Krishiv Thakuria

Krishiv Thakuria

> What I'm currently up to:

  • Building Next Voters, the world's first website that lets you compare policies of politicians based on any user-specified query.
  • Applied AI Research Intern at the MIT Kellis Lab under Prof. Manolis Kellis; workingon applications of MANTIS (an advanced AI-powered cognitive cartography software) in education.

> 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 a 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-clinicial 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).