Rajani Kopparapu is the Founder of The Avant Academy. She is passionate about education and grooms kids to be leaders in their own ways. She believes every child has a potential to succeed and all they need is exposure to different opportunities and resources to learn and excel.
Her two children Kavya and Neeyanth are Harvard students who gained national and international accolades and awards. They were recognized in a variety of news outlets, including Forbes, CNN, ABC, WebMD, and major news channels in the US and in India.
She has counseled more than hundred middle and high school students to help pursue their passion by sharing resources, opportunities and laying a path for their success with Online Learning Programs in USA.
Rajani graduated with a Master in Computer science and is currently a Director at CapitalOne. She also leads as a Chair for the national NRIVA Educational committee and has served NorthSouth Foundation for more than a decade. She has met and been inspired by many accomplished leaders, including Vice President Biden, the Founder of AOL, Smithsonian’s President, the Founder of the Internet, the CEO of WebMD, the CTO of White House, and several others.
Kavya Kopparapu is a Harvard graduate in Computer Science/Neuroscience and is currently a research engineer at Google DeepMind, where she works on large language model (LLM) research. Kavya is an inventor with a deep interest in the interdisciplinary and practical applications of AI and she holds three patents and several publications on these topics. While in high school, Kavya is the inventor of several award-winning medical and AI innovations, including a smartphone-based diagnostic platform for diabetic retinopathy and a precision medicine prediction platform for glioblastoma, and has patents pending. Her projects earned her one of TIME's Most Influential Teens of 2018, 2018 WebMD Innovation Hero award, Glamour Magazine's College Woman of the year. Kavya was a Teen Choice Award recipient for her work with her nonprofit organization, GirlsComputingLeague, which works to provide accessible emerging technology education to low-income students and young women. Since 2015, GCL has helped over 5,000 students and raised over $100,000 from Apple, Google, AWS, Intel AI, O’Reilly, NVIDIA and other companies. Kavya was also the President of Harvard CBE, a 90-student strategy consulting group at Harvard that works with major technology, life sciences, and sustainability companies with total market cap of $4 trillion this semester alone.
Neeyanth is a Senior at Harvard University, studying Applied Math and Artificial Intelligence. In middle school, he won Virginia state MathCounts and national Math Counts at MIT. In high school, he was one of the captains of the Thomas Jefferson High School's Math and Senior Computer teams. He is a 5-time USA(J)MO qualifier and a USACO Platinum competitor. He has made models to diagnose Diabetic Retinopathy for low-income adults and more recently a Major Depressive Disorder prognosis system based on fMRI scans and Twitter feeds. His DR project won 3rd place at the International Science and Engineering Fair.
He created PDGAN, a system that uses a mix of computer vision and deep learning algorithms to detect signs of Parkinson's Disease in MRI scans. This project was featured in Forbes and WJLA and was awarded the world’s most prestigious research scholarship as a Davidson Scholar and $25,000 scholarship.
He partnered with the Veterans Affairs Administration and created a NLP-powered Clinical Trial System that was featured on numerous DMV and government publications. He was invited to the 2017 Nobel Prize awards at Stockholm, Sweden.
Currently pursuing Ph.D Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He has taught AI / ML to several hundreds of students. He believes in teaching AI/ML through developing hands on projects and helping students develop socially good projects. He inspires students to do their best and to make a difference in the world.
Graduated from Duke University, works at US Top Medical research center. He is a renowned International Bio Olympiad winner. In the past worked as a Quantitative analyst at Optiver and as as Software engineer at Facebook. He is interested in using computational approaches to understand the neural circuit-level mechanisms of behavior. He finds the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience especially compelling because these fields pose the most difficult intellectual challenges of our time and hold great potential for social impact. He is passionate about teaching artificial intelligence to young minds.
Student at Carnegie Mellon University with a major in Computer Science and Math. he won the USA Computing Olympiad competition and has worked as a Data Scientist. He interned at US Naval Research lab while in high school. He developed bundle list recommendation model for product categories with sparse data. He loves to teach young students Python and AI / ML.
Student at Harvard University with a major in Math and Economics with a minor in Government. Worked at Stride as Data Science intern and New York Times as research assistant. He won the 2017 Harvard-MIT Math Tournament and was 2020 Coca-Cola Scholar for academic achievement and leadership. He loves to share his passion with young minds.
Our Computer Science faculty is currently a Lab Director in the Computer Systems Research Lab at TJHSST, #1 High School in the United States. While at TJ, he mentored over 120 senior research projects, and has taught Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience. Dr. White received Ph.D. in Computer science from Cornell University.
Graduated with summa cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in mathematics (1988), received his Masters in Advanced Study with distinction from Cambridge University while on a Churchill Scholarship (1989), and received a Masters of Science from the University of Chicago while enrolled in the PhD program in mathematics (1990).
He enjoys playing music and has been a member of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra since 1997. He provides insight into the mathematical algorithmic AI Models to students.
With a Ph.D in BioChemistry, graduating from Georgetown University Medical center. He has published 16 papers and a patent. He supports students research projects in the areas of Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science and Astronomy.
A Computer Science graduate from Yale University with 15 years of coaching experience. In the past, he served as the lead editor for the SparkNotes series of literature study guides. He is also a former Jeopardy! champion. Many of his students have won the US Presidential scholar award which is given to 2 students per state. He provides valuable feedback to student presentations and business case and pitch development.
Our English faculty are highly accomplished national debate champions. They have won top 3 places at most prestigious debate competitions at Harvard, Columbia, Yale, New York City Invitationals.
They are incredibly excited to help students with their business case development.
Student at Cambridge University, London. He placed 1st in the USA for Congressional Debate and was named Competitor’s Choice Champion at the Harvard Invitational. He is passionate about public speaking and motivates young students to be confident speakers.
USA Bio Olympiad and AP Biology faculty is a student at Princeton University, where she hopes to major in neuroscience. She is a 3-time USABO semifinalist, a 2-time Toronto Biology Competition international top 1%, and was captain of the TJHSST Biology Olympiad club. She has been recognized by the National DNA Day Essay Contest, the National Genes in Space contest, and currently conducts liver cancer research at Georgetown University. She supports research and ideation of AI projects in the Medicine and Health space.
