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\subitem Started solo unplucked arrangements, using MIDI for all tracks
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\item Dropped Baseball to focus on Cricket
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\item Continued bass guitar self taught (on and off)
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\item Joined High Octavez Band as a Keyboardist
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\subitem Performed in 2 major concerts, one in Fall and one in Spring
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\subitem Over 250 hours put in learning sound reproduction for live playing
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\subitem Ticketed concerts with over 1000 attendees, profits go to charity
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\subitem Won presidential award silver for community service through band
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\item Continued hiking during holidays
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\item Got a perfect score (101/100) in Texas Music Teacher's Associated Music Theory Test
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\item Started learning carnatic mridangam from Vid. Raju Balan
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\subitem Won best bowler in U13 Independence Day tournament
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\item Performed in Carnatic Vocal Concert, and small carnatic keyboard accompaniment gigs
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\item CBE Algebra II — [96, 96]
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\item CBE Health [87]
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\item E School Lifetime Witness Semester I [96]
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\item CBE Tamil via Avant for 4 Language Credits
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\subitem 100 in Reading, 100 in Listening, 99 in Speaking, 85 in Writing
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\item Continued baking eggless cakes as a hobby
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\item Continued producing music arrangements, learning live mixing in Garage Arts Project Dallas Exhibition
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\end{highlights}
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\section{9th Grade}
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\begin{twocolentry}{
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\textit{August 2023 – May 2024}}
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\textbf{IB World School @ Plano East Senior High School, Plano}
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\end{twocolentry}
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\vspace{0.10 cm}
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\begin{onecolentry}
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\begin{highlights}
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\item PreCalculus Honors: [98, 98]
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\subitem AP not offered at time
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\item AP Human Geography: [99, 100]: AP 5
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\item English I Honors: [99, 100] (blocked with AP HG)
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\item Biology Honors: [99, 97]
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\item AP Computer Science Principles: [100, 99]: AP 5
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\item Debate I: [100, 99]
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\item Introduction to Engineering Design: [97, 99]
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\item Math Club Secretary — Competed in many competitions
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\subitem AIME Qualifier from AMC 10
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\item Joined CS Club — First introduction to Java and competitive programming
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\item Debated in Extemporaneous Speaking, no further qualifications
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\item Member of School's Quiz Bowl Team (never competed)
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\item PSAT (8/9) Score 1440/1440 [720 Reading, 720 Math]
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\item Member of Plano East's Science Fair Club (see below)
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\item Participated in History Fair — Group Website on Arab Spring (no awards)
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\end{highlights}
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\end{onecolentry}
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\subsubsection{Simply Stir: Highlight Research Project}
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\begin{twocolentry}{
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\textit{\href{https://isef.net/project/etsd012-self-stirring-pot-using-the-seebeck-effect}{Project Portfolio}}}
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\textbf{Sole Researcher}
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\end{twocolentry}
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\vspace{0.10 cm}
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\begin{onecolentry}
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\begin{highlights}
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\item Developed a thermoelectric energy-harvesting system using a TEG for autonomous stirring.
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\item Designed a compact aluminum enclosure enabling efficient heat transfer and stable thermal gradients.
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\item Implemented electrical conditioning and load-matching to maximize TEG power extraction.
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\item Tested power delivery across various $R_{LOADS}$ using Vernier Probes
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\item Performed thermal, electrical, and mechanical characterization across multiple cooking conditions.
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\item Conducted viscosity-based stirring tests and identified mechanical design improvements for high-torque fluids.
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\end{highlights}
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\end{onecolentry}
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\vspace{0.1cm}
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\begin{onecolentry}
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Qualified to \textbf{The International Science and Engineering Fair}, 1st in Engineering @ Dallas
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\end{onecolentry}
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\vspace{0.2 cm}
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\textbf{Extracurriculars and Hobbies:}
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\begin{highlights}
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\item Dropped Carnatic Vocal Music in favor of Mridangam
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\item Continued tinkering with Carnatic Keyboard — no performances
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\item Cricket during Fall, dropped during Spring
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\item Continued Arranging Music through covers and original compositions
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\item Continued bass guitar self taught
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\item Joined High Octavez Band as a Keyboardist
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\subitem Performed in 2 major concerts, one in Fall and one in Spring
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\subitem Over 250 hours put in learning sound reproduction for live playing
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\subitem Ticketed concerts with over 1000 attendees, profits go to charity
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\subitem Won presidential award silver for community service through band
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\item Started private FTC robotics team with friends — Technical Turbulence
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\subitem Fully Custom Build (100\% CAD) and Java Codebase from Scratch
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\subitem Reached State Finals as globally top team in Tele-operated period
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\subitem Lead/Sole SW Developer, coded custom vision pipeline for object detection
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\subitem Learned advanced path-planning and odometry algorithms through libraries
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\subitem Implemented advanced driver control features to improve driver performance
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\subitem Mentored former middle school team (Quantum Claw)
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\subitem Learned further implementations of Java through a wrapper SDK
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\item Learned LaTeX in creating professional documents
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\end{highlights}
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\vspace{0.1 cm}
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\textbf{Summer:}
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\begin{highlights}
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\item Performed in Carnatic Vocal Concert, and small carnatic keyboard accompaniment gigs
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\item E School Lifetime Fitness Sem 2 — [98]
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\item E School Chemistry — [98, 97]
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\item Started intensively playing card games (56) with family
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\item Continued Keyboard and Bass Guitar Arrangements
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\subitem Collaborated with High Octavez member (Jeev Thomas) for novel arrangements
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\subitem Moved to include Hindi and Malayalam songs in covers (in addition to Tamil)
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\subitem Started singing in covers — brought in vocal techniques learned from carnatic music
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\subitem Started tinkering with Machine Learning, self taught basics of Python
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\item Started moving away from library pathing in robotics, coding custom pathing algorithms
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\subitem Learned about Bezier curves, cubic splines, and custom odometry implementations
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\subitem Presented findings in FLYSET workshop (1000+ views), TI "Take Kids to Work Day" event
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\item Fractured left wrist while playing gully cricket at school
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\subitem Completely halted my cricketing career (completely stopped playing)
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\end{highlights}
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\section{10th Grade}
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\begin{twocolentry}{
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\textit{August 2024 – May 2025}}
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\textbf{IB World School @ Plano East Senior High School, Plano}
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\end{twocolentry}
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\vspace{0.10 cm}
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\begin{onecolentry}
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\begin{highlights}
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\item AP BC Calculus: [98, 98]: AP 5 (on both sections)
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\item AP World History: [98, 99]: AP 5
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\item English II Honors: [98, 99] (blocked with AP WH)
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\item AP Env. Sci.: [97, 97]: AP 5
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\item AP European History: [99, 97]: AP 5
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\item Debate II: [99, 98]
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\item Engineering Science: [98, 98]
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\item Left Math Club and CS Club to focus on Robotics, Research, and Debate
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\item Debated in Extemporaneous Speaking, DUO Interpretation (Acting)
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\subitem Qualified to State in Extemp (Domestic), won Local Tournaments in DUO
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\subitem Qualified to Nationals in DUO Interpretation (1st in District) with Anshveer Kang
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\subsubitem Piece was ``Pom Pom Boys'' — about showing respect for all factions
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\item Joined NHS as member (36 hrs volunteer work completed)
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\item PSAT (10) Score 1450/1520 [700 Reading, 750 Math]
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\item 9/10 President of Plano East's Science Fair Club (see research below)
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\end{highlights}
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\end{onecolentry}
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\subsubsection{GaitGuardian: Highlight Research Project}
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\begin{twocolentry}{
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\textit{\href{https://isef.net/project/robo011t-ml-imu-processing-and-visual-monitoring-for-pd}{Project Portfolio}}}
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\textbf{Lead Researcher}
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\end{twocolentry}
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\vspace {0.10 cm}
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\begin{onecolentry}
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Met research partner, Viren Bankapur, by networking through ISEF 2024: Remotely collaborated on this project over
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Summer 2024 and the school year. GaitGuardian was Viren's project at ISEF 2024, and I joined to help expand the system
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with my embedded systems and ML expertise.
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\end{onecolentry}
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\vspace{0.20 cm}
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\begin{onecolentry}
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\begin{highlights}
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\item Built \textbf{GaitGuardian}, an end-to-end ML system aiding advanced Parkinson’s Disease patients.
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\item Designed a \textbf{custom PCB} and embedded stack with a 6-DoF IMU and ESP32-S3 for real-time sensing.
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\item Developed a \textbf{dual-attention CNN + biLSTM} model predicting Freezing-of-Gait up to 2s early.
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\item Created real-time algorithms for \textbf{fall detection} and \textbf{tremor classification} using IMU signals.
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\item Implemented a cloud-based \textbf{visual navigation module} with transformer object detection, depth estimation, and multimodal LLM scene descriptions.
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\item Optimized sensor pipelines via \textbf{signal filtering, feature engineering, oversampling}, and model tuning.
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\item Built two wearable devices (trunk and wrist) plus a BLE-connected \textbf{forehead camera} for vision tasks.
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\item Demonstrated performance exceeding existing FoG, fall, and tremor detection systems.
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\end{highlights}
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\end{onecolentry}
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\begin{onecolentry}
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Won 3rd Place at \textbf{The International Science and Engineering Fair}, 2nd OVERALL in Dallas $\to$ over \$1500 won
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\end{onecolentry}
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\vspace{0.2 cm}
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\textbf{Extracurriculars and Hobbies:}
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\begin{highlights}
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\item Dropped Carnatic Vocal Music in favor of Mridangam
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\item Continued tinkering with Carnatic Keyboard — no performances
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\item Cricket during Fall, dropped during Spring
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\item Continued Arranging Music through covers and original compositions
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\item Continued bass guitar self taught
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\item Joined High Octavez Band as a Keyboardist
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\subitem Performed in 2 major concerts, one in Fall and one in Spring
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\subitem Over 250 hours put in learning sound reproduction for live playing
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\subitem Ticketed concerts with over 1000 attendees, profits go to charity
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\subitem Won presidential award silver for community service through band
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\item Started private FTC robotics team with friends — Technical Turbulence
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\subitem Fully Custom Build (100\% CAD) and Java Codebase from Scratch
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\subitem Reached State Finals as globally top team in Tele-operated period
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\subitem Lead/Sole SW Developer, coded custom vision pipeline for object detection
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\subitem Learned advanced path-planning and odometry algorithms through libraries
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\subitem Implemented advanced driver control features to improve driver performance
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\subitem Mentored former middle school team (Quantum Claw)
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\subitem Learned further implementations of Java through a wrapper SDK
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\item Learned LaTeX in creating professional documents
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\end{highlights}
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\vspace{0.1 cm}
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\textbf{Summer:}
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\begin{highlights}
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\item Performed in Carnatic Vocal Concert, and small carnatic keyboard accompaniment gigs
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\item E School Lifetime Fitness Sem 2 — [98]
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\item E School Chemistry — [98, 97]
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\item Started intensively playing card games (56) with family
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\item Continued Keyboard and Bass Guitar Arrangements
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\subitem Collaborated with High Octavez member (Jeev Thomas) for novel arrangements
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\subitem Moved to include Hindi and Malayalam songs in covers (in addition to Tamil)
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\subitem Started singing in covers — brought in vocal techniques learned from carnatic music
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\subitem Started tinkering with Machine Learning, self taught basics of Python
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\item Started moving away from library pathing in robotics, coding custom pathing algorithms
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\subitem Learned about Bezier curves, cubic splines, and custom odometry implementations
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\subitem Presented findings in FLYSET workshop (1000+ views), TI "Take Kids to Work Day" event
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\item Fractured left wrist while playing gully cricket at school
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\subitem Completely halted my cricketing career (completely stopped playing)
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\end{highlights}
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\section{Character Traits and Personality}
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\section{GaitGuardian: Highlight Research Project}
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\begin{twocolentry}{
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\textit{\href{https://isef.net/project/robo011t-ml-imu-processing-and-visual-monitoring-for-pd}{Project Portfolio}}}
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\textbf{Lead Researcher}
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\end{twocolentry}
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\vspace{0.10 cm}
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\begin{onecolentry}
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\begin{highlights}
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\item Built \textbf{GaitGuardian}, an end-to-end ML system aiding advanced Parkinson’s Disease patients.
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\item Designed a \textbf{custom PCB} and embedded stack with a 6-DoF IMU and ESP32-S3 for real-time sensing.
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\item Developed a \textbf{dual-attention CNN + biLSTM} model predicting Freezing-of-Gait up to 2s early.
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\item Created real-time algorithms for \textbf{fall detection} and \textbf{tremor classification} using IMU signals.
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\item Implemented a cloud-based \textbf{visual navigation module} with transformer object detection, depth estimation, and multimodal LLM scene descriptions.
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\item Optimized sensor pipelines via \textbf{signal filtering, feature engineering, oversampling}, and model tuning.
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\item Built two wearable devices (trunk and wrist) plus a BLE-connected \textbf{forehead camera} for vision tasks.
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\item Demonstrated performance exceeding existing FoG, fall, and tremor detection systems.
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\end{highlights}
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\end{onecolentry}
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\vspace{0.1cm}
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\begin{onecolentry}
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Won 3rd Place at \textbf{The International Science and Engineering Fair}, 2nd OVERALL in Dallas $\to$ over \$1500 won
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\end{onecolentry}
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\section{Simply Stir: Highlight Research Project}
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\begin{twocolentry}{
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\textit{\href{https://isef.net/project/etsd012-self-stirring-pot-using-the-seebeck-effect}{Project Portfolio}}}
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\textbf{Sole Researcher}
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\end{twocolentry}
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\vspace{0.10 cm}
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\begin{onecolentry}
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\begin{highlights}
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\item Developed a thermoelectric energy-harvesting system using a TEG for autonomous stirring.
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\item Designed a compact aluminum enclosure enabling efficient heat transfer and stable thermal gradients.
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\item Implemented electrical conditioning and load-matching to maximize TEG power extraction.
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\item Tested power delivery across various $R_Loads$ using Vernier Probes
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\item Performed thermal, electrical, and mechanical characterization across multiple cooking conditions.
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\item Conducted viscosity-based stirring tests and identified mechanical design improvements for high-torque fluids.
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\end{highlights}
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\end{onecolentry}
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Qualified to \textbf{The International Science and Engineering Fair}, 1st in Engineering @ Dallas
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\section{FTC Robotics}
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