TalkNinja is a mobile speaking coach for teenagers practicing communication and Speech & Debate. It uses AI-powered speech analysis to give feedback during practice.
Co-founder · Product strategy & AI development · With Shreya Ved
I’m especially drawn to problems where computation can help make sense of biological or healthcare systems.
Accepted · ICPCSN 2026 / IEEE
AI-based Computational Pipelines for Genomic Bioinformatics and Precision Medicine Applications in Modern Healthcare Systems
This work explores an AI-based predictive healthcare pipeline that combines demand forecasting with inventory optimization. The system compares machine-learning approaches—including LSTM-based time-series forecasting—to anticipate medicine demand and reduce overstocking, expiration and operational waste. The paper describes model-based experiments, rather than a deployed clinical system.
Medicine demand↓Forecasting models↓Inventory decisionsConceptual summary · model-based study
Accepted · IEEE ICCMRAI 2026
Bayesian Triangulated Modeling for Stress–Gut–Metabolism Interactions in Adolescents
Adolescent health is rarely one-dimensional. This project combines behavioral surveys, microbiome genomic data and neuroimaging from three independent cohorts, using Bayesian hierarchical modeling to explore relationships among stress, gastrointestinal distress, microbial metabolic potential and neural regulation.
The analysis explores associations between stress and gut symptoms, microbial genomic potential and metabolic output, and amygdala reactivity and neural regulation. Independent cohorts and a cross-sectional design limit individual-level causal inference.
Submitted · ISASF 2026
CRISPR Target Prediction for Cardiac Remodelling Genes
This project develops a computational framework for evaluating CRISPR guide RNAs targeting genes involved in cardiac remodelling: MYH7, ACTC1, TNNT2, and NPPA. It combines biochemical sequence features with thermodynamic modelling of RNA–DNA binding to compare predicted editing efficiency, specificity, and off-target risk.
Although the tested guides had similarly high predicted efficiency, their safety profiles differed. In the computational comparison, gRNA2 targeting MYH7 had the highest specificity score and lowest predicted off-target burden. These findings identify a candidate for further validation, rather than demonstrate a clinically tested treatment.
Submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Autonomous Systems for Sustainable Future (ISASF 2026).
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Learning by doing.
Courses, research programs and clinical experiences gave me different ways to look at the same question: how do ideas move from theory to something useful?
Research Internship · Rutgers University
A six-week internship in computational protein design at Khare Labs, Rutgers University’s Center for Integrative Proteomics Research, June–August 2026.
From my LinkedIn · Rutgers
in · Atharv Ved / Starting out
“Nervous and excited at the same time, but ready to get out of the classroom and into the lab!”
Emergency at RWJBarnabasRecovered from both appendicitis & 6 AP exams.
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This wasn’t on the schedule.
I came to Rutgers to work in a lab. I didn’t expect to end up in the emergency department with appendicitis. Three days of pain!
I’d planned to spend the summer asking questions about biotechnology. Suddenly, I was also asking: Why is something as unpleasant as pain useful? What does the appendix do, and why hasn’t evolution eliminated our susceptibility to appendicitis?
These weren’t the questions I’d come with, but they became part of what I wanted to understand.
in · Atharv Ved / Wrapping up
“Just wrapped up my 6 week internship in computational protein design. What a wonderful learning experience!!!!”
Rutgers Center for Integrative Proteomics Research
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Presenting a science topic. The slide shown discusses AlphaFold3.
Proteins / enzymesProtein designStructure predictionRFdiffusionProteinMPNNProtein Language Models (pLMs)CloningExpressionPurificationPyRosettaAlphaFold3
PHOTO TO COMECurrent research at the bench or screen.
Advanced Biotechnology · UC Berkeley ATDP
Hands-on biotechnology coursework spanning techniques such as DNA extraction, PCR, bacterial transformation, gel electrophoresis and genetic manipulation.
Colorectal Cancer ML · Inspirit AI
Built a machine-learning model to analyze tissue pathology for colorectal-cancer detection—an early bridge between my interests in AI and medicine.
AI in Bioinformatics & Healthcare
I led and mentored seven students in a club focused on AI, bioinformatics and healthcare. Project details will be added here.
PHOTO TO COMEA permitted, nonclinical shadowing portrait.
Pulmonology Shadowing
Merced Lung and Sleep Center. Observed a clinical practice focused on respiratory and sleep-related conditions.
PHOTO TO COMEA permitted photograph with my mentor.
Prosthodontics & Implant Dentistry
Observed prosthodontic treatment, implants, dentures and sleep-apnea related care.
At the kit, in childhood.
05 · Rhythm
At the drums.
Drums have been a long-running part of my life—from percussion in school band through 10th grade to continuing formal drum study through BYU coursework. In middle school, I received the “Most Progress” recognition. I like that this part of my story has room for getting better, alongside performing.
School Band · Percussion BYU · UC-approved Drums Basics
PHOTO TO COMEA recent rehearsal or performance.
06 · Beyond the screen
Life, elsewhere.
Skiing, painting, chess, and making something to eat. There doesn’t need to be a project behind every afternoon.
On the snow.
Cooking & baking
Calculus, but edible.
For an AP Calculus BC project, I baked cylindrical cakes. Cooking had started with a foods elective and become a hobby; this time it also supplied the shapes for a math project.
I also make sandwiches and bake outside class.
Something taking shape in the kitchen.
Art & making
Watercolor, oil, and objects.
Five years of painting are another part of my life. CAD and 3D printing give me a different way to make things.
PHOTO TO COMEMy own CAD model or a finished print.
07 · Community
Showing up for people.
At Kaiser, the work could be as immediate as finding the right department, helping with a wheelchair, or guiding someone on the way home.
PHOTO TO COMEA documented service task, with permission from those pictured.
KAISER PERMANENTE
Hospital Volunteer
I helped patients and visitors find their way, assisted with wheelchairs, and supported reception and emergency-room navigation. I also helped discharged patients on their way home.
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY LIBRARY
Library Volunteer
Supported library operations, shelf reading, computer/keyboard cleanup and event setup.
GIVE & SHINE
Director · Alamo Chapter
Helped lead blanket distribution, book drives and food distribution supporting community needs and youth mental-health awareness.
Website and technology work. The specific contribution and examples will be added here.
SELF-EMPLOYED
Neighborhood Property Maintenance
Managed recurring exterior property-maintenance work for neighbors—self-directed service, consistency and client responsibility.
STEM EXPLORATION
NYLF · UC Berkeley
Explored robotics, engineering, medicine and forensic science through hands-on career simulations.
VISUAL ART
Contra Costa County Recognition
Received recognition in the Visual Art category for work responding to the theme “how you will change the world.”
MONTE VISTA HIGH SCHOOL
Honor Roll
Academic recognition across high-school years.
08 · Coding & experiments
Build things just to understand them.
Small experiments, simulations, and projects where I test ideas without worrying whether they need to become “projects.” View my GitHub profile ↗
Interactive simulations
Explore randomness.
Three simulations I made, from a simple random walk to Monte Carlo experiments.
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Simple Random Walk
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Multiple Random Walks
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Monte Carlo Simulations
Choose a simulation to try it here. Internet connection required.
Simulation
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
CRISPR PAM-site workflow
Jupyter workflow for identifying CRISPR PAM sites and mapping candidate locations to exons/introns in hg38.
ALGORITHMS
Sorting, visualized
Interactive sorting visualizations designed to make algorithm behavior easier to see.
PERFORMANCE
Programming Language Race
Matrix-multiplication benchmark across C, Rust, Java, Python and JavaScript.
JAVA
Sudoku Generator
Backtracking-based generator for valid puzzles at multiple difficulty levels.
MAKING
CAD + 3D Printing
Selected designs and photographs to come.
CHESS
Thinking a few moves ahead
I play chess online and across a board. A favorite game can go here when I have one to share.
FOOD SCIENCE → HOBBY
Cooking & Baking
Started through a foods elective and grew into a hobby—specialty sandwiches, cakes, and even cylindrical cakes for an AP Calculus BC project.
A few more frames
Still life, moving.
Other photographs from the archive, changing every few seconds.
Everyday smile.Cooking with a clearer face.A mountain portrait.Bag packed.A moment kept private until now.
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Away from the checklist
A few ordinary moments.
Something to bring home.At the drums.The beard was temporary.One more line.A quiet moment.Paddles up.A little room to spread out.Keeping the cat company.Across the chessboard.Life can be cruel, lost a good friend.Trying babysitting.On the boardwalk.
09 · Field Notes
Things I’m thinking about.
Writing about the science and questions I keep coming back to. Visit Field Notes →
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Biology
3 min read
Editing DNA permanently. Correcting RNA temporarily.
A master blueprint and a temporary photocopy: an exploration of two approaches to genetic medicine.
