Krishiv Thakuria

krishivthakuria[at]gmail.com

What I'm currently up to:

• Exploring AI agents for education, starting with an AI-native SAT prep platform.
• Building Next Voters, the world's first website that lets you compare policies of politicians based on any user-specified query.
• Serving on the leadership team under Professor Manolis Kellis at the MIT Kellis Lab for Mantis, an advanced AI-powered cognitive cartography tool.

Interested in:

• Early childhood development and education (and consequently how AI will disrupt learning); I think there's massive opportunity to make a difference in this space.
• The future of AI hardware interfaces; I've been working on learning the fundamentals of hardware design by building projects like Charm Bears and am curious about what the next smart phone will look like.

Past:

• Built AI-powered conversational talking teddy bears for early childhood education, supported by NVIDIA Inception.
• Built an AI tutor sponsored by Microsoft with millions of views on TikTok and thousands of sign ups.
• Recruited by Stanford CS professors as the youngest Computer Science Instructor for Code in Place, an intro to CS course by the Stanford School of Engineering.
• Consulted for and built AI tools for productivity at Simple Ventures (venture studio backed by Shopify co-founder).
• Worked on named entity recognition at BenchSci (world-leader in AI for pre-clinical R&D).
• Figured out random ways to make money in middle school (websites/marketing for busy CEOs) and eventually made thousands of dollars from it.
• Made my first $100 online at 13 from a viral article I wrote investigating Apple's VR/AR patents (link if curious).