Anirudhh Venkat

📧 anirudhhvenkat@gmail.com | 🔗 github.com/AnirudhhVenkat

Education

Florida Atlantic University High School (FAUHS)
2021 – 2025 | Jupiter Campus, in Partnership with Max Planck Academy, Jupiter, FL
5.4/4.0 Weighted GPA

Research Experience

Rubin and Cindy Gruber AI Sandbox – Florida Atlantic University
March 2025 – Present | Boca Raton, FL
Undergraduate Student/Project Lead – Mentor: Dr. William Hahn

• Spearheading project to re-identify humans based on gait patterns
• Leveraging pose estimation models to create a vector database of gait patterns

Bidaye Lab – Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI)
July 2024 – Present | Jupiter, FL
Undergraduate Student – Mentor: Dr. Salil Bidaye

• Creating ML models to calculate joint angles in drosophila based on velocity
• Weekly meetings with a computational neuroscience expert to develop models

MaryLynn Magar Fellowship – MPFI
May 2024 – July 2024 | Jupiter, FL
Magar Fellow – Mentor: Dr. Salil Bidaye

• Created pipeline to analyze leg kinematics of drosophila
• Used non-linear dimensionality reduction to reveal a low-dimensional space capturing most dynamics
• Presented at an international conference in Germany and 2024 Summer Wilkes Honors College Symposium

NASA MUREP – FAU, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI)
April 2023 – May 2024 | Fort Pierce, FL
Data Science Intern – Mentor: Dr. Jordon Beckler

• Quantified coastal carbon budget in Gulf of Mexico using NASA satellite data
• Used Python to analyze long-term environmental trends
• Helped organize student workshops including field data collection and NASA tools training
• Presented at 2024 Spring Wilkes Honors College Symposium

Projects

Analyzing the Impact of Hurricanes on Ecosystems Recovery Rates | Python
October 2023 – Feb 2024

• Analyzed ecosystem recovery time post-hurricane
• Placed 3rd in Mathematical & Computational Sciences at PBRSEF

Dendritic Spine Detection and Analysis | Python
March 2024 – May 2024

• Built a YOLOv9-based model to detect dendritic spines from 2-photon imaging
• Calculated morphological features like spine distance, surface area, density

Work Experience

Sage AI Labs – Stealth Startup
August 2024 – December 2024 | San Francisco, CA
Intern

• Developed web scraping scripts for data collection pipelines

Kumon Learning Center – Boca Raton - Glades
October 2021 – August 2022 | Boca Raton, FL
Math and Reading Tutor

• Tutored K–12 students in math and reading, improving academic performance

Leadership & Extracurriculars

Red Cross Club – FAU Wilkes Honors College
January 2024 – Present | Jupiter, FL
Treasurer/E-Board/Co-Founder

• Managed $500 budget for organizing volunteer events
• Planning CPR certification event with Student Government Association

Mu Alpha Theta – FAUHS
September 2023 – Present | Boca Raton, FL
Mu Team Member

• Competed in school’s first Mu Alpha Theta math competition

Science Olympiad – FAUHS
August 2021 – August 2023 | Boca Raton, FL

• Competed in regional & national events in topics like Anatomy, Disease Detectives, and Experimental Design

Honors & Awards

• MaryLynn Magar Fellowship ($4500) – May 2024
• Co-Author: Fostering big data ocean observation… – Presented at 2024 Ocean Sciences Meeting, published by AGU
• PBRSEF – 3rd Place, Math & Computational Sciences – January 2024
• Perennial Math Competition – 1st Place (Math Storm, Math Blitz, Tournament) – 2021
• FAU Math Day – Honorable Mention – December 2021

Presentations & Conferences

• Decoding a Turn: The Latent Spaces Within Stereotypical Turns in Drosophila – Wilkes Summer Symposium, July 2024
• NASA Science Research Experience – FAU Harbor Branch, May 2024
• Quantifying Storm Impacts Using Satellite Remote Sensing – Wilkes Spring Symposium, April 2024
• Fostering Big Data Ocean Observation Research… – Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb 2024
• NASA Science Research Experience – FAU Harbor Branch, May 2023

Technical Skills

• Languages: C, C++, Python (pandas, matplotlib, seaborn, numpy)
• Technologies: PyTorch, TensorFlow