High School

Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, and English

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Computer Science (Major) and Minor in Mathematics & Astronomy

Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

Spring 2025

Spring 2025

Research Assistant For Security & Privacy Research

• Collected data for modelling how packets appear going to and from one person to another over end-to-end encrypted messaging services and using that to detect which users were talking to each other
• Used Wireshark to track packet sizes and see how VPNs affect packets for above research

Research Assistant For Autonomous Driving Systems

• Cleaned and processed a large dataset of videos for self-driving cars using CVAT
• Assisted in writing the published paper "COOOL: Challenge Of Out-Of-Label A Novel Benchmark for Autonomous Driving"

Intern for SPIN Internship

• Helped develop Astronomical research software Blast - A web service for the automatic, real-time characterization of transient host galaxies (https://blast.scimma.org/)
• Used Wireshark to track packet sizes and see how VPNs affect packets for above research

Software Engineering Intern for Web Project

• Ported the company website over to a Laravel framework
• Converted over 120 pages from standard HTML and PHP to Laravel
• Assisted in setting up the dynamic contact page with a mail server

Course Assistant

• Assisted students on the material in this course and with the projects assigned as homework
• Headed discussion sections where students could ask questions about the course

Course Assistant

Assisted students on the material in this course and with the projects assigned as homework

Ali K. AlShami, Ananya Kalita, Ryan Rabinowitz, Khang Lam, Rishabh Bezbarua, Terrance Boult, Jugal Kalita, "Can self-driving cars handle the completely unexpected?" - Published 12/10/2024 in arXiv (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.05462 )

Presented poster and presentation about Blast at UIUC STEM Career Exploration and Symposium 2025.

Developed a novel AI application for real-world use, bridging research concepts with practical implementation.
Patent Number 202141019019 filed on 25th April, 2021, currently under examination in India (https://iprsearch.ipindia.gov.in/PublicSearch/PublicationSearch/ApplicationStatus )
This patent pending project developed under the guidance of mentors from Intel Inc. (India) can teach people with Autism to understand emotions and interact with others in the society.

Multi-purpose discord bot that is mostly used for entertaiment. Can also be used for searching for images, some image manipulation, getting summaries of wikipedia articles and much more. I have been working on this project since December, 2021. More information about this bot is available here.

1st Prize in India

My story "Champ Goes To The Zoo" was awarded the first prize in India where prominant authors like Ruskin Bond and Chetan Bhagat judged the competition. The story was later made into an animated mmovie that is available here

High Distinction Award

Held by the University of New South Wales, Australia. I won "High Distinction" award in Mathematics twice in 2014 & 2015

4th Prize in India

Organized in association with NASA.

1st Prize in State & "Budding Star" prizes in National & International Levels

High Distinction Award

Conducted in 23 countries by The Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1st Prize in India in Social Studies

1st Prize in India

Organized jointly by The Times Of India and Dell Technologies where over 3,50,000 from all over India participated

Finalist

Organized by IBM in collaboration with 1M1B, CBSE and Learning Links Foundation. The challenge was to focus on "AI For A Better India". My project AI Medic was adjudged as one of the best in the finals and I was awarded an internship with IBM India for my project.

In association with Intel Inc.

My AI Receptionist is an AI based bot that can work as a school receptionist. This was built with the guidance of mentors from Intel Inc and was showcased in New Delhi twice to federal ministers and officials. This was one of the first AI models developed by school students in India.

In association with Intel Inc.

My AI Autism Assistant an AI based software that can teach people with Autism to understand emotions and interact with others in the society. This project was also developed with the help of mentors from Intel along with one of my fellow class mates. This project is patent pending.

In association with IBM Inc.

My AI Medic is an AI based bot that can serve as the first level of health problem detection for people who are wary about visiting a hospital or clinic during covid pandemic. This project was chosen for the finals of the IBM EdTech Youth Challenge India 2021 and based on this project, I was selected for a virtual Internship with IBM India.

New York Academy Of Sciences

I was selected for “The Junior Academy” program organized by the New York Academy of Sciences for 2021-22. Our team spread across India and Nepal workedon prevention of overgrowth of algae, alongside the monitoring of eutrophied bodies to regulate level of minerals in the water and proposed methods to treat the eutrophied water of it’s already present excess nutrients

CERN, Switzerland

I enrolled for an online certification course called “Big Bang Physics” organized by Life Lab Foundation in association with global experts and leading scientists in particle physics from CERN, Switzerland. This course is helped me understand the fascinating world of particle physics. I completed the first and second levels of the course. In the second level I interacted with leading scientists from CERN, Switzerland and also made a video on Standard Model Of Particle Physics that received a distinction as one of the top 100 performers across South Asia.