Avi Gupta

I am a sophomore at Stanford University with a passion for science, social entrepreneurship, and activism. I founded and lead Project32, a student-run social startup that leverages the power of education and community engagement to tackle dental disease in youth. Since 2016, Project32 has provided thousands of dental hygiene kits to children in the U.S., India, Guatemala, and Haiti. My research has focused on vascular disease and synthetic blood vessel design.

In my free time, I love to play basketball, chess and watch (and compete in) Jeopardy! I competed in the 2019 Jeopardy Teen Tournament. After winning my quarterfinal, semifinal, and both rounds of the two-day final, I was crowned the Champion! I completed my first year of college at Columbia University’s School of Engineering as an Egleston Scholar, where I studied Computer Science. I then transferred to Stanford University to pursue simultaneous degrees in Computer Science (AI specialization) and Political Science (expected graduation 2023). In Summer 2019, I interned at Intel and I’m working at IBM’s Watson Research Center on deep learning approaches to time-series forecasting this summer. Since March 2020, I have also been applying my software development skills to fight the COVID-19 pandemic as a founding member of LifeMech, a non-profit organization developing a low-cost, rapidly scalable ventilator approved by the FDA in July 2020. We are now working on version 2 of the device. Ultimately, I hope to apply the technical and non-technical skills I will develop to bridge the gap between tech and government.