Currently:
Building and thinking about experiences and attention in a post-AGI world.
In The Past:
- Spent 7 years building a wearable device for my grandma with Alzheimer's.
- Met the Prime Minister of India.
- Got a $40k grant from Samsung after beating 18,000 college students as a high schooler.
- Had so much trauma fun dealing with IMU, LoRaWAN, and on-device AI bugs late into the nights.
- Won First Place at HackRice 2024 by building a personalized course scheduling and extracurricular recommendation system for Rice students.
- Spent 9 years of my life making YouTube videos with mom and brother in our home studio.
- Grew to 900k+ subscribers and 330m+ views.
- Built a wildly successful affiliate and dropshipping business.
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Built an AI-powered medical coding and billing system.
- Outperformed human medical experts with a 98.2% accuracy in orthopedics.
- Got acquisition offers from top RCM companies and an interview for YC W25.
- Led a team building an AI-powered search engine and chatbot for underserved high school students in
India in 2023.
- Ran a team of 9 cracked high school and college builders.
- Hit 1,200+ monthly active users at peak.
- Made loads building GPT-3 Wrappers as a 9th grader in 2021-22.
- Burned an entire year in 2020 coding a startup to help yoga teachers host paid virtual sessions. Generated a whopping $80 in total revenue.
"Achievements" that my Indian mom is proud of:
- Received the Prime Minister's Bal Puraskar, the highest civilian award for students in India.
- Won the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest out of 18,000 college students.
- Winner of Intel's Ideate For India Innovation Challenge out 133,000 students.
- Won the Times of India's #Unstoppable21 award.
- Won the Healthcare category at the biggest science fair of India, the CBSE National Science Fair 2023.
- Cartoon Network's #RedrawingIndia ambassador. Funny story.
Let's hang out:
Reach out on my socials, or shoot me an email at hemesh@rice.edu.
Things in my mind:
high agency
attention
storytelling
arduinos
biryani
films
hard sci-fi books
aperture
Featured in:
- The Guardian (Indian teen invents gadget that may transform dementia care)
- The New Indian Express (The sky is his limit for this young innovator and entrepreneur)
- The Times of India (He has crafted a device to help Dementia patients)
- The Better India (Grandma's Struggles Makes Teenager Craft a Device To Aid Dementia Patients)
- The GOATED Prime Minister Tweet