Leadership

Founder & Developer

Grade 11 – 12

• Built PrepFriend.com, an AI-powered SAT prep platform offering video lessons, topic-based practice, full-length tests, personalized recommendations, and performance analytics to help students find and fix weak areas.
• Created the PrepFriend101 YouTube channel with 150+ high-quality SAT video tutorials and thousands of views.
• Born from his own prep: after finishing the SAT, he turned everything he learned into a tool for the students coming behind him.

Antibiotic Resistance Research — Research Lead

Headwaters Research Institute · Grades 10 – 12

• Designed and ran a study on how the frequency of human contact drives antibiotic resistance in bacteria, using Kirby-Bauer testing on cultures grown from high-contact public surfaces.
• Currently writing The Invisible War, a popular-science book on how bacteria outsmart the antibiotics that saved us.

COSMOS, University of California, Irvine

Grade 11

• Designed an independent experiment on how bacteria respond to changing environments, using dilution and spot-titering techniques; presented findings to 300+ professors and parents.

Pre-Medicine Summer Program, UC Berkeley and UCSF

Grade 9 · 80 hours

• Learned clinical fundamentals including CPR and patient monitoring.
• Attended lectures on medical procedures and the healthcare system.

• Quiz Bowl — Founder & Captain: founded his school's team, captained five players to Nationals, and grew the club to 20+ students.
• USA Biology Olympiad Club — President: leads weekly biology lectures for 20+ peers and writes study guides; four members reached the USABO semifinals.
• Model United Nations — VP of Conference Preparation: leads 8 officers and built the rubric used to score 150 position papers.
• Science Olympiad — Secretary; Science Bowl — Captain (Biology Specialist).
• Teens in Health — Co-Organizer: co-ran research summits at UC Berkeley for 65+ students.

• Audacity Academy (750 hours): three-time PVSA Gold recipient; organized 20+ park and trail cleanup trips; tutored middle schoolers; led a College Board SAT bootcamp; gave community health-awareness presentations.
• Sutter Health (Palo Alto Medical Foundation, 120 hours): volunteer who supported the patient experience through wayfinding and operational assistance, and helped staff with logistics and supply management.
• Golden Harbor Healthcare (100 hours): physical therapy rehab aide who assisted with senior physical therapy and patient care, and built relationships with patients to support their treatment.
• UCSF Cancer Center, Think Like a Cancer Scientist Program (Grade 11, 20 hours): attended lectures about cancer treatment procedures and networked with professors and professionals across the UCSF network.
• Physician, surgeon, dental and optometry shadowing: in physician and surgeon shadowing, observed patient consultations, diagnostic evaluations, and clinical decision-making while learning how physicians assess symptoms and develop treatment plans; in dental, helped with clinic workflow, sterilization and patient preparation; in optometry, kept patient records and analyzed Optomap retinal scans for 20+ patients over one month.

BASIS Independent Fremont

Fremont, California · Class of 2027