Khushi Bhardwaj

about:

• graduating senior @ Georgia Tech

• immediate goal: be part of an op founder/founding eng team (ideally < 8 people, model infra/training)

• long-term goal: build for impact with the smartest + kindest people I can find

• so far, have enjoyed: working with directly with models and also customers

college:

• recently took a break from college to work @ Nexusflow AI

  • agentic model & benchmarks

• summer @ Uber (price insights team)

  • worked on the traffic eta version of this price modelling feature on the app e2e

• led eng @ PopSignAI

  • lots of game dev + learnt alot about leading teams from the great Thad Starner

• taught ios dev @ gt ios club

  • built small fun apps like this one that helps you learn morsecode

• volunteered and did some marketing for Climate Science

  • did some marketing for the olympiad

• favourite classes so far:

  • combinatorics, automata & complexity, american government

recent awards:

• outstanding freshmen award by georgia tech college of computing

• 1st place poster & oral @ research symposium by georgia tech college of computing

• young engineers award @ school of ece, singapore polytechnic

high school:

• did IB (45/45) with 2-year, 90k scholarship from gsf

• singapore junior physics olympiad

• policy/research volunteering @ singapore youth for climate action, ministry of sustainability and the environment

  • projects like these

• president of the first toastmasters club for young people in the country

• interact club

• built a digital utility token for fine art (litecoin, berkeleyDB) one summer - didn't lead anywhere :(

high school awards:

• best speaker @ aviation safety competition

• grant funding winner @ youth action challenge

also:

• danced semi-professionally growing up - present

  • productions at esplanade + parades were the most fun

• learning kraav maga + boxing + very little bjj

  • I can get out of some chokes at least

• know some conversational sign language

• played tennis throughout school

  • open tournaments and acsis

random obsessions:

• hydroponics and microgreens (have tried making small prototypes at home that always end up leaking a bit)

• poetry: emily dickinson, wendy cope, ocean vuong, arthur yap, dr. seuss but also very open to recommendations

  • sub-obsession w old and weird fairytales: mr. fox, east of the sun and west of the moon etc.

• buddhism

• harry potter: especially growing up