About

Curious since age 11.

A UV-C robot, an Alexa skill, a face-recognizing assistant, and now a device that helps families living with dementia.

I'm a senior at Bergen County Academies' Academy of Engineering & Design Technology in Hackensack, New Jersey. I build AI systems, mostly for people that technology usually forgets.

It started with my grandfather. He has dementia, and when my family brought him from India to New Jersey, we learned what it means to care for someone who can't always tell you what's wrong. I'd be studying Taylor series for a test the next day, hear the front door lock click, and run down the street to bring him home. Every blue Ring notification during class made my stomach drop.

Life Alert needed him to recognize an emergency. A GPS watch didn't help inside the house. He could never remember “Hey Alexa.” So I built AI Caretaker, a device that just listens. It became a patent application, a peer-reviewed paper, and a pilot with 15 families.

Along the way I interned at Khoj, Metcash, and now Morgan Stanley, where I learned how software gets built when real money and real customers are on the line. I captain my varsity golf team, teach kids in India over Zoom, and volunteer at a nursing home near home.

Next, I want to study computer science and learn to run specialized AI directly on small devices, without depending on home Wi-Fi. The goal is a watch-sized version of AI Caretaker with heart rate and blood oxygen sensors, so families like mine can step away without watching the Ring app.

Based in: Mahwah, NJ
School: Bergen County Academies, '27
Building: AI Caretaker
Interested in: On-device AI, healthcare

How I got here.

From a 3D-printing business in sixth grade to a trading floor in New York.

2020
AIRD1, my first robot
Age 11 · Science fair, 2nd in engineering
An autonomous Raspberry Pi robot that sanitizes floors with UV-C light, built for under $200 during COVID. The hard part was the dose: I calculated how slowly it had to move (about 2.17 inches per minute) so every spot got enough UV-C to neutralize bacteria. Being 11, I immediately made business cards and a demo video for family and friends.
2020
A 3D printer and my first business
6th grade · Ramapo Ridge Middle School
I got a 3D printer for Christmas and turned it into a business. I took orders from classmates in a notebook, ran the prints overnight, photographed them, and handed them over at school the next day, charging extra for custom changes. Then I hit a scaling wall, the printer gave out, and the business went under. I learned more from that than from any print that worked.
2022
Engineering meets the scientific method
8th grade · Science fair
I printed 14 Statues of Liberty and broke every one on a force gauge, changing one slicer setting at a time. Gyroid infill won, and strength stopped improving past about 30% infill. Around the same time I wrote Hope, an Alexa add-on for teens struggling with their mental health. It was my first project you could talk to.
2023
High school, and the reason for AI Caretaker
Freshman year · Bergen County Academies
My grandfather had been living with dementia in India until his caregiver couldn't do it anymore, so my family brought him to New Jersey. At home he struggled to say what he needed, and when we stepped away he'd wander into the street. I learned the sound of the front door lock from my bedroom. That fall I started building AI Caretaker. I also made varsity golf, joined the STEM Club, and built Bruce, a face-recognizing AI assistant that became the starting point for AI Caretaker.
2024
My first internship
Summer · Khoj Information Technology
I built event-driven Azure workflows that now automate about 80 processes a day, and tested whether AI could write the code behind them. That research went into a GitHub Copilot proposal that won Khoj a $300K engagement with Metcash. In the fall I started volunteering at a nursing home and joined my school's FTC robotics team.
2025
Building outward
Sophomore year · Sydney (remote) · Philadelphia · New Delhi
I spent the summer on Metcash's Integration Delivery team, building the Copilot prompting framework that cut spec-writing time by 73%. I was CEO of a mock startup at Wharton, which placed in the top three, and I rebuilt the website for Lifting Soulz, which went on to help fund a school and a library in India.
2026
AI Caretaker goes public
Junior year · Patent · Publication · Pilot
I filed a U.S. provisional patent in May, presented at science fairs, and ran a two-week pilot with 15 families. The pilot showed me problems I hadn't planned for: accents, unreliable Wi-Fi, and patients who rarely start a conversation. The paper was peer-reviewed and published in Cureus. My Metcash work came out in IEEE Access.
Now
Senior year at Morgan Stanley
Software Engineering Intern · New York
I'm building a data pipeline that moves 15 million database metrics every five minutes, and turning my provisional patent into a full filing. My commute is ninety minutes each way, and I've turned it into a game: switch cars to land nearer the exit, take the Secaucus stairs two at a time, and find a new way to shave thirty seconds every trip.