.

Pickleball Club is one of the more relaxed things I do at school. I already spend a lot of time around competitive cricket and tennis, so I like having another sport that is social, active, and still gives me a reason to compete a little.

I joined HOSA because healthcare is the area I’m most seriously considering for my future. After being involved as a member, I was elected Treasurer for the 2026–27 term. I help with budgeting, fundraising, and planning while staying involved in the health-focused side of the club.

I independently planned and ran the NY Ovals Youth Cricket Cup 2026 for U12 players. The tournament brought together 8 teams and 104 players and coaches. I handled registration, scheduling, match logistics, fields, rules, finances, and communication with teams, umpires, parents, and volunteers.

The event generated $3,124 in profit, and I contributed all of the proceeds back to NY Ovals to support youth cricket programs and local development. Outside the tournament, I also coach and mentor younger players in fundamentals, strategy, teamwork, and sportsmanship.

As a player, I’ve competed in NEPCL and youth leagues and served as both captain and vice-captain. I was named Bowler of the Tournament and recorded a five-wicket haul in NEPCL, described on my resume as the largest U15 tournament in the United States. I also recorded a five-wicket haul in the CDCA adult league and have earned two Man of the Match awards.

I contribute in several roles: wicketkeeper in powerplays, bowler through the middle and death overs, and batter at No. 3.

My CDCA work is the organizational side of the sport: building fixtures, tracking registrations and payments, coordinating match-day operations, and working with players, captains, umpires, and organizers across a regional league.

I organized and launched KKCD’s first cricket tournament, attracting 32 participants. I managed registration, team formation, scheduling, rules, communications, and match-day operations, and the event generated $165 for KKCD.

I work part-time as an assistant coach with NY Ovals, helping younger players build their cricket skills and become more comfortable in game situations. During practices, I help with drills, fundamentals, match preparation, and keeping sessions organized.

Coaching has been different from playing because I have to think about how to explain something in a way that makes sense to another player. I also try to make practices competitive without losing the part that makes kids want to come back and keep playing.

I also work as an umpire for youth cricket tournaments. I officiate matches, make on-field decisions, keep track of the game, and help make sure the rules are applied consistently for both teams.

Umpiring has made me look at cricket differently. As a player, I am focused on competing; as an umpire, I have to stay neutral, pay attention to every ball, communicate decisions clearly, and keep the match moving even when a call is difficult.

I spent nine hours shadowing at GlobalFoundries, where I got a much better picture of what actually goes into making semiconductor chips and how a large chip company operates. Before the experience, chips were mostly something I understood from diagrams and class projects. Seeing the scale of the process made the subject feel much more real.

I learned more about the steps behind semiconductor manufacturing, the kind of precision the industry requires, and how engineering, manufacturing, and business all have to work together before a chip ever reaches a device.

I completed a five-hour Introduction to Semiconductor and Integrated Circuit Design program with NY CREATES, where I learned how a chip goes from a logic idea to a design that can eventually be fabricated. One of the first things we worked through was how an AND gate can be built as part of a chip, which helped connect the digital logic I had seen on a screen to the hardware underneath it.

I’m now working on a 2-bit calculator chip project. The goal is to build the logic, test the design, and submit the finished project to NY CREATES for fabrication. Having something I worked on move beyond a simulation and toward a physical chip is what makes this project especially exciting to me, and the finished work is intended to be recognized as a design created by high school students.

I’m keeping this section focused on the process while the project is still underway. Once the design is submitted and fabricated, I plan to add the final circuit, what worked, what had to be changed, and what I learned from the finished chip.

I’m currently working on a solar panel research project through Chemistry Club. The project is giving me a chance to spend more time on one scientific question than I normally would in class and to think about how chemistry, materials, and energy technology connect in a real application.

It is still a work in progress. As I collect results and figure out what is actually worth sharing, I plan to add the research question, method, data, and what I learned here.

I built the website for the Desi Student Association because the club needed one. I wanted members to have a simple place to see events, sign up, and understand what the organization was about without digging through old messages or classroom posts.

I built it with HTML and CSS and deployed it on Vercel. It was one of my first experiences making a website for an actual group of people rather than just completing a coding assignment, which made every small design choice feel more important.

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During my neuroscience research internship, I used R, Biblioshiny, Web of Science, Excel, Python, and matplotlib to organize and visualize bibliometric data. I was not building software for the sake of coding; I was using the tools to answer research questions about how brain-computer-interface research has developed.

I worked on sponsorships and donations from local businesses and partners and helped raise $4,002 for blood cancer research and awareness. That total included $1,976 from a ping-pong tournament that I organized and hosted.

A lot of my service overlaps with the organizations I already care about. I’ve helped with Kannada language classes for children, cultural events, donation drives, youth sports, robotics outreach, and school activities. I like service most when I can take responsibility for a piece of the work instead of only showing up for the final event.

I spent more than 25 hours tutoring Algebra I one-on-one. The part I’m proudest of is not the number of hours: the student I worked with improved from scores in the 50s to an 80 on the Algebra I Regents exam.

Tutoring taught me to stop explaining things the way they made sense to me and start figuring out what explanation made sense to the other person. That has helped me in coaching, leadership, and pretty much every group project since.

I’m a High School student taking advanced coursework and have maintained a straight-A record. I’m an AP Scholar, a member of the Math, Science, and Technology Honor Societies, and the top scorer at my school in the ASMA Mathematics Competition.

I attended school in Singapore through sixth grade before continuing school in the United States. Moving between two school systems gave me an early lesson in adapting quickly and being comfortable in new environments.

• DECA State Qualifier in Business Management, Law & Ethics.
• DECA and FBLA 2025–26 Leadership Awards.
• Wharton Investment Competition participant.
• Associate in Marketing Management, American Marketing Association, March 2026.
• Google AI Certificate, 2026.
• Introduction to Semiconductor and Integrated Circuit Design Certificate, NY CREATES · 5 hours.
• R Programming Distinction Certificate.
• 3 Green Awards for maintaining a high GPA.
• 1 White Award for outstanding leadership.
• High Honor Roll, AP Scholar, ASMA school top scorer, and Math, Science, and Technology Honor Societies.

I served as JV tennis captain in 2026, helping lead practices, match strategy, and player coordination. I was also runner-up at an APAPA ping-pong tournament.