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Cohort 53
Alexander Griffiths
Infrastructure policy and decisions.
Allan Wandia
Foundation models that learn directly from raw experimental data.
Benjamin Unger
AI to measure the performance of New York governments.
Broderick Cotter
Finding the best materials for 3-D printing.
Jordan Unokesan
Trust scoring for government contractors.
Maarten Boudry
To write a book on who is really for progress, or not.
Marius Drozdzewski
German liberal periodical Aevum project.
Cohort 52
Andrea Giuri
Developing closed-loop environments for high-throughput polymer discovery.
Brandon Rutagamirwa
Robots to repair satellites.
Jiratt Keeratipatarakarn
International prospects for drug approval reform.
Liam Aranda-Michel
A minimally invasive, injectable microvascular therapy.
Louis Elton
The British Craeft Prize, to improve aesthetics.
Peter Mukovskiy
Quantum computing, to visit MIT.
Cohort 51
Joseph Schmid
Write up new and better arguments for the existence of god.
Mikhail Khotyakov & Igor Kogan
Aimathic — personal math tutoring.
Sam Kahn
Digital publication, Republic of Letters.
Cohort 50
Aniket Panjwani
EconNow — AI-based software for economics.
David Yu
Fellowship program for agentic Taiwanese college students.
Geby Jaff
Publication medium for AI-generated science.
Ivan Khalamendyk
Independent Ukrainian physicist developing a ψ-field model of the universe.
Cohort 49
Ava McGurk
Therapy and other services company and general career support.
Jin Wang
AI and the history of Chinese economic growth.
Justin Kuiper
Progress Studies ideas for video.
Mihai Codreanu
Industrial parks and the origins of innovation.
Salvador Duarte
Podcast in economics and philosophy.
Cohort 48
Bernardo Melotti
Equipment to speed biological advances.
Griffin Li
General career support, issues in market pricing on apps.
Jamie Croucher
For a new scientific society, Society for Technological Advancement.
Lauren Gilbert
A progress-oriented magazine for the developing world.
Lucio Aurelio Moreira Menezes
Computational biology.
Minh Nguyen
To address problems of space debris.
Cohort 47
Jacob Neplokh
Political theory and the great books.
Juan David Campolargo
Write a book on universities and how to get the most out of them.
Paddy Corcoran & Sean Cahill
App for TikTok and study.
Rushil Kukreja & co-workers
Devices to see through walls.
Sambhav Baid
Measuring when antibiotics have stopped working.
Sheehan Quirke (The Cultural Tutor)
Work with David Perell on 'why beauty has disappeared in the modern world'.
Vivek Kommi
Extend healthy human lifespan by hacking the neuroimmune axis.
Cohort 46
Jessie Chen
Privacy-preserving machine learning models.
Lyubov Guk
Immigrant entrepreneurship support.
Maximilian Jager
LLMs to outline the German regulatory code.
Stella Tsantekidou (top-up)
Free speech advocacy in UK.
William Wu
Piano performance (Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff).
Cohort 45
Adria Moret
AI and philosophy — LLMs understanding animal welfare.
Jerusalem Demsas
General career support for new projects.
Manuel Martin Morante
Visit MIT for eventual biotech startup.
Cohort 44
Aakarsh Vermani
Summer support to live in Berkeley; computational biology.
Aristotle Ronyak
To explore and present what it is like to grow up with autism.
Ethan Glueck
To spread 3-D printers in rural Taiwan.
Michael Muthukrishna
Progress studies center at LSE and NYU.
Sasha Phoebe Zhang
To spread 3-D printers in rural Taiwan.
Sofiia Lipkevych
Translating online course material into Ukrainian.
Stephen Webb
Former civil servant writing a book on how British government could work better.
Cohort 43
Bethlehem Hadgu
Make classical music beautiful again (violist).
Jonathan Nankivell
Improve clinical trials in the UK.
Lily Ottinger
Game theory of South Pacific international relations.
Lucas Cremers and the David Network
AI in conservative student community.
Lucas Kuziv
Educate Ukrainian youth in AI and programming.
Zelda Poem
Artistic and cultural patronage programs.
Cohort 42
Alex Kesin
Substack on pharma, drugs, FDA and biomedical issues.
Bahadir Sirin
Brussels conference on progress and progress studies.
Jonathan O'Brien
Progress movement for Australia.
Juan Cruz Lopez del Valle
Behavioral political economy research and a DC trip.
Solomiia Kozolup
Film and Ukrainian cultural heritage.
Stephen Voss
Photography of northern Virginia data centers.
Teo Kitanovski
Prosthetics and bionic arms.
Will Maclean
Greater energy and architectural efficiency.
Cohort 41
Greg Kamradt
Measuring AI progress (Arc Prize).
Iris Sun
Biomedical researcher housing support (Nucleate DoJo).
Mark Lutter (top-up)
American free cities and governance.
Raahim Lone
A query optimizer to reduce database latency.
Stevie Miller
To write for Works in Progress; general career development.
Cohort 40
Aarav Sharma
To work on exoskeletons and AI.
Akhil Kumar
Global health issues and general career development.
Alice Gribbin
To write a book on Correggio and beauty.
Elanu Karakus
A smart flower to help bees find flowers.
Eve Ang
Biosciences and building exoskeletons.
Cohort 39
Ahad Hassan
Attend a neurodiagnostics conference in Abu Dhabi.
Ivan Prymachenko
Scalable quality online training for Ukrainians.
Jim Larsen (top-up)
Electricity, infrastructure and geothermal energy in Indonesia.
Karina Bao
Translate the autobiography of Morris Chang.
Marta Bernardino
Noise cancelling technologies for the ocean.
Sunir Manandhar
Ports and transportation; automation in industrial vehicles.
Theodor Grether-Murray
Noise cancelling technologies for the ocean.
Cohort 38
Anastasiya Dobrobabenko
STEM education for a school near Kyiv.
Fearghal Desmond
Induct project and SF travel grant.
Filip Cerny
General career support; building out entrepreneurship in Czechia.
Harry Law
Historian of science writing a history of AI.
James Vitali
To write a book about the political future of the UK.
Janine Leger
Building full-time communities around the globe.
Jodi Ettenberg
Podcast on how to deal with adversity.
Kyla Scanlon
Produce content on economics, including a new documentary.
Mariia Marinichenko
Physics and math instruction in Ukrainian for Ukrainians.
Michael Domarkas
General career support for the biosciences.
Nazar Drugov
Make Khanmigo fully functional in Ukrainian.
Pieter Garicano
Writing on Europe, progress, and technology.
Rishi Mehta
A device to limit falls of the elderly.
Sandro Luna
Easier ways of getting blood pressure readings.
Cohort 37
Jack Wiseman
Workspace for life sciences, hardware/robotics, AI research in London.
John Gross-Whitaker
Writing and thinking and career development.
Naila Moloo
Turning duckweed into bioplastics.
Nicholas Decker
Substack and general career development.
Nicholas Kruus
Poverty alleviation; general career support.
Ricardo López Cordero
Podcast on Mexican intellectual life.
Sean Cai and associates
Using AI to improve the information content of musical notation.
Sean Keyes
Study Irish policy issues (Progress Ireland).
Tim Mak
Periodical covering business and defense developments in Ukraine.
Cohort 36
Jim Larsen
Energy, geothermal energy, and Indonesia.
Mohit Deepak Agarwal
LLMs and ancient texts, through Perseus.
Muhammad Hunain
Space shields to protect satellites.
Nicholas Reville
RCTs on GLP-1 drugs to alleviate addictions.
Rohit Krishnan
Mid-career sabbatical program for interesting doers and thinkers.
Unmol Sharma
Purple sulfur bacteria to make hydrogen.
Vaishnav Sunil
Writing and podcasting, including on talent.
Cohort 35
Guillaume Blanc
Study fertility and the demographic transition.
Inayi Folarin Iman
Freedom of speech and open dialogue on race and identity.
Luke Strathmann
Projects related to economics and comedy.
Lyman Stone
Study and promote ideas of pro-natalism.
Patricia Hurducas
Writing; general career support.
Thanosan Prathifkumar
AI and the monitoring of plants.
Cohort 34
Asher Ellis
Indonesia studies and Pacific national security.
Diego Sanchez de la Cruz
Translate book on liberalism in Madrid into English.
Julia Lemesh
Send Ukrainian youth to elite boarding schools abroad.
Julian Gough
Book on black holes and evolutionary universe theory.
Maria O'Reilly
Instagram videos on Ukraine and history.
Onno Eric Blom
Dutch progress studies institute and tech policy study.
Robert Davitt
Bring visiting children together with family farm experiences.
Sean Jursnick
Single-stair reform for building codes.
Ulrike Nostitz
Build Irish space law association.
Vinzenz Ziesemer
Dutch progress studies institute co-founder.
Yaroslava Okara
Study internet communications; general career support.
Cohort 33
Aabhas Senapati
General career support; work on ecosystems.
Aldrich Heinz Alvarez
Wearables that harness multi-modal AI.
Alex Bartik & Arpit Gupta
Work on zoning codes, machine learning, and LLMs.
Alexander Koch
Robotics and robot learning.
Candela Francisco
Become the world's greatest woman chess player.
Dominic Sobhani
Progress Studies meet-ups and personal travel.
Dylan Iskandar
Computer science, music, general career support.
Egzona Marina
Promote science and neuroscience education in Kosovo.
Erick Li
Visit a social science conference at Harvard.
Mark Koyama & Desiree Desierto
British economic and political history.
Sasha Przyblski
Building more durable batteries.
Vesuvius Project (scrollprize.org)
Deciphering the Herculaneum scrolls.
Yanchuk Dmytro
Repairing electric station short circuits.
Cohort 32
Anastasia Vorozhtsova
Study Russian education and the Russian state.
Anshul Kashyap
Neurotech and vision; visit the Netherlands for research.
Anson Yu
Telemetry devices to detect compromised hardware in electrical grid.
Denisa Lepadatu
Trip to Prospera to pursue longevity research.
Henry Dashwood
British company to ease land rights/permissions.
Jamie Rumbelow
British company to ease land rights/permissions.
Kieran Lucid
Irish videos about YIMBY and aesthetics at Polysee.
Le Sallay Academy
School for Ukrainian refugees in France and Serbia.
Rohan Selva-Radov
Dating/matching service for young people.
Ruxandra Tesloianu
Travel grant; bio space, science, and meta-science.
Serhii Shadrin
Study information manipulation and media at University of Chicago.
Snowden Todd
Book on South Korean fertility issues.
Cohort 31
Anirudh Bharadwaj Vangara
Semantic search to match students with internship opportunities.
Clayton Haight
Robotics and accelerating progress in hardware.
Elly Shin
Research the possibility of extending menopause.
Hemanth Surya Ganesh
Longevity research and general career support.
Hetav Patel
Co-founder of semantic search engine project.
John Ervin Caldemeyer
Translate Juan Marsé into English.
Julie R. Vaughn
Delaying menopause and epigenetic reproductive aging.
Kyiv School of Economics
Support Ukraine talent development.
Lisa Wehden
Plymouth initiative — faster and transparent immigration services.
Taisiia Karasova
Sponsor the Ukrainian National internet-Olympiad on Astronomy.
Tymofiy Mylovanov (top-up)
Support Ukraine talent cultivation.
Cohort 30
Chang Che
Book project on the return of state socialism in China.
Hudhayfa Nazoordeen
Hydroponics for affordable food.
Luke Farritor
Deciphering ancient scrolls; travel grant.
Mike Ferguson & Natasha Asmi
Growing blood vessels in the lab.
Nikol Savova
Podcast on Continental philosophy and mathematics.
Seán O'Neill McPartlin
Policy studies and YIMBY interests.
Snigdha Roy
Conference trip to India; math and computation and biology.
Zhengdong Wang
Advance his skills in thinking and writing.
Cohort 29
Andrew Nijmeh
Study of traffic management systems technology.
Bohdana Pavlychko
The Second Derivative Fund — venture capital.
Brian Wang
Panoplia Laboratories — DNA-based pan-virus vaccine research.
Chloe Chia
Research on human behavior in dense urban areas.
Dan Rivera
FavorPiedmont — addiction recovery and treatment.
David Siegel
YouTube channel about helping animals (for son Micah).
Dmytro Marakhovskiya
Rozmova — psychotherapy platform expansion to Poland.
Eugene Shcherbinin
Mathematics and economics career support.
Kyrylo Kalashnikov
Mini-robotics development.
Lukas Bogacz
Company based on fine-tuning LLMs.
Nadia Parfan
Takflix — Ukrainian film streaming platform.
Stuart Buck
Good Science Project — meta-science and science policy.
Vinaya Sharma
Autonomous drones; computer vision; 3D and thermal imaging.
Cohort 28
Aiden Bai
Million.js — open source React alternative.
Alishba Imran
Machine learning, robotics, materials.
Calix Huang
General career development; AI and start-ups.
Jesse Lee
Lower costs on developing safe and effective sugar substitutes.
Jonathan Dockrell
Trip to Próspera for air rights venture.
Michael Sonnenschein (top-up)
New project (repeat winner).
Nasiyah Isra-Ul
Write about, promote, and create a documentary about home schooling.
Russel Ismael
New mucoadhesive to improve drug delivery outcomes.
Viha Kedia
Writing and general career development.
Cohort 27
Adithya Chakravarthy
YouTube channel for advanced math videos.
Anna Claire Flowers
Civic Future conference in Cambridge, UK.
Jordan Dworkin
Pledge toward a metascience experimentation prize.
Julia Pamilih
Become a leading expert on Indonesia.
Juliette Sellgren
Civic Future conference in Cambridge.
Lada Nuzhna
Patent efforts related to her work on gene expression.
Maggie Li
Physiological changes in brain vasculature with aging.
Matthew Adelstein
Study of utilitarianism; become a public intellectual.
Max Thilo
Travel to Singapore and study their health care system.
Olutoba Ojo
Computational biology; general career development.
Tanner Greer
Fund translation of important Chinese works into English.
Viktoriia Schcherba
Study economic and political reconstruction.
Cohort 26
Ariana Pineda
Attend a biology conference in Prospera, Honduras.
Asher Parker Sartori
Summer conference for young biology professionals.
Ashley Mehra
General career development and eventual start-up plans.
Avi Schiffman & InternetActivism
Leading the digital front of humanitarianism.
Beyzamur Arican Dinc
Psychology research on emotional dynamics in marriages.
ComplyAI (Dheekshita Kumar & Neha Gaonkar)
AI to speed permit application at local and state governments.
Ian Cheshire
Career support; tech and start-ups; income-sharing agreements.
James Hill-Khurana
Dev environment for digital chip design; accompanying ML models.
Jarett Cameron Dewbury
AI and biomedicine; environmental enteric dysfunction.
Jennifer Tsai
Molecular and computational neuroscience; Gregoire Courtine's lab.
Keir Bradwell
Visit US to study Mancur Olson and Judith Shklar; visit GMU.
Nima Pourjafar
Apps, programming, economics, social problem solutions.
Sana Raisfirooz
Study bioelectronics at Berkeley.
Satvik Agnihotri
Visit the Bay Area; study logistics; general career development.
Vaneeza Moosa
Therapies for malignant pleural mesothelioma using epigenetic regulators.
Volodymyr Lapin
Career development in venture capital for Ukraine.
Winston Iskandar
App for children's literacy and general career development.
Cohort 25
Alina Beskrovna
Career support; work on economic reconstruction of Ukraine.
Andrew Solovei
Network compensating small-scale Ukrainian volunteers.
Duncan McClements
Economics, general career and research support.
Fergus McCullough & Sam Enright (Fitzwilliam)
Expand and build out The Fitzwilliam periodical.
Guido Putignano
Summer internship in computational bio for cell therapies.
Gwen Lester
Center for abused women (GLC Empowerment Center).
Isa Hasenko
Medical care for eastern Ukraine via digital information system.
Michelle K. Huang
Revitalize Japanese real estate; enable creative community in Japan.
Olena Skyrta
For-profit tying new scientific innovations to Ukrainian businesses.
Olesya Drashkaba
Sunseed Art — market Ukrainian art posters around the world.
Rasheed Griffith (top-up)
Found a Caribbean think tank.
Robert Tolan
Farmer and Math Olympiad winner; YIMBY by street for Ireland.
Sophia Brown
Study the State Department; career development.
Stephan Hosedlo
Expand his company selling farm and herbal products.
Yevheniia Vidishcheva
Theatrical project to travel around Ukraine.
Cohort 24
Aamna Zulfifiqar
Attend UK higher education to study economics.
Andrey Liscovich
Equipment for infrastructure in frontline Ukraine.
Andrii Nikolaiev
Advance Ukrainian mathematics; train Olympiad winners.
Arthur Allshire
Robotics and conference attendance.
Benjamin Chang
Novel RNA riboswitches for gene therapy with ML.
Chris Nicholson
Internet connectivity broker in Ukraine.
Gabriel Birnbaum
Investigate lithography for microchip manufacturing.
James Meech
Random number generator for better computer architectures.
Jason Hausenloy
Travel and general career development; AI.
Joseph Walker
Run and expand the Jolly Swagman podcast.
Katherine Silk
Career support; advice for early-stage startups.
Sofia Sanchez
Biology and agricultural productivity research at Stanford.
Cohort 23
Alex Mikulenko
Theoretical physics; sound/acoustics; particle physics; neutrinos.
Ginevra Lily Davis
Publish new magazine The Miami Native.
Grazie Sophia Christie
Publish new magazine The Miami Native.
Heidi Williams
Science policy and economics of science.
Jonathan Schulz
Run RCTs in Benin; gender inequality research.
Mariia Serhiienko
Art of Ukraine and contemporary issues.
Michael Florea
Start-up for longevity research.
Mike McCormick
See if the Emergent Ventures model can be scaled.
Mykhailo Marynenko
Software engineer; modern web applications and open-source.
Oded Oren
Scrutinize — data-driven accountability for criminal justice.
Paul Niehaus
Science policy and economics of science.
Sam Glover
Writer on social science, Effective Altruism, forecasting.
Yudhister Kumar
Efficient solid hydrogen storage; rationality and cool physics.
Cohort 22
Brian Kelleher
Improve software for doctors.
Cathal J. Nolan
Book on the relationship between war and progress.
Cynthia Haven
Book on John Milton and the 17th century.
Demian Zhelyabovskyy
Physics Marathon winner; physics research support.
Emily Karlzen
Arch Rift — astronaut helmet for commercial space flight.
Harsehaj Dhami
Visit a Longevity conference in Copenhagen.
Kyle Redlinghuys
API to make James Webb Space Telescope data accessible.
Pranav Myana
Incorporating renewable power into the grid.
Rodolfo Herrera
Market-oriented Facebook and YouTube videos for Mexico.
Tymofiy Mylovanov (KSE)
Nurture talent development for Ukraine.
Uliana Ronska
Researching problems of triangulating fast-moving stars.
Cohort 21
Anonymous (Central/Eastern Europe)
Anonymous grant to central/eastern Europe.
Hamidah Oderinwale
Sponsor EA visit to Nigeria; general career support.
Kamil Galeev
New foreign policy consultancy on Russia and China.
Luca Gattoni-Celli
Founder YIMBYs of Northern Virginia.
Oliver Kim
Research Chinese economic growth using light/satellite data.
Rhett Ellis
Deeptech replacement for the CV/Resume measuring presence of knowledge.
Tom Bell
Report 'In Search of the Best Policies for Translational Geroscience'.
Cohort 20
Kyiv School of Economics (Tymofiy Mylovanov)
Special 20th-cohort grant to KSE during the Ukraine war.
Cohort 19
Ben Smith
Multi-objective reinforcement learning with exponential-log function.
BioDojo House
3-month co-living community in Boston/Cambridge.
Bridget Pegg
Career development and policy outreach.
Carol Vieria de Magelhaes
Visiting research internship at Harvard Medical School.
Dwarkesh Patel
Podcasting and career support.
Hector Alberto Diaz Gomez
Multilingual search engine research.
Louise Perry
The Other Half — feminist think tank with post-liberal agenda.
Paulina M Paiz
Scientific conference travel and DeepChem work.
Cohort 18
Henry Oliver
To write a book on talent and late bloomers.
James Lin
Interests in effective altruism and biosecurity.
Jessica Watson Miller
Non-profit to improve the treatment of mental illness.
Martin Borch Jensen
Talent Bridge — bring talented foreigners to US for longevity R&D.
Nadia Eghbal
Study and write on philanthropy for tech and crypto wealth.
Pradyumna Shyama Prasad
Blog, podcast on economics and history.
Santiago Tobar Potes
Public service, law, and foreign policy.
Subaita Rahman
One-year visiting at Church Labs at Harvard.
Zvi Mowshowitz
Develop his career as idea generator and public intellectual.
Cohort 17
Ananya Chadha
Stanford freshman; neurology and electrical engineering.
Brian Potter
Improve productivity in construction through writing and practice.
Caleb Watney & Alec Stapp
Founded Institute for Progress, think tank for progress studies.
Davis Kedrosky
UC Berkeley undergrad; economic history.
Grant Gordon
Remedy hunger and nutrition problems in East Africa.
Isaak Freeman
Gap year after high school; general career development.
Joe Francis
Farmer in Wales writing a book on economic history of American slavery.
Katherine Dee & Emmet Penney
Career development including collaboration.
Molly Mielke
Founder/CEO of Moth Minds — foundation for grants programs.
Sofia Sigal-Passeck
Uniphage — bacteriophages and AI for bacterial diseases.
Cohort 16
Basil Halperin
Economics graduate student; writing and career development.
Geoff Anders
Leverage Research — identifying scientific bottlenecks.
Gytis Daujotas
CS student; Great Books web accessibility project.
Nina Khera
Teenage longevity researcher; developing aging markers (Biotein).
Phoebe Yao
Founder/CEO of Pareto — human API for startup business functions.
Rabbi Zohar Atkins
Pursuing public intellectual career.
Sam Enright
Writing, blogging, and career development support.
Samantha Jordan & Nathaniel Bechhofer
Platform accelerating scientific data management.
Valmik Rao
Defecation management program for Nigeria.
Zena Hitz
Building The Catherine Project to revitalize classics study.
Cohort 15
Anna Harvey
Evidence-based law and economics in police departments.
Emily Oster
COVID-19 School Response Dashboard and Data Hub.
Jeremy Horpedahl
Social media work to combat misinformation, including Covid.
Kathleen Harward
Series of children's books based on classical liberal values.
Richard Hanania
Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.
Cohort 14
Cameron Wiese
Progress Studies fellow creating a new World's Fair.
Center for Indonesian Policy Studies
To hire a new director.
Jimmy Alfonso Licon
Philosopher; visiting position at George Mason University.
Madison Breshears
Study the proper regulation of cryptocurrencies.
Michelle Wang
Causes and cures of depression; intern at MIT.
Quest for Justice
Help Californians navigate small claims court without a lawyer.
Tony Morley
Progress Studies fellow; first optimistic children's book on progress.
Upsolve.org (Rohan Pavuluri)
Legal reform and deregulation of legal services for the poor.
Zach Mazlish
Recent Brown graduate in philosophy; travel and career development.
Cohort 13
Andrew Tate Young
Custom audio from blogs; audiobook creation from public domain science.
Justin Glibert
Nanotechnology, cryptography, and space manufacturing.
Lea Degen
Podcasting and general career support.
Rasheed Griffith
Podcast and Substack on China in the Caribbean.
Trevor Chow
Studying economics and monetary policy.
Cohort 12
Andres Leon
Building a mobile payments company with his brother.
Brianna Wolfson
Start-up focused on teaching corporate culture.
Ifat Lerner (Lerner Labs)
Customizing education for K-12 students.
Mukundh Murthy
Biology and antibiotic resistance; general career development.
Youyang Gu
COVID-19 projections using ML; blog on pandemic analysis.
Cohort 11
Andrew Dembe
Working on the 'last mile' problem for health care delivery.
Applied Divinity Studies (anon)
Anonymous blog awarded for writing and blogging.
Jordan Mafumbo
Ugandan autodidact studying Heidegger and the foundations of liberalism.
Markus Strasser
Next-generation scientific search interface for quantitative questions.
Matthew Clancy
Progress Studies fellow building newsletter on innovation research.
Maxwell Dostart-Meers
Study Singapore and state capacity as a Progress Studies fellow.
Samarth Athreya
Biomaterials and nanotechnology advancement.
Yuen Yuen Ang
To write a new book on disruption.
Cohort 10
Arthur W. Baker
Incentive design for vaccines, in cooperation with the Accelerating Health Technologies team.
John Durant
Career development and writing, and explorations into notions of angels.
Krishaan Khubchand
Study mega-projects and capital allocation; Progress Studies fellow.
Mishka Orakzai
Support her thiscodeworks project to make snippets of code more available.
Sebastian Garren
To found John Paul II Preparatory School's South Campus in St. Louis — hybrid online and in-person K-12.
Vignan Velivela
Co-founder of AtoB; background in robotics and peer-to-peer lending.
Wasteland Ventures
Support their efforts in talent search and development.
Witold Wiecek
Bayesian modeling of the COVID-19 epidemic and the design of an optimal vaccine portfolio.
Cohort 9
Anna Steingold
Career support; investigates small business outcomes in NYC.
Bekhzod Khoshimov
PhD at Wisconsin Business; study of entrepreneurship.
Daniel Gallardo Albarrán
Historical research on European policy responses to plagues.
Dylan White
Podcast on travel and tourism during pandemic times.
Fasih Zulfiqar
#1 economics student on Pakistan national exam; college study support.
Mikko Packalen
Progress Studies fellow; Associate Professor of Economics at Waterloo.
Sarvasv Kulpati
Education and technology; starting UC Berkeley.
Cohort 8
Carole Treston
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care; Covid-19 informational videos for nurses.
Eibhlin Lim
Interviews founders to share their origin stories.
Joshua Broggi
Woolf University — on-line university to bring learning programs globally.
Kyle Redelinghuys
API as easily accessible single source of Coronavirus data.
Seyone Chithrananda
Project De Novo — molecular ML methods for novel small molecule discovery.
Cohort 7
Adaobi Adibe
Restructure credentialing; build infrastructure for a more meritocratic world.
Dryden Brown
Build institutions and a financial center in Ghana via Bluebook Cities.
Evan Horowitz
Start the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts.
Jassi Pannu
Best policy responses to pandemics (Stanford medical student).
John Strider
Progress Studies grant on reinventing the integrated corporate research lab.
Michael T. Foster
ML to predict which politicians will succeed and advance their careers.
Nicholas Whitaker
General career development in Progress Studies.
Shrirang Karandikar
Indian project to measure and understand local pollution.
Vasco Queirós
Twitter browser app for superior threading and online communication.
Cohort 6
Anna Gát
Development as a public intellectual; spotting and mobilizing talent.
Eric James Wang
Academia Mirmidón — find/market programming and tech talent in Mexico.
Gonzalo Schwarz
Archbridge Institute — policy reforms in Uruguay and Brazil.
Harshita Arora (top-up)
AtoB — sustainable transportation for intercity commuters via buses.
M.B. Malabu
Setting up a market-oriented think tank in Nigeria.
Nolan Gray
In residence at Mercatus; book on YIMBY ('Against Zoning').
Parnian Barekatain
Synthetic biology research at MIT Media Lab.
Samarth Jajoo
Indian boy in high school; study materials for math, CS, tutoring.
Sonja Trauss
YIMBY; assistance to publish Nicholas Barbon's 'A Defence of the Builder'.
Cohort 5
Andy Matuschak
Reexamining and improving the book as a learning method.
Clementine Jacoby & Recidiviz
Non-profit collecting data on recidivism and penal reform.
Colin Mortimer
Career development; marketing neoliberal ideas via social media.
James Gallagher
16-year-old programmer; career development grant.
Namrata Narain
Incoming Harvard PhD studying firm contracts in dysfunctional court systems.
Nicholas Donahue
Open source VR headset startup for makers and web developers.
Shruti Rajagopalan
Indian political economy and economic policy improvement.
SpiritFire
Working with survivors of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
Cohort 4
Alexey Guzey
Travel grant to the Bay Area; blogging and internet writing.
Dylan DelliSanti
Teach an economics class to prisoners; scale that activity.
José Luis Ricón
Blogging and develop further platforms for information dissemination.
Kadeem and Savannah Noray
Study how to identify undervalued, high potential K-12 students.
Natalya Naumenko
Study the long-term impact of nuclear explosions on health.
Neil Deshmukh
Apps to help Indian farmers identify crop disease.
Paul Novosad (top-up)
Scalable platform for socioeconomic data dissemination in India.
Thomas McCarthy
Travel grant to the Bay Area; work on nuclear fusion and start-up programs.
Cohort 3
Craig Palsson
Market Power, a new YouTube channel for economics.
David Forscey
Travel grant examining election fraud protection issues.
Fergus McCullough
St. Andrews law/history/politics/public affairs career travel grant.
Jeffrey C. Huber
Book on tech and economic progress from a Christian perspective.
Jennifer Doleac
Evidence-based law and economics; crime and punishment podcast.
Jordan Schneider
Explaining the rise of Chinese tech and its global ramifications.
Justin Zheng
High school student working on biometrics for cryptocurrency.
Kyle Eschen
Comedian and magician working on 'steelmanning' arguments initiative.
Mayowa Osibodu
Building AI programs to preserve endangered languages.
Michelle Rorich
Economic development and Africa; bike trip Cairo to Capetown.
Cohort 2
Andrew L. Roberts
Small grant to further his work on how sports relates to politics.
Anonymous (board game)
Working on a board game for ten years, aimed at teaching basic economics.
Brian Burns
Working with Samo Burja on the history of mathematics and 18th-century Göttingen.
Can Olcer
Co-founder of Kosmos School, a K-12 school that exists only in virtual reality.
Kelly Smith (top-up)
For-profit project to further extend the Prenda parent-run charter school system in Arizona.
Lama Al Rajih
Young Saudi CS student building Therma; travel grant for mentorship visits.
Nicholas Dunk
Bringing voice recognition / machine transcription to the daily tasks of doctors.
Sophie Sandor
Scottish filmmaker making films with themes of rational optimism and ambition.
Stefan de Villiers
High school student creating podcasts on the decisions of other high school students.
Cohort 1
18-year-old economics prodigy (anon)
Travel grant to meet with rationality community members.
Anonymous (Eastern Europe writer)
Anonymous grant for writing in Eastern Europe.
Ben Southwood
Support for writing and research on why progress in science has slowed down.
David Perell
Support for his work in podcasting and social media.
Eric Lofgren
To develop the skills to become the nation's leading public intellectual on defense procurement.
Gaurav Venkataraman
Two-year pledge to support his doctoral work on the idea of RNA-based memory.
Harshita Arora
To help her pursue work in brain science, including brain-computer interfaces.
Jeffrey Clemens
To develop his online writing in economics.
Joy Buchanan
Research on why people become entrepreneurs using experimental economics.
Juan Pablo Villarino
'The world's greatest hitchhiker' — travel and conference grant.
Kelly Smith
To further extend and organize a parent-run charter school system in Arizona, Prenda.
Leonard Bogdonoff
Scrape Instagram and create a searchable concordance of street art around the world.
Mark Lutter
Center for Innovative Governance Research, on charter cities and creating a new charter city.
Michael Sonnenschein
Research to reform and improve the Haitian lottery system.
Stefan Roots
An online and paper newspaper to cover local news in Chester, Pennsylvania.
Topos House
Pledged grant to San Francisco's Topos House, conditional on finding a 'social science prodigy'.
Cohort 16
Achyut Tiwari
GeoLiquefy — AI forecasting earthquake-related soil liquefaction.
Aditya Raj Chopra
High school senior; general career development.
Anand Unni
Nayaneethi Policy Collective — public policy curriculum and community.
Ansh Mishra
Reliable and accessible bionic prosthetic hands.
Arnav Kumar
Vyobha Aerospace — regional eVTOL with fractional ownership.
Ayush Kale
EarthSprint Solutions — agricultural waste into low-carbon cement blocks.
Devayan Das
Dissolvable tissue culture nutrient blocks.
Ishaan Gangwani
InkVell — an AI-native LaTeX editor.
Jasraj Budigam
CapNav-Lite — adaptive AI for personalized power-wheelchair control.
Mankaran Singh
Frictionless human-robot interaction in human-centric environments.
Mannat Kaur
Wastewater recycling integrated into the built environment.
Michael Grasa
Falsifiability-first approach to decoding the Indus Valley script.
Mohd Fahad Eqbal
Chakraswap — affordable battery swap network for e-rickshaw drivers.
Ronald Abraham
Veeraa — crowdfunding and growth platform for India's community leaders.
Roumak Das
Travel to the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence 2025.
Samik Goyal
SPOI — teaching informatics to school students; AI Olympiad travel.
Satyamedh Hulyalkar
LoRa-based self-healing mesh network for agriculture/monitoring.
Shivam Parashar
GreenScore — industrial effluent monitoring with ML and IoT.
Snehadeep Kumar
Nebula Space Organisation — ultra-low-cost Earth-imaging CubeSats.
Sommaiya Angrish
Alt Hindi-pop musician working on his third album.
Tristan Wagner
Low-cost autoinjectors for anaphylaxis and snakebite envenoming.
Uttam Singh
Nakshatra Maps — indoor/outdoor public space navigation.
Vasu Dubey
ML-based medical device for speech restoration in laryngectomy patients.
Vineela Upadhyayula
NeuraEase — wearable AI detection of acute dysregulation events.
Cohort 15
Aditya Gupta
Breath diagnostics for gut disorders non-invasively.
Adnan Abbasi
Thothica — archive reader for rare texts using AI translation.
Bharath H G
Robotic system to safely clean manholes remotely.
CEDA (Ashoka)
Economic Enterprises Tool — Center for Economic Data and Analysis.
Dheemanth Reddy
Maya Research — Veena speech models for English and Indian languages.
Farraz Mir
Bioinformatics automation project saving researchers time.
Jainul Abedin
Abyom SpaceTech — India's first reusable rocket.
Jnanendra K S
Convert vintage cars to EVs in his automotive mechanic shop.
Kunjpreet Arora
Angirus — plastic and industrial waste into waterproof low-carbon bricks.
Namrata Rajagopal
Exception Raised — grants program for India's AI research ecosystem.
Ritisha Sethi
Qubit Quest — learn quantum computing through gamification.
Sankalp Shrivastava
Self-taught developer; general career development.
Saransh Duharia
Garudakshak — smart drone detection and neutralization system.
Sarthak Pandit
Wireless drone recharging system.
Vrinda Borkar
Wingrow Agritech — agricultural markets for small farmers.
Cohort 14
Ansh Saxena
Aquanode — AI-native cloud for deploying and training models.
Avani Agarwal
Synthera — AI-powered drug discovery for personalized medicine.
Dhanush Bakthavatchalam
AI-driven factories for metal fabrication.
Dhruv Bathla
Ezbeat — copilot preventing cardiovascular disease.
Joy Agrawal
UChicago sophomore; general career development.
Kumari Anushka
RAD-Scan — citizen-led biomarker testing for radiation/heavy metals.
Mateo Escalante
Horus Prosthetics — ML-generated prosthetic leg sockets.
Mohammad Mahean Hasan
Minerva University student; travel and general career development.
Nikhil Kashyap
Affordable robotics kit + visual coding platform for STEM education.
Prince Rawat
Falken Aerospace — autonomous cargo UAVs.
Rashi Bhavsar
Algaevity — natural zero-electricity mosquito-killing bio-device.
Rishi Rathi
Marine carbon dioxide removal.
Rounak Banerjee
Converting standard wheelchairs to electric.
Sushan Bhattarai
Mapping archaeological sites of the Khasa-Malla kingdom across the Himalayas.
Syed Irfan Ahmed
Non-invasive posture-monitoring devices.
Tanuj Pandya
Gloves bringing realistic touch to XR devices.
Utkrisht Singh Chauhan
InTacht — speed up and reduce costs for edge and private AI.
Vasisht Dilip
Seric Steel — iron ore mining waste into steel without fossil fuels.
Cohort 13
Aaron Rego
Rightful — help Indian families recover unclaimed financial assets.
Adithya Sakaray
Recruitr AI — automate video interviews.
Anushka Punukollu
SucroSoil — repurposing sugarcane waste into hydrogels for soil.
Deev Mehta
Rover making farming autonomous.
Habel Anwar
Middle-schooler advancing physics Olympiad preparation.
Khyathi Komalan
Category theory applied to quantum physics and social relationships.
Mihir Maroju
Open Blood — open-source blood donation platform.
Prakyath Gowda
Lightweight efficient electric vehicle battery.
Rushab M
Temperature-control jacket for outdoor workers.
Sajal Deolikar
Hybrid powertrains improving commercial vehicle mileage.
Samarth K J
IIT Madras civil engineering student; general career development.
Shwapno Rahman
Low-cost computers for people below the poverty line.
Soumil Nema
NeoVes — stem cell therapies for neurological disorders.
Sudhir Sarnobat
HowFrameworks — sustainable growth for SMEs.
Uddhav Gupta
Speech therapy app for children with special needs.
Vatsal Hariramani
Smart affordable neonatal incubator for remote terrain.
Yash Darji
Experimental rocketry community in Ahmedabad.
Cohort 12
Akhil Reddy K
Livestockify — solar-powered IoT for poultry disease monitoring.
Avhijit Nair
HydroPlas Tech — graphene from waste plastic.
Dev Patel
ML and geophysics for flood detection and forecasting.
Kaviraj Prithvi
uDot — tactile display for blind STEM students.
Keya Shah
Prosthetics in Bangalore.
Khyati Pathak
Co-founder of Puliyabaazi Hindi Podcast.
Mohil Ahuja
Low-cost algae-based air purification system.
Pragyaan Gaur
Reducing industrial sulfur dioxide emissions.
Pranay Kotasthane
Co-founder of Puliyabaazi Hindi Podcast.
Prashansa Tripathi
IIT Jodhpur doctoral student — Cambridge neuroscience training.
Rain Rejius
TRIPd — wearable temperature control technology.
Rakshith Aloori
Desalination machines for water crisis.
Reivanth Kanagaraj
ColourCryption — anti-counterfeiting solutions.
Sanjay Ganguli
Documenting wildlife stories from India.
Saurabh Chandra
Co-founder of Puliyabaazi Hindi Podcast.
Tawheed Rahman
Low-cost prosthetic robotic arm.
Vishrant Dave
Armatrix — hyper-redundant robotic arms for industrial inspection.
Wajih ur Rehman
Aerosol-based air pollution solution for Pakistan.
Cohort 11
Advik Kapoor
Exerton — assist aspiring creators with launching projects.
Adwait Dandwate
Vardhishnu — learning spaces for vulnerable children.
Ambreen Deol
Aspiring surgeon; travel and career support.
Amruth Ravindranath
Cognitive assessments and personalized mental health AI models.
Anjali Jayaraman
Repay Smart — financial decision gamification for young adults.
Arjun Khemani
Podcast work and writing projects.
Ishan Khire
Rural Analytics — rural development data for researchers.
Jhillika Trisal
Cognitii — AI-plus-human learning for children with special needs.
Kaustubh Bankapure
Online applied theatre education for Indian educators.
Kavish Garg
Stanford sophomore in math and philosophy.
Nikitaa Sivaakumar
Interactive visual aids for high school science teachers.
Piyush Jha
Vasudeva Innovations — wastewater to clean energy with carbon credits.
Ria Khurana
RNT Health Insights — early gastrointestinal cancer detection.
Riddhi Jain
AI-powered mental health system.
Saket Sinha
Bansuri virtuoso with more than seventy students worldwide.
Shaunak Agarkhedkar
Novelist writing about stray animals.
Tanmaya Gulati
RNT Health Insights co-founder.
Vibhuti Bafna
Waste2o — converting agricultural waste into drinking water.
Cohort 10
Akash (Basedcon)
Co-founder of Basedcon conferences.
Manoj Ramaiah
Ariima DeepTech Circle — connecting researchers with industry.
Munna R. Shainy
Neurotech enthusiast attending COGNESTIC 2024 Summer School.
Neil Shroff
Co-founder of Basedcon conferences on Indian tech and culture.
Nithilan Ravikumar
Physics researcher pursuing International Physics and Philosophy Olympiads.
Parth Patel
Aerospace engineer passionate about robotics.
Rakshita Deshmukh
PhD in Neuroscience at IIT Kanpur — sleep and decision-making.
Ramya Prakash
Pursuing electronics and robotics education.
Sachin Raghunath Pachorkar
Project Bandhan — tribal employment.
Shreepoorna Rao
Founded crypto DeFi startup; drone-based robotic arms and medical drones.
Soni Wadhwa
Teaches literature at SRM University, curates PG Sindhi Library.
Sumuk Hegde
Automated beach-cleaning robot.
Surya Maddula
Whisperwave — active noise cancellation system.
Tamzid Rahman
BloodLink — peer-to-peer blood donation app.
Tanish Patare
High school student with consecutive Science Olympiad gold medals.
Tithi Paul
Algorithms using zebrafish patterns for water safety.
Varsha Korimath
Highschooler and National Tinker Champ member.
Yash (Basedcon)
Co-founder of Basedcon conferences.
Zubin Sharma
Project Potential — talent identification in rural Bihar.
Cohort 8
Akshin Makkar
Drone application for agricultural weed management.
Amanjot Singh
Co-founding Wayfarers Space in Bangalore.
Ayush Chauhan
Multi-device charging stations in rural India.
Divyanshu Dembi
Antitrust lawyer; 'Jack of all knowledge' podcast on law, policy, arts and tech.
Indraneel S. Bankapure
ML tool for sculpture identification (Virasat: Indian Heritage Initiative).
Junaid Ahmed
WalkingPal — world's first walking buddy app.
Lakshay Taneja
Ocean and tidal energy projects; background in blockchain and AI.
Madhulash K. Babu
Edodwaja — 'flowbus/lab on wheels' for school STEM experiences.
Moksh Soni
Designing electrolyzer for hydrogen production.
Nikhil Garg
bytecubetech and Advisely study-abroad platform.
Samay Sanghvi
Alteon Energy — wind-energy gliders.
Sriram Kuchimanchi
Smarter Dharma — sustainable materials platform for building industry.
Cohort 7
Abhishek Sethi
gradCapital — early-stage incubator.
Akshita Sachdeva
Trestle Labs — assistive tech for accessible education.
Bhagyashree Prabhutendolkar
Empower — youth-led media outlet.
Harshil Naik
Contineu — India's first AI-enabled construction intelligence.
Karthik Palakodeti
Writes and runs a podcast on animal welfare.
Krishna Saproo
Maunitva Nirakaran — research on music and cognition.
Manu Rewal
Indo-French filmmaker writing and producing a thriller.
Rabeea Raheed
Educator and STEM curriculum developer.
Ravindra Guravannavar
Pratibha Poshak — talent search and nurture program.
Rnjai Lamba
Product for a noise-free environment around oneself.
Spencer Schneier
Commenda.io — making starting a business globally easy.
Sriram Subramanian
Clever Harvey — virtual internships for high school students.
Vasav Trehan
Technifyed — bridging the tech education gap.
Cohort 6
Akash Kulgod (top-up 2)
Dognosis chief canine comrade.
Anagha Rajesh
Bacteria-driven DNA nanochip for computing.
Animikha Dutta Dhar
Mathematics, linguistics and problem solving.
Anshul Krishnadas Bhagwat
Polyglot speaking 9+ languages fluently.
Atul Singhal
Co-founder of Cuvette — student internship platform.
Faraz Ahmed Siddiqui
Linguistics; silver medal at International Linguistics Olympiad.
Gautham Pasupuleti
CEO of Biodesign Innovation Labs developing RespirAID ventilator.
Hardeep Gambhir
The Residency — education initiative.
Parth Verma
Bakz4ever — carbon capture and energy storage tech.
Rahul Sagar
Database indexing Indian periodicals (1800-1950).
Shankar Sri
Sputnik Brain — neural interface for depression treatment.
Shashank Aswathanarayana
Documenting Hindu temple acoustics in Southern India.
Shivaganesh Gaddam
Zeni5 — neobanking for student financial management.
Shweta Dalmia
Climapreneur — scaling climate podcast.
Yakara Ganesh
Samskar Electronics — educational device about child safety.
Cohort 5
Aadesh Nomula
Cybersecurity engineer developing home/factory security.
Abhishek Nath
Loocafe — public restroom infrastructure.
Aditi Dimri
Co-founder of Cranberry.Fit for menstrual health coaching.
Aditya Mehta
Arjuna Award-winning snooker player developing digital coaching.
Akash Kulgod (top-up)
Dognosis — human-canine communication technology.
Amandeep Singh
Building short video-sharing platform.
Ankita Vijayvergiya
Founded BillionCarbon, climate venture.
Ankur Paliwal
Founder of queerbeat, covering LGBTQIA+ community.
Arsalaan Alam
Aquastreet — wildlife-human coexistence using ML.
Arvind Subramanian
Sportstar product manager building India's sporting scene.
Aurojeet Misra
Radioactive forest fire detection system.
Divas Jyoti Parashar
Quintinno Labs — EV power solutions.
Govinda Prasad Dhungana
Co-founding Ostrom Center — HIV/family planning programs.
Kalash Bhaiya
Founding Fun Learning Youth nonprofit.
Karthik Nagapuri (top-up)
General career development support; AI engineer.
Keshav Sharma
Augrade — AI+AR platform for 3D model creation.
Kranthi Kumar Kukkala
HyGlo — anemia diagnosis device.
Kulbir Lamba
Studying DeepTech startup evolution in India.
Navneet Choudhary
LAMROD — trucking fleet management app.
Ray Amjad
Tools for identifying young people with exceptional math/science ability from under-resourced backgrounds.
Sandhya Gupta
Aavishkaar — teacher development for STEM education.
Shubham Vyas
Conversations on India — media venture for open democratic dialogue.
Soundarya Balasubramani
Writer building immigrant support community.
Srijon Sarkar
Studying mathematical oncology during gap year.
Srinaath Krishnan
Zephyr — credit scoring for immigrants.
Sujata Saha
Researching entrepreneurship in Dharavi, Mumbai.
Vedanth Ramji
Antimicrobial resistance research software.
Venkat Ram
Assistant professor at IIT Jodhpur studying labor market structures.
Cohort 4
Abhilash Mishra
Founder & CSO of EquiTech Futures, scaling cohort-based educational programs.
Akash Kulgod
Founding Dogluk, a startup-DAO for disease detection by dogs.
Aniruddha Kenge
Hemp fiber-based bio-composites to replace plastics.
Anvitha Kollipara
Scaling non-profits; Forbes-named teen changemaker.
Apurwa Masook
Space Fields — green composite propellant for launch vehicles.
Arun Iyyanarappan
Electrical engineer creating alternate systems for electric power consumption.
Ayush Srivastava
Serial entrepreneur focused on startup operations.
Benjamin Hoffner-Brodsky
Co-founder of Jhana AI lab; focus on legal democratization.
Chandhana Sathishkumar
SealXX co-founder; neuroscience and BCI researcher.
Chandra Bhan Prasad
Scholarship on Dalit capitalism and Dalit dignity.
Gowtham Tummeda
Building AI platform for biological data analysis.
Harsh Vardhan Shukla
YouTuber turned entrepreneur; nanotech and content production.
Hemanth Bharatha Chakravarthy
Co-founder of Jhana AI lab, automatic legal search interface.
Karthik Nagapuri
Nexteen — DeFi developer building tech infrastructure.
Keertana Subramani
Educator and social entrepreneur building SUVY Classes tutoring platform.
Keya Krishna
Measuring hyper-local pollution exposure.
Mohammad Ruhul Kader
Scaling Future Startup publication in Bangladesh.
Naman Pushp
Co-founder of Airbound, sustainable ground mobility.
Nathan Park
SealXX co-founder; economics and business management.
Nilay Kulkarni (top-up)
Software developer from Nashik; fintech startup.
Nithi Byreddy
SealXX co-founder; carbon capture research.
Onkar Singh (top-up)
Developing open-source CubeSat technology.
Raghav Gupta
EquiDEI — blockchain protocol for SME supply chain assets.
Reuben Abraham
Founding CEO of Artha Global, policy research building state capacity.
Sainadh Chityala
Self-driving car software for Indian urban environments.
Samarth Bansal
Independent journalist merging AI platforms with journalism.
Shruti Karandikar
Device donation initiative 'Screens for the Unscreened'.
Siddharth Kanungo
Founder of Primer, an interactive conversational learning platform.
Snigdha Poonam
Investigating scams and fraud in Indian political economy.
Swasthik Padma
TrashTrap — converting plastic waste into Plascrete building material.
Tejas Sidnal
Founder of CarbonCraft, converting emissions into building materials.
Tushar Khandelwal
Founder of Sigma91 career accelerator.
Vedanth Nath
Nexteen creative engine; football enthusiast.
Zi Cheng 'Sam' Huang
Ethnographic researcher studying elite spaces and education programs in India.
Cohort 3
Aaditya Dar / The Violence Archive
Open-source historical record of collective public violence using ML.
Abhinav Singh
Polekon — political economy education for young Indians.
Ajay Shah
Community of scholars on vaccine production and policy in India.
Akash Bhatia & Puru Botla / Infinite Analytics
Scaling Covid spread analysis platform.
Angad Daryani / Praan
Ultra-low cost air purification systems.
Anup Malani / CMIE / Prabhat Jha
Verbal autopsies on 20,000 deaths for Covid attribution.
Bevin A. / CONTACT
Low-cost RFID contact tracing for anonymized mobility.
Chandra Bhan Prasad (EV India 3rd)
Dalit capitalism as a movement for self-respect.
Jamie Martin & Sandeep Mallareddy / The Queen's English
Mobile app to help Indians speak English.
Meghraj Suthar
Growcify — helping small businesses establish e-commerce.
Naman Pushp / Airbound
VTOL drone delivery systems.
Onkar Singh Batra
India's first open-source satellite.
Preetham R & Vinayak Vineeth
Semantic text analysis for contextual advertising.
Prem Panicker
Exploring India's coastline; erosion and environmental degradation.
PS Vishnuprasad
Tracking cross-platform disinformation and propaganda.
Rubén Poblete-Cazenave
Dynamic effects of lockdowns on criminal activity.
Shriya Shankar
Accessible STEM education in Kannada.
StorySurf (Omkar Sane & Chirag Anand)
Short stories countering social media polarization.
Swasthik Padma
PLASCRETE — composite building material from plastic waste.
Trayas Foundation (Baishali Bomjan & Bhuvana Anand)
Championing reforms in state labor regulations.
Vaidehi Tandel
Political economy of urbanization in India.
Cohort 2
Akash Bhatia
Co-founder of Infinite Analytics, AI platform for customer data.
Amit Varma
Podcast host and journalist; creator of Econ Central podcast.
Deepak VS
Founder of Tilt shared mobility platform in Bangalore.
Harsh Patel
E-Bot: Arogya Sahayak medical robot prototypes.
Manasseh John Wesley
Founder of River Bend Data Solution, data science for healthcare.
Mohammed Suhail Chinya Salimpasha
Created India's first multilingual COVID symptom checker.
Nilay Kulkarni
Created MahaKavach App for quarantine monitoring.
Onkar Singh
Web developer creating Covid Care Jammu platform.
Paul Novosad
Co-director of Data Development Lab, SHRUG database creator.
Praveen Mishra
Founded ByBuy, an omni-channel retail platform.
Raman Bahl
Created voice-based academic system for rural learning.
Sowmya Dhanaraj
Assistant professor at Madras School of Economics; development economics.
Vidya Mahambare
Macroeconomics professor at Great Lakes Institute of Management.
Vidyarthi Baddireddy
Co-founder of PickMyWork gig worker platform.
Vinay Débrou
Self-taught data scientist building network visualization for Yak Collective.
Vivek Kaul
Finance and economics journalist; co-creator of Econ Central podcast.
Cohort 1
Ashish Kulkarni
Asynchronous mentoring podcast at Gokhale Institute.
Harshita Arora (EV India 1st)
AtoB — sustainable intercity bus transportation network.
Himanshu Dhingra
Travel and internship at Project Arizona.
Namrata Narain (EV India 1st)
Researching contract-writing when courts are dysfunctional.
Neil Deshmukh (EV India 1st)
PlantumAI for farmers and VocalEyes for visually impaired.
Paul Novosad (EV India 1st)
SHRUG socioeconomic data integration for Indian villages.
Samarth Jajoo (EV India 1st)
read.gift — a book gifting project.
Shrirang Karandikar (EV India 1st)
Indian pollution measurement and monitoring project.
Tejas Subramaniam (EV India 1st)
Sexual violence prevention information dissemination.
Cohort 1
Colin Clarke
Travel to Nairobi to provide astronomy education in rural Kenya.
Dithapelo Medupe
Statistical approaches to multilinear evolution in African development.
Emmanuel Nnadi
Phage therapies and phage bank in Nigeria.
Geraud Neema
Research on policy impact of Africans educated in China.
Mercy Muwanguzi
Robotics design for medical purposes in Kampala.
Nseabasi Akpan
Photography education for young people in Nigeria.
Saron Berhane
Research in synthetic biology (bio-leather produced using microbes).