Member, part of the monthly committee, promoted the Diversity Council and made posts for culture fest (a full day about diversity). 22-23
Monthly Officer 23-24

Treasurer, Co-Founder, @lasadeca on insta

Used a Convolutional Neural Network to apply filters to MRI images and detect whether it contains a brain tumor in it or not. Trained on ~4000 images

Sparking my success spiral. Learned a lot about internal reflection, AI, and meeting new people!

Treasurer of the club!
bit.ly/lasaredcross23 (22-23 accolades)

bit.ly/freshmanwharton
Our team worked to evaluate a potential investment client, executing and managing a portfolio tailored to their values. Mainly worked on expressing the importance of climate activism and financial literacy.

Computer Science and Programming in Practice Clubs.
Weekly presentations and group discussions on computer science topics. AI + ML, learning about coding apps with Java for android devices

Not necessarily a project but I have been playing classical guitar for ~10 years now. I do performances every year, for Christmas and other events. I also play at nursing homes. Recently, I've been getting into acoustic steel string as well.

Using Zinc-Bromine Flow Batteries for Grid-Scales to answer "How would you allocate $50M to reduce the cost per kw/h of energy storage?"

The current material used for nanobot drug delivery are quantum dots. These can be toxic!
Video here: loom.com/share/794a5c24…

Utilizing AI to pinpoint the most effective ADHD treatments for individuals (Personalized Medicine)

Hosted a mini hackathon where we built on a ducky script and explored Austin! ~7 attendees :)

Just for remembering purposes: Student Council (member, 2019-23), painted a big diversity mural, I helped facilitate all the clubs in our school, etc. PNN (our news network on youtube, 2023) Science Olympiad (2021-23), Awarded 1st place in Density regionally with a partner. Band (played trumpet with many concerts, 2018-20) Quiz Bowl (2020-23) Food Club (make and bring food to school, 2021-22) Battle of the Books (2021-2022)
Charlie Award ("nicest person in the class" 2015-2022, i obtained it all 7 years)

I co-founded our school's first and very own South Asian Club with my friend. We ran it for one semester in freshman year and our biggest event was a Diwali party!

I was on the freshman tennis team from the 2022-2023 term at LASA. We went to a couple of tournaments and it was a lot of fun!

Top 100-500 people out of 10,000 (top 1%) who wrote an essay about implementing strict guidelines into a national agency like the UN to combat unethical use of AI.

Designed a prototype of an EEG-based BCI to read theta and delta power from your frontal lobe to prevent suicide. This information would connect to an application that gives suggestions on reaching out to people and more. 1000+ participants, 55 countries, 53 teams

Back in December of 2023, my team and I decided to compete in the NeuroTech Global Hackathon.

Our group ended up being the youngest winners ever!

As a group of high school students, we won against 1,000+ engineers and neurotech experts from 55+ countries. We competed against collegiate-level engineers from Oxford, Emory, Vanderbilt, Berkeley, Columbia, Rice, and UPenn.

We presented Brainspace, an EEG-based BCI that detects suicide biomarkers and links to an app interface.

• The BCI is a customer-grade headphone that analyzes delta and theta brain waves as the amount of these two brainwaves can correspond to increases in suicidal risk.

• Once the data on the theta and delta brain waves are gathered they will be shown on a graph in our app interface and the app will assess mental health risk to provide a recommendation from the user and prevent suicide.

For winning in the tech category, we have been awarded a hardware prize, the SenzeBand 2 by Neeuro a BCI company based in Singapore! With the SenzeBand 2 device we are going to analyze theta and delta waves to turn our idea into a reality!

Thank you so much to NeuroTechX, Mohit Patil, and Firàs Safieddine for hosting

alxmat.framer.ai/proj2

Made a website with two other team members. Got first in regionals and made it to the state round.

My team and I qualified for the semifinal round of CyberPatriot XV (15), the National Youth Cyber Education Program run by the Air Force Association. This puts us in the 97th percentile of all teams (>2400) across the nation.

Marketing + outreach to parents, students, and charter/private schools. Initiated the first private school partnership with beta testing. Posting on Reddit, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, etc. to capture the attention of students, parents, and teachers.
Software development and AI model training.

I am a part of the Teen Advisory Board at Generation SERVE. We facilitate all the teen service days, family volunteering days, and fundraisers! Co-chair of programs committee!

As a mentee, I was guided to help keep elderly folks entertained online by playing my guitar for them.

In my first year as a mentor, I guided my mentee to make >20 cat toys for cats in Austin Pets Alive and volunteer there.

In my second year, I helped the kids I was working with fundraise over $800 for the Austin Humane Society as I had volunteered there myself earlier that year. This was funded by many bake sales hosted by them and myself. These funds covered 2 dogs' needs for their stay at the shelter and contributed to the Austin Humane Society's Amazon Wish List

AI x neuroscience

Currently a sophomore!
Magnet High School, #34 best high schools in the nation according to US News
Relevant Coursework: AP Computer Science a (Java), Advanced Computer Science (C++, Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems)

Salutatorian of my class ('22)!