High school junior in Austin, TX. I do computational neuroscience research and I ship web products.
- Research Assistant, Boston University. Spiking network models of neurodegenerative disease progression. Email me if you want to talk about it.
- Research Assistant, University of Alabama. Computational and scientific research support.
- FBLA Texas State Champion. Website Coding & Development, National Qualifier. District Champion in Business Ethics.
- Secretary, RHS Science Fair Club. Built rhsscifair.tech for 100+ members.
- Built CITEX, Reunite, four Chrome extensions, two micro:bit hardware projects, a pair of MCP tools, and some private competition work.
Computational neuroscience at Boston University: spiking network models of neurodegenerative disease progression. I also do research support at the University of Alabama.
Competition and lab work stays private for now. Happy to talk approaches afterward or under NDA. Catch me here.
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Private · Competition Science Fair 2026 and CAC contest systems. Details on request.
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Private · Boston University Spiking network modeling of neurodegeneration. Details on request.
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Accessibility · micro:bit V2 Every US smoke alarm since 1996 is legally required to beep the same rhythm. So a $15 board can listen for that NFPA 72 pattern and strobe for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, with no pairing and no ML. About 80 lines of timing logic. Commercial strobe systems run $250 to $300.
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Swarm behaviour · micro:bit Twenty micro:bits with no leader and no shared clock, teaching themselves to blink in unison the way fireflies do. Mirollo-Strogatz pulse-coupled oscillators, 26 tests, firmware maths asserted identical to the simulator. Simulation-verified so far.
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Data · FAA airspace A runway number is a computation, not a name: the nearest tenth of magnetic azimuth. The FAA stores a per-airport magnetic variation whose most common epoch is 1985. Across 12,009 runway ends of NASR data, 6.8% disagree with the FAA's own recorded value and no rule explains it. Accounting for the epoch matters: a naive present-day-WMM analysis reports triple that.
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MCP tool · computer vision An MCP server that refuses to help you code until your webcam confirms a drink within reach. YOLOv8 nano watches for COCO cup/bottle classes locally off a 35MB model, writes state, and locks or unlocks Claude. No cloud.
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MCP tool · CGM A read-only MCP tool that pulls your current CGM value from Nightscout so Claude can mention it in passing during a coding session. One call, labels low/in-range/high against your own thresholds, flags stale readings, never doses or gates anything. Not a medical device.
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Product · AI claim analysis Chrome extension and web app for claim analysis and research outreach. Groq for inference, Supabase for the backend.
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Full-stack + hardware · FBLA State Champion MERN lost and found platform. Two-tier visual search: on-device d-hash matching, with a Groq/Llama multimodal tier on top. Plus an ESP32 drop-box that laser-measures its own fill level and emails staff when it needs emptying. 1st Place Texas.
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Impact · Marketing Director Nonprofit hygiene initiative. Ran the site and marketing; raised $1.5k+ for essentials.
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Web · Club Secretary Official site for the Rouse HS science fair club. Schedule, info, and event hub for 100+ members.
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Shipped tools Tab Nap · Focus Field · Full Snap · DEJA
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Full portfolio → ayaanrustagi.vercel.app
2024 ──► Healthy Hygiene (Marketing Dir) · started shipping hard
2025 ──► Reunite → FBLA TX 1st · CITEX · RHS Sci Fair secretary
2026 ──► BU + UA Research Assistant · Tab Nap / Focus Field / Full Snap / DEJA
Alarm Sentinel · Firefly Sync (micro:bit) · Magnetic Drift Atlas
Hydration Hostage · Glucose Check (MCP) · AP Scholar with Distinction
PoroEdema · EchoVoice
Mostly interested in neuro and health ML right now, plus anything where hardware talks to the web. Email is the fastest way to reach me.
