Aarav K Reddy

Aarav K Reddy

Biomedical Engineering Aspirant | Innovative Researcher | Community Impact Leader | Mumbai, India

+91 98203 20810 | kaaravreddy005@gmail.com | childcancerhandbook.org

Education — 3.98/4.00 High School GPA

International English Language Testing System

Standardized Tests and APs

Academic Awards and Honors

School

International

Smart Bandage for Real-Time Wound Protection and Infection Monitoring

Biomedical Engineering: Experiences & Research

Jio Institute — Research Intern in Computational Biology (2024-2025)

Jio Institute is an Indian postgraduate university.

Project: Revisiting Backbone Design in Self-Supervised Pre-training for Thorax Disease Diagnosis.

Mentored by Dr. Sudipta Roy, Associate Professor, AI & Data Science.

Second author of the paper, which has been accepted for publication in IEEE.

Sole presenter of the paper at ICETCI (Best Presenter Award).

Independent Research

Apprenticeship & Summer Enrichment

IIT Bombay — Apprentice (2025)

One-on-one mentorship by Professor Prasenjit Bhaumik in his Protein Crystallography lab.

Successfully crystallised simple proteins.

Aided the lab in everyday tasks, including buffer and colony preparation, running gel electrophoresis, working on 3D protein modelling via PyMol.

Summer Science Program — Cell Biology (2025)

Founded in 1959, funded and officially endorsed by MIT and Caltech.

Successfully knocked out the CCZ1 gene in yeast with 2 other high school teammates, with applications in Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Ebola research (was the first to do this investigation).

Wrote and presented a research paper on this topic.

Community Outreach

DAIS Student Council - Lion House Sports Captain (2024-2025)

Model UN (2019-2025)

MENSA India Member, Administrator, and Special Interest Group (SIG) Founder (2024-2025)

Creativity

Online Courses

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