n 10th grade, I entered the Pivotal International Essay Competition and wrote about the economic and social impact of AI, and mostly the policy surrounding it. I loved the topic. I placed in the international top 1% and got to choose ten books as a prize, delivered to my door.

I wanted to explore more, so I did. I got involved in an AI research project, spoke to a lot of people, and eventually began working under a professor. That research on the socio-economic dimensions of AI, under Professor Surbhi Goel at the University of Pennsylvania, became a peer-reviewed paper published in IJRASET, which I presented at the NYC STEM Research Conference in 2025 as the only high-school student presenting. One thing led to the next, and I haven't stopped since.

Most of my time now goes to a newer study: how financial misinformation spreads across Indian social media, under Professor Hemant Kakkar at the Indian School of Business. The content is multilingual and code-mixed, so detection runs on MuRIL and XLM-RoBERTa rather than the usual English-only models, paired with two validated psychological instruments (the BFI-2-XS personality inventory and the Fear of Missing Out scale) to work out which traits predict who forwards a false claim, not just which posts are false. The code lives on GitHub.

Before that, I completed a first-author paper in financial economics and systemic risk under Professor Kritika Soni at the Indian School of Business and Finance, modelling how extreme, low-probability "black swan" shocks propagate across global markets through contagion and tail-risk frameworks. I also wrote How Economics Runs the World, published in Arbitrage, IIM Rohtak's finance journal, as the only high schooler in the issue.

My research isn't only in economics and AI. During my gap year I did original work in algebraic number theory at the Lodha Genius Undergraduate Research Mathematics Apprenticeship, under Professor Shanta Laishram, Head of the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Delhi.

I was also selected into the New York Academy of Sciences Junior Academy, where I completed the Fall 2025 Challenge on energy infrastructure under Dr. Nandhini Sivakumar, a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University's Motor Neuron Center, working with a global cohort of students on science-backed solutions.

Different fields, same itch: find a question nobody has answered cleanly, and chase it.