# Vignesh Nagarajan

> Brown Scholar studying honors CS/econ at Texas A&M, simultaneously building AI systems bridging both fields.

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- **Website:** https://vigneshnagarajan.me
- **Email:** vigneshn26@tamu.edu
- **LinkedIn:** https://linkedin.com/in/vignesh-nagarajan-vn
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/vignesh-nagarajan-vn
- **ORCID:** https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8816-8359
- **Google Scholar:** https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=_4phBzAAAAAJ
- **ResearchGate:** https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vignesh-Nagarajan-4

**Focus areas:** Applied AI · Automation · Econometrics · Cognitive Modeling · Entrepreneurship

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## Education

### Texas A&M University, College of Engineering
- **Dates:** Expected May 2029
- **Recognition:** [#14 Best Engineering School Nationally (US News 2026)](https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/texas-a-m-university-02174)
- **Degree:** Bachelor of Science — BS, Computer Science (Focus: Econometrics)
- Brown Foundation Scholar, President’s Endowed Scholar, and Pete Hunter Dunham Jr ’74 Scholar
- Minors in Economics and Statistics; Certificates in Business Technology and Management Consulting

### BASIS Phoenix High School
- **Dates:** Graduated May 2026
- **Recognition:** [#17 Best High School Nationally (US News 2026)](https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/arizona/districts/basis-charter-schools-inc/basis-phoenix-153180)
- **Degree:** High School Diploma
- 3.95 GPA with 4 Post-APs, 16 APs, 5 Honors, and 2 Dual Enrollment Courses
- National Merit Scholar: Perfect 36 ACT and 1520 PSAT/NMSQT
- **Activities:** Research Club (Founding President & Inaugural Science Fair Host) · Mu Alpha Theta Honor Society (President) · Speech & Debate (Captain) · Arizona Tamil Sangam (Graduate & TA) · Gators Club Swim

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## Experience

### Tech Consulting Extern — Deloitte
*Jun 2026 – Aug 2026 · 3 mos*
- Technology & Implementation Consulting, Tempe Office

### Founder & Developer — Chronos
*May 2025 – May 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo*
- Built full-stack cross-calendar scheduling platform using React, Firebase, Vercel, and Python. [Chronos](https://usechronos.live/)
- Published white paper and secured 2 signed LOIs worth $3,500+ across 42 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](https://www.congressionalappchallenge.us/25-AZ08/) [GitHub](https://github.com/vignesh-nagarajan-vn/Chronos)

### Founder & President — Prepworks EDU
*Aug 2023 – May 2026 · 2 yrs 10 mos*
- Filed for and received 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. Managed 20+ students across 5 institutions and 6 teams.
- Facilitated creation of >300 pages of review sheets spanning 15+ academic areas incl. APs. [Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pnLen9CxcSQcw2lhYkB1F8KzOkoVH7fK)
- Lobbied for education funding via a slate of 40 policy memos directly to AZ DoE. [Policy Database](https://prepworksnpo.wixsite.com/prepworks/policy-papers)

### Data Analyst Intern — STEM·E Youth Career Development Program
*Apr 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos*
- Analyzed 4K+ social posts to ~5× engagement in ~2 years. Presented findings to 50+ incl. CEO. [STEM·E](https://www.steme.org/)
- 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). [GitHub](https://github.com/vignesh-nagarajan-vn/STEME-Analytics) [PDF](/steme-analytics.pdf)

### Founding Team Member — ScienceFair.io
*Aug 2024 – May 2025 · 10 mos*
- DBA Qurios Ventures, successfully acquired by a unicorn through a 7-figure exit in May, under NDA.
- Authored “Research Guide” and 20+ blogs incl. a sponsored article in Harvard Crimson. [ScienceFair.io](https://www.sciencefair.io/)
- Finetuned and deployed a MoE LLM for marketing on Quora and answered 250+ relevant Q&A forums.

*Full work history: https://vigneshnagarajan.me/experience.html*

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## Awards & Recognitions

### Craig & Galen Brown Foundation Scholar ([Scholar Highlight](https://brownfound.org/our_scholar/vignesh-nagarajan/))
*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

| Award | Body & Date |
|-------|-------------|
| Congressional Command Coin (Special Commendation by Rep. Hamadeh) | US Congress · Apr 2026 |
| Mu Alpha Theta National Scholar (1 of 27 Recipients, First-ever AZ Winner) | Mu Alpha Theta · Mar 2026 |
| National Merit Scholar (Top 2,500 of 15,000 Finalists; Received $2,500) | NMSC · Mar 2026 |
| Congressional App Challenge Winner & House of Code Invitee @ US Capitol | US House · Dec 2025 |
| Academic All-American & NDCA National Qualifier, Varsity PF Debate | NSDA · Dec 2024 |
| 1st Place, AreteLabs/AMC Mini-Math Madness National Championship (410+ Teams) | AreteLabs · 2024, 2026 |
| 2024 National Cyber Scholar & SANS-GIAC Cybersecurity Scholarship ($3,400) | NCSF · Feb 2024 |
| CyberStart America National Hackathon Winner (~2.8% Selection Rate) | SANS · Dec 2023 |
| Co-Author, The Future is STEM (Amazon #1 New Release & 2× Bestseller) | Samyak Science Society · Jul 2023 |

*Full awards and certifications: https://vigneshnagarajan.me/awards.html*

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## 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
- Tags: AI, Automation, HCI, Accessibility
- Link: [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09846)
- Link: [SSRN](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6668618)

### PEBSA: Predicting Economic Behavior via Sentiment Analysis
Constructing a ML Model to Analyze Public Outlook on US Economic Performance to Predict Market Behavior
- Tags: AI, ML, Econometrics
- Link: [IJECS](https://doi.org/10.18535/ijecs/v13i12.4950)

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## Projects

### Deployments

#### Norn: Variant Interpretation Copilot
★ Claude Life Sciences Hackathon Selectee (Top 500 Globally)
Built at the Anthropic × Cerebral Valley × Gladstone Institutes hackathon: 1 of 500 chosen (with ~50% being PhDs, postdocs, or physicians) from 6,000+ applicants across 47 countries. Norn adjudicates each ACMG/AMP criterion with Claude and applies ClinGen scoring for a five-tier classification.
- Tags: Genomics, Agentic AI, ACMG, Bioinformatics
- [Live](https://norn-five.vercel.app/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/vignesh-nagarajan-vn/Norn)

#### 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.
- Tags: Edge AI, Computer Vision, RAG
- [Live](https://school-pulse-ai.vercel.app/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/vignesh-nagarajan-vn/SchoolPulse-AI)

#### 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.
- Tags: Medical AI, Computer Vision, Explainable AI
- [Live](https://mirror-ten-jet.vercel.app/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/vignesh-nagarajan-vn/MIRROR)

#### Ordinance
RAG backlayer for Congressional offices, serving citation-anchored answers over a curated federal corpus (EPA, OMB, CISA) with all model inference proxied through serverless routes.
- Tags: RAG, GovTech, Serverless
- [Live](https://ordinance-five.vercel.app/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/vignesh-nagarajan-vn/Ordinance)

### Inventions (Provisional Patents)

#### System and Method for Portable Arthropod Detection on a Host Using Multi-Modal Sensors
- Provisional Patent Application #64/024,033
- Affiliated with DeTICKtor LLC and Cornell University
- Tags: Biotech, ML, Sensors

#### System and Methods for Algorithmic and Real-Time Group Scheduling in Applications like Google Calendar
- Provisional Patent Application #63/860,731
- Affiliated with Chronos
- Tags: AI, Scheduling

#### Systems and Methods for Virtual Healthcare by Agentic Artificial Intelligence Models Trained on Medical Reasoning Data
- Provisional Patent Application #63/841,355
- Affiliated with Claisen Inc. and Harvard University
- Tags: Healthcare, AI, LLM

#### System and Method for a Modular, HIPAA-Compliant Health-Data Pipeline Enabling Adaptive Therapeutic Recommendations through Continuous Learning
- Provisional Patent Application #63/828,926
- Affiliated with Claisen Inc. and Harvard University
- Tags: Healthcare, ML, Privacy

#### 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
- Affiliated with PEBSA
- Tags: AI, ML, Econometrics

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## Contact

- **Email:** vigneshn26@tamu.edu
- **LinkedIn:** https://linkedin.com/in/vignesh-nagarajan-vn
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/vignesh-nagarajan-vn

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