Ashrita Gandhari
I am a junior at the Thomas Jefferson high School for Science and Technology. I have been pursuing STEM since 6th grade through eCYBERMISSION, Science Fair and Technology Student Association events. As a freshman at TJHSST, I was selected for the MIT Medlytics program where I developed an Ocular Disease Diagnosis AI Model – A-Eye. With Cambridge-area physicians and experts, I also created models for diabetes detection, irregular sleep cycle detection, and lesion detection in bodily tissues.
As a junior, I continued my passion for science, and have been working on a project, LetoHealth, that employs AI/CNNs as an accessible and inexpensive method of evaluating the highest viable embryos using embryo morphology, embryo quality, and embryo implantation potential.
As a Research Intern at Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Research Intern, I have been working alongside MD and undergrad students on the Prediction of Pathological Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer Using Deep Learning with Integrative MRI and Radiology research report.
I collaborated with a group of STEM-interested students to create DEEPSEAS, a real-time AI surveillance system for marine protected areas complete with hardware and software components. Currently filing my first patent for this product at 15 years old.
I have been an avid reader and a terrific speller all my life. I have participated in spelling bee competitions since 1st grade and retired from my spelling bee career at 14 after I took the 7th place at Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2021. At the age of 10, I had a rare opportunity to feature in the Netflix movie, ‘Spelling the Dream’, which captures my spelling bee journey to my 32nd place at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2017.
I also enjoy playing tennis and have been part of the junior varsity and varsity teams at middle school and I continue to play whenever I get time.