Aarav K Reddy

AARAV K REDDY

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

Education — 3.98/4.00 High School GPA

  • Dhirubhai Ambani International School (DAIS) — IB Diploma, 41/42 in Grade 11 (2024–2026)
  • DY Patil International School — IGCSE (Cambridge), 7/7 A stars (2022–2024)

International English Language Testing System

  • IELTS — 8.5/9

Standardized Tests and APs

  • SAT: 1590/1600 (2024)
  • AP Chemistry: 5/5 (2025)

Academic Awards and Honors

School

  • IB Academic Excellence Award (2024–2025)
  • IB School Topper & Subject Achievement Award in Biology HL, Math AAHL, Physics HL, French B SL (2024–2025)
  • School Topper — IGCSE Board Examinations (7 A*) (2024)
  • IGCSE Subject Topper — Physics, Biology, French, Literature in English (2024)

International

  • Intl. Conference on Emerging Tech. in Computational Intel., 5th Ed. — Best Presenter Award (2025)
  • AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers) — Asia Gold (2024)
  • University of Waterloo Avogadro Chemistry Contest — 40/40, World Rank #1 (2024)
  • CREST Gold for Smart Bandage Device Research (2025)
  • LogIQids Olympiad — International Rank 3/1,000,000 (2023)
  • Singapore and Asian School Math Olympiad — Global Silver Rank 1 (2025)
  • World Mathematics Invitational — Global Silver (2025)
  • Hong Kong International Science Olympiad — Global Silver (2025)
  • ST Yau High School Science Award — Semifinalist, Final Results TBA

Smart Bandage for Real-Time Wound Protection and Infection Monitoring

  • Design and Utility Patent Application Number 202521093485 (2024–2025)
  • Accepted for publication in the journal Springer (2025)
  • Presenting at the Congress on Intelligent Machines and Algorithms (2025)
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

  • Radiomics (2023–2024): Published the paper "A Hyperparameter Tuning Optimized Convolutional Neural Network for Classification of Fruit Type and Quality through Computer Vision"

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

  • Researched and published a patient-oriented handbook on Childhood Cancers (2024–2025): Translated to Marathi and English to make it accessible to lower-income individuals in Maharashtra — childcancerhandbook.org
  • First of its kind — Endorsed by Maharashtra State Govt., Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation, Wadia Hospital
  • Includes info. on lymphoma, leukemia, CNS tumors — recommended nutrition, at-home precautions, contact details of subsidised schemes and low-cost doctors, low-cost places for families to stay while seeking care in Mumbai/Navi Mumbai
  • Distributed at least 5,000 physical copies free-of-cost to centres covering healthcare of 20,000,000 people, and digital copies are also available
DAIS Student Council – Lion House Sports Captain (2024–2025)
  • Leading over 300 students from Grades 1 to 12, winning the Sports Cup
Model UN (2019–2025)
  • Chairperson at over 15 conferences, including The Hague International MUN 2025
  • MUN Club Founder & President with over 120 students and 6 teams of mentors under me
  • Director General at DY Patil MUN 2023, Deputy-Secretary General at Dhirubhai Ambani MUN 2025
MENSA India Member, Administrator, and Special Interest Group (SIG) Founder (2024–2025)
  • Administrator: "MENSA Youngsters" youth outreach; Founder: MENSA India Debate Group.

Creativity

  • Published Author of the short story collection "I’m in Hell and That’s Okay" (2023–2024): Published on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, with the links available upon clicking the site name here.

Online Courses

  • Yale - Introduction to Medical Software (2025)