About
I am a 25-year-old founder, Forbes 30 Under 30 technology honouree, Sunday Times Young…
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You're delegating tasks to your team. How can you build trust?
To foster trust when delegating tasks, consider these key approaches: Clear Expectations: Clearly outline tasks, deadlines, and objectives to avoid misunderstandings. Empowerment: Trust your team's capabilities by giving them autonomy to make decisions within their roles. Supportive Environment: Offer guidance, resources, and constructive feedback to assist team members in achieving their goals. Recognition: Acknowledge and appreciate the efforts and achievements of your team members. Lead by Example: Demonstrate integrity, accountability, and reliability in your actions. By implementing these strategies, you can establish trust while delegating tasks, creating a collaborative and high-performing team.
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How can you use critical thinking to stand out as a team player?
Successful team players excel in leveraging critical thinking by actively seeking diverse perspectives. Instead of adhering solely to personal viewpoints, they encourage open dialogue and consider alternative ideas, fostering a more innovative and effective solution pool. To stand out as a team player, channel critical thinking into questioning assumptions and challenging the status quo. In team discussions and projects, examine underlying assumptions to contribute to a thorough analysis, showcasing a commitment to decisions grounded in thoughtful consideration rather than taken for granted.
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Last night, I had 2 hours sleep with my baby girl that wouldn't sleep. Today, I had an investor meeting, and I had to be mentally on point... This…
Last night, I had 2 hours sleep with my baby girl that wouldn't sleep. Today, I had an investor meeting, and I had to be mentally on point... This…
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Physics student turned successful founder, Ahana Banerjee, took a dorm room idea and built it into Clear, a pioneering social commerce app for…
Physics student turned successful founder, Ahana Banerjee, took a dorm room idea and built it into Clear, a pioneering social commerce app for…
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As we settle into the 2024 Fall semester, I'd like to reflect on my summer abroad. I am incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to study and…
As we settle into the 2024 Fall semester, I'd like to reflect on my summer abroad. I am incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to study and…
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Experience
Education
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Imperial College London
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Activities and Societies: eSports, Live Music Society, Raising and Giving
First-Year Project: Traning an AI to Play Snake (First Class achieved)
BSc Thesis: Life in the Solar System (First Class achieved)
MSci Thesis: How Does the El Niño–Southern Oscillation Interact With Cloud–Radiative Effects? (Not completed)
Optional Modules Selected: Cosmology, Space Physics, Advanced Particle Physics, Atmospheric Physics, Entrepreneurship for Physicists, Astrophysics, Business Economics, Complexity and Networks, Suns, Stars and Planets. -
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Activities and Societies: Rock Band, Touch Rugby, Lighthouse Motor Skills, Initiative for Peace, Newspaper Club.
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Activities and Societies: Biology Tutor, Junior Varsity Football, Gymnastics Instructor, Rock Band, Make a Difference
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Activities and Societies: Cheshire Maths Challenge winner, Times Spelling Bee 2011 Finalist, Mock Magistrates
Licenses & Certifications
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BCG Strategy Consulting Virtual Experience Program
InsideSherpa
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Volunteer Experience
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Organizer
Lighthouse Motor Skills Development, Singapore
- 1 year 10 months
Children
Working with children with special needs to help develop their motor/ communicative skills. I took the additional challenge of learning basic sign language in my own time to communicate more effectively with the children who were hard of hearing.
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Facilitator
Initiative for Peace
- 1 year 2 months
Civil Rights and Social Action
Initiative for Peace (IfP) is an action-based programme that offers UWCSEA students the opportunity to actively promote international understanding and reconciliation in areas of conflict. I planned, organised and facilitated a peace conference for youths in Singapore; promoting a peaceful, sustainable future.
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Volunteer
Blue Dragon Children's Foundation
- 4 months
Civil Rights and Social Action
Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation provides exceptional care to Vietnamese children and families in crisis while creating long-term change for a better world. My role involved volunteering at the shelter in Hanoi, bringing in donations I had collected through various fundraising activities, teaching English and guitar to the children, and organising games and activities.
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Volunteer
HOPE Foundation
- 6 months
Economic Empowerment
I taught disadvantaged members of a rural community life skills, organised activities and recreational trips. I also painted and cleaned a village school, and provided aid in the leprosy colony in one of the most underprivileged communities in Delhi.
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Volunteer
Make A Difference
- 10 months
Education
Teaching unprivileged children from the Vivekanand slum in New Delhi basic English.
Courses
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Mathematical Modelling Summer Programme
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Projects
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BSc Project: Life in the Solar System
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Astrobiology is a field that is consistently enhanced by technology and space exploration. It ties together questions relating to the origin, distribution, and evolution of life in the universe.
In this essay, the conditions necessary to sustain life will be reviewed; how these requirements may be fulfilled within our Solar System will also be examined. Current, observational evidence for life on these bodies within the Solar System will be analysed. As such, the aim of this essay is to…Astrobiology is a field that is consistently enhanced by technology and space exploration. It ties together questions relating to the origin, distribution, and evolution of life in the universe.
In this essay, the conditions necessary to sustain life will be reviewed; how these requirements may be fulfilled within our Solar System will also be examined. Current, observational evidence for life on these bodies within the Solar System will be analysed. As such, the aim of this essay is to recommend which body or bodies in the Solar System are the best candidates for future searches for life. -
Networks Project: Preferential and Random Attachment Models of a Complex Network
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Analytic and numerical results are presented for three models of a complex network
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Complexity Project: The Oslo Model
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Complexity characterises the behaviour of systems in which the components interact in multiple ways, follow local rules, and exhibit inter–dependency. It is generally used when the interactions between the system components culminates in a higher order of emergence.
Complexity is a fundamental feature of our universe. Researchers have encountered it in many different areas; from computer science, to sociology, to engineering. Complex systems are composed of many small parts without…Complexity characterises the behaviour of systems in which the components interact in multiple ways, follow local rules, and exhibit inter–dependency. It is generally used when the interactions between the system components culminates in a higher order of emergence.
Complexity is a fundamental feature of our universe. Researchers have encountered it in many different areas; from computer science, to sociology, to engineering. Complex systems are composed of many small parts without centralised control; e.g. bird flocks, financial markets, social networks. Whilst emergence is a general concept referring to how new levels of organisation are formed as we group more components together, the theory of self organisation provides numerous concrete models for understanding how this process takes place.
Self–organised criticality is a property of a system that arrives at a critical state by organising its own behaviours; no external parameter tuning is necessary. One of these models is the Oslo Model, which shall be investigated in this report. -
Training an AI to play Snake
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Using Tensorflow and Keras (Python) to design an artificial neural network to train an AI to play the classic mobile game, snake. The snake was trained using genetic algorithms.
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Physics Extended Essay
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Independent construction of an experiment to relate guitar string mechanics with the notes produced. This involved modelling the scenario mathematically, designing a precise, accurate experiment, and summarising any conclusions in a 4,000-word report.
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The Big Bang Theory Research Project
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I conducted a research project on the Big Bang Theory, and collated my findings into a research paper. This project was completed under the supervision of Mr. Jonathan Genton, Marlborough College.
Honors & Awards
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French Level 5 Merit
Imperial College Horizons
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Letter of Recognition
Nick Alchin
A letter to congratulate exceptional academic performance.
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Times Spelling Bee Finalist
The Times
Winner in the country for the Times National Spelling Bee "quick-spell" round, and 6th place overall.
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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French
Professional working proficiency
Organizations
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Amnesty International
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-A school club for Amnesty International in which we debated current global issues.
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