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Hi, I'm Laksh
My Physics Professor calls me "Lux"—the unit of brightness. Most others mispronounce my name as Lakshya, but that's okay.

A quote I live by

Stealers are monsters; takers are humans; givers are gods.

Vishnu Sir—My Hindi Teacher

My Interests

Mathematics

Math has sometimes been the greatest nemesis of good sleep, and sometimes it's been the greatest ally. This duality makes math incredibly appealing—the thrill of solving a problem that at first gave me goosebumps is still largely unmatched. Bayes' theorem is my personal favorite in Math—it's just a beautiful condensation and mockery of condition-based probability.

Coding for a cause

I initially started coding because I just loved seeing prescribed case studies and developing Python programs to implement solutions. However, after collaborating with peers to use technology for social good, I've come to treat coding as more than an exercise of problem-solving. Finding a way to use my skills to bring positive change in society is the greatest reward of programming.

Chess

I'm no Magnus Carlsen. I don't aspire to be. My interest in chess stemmed from my father's yearly routine of hosting an "Intrafamily Chess Championship" at the family's rural home. For the past 9 years, I have looked to learn more openings and experiment with new playing lines to find a way to get past my father and my 10 cousins who have partaken—I decided to use Stockfish 15 (the best chess computer) in 2022 for my preparation and I finally won in 2023 (probably the best day of my life). More than strategy-making, chess taught me perseverance and showed me how technology can complement human skill development.

International Baccalaureate Scores

12th Grade First Term

Subject Score
English A: Language and Literature SL 7/7
Hindi B SL 7/7
Economics SL 7/7
Computer Science HL 7/7
Physics HL 7/7
Mathematics Analysis and Approaches HL 7/7
TOK (Theory of Knowledge) A/A
Total 42/42

11th Grade Final Term

Subject Score
English A: Language and Literature SL 7/7
Hindi B SL 7/7
Economics SL 7/7
Computer Science HL 7/7
Physics HL 7/7
Mathematics Analysis and Approaches HL 7/7
TOK (Theory of Knowledge) A/A
Total 42/42

11th Grade First Term

Subject Score
English A: Language and Literature SL 7/7
Hindi B SL 7/7
Economics SL 7/7
Computer Science HL 7/7
Physics HL 7/7
Mathematics Analysis and Approaches HL 7/7
TOK (Theory of Knowledge) A/A
Total 42/42

IGCSE Scores

Subject Score
Additional Mathematics (0606) 99% (A*)
Chemistry (0620) 98% (A*)
Physics (0625) 97% (A*)
Mathematics Without Coursework (0580) 97% (A*)
Hindi as a Second language (0549) 97% (A*)
Computer Science (0478) 96% (A*)
Literature in English (0475) 95% (A*)
Economics (0455) 92% (A*)
First Language English (0500) 86% (A)

SAT Score

Section Score
Reading and Writing 760/800
Mathematics 800/800
Total 1560/1600

🎖️ My Achievements & Honors

Cambridge Outstanding Learner Award Top in India in Hindi as a Second Language
After getting a B in my pre-board examinations, I read endless Hindi newspapers and listened to over 100 Hindi podcasts to eventually secure the highest marks in Hindi as a Second Language out of 75,000 candidates in March of 2023.
Summa Cum Laude - Highest Marks in Grade X IGCSE 1st Place
Achieved the highest aggregate IGCSE score throughout the school (240 candidates) and the state of Rajasthan (2000 candidates) in the 2022-2023 IGCSE examination series.
Topper in Computer Science, Chemistry, Physics and Hindi as a Second Language in IGCSE board examinations 1st Place
Only candidate to top the school in 4 subjects in the 2022-2023 IGCSE Examination series; All India Rank 2 in Chemistry and Computer Science; Rajasthan rank 1 in Physics.
TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) Globals Business Competition 2024 1st Place and Best Teamwork
First place in Maker Faire out of 5000 teams. Represented state of Rajasthan in Hyderabad for global finals; received $1,500 as prize money; experimented with over 10 presentations and 8 pitching scripts.
Greenathon 2023 1st Place and Best Idea
Developed a method to reuse sewage water as drinking water using 10th grade Chemistry and Machine-Learning. The idea was chosen as 2 out of over 400 submissions from my region to be presented at the UNESCO headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. Eventually recognized amongst the three best ideas out over 7000 presentations and submissions.
Versatile Genius 2023 1st Place
Awarded to 3 out of 240 students for demonstrating the highest level of commitment to academics and extracurricular activities.
Harvard India Impact Initiative 2024 National Semi-Finalist
Represented team in New Delhi to pitch Serenity; awarded as the top 4 social initiatives out of over 150 initiatives; seeked advice from students and mentors from Harvard College.
GDTech 2024 by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) 1st Place
Presented research on hearing aid with a team of 4 to translate spoken words into another language as audio output in real-time. Finished first despite being the only school team competing with 150 college teams.
The International School Bangalore (TISB) Hackathon 2023 1st Place
Developed high-level framework for an educational chatbot for the UN SDG of quality education. Received $300. Won out of 200 teams in 15+ countries.
QS Reimagine Education 2024 Shortlist in Generative AI category
Currently shortlisted in top 50 out of 1200 submissions for use of generative AI to provide access to higher quality education. Will soon participate in further rounds.
Most Diligent Student 2024 1st Place
Among the top 3 students in the entire school in terms of maintaining academic performance and discipline.
Abhimanyu Ranawat Trophy for "Best in Sciences" 2024 1st Place
Achieved highest percentage in Physics and Computer Science in internal examinations to become the first person in school history to be awarded Best in Sciences with Computer Science and Physics.
Best in Mathematics 2024 1st Place
Maintained highest percentage in Mathematics and showed greatest command of rigorous topics in Mathematics Analysis and Approaches (Higher Level) to be amongst the top 3 Math students in my grade.
Best in Computers 2024 1st Place
Showed greatest command of programming and theoretical Computer Science in school out of 3000 students. Awarded to 4 seniors out of 240.
Best Social Initiative 2024 (Serenity) 1st Place
Awarded to 2 out of 100+ social initiatives in school for maximum community impact.
IB League STEM competition 2024 Most Innovative Solution
Only person in school to represent STEM team in IB League for 2 consecutive years. Applied my knowledge of Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science to collaborate with a team of 5 to monitor and maintain the health of a frozen astronaut. Used relativity concepts to prevent ageing and learnt new Biology concepts.
SGFI 2022 National Table-Tennis Tournament Pre-Quarter Finalist
Finished within top-16 in Under-17 individual event held at Vadodara, Gujarat.
Rajasthan State-Level Table-Tennis Championship Semi-Finalist
Finished in top 4 out of 300+ participants. 2nd in district.
ISSO 2022 3rd Place
Finished third in national Table-Tennis competition held at Pune, India with over 50 partipating students from IB World Schools.
ISSO 2023 2nd Place
Led school team to second place out of over 30 competing schools in national Table-Tennis competition in Noida, India.
Academic Excellence 2022, 2023 and 2024 1st Place
Among the only 4 people (out of 240) in my grade to receive academic excellence in all years of high school.
Thailand International Mathematics Olympiad (TIMO) 2021 3rd Place
Out of 10,000 participants from India, I got the third highest score in the HEATS round.
SOF International General Knowledge Olympiad 2021 3rd place
All India Rank 3 out of over 60,000 test takers nationally.
Extracurricular Excellence 2022, 2023 and 2024 1st Place
Demonstrated deep commitment to outside-the-classroom activities.

💡 My Projects

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Serenity

Everybody wishes they had that one friend who they could share anything with 24/7. So did our team — and we therefore set out to create Serenity — offering a chatbot that is trained to provide human-like responses and recommend professionals if need be. We never seeked to replace human professionals with chatbots, we ensured that the chatbot was an additive tool for professionals and not subtractive. I never felt satisfied with the level of empathy our chatbot showed until I was able to vouch for its efficacy myself.

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Echo-Lingua

Developed a hearing aid that can translate and amplify voice in real-time using ESP modules. I used arduino to program the hardware and used APIs from Deepgram and Google Cloud to carry out the translation and speech conversion processes.

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ReBloom

Having seen farmers in rural areas in my state suffer during summers, I came to also realize that most farmers have to grow crops with less nutrient-rich water, which often leads to water wastage and creates inefficiencies. After studying sedimentation and filtration processes in Chemistry, I realized that these can be applied to filter waste water which we often burden the city’s already fragile and under-developed sewage network with. The water could even yield the NPK elements, which are essential for fertilizers and increasing plant growth. To further increase efficiency for farmers, we also used machine-learning algorithms to ensure that the sensor only gives output signals to output as much nutrients as is required for optimal plant growth using first and second-order differentiation.

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Deputy Head Boy

After being elected as the Deputy Head Boy of my high school, I digitised the process of extracting notes and gaining information about events by modifying the council website.

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ByteBuilders Club Teaching Mentor

Helping children in middle school and early years of high school develop an interest in problem-solving my creating problem sets that challenge their problem solving skills rather than their knowledge of programming syntax.

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TipTop Technologies Intern

Helped team of developers build "general AI" that is capable of doing all tasks and is not restricted to one domain in terms of its capabilities. Applied my classroom learnings in Computer Science to modularize multiple files of code to allow developers to resue important functions and save time.

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AIgcse

After seeing my peers lose marks for not writing 'Key Terms' in examinations despite understanding concepts, I came to appreciate the art of answer writing in examinations. In view of this, me and my peer trained a chatbot that can respond in mark-scheme specific language by feeding it a corpus of marking schemes to structure its vocabualry and answer styles. Over time, I came to realize the importance of accurate information retrieval from marking schemes, which prompted me to evaluate retriever accuracy and optimization in a research paper.

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TravelStory

Apart from staying in the city of Jaipur for over 12 years, I have also gotten the opportunity to travel the world and explore new forms of architecture. However, most tourists tend to neglect structures that are historically significant but not popularized publically; therefore, I decided to collaborate with tourist guides to build an app that can alert users about monuments in their geographic vicinity.

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