Vignesh Nagarajan
Brown Scholar at Texas A&M studying CS/econ. I build applied systems to discern and simplify complexity.
Education
Texas A&M University, College of Engineering
Expected May 2029Bachelor of Science — BS, Computer Science and Economics
Craig and Galen Brown Foundation Scholar (Full-Ride)
- Minor in Statistics; Certificates in Business Technology and Management Consulting
BASIS Phoenix High School
Graduated May 2026High School Diploma
National Merit Scholar (Perfect 1520 PSAT and 36 ACT)
- 3.95 GPA with 4 Post-APs, 16 APs, 5 Honors, and 2 Dual Enrollment Courses
Research Club (Founding President & Inaugural Science Fair Host) · Mu Alpha Theta Honor Society (President) · Speech & Debate (Captain) · Arizona Tamil School (Graduate & TA) · Gators Club Swim
Experiences
Tech Consulting Extern
Jun 2026 – Aug 2026 · 3 mosDeloitte
Technology & Implementation Consulting, Tempe Office
Founder & Developer
May 2025 – May 2026 · 1 yr 1 moChronos
- Built full-stack cross-calendar scheduling platform using React, Firebase, Vercel, and Python. Chronos ↗
- Secured 2 signed Letters of Intent (LOIs) worth $3,500+ across 42 commercial users in <2 mo post-launch.
- Presented at the US Capitol for #HouseOfCode 2026, including 1:1s with Hack Club CEO Zach Latta, Senator Mark Kelly, Rep. Abe Hamadeh, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi. Congressional App Challenge ↗ GitHub ↗
Data Analyst Intern
Apr 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mosSTEM·E Career Development Program
- Analyzed 4K+ social posts to identify 7 repeating flaws. Presented findings to 50+ including the CEO.
- Automated 3 processes to expedite website data processing. Taught 4 Python lessons to 20+ students.
- Leveraged Wix Analytics to surface key insights via Python (Pandas & Matplotlib). PDF ↗
Founding Team Member
Aug 2024 – May 2025 · 10 mosScienceFair.io / Qurios Ventures (Acquired under NDA)
- Authored “Research Guide” and 20+ blogs including an article featured in the Harvard Crimson.
- Finetuned and deployed a MoE SLM with efficient tokenization for digital marketing across 2 media platforms, answering 250+ relevant Q&A forums and generating 400+ leads with 8% converted.
Funded Entrepreneur & Software Intern
Jan 2023 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mosJetson (#1 AI/Business App in Apple Store)
- Accepted into Jetson Launchpad (7% acceptance rate) through recommendation from CEO, Will Rush; apprenticed under the CTO at the Series A ($4M raise) startup, and shipped 2 fintech features.
- Improved retention +9% and avg screen time +23% via 12 bug fixes within the Jetson app (102K+ users).
- Built Hustle (ATS Resume Scanner). Pitched live to 30+ investors, securing a $3,000 award. GitHub ↗
Awards & Recognitions
Craig & Galen Brown Foundation Scholar (Scholar Highlight ↗)
Associated with Texas A&M University
- Flagship Full-Ride 4-Year Merit Award (0.15% Selection Rate; $240,000 Total Value Covering Full $60,000/yr CoA)
- Personally Interviewed and Selected by Mr. Craig Brown (Co-Founder, Chairman, & CEO of Bray International)
- Package includes the President’s Endowed Scholarship, Out-of-State Tuition Waiver, and Travel Stipend
- Additionally Received the Pete Hunter Dunham Jr ’74 Scholarship from The Association of Former Students
Congressional Command Coin (Special Commendation by Rep. Hamadeh)
Mu Alpha Theta National Scholar (1 of 27 Recipients, First-ever AZ Winner)
National Merit Scholar (Top 2,500 of 15,000 Finalists; Received $2,500)
Congressional App Challenge Winner & House of Code Invitee @ US Capitol
Academic All-American & NDCA National Qualifier, Varsity PF Debate
1st Place, AreteLabs/AMC Mini-Math Madness National Championship (410+ Teams)
2024 National Cyber Scholar & SANS-GIAC Cybersecurity Scholarship ($3,400)
CyberStart America National Hackathon Winner (~2.8% Selection Rate)
Co-Author, The Future is STEM (Amazon #1 New Release in 2 Categories)
Additional Awards
7 More⌄
- Kalin Award Finalist (1 of 7 Invited to National Convention in Frisco, TX)
- Sri Murugan K Patham Memorial Scholar
- Xerox Award for Innovation & Information Technology (University of Rochester)
- Gold Presidential Volunteer Service Award
- 2x Grand Award Winner, AzSEF (Predictive Machine Learning & Automations)
- 2x Congressional Challenge Coin Recipient
- Degree of Superior Distinction & 3x Tournament Champion in PF Debate
Research
CANVAS: Captioning Art with Narrative Visual-Audio AI Systems
Exploring How AI Automations Can Bring Artwork to Life for BLV Audiences Through Voice Generation
Under Peer Review at Springer: Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS) · Submitted May 2026
arXiv cs.HC & Social Science Research Network (SSRN) · May – June 2026
PEBSA: Predicting Economic Behavior via Sentiment Analysis
Constructing a ML Model to Analyze Public Outlook on US Economic Performance to Predict Market Behavior
International Journal of Engineering and Computer Science (IJECS) — Best Paper Award · Dec 2024
Projects
Open-Source Contributions
yfinance | The most widely used Python library for Yahoo Finance market data
3 PRs Merged⌄
- Diagnosed and fixed a 4-year-old bug in yfinance (24K ★) where failed 30-minute price requests reported an internal 15-minute interval users never asked for; merged with a regression test (PR #2900 for Issue #1029)
- Restored pandas 3 test compatibility by comparing timezone keys instead of pytz/zoneinfo objects (PR #2901)
- Stopped error messages from falsely claiming tickers are “possibly delisted” (PR #2903 for 5 issues including #2902)
qlib | Microsoft’s AI-oriented quantitative investment & research platform
2 PRs Submitted⌄
- Fixed two long-standing FileInstrumentStorage bugs in Microsoft qlib (46K ★) corrupting qlib’s instrument files with regression tests and the creation of a new self-contained class and 7 new functions (PR #2302 for Issue #1720)
- Aligned the pre-commit black formatting hook with the version CI enforces (PR #2303)
Deployments
Norn: Variant Interpretation Copilot
★ Claude Life Sciences Hackathon Selectee (8% Selection Rate)
Built at the Anthropic × Cerebral Valley × Gladstone Institutes hackathon: 1 of 500 chosen (with ~50% being PhDs, postdocs, or physicians) from 6,000+ applicants. Norn drafts ACMG/AMP classifications for a human curator by analyzing genomic evidence and computing the label in code via ClinGen points.
SchoolPulse AI
★ USAII Global AI Hackathon · Finalist
Edge-AI suite for schools, unifying leak detection, waste-sorting vision, and a RAG ops agent in one dashboard for campus facilities teams.
MIRROR
★ GIST Summer Research Internship
Explainable multimodal medical AI that reads radiology scans (X-ray, CT, MRI), flags abnormalities with visual evidence, and drafts clinician-style reports.
Uchronia
Alternate-history engine that re-derives timelines on a causal graph.
Ordinance
Citation-anchored RAG backlayer for Congressional offices.
Inventions
Portable Arthropod Detection on a Host via Multi-Modal Sensors
DeTICKtor LLC⌄
System and Method for Portable Arthropod Detection on a Host Using Multi-Modal Sensors
Provisional Patent Application #64/024,033 | Filed Mar 31, 2026 | United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Co-Inventors: Ehlaam Imran, Nilabha Mukherjea, Sahana Kakarla, Amy Salim, Vivian Hu | Advisor: Frederick Baum
Algorithmic, Real-Time Group Scheduling Engine
Chronos⌄
System and Methods for Algorithmic and Real-Time Group Scheduling in Applications like Google Calendar
Provisional Patent Application #63/860,731 | Filed Aug 8, 2025 | United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Advisor: Oliver Zou
Agentic AI System Trained on MRD for Virtual Healthcare Applications
Claisen Inc.⌄
Systems and Methods for Virtual Healthcare by Agentic Artificial Intelligence Models Trained on Medical Reasoning Data
Provisional Patent Application #63/841,355 | Filed Jul 10, 2025 | United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Co-Inventors: Rishab Jain, Aditya Jain, Akash Pai, Shivaek Venkateswaran, Dhruv Ramu, Vishrut Thoutam
Principal Investigator: Edward Christopher Dee
Principal Investigator: Edward Christopher Dee
Modular, HIPAA-Compliant Adaptive Health Data-ML Pipeline
Claisen Inc.⌄
System and Method for a Modular, HIPAA-Compliant Health-Data Pipeline Enabling Adaptive Therapeutic Recommendations through Continuous Learning
Provisional Patent Application #63/828,926 | Filed Jun 23, 2025 | United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Co-Inventors: Rishab Jain, Aditya Jain, Akash Pai, Shivaek Venkateswaran, Dhruv Ramu, Vishrut Thoutam
Principal Investigator: Edward Christopher Dee
Principal Investigator: Edward Christopher Dee
Real-Time Economic Forecasting via Sentiment Analysis
PEBSA⌄
System and Method for Real-Time Economic Forecasting Using Machine Learning-Based Sentiment Analysis of Public Data from Social Media
Provisional Patent Application #63/782,567 | Filed Apr 2, 2025 | United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)