Everything I'm doing.

Projects, experience, school, and life — updated as things evolve.

• Research — SJSU Psychology & AI Active Collaborating with a professor of psychology and AI at SJSU on ongoing research.
• Iron Man Helmet for Blind Children Active Building an AI-powered Iron Man helmet for blind children. Computer vision detects obstacles and warns the user through vibrating gloves. Responds to voice commands as JARVIS. Goal: donate finished helmets to children's hospitals — for free. Currently in Phase 2: designing in Fusion 360 and refining the JARVIS voice pipeline.
• Brain-Controlled Drone Active Building a brain-computer interface that flies a drone using thought alone. Training an EEG classifier to read left/right/rest mental commands, then connecting to a DJI Tello drone. Long-term goal: a full brain-to-AI pipeline. Currently in Phase 1 — learning Python, ML foundations, and signal processing.
• RateWildcat Active ratewildcat.org — a student-built platform for rating and reviewing things at school.
• AI Curriculum Active Designing an AI curriculum with my school district's superintendent and executive director of curriculum — bringing AI literacy to the district.
• Pitch Deck — IKEA Past Submitted through TKS (The Knowledge Society). View deck →
• Pitch Deck — Microsoft Past Submitted through TKS. View deck →

• Athira Active ML intern — metrics, labeling large datasets, ML pipeline exposure, and outreach to partner organizations.
• Neurex Past · 1-week work trial ML & BCI work trial at Neurex (Founders Inc backed, SF) — sleep-tech startup building a dry-EEG headband with Closed-Loop Auditory Stimulation (CLAS). Designed a real-time sleep-staging pipeline (SQI filtering, TinySleepNet, YASA slow-wave validation, LSTM phase prediction) and built a benchmarking framework comparing YASA, TinySleepNet, U-Sleep, DeepSleepNet, and SleepTransformer on PhysioNet Sleep-EDF — informing on-device vs. cloud decisions.
• Tennis Coaching — Self-Employed Active Paid Independently coaching kids — my own clients. Site →
• Arora Tennis Active Paid Coaching kids through Arora Tennis.
• Touchpoint Legal Past · HUVSTP '25 Interned as part of the Harvard University Ventures Summer Training Program.
• Social Media & Content Active Building a personal audience on TikTok and Substack around AI, self-improvement, and student life. TikTok: @patla680.

• Current Courses Calculus, Honors Chemistry, AP Computer Science A, English, Business, AP World History.
• SAT Prep Actively studying — math and reading.
• AI, ML & Neurotech Self-Study Building toward BCI — studying ML foundations, signal processing, and neuroscience independently.
• Reading Heaven on Earth, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and The Courage to Be Disliked.
• Extracurriculars MUN, CSF (California Scholarship Federation), PVSA (Presidential Volunteer Service Award).

• Training tennis and boxing, hitting the gym consistently, doing seva every weekend, learning to drive, editing videos for fun, building an audience on TikTok and Substack, and occasionally picking up guitar — been playing since middle school, intermediate level, mostly for fun now.

• TKS — The Knowledge Society Alumni '25 Graduated from TKS. Built two pitch decks (IKEA and Microsoft), earned a certificate.
• HUVSTP '25 Harvard University Ventures Summer Training Program. Interned at Touchpoint Legal, earned a certificate.