ANKIT KUMAR
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About Me
Hi! I am 20-year-old, innovator, designer, and STEAM (Science, technology, engineering, the arts & mathematics) enthusiast. I'm curious about designing creative solutions to present-day global complications.
During my learning-excursion, I strived to challenge, catalyze and conclude on distinctive projects with similar-minded individuals.
I've been the recipient of numerous International & national honours, including the prestigious Commonwealth Essay Competition "Gold Award" and several merit rankings in Olympiads.
My Life On Canvas
"Every Canvas I Paint Is a Journey Of My Dreams On The Roads Of Reality"
The level of expertise and hours of practice required for an artist to pencil in the still life or delicately blend in the hues of landscapes, originates from their most prized possession- "their hand". My skills as an artist have indirectly helped me fine tune my creative talents and sharpen my interest in science. Over the last few years, I have mastered various mediums such as acrylic painting and colored pencil portraits as well as scientific skills like precise focus and deep understanding.
My Work
What I've done so far
Dexterity Global
Dexterity Global is a national organization powering the young leaders through educational opportunities and training. It hosts various pioneering experiential learning-cum-service leadership program inspiring, empowering and creating the next generation of service leaders. I attended DexSchool class of 2018, a weeklong world-class residential summer school of leadership and entrepreneurship for middle school and high school students aided with a yearlong mentoring and support system. In the year 2020, I interned with the organization. During the internship term, I identified technology needs of the organization, proposed working prototypes and presented reports to the senior management exhibiting critical thinking, analytical writing and leadership abilities in successfully completing all internship tasks and assignments.
Research Student
Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC)
The Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC) is a highly-esteemed summer opportunity for students to explore mathematics and develop their skills as burgeoning mathematicians. Participants are fully immersed in a like-minded community of students who can share their curiosity and talent for the field. The Camp is designed to facilitate a deeper understanding and appreciation for mathematics. The program includes lectures, research, and group projects. Students engage topical math research, historical milestones in mathematical discovery, and explore a survey of relevant applied mathematics. Quantum Search Algorithm! The summer program also allowed me to explore interesting math topics that would typically not be covered until theoretical courses in college: number theory, abstract algebra, and algebraic topology.
National Geographic Society + The Nature Conservancy
Research Extern
The Externship developed by The National Geographic Society (NGS) & The Nature Conservancy (TNC) assist in developing a comprehensive capstone project on issues related to freshwater. A in-depth research is conducted on the topic of interest with valuable insights and analysis offered from the mentors assigned.
Synapse Society
The Synapse Society is a discussion space and a close-knit community for curious individuals beginning to explore the brain sciences. The society was created as a non-profit student-run organization with assistance from numerous volunteers, geared towards generating curiosity about neuroscience, psychology and mental health. We at Synapse, harbor a community of budding neuroscientists whose purpose is to uplift marginalized communities by educating the specially abled on their rights as well as by extending research and learning facilities to socio-economic minority groups.
"Hike-The-Hills" is a social start-up which on a personal level continues to conducts Mountain self-sufficiency program where education is imparted to college & high-school students about independent trekking which is economically and ecologically beneficial as there is no need to have the porters, cook, or mules along, which leads to fewer footprints on the mountains and the ecological mess of the beautiful Himalayas. This is an effort to keep the vicinity as garbage free as we can. The volunteer journey across Himalayan trails - stay and interact with hill people to understand their lives, with purpose to retain beauty and the pristine greens in the region which have long suffered from the rubbish discarded by the trekkers.
National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS) is a distinguished academic honor society that is devoted to honoring and helping the highest-achieving student scholars by providing support to young scholars on their path to becoming tomorrow’s leaders. The society scholars makes it their mission to honor those high school students with the highest achievement and recognize academic excellence by providing resources and a network to transcend through college, their career, and in their community. I received an invitation to join the society on the basis of my GPA achieved during my high school. The foundation promotes the development of students who are a part of the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), sustainability, environmental science, public policy, economics, and business fields.
Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS)
The Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS) Program is a summer academic enrichment and leadership program that brings together students from over 130 countries and all 50 US States for two-week sessions. During YYGS, we attended lectures by Yale faculty, as well as small seminars taught by Yale undergraduates and graduate students. I was enrolled to the Innovations in Science & Technology session of the YYGS. I was exposed to interdisciplinary applications across wide variety of scientific fields such as physics, molecular biology, biochemistry, astronomy, engineering, and neuroscience ranging from the nanoscopic to the astronomical in scale. I proposed impactful solutions to peers and instructors on my capstone project "Cleaning of Ocean Plastic debris using existing technology" by conducting rigorous background research.
LaunchX Program
Founder
Hike The Hills
Founder & Blogger
National Society Of High School Scholars
Member & Collegiate Council
Attendee
LaunchX brings together highly curated group of promising young entrepreneurs from around the globe for five intense weeks supporting them through the process of launching an startup. Through this program, I had the opportunity to listen to riveting lectures from industry leaders and young entrepreneurs on the roadblocks that can make or break startups. Absorbing key marketing, sales, and finance principles, I applied this knowledge in a team setting to go though the process of creating the startup with motive to improve the educational experience of children with speech disorder. Our startup was driven by the design thinking process to discover innovative opportunities, backed by extensive market research, multiple iterations of prototypes, user testing, and gaining traction through getting real customers and partnerships.
Bits & The Bytes
Our articles take you into depths of science and spotlight its ripples in our lives and culture. At B&B, we believes any subject in science, no matter how complex, can be explained with clarity and vitality. We venture into the fields of anthropology, geology, and paleontology. We infiltrate the labs of astronomy, genetics, and physics.
When science ventures into the arts, we follow. There’s a story in everything and we follow the story wherever it leads us.
Co-Founder & AI Blogger
Student Researcher
The Wolfram Gap Year Research Programs are project-based, intensive one- or two-semester programs designed to provide springboards for high-achieving precollege and pre-graduate-school students to develop and demonstrate skills that will propel them to success in the increasingly computation-oriented world. I am delighted to be a part of kick-off research program which aims to enhance knowledge, experience and skills of individuals by allocating them work-authority over independent projects, supported by a mentor and other staff members. I had the opportunity to emphasize the concept of computational X — a computational extension by apply analysis skills to subject of vexillology (the study of flags) as well as work on more traditional projects, such as data science, machine learning, math and physics.
The New York Academy Of Sciences
The Junior Academy is an elite group of problem solvers made up of talented students, STEM experts, and companies around the world dedicated to designing innovative solutions to global challenges. After my participation, I gain lifelong access to exclusive educational opportunities and a remarkable global STEM network through Launchpad, a virtual collaboration platform. I enhanced my advance research, innovation, and collaboration skills with best-in-class learning resources and leverage these skills to compete in 70-day challenges sponsored by industry-leading companies. My team of self-selected 6 members worked on the project-based challenge which was focused on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. With sheer determination and hard work, we were fortunate to achieve the tag of finalist and semi-finalist in 4+ challenges.
IBM Accelerate Program
Lasting Impact
The Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC) is a highly-esteemed summer opportunity for students to explore mathematics and develop their skills as burgeoning mathematicians. Participants are fully immersed in a like-minded community of students who can share their curiosity and talent for the field. The Camp is designed to facilitate a deeper understanding and appreciation for mathematics. The program includes lectures, research, and group projects. Students engage topical math research, historical milestones in mathematical discovery, and explore a survey of relevant applied mathematics. Quantum Search Algorithm! The summer program also allowed me to explore interesting math topics that would typically not be covered until theoretical courses in college: number theory, abstract algebra, and algebraic topology.
Harvard-Crossroads Emerging Leaders Program
The Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC) is a highly-esteemed summer opportunity for students to explore mathematics and develop their skills as burgeoning mathematicians. Participants are fully immersed in a like-minded community of students who can share their curiosity and talent for the field. The Camp is designed to facilitate a deeper understanding and appreciation for mathematics. The program includes lectures, research, and group projects. Students engage topical math research, historical milestones in mathematical discovery, and explore a survey of relevant applied mathematics. Quantum Search Algorithm! The summer program also allowed me to explore interesting math topics that would typically not be covered until theoretical courses in college: number theory, abstract algebra, and algebraic topology.
Fellow
The Royal Asiatic Society
Major League Hacking
The Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC) is a highly-esteemed summer opportunity for students to explore mathematics and develop their skills as burgeoning mathematicians. Participants are fully immersed in a like-minded community of students who can share their curiosity and talent for the field. The Camp is designed to facilitate a deeper understanding and appreciation for mathematics. The program includes lectures, research, and group projects. Students engage topical math research, historical milestones in mathematical discovery, and explore a survey of relevant applied mathematics. Quantum Search Algorithm! The summer program also allowed me to explore interesting math topics that would typically not be covered until theoretical courses in college: number theory, abstract algebra, and algebraic topology.
Fellow
The MLH Fellowship is a 12-week on-line program that empowers hacker community and aspiring coders to engage within tech ecosystem from the comfort of home. The fellows contribute to open source projects used by hackers and organization globally with the mentorship of software professionals. Enrolled in explorer fellowship, I spent my time learning with my pods, listening to inspirational speakers and coding at hackathons. My active participation in Hackathon sprints assisted in getting a firm grip of Flutter and Firebase. Quantum Search Algorithm! The summer program also allowed me to explore interesting math topics that would typically not be covered until theoretical courses in college: number theory, abstract algebra, and algebraic topology.
Wolfram Research
Participant
Member
Attendee
DexSchool Graduate, Research Intern, D2C Fellow
The Climate Reality Project
Trainee & Mentor
We can never really see the future, only imagine it, then try to make sense of the apocalyptic world- disruptive enough to call forth existence crisis of coming generations. Founded by former United States Vice-president Al Gore, we’re bringing the world together to stop climate change and create a healthy and prosperous Earth. I enrolled for Climate Reality Project training in August 2020, learned how to engage in my own community ensuring our superannuation is invested sustainably. As a mentor at the 2022 training, I was tasked to lead small group discussions after every day sessions on diverse climate change issues, including regenerative farming and community solar power.
National Geographic Society + The Nature Conservancy
Research Student
Cfrce is dedicated to ignite positive change and creative self-actualization through scientific inquiry and education. It brings the full power of the Neuro-Cognitive paradigm into education and excels in empowering students, educators, parents and families on one hand and corporates, professionals and inquiring individuals on the other hand.
"Gold Certificate"
IIT-Guwahati's Technothlon
Won twice, awarded an academic tour to NASA's Campus.
"Winner, Young India Challenge 2019"
out of over 700 attendees,
granted $1350 for start-up financing.
"Senior Category - Silver (11th); Gold (12th),"
The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition
"Int'l 1st rank and 1st in State"
International Olympiad of Science (Level 2),
included $1015 prize.
"Int'l 2nd Runner-up and 2nd in State,"
International Olympiad of English Language (Level 2).
"Global Winner and National Award"
International Astronomy & Astrophysics Competition,
included $250 prize.
"Gold Honour"
International Youth Math Challenge ,
included $1015 prize.
"Gold & Silver Award"
The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award ,
included $1015 prize.
"Int'l 2nd runner-up and 1st in State"
International Informatics Olympiad 2018 (Level 2),
included $1015 prize.
"Int'l 1st rank and 1st in State"
Schneider Go Green Competition,
included $1015 prize.
"Int'l 2nd runner-up and 2nd in State"
International Social Studies Olympiad 2016 (Level 2),
included $1015 prize.
"Int'l 1st rank and 1st in State"
Trust for Sustainable Living Contest,
included $1015 prize.
Awards & Recognition
My Projects
"Aayush"- Enhancing the educational experience for children with learning disabilities
Elementary school children, especially students with ADHD, face the constant struggle of staying focused when completing their school work at home. Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder is a learning disability that affects the attention span, impulses, and memory of an individual, thus serving as a barrier for students with this disability both in and out of the classroom. Upon speaking to mothers of children with ADHD, we found that children with ADHD struggle to have confidence in their abilities. Aayu, our focus companion, is a robot that utilizes incentives and periodic reminders to help that children with ADHD stay focused on their homework and parents of children with ADHD stay updated with the child’s work progress.
"Hand-med"- Intelligent Sign Language Recognition for Deaf-Mute
"Hand-med" a commercial sensor glove company drafted during LaunchX program aims to aid deaf-dumb people by translating the sign language recognition into text with static palm side of right hand images. The glove was developed using an efficient and fast algorithm for identification of the number of fingers opened in a gesture representing an alphabet of the Binary Sign Language. The prototype consisted of designed intelligent system using group of Flex sensor, machine learning and artificial intelligence concepts to take visual inputs of sign language’s hand gestures and generate easily recognizable form of outputs. The objective of this project was to implement an intelligent system which can act as a translator between the sign language and the spoken language dynamically and can make the communication between people with hearing impairment and normal people both effective and efficient. After recognizing the gesture the output were expressed in terms of voice and text for display.
Smart Wildfire Protection & Containment Fencing System Using Wide Area Network (WAN)
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"neró"- Water Quality Monitoring system For Lakes Using Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
Developed a low cost, real-time water quality monitoring system which can be applied in remote rivers and lakes. The main hardware of the system consists of off-the-shelf electrochemical sensors, a microcontroller, a wireless communication system and the customized buoy. It detects water temperature, dissolved oxygen and pH in a pre-programmed time interval. The developed prototype disseminates the gathered information in graphical and tabular formats through a customized web-based portal and preregistered mobile phones to better serve relevant end-users.
"Attilan"- Let's Live In Unknown
Attilan is a small habitat in the Equatorial Low Earth Orbit, designed as a hotel and amusement park. This project examines the circumstances which would envelop the construction of such a settlement, in the context of the 21st century, and examines the potential of space tourism as a possible approach to the development of space exploration. It is a civilized habitat located in the Equatorial Low Earth Orbit, where radiation levels are lower because of the presence of the Earth’s magnetic field. Attilan consisted of a central sphere, a dock, an intermediate double cylinder, a hybrid torus, a cylindrical column, a smaller sphere and a torus
Microplastic Detector Using Laser Microscopy and Image Processing
Designed a tool that can characterize microplastics in water using laser to illuminate solid particles in the water. A digital microscope perpendicular to the laser propagation direction records the scattered laser light followed by an image processing algorithm in Python analyzes the particle characteristics, such as a histogram of the particle size and particle count distribution. Using a 405 nm laser, the particle fluorescence emission can be analyzed using different color filter lenses, and different solid particle contaminants can be characterized. This is an advanced feature that can distinguish microplastics from other microscopic particles. The future fully-developed prototype detector can be used for industrial water quality control, homes with no access to filtration systems, and researching microplastic contamination
"namī"- Home-Garden Drip Irrigation Automated System for Plant Pots
Drip irrigation system makes the efficient use of water and fertilizer. Water is slowly dripped to the roots of the plants through narrow tubes and valves. Water is fed directly to the base of the plants which is a perfect way to water plants. The namī is a designed prototype for home automation system using ready-to-use, cost effective and energy efficient devices including, moisture sensor raspberry pi, arduino microcontrollers, xbee modules and relay boards. Use of these components results in overall cost effective, scalable and robust implementation of system. The design can be used in big agriculture fields as well as in small gardens via just sending an email to the system to water plants.
"Agroscapes"- Home-Garden Drip Irrigation Automated System for Plant Pots
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Positions Of Responsibility
Student Ambassador
Microsoft
The Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors program is a global group of on-campus ambassadors who are eager to help students and their communities, lead in their local tech circles, and develop technical and career skills for the future.
Lets Stay In Touch
I am solemnly committed to being in everyone's contact grid. Questions, Comments or Collaboration on projects? I’d love to hear from you,
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